"He took a level teaspoon of Vitamin C as ascorbic acid crystals, about 4,000 mg, every half hour he was awake, day or night. His total daily intake approached 100,000 mg...Within days, he stopped coughing up the blood. "

Biochemist Irwin Stone first interested Linus Pauling in the therapeutic beneifts of very high amounts of vitamin C. Stone's initial report alerted the world that 80 to 150 grams (80,000 to 150,000 mg) a day of Vitamin C could treat advanced cancers.

https://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2005/pdf/2005-v20n04-p230.pdf

"An acquaintance of mine took Stone’s point very seriously. He had terminal lung cancer, and was constantly coughing up blood. He was too sick to get out of his recliner. He could not walk. He was in too much pain to even lie down. He did not want to eat. But he was more than willing to try what Dr. Stone’s friend had tried, and did. He took a level teaspoon of of vitamin C as ascorbic acid crystals, about 4,000 mg, every half hour he was awake, day or night. His total daily intake approached 100,000 mg. Within days, he stopped coughing up the blood.

"If ascorbate had done nothing else, this alone would have been more than enough benefit.But there was more good news within the week. His appetite returned, and he was now able to lie down in the bed. He reported that he was sleeping much better and was in much less pain. Within two weeks, he was able to walk around the house with a cane, and even go out into the yard. His quality of life was extraordinarily enhanced by the vitamin C. He never got diarrhea."

"It is a clear and uncomfortable challenge to all physicians, dietitians, and governmental bodies that a sick human organism can in fact absorb quite a bit more than a few hundred milligrams of ascorbate ("vitamin" C) daily."

--Andrew Saul (2005)

Stone's entire book online: THE HEALING FACTOR https://www.vitamincfoundation.org/stone/