Peroxides are supposed to be bad for you. Free radicals and all that. But now we hear that hydrogen peroxide is good for us. Hydrogen peroxide will put extra oxygen in your blood. There's no doubt about that. Hydrogen peroxide costs pennies. So if you can get oxygen into the blood cheaply and safely, maybe cancer (which doesn't like oxygen), emphysema, AIDS, and many other terrible diseases can be treated effectively. Intravenous hydrogen peroxide rapidly relieves allergic reactions, influenza symptoms, and acute viral infections. No one expects to live forever. But we would all like to have a George Burns finish. The prospect of finishing life in a nursing home after abandoning your tricycle in the mobile home park is not appealing. Then comes the loss of control of vital functions the ultimate humiliation. Is life supposed to be from tricycle to tricycle and diaper to diaper? You come into this world crying, but do you have to leave crying? I don't believe you do. And you won't either after you see the evidence. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Read on and decide for yourself. . When using H2O2, noted sensitivity to pollen and food allergens clinically improved. Improvement in allergic bronchitis, asthma and chronic sinusitis... significant improvement in energy and endurance. Discover how this miraculous healing agent works, and why the medical establishment wants to suppress it. No other chemical compound comes even close to hydrogen peroxide in its importance to life. Join Dr. Douglass as he reveals how this fascinating healer works to rid the body of disease.

Oxygen is a very volatile molecule and i would be very suspicous of ingesting over a period of time. The ability to make something sound miraculous is a gift of rhetoric and not necessarily substantiated. Even if it is effective in the short term for certain ailments, what are the long term consequences? Without well financed medical research, there is no factual data available and anyone can say anything. I don't trust the medical establishment as far as I can throw it, but I respect independent long term research. This is just too sketchy for me to feel good about. How about oxygenating the body through the lowering of stress, lifestyle change and deep breathing?

Hydrogen Peroxide has many healthful uses, such as a component of mouthwash for those who cannot tolerate alcohol. Also is useful to decontaminate wounds.

But the rest is hogwash.

Presents convincing reasons why peroxide could help many diseases. Hard to find Dr that will administer IV hydrogen peroxide therapy.

Hydrogen Peroxide Medical Miracle by William Campbell Douglass, MD © 1996 Second Opinion Publishing, Inc.

The use of Hydrogen Peroxide is a somewhat controversial topic in the world of alternative medicine, but Dr. Douglass points out in his book that there are over 6,100 articles in the scientific literature dating from 1920 on the scientific applications of hydrogen peroxide.

Hydrogen peroxide has been used for pollen and food allergies, multiple sclerosis, Epstein - Barr virus, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma, thyroid disease, stomach ulcers, arteriosclerosis, bronchiectasis, emphysema, arteritis, varicose veins, pneumonia, asthma, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), flu, yeast/Candida, warts and moles, gum disease and bad breath.

Hydrogen peroxide is used for a host of different things besides these specific diseases as well.

Studies have shown that the tissue oxygen levels with intravenous hydrogen peroxide equaled that of hyperbaric chamber treatment (which are WAY more expensive by the way!)

Hydrogen peroxide is produced by killer cells (a type of white blood cell) in your body. These cells, (called PMN's or polymorphonucleocites) engulf bacteria, combine oxygen with water to make hydrogen peroxide, and kill the bacteria with an oxygen burst. The PMNs also kill viruses, some parasites and yeast in the same manner.
Hydrogen peroxide is necessary for the manufacture of certain hormone-like prostaglandins which can help with pain in the body.

Vitamin C helps the body produce hydrogen peroxide naturally. Note, this does not include Ascorbic Acid which is only one synthetic molecule of the Vitamin C complex--you'd have to use natural forms of Vitamin C like whole foods, rose hips, and Acerola.

Tissues are more sensitive to radiation treatment if the oxygen supply to those tissues is maximized. Cancer only grows in low oxygenated areas. Neuroblastoma cells (a brain cancer caused by a virus) were inhibited by H2O2 in some lab experiments.

In humans, cats and horses catalase is abundant in both the plasma and red cells. Hydrogen peroxide will help those with rheumatoid arthritis because of this.

Dogs and chickens have low catalase levels so they have a poor tolerance to H2O2. In fact you can kill them with hydrogen peroxide if you are not careful (especially when giving it intravenously). These species develop pulmonary edema and methemoglobinemia with peroxide use.

They taught us in veterinary school that giving hydrogen peroxide was one technique to use to get a dog to vomit. Being the experiential person that I am--I often taste the supplements, herbs and medications before giving them to a pet so that I know what they will feel and taste--I decided to see what would happen when I took the recommended dog dose on a full stomach one evening after dinner. . . Well, I decided not to do THAT again, and understood why the dogs would try to bite me when I tried to get the second dose syringe of H2O2 down their throat! I was nauseous for a good 6 hours--and I didn't even vomit! Back to the drawing board for emetics (vomit inducers)!

