Healing Becomes A Crime

Part 3 in our Special Report on Alternate Medicine

Harry Hoxsey was a pioneer in American naturopathic medicine. Like any practitioner who is effective, yet isn’t in the club, doesn’t take insurance, prescribe medications, etc., he was excoriated by the medical establishment as a “quack”, “charlatan”, and “huckster” for working with cancer patients. Conversely, his most aggressive persecutor, Morris Fishbein, M.D., was the editor in chief of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Fishbein himself failed anatomy and physiology, twice, and never saw a single patient during his decades as a medical doctor. Not one. Given all the misinformation and disinformation with the COVID 19 pandemic, injecting non-specific mRNA from sources other than your own blood, and the massive side-effects that have manifested in folks who chose the injections, facts about alternative therapies need to be explained and brought to light. There is nothing new regarding money interests, Big Pharma, established insurance cartels, and the justice industry going after alternative medicine folks that actually heal people. It all boils down to greed and control. The persecution still happens today. People usually seek alternative or natural treatment assistance especially after conventional treatments have failed and the person and their family has received the “get your affairs in order/go home to die” talk from their oncologist(s).

Harry Mathias Hoxsey (1901–1974) was a controversial naturopath, former coal miner, and oilman who pioneered a controversial herbal cancer treatment known as the Hoxsey Therapy. Born near Auburn, Illinois, on 23 October 1901, he was the youngest of twelve children and received no formal medical training, yet he claimed to inherit a cancer-fighting formula from his great-grandfather, John Hoxsey, who reportedly discovered it after observing a horse recover from a tumor by grazing on specific wild plants. Hoxsey opened his first clinic in Taylorville, Illinois, in 1924, but faced over one hundred arrests for practicing medicine without a license between 1937 and 1939. He moved to Dallas, Texas, where he opened a major clinic in 1936 that eventually expanded to seventeen states with fourteen clinics, generating an estimated $1.5 million annually by the 1950s while treating thousands of patients.

Despite winning a libel lawsuit against the American Medical Association (AMA), instigated by Morris Fishbein in 1952, he was ultimately forced to close his U.S. clinics after the FDA banned the sale of his herbal treatment in 1956. In 1963, one of his former nurses, Mildred Nelson, established a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Mildred died of a heart attack 28 January 1999 but was still working at the clinic. The Hoxsey treatment continues to be offered today at Clinica Biomedica and has an excellent treatment record.

The reason that Hoxsey was persecuted so much: his formulas were inexpensive to his customers, unpatentable by Big Pharma as they were natural, and the FDA would not actually subject these treatments to phase I, phase II, and phase III clinical trials. These are the normal scientific routes for new medications to be approved by the FDA. It is also the reason new drugs cost so much money before their generics come out once the patent expires. Oddly, the COVID jabs and medications like Remdesivir were not put through these clinical trials, but rather fast-tracked under the guise of “emergency need.” How many people died as a result of these treatments? Tens of millions, making the genocide of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot combined look like amateur hour. We all have family and friends who are either dead or have manifested new medical issues without a family history of those issues as a result of these fast-tracked treatments. I personally have three family members who developed massive blood clots without any generational presence of those issues-ever. One is now dead while the other two are on blood thinners for the remainder of their lives. Rather odd, considering they all had no blood clot issues prior to the fast-tracked “treatments”.

The Hoxsey Therapy consisted of two primary preparations: an internal tonic and an external paste. The internal tonic contained a blend of herbs and minerals, with variations across sources. Common ingredients included: burdock root (purported detoxifying properties), red clover (contains phytoestrogens), licorice root, cascara sagrada (a stimulant laxative), prickly ash bark, barberry, stillingia root, pokeweed (can be toxic; linked to hospitalizations by Hoxsey’s persecutors to condemn him), and potassium iodide. Some formulations also included lactated pepsin, alfalfa, and honey drip cane syrup.

The external paste came in two varieties, used for skin cancers. This was a caustic mixture, but, less caustic than current radiation therapies or injectable chemotherapeutics. The red paste contained antimony trisulfide, zinc chloride, and bloodroot. The yellow powder was comprised arsenic sulfide, sulfur, and talc. These ingredients are highly corrosive and can cause severe skin burns, scarring, and disfigurement, just like radiation and chemotherapeutics do, now. Additional treatment elements or adjunct treatments included: dietary restrictions avoiding pork, vinegar, tomatoes, alcohol, sugar, salt, and white flour. Nutritional supplements with emphasis on iron, calcium, vitamin C, yeast, and grape juice were used. Supportive treatments such as laxative tablets, antiseptic douches, and vitamin B-12 injections were also employed. Additional therapies included, on a case-by-case need, procaine hydrochloride (pain reliever, similar to lidocaine), liver extracts, and cactus. All of these ingredients are readily available and have no profit margin or patent exclusivity. The reason that new medications are so expensive-they have all these financial qualities and are very, very profitable.

It stands to reason, then, that natural remedies will be discredited by the profiteers. What Hoxsey experienced was a textbook example of this very thing. Hoxsey clinics operated like medical assembly lines, particularly in Dallas, where patients received rapid diagnoses from osteopaths and began treatment immediately. Despite Hoxsey’s claims of curing thousands, no clinical evidence supports the therapy’s efficacy. The National Cancer Institute reviewed 77 case reports and found none scientifically valid. The FDA banned the treatment in 1960, labeling it a “worthless and discredited” quack remedy. It is interesting to note that Hoxsey’s customers enjoyed an 85% success rate, while the success rate of conventional treatments for cancer is 11%. From a financial standpoint, Hoxsey’s customers didn’t have to mortgage their homes to pay for treatment. Have you seen hospital bills for conventional treatments, especially, at the last six months of the person’s life?

In 1967, Hoxsey himself developed prostate cancer and underwent conventional surgery when his tonic failed. There is no treatment or cure, allopathic or naturopathic, that work 100% of the time, as everyone’s biochemistry is different. Hoxsey himself stayed in Dallas to focus on his oil business and spending his final seven years as an invalid before dying in isolation in December 1974. He passed away without an obituary or tribute in Dallas newspapers, leaving behind a legacy of legal battles with the FDA and AMA that remains the subject of documentaries like “Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime” (1988). The book When Healing Becomes a Crime, will educate and upset you, simultaneously. There are other treatments out there that are effective and won’t spend you into penury. Your health, primarily, is your responsibility, not someone’s in a white lab coat. Choose wisely, as there are consequences to those choices.