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Contents

About This Book ...........................................................................................................12

An Important Message to the Reader ........................................................................ 13

Chapter 1
The Story Begins ............................................................................................................... 15

Chapter 2
The Therapy Moves On.................................................................................................... 20

Chapter 3
Knowing the Enemy.......................................................................................................... 23

Toxicity 23
Deficiency 24

Chapter 4
The Body’s Defenses ......................................................................................................... 26

The Immune System 26

The Enzyme System 27
The Hormone System 28
The Essential Organs 28
The Mineral Balance 29

Chapter 5
Breakdown of the Body’s Defenses.................................................................................. 31

Chemical Agriculture 31
Drugs 34
Food Additives 35

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Aspartame 36
MSG (Monosodium glutamate) 36
Transfats 37
Fluoride 38
Nicotine and Alcohol 40
Cosmetics 40
Immunization—Vaccination 42
Electro-Magnetic Fields 43
Stress—the Enemy Within 44

Chapter 6
Diseases of Modern Civilization ................................................................................... 46

Part I

Defeating the Killers 47

Cancer 47
Heart and Circulatory Disease 50
The Role of Cholesterol in Heart Disease 51
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) 53
Diabetes 54
Part II

Confronting Chronic Conditions 56

Chronic Immune-Deficiency Diseases 57
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 57
Multiple Sclerosis 58
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) 59
Hepatitis B & C 60
Collagen Diseases 60

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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 61

Rheumatism; Arthritis 62
Scleroderma 63

ASSORTED ENEMIES OF HEALTH

Asthma 63
Allergies and Food Intolerance 64
Addiction 65
Hyperactivity 67
Depression 67
Crohn’s Disease 69
Migraine 69
Endometriosis 70
Morbid Obesity 71
Osteoporosis 73
Teeth 75
Fibromyalgia 78

Part III

Diseases Difficult to Cure with the Gerson Therapy: 79

Diseases Not Curable by the Gerson Therapy: 80

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Chapter 7
Restoring the Body’s Defenses ......................................................................................... 84

Chapter 8
Why Does The Gerson Therapy Work?.......................................................................... 87

Chapter 9
The Gerson Household ..................................................................................................... 91

Juice Machines 91
Taking Care of Your Juice Machine 92
Stove & oven—electric or gas 93
Microwave Oven 93
Pots and utensils 94
Distillers 94
Cleaning Chemicals 95

Chapter 10
Forbidden Foods ............................................................................................................... 98

Forbidden Foods and Non-Food Items 99

Chapter 11
Happy Foods.................................................................................................................... 102

Chapter 12
Preparing Food and Juices –the Basic Rules................................................................ 104

The All-Important Juices 105

Apple/Carrot Juice 105
Carrot Only Juice 106
Green Juice 106
Orange (or Grapefruit) Juice 106
The Daily Routine 106

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Basic Recipes to Start You Off 107
“Special Soup” or Hippocrates Soup 107

Chapter 13
All About Enemas ........................................................................................................... 109

Basics, and How to Use Them 111

How Many, How Often? 112
The Castor Oil Treatment 113
Cleaning the Equipment 114
Possible Problems 115

Chapter 14
Medications...................................................................................................................... 118

Potassium Compound 118

Thyroid and Lugol’s Solution 119

Chapter 15
Pain Control Without Drugs .......................................................................................... 122

Clay (mud) packs 122

Castor Oil packs 123
The “Triad” 123
Hyperthermia (Hydrotherapy) 123
Oxygen Treatments 124
Rebounding 125

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Chapter 16
Understanding Healing Reactions ................................................................................ 126

Chapter 17
The Full Therapy ............................................................................................................ 131

Hourly Schedule 131

Annual Schedule 132

Chapter 18
Adapting the Therapy for Chemo-Pretreated
and Severely Weakened Patients ................................................................................... 133

Chapter 19
The Gerson Therapy for Non-Malignant Diseases ...................................................... 137

CHAPTER 20
Things to Remember....................................................................................................... 139

Orthodox Cancer Treatments 139

Surgery 139
Diagnostic Surgery 140
Radiation 141
Chemotherapy 142
Breast Implants 143
Household Help 143
The Trouble With Sunshine 145
Complementary Therapies 145

CHAPTER 21
Watch Out—Pitfalls Ahead............................................................................................ 148

Save Up Your Energy! 148

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Bending the Rules 149

Being Firm With Friends… 150
…And With Friendly Doctors 150
Flare-Ups and Mood Swings 150
Water Warning 151
Mind What You Read 151
Cutting Corners 152

CHAPTER 22
Frequently Asked Questions .......................................................................................... 153

CHAPTER 23
Life After Gerson ............................................................................................................ 162

Eating Wisely 162

The Art of Maintenance 163

CHAPTER 24
Psychological Support for the Gerson Patient ............................................................. 165

Fear Is The Enemy 166

The Role of Stress 167
First Aid for the Mind 168
Clearing the First Hurdle 169
Help Comes from the Body 170
Problems on the Path 171

CHAPTER 25
Overcoming Stress and Tension..................................................................................... 173

Minding the Body 173

Matters of the Mind 174

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CHAPTER 26
Gerson Lab Tests Explained .......................................................................................... 177

The Serum Calcium Laboratory Test 177

The Serum Phosphates Laboratory Test 178
The Serum Sodium Laboratory Test 179
The Serum Potassium Laboratory Test 180
The Serum Chloride Laboratory Test 181
The Lactic Dehydrogenase (LDH) Laboratory Test 181
The Aspartate Transaminase/Serum 182
The Serum Bilirubin Laboratory Test 182
The Serum Gamma-Glutamyl 183
Transpeptidase (GGT) Laboratory Test 183
The Acid Phosphatase Laboratory Test 183
The Alkaline Phosphatase (AP) Laboratory Test 184
The Alanine Transaminase, Serum 185
The Total Serum Cholesterol Laboratory Test 185
The Lipoprotein/Cholesterol 186
Fractionation Laboratory Test 186
The Serum Triglycerides Laboratory Test 186
The Serum Protein Electrophoresis Laboratory Test 187
The Serum Creatinine Laboratory Test 187
The Serum Uric Acid Laboratory Test 188
The Glucose, Fasting Blood Sugar 188
(FBS) Laboratory Test 188
The Serum Iron And Total Iron- Binding Capacity Laboratory Test 189
The Erythrocyte (Red Blood Cell, RBC) Count 190
The Total Hemoglobin (HgB) 190
Laboratory Test 190

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The Hematocrit (Hct) 191

Laboratory Test 191
The Erythrocyte Indices Laboratory Test 191
The Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) 191
The Platelet Count 192
The Leukocyte (White Blood Cell, WBC) Count 193
The White Blood Cell Differential 193
The Routine Urinalysis 194

CHAPTER 27
CASE HISTORIES OF RECOVERED PATIENTS.................................................... 195

Highly aggressive Lymphoma 196

Endometriosis Turning into Cervical Cancer 197
Breast Cancer 197
Breast Cancer with Liver Metastases 198
Breast Cancer Recurrence After Chemo and Radiation 198
Melanoma 199
Recurrent Melanoma 199
Colo-Rectal Cancer with Liver Metastases 200
Pancreatic Cancer 200
Prostate Cancer 201
Prostate & Bone Cancer, and a case of Lung Cancer 201
Astrocytoma 202
Nicotine Addiction 203
Esophageal Cancer 203
A Whole Family Recovers: Breast and Prostate Cancer, and Pleurisy 204
Ewing’s Sarcoma 205

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CHAPTER 28
Gerson Therapy Recipes ................................................................................................ 206

Introduction 206
Dips 208
Appetizers 209
Dressings 213
Salads 217
Soups 234
Vegetables and Potatoes 242
Desserts 282

Recommended Reading ............................................................................................ 286

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

T here is a split right down the middle of modern medicine. One half, boosted by dazzling high
technology, shows brilliant results in handling acute diseases and emergencies. The other
half, dealing with chronic degenerative conditions is lagging behind, unable to offer more than
symptomatic treatment for the most widespread distressing conditions, ranging from cancer, heart
disease and hypertension to diabetes, arthritis, morbid obesity and many more. It is assumed that
these and other “diseases of modern civilization” are both inevitable and incurable.
This book contradicts all such assumptions. As a complete guide to the theory and practice
of the Gerson Therapy, developed over eighty years ago by Dr. Max Gerson, M.D., (1881-1959),
it shows that the increasingly denatured, nutritionally empty, toxic modern diet is the main cause
of today’s worsening health crisis. “Healing the Gerson Way” offers the solution, in the form of
a brilliant, precision-built nutritional program that eliminates the underlying causes of disease,
leading to lasting cures. This program is best known for its success in curing many types of cancer,
but it also has an excellent track record with a large number of other degenerative conditions.
These days cancer researchers all over the world produce results that mirror one or another
of Dr. Gerson’s discoveries, developed over many years of clinical practice. Unfortunately such
partial insights are of little use. The Gerson Therapy, as a proven method of healing contains
them all—and more. It is up to the individual, who wants to improve or regain his or her health,
to explore and make use of it.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The group photo on the cover page of this ebook was taken by Neil Montanus at Charlotte
Gerson’s 85th Birthday Party, in San Diego, California. Neil Montanus, a former professional
photographer at Eastman Kodak Co., is a renowned for his portraits of famous people such as
President Gerald Ford, Walt Disney, and Sybil Sheppard. Neil Momtanus can be reached at mon
[email protected]. The people in the photo were Gerson patients and friends of Charolotte
Gerson who flew in from all over the world to celebrate.

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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE READER

T he book you are holding in your hand can be your most precious tool to maintain and improve
your health if you are fit and well, or to regain it if you are ill.
You find here all the guidance you need for either purpose. But there are a few points that
need emphasizing, should you choose the Gerson Therapy for healing yourself. In your own
interest please take them to heart and bear them in mind.
The Gerson Therapy is a finely tuned precision instrument, whose every component plays an
important role and affects all other parts. It must be practiced in its entirety, without omitting a
single detail. To do otherwise not only undermines the healing power of the therapy, but can also
cause you further health problems.
Do not embark on the Gerson Therapy on an experimental basis, thinking that you can
always drop it if you find the program too demanding. The program is demanding, intensive and
extended, a far cry from the pill-popping instant ways of conventional medicine. But unlike the
latter, instead of suppressing symptoms, it can truly heal and offer a healthy future. The choice is
yours. Study this book and find out exactly what it means to undertake the therapy, and please, in
your own best interest, only embark on it if you are committed to staying on it until you are fully
and truly healed.
All over the world there are people who did just that, and who returned from life-threatening
diseases to radiant health and a life more abundant. You are more than welcome to join them.
As you read this book, you will find many references to Dr. Max Gerson’s epoch-making work,
“A Cancer Therapy—Results of Fifty Cases,” which first appeared in 1958, one year before the
author’s death. It is now in its sixth edition and has been translated into four languages. Needless
to say, in the years since its inception medical technology and research have made enormous
progress, offering possibilities that in Dr. Gerson’s day would have been hard to imagine. For
that reason today’s reader may find parts of “A Cancer Therapy” dated or no longer relevant.
However, what has remained topical and more relevant than ever is Dr. Gerson’s startlingly
original approach to the causation, treatment and healing of cancer, which is totally different from
current oncological practice. The organism’s breakdown of law and order on the cellular level,
resulting in cancer, is the same today as it has ever been, and the Gerson Therapy’s ability to deal
with that breakdown also remains unchanged.

It should also be remembered that besides being a practicing physician, Dr. Gerson was also

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an eminent scientist, closely involved in the debate in the US Congress on policies for cancer
treatment, and was acknowledged for his brilliance by Nobel Laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
His papers met all the traditional requirements for evidence-based medicine; today’s modern
scientific approaches have started to shed some light onto why and how his therapy worked.

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CHAPTER 1

The Story Begins

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

- Albert Einstein

S ome of the greatest scientific discoveries resulted from a sudden insight or inspiration that
came unexpectedly, like a bolt from the blue. Others were made after long years of patient,
painstaking effort. But the most fascinating achievements are the ones that grew out of a series of
apparent coincidences, leading to an astonishing outcome. The Gerson Therapy belongs to this
last category. It came into being because one exceptional man, the German-born physician Dr.
Max Gerson, possessed the ability to ask the right questions at the right time, and seek for the
answers with the utmost scientific rigor. His story helps us to understand how the life-saving
therapy that bears his name came into being.
Already as a small boy Max Gerson showed some scientific curiosity. He liked to play in
the garden of his grandmother, who grew flowers as well as fruits and vegetables for her table.
On one occasion, when she decided to try out some new artificial fertilizer, which was supposed
to produce bigger and better crops, Max watched with consternation that the earthworms were
leaving the beds treated with the new chemicals and migrated to the beds treated with the old,
time-honored natural substances. Young Max concluded that there must have been something
harmful and disturbing in the new chemicals, which the earthworms couldn’t stand, and which
made them flee to the natural environment. He never forgot this early experience.
Upon graduating from high school, Max decided to become a physician and went on to study
at the universities of Breslau, Wuerzburg, Berlin, and Freiburg. Throughout his studies and for
the rest of his life he remained eternally curious, always playing with possibilities, wondering
‘What would happen if…’ As a young doctor, working as assistant to Professor Ottfried Foerster
in Breslau , he ordered the finest rose bushes from Holland, planted them and changed their
fertilizer, their food, and—by installing light filters—even the amount of sunshine they received.
With these methods he succeeded in changing the colors of the roses.
This taught him that nutrients and light could change the metabolism of a living plant. But he
had no idea how to apply this discovery to human beings, let alone to healing them. It took his
own serious health problem, his recurring severe cluster migraines, to show him the way ahead.
The migraines were so devastating and recurred so frequently, that he was desperate to do
something about them. His teachers and professors, whom he had consulted, had been unable

