Gerson therapy is a simple and effective treatment method that will help you get rid of many diseases that threaten your health and even life. The main thing is to choose this treatment method in a timely manner. When most of the traditional and alternative methods are powerless, helping to cope only with individual symptoms, without eliminating the cause of the disease, this unique method comes to the rescue. The principle of this therapy is based on restoring the ability of our body to self-healing without side and harmful effects. He is not distracted by the treatment of individual symptoms, eliminating the underlying causes of most diseases.
Miracle remedy
Gerson's therapy, according to experts, can save a person not only from most known diseases, but even from cancer. In fact, this is a special and unique diet that helps to cleanse the body, stimulate metabolism and improve immunity. With its help, it is possible to activate the body's ability to heal itself. Gerson's therapy is effectively used even against cancer.
To make it work, you should carefully follow a vegetarian diet, there are only environmentally friendly products. In addition, freshly squeezed juices, which supply the body with necessary nutrients, vitamins, enzymes, minerals, play a major role in Gerson's therapy. Finally, in addition to special dishes prepared according to special recipes, you need to take special nutritional supplements to remove toxins from the body, regularly make coffee enemas.
Supporters of Gerson's therapy emphasize that people currently consume large amounts of toxic substances and carcinogens. This happens through the food we eat, the air we breathe every day, even through many medications. Max Gerson's therapy detoxifies, enabling cleansing processes to do their job effectively. It actually contrasts itself with modern traditional medicine, which primarily treats only the symptoms of certain diseases. The purpose of this method is to combat nutrient deficiencies and toxins, which are the main causes of serious diseases. At least this point of view is held by the majority of proponents of this theory.
Emergence of the theory
For the first time, Gerson's therapy in theory and practice began to be used in the 30s of the XX century. The founder of this method, who gave him his name, began to use it to get rid of a severe form of migraine. The method was so effective that he began to actively recommend it to his patients.
As a result, the diet soon turned into a real remedy in the treatment of many degenerative diseases. Including diabetes, tuberculosis and even cancer. Today, in the treatment of cancer, Gerson’s therapy is used by his supporters, considering it an effective way to strengthen his immunity so that he can independently cope with any ailment, even chronic, without additional medications.
Max Gerson
Gerson himself was an American doctor of German descent who developed the alternative diet therapy method. According to him, with the help of such a diet you can even treat malignant neoplasms, as well as most chronic diseases.
Gerson's therapy is described in detail in the book "Treatment of malignant neoplasms: the results of 50 clinical cases." Many reputable physicians call this method into question. When the doctor’s allegations were analyzed by specialists from the American National Cancer Research Institute, it turned out that the data provided by Gerson did not have enough basic information needed to confirm his allegations. Experts have concluded that this method of Gerson’s therapy for cancer has not been proven, scientifically unjustified and poses a potential danger.
It is known that between 1980 and 1986, 13 patients using this therapy were hospitalized with sepsis at the San Diego Hospital. Doctors concluded that sepsis developed due to liver infections when they tried to get rid of cancer. At the same time, none of them recorded the disappearance of malignant tumors, and one even died as a result of the development of cancer a week after hospitalization, since for a long time he did not receive the necessary help.
Five patients were in a coma due to a lack of serum sodium. Apparently, this was a consequence of the abandonment of sodium, which is part of the Gerson regime. At that time, there were a lot of negative reviews about Gerson's therapy for cancer.
Because of that incident, the doctor’s followers, representing the institute of his name, made changes to existing methods regarding products of biological origin and raw products from the liver. But even with such changes, as many experts note in reviews of Gerson therapy, potentially harmful features of this method are preserved. There are reported fatalities when using enemas with coffee due to electrolyte imbalance. Some at the same time caught serious infections.
At the same time, studies of this diet are ongoing. In 1990, Austrian doctors came to the conclusion that with its use, patients experienced fewer side effects. They recommended further clinical studies of this method.
There is currently the Gerson Institute, founded by his daughter in 1977 in the city of San Diego in California. There are also two inpatient clinics. Gerson's therapy in Hungary and Mexico is actively used by his followers. Only these clinics are considered licensed by an institute named after an American doctor.
Nutrition plan
The diet for the therapy of Gerson for those dying of cancer is designed so that the body has the opportunity to receive as many vitamins, enzymes, minerals, trace elements as possible. At the same time, the amount of fats, sodium and proteins is minimized.
During therapy with the Gerson method, it is necessary to drink thirteen glasses of freshly squeezed apple-carrot, vegetable and green juice every day. They should be drunk every hour, and for cooking use exclusively environmentally friendly fruits and vegetables.
Fresh vegetables and fruits are allowed to eat at any time without restrictions. Also, three times a day is allowed vegetarian food, which also consists of organic products. As a rule, these are vegetable soups, salads, stewed vegetables, baked potatoes in the oven.
Additionally, nutritional supplements should be taken. This is castor oil, vitamin B12, thyroid hormones, drugs with a high content of potassium, pancreatic enzymes. Up to five coffee enemas per day should be made. It is believed that all enemas and nutritional supplements are necessary for the healing of the body and its purification.
Allowed Products
Allowed foods are primarily fruits and vegetables. From fruits, it is allowed to consume apricots, apples, dried fruits, cherries, grapefruits, lemons, grapes, melons, mangoes, pears, peaches, rhubarb, plums, tangerines in unlimited quantities.
