Cathcart Bowel Tolerance

BOWEL TOLERANCE METHOD

In 1970, I discovered that the sicker a patient was, the more ascorbic acid he would tolerate by mouth before diarrhea was produced. At least 80% of adult patients will tolerate 10 to 15 grams of ascorbic acid fine crystals in 1/2 cup water divided into 4 doses per 24 hours without having diarrhea. The astonishing finding was that all patients, tolerant of ascorbic acid, can take greater amounts of the substance orally without having diarrhea when ill or under stress. This increased tolerance is somewhat proportional to the toxicity of the disease being treated. Tolerance is increased some by stress (e.g., anxiety, exercise, heat, cold, etc.) (see FIGURE 1). Admittedly, increasing the frequency of doses increases tolerance perhaps to half again as much, but the tolerances of sometimes over 200 grams per 24 hours were totally unexpected. Representative doses taken by tolerant patients titrating their ascorbic acid intake between the relief of most symptoms and the production of diarrhea were as follows:

TABLE I - USUAL BOWEL TOLERANCE DOSES

      CONDITION                  GRAMS PER          NUMBER OF DOSES
                                 24 HOURS            PER 24 HOURS

      normal                       4 -  15                      4
      mild cold                   30 -  60                 6 - 10
      severe cold                 60 - 100                 8 - 15
      influenza                  100 - 150                 8 - 20
      ECHO, coxsackievirus       100 - 150                 8 - 20
      mononucleosis              150 - 200+               12 - 25
      viral pneumonia            100 - 200+               12 - 25
      hay fever, asthma           15 -  50                 4 -  8
      environmental and
      food allergy               0.5 -  50                 4 -  8
      burn, injury, surgery       25 - 150                 6 - 20
      anxiety, exercise and
      other mild stresses         15 -  25                 4 -  6
      cancer                      15 - 100                 4 - 15
      ankylosing spondylitis      15 - 100                 4 - 15
      Reiter's syndrome           15 -  60                 4 - 10
      acute anterior uveitis      30 - 100                 4 - 15
      rheumatoid arthritis        15 - 100                 4 - 15
      bacterial infections        30 - 200+               10 - 25
      infectious hepatitis        30 - 100                 6 - 15
      candida infections          15 - 200+                6 - 25

FIGURE 1. REPRESENTATIVE DOSES TO TREAT ACUTE SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE IN PATIENTS VERY TOLERANT TO ASCORBIC ACID

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GRAMS ASCORBATE PER 24 HOURS

Note that disease symptom curves indicate very little effect on acute symptoms until doses of 80-90% of bowel tolerance are reached. Perhaps it is only near tolerance doses that the ascorbate is pushed into the primary sites of the disease.
Suppression of symptoms in some instances may not be total; but usually it is very significant and often the amelioration is complete and rapid.
Hepatitis way require 30 to 100 grams.

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