What is the difference between potassium chloride and potassium compound salts? What are the dangers?
Here at the Gerson Institute we get a lot of questions about what is right and wrong to do with the Gerson Therapy. One of the more troubling areas seems to be in understanding the dangers of potassium chloride and how it differs from potassium compound salts. Here’s the quick, but albeit complete answer. What is potassium chloride (K-Cl)? K-Cl is a compound, a combination of 2 elements: Potassium + Chloride. The Chloride element portion of the compound is damaging to the metabolism. What can potassium chloride do to your body? Liquid Potassium Chloride may cause fibrillation and cardiac arrest. It also prevents potassium and enzymes to enter the cells for the healing process. Potassium Chloride pills may cause perforation in the walls of the small intestine and death can occur. What are potassium compound salts? Potassium Compound Salts are used as supplementation in the Gerson Therapy. They are a 10% solution of gluconate, acetate and phosphate. The word “Salts” in Potassium Compound
