What's in the Hoxsey Treatment?

By E. Edgar Bond, B.L.M.D.
Editor of the Journal of Medical Physical Research
(This article is a reprint from the January, 1961, National Health Federation Bulletin.)

In the Journal of The American Medical Association in its issue of June 12, 1954, is the account of its "investigation" of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic of Dallas, Texas.

This "investigation" was conducted from its swivel chairs in the Editorial office of Dearborn Street in Chicago, Ill. It smacks of those ancient editorials from the pen of Morris Fishbein, who was booted out for writing and speaking on things controversial in medicine because his methods had become so obnoxious they were disturbing even to the politician in medical practitioners ranks surrounding the A.M.A. and Trustees.

The conclusion from that office was the Hoxsey Medicine was merely a "cough medicine" and the only ingredients worth considering was one drug, Potassium Iodine. The conclusion it was a cough medicine was due, it said, to that drug being included in some cough medicines, as an expectorant.

From all this "swivel chair investigation: the report in part is as follows.

"Any person possessing any modicum of knowledge of the pharmacological action of drugs should know that any combination of ingredients listed on the current label of the Hoxsey Tonic or in the statement filed over Mr.Hoxsey's signature in Federal Court in Dallas, Texas, is without any therapeutic merit in the treatment of cancer.

Any such person who would seriously contend that scientific medicine is under any obligation to investigate such a mixture or its promoter is either stupid or dishonest."

We are preparing in this article to qualify as being either "stupid or dishonest." Yet the AMA, which was Fishbein, from grandfather to Harry Hoxsey, have tried to put these men out of business but without success and that is due to its success in treating cancer.

Out of an experience of over fifty years we are preparing to analyze each ingredient which both experience and that of many eminent forefathers in the field of medical practice purveying natural medicines at the bedside has firmly established.

Sometimes "scientific medicine" is not scientific nor is it conclusive. We are not surprised Mr. Fishbein or any under study applies to Potassium Iodine the property of an expectorant in cough medicines. It is as alterative.

If given in continuous doses it is so potent as such it will create a rash or other skin lesions, evidence it does reach every cell of the body as an eliminate rather than merely an expectorant in a coryza.

In the article of June 12 the Journal pays great attention to the trial of Dr. Hoxsey in which he was given restricted orders on the proper labeling of the Clinics literature but from the evidence presented it did not prohibit him from using his remedies or sending the remedy by mail.

There was one part of that trial the Journal did not mention for it was proven " Dr." Fishbein had never visited a beside as a medical practitioner.

Just how he obtained the ever present M.D. to his name was not entirely revealed. Yet this was the man of medicine who closed up every Medical School in America except those he could control by medical politics. And now for years he has been telling the world how it should heal all diseases.

In addition "scientific medicine" in theory and practice is bound to the theory it takes a poison to "kill" disease and thus cannot see any virtue in natural medicines of botanical origin which build and strengthen nature's fighting forces and enable it to better resist diseases as well as cure diseases. Such do not kill the patient with an overdose but hold vitality.

In the last analysis all medicines are proved, by actual use on patients. In jargon "Empirically." The following is the 16 oz. Hoxsey Tonic as analyzed by the AMA Laboratories.

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Each 5cc contains:
Hoxsey Tonic

Potassium Iodide ............. 150 Mg.
Licorice ............................ 20 Mg.
Red Clover ....................... 20 Mg.
Burdock Root ................... 10 Mg.
Stillingia Root ................... 10 Mg.
Berberis Root ................... 10 Mg.
Poka Root ........................ 10 Mg.
Cascara Amarga ................. 5 Mg.
Prickly Ash Bark ................ 5 Mg.
Buckthorn Bark ................ 20 Mg.
Maximum does: 1 teaspoonful 4 times per day.

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Black Pills

Potassium Iodide ................ 75 Mg.
Licorice ............................. 10 Mg.
Red Clover ......................... 10 Mg.
Burdock Root ...................... 5 Mg.
Stillinga Root ....................... 5 Mg.
Berberis Root ...................... 5 Mg.
Poke Root ........................... 5 Mg.
Cascara Amarga ................... 5 Mg.
Prickly Ash Bark ............ 2 1/2 Mg.
Buckthorn Bark .................. 10 Mg.
Maximum dose: 2 pills 4 times per day.

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Red Pills

Potassium Iodide .................. 75 Mg.
Red Clover ........................... 10 Mg.
Stillinga Root ......................... 5 Mg.
Berberis Root ........................ 5 Mg.
Poke Root .............................. 5 Mg.
Buckthorn Bark .................... 10 Mg.
Pepsin one tenth Mg........... 1/10 Mg.
Maximum dose: 2 pills 4 times per day.

We submit the following analysis of each in its clinical and laboratory findings each discovered by the bedside use, and confirmed by recoveries from diseased conditions as evidence of its value in such diseases as cancer, both internal and external.

Potassium Iodide

Potassium Iodide is an alterant tonic influencing the glandular system, the serous and mucous membranes. It cures specific ulcerations.

(Pot Ash) is made from wood ashes as lye and is a strong alkali and brings with its chemical combination with Iodine these same qualities.

With Iodine as a base there are formed many such combinations, many of which are included in various medications.

Trifolium Pratense - Red Clover

The common red clover is gathered when in perfect bloom and so used.

It is a stimulating, alterant, influencing the capillary circulation to better distribution. Its use promotes healthy qranulations in indolent ulcers, scaly and pimply skin.

In the elderly person it influences the skin to more normal condition and induces better protective moisture and perspiration.

Brudock Root - Arctium Lappa or
Lappa Major - Roots or Seeds

The root is a soothing alterant, the seed are the same but more active and somewhat oily. Eclectic physicians rely on this drug in blood dyscrasias and usually combine it with more stimulating or diffusive drugs if used in syphilitic cases.

It is a persistent tonic alterative, relieves lymphatic congestions, inflammations of the skin and influences the alvine structures. It is of value in rheumatic conditions especially in the inflammatory stages of such diseases aiding in cleansing the system of its accumulations. Here the seed with its natural oils is of value.

Oascara Amarga - Honduras Bark
Picramaia, Etc.

This bark is little known by modern physicians yet it is one of the best stimulating alteratives we have in the botanical field.

It is of especial value in gummy tumors, chronic catarrhs, localized tubercules and general blood disturbances. In fact, this drug seems to stimulate the kidneys and skin in such a manner as to eliminate the accumulated virus through these emunctories as it improves the appetite and digestion.

It has been also known the addition of Berberis, Potassium and Xanthoxylum adds some properties due to their diffusion and emulating properties.

Xanthoxylum Flaxineum - Prickly Ash

This drug made from the bark seed or berries is a positive diffusive stimulant which produces better arterial and capillary circulations.

This property is unlike that of capsicum, in that it is more lasting and more agreeable the taste.

It arouses the skin, is different have reaching to cold extremities, stimulates caralivary salivary and lymphatic gland and mucous areas.

Of value by itself yet it is often combined with Phytolacca Root when it becomes even more effective in rheumatisms, scrofulaes congestions and paralysis. A vehicle made from ripe berries, possesses similar values but much milder in clinical values.

Phytolacca Decandra - Poke Berries

This plant is common to our woods and fields, easily recognized with its stems of long black berries which are largely eaten by robins to condition them for their long flight south.

Both berries and the green root are used. Phytolacca influences all the deep structures and relieves congested or inflamed areas.

It is a stimulating, relaxing alterant which influences all serous, mucous and glandular structures. It enables the physician to relieve the system of excess accumulations of fats and filth within and give to the patient more muscular solidity.

It is a persistent remedy so is used in orchitis, mammary ovarian and scrofulous abscesses. It will avert body and cartilaginous swellings and is of great value in rheumatisms.

Stillingia Sylvatica

The root of this plant is used which also is a positive, stimulating drugs is urged for in large doses it is cathartic and even emetic and may leave within the bowels a burning sensation.

Like many of the foregoing drugs it is an alterant to the glandular system and is used in secondary syphilis, eczemas, ulcers, scrofulaes and malignant eruptions.

Rhamnus Frangula - Buckthorn

This is the European variety which is a mild, stimulative, laxative, cholagogue which in large doses becomes a cathartic of moderate impression.

Its addition to any alterative medications gives persistent values toward easy elimination of toxic impurities in any system without any of the usual cathartic disturbing carps. In such action it is a tonic laxative rather than that of drastic disturbances.

Glycyrrhiza Glabra - Licorice

This root is usually used as a vehicle to cover up any bitter, tonic, medications, but the profession have of late discovered it is more than a mere covering for bitter taste.

It is a demulcent and gentle laxative yet somewhat stimulating to membranes. This is now emphasized as a valuable addition to any combination of drugs designed to use in inflammatory ulcerations and many other indications in digestive disturbances.

Is it a "Shot Gun" Prescription?

Perhaps one may be secured in such a combination as using a shotgun" prescription. But when one analyses it he finds each has its purpose and reaches diseases especially in cancers which are many sided from many angles as an eliminating alterative, blood builder and mildly stimulating factor in urging the system to eliminate its accumulations of its pathology and rebuild.

Modern Theory of Cancer

\The difficulty of those administering remedies in cancers, and such allied conditions, is in not realizing cancer is first and always a systematic diseases and failure to understand the manifestation we term a local cancer is not the entire cause of the systemic disturbances which are present as a result of such visable lesion.

We are attempting to cure cancers by more and more X-ray forces, Radium and surgical elimination of the local manifestation when we should begin at the root causes and its elimination by means of systemic eliminates. We must attack cancer as a systemic disease.

This Formulae Does Just That

And, in the opinion of ten capable medical investigators, does it better than any other method available if used conscientiously and persistently.

We do not expect to create a great revolution soon in modern day methods of theory and practice concerning the cancer problems, but we have the privilege of an American citizen to expose the wrong thinking in the medical world concerning the effectiveness of the above remedies, which are almost wholly botanical.

Each drug is one which gives positive elimination results which are term alterative in action.

It is seldom realized that these near nature drugs are possessed of antibiotic, that is, have bactericidal properties, especially when in the raw state, neither does the average physician realize these possess antiscorbic properties as also diuretic and cathartic properties.

Should there be no other argument for their efficiency, these of their elimination properties should ensize any one with reason to reach the conclusion there is in this formulae these needed properties in treating cancer.

Also, there is in it tonic properties which build in the system greater assimilation and strength from foods consumed.

That this formulae does all of these in almost a miraculous way is attested to by ten medical men who had places at their disposal many witnesses and hundreds of authentic records.

Editor's Note: This article is being re-run in this issue of the Bulletin, in the hope, that Doctors who have the interest of their patients at heart will use the remedy in connection with whatever method they now use in the care of patients who are afflicted with this dread disease. This with the use of a Doctors regular procedure, provided he is not already using any of the ingredients contained in the mixture.

Those who have used both the liquid and the pills have advise us they feel they have received better results when they used the liquid.

This may be due to the fact that some people do not digest the coating on th pills, hence they pass through the system and have no affect.

This liquid can be mixed by any good herb man or druggist and therefore can be available to a Doctor, who is licensed to use drugs, no matter where his practice may be located.

In administering this remedy, the same care should be used, as is used in the administering of any other drug. In addition to regular care a strict diet should be followed.

All foods that produce uric acid should be avoided, as much as possible. Those who follow a diet, during treatment, similar to that followed by vegetarians appear to recover faster and better. The diet used with the Koch treatment is also very good, according to the experience of patients reporting to us.

The foregoing remedy is an alterative and topic. It should be used as an adjutant to a doctor's regular procedure. It should not be called a cancer cure, but rather an aid to normalcy.

Reactions to Foregoing Tablets or Liquid Medication

If any of the following symptoms develop and are too severe, discontinue medication until symptoms are gone (usually in two or three days). Then resume with one-half original dosage and gradually increase dosage to an amount most comfortably tolerate and then continue.

Reactions

Pimples appear on face, shoulders and forehead, as well as other locations on the body. They may become boil like. Glands in the neck may swell, as well as the area of trouble.

Excessive watering of the eyes and nose may occur particularly when bending over. Nausea and vomiting may develop. A bitter or salty taste may upset the appetite and an extreme feeling of weakness, particularly in the knees, may occur, as well as a pounding, rapid heartbeat.

These symptoms seldom occur but are given here as a guide to the doctor in caring for his patient. The pills should be crushed before swallowing.

Hoxsey Internal Cancer Medicine
(the Dark Liquid)

5 CC contains

150 Mg Potassium Iodide 10 Mg Stillinga Root
20 Mg Licorice 10 Mg Berberas Root
20 Mg Red Clover 10 Mg Poke Root
10 Mg Burdock Root 5 Mg Cascara Amarga
20 Mg Buckthorn Bark 5 Mg Prickley Ash Bark

Dosage : 1 tsp after each meal
1 tsp before bedtime

The original discovery was by Hoxsey's grandfather noting that animals  which had cancer always ate bloodroot. This formula was the one which the Hoxsey Clinic used in their treatment.

Courtesy of Steven Braun.

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