Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

L., a young woman of 34 years, had suffered from rheumatoid
arthritis for 14 years, beginning when she was 20. Since her father
is a physician, a cardiologist, one would expect that she had
always received the best standard medical care for her condition.

For four years, L. had been treated with gold injections that
had supposedly shown some promise in a few cases. She had also
had several shots of chemotherapy (methatrexate). (The allopathic
physicians’ reasoning behind this is that rheumatoid arthritis is an
“auto-immune” disorder, of an overactive immune system that
destroys the patient’s own tissues. Treatment therefore is given to
“kill the immune system” that is supposedly doing this damage!)

L.’s condition, however, constantly worsened. When she found
out about the Gerson Therapy, she wanted to try this approach.
When she arrived in Mexico at the Gerson Therapy hospital, she
had painful, red, and swollen joints virtually everywhere in her
body: her fingers, knuckles, wrists and elbows, shoulders and
cervical spine, hips and knees, and big toes. The balls of her feet
were particularly painful. She suffered from pain in spite of taking
a lot of pain-relief medications. She also complained of severe
stiffness in virtually all her joints upon awakening every morning.

L. got extraordinarily prompt results on the Gerson Therapy in
Mexico after she came in July 2000. In three weeks at the Gerson
hospital, she was free of pain — and off the painkillers and any
other drugs. All the redness (inflammation) and most of the
swellings were gone from her joints, which were soft and pliable.
The balls of her feet were still somewhat sensitive, but aside from
that, she was in almost perfect condition.

However, L. made a mistake. It had been stressed to her that
she would have to continue the Gerson Therapy for at least a year,
if not more, since she had been treated for so long with drugs,
toxic gold injections, and the chemo drug methatrexate. Upon
returning home, she felt so well that she wanted to do something.
For some two years, she had wished to clean up her garage, but
with her intense pain and stiffness she had been unable to do such
work. Now, on returning home, she felt she really could! So she
embarked on a two- or three-day job in her garage, and neglected
to make her hourly juices and take the coffee enemas.

L.’s pain and stiffness swiftly returned, since she was not cured
yet; only her symptoms had been cleared with the optimal support
of the Gerson Therapy. So she wisely came back to the Gerson
hospital for another week and alleviated the problems again.
When she left this time, she was urged to continue the treatment
resolutely to fully and permanently heal her body.