Multiple
Sclerosis Treated with Injectable
Vitamin B1 & Liver Extract
Originally
published in TOWNSEND LETTER for DOCTORS
& PATIENTS, February/March 2000
This is a
case history of a recovery from a
disease which exacts a terrible price in
suffering and hardship from its victims
and their families and for which
orthodox medicine stubbornly insists
there is no successful treatment.
MS has been
reversed and cured by two doctors
working independently and apparently
unaware of each other since the 1940s.
These two men were Dr. F.R. Klenner, MD
of Reidsville, North Carolina and Dr.
H.T.R. Mount, MD of Ottawa, Ontario. Dr.
Klenner makes this claim in his medical
paper “Response of Peripheral and
Central Nerve Pathology to Mega-doses of
the Vitamin B-Complex and other
Metabolites,” in the Journal of
Applied Nutrition, fall 1973. “Any
victim of MS who will dramatically flush
with the use of nicotinic acid and who
has not yet progressed to the stage of
myelin degeneration, as witnessed by
sustained ankle clonus elicited in the
orthodox manner, can be cured
with the adequate employment of thiamin
HCL and other factors of the vitamin B
complex in conjunction with essential
proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and
injectable Liver Extract. If sustained
ankle clonus is not B1lateral, then it
is not a deterrent. We have had patients
who did demonstrate B1lateral sustained
ankle clonus, and who were in
wheelchairs, and who returned to normal
activities after 5 to 8 years of
treatment.” To cure MS is a dramatic
claim to make for a disease which
supposedly has no successful treatment.
Dr. Klenner’s results speak for
themselves.
Dr. Mount on
the other hand, describes his patients
as “clinically well” or “clinically
improved.” For my part, MS is a brutal
disease and anyone who has had it will
have a reminder of it until the end of
their days. The symptom that has
remained with me is the heaviness in the
feet when over-tired. I am otherwise
symptom-free. I received many calls from
doctors after my story was published and
their comments during the first 5 or 10
years were “you are in remission.” Now
in my 25th year I don’t hear
that “remission” B1t any more. Am I
cured or in remission? As long as I take
my intramuscular injection of B1 200 mg
daily and my 2cc liver extract weekly I
am completely well. Call it what you
wish!
I was
diagnosed in 1972 at the age of 44 and
treated with a series of ACTH
injections. I seemed to recover but
still had extreme fatigue and numbness
in my feet and legs which slowly
improved. I continued to work at my
profession as a teacher. In 1973 I had a
second attack which was more severe,
affecting my legs and arms and the
fatigue forced me to quit work. I was
able to be up for several hours at a
time but had to spend most of my time in
bed. I was again given ACTH injections
which didn’t seem to have any effect. My
GP and neurologist had no other
treatment to offer.
They tried
to encourage me by telling of the
research being done on MS which was
progressing rapidly and eventually would
produce a drug which would cure MS, they
assured me. While waiting for this cure
to be discovered, I began to read
extensively everything I could on MS.
The exciting moment for me came when I
was reading a book called How to Get
Well by Dr. Paavo Airola, ND in
which he said that Klenner was treating
MS with much success.
After
talking it over with my family I decided
to go down to Reidsville, North
Carolina, to see Dr. Klenner. I believed
my doctors would be happy to hear this
news, but when I told them they were
silent and finally said, “Dale, this man
Klenner is a quack — he will take your
money and give you false hope. If there
were a successful treatment for MS we
would know about it — Don’t go.” Thank
God I ignored this medical advice.
I phoned Dr.
Klenner’s office and was told by his
receptionist that he didn’t book
appointments but that I should come down
and he would see me. This sounded
strange to me — no appointment? But I
booked a flight from Victoria, British
ColumB1a to Reidsville, North Carolina.
