Another Cancer Cure Killed-off by The FDA

The Orgone Accumulator is a device that was invented by Wilhelm Reich, a research scientist and physician, in 1940. The device is a six-sided box constructed of alternating layers of organic and metallic materials. The organic materials attract orgone energy, while the metallic materials radiate the energy towards the center of the box. Patients would sit inside the accumulator and absorb orgone energy through their skin and lungs. The accumulator had a healthy effect on blood and body tissue by improving the flow of life-energy and by releasing energy-blocks.

Wilhelm Reich’s discovery of orgone began with his research of a physical bio-energy basis for Sigmund Freud’s theories of neurosis in humans. Reich believed that traumatic experiences blocked the natural flow of life-energy in the body (precipitating the cancer cure), leading to physical and mental disease. Reich concluded that the libidinal-energy that Freud discussed was the primordial-energy of life itself, connected to more than just sexuality. Orgone was everywhere and Reich measured this energy-in-motion over the surface of the earth. He even determined that its motion affected weather formation.

Not everyone liked the theories Wilhelm Reich suggested including the cancer cure. Wilhelm Reich’s work with cancer patients and the Orgone Accumulators received two very negative press articles. Journalist Mildred Brandy wrote both “The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy” and “The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich”. Soon after their publication, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) sent agent Charles Wood to investigate Wilhelm Reich and Reich’s research center, Orgonon. In 1954, the FDA issued a complaint about an injunction against Reich, charging that he had violated the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by delivering misbranded and adulterated devices in interstate commerce and by making false and misleading claims relating to the cancer cure. The FDA called the accumulators a sham and orgone-energy nonexistent.