Honoring a Medical Pioneer
The Hoxsey Formula
For 37 years, Harry Hoxsey fought to bring his family's herbal cancer treatment to those who needed it. He was arrested over 100 times. He was called a quack. He was driven from the country. And now, modern science is proving what he knew all along—these herbs work.
A Hero Ahead of His Time
Harry Hoxsey believed he could cure cancer. Not all cancer, and not every patient—but enough to make a difference. His treatment, passed down through four generations of his family, combined nine herbs with thousands of years of traditional use into a formula that attracted tens of thousands of desperate patients abandoned by conventional medicine.
The medical establishment called him a quack. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, made destroying Hoxsey his personal mission. The FDA launched an unprecedented public campaign against him, posting warnings in 46,000 post offices. He was arrested more times than any person in medical history.
But Harry Hoxsey never stopped fighting. He won a landmark libel case against the AMA, forcing Fishbein to admit under oath that Hoxsey's paste did cure external cancer. A congressional investigation concluded that a "conspiracy does exist" to suppress treatments like his. And a USDA scientist later confirmed that eight of nine Hoxsey herbs showed antitumor activity.
This website honors Harry Hoxsey's legacy by gathering the most comprehensive collection of research, primary sources, and scientific evidence