A long flight. Fear tugged at my heart —
could I make it? I could walk only a
short distance and was suffering total
fatigue. When I arrived at the small
town of Reidsville at 1:00 p.m. I phoned
Dr. Klenner’s office and was told to
come to his office at 5:00 p.m. When I
arrived there was a group of perhaps 25
people standing at the bottom of a
flight of stairs leading up to his
office on the 2nd floor of an
old frame building. They told me they
were waiting to get their name on the
patient list for the next day. Presently
Dr. Klenner’s receptionist appeared and
tacked a piece of paper to the door.
This paper had 20 numbers on it. If you
were fortunate you got your name on the
list which were the 20 patients Dr.
Klenner would see the next day. I was
fortunate and met him the following day.
He was working alone with his wife who
was an RN and a receptionist. I learned
that his receptionist had come to him in
a wheelchair with MS in 1961 — she was
now completely recovered and worked
several days a week in his office.
Dr. Klenner
examined me and confirmed the diagnosis
of MS while explaining to me how the
treatment worked. He said I was
fortunate to come to him while still on
my feet as the recovery period would be
shortened considerably. I received an
injection of B1 and liver extract and a
copy of his protocol which I was to read
that night. I saw him again the next
morning and was shown how to give myself
intramuscular injections and told where
to order the injectables. His final
words to me were that I would recover
completely and could probably go back to
work within a matter of months.
The fatigue I had suffered for 2 years
was gone after the first several
injections. I couldn’t believe it. I was
still weak with numbness in my feet and
legs but I had my strength again. Before
I left, his wife cautioned me that I
must have the daily injection for life
because the B1 cannot be absorbed orally
in pill form.
When I
was ready to leave I asked Mrs. Klenner
for my bill — she said it wasn’t made up
yet and they would send it to me. I
never did receive a bill from Dr.
Klenner — so
much for the quack who would take my
money in return for false hope!
When I
arrived home, putting Dr. Klenner’s full
treatment schedule in effect proved to
be a problem. Many of the oral
medications weren’t available in Canada
and some of these medications such as
niacin caused me some stomach distress.
I shall always be grateful to Dr. Abram
Hoffer who guided me through this
period. Dr. Hoffer was practicing in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at that time but
he always took my many telephone calls
with the grace and compassion this great
physician is renowned for. Dr. Hoffer
has been practicing here in Victoria for
quite some time and I had occasion to
see him at his office recently about a
problem I was having. I presented him
with a sheet of the supplements I am
presently taking and he said, “Dale,
this must cost you a bundle but you’ll
probably live to be a hundred.”
Recalling what last month’s B1ll for
supplements had been, I replied that I
probably couldn’t afford to.
Several
years later following an interview for
CBC television broadcast nationwide, I
received a call from a man in Toronto
who told me he had been cured of MS by
Dr. H.T.R. Mount, MD of Ottawa, Ontario.
This was very interesting as I was
unaware anyone else was treating MS. He
sent me a copy of a medical paper which
appeared in the Canadian Medical
Association Journal June 2nd,
1973 in which he gives 14 case histories
of MS patients treated successfully. On
reading this paper I was surprised to
find Dr. Mount was using B1
intravenously and liver extract
intramuscularly and nothing else! Dr.
Klenner was treating MS intensively with
vitamins A, C, E, and all of the B
vitamins and other metabolites in
addition to the B1 and liver extract
injections. Dr. Mount felt paralysis was
a contraindication to his type of
therapy whereas Dr. Klenner was treating
patients with paralysis with success.
Dr. Mount concludes his medical paper
with a call for detailed studies to
enlarge its use or to circumscribe its
limitations.
Why have the
positive results of these two men been
stonewalled by orthodox medicine for 50
years? To answer this question let’s
begin with the patient who goes to his
GP with neurological symptoms suggestive
of MS as I did. He is then referred to a
neurologist for treatment. The
neurologist gives the patient steroids,
usually cortisone or ACTH which do not
work. This is the stage at which this
patient should be treated with
intramuscular injections of Bl and liver
extract. Would this safe, easily
administered and economical treatment
work with every patient? Perhaps and
perhaps not. Would it work with 8 out of
10— 5 out of 10— 1 out of 10? Cortisone
with ACTH produces 0 out of 10 results,
so even 1 out of 10 is a win-win
situation.
It is
obvious that our neurologist, who is an
“advisor” to the MS Society and probably
receives a stipend thereof and who
probably received a grant to do research
work on a cause or cure for MS at one
time during or following his medical
education, won’t rock the boat by using
a treatment that works. This would risk
the whole financial structure salaries
and grants funded with public money.
This is called Empire Building. When did
we become a society that victimizes its
most vulnerable citizens? We are seeing
the same sordid situation in the Cancer
industry and with the alternative
therapy treatments that threaten the
medical status quo.
Of great
concern to patients on this treatment
has been the lack of readily available
supplies of injectables, thiamine 100mg
per ml in 30 ml bottles and liver
extract in 30 ml bottles. In Canada the
Canada Health Protection Branch (the
Canadian version of the FDA) wouldn’t
allow pharmacies to import thiamine and
liver extract which were not produced
here. Patients had to import their
supplies from the US with all the red
tape this entailed. Most pharmacies in
the US didn’t stock these supplies
because of the limited demand and had to
order them from suppliers. This lack of
a readily available supply was a
hardship for patients and many finally
became discouraged and gave up.
Steris
Laboratories of Phoenix, Arizona was the
sole manufacturer of vitamin and liver
extract injectables in the US. Two years
ago the cold heavy hand of the FDA fell
on Steris Labs and they were forced to
stop producing vitamin injectables. This
has been a tragedy for MS patients and I
have received many calls from desperate
people asking for help. With the FDA’s
record of crackdowns on nutritional
therapies and supplements, was this an
orchestrated plan to eliminate one more
threat to orthodox medicine
(neurologists et al.) from alternative
therapies? I have every reason to
believe it was.
Three years
ago, Merit Pharmaceuticals of Los
Angeles began producing liver extract.
When I learned in 1998 what had happened
at Steris, I called Charles Fahr,
president of Merit Labs, and asked him
if he could begin producing thiamin
injectable in 30 ml, 100mg per ml. He
said he was considering it and would
probably start in August if things
looked favorable. In January of 1999 I
was informed by my pharmacist in the US
that thiamine was still not available. I
phoned Mr. Fahr again and he said they
had decided to produce a 3Oml B Complex
100 injectable which had a formulation
of thiamin 100mg per ml, B6, 2mg per ml,
Pantothenate 2mg per ml, B2, 2mg per ml
and niacinamide 100mg per ml. I asked
why the thiamin wasn’t being produced
and he said he felt that the market for
thiamin had been killed by the FDA
action but thought that the B-complex
100 would appeal to a broader market as
many doctors routinely use a B-complex
injection for their patients. This was
good news for us as this formula
supplied the 100mg of thiamin required
to treat MS. When I checked again with
the pharmacy in May I was told that
because of an FDA quarantine it wouldn’t
be available until July. This sounded
like more FDA monkey business to me and
I was receiving many desperate calls
from patients. I saw Dr. Hoffer about it
and he suggested having a compounding
pharmacy make it up here in Victoria. He
called a pharmacist and was told it
could be done. A 100mg per ml, 30 ml
bottle would cost $30. Patients require
2 bottles per month costing $60. We were
paying $8 per bottle for $16 a month for
imported thiamin. More than 3 times as
expensive locally, but at least the
spectre of a wheelchair hanging over us
has been lifted for now.
In summary,
there is a roadblock at the
neurologists’ door for MS victims, but
there is a ray of hope. In the 20 plus
years I have been working to get the
word out of a successful treatment for
MS, I have talked with many GPs and the
majority of them have told me that they
saw no harm in helping these patients
with the treatment even though they felt
it wouldn’t work. With the increasing
acceptance of alternative therapies by
many physicians and the demand by an
informed public for therapies which
transcend the “cut, burn and poison”
routine of orthodox medicine, an
exciting new era is dawning for many
people stricken with diseases which were
formerly considered to be untreatable.
Correspondence:
Dale Humpherys
103-9905-5th St
Sidney; BC Canada
V8L 2X6
250-655-6616
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