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to suggest a treatment. They had said that he’d feel better when he got to be in his mid-fifties.
But the young doctor couldn’t envisage life for the next 30 years with those migraines which
sometimes kept him in bed, in a darkened room, with violent pain and nausea, for two or three
days a week! There had to be a better answer, and he was determined to find it.
To start his search, he read everything apparently relevant that he could find. Nothing positive
turned up. He visited a number of professors as a patient and found no help. It was by accident (if
we believe in accidents) that one day he came across a paper describing how a woman, suffering
from migraines, was helped when she using himself as a guinea pig. He abandoned his normal
choice of food and tried out several different diets. It changed her diet. DIET! Nobody had taught
him anything about diet; nor had his teachers ever mentioned the possibility that any chronic
disease was connected with diet. But, as always, he was willing to experiment, even took him a
while and a number of failures before he established that a salt-free vegetarian diet kept him free
from the pain and nausea of migraines.
That was when he started to use dietary treatment in his practice. When patients came to his
office in Bielefeld suffering from migraine, he told them frankly that according to all the medical
texts there was no cure for this problem—but that he himself had been suffering from it, until a
change of diet had brought him relief. He suggested that the patients try the same method. When
these patients returned to see him some 3-4 weeks later, they regularly reported that they were
free from migraines—as long as they adhered to the strict dietary rules and didn’t cheat.
This experience made Dr. Gerson to refer to his method as the ‘Migraine Diet,’ the single
treatment for a single complaint, as specified in conventional medicine, until something happened
to change his view. One day a migraine sufferer consulted Dr. Gerson and was urged to adopt
the ‘Migraine Diet.’ He did. But when he returned a month or so later, he had something
extraordinary to report: yes, his migraines were gone, but the skin tuberculosis (lupus vulgaris)
he had been suffering from was also healing. Dr. Gerson was skeptical: “No, you couldn’t have
had lupus, it must have been something else, lupus is incurable,” he declared. But the patient
produced the results of laboratory tests, which proved that indeed there had been tubercle bacilli
in the tissues of his lesions. Dr. Gerson was stunned. He couldn’t see a connection between
migraine and lupus, so why did both conditions heal? This was another decisive moment in his
life when he had to ask a question and find an answer. To start with, he asked his patient whether
he knew other lupus sufferers, and if so, to send them to him for treatment, free of charge. Some
came and were cured. and Dr. Gerson had to accept that his migraine diet could also heal the
reputedly incurable skin tuberculosis.
His remarkable results reached the ears of the famous lung tuberculosis specialist, Ferdinand
Sauerbruch, of Munich, Germany. He put 450 of his ‘incurable’ lupus patients on Dr. Gerson’s
diet, saying that if Gerson could stop the progress of the disease in a single patient, he would
believe everything the young doctor claimed. The Gerson diet not only arrested the disease

