Herbal Treatments - Beetroot/Dr. Ferenczi

Dr. Sandor (Alexander) Ferenczi of Csorna is generally acknowledged as having pioneered of the use of beetroot (beta vulgaris cruenta rubra) as a cancer therapy in the nineteenth century. The fact that beetroot has remarkable therapeutic properties was known in antiquity, and Dr. Ferenczi was really only continuing a long tradition begun by the fathers of medicine. Known to Hippocrates, Galenus, and Dioscorides, the beetroot first came to the attention of western europeans via Paracelsus, (Philipp Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim) who described it in 1540. The therapeutic properties of beetroot were ascribed to its ability
to strengthen the blood and combat fever, with the result that beetroot was used to treat
numerous illnesses. Closer to our own times is the university professor J.F. Osiander of Göttingen, who
mentioned that beetroot was used to treat tumors of the nose in a book on folk medicine published in 1826. By 1929, the German doctors Farberse and Schoenenberger were using beetroot therapeutically. The Hungarian Professor Bakay of the University of Budapest carried out experiments in 1939 (long before Dr. Ferencz) on 72 patients suffering from cancer or leukemia in his clinic in the Hungarian capital. He observed regression of the tumors, increases in weight and improvement in the general condition of his patients. Jewish doctors have also long been aware of the therapeutic properties of beetroot. Even in the Talmud Rabbi Chanina and Rabbi Jochanan recommend "eating beetroot, drinking mead and bathing in the Euphrates.
The Mexican J. Erdos writes that during a journey through North Africa in 1939 he met a healer in the Atlas Mountains who had studied Tropical Medicine in Paris, and who claimed to have successfully treated malignant tumors with beetroot. Erdos also writes that he met a healer in Yugoslavia who stated quite categorically that in the regions where large quantities of beetroot are eaten:

"fatal necroses of the stomach and lung are unknown."

Sources

Buy beetroots, preferably organic, at your local market..


Further Reading

• Herbal Medicine, Healing & Cancer by Donald Yance. Excerpt from Page 56: "... hospital in Csoma,
Hungary, using nothing but raw red beets. According to Ferenczi, beetroot contains a tumor-inhibiting
substance that he attributes to its natural red coloring agent, betaine."

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