Did you know that the FDA, the all powerful, almighty FDA, is banning injectable Vitamin C in spite of its proven value to fight disease and improve our population’s health? Yes, they are. I have to wonder what’s next and so are a lot of other people. They are hopping mad and maybe we should be mad, too.
The only reason that seems plausible for the FDA’s action is, of course, money. Vitamin C, in a pure form, is not patentable. If it can’t be patented, then big pharma (the big pharmaceutical drug corporations) cannot make their millions and billions. Now, I’m not opposed to any corporation earning a profit. Of course not. That’s the way business works. But see the following letter in which the reason for the FDA’s action appears to be solely because of the patent issue, not the American public’s safety or any other valid reason.
Injectable Vitamin C has specific uses. (See letter again below.) If used in a Meyer’s cocktail for illnesses like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, it is even administered by licensed physicians. I encourage you to read the following and then send your own personal letter to the FDA objecting to this action. Then I suggest you write your congressman. When big government begins to intrude on our lives and our health to stop the very tools we have to help us, it’s time to crawl out of sick beds and do something about it! Who know what actions they will take next… .
Thank you for listening and taking action, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show
*Please leave your comments below- after the re-print of the letter.
The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C—despite its remarkable power to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch. Please help reverse this outrageous decision!
Let’s get this straight. The government acknowledges the risk of a worldwide flu pandemic. It acknowledges that conventional drugs cannot cure big viruses-like the mononucleosis and hepatitis viruses, many influenza viruses, and many others. It acknowledges that many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics and are killing increasing thousands. It acknowledges the risk of a worldwide drug-resistant TB pandemic.
Despite acknowledging all this, it now insists on wiping out one of the best potential treatments for these conditions and for certain cancers as well. And why is this being done? What possible rationale is offered? Because it’s dangerous? No. Because it can’t be patented and therefore won’t be taken through the standard FDA approval process. No matter that vitamin C is one of the least toxic components of our food supply and liquid forms of it have been used safely for decades.
By the way, here is what is not safe. Don’t substitute home-made vitamin C solution for pharmaceutical grade liquid. That is not safe for injection. If the FDA action leads someone to do that, the FDA should be held responsible for the results.
The government, instead of banning intravenous vitamin C, should instead be supporting research into it. Even though IV C is being used in burn units around the world, including in the US, and has been adopted by the military for this purpose, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) refuses to fund any studies using intravenous C in patients. There are privately funded studies currently underway, but of course these cannot continue if the FDA bans the substance.
With at least one of the pharmacies, the FDA seems to be banning injectable magnesium chloride and injectable vitamin B-complex 100 as well. These two substances are routinely added to intravenous C to make the “Myers Cocktail,” used especially for conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, and infectious diseases such as hepatitis, AIDS, mononucleosis, and flu. The FDA is not going after the Myers Cocktail directly, but is rather attacking each individual substance used to make the cocktail, and may conceivably be going after injectable vitamins and minerals in general, despite such injections being given under the care of a qualified physician.
Please contact the FDA right away, and tell them to stop this foolish war on intravenous vitamin C!
Each of us reading this should think, “Intravenous C could someday save my life.” Dr. Jonathan Collin, editor of the Townsend Letter, discusses the case of a man in New Zealand who nearly died from swine flu. After developing a severe fever… .
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I was shocked to learn of your Agency’s notification sent to small pharmacies on December 28, 2010, that they will no longer be allowed to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C.
Intravenous vitamin C is being used in burn units around the world, including in the US, and has been adopted by the military for this purpose. There have been numerous studies showing the efficacy of intravenous vitamin C against some chronic complex diseases, viruses, and cancers, and can be used for bacterial infections such as staph, strep, and skin infections–including drug-resistant bacteria.
The government acknowledges the risk of a worldwide flu pandemic It acknowledges that conventional drugs cannot cure big viruses–like the mononucleosis and hepatitis viruses, many influenza viruses, and many others. It acknowledges that many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics and are killing increasing thousands. It acknowledges the risk of a worldwide drug-resistant TB pandemic.
So why would the FDA attack one of the best potential treatments available, especially considering that vitamin C is one of the least toxic components of our food supply, and liquid forms of it have been used safely for decades? Your letter invited these companies to file a New Drug Application or apply for an Investigational New Drug to continue to manufacturing IV vitamin C. But as you well know, the cost to take a substance through the NDA process can cost millions, even billions, of dollars. And because vitamin C is a natural substance, it cannot be patented, so there is no way for a small company to recoup its investment in the NDA process.
The National Institutes of Health refuses to fund any studies using intravenous C in patients. There are privately funded studies currently underway, but of course these cannot continue if the FDA bans the substance.
I understand the FDA is also planning to ban the sale and manufacture of injectable magnesium chloride and injectable vitamin B-complex 100 as well. These two substances are routinely added to intravenous C to make the “Myers Cocktail,” used especially for conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, and infectious diseases such as hepatitis, AIDS, mononucleosis, and flu–despite the fact that such injections are being given safely under the care of a qualified physician.
To require the standard approval process for such natural substances is identical to banning them, as your Agency knows full well. Please reverse your decision and allow the manufacture and sale of injectable vitamin C, magnesium chloride, and vitamin B-complex 100. Your mission to protect the public health should begin with allowing such natural, effective, and safe substances to be manufactured and sold.
Hal S Blatman, MD, DAAPM, ABIHM
Past President, American Holistic Medical Association
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