Vitamin C is remarkably safe even in enormously high doses. Compared to commonly used prescription drugs, side effects are virtually nonexistent. It does not cause kidney stones. In fact, vitamin C increases urine flow and favorably lowers the pH to help keep stones from forming.

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At the proper (high) level, vitamin C has antihistamine, antitoxin, antibiotic, and antiviral properties. If your body wants 35,000 mg of vitamin C to fight an infection, 7,000 mg won't do. The key is to take enough C, take it often enough, and take it long enough.

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QUANTITY, FREQUENCY and DURATION are the keys to effective orthomolecular use of vitamin C. So many people hold a philosophical viewpoint such as "I shouldn't have to take so much of a vitamin." That's certainly true; you do not have to. What we are interested in is results. High doses of vitamin C get those results as well or better than any broad-spectrum drug on the market. Rather than take what we think the body should require, we take the amount of C that the body says it wants.

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The safety of vitamin C is extraordinary. There is not one case of vitamin C toxicity anywhere in the world's medical literature. There is not one case of vitamin C-caused kidney stone ever proven, to the best of my knowledge. Vitamin C has been used to prevent and cure the formation of kidney stones since William J. McCormick, M.D. used it in 1946 (Medical Record 159:7, p 410-413).

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The major side effect of vitamin C overload is an unmistakable 5-times-an-hour diarrhea. This indicates absolute saturation, and the daily dose is then dropped to the highest amount that will not bring about diarrhea. That is a THERAPEUTIC level.

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Vitamin C can help with the following:

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• Alcoholism

• Arthritis

• Bladder Infection

• Burns and secondary infections

• Chronic Fatigue

• Corneal Ulcer

• Depression

• Diabetes

• Glaucoma

• Heat Stroke

• Hepatitis

• Herpes Simplex

• Herpes Zoster (shingles)

• High Cholesterol

• Leukemia

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Pancreatitis

• Pneumonia

• Radiation Burns

• Ruptured Intervertebral Disc

• Schizophrenia

• Some Cancers

• Venomous Bites (insects, snakes)

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