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. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13 1911 &ndash January 24 1986 was a fiction writer who devised a self-help technique called Dianetics and philosophy known as Scientology Iron (ˈаɪɚn is a Chemical element with the symbol Fe (ferrum and Atomic number 26 Vitamin C or L-ascorbate is an Essential nutrient for a large number of higher primate species a small number of other Mammalian The B vitamins are eight water-soluble Vitamins that play important roles in cell Metabolism. Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, is a water-soluble vitamin which prevents the deficiency disease Pellagra. 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. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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 labelled as a preventative and treatment for radiation sickness. [2][3]
Vitamins continue to play a large role in the Scientology Purification Rundown and the secular version in the Narconon program, where it is similarly claimed that large quantities of niacin and other vitamins, combined with the heat in a sauna, can "purify" the body by allowing it to release toxins stored in cellular tissue and to "run out" or ameliorate prior radiation exposure including sunburn. The Purification Rundown is a controversial detoxification program developed by Scientology's founder L This article is about Narconon the substance abuse treatment program associated with the Church of Scientology. A toxin ( Greek:, toxikon, lit (poison for use on arrows is a Poisonous substance produced by living cells or organisms that is active at very low Tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism A sunburn is a burn to living tissue such as Skin produced by overexposure to Ultraviolet (UV radiation commonly from the Sun 's rays [4]
A standard dose of Dianazene, according to Hubbard's 1957 book All About Radiation, contained the following ingredients: