Template:ScientologySeries Dianazene was the name given by L. Ron Hubbard to a vitamin supplement containing iron, Vitamin C, and various B vitamins, including especially large doses of niacin. Hubbard promoted it as a form of protection against radiation poisoning during the 1950s, saying that "Dianazene runs out radiation - or what appears to be radiation. It also proofs a person against radiation in some degree. It also turns on and runs out incipient cancer." [1]
In 1958, the Food and Drug Administration seized from a Scientology company, the Distribution Center, and destroyed, 21,000 Dianazene tablets because they were falsely labeled as a preventative and treatment for radiation sickness.[2][3]
Dianazene also plays a large role in the in the Scientology Purification Rundown and the Narconon program, where it is similarly claimed that the large quantities of niacin in the compound, combined with the heat in a sauna, can "purify" the body by allowing it to "handle radiation" and to release toxins stored in cellular tissue and to "run out" or ameliorate prior radiation exposure including sunburn.[4]
Ingredients
According to Hubbard's 1957 book All About Radiation, a standard dose of Dianazene contains the following ingredients:
- Vitamin B3 (Niacin): 200 mg
- Iron (Ferrous gluconate): 10 g
- Vitamin B1 (Thiamine): 25 mg
- Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin): 50 mg
- Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid): 200-500 mg
- Calcium (Dicalcium phosphate): 15-20 g [1]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Hubbard, L. Ron. All About Radiation. ISBN 9780884040620.
- ^ Atack, Jon (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky. New York, NY: Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8184-0499-X.
- ^ Wallis, Roy. Sectarianism: Analyses of Religious and Non-Religious Sects, Page 92, 1975, ISBN 0470919108
- ^ Narconon Exposed. "What is the Narconon programme? - The New Life Detoxification Program Picture Book".
Further reading
- Williams, Ian. The Alms Trade: Charities Past, Present and Future, Page 130, 1989. ISBN 0044404352
- Wallis, Roy. Sectarianism: Analyses of Religious and Non-Religious Sects, Page 92, 1975, ISBN 0470919108
- Marshall, Gordon., In Praise of Sociology , Page 178., 1990, ISBN 0044456875
- Aldridge, Alan. Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction , Page 19., 2007., ISBN 0745634044