Vegetables can also be eaten, without limiting yourself at all. Gerson urged more often to include artichoke, asparagus, beetroot leaves and beets, arugula, cabbage, radishes, stalks and celery root, cauliflower, coriander, green onions, eggplant, corn, onions, garlic, paprika, spinach (but not raw), potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini, pumpkin.
Freshly squeezed juices, which form the basis of therapy, are recommended to be combined, combining green juices with sweet vegetables or fruits. When cooking certain dishes, brown sugar, linseed oil, oatmeal, rye bread, apple cider vinegar, skimmed yogurt without additives are also allowed. It is worth noting that introducing yogurt into the diet is allowed only one and a half months after the start of therapy, only after consulting with a specialist.
It is sometimes allowed to eat whole grain rye bread. One or two pieces are allowed daily, but only if the patient drinks the prescribed amount of juice and consumes vegetarian food three times a day.
Sweeteners - honey or maple syrup - are also rarely permitted. Once a week sweet potatoes are allowed, half a banana. On holidays, you can biological popcorn.
Prohibited Products
The list of categorically prohibited includes all products of animal origin and industrial production. These include any frozen, canned, smoked, refined, salted food.
It is not allowed to use juices, carbonated soft drinks, iced tea and other industrial drinks. It is believed that they contain undesirable additives and a large amount of sugar. Banned flour products, cakes, cookies, rolls. They should be discarded, as they contain one or several unwanted ingredients at once.
Dairy products are contraindicated due to the high fat content, and skim milk due to sodium. Eggs, meat and seafood are not allowed due to the large amount of protein, moreover, they are difficult to digest, giving an additional load on the liver and other internal organs.
Unwanted fruits and vegetables
It is worth noting that not all vegetables and fruits are allowed to eat as part of this diet. For example, avocados are not allowed because of the large amount of fat and cucumbers - because of the sodium in the composition.
Gerson also did not recommend berries and pineapples to patients, finding that they cause allergic symptoms in many. Apparently, due to aromatic acids that affect the healing process.
Gerson forbade mushrooms, believing that their nutritional value is small, but at the same time they are too difficult to digest by the body.
Beverages
Alcohol is categorically prohibited, since under its influence an additional undesirable load on the liver is created, the blood is more slowly supplied with oxygen, and besides, it is toxic.
In this case, you can not drink plain water. Gerson argued that water greatly dilutes gastric juice, so it should be replaced with freshly squeezed juices, which not only provide the necessary amount of fluid in the body, but also provide it with nutrients.
All teas containing caffeine are forbidden, as well as coffee itself, even without caffeine. These drinks have a bad effect on the digestive system, and caffeine also negatively affects the central nervous system. At the same time, coffee is recommended to be taken in the form of enemas.
Recipes
Here are a few examples of dishes that are recommended to be used during Gerson therapy. Prescriptions are as recommended by your doctor. It could be a vegetarian beef stroganoff.
To prepare it you will need:
- 240 ml diced onions;
- 240 ml eggplant, diced;
- a cup of cauliflower;
- a cup of tomato or carrot;
- a cup of green pepper or broccoli;
- cup of zucchini or celery.
All vegetables must be stewed for an hour and a half until they soften. After that, they are left to cool and insist. Prepare the sauce during this time. To do this, take:
- three tablespoons of vinegar;
- one teaspoon of dill seeds;
- 480 ml of yogurt;
- a cup of rustic low-fat and unsalted cheese;
- parsley or chives.
Mix the prepared sauce with vegetables. Serve with brown rice or pumpkin spaghetti. As a decoration, use green onions or parsley.
As a first course, you can cook a special soup. For one person, take a 4 liter pan. Pour distilled water into it. Put these vegetables:
- middle head of celery;
- two leeks;
- middle parsley root;
- 700 g tomato;
- two medium-sized onions;
- 500 g of potatoes;
- some parsley leaves;
- garlic to taste.
Vegetables do not need to be peeled, they are washed thoroughly, cut into large pieces. Soup is boiled for two hours over low heat. After that, it is necessary to pass it through the meat grinder in small portions so that there are no fibers. Please note that the final amount of water depends on your taste and the consistency you want to achieve. It should be stored in a closed pan for no more than two days. Before serving, you need to warm up.
Despite the severity of the diet, desserts are provided in it. For example, you can make pumpkin pudding that does not need to be baked. To prepare it, take:
- two teaspoons of black molasses;
- a pinch of coriander, cloves, nutmeg;
- 100 ml tapioca;
- 400 ml of dates;
- 300 ml of water or apple juice;
- 500 ml of pumpkin puree.
Soak dates and tapioca overnight in apple juice. In the morning, set aside for half an hour to simmer over low heat, stirring constantly. As a result, you will get a thick broth. Pour pumpkin and tapioca puree through a meat grinder. Add black molasses and other spices. Cool everything thoroughly until it sets completely (for this, you can put the cake in the freezer for several hours).
Serve with yogurt.
Recommendations
In reviews of Gerson's therapy, nutritionists note that this is a rather extreme way of eating, as the patient has a very limited range of products. The result is the impression that the number of prohibited products is significantly higher than those that are allowed.
Considering that this technique, first of all, is positioned as a therapeutic agent against quite serious and even deadly diseases, it is not recommended to use it for weight loss.
You should be especially careful about the advice on using coffee enemas. An improperly done procedure can lead to dehydration, inflammation of the colon, constipation, a decrease in the number of electrolytes in the body, and even death.
In conclusion, we note once again that the British Cancer Research Center and the American Cancer Association do not recognize the effectiveness of this method, considering it harmful and dangerous to health.