Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

In 1983, while traveling, Josefine aged 51, was unable to urinate.
She was taken to the emergency clinic in Konstanz where her urine
was drained. The attending physician did an X-ray as well as an
ultra-sound. These tests showed a tumor on her left kidney,
blocking her urethra. Immediate surgery was suggested.

Josefine had the operation at the Universitaets Klinik in Frankfurt,
Germany, in August 1983. The biopsy showed the kidney
malignancy and her left kidney was removed. Following the
surgery, she suffered from severe weakness. She reports that she
was unable to hold a cup of coffee in her hand. Her recovery was
slow but complete.

Twelve years later, in 1995, while at her winter residence in
Stuart, Florida, Josefine suffered from abdominal pain. On
examination, the doctors found a tumor blocking her bile duct
causing her to be jaundiced. On further check, it was discovered
that she had 16 tumors throughout her abdomen and liver. Her
doctor gave a desperate prognosis, told her husband that she had
at most 6 months to live. The surgeon tried to remove some
tumors but these were so extensive that removal was impossible.
All he could do was to install a by-pass so that her bile could
drain thus also relieving her of the jaundice.

For several years before this occurrence, Josefine as well as her
husband were not only vegetarians, but ate mainly raw food.
When they received the desperate prognosis, they decided to try
the Gerson Therapy and arrived at the Mexican Gerson Clinic
during the winter of 1995. She was bedfast when she arrived, but
started to feel better after a little more than a week. After she left
the hospital, she continued the strict Gerson Therapy at home.
Two years later, the same doctor who had told her that she had at
most 6 months of life, re-examined her. He was truly happy,
hugged her and congratulated her for her regained health. Even
her liver was healed.

Josefine and her husband continued to eat mostly vegetarian
foods. However, the propaganda of the supposed benefits of soy
caused them to include considerable amounts of soy in their diet.
Aside from that, Josefine also took some pastries, meat, and other
foods not on the Gerson Therapy. She remained in good health for
some 4 years. Then, in November of 2001, while vacationing on
Tenerife, she noticed that 'her skirt was getting very tight.' She
didn't believe that she could have gained weight so rapidly, and,
on her return home to Germany, had a medical examination. The
doctor in Bad Homburg discovered that she had many new
tumors in her abdomen, a pancreas malignancy, as well as a 'large'
mass in her liver and an enlarged 'tumorous' right kidney (her
remaining one). In January 2002, she came back to Mexico for a
return to the Gerson Therapy. Her latest report is that she is
getting better again.