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process, it actually cured 445 of those seriously ill patients. Sauerbruch’s response was to publish
‘his’ results in numerous scientific papers.
But Dr. Gerson was not satisfied. He reasoned that if skin tuberculosis (TB) responded
positively to diet, why would not other forms of TB do so? What about the killer disease lung
tuberculosis, and kidney-, bone-, encephalitic and other forms of the disease? He started to treat
such patients, too, with his diet, among them the wife of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and found that
they also recovered. More importantly still, many of those patients also had other problems along
with their TB: high or low blood pressure; allergies, asthma, kidney disease and more. These
diseases also disappeared with the ‘migraine’ diet!
At this point it became very clear to Gerson that he was no longer healing a disease with
dietary changes: the patients’ metabolism and immune system were responding, which meant that
he was healing the whole body, and this opened the door to curing all ‘incurable’ chronic diseases.
From that moment onwards his path led him in a totally different direction from that of orthodox
medicine. His patients were now healed, not drugged.
The first big step toward healing cancer came in 1928, when a lady called him to her bedside.
In Dr. Gerson’s own words, “I asked her what was wrong, but on the phone she didn’t want to
tell me.” When he arrived at her home, the patient told him that she had been operated for cancer
of the bile duct; now she was jaundiced, ran a high fever and needed help. Dr. Gerson told her
that he didn’t know how to treat cancer, but she insisted, quoting his success with TB cases. Then
she asked him to look at a big book that was lying on her table, open at the chapter called “The
Healing of Cancer.” In this book on folk medicine, Dr. Gerson recalls, “there was something
about Hippocrates who lived 550 years [sic] before Christ. …. He had the idea that the patient has
to be detoxified with a special soup and with some enemas.”
He told the patient once again that he was unable to treat her, but at her insistence he agreed
to try, and wrote down a treatment plan for her—essentially the same as his treatment for TB. As
he records it, “I tried—and about six months later the patient was cured! She was up and about
in the best condition. She sent me other cancer cases. One had metastasized glands around the
stomach—also cured! The third case was also cured!
Later in Vienna he tried again, treating six cases, but all six failed. He was shocked and
discouraged, but “…once it was in my head and my hands and my heart, I could no longer
separate myself from that problem.” 1
Some years later Gerson settled in the U.S. In order to obtain his license to practice, he first
had to pass a medical exam; then he was unable to find a hospital where he could treat patients.
And yet, he said, “I couldn’t get the first three cases out of my mind. I kept thinking, it must be
possible. It would be a crime not to do it.”
He studied all the medical literature and research material he could find and discovered

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that there was a difference between patients suffering from general chronic diseases and those
suffering from cancer. Later he described this difference by specifying that “the chronic disease
patient has a weak, damaged liver; the cancer patient has a toxic liver.” He also found that the
cancer patient could not completely digest and assimilate fats and oils, whose undigested residues
were picked up by the tumor tissue, which grew and thrived on them. After years of trial and
error, amassing direct experience at the sickbed, he arrived at developing a remarkably effective
treatment that worked even for terminally ill patients.
Gerson’s startlingly original ideas and new methods did not fit into the allopathic medical
system. He wrote a number of articles on his work and on patient outcomes and submitted them
to several medical journals; all were refused with various excuses. Subsequently, patients who
inquired about Gerson at the American Medical Association (AMA) were told that his method
was ‘secret,’ as ‘he refused to publish.’
The Board of Censors of the New York Medical Association wrote to Dr. Gerson five times,
asking him to submit records proving his work. Five times he patiently assembled more of his
records and on occasion even presented some of his recovered patients. His only request was that
the Board publish their findings. They never did.
Wanting to ensure the continuation of his work, Dr. Gerson was anxious to train other doctors
and/or assistants in the practice of his Therapy. On several occasions young medical doctors,
not yet established in their practice, would approach Gerson and ask to be accepted as assistants
to learn the treatment. Always ready to pass on his experience to a keen young colleague, he
accepted such offers.
The ‘assistanceship’ never lasted more than 4-5 days. After that time, the young doctor would,
in embarrassment, explain to Dr. Gerson that he had received serious threats, should he continue
to work with him: he would be banned from hospital associations, no other doctors would send
him patients and he would be unable to practice. Having a great deal of debt on his shoulders
from his medical schooling, he could not afford to be forced into such a situation and, sadly, had
to give up working with Dr. Gerson. (Similar situations occur these days, too, when a not yet
sufficiently established doctor wishes to visit the Mexican Gerson clinic to study the Therapy,
and his superiors explain to him that such a move would jeopardize his career development. This
explains why there are so few doctors trained in the Gerson protocol.)
Undeterred by all the obstacles he had to contend with, Dr. Gerson carried on with his work,
perfecting his treatment as he went along. Since despite all his efforts he was prevented from
publishing his work in medical journals, he eventually gathered his material and wrote it up in his
last book, which is also his lasting medical testament.
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