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170 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
France, as well as giving lectures throughout Europe. Finally, as the
clouds of war gathered ever more ominously over Europe, Gerson left
Europe in 1936 to begin a new life in America.
Unfortunately for Dr. Gerson—not to mention the thousands upon
thousands of people who could have been helped by his therapy—the
U.S., while a haven from Hitler, was far from being the land of the free.
Gerson found that publishing his work—which was a relatively easy
proposition in Europe—was an almost impossible task in the United
States.
Perhaps part of the reason why Gerson's work was not enthusiastically
supported by his medical peers in the United States may have been that he
was German, and therefore to be treated with suspicion, as a member of
an enemy nation, even though he had qualified to practise medicine in the
United States in 1938. However, a more important reason was that his
treatments for cancer challenged the orthodox methods. In the 1930s and
1940s, according to the orthodox mind-set, cancer was to be treated in two
basic ways: surgically to remove the offending tumour (when it was operable)
and then with radiation to kill the cancerous cells.
Dr. Gerson's conception of cancer went far beyond merely viewing the
cancer as a spontaneous eruption within a healthy body. Rather he saw
cancer as the end result of generalised degradation of the bodily systems,
especially the liver. Such concepts were quite foreign to the vast majority
of the medical profession at that time, when doctors could not adequately
account for the cause of cancer, nor inform people how to avoid this life
threatening disease.
According to Gerson, the way to prevent cancer was by ". . . preventing
damage to the liver. The basic measure of prevention is not to eat the
damaged, dead, poisoned food which we bring into our bodies. Every day,
day by day, we poison our bodies." Gerson's nutritional therapy worked
on the principle that in order to cure a serious disorder such as cancer,
treatment of the symptoms of the disease was not sufficient to restore the
patient to health. He wrote in his book A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty
Cases in 1958 that the "whole body" or "whole metabolism" had to be
treated to "correct all the vital processes" in order to effect a cure.
The basis of Dr. Gerson's nutritional programme to strengthen the body
to allow healing to take place is a diet comprised mostly of raw foods,
especially freshly-made fruit and vegetable juices, green salad, and a soup
cooked at a very low heat. Some cooked fruit and vegetables are also permitted
in the first six weeks of his dietary plan. However, no canned, salted,
pickled, bleached, sulphured, frozen or smoked foods in short no
denatured foods of any kind—are permitted at any time during the Gerson
regime.