Vitamin C

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I have a patient who is seeing a physician who does alot of

nutritional and vitamin supplements. The patient says he wants to do

a " Vitamin C Challenge " with her. As she understands it, this

involves hourly doses of vitamin C until a loose, watery stool

occurs. The plan is to then back off to 75% the cumulative dose it

took to get there and keep her on that for maintenance.

 

My questions to the group are:

 

Does anyone have any knowledge of or experience with this procedure

(please explain rationale)? and From a TCM perspective, I know of

some concern for spleen qi with megadoses of vitamin C (cold & damp,

I assume). Is there something published on this that I can look to?

What is the groups experience with patients who megadose on vitamin C?

 

I do have some influence with this physician, but do not want to

approach him until I know what I am talking about.

 

Thanks in advance for your input.

 

Michael Buyze