Dr Johanna Budwig -- some quotes

althea

I just read "Flax Oil as a True Aid against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases."  It's only 59 pages, but rather than breezing through, I found it to be a slogger.  I don't know if it's because Dr Budwig was a scientist and I am very far from it, or if it's because she was German and these transcripts of 3 speeches were translated. 

Anyway, I've heard the 'Budwig protocol' mentioned frequently in this forum.   I started eating freshly ground flaxseed and yogurt last year after reading Northrup's book on menopause.  I have a tendency to think 'close enough is good enough', so I hoped that my flax/yogurt combo is protecting me from recurrence without ever bothering to read Budwig firsthand.  Until now.  

I need to return the book to the library tomorrow, and there's one section that really got my attention.  Before I type out the quote, it might be beneficial to recap her main points, which I hope will be accurate in my very nonscientific summarization.  If I understand correctly, there is a delicate balance between protein, fats, and sunlight.  When oils are processed, we get a longer shelflife, but we lose the properties of the oil which allow it to interact effectively with the proteins.  

editing: I intended for the quoted material to be indented, but the formatting didnt' take.  Quoted material starts here:

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I keep observing that the subjective condition of those patients I have treated with massive doses of flax seed oil -- sometimes I give an enema of 500cc's of an oil mixture right at the start of therapy -- that their subjective awareness of well-being, increases immediately.  The concentration of electrons means an incrase in man's feeling of happiness.  Everything is relative, this statement is also, but it is still correct.  We can include Einstein's theory of relativity here.  These interconnections, these facts, can be readily proven.

Why is that?  The living mass of mankind derives its being -- as does all life in nature -- from the sun!  This has been forgotten until now in biology and medical science.  The living body can only take in and store solar electrons through resonance absorption.  To absorb the electrons into the living body, we must already have in the body's electron system either the same wavelength or a multiplicity of wavelengths.  Thus, the human who eats refined foodstuffs or food which lacks electrons, not only cuts off his oxygen enough to suffocate himself, he also cuts himself off from the effects of the sun.  When such people cover their skin with a layer of paraffin as sun protection oil, and then lie in the sun, the burn damage is very great, because the electrons, which cannot be stored, and the electron-rich biological molecule, are missing.  It has been proved that all the piosons which affect the action of enzymes, including paraffin and the benzopyrin in cigarettes, have an irritative effect on the entire system of electron absoprtion, storage and further conduction.  

This storage depot of solar electrons, of energy--which in turn increases the earth's bio-energy levels--is brought about by the action of sunbeams in the biological living body -- and can be drawn upon and passed on according to the situation and demand.  In clarification of these inter-relationships, modern quantum theory in physics is of particular interest and highly illuminating. ....

Solar energy electrons are both wave and matter!  De Broglie writes that light is the fastest, purest, lightest and most beautiful form or matter we know, as well as the fastest and purest form of energy we are aware of.  As the fastest emissary from star to star, sunlight electrons are always, whatever their condition, both wave and matter.  The electron is a form of matter always surrounded by magnetism; according to the measurement methods used, it can be measured as either matter or wave.  This borderline situation between energy and matter overturns all classical physics, and is extraordinarily interesting as well as of vital importance in respect of physiological, medical and biolgical problems -- and will, I am very confident, give our biological goals and our biological thinking great support and a strong impetus.  We can store the sun's energy and the living body is then in a position to summon, depending on the situation, energy from this storage depot of electrons.  When these depots are empty, the person then feels irritable, tired, and his limbs become heavy.  But we are able to replenish these storage depots by taking electron-rich seed oils.  These are set to receive solar energy.  

You cannot, by selective seed cultivation, force the level of unsaturated fasts in oil seed to rise, without also raising its level of protein.  The harmony between fat and protein, between beneficial fats and beneficial protein is of immense significance for all the vital functions and life processed in this dipolar, biologically important system which controls everything in the life processes themselves.  There, in the harmony between benefical fat and beneficial protein, there is a continual easily influenced and directable biological molecule prepared to store the sun's radiant energy, to absorb and radiate, according to the individual's need for energy, strength or power.  Without any doubt, every function of the brain -- and this has been scientifically proved -- needs the very easy activation effect of threefold unsaturated fats.  A Swede has proved that no brain function can take place at all without threefold unstaurated fats.  The same applies to nerve functions, and for regeneation with the muscle after strenuous muscle activity, in the so-called oxidative recovery phase during sleep.  This process requires the highly unsaturated, particularly electron-rich fatty acids in flax seed oil.  So, when I wish to help a very sick patient, I must first give the most optimal oil I have.  Given the climate in which we live, my opinion is -- Flax Seed Oil.  All other oils can be given later.  In every case they should be natural, untreated oils.  

