Dr. Johanna Budwig’s Healing Diet & Protocol (7)
Conventional Medicine & Dr. Budwig’s Scientific Protocol
Welcome! This page addresses the relationship of mainstream medicine & allopathic doctors to the Budwig diet & protocol as an approach to healing cancer naturally and the role money and financial interests may play in this relationship.
"Over 50% of Dr. Budwig's patients were doctors or relatives of doctors who knew why in such a serious disease they would rely on the experiences of this brilliant physicist, chemist and pharmacologist rather than follow the prevailing opinion which says that tumors must be destroyed through chemotherapy and radiation."
From the back cover of Dr. Budwig's last book: "Krebs - Das Problem und die Lösung" (The Problem of Cancer and Its Solution)
Is it “all about money”?
Author known to Healing Cancer Naturally
We have very good house friends. The man (I’ll call him John) is a GP. He used to be our GP. Because of my involvement with cancer patients in particular and some other serious diseases, I have had many discussions with John regarding the Budwig protocol and the healing wonder of the 'miracle mix' (flaxoil/cottage cheese) as I call it. John used to give me a grin and often became very disinterested whenever I started talking about all the healing I have seen taking place over the past 20 months since I got involved.
Five months ago, his wife (I’ll call her Jane) became ill with a very rare connective tissue disease which affected her organs and joints. The only option she was given was chemo therapy to suppress the immune system. When John was faced with this choice to go ahead with the chemo therapy Jane reminded him (after having some lengthy discussions with me first), about the miracle mix I was always babbling about, and they came to see me, and only then did he really start to pay attention and listen to what I had to say. After all, prior to this, he was the doctor and I never had any formal medical training, so why should he listen to me? He read all the info I gave him regarding the Budwig protocol. Jane never went for chemotherapy but instead she is doing the Budwig protocol. Interesting, isn't it, and what does this tell you? John has to this day never answered my question why he didn't want Jane to do the chemotherapy. Maybe he knows that it will do her more harm than good and that it might not even make a difference. One thing is for sure - he didn't want her to have chemo. She is doing GREAT on the Budwig protocol.
Compare On Chemotherapy.
I asked John to join a Budwig support forum and to write a testimonial to which he replied: "I don't have the time to join forums and discussions and I could lose my job you know, and after all, Jane is not completely cured yet."
Needless to say, I am now looking for another GP. We are still friends, but I won't trust him with my own or my husband or my children's health again. He read about the health benefits of the miracle mix regarding heart problems, cholesterol problems, cancer etc. but he is not referring people to me, instead he is still writing prescriptions for statin drugs and sending his cancer patients to oncologists. This is soooooooo sad and totally disappointing which goes to show - it's all about money, isn't it?
Compare On Conventional Cancer Treatment, On Cancer Business and On Drugs.
Dr. Budwig & the world of (conventional) medicine
To highlight the relationship of mainstream medicine to Dr. Budwig’s discoveries, the following quotes are compiled from comments also appearing under Comments on Dr. Budwig’s Work and Memorable Quotes on Dr. Budwig's Work.
As previously mentioned (see Who was Dr. Johanna Budwig), Dr. Budwig and her work have been attacked and silenced by vested medical, industrial and pharmaceutical interests throughout her life (additionally compare History of cancer treatment for similar examples). But interestingly, “[o]ver 50% of Dr. Budwig's patients were doctors or relatives of doctors who knew why in such a serious disease they would rely on the experiences of this brilliant physicist, chemist and pharmacologist rather than follow the prevailing opinion which says that tumors must be destroyed through chemotherapy and radiation."
A deplorable (and quite subjective) comment on the Budwig diet has been furnished by Dr. Andrew Weil, a well-known US doctor with an alternative bend. His “case in point” serves to illustrate how many help-seeking people can be kept in ignorance by the words of “authorities” they so implicitly trust. Dr. Weil’s website carries an article on Dr. Budwig where he notes “All of this sounds fanciful to me.” and concludes “I certainly would not rely on a combination of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese as a treatment for any form of cancer.” As various persons commented:
“My question is this, how do these so called brilliant doctors watch thousands of people die, due to withholding valuable lifesaving information such as the flaxoil/cottage cheese... sleep at night?”
“My feeling is this, sometimes mainstream medical doctor's have just enough alternative healing knowledge, to be VERY dangerous. It's better if they make no statements at all, until they decide who and what they are going to stand for. Too many innocent people will hear a doctor say a few words about natural, alternative methods, and then believe everything that doctor says. It's just very deceptive and misleading if you yourself are not educated. When I think about how many years it's taken me to get where I'm at, I shudder to think about the chaos going on inside the heads of people just starting out in their journey of searching out alternative protocols.”
“It's been going on since the 1930s--since Morris Fishbein representing the AMA destroyed Royal Rife and all his records. You can read it (and weep) in a book called The Cancer Cure that Worked by Barry Lynes [currently out of print]. Had Rife been able to share his discovery with the world, cancer would have long ago ceased to be. The few people, like Richard Schulze the herbalist, who have cured so many by natural means and refused to play the game, have been put out of commission and many wind up in jail.”
“Self delusion as a result of worshipping money and status. Gross lack of research as a result of relying on tainted studies or the lack of studies to allow continued worship of money. Simple evil.”
“No doubt he has done a lot of good, but when anyone answers to two kings, it makes me highly suspicious of anything they do and say. Another one, Dr. Rosenfeld, is not as stupid as he appears. He lies thru his teeth to stay in the good graces of the powers to be. Anytime anyone tells a half truth, or leaves our part of the truth to create a false illusion, which Rosined does every time he is on TV, I am forced to put him on the list not to be trusted. At times, I think Dr. Weil does the same thing. So how can any of us trust their beliefs and statements?”
“I have not read a lot of Andrew Weil's stuff, but I can certainly see that he has become a wealthy fellow with a ‘cult’ following! That is one reason I have not read a lot of his stuff!”
"I respect a doctor who can say 'I don't know.' I don't respect one who denigrates without knowing and further presumes the scientific results to be 'fanciful'."
Dr. Budwig’s nephew Dr. Armin Grunewald, MD, writes: “It's not the results of the ‘bone scans’ or ‘CTs’ which are of crucial importance ... but whether the cancer can be gotten under control or not. While many of the test methods used by us physicians are certainly scientific, they say nothing about the patient's state of health.* Dr. Budwig's approach is not a method of healing cancer but a technique which strengthens the body's own immune defence against cancerous cells.”
Compare “Modern Medicine Is Not A Science”.
Dr Willner, M.D., Ph.D. writes in The Cancer Solution: "Numerous, independent clinical studies published in major medical journals world-wide confirm Dr. Budwig’s findings….Over 40 years ago Dr Budwig presented clear and convincing evidence, which has been confirmed by hundreds of other related scientific research papers since, that the essential fatty acids were at the core of the answer to the cancer problem…You will come to your own conclusions as to why this simple effective prevention and therapy has not only been ignored—it has been suppressed!"
Cliff Beckwith, a 13 year prostate cancer survivor “thanks to flax oil and cottage cheese”, writes: ”For the most part one cannot expect the doctors to place any real credibility to the use of flax oil/cottage cheese. It seems incredible that anything could be successful other than what they are taught in Med school. Imagine the blow to one's ego if it became official that something with which he or she is not familiar would be found to be much better than the things that were studied 10 years to learn. ... Dr. Budwig to my knowledge had over 1000 documented successes. However, her work was not popular with the Oncology Industry in Europe. Her ideas would have meant a lot of losses in the Food Industry [too]; especially in the fats industry. My cousin, Richard Beckwith, called her probably eleven years ago and talked to her about forty five minutes. She told him that American doctors had come to Germany and been impressed with her work. Then they wanted to try to work out some way to have exclusive rights to her methods in the United States and make a lot of money and she wouldn't do that. She believed her work was very important and was anxious to see it carried on but no one seemed interested unless they could make a lot of money.
I had Advanced cancer and I could not wait for scientific confirmation and began to use these ideas immediately. One thing led to another, none of it planned, and we have seen many folks recover from cancer or have lives greatly extended. A lot of that information is at www.beckwithfamily.com. That is all based on anecdotal evidence. Other than the evidence in Dr. Budwig's records that is all there is. No one is doing any scientific testing. That is done to prove the value of drugs for profit and one cannot patent Flaxseed Oil. ...In my view there should be enough on those lists [the evidence reported on Budwig discussion lists] and what we have seen to at least cause someone really interested in human welfare to be curious."
Compare Linseed and Fatty Acids: Johanna Budwig for more on Dr. Budwig’s encounters with other scientists.
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