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Hulda Regehr Clark is a Naturopathic Doctor, author and practitioner of alternative medicine.

Background

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.

"According to the Graduate School's Register of Ph.D. Degrees conferred by the University of Minnesota of Minnesota July 1956-June 1966, Hulda Regehr Clark (with no e) received a Ph.D. in 1958 with a major in zoology and a minor in botany. Her thesis is titled, A study of the ion balance of crayfish muscle; evidence for two compartments of cellular potassium."

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 Cure of All Cancers, The Cure for HIV/AIDS and The Cure For All Diseases.

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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 left Indiana a few days later. In September 1999, Clark was 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 for failure of 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 dismissed against Dr. Clark.

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, Clark bases her claims on anecdotes. She claims that her bio feedback testing over the years with her patients provides evidence for her claims. While the case studies in her books may interest the public, they are not accepted by the mainstream scientific community because they lack objective scientific testing using defined parameters, and have not gone through any adequate 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.

The Swiss Study Group for Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cancer (SCAC) issued a strong warning to cancer patients considering Clark's "methods":

"There is no scientific basis for Hulda Clark's hypotheses and recommendations, including her suggested treatments. The parasite Fasciolopsis buskii does in fact exist, but only in Asian countries, so that an infection in our country is ruled out. Consequently, this parasite does not enter into consideration as a cause of the numerous cases of cancer in the Western countries; at most, it might be one of several causes of liver cancer (and only for this type of cancer) in the Asian countries. As a whole, Clark's thesis cannot be comprehended, nor is it proven. In individual cases, her advice can be very extensive and costly. Hence if patients do not apply her method consistently and their disease continues to progress, they run the risk of attempting to blame themselves for this, rather than Clark's treatment which is ineffective, as viewed at present."

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)

References

1. Library, University of Minnesota
2. Swiss Study Group for Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cancer (SCAC) warns cancer patients against reliance on Clark's methods.

External links

Advocacy

• Hulda Clark's official home page
• Dr. Clark's Publishing Company
• "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

• Articles lacking sources from September 2006
• Pseudoscience
• Alternative medicine