The Source of Health Foundation – Egészségforrás Alapítvány (EFA) in Hungarian – was founded in 1989, with the aim of helping and supporting cancer patients and their families. Over twenty years its programme has grown to include counselling, psychotherapy, dietary advice, teaching healthy lifestyle and disease prevention, training health professionals in the use of complementary therapies, and publishing relevant literature, DVDs and CDs. All its activities have always been guided by the principle of holism, meaning that healing and health maintenance must always involve the whole human being - body, soul, emotions, mind and spirit.

Nutritional therapy has been a chief interest of the Foundation’s workers from the very start, in particular the Gerson TherapyR , which has a 70-year long excellent track record of curing cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases. This revolutionary medical protocol was introduced in Hungary in 1989 by Beata Bishop, a London-based psychotherapist who is herself a long-term recovered Gerson patient. Within a few years there were several recovered Gerson patients in Hungary, foremost among them Dr Melania Nagy, who went on to become the first fully trained accredited Gerson therapist in Hungary and Europe. Beside advising and supervising patients choosing the Gerson therapy, she frequently runs Gerson training days for would-be patients, health professionals and other interested individuals.

The Gerson Health Centre, Dobogókő, Hungary

Thanks to the dedicated work of Melania and her team, Europe’s first and only accredited Gerson Health Centre, fully supported by the Gerson Institute of California, USA, opened its doors in mid-March 2009. Situated in a beauty spot some 30 km from Budapest, the Centre is an educational and training facility for patients suffering from cancer and other chronic diseases who wish to embark on the Gerson therapy. Two-week long sessions are run at regular intervals throughout the year, each one able to accommodate up to eight patients with their companions or carers.

The Centre has eight well-appointed comfortable rooms, with one, two and three beds respectively, each one with its own bathroom. The house is bright and friendly, with a pleasant lecture room and charmingly decorated dining-room. Both nursing and kitchen staff are thoroughly trained in the requirements of the therapy; in fact one of the nursing sisters is a recovered Gerson patient herself!

During their stay patients receive the following services:

 Holistic assessment of current condition with the latest high-tech methods
 Setting up of individual protocols under expert medical supervision
 Complementary naturopathic therapies
 Individual and group psychotherapy
 Lectures on the theory and practice of the Gerson therapy
 Preparations for carrying on with the therapy at home
 Gerson information and advisory service
 Continuous follow-up and monitoring
 Teaching self-monitoring under the Centre’s supervision

Before and during the treatment greatly refined high-technology assessments are carried out, so that all necessary adjustments and/or additions can be made on a precisely personalized basis.

Conditions Responding Well to the Gerson Therapy:

While this healing method is no miracle cure and – like other medical treatments – can offer no guarantee of success, it has an extraordinary track record in curing a wide range of chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, in addition to cancer. These are:
 Heart and circulatory diseases
 Hypertension
 Diabetes
 Chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver
 Ulcerative colitis
 Irritable bowel syndrome
 Renal insufficienrcy
 Autoimmune diseases
 Crohn’s disease
 Multiple sclerosis
 Gout
 Rheumatic conditions
 Asthma
 Various allergies
 Morbid obesity and more.

Naturally the question arises: how can a single nutritional therapy cure a wide variety of conditions, which even the most advanced allopathic treatment can only alleviate but not cure? The answer comes from the revolutionary insight of Dr Max Gerson (1881-1959), the brilliant German physician, who – over thirty years of successful clinical work – was able to prove that all chronic degenerative diseases have two underlying causes: dietary deficiency and toxicity.

Therefore the treatment must consist of hypernutrition and detoxification of the organism. Once the immune system and all other functions have been restored, the body can rid itself of all pathological conditions. With respect to cancer, it was Dr.Gerson’s epoch-making discovery that malignant disease is not a thing, namely the tumour, but a process involving the whole sick organism; therefore concentrating on the removal or destruction of the tumour does not deal with the underlying cause, hence there is nothing to prevent the recurrence of the disease.

The Tools of the Therapy

At the Gerson Health Centre hypernutrition is supplied in the form of a rich and varied vegetarian diet providing three generous meals a day, plus large amounts of freshly made raw vegetable and fruit juices, the whole intake consisting of certified organic produce.

Various detoxification techniques are taught and demonstrated, and the protocol is completed with a range of natural remedies and substances, specially chosen to support the body’s self-healing work.

Just as serious chronic diseases normally develop over a period of time, the Gerson therapy also takes time to reach the desired results. Cancer patients must follow the intensive therapy for at least two years; those suffering from non-malignant conditions are able to use a shorter, less stringent form of the treatment.

How to Apply for a Place at the Centre

In the first place please contact the Budapest office of the Foundation by email on the following address: egeszsegforras.alapitvany@gmail.com, giving brief details of your condition. In response you will receive a medical questionnaire which you have to complete in English and return to the office. From then on you will receive all the detailed information you need.

On the basis of the medical documentatin you will be asked to supply, the Gerson therapist will decide whether you would benefit from a residential course at the Centre and inform yuou accordingly.