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Hulda Regehr Clark is a controversial author and practitioner of alternative medicine.

Clark began her studies in biology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where she was awarded the Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, and the Master of Arts, with a High Honors major in biology. After two years of study at McGill University, she attended the University of Minnesota, studying biophysics and cell physiology. She received her doctorate degree in physiology in 1958 from the University of Minnesota.

In 1979 Clark left government funded research and began private consulting and her own research. Presently, she operates the Century Nutrition health clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, where her focus is primarily on late stage cancer patients. She has published several books on human health, including the The Cure of All Cancers, The Cure for HIV/AIDS and The Cure For All Diseases.

Clark's Claims

Clark claims that disease essentially has two causes: parasites, bacteria and viruses; and pollutants which damage the immune system. She claims that parasites, bacteria and viruses can be eliminated by using herbal treatments and by using electrical treatments, which purportedly electrocute foreign organisms. In conjunction with eliminating pollutants from the diet and from the environment, such treatments can, she asserts, cure diseases.

In her book "The Cure For All Cancers" Clark postulates that all cancers are caused by the flatworm Fasciolopsis buski. However, this worm is almost unknown in the USA and Europe. F. buski exists mainly in India, parts of China, Vietnam and other east-asian countries, and there only in rural areas where people are eating unboiled food from water plants, or where pigs live close to men. She also claims that HIV is a worm virus and that that worm would be responsible for AIDS: "I find it (F. buski) in every case of HIV, Alzheimer's disease. Without this parasite you can't get the HIV virus.". According to Clark depression is caused by hookworms.

She claims that all diseases can be cured using her methods, including pains in various parts of the body, digestion problems, all cancers, HIV/AIDS, warts, and diabetes.

She claims that scientific medical treatments for diseases such as cancers and HIV/AIDS often only focus on treating the symptoms of these diseases, while her treatments are able to cure the disease itself. See: The Cure for All Diseases

Major Methods and Topics

• Diet Cleanup: She talks extensively about how contaminated she believes our food and supplements are, with such things as heavy metals, manufacturing by-products and residue, and mold.
• Homeography: Clark calls this a "new science ... which is the electronic analog of homeopathy." She claims that an electronic signature of a substance can be transferred into bottles make a "bottle copy" of the original substance. The process can then be continued ad infinitum without any need to buy more of the original substance.
• Liver flush: She advocates the use of a 'liver flush', which is claimed to remove gallstones and parasites from the liver and bile ducts. This involves a partial fast for a day, epsom salt laxatives, and a mixture of olive oil and grapefruit juice.
• Parasites: Clark insists that most people have parasites inside them, and that these parasites cause a host of problems. She describes herbal and electronic methods to remove them. These methods include known herbal anti-parasitics as well as electronic treatment of her own device (Zapper, see below).
• Syncrometer: A device invented by Clark, which she claims can detect contaminants in substances up to one part per trillion. The Syncrometer is a so-called bioresonance (bio feedback) unit.
• Zapper: An electronic device which pulses low voltage DC current through the body at specific frequencies. Clark claims this device can kill viruses, bacteria, and parasites.

Legal Issues

In 1993, while Clark lived and practiced in Indiana, a former patient complained to the Indiana attorney general. An investigation was begun and an investigator for the Indiana Department of Health, Acquired Diseases Division, and a deputy attorney general visited her office incognito as part of a sting operation. Clark proceeded to test the investigator and told him he had the HIV virus, but that he did not have cancer. She then ordered blood tests from a laboratory.

Clark — apparently tipped off by the lab — found out she was being investigated and fled from Indiana a few days later. The next six years she lived as a fugitive from justice. In September 1999, Clark was found and arrested in San Diego, California, based on a fugitive warrant from Indiana. She was returned to Indiana to stand trial, where she was charged with practicing medicine without a license. The charge was later dismissed on a statute of limitations. The judge's verdict did not address the merits of the charges but only the issue of whether the delay had compromised Clark's ability to mount a defense and her right to a speedy trial.

Later that year, Esther and Jose Figueroa of New York City (a former patient) filed a civil lawsuit against Clark and several other clinics accusing them of negligence and fraud. The case was thrown out soon thereafter.

In February 2001, Mexican authorities inspected Century Nutrition and ordered it to shut down. According to a report in the San Diego Union Tribune, the clinic had never registered and was operating without a license. In June 2001, the Mexican authorities announced that the clinic would be permitted to reopen but can offer only conventional care. The clinic was also fined 160,000 pesos (about $18,000).

Criticism

Like most researchers and promoters of alternative medicine, Dr. Clark bases her claims solely on her bio feedback testing over the years with her patients. While the case studies in her book may interest the public, it is not accepted by the mainstream scientific community because it lacks scientific testing of defined parameters, and has not gone through the conventional peer review process. Therefore, Hulda Clark's methods are controversial and have received criticism from the scientific and medical communities.

Clark disputes generally accepted, establishment research in virology, parasitology and toxicology. Clark is an independent researcher without the benefit of government or institutional funds to perform formal research (such as double-blind testing) to verify her claims in a way acceptable to the larger medicine industry. The position of the mainstream medical community generally is that she has not, with generally accepted methods of lab or clinical research, proven her claims that:

• "Viruses, bacteria, and parasites are the causes of all cancers and diseases."
• "That these organisms were present in her patients."

The fact that the flatworm F. buski is almost unknown in the USA and Europe in particular impacts on the credibility of any claim that this worm may be responsible for cancer.

Works

• The Cure for All Cancers (1993)
• The Cure For HIV / AIDS (1993)
• The Cure for All Diseases (1995)
• The Cure For All Advanced Cancers (1999)
• Syncrometer Science Laboratory Manual (2000)
• The Prevention of all Cancers (2004)

External links

Advocacy

• Hulda Clark's official home page
• "The Cure For All Diseases" - Entire PDF eBook

Critiques

• The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark - Quackwatch
• Libel Suit against Hulda Clark, Tim Bolen, and Others
• Appeals Court Upholds Malicious Prosecution Suit against Hulda Clark and Attorney Carlos Negrete
• Healthwatcher: Hulda Clark
• Cancer Guide: Hulda Clark's "Cure for All Cancers"
• FTC Prohibits Marketers of Herbal Products and the "Zapper" from Making Unsubstantiated Claims
• Dr. Clark Research Association & Swiss Company Charged by FTC with Making Unsubstantiated Health Claims
• FTC v. Dr. Clark Research Association
• Swiss study group for complementary and alternative methods in cancer SCAC: Hulda Clark

1. State of Indiana vs. Hulda Clark: Probable Cause Affidavit, Filed August 16, 1993

• Pseudoscience
• Alternative medicine
• Quackery