Random Tidbits on H2O2 (from Chapter 7): You'll like this one--people drink coffee in the morning because it makes them feel good, but it's not just the caffeine doing this. Roasting coffee beans gives them a hydrogen peroxide generating system. Hmmm. Coffee is actually good for us? I just read the other day that light-roast has more caffeine than dark-roast coffee, but maybe dark roast is better for you. Who knows!

Dr. Douglass' book says that taking too much hydrogen peroxide orally on an empty stomach can cause a Herxheimer reaction. Maybe the dose for vomiting does something different? Woof. He says that skin eruptions, boils, fatigue, sleepiness, nausea or diarrhea are good signs that the hydrogen peroxide is working but that none of these commonly happen.

Intravenous hydrogen peroxide helps to dissolve plaque buildup within blood vessels. Investigators reported that the improvement was not temporary. Autopsies done a year after the hydrogen peroxide treatments showed as much cleaning out of the arteries as in those patients who died just weeks following the procedure.

I've seen hordes of people in the Mexican Chelation Clinics opt for this treatment instead of getting stents, bypasses or their veins roto-rootered out, but I don't know if it has really worked for them.

Although Dr. Douglass alluded to the fact that you could take hydrogen peroxide orally (he recommended the 3% over-the-counter variety,) I suspect he was not being totally open about this. I wondered if he had gotten into trouble with telling people about his methods in the past because on page 73 he states:

"The enthusiasts for H2O2 by mouth say it will cure everything from arthritis to old age--will it cure the ulcer infection? I'm not recommending it; I just thought I would mention it. If you try this, do not use more than 20 drops of H2O2 per glass of water."

And on page 137 he states, "I have not endorsed peroxide by mouth and I have never endorsed the use of so-called food grade peroxide. When giving a dosage, I am merely trying to prevent people from killing themselves, as a friend of mine almost did with massive doses of "food grade" peroxide. Because it was labeled as food, he thought it must be safe--a logical, but erroneous conclusion."

In later chapters he discusses several case studies where hydrogen peroxide had "cured" the health challenge (including AIDS) but I was not convinced that a cure had been reached for some of the cases he discussed. I'm not discounting his work, I'm just saying that a long-term follow up had not been done and sometimes placebo affect and other lifestyle changes will be effective enough to temporarily alleviate many symptoms of disease.

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On August 16th, 2000, I awoke in my sleep, having been bitten five times by a mosquito carrying some form of encephalitis. Earlier that year, residents of the San Fernando Valley, where I live, were warned, through the local media, that the county health officials found 12 different viruses in the mosquitoes feeding off the sewage areas in the neighboring Sepulveda Dam area near my home.

While my home is about 4 blocks from the 405 freeway, where the Sepulveda Dam area is, I didn't think a mosquito would fly over that busy freeway and get close to my home. Well come the night of August 16th, one did. It woke me at 2:00 am that early morning. I found myself waking to me scratching my bite marks. I could not catch the mosquito that bit me, so I went back to sleep.

Come 10:00 am the following morning, I awoke to go to the bathroom; when suddenly I felt a snapping in the left trapezius muscle of my neck, supporting my skull, while I fell to the floor, temporarily unconscious for a few seconds. Oddly enough, instinctively, my left hand grabbed the towel rack next to my toilet, as I tried to catch myself from falling.

As I tried to stand up, I had a massive amount of pressure and pain going clean around my head and over my eyes. I could barely control the muscles on the left back side of my neck and had to crawl back to my bed on all fours. As I got in bed, I reached for the phone on my nightstand and called my cousin to come and take me to Tarzana Hospital's ER, near my home.

When we got there and I was admitted, Dr. Edith Levine, MD; the attending doctor on duty that day, told me they were getting allot of people dropping from the mosquitoes in the Sepulveda Dam area due to encephalitis and meningitis type related problems. So she took a CAT and MRI scan as well as some blood, then told me I was on my own with this one; for western medicine had nothing to offer.

Day and night I was blinded with crushing pain around my head, bedridden and close to death. In fact, I did die come February 2001 and got to see the other side, while walking with Jesus, our Lord, in the paradise he had prepared for me. What I saw gave me a whole new respect for the Holy Bible. This was my 2nd full death experience in my life time; with the first happening at age 25. Why I came back is another story. Whether you believe me or not is not at issue here.

However, what is at issue is how I got my head clear. A few weeks after the initial bite from the mosquito, my brother took me to see one of my physicians, Dr. Murry Susser, who operated out of the Longevity Medical Clinic in Los Angeles at that time. Susser said he could try to approach the problem using all natural approaches, but I suggested we follow Dr. Douglass's book on using peroxide treatments to try and clear the blood vessels surrounding my head; which were obviously involved in all of this. I had been using the information in Douglass's book to help me with a 2 1/2 year detox/deparasiting program I had been on after eating contaminated meat a few years previous: Again being told to go home and die after western medicine finally gave up on me. Susser agreed with my proposal and authorized 10 peroxide treatments to be done on Saturdays, one week apart from each other.

By the time I was done with those 10 treatments, all the crushing pain and pressure in my ears was cleared, but I could not say the same for the crushing pain and pressure all around my head.

Two years went by with me bedridden living in this condition. I had tried prednisone to no avail and the best help was using Dr. Bob Beck's blood electrifier, with the probes on the temporal arteries, which gave me some symptomatic relief, helping me to function somewhat better when walking around. Still through all of this I could not work.

Finally, another naturopath I knew by the name of Dr. Rick Santee called me suggesting I might have plaque build up in the blood vessels going around my head and that I should think of repeating the peroxide IV's, but also add in EDTA chelation into the approach. These are referred to as "chelox" treatments in Dr. Douglass's book: "Chelox" stands for "chelation/oxygen" treatments.

So we made an appointment with Dr. Susser again and I shared with him what Dr. Santee suggested. Susser again liked the idea and authorized 20 chelox treatments done one week apart from each other on Saturdays. So on the first Saturday, I was given a three hour EDTA chelation IV and the next Saturday, I got a 2 hour peroxide IV, at one quarter strength.

As each weekend passed, the EDTA IV stayed the same strength, while the concentration of peroxide was slowly raised to the normal maximum strength. The standard preparation for a peroxide IV treatment, as revealed on page 84 of the book, is a 250cc bag of saline solution with 5% dextrose added. Then 2 cc's of 15% hydrogen peroxide is injected into the mix. This can be reduced to 1cc or 1/2cc to reduce or dilute the strength. This is then done as an IV drip for about 2 hours while you sit comfortably. Just make sure you bring a book to read when getting either peroxide or EDTA treatments done. It's a great way to get caught up with your reading, providing you don't have the head trauma I was fighting to clear.

I proposed to Dr. Susser the dosage of peroxide be reduced, when the first IV proved to be too strong for what I was suffering around my cranial area. Susser, oddly enough after 35 years in the alternative field, had never experimented with reducing the dosages first and then building toward the maximum dosage. However, I had learned over the years, when working with all natural approaches, even alternatives, it is best to start with low dosages and build to allow the body to detox itself slowly, as it opens up its eliminary channels to restore lost flow of oxygen and blood to an area. So starting at 1/2cc proved to be just right to get me started. I have a strong scientific background after half a century of living and am a scientist by trade and learning, which allowed me to work with my Doctor, like I did, in proposing these changes, while I navigated my body through this experience.

Susser was very open minded to my gentle arguments in all we talked about in our discussions together, and you need this when working with your doctor, especially with all natural or alternative approaches.

I'm glad, also as a patient, I had Dr. Douglass's book to reference, while I talked with my own MD; when we spoke with each other. It made it easier to communicate to my doctor my own ideas of how to address this problem I was up against.

The book does not say if the 15% is food grade peroxide, but I assume it is. There is allot of information packed into this small book and you'll need all of it if you want to pursue these oxygen treatment therapies with your own healthcare professional. Hopefully, my revealing this more detailed experience will guide you, as you read the book for yourself and decide on your own.

Anyway, by the sixth treatment, I started to feel everything in my head start to move down toward my shoulders and into my liver. It was the sickest feeling you can think of. I was a little dizzy headed for 72 hours, after each treatment, with the pressure becoming temporarily worse in that 72 hours. However, as each week passed, the pressure got less and less around my head; until come the 18th treatment, all the pain and pressure I had lived with, for what was now close to three years, was gone; never to return: Not even to this day.

What needed more work was the torn muscle on the left back side of my neck. That tear was about a 4 inch tear according to Russ Shamitzu, the neurologist I saw who diagnosed the tear. Susser prescribed 9,000 units of Vitamin E orally a day to go after the scar tissue in the torn muscle, along with head exercises. Dr. Santee wanted me to keep my extracellularpH up, so I did keep my minerals going into me, but found eating lots of protein helped the muscle operate and regenerate faster, along with the large doses of Vitamin E I was taking each day. The extracellular pH is reflected in the saliva pH in case you didn't know.

About another year later, my neck was back to normal. Naturally I could not work during this time in the condition I was in and if we had known to use the chelox treatments up front, I would have only lost the one year, not three.

Dr. Susser was good friends, I learned along the way, with both Dr. Douglass and Dr. Charles Farr. Dr. Farr is talked about in Douglass's book and I have a great deal of respect for Murray Susser, if you are ever in the Los Angeles, California area and need a good source for alternatives away from the allopathic western medical trap of doing medicine. These days Susser is replaced by Dr. Allen Green as Susser moves into retirement, but Susser told me during our last meeting together that Dr. Green shares in his philosophy toward medicine.

I highly, highly recommend you keep this book next to your home medical book, if you have one. The information revealed does indeed work, speaking from actual experience and I've met many a patient at the clinic, as one patient to another, who have used EDTA chelation to clear their arteries avoiding the bitter suffering of open heart surgery, as a result. I can testify from personal experience how well EDTA works in combination with peroxide IV's. The information in this book truly saved my life!