Why is the other kind of radiation which is given to cancer patients today, wrong?  This, in light of physics research, is of great interest.  ......  Cosmic rays which contain protons, heavy matter or neutralized electrons are neither absorbed nor conducted by the living organism.  The organism has a kind of filtering procedure for separating suitable and unsuitable radiation.  When the body is exposed to too much unsuitable radiation, burn damage results.  These unbiological, unsuitable kinds of ray, whether from synthetically manufactured radioactive substances such as radium or cobalt, or in the form of unfavourable cosmic rays, only serve to destroy the living body.  All attempts, undertaken by doctors, to localize the currently employed form of radiation treatment to the tumour are bound to fail due to the basic nature of the physical occurence taking place, which is that the wavelengths of our body's own biological electrons, which we are able to store in quantify from the sun.  These 'black rays' according to Max Planck and the 'incompatible rays' according to Dessauer are in no way to be used as therapy on any living organism.  At the Cancer Research Congress in Moscow in 1962 this was also publicly emphasized by the President of the Scientific Committee.  There were 150 German scientists present.  We had a long discussion on this over Krimsekt in the German embassy, at the invitation of Ambassador Kroll.  The defenders of the old, obsolete methods which use the wrong, injurious kind of rays are in fact aware of these new scientific findings and related comments made by the Head of the Scientific Committee at the major congress in Moscow:  We have to see that radiation treatment and operations are regarded as obsolete in our era.  We do not find these methods convincing and there is not one scientific argument which justifies the use of this kind of unbiological radiation.  We have to turn to immuno-biological methods.  It has been scientifically proven (by Professor H.V. Euler of Stockholm), that every operative measure undertaken in cancer cases only make the end more unbearable, causes faster formation of metastasis and can no longer be at all advocated.  Nowhere in the world, and I have been in Japan, China, India and have, I think, attended science congresses in most European countries, and maintain contact with many researchers in this field, and I say: "Nowhere in the civilized world, nor in those countries which are still underdeveloped, is the movement in the direction of biological treatment fought against or brought to trial in court, as often as it is in Germany.  The instigators are a number of die-hard dictators in the medical institutes.  Here we have a treatment; recognized as wrong, but which is still given dogged and obstinate credence.  I can say this because numberous representatives of this school of thought have been to me seeking help with members of their families.  They found that help but still continued to support such obsolete methods in the medical journals."  

...And what do I actually do?  I give cancer patients simple, natural foods.  That is all.  I take sick people out of the hospital, when it is said there that they do not have more than an hour or two left to live, that the scientifically attested diagnosis is at hand and that the patient is completely moribund.  In most cases, I can help even these patients quickly and conclusively.  

What can we learn from this?  Firstly, when the simple restoration of our fundamental nutrition -- oil, protein, fruit and vegetables -- is so very important, it is up to us to see that they are on offer in unadulterated form.  Secondly, when maltreatment by chemical means, preservation methods, antibiotics or refining processes make certain foods such a source of danger, we should take great care to avoid them.  

A point of cardinal importance in the maintenace of healthy vital functions has been found in research into the metabolism of fats and its connection with the taking in of oxygen and the absorption, sorting and activating of the sun's radiant energy.  " 

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This speech was delivered in 1966.  Over FORTY years ago!  I wish the mainstreamers and the alternative folks would stop thumbing their noses at each other and get to the truth. 

I have the same question I always have after reading something that sounds really great.  After all, wouldn't we all love to eat flaxseed oil and cottage cheese for breakfast and be healed?  I like scones better, but I'll choose flaxseed over rads any day.  If the Budwig protocol indeed works, why aren't we all being healed this way?  And if radiation is as harmful as what Budwig describes, how is it that so many of us go through rads, survive, and thrive?  I don't think chemo was even around in '66.  I wonder what she would have to say about chemo?  I have to admit, it ruffles my feathers to think I might've been healed in a way that didn't take such a toll on me.  I'm on day 2 of eating flaxseed oil with cottage cheese and ground flaxseed.  I ditched my tamoxifen 6 months ago, so I guess that means I'm placing my faith with Budwig.  

peggee

wow, that sure is a lot to read, althea !

 i try to follow her advice in the final paragraphs - simple, natural foods; and add fresh air, excersize, vitamins & rest

 it seems to be working for me so far !

peggy

althea

Yes, it was rather lengthy.  More of an excerpt than a quote I suppose.

I have been making a lot of strides toward a healthier diet this year.  I juice nearly every day.  I bake my own bread.  My meat consumption is way down.  I sometimes make my own yogurt.  And I have to say, I like the yogurt/flaxseed combo way more than the oil/cottage cheese/seed combo.  So I'm in a dilemma there.  I been walking 30-40 minutes 4-6 times a week for almost 3 years now.  The biggest perk I got was discovering superfood, and I've been feeling so much better since I started that in March.  I know I could do more, but I'm hoping what I am doing is enough to keep me healthy from this day forward.  I try not to even let a thought of cancer returning last more than a second, but it does try to creep onto my radar occasionally.  I would be so devastated and disillusioned if that happened, I can't even allow my mind to go there.  So, here's to old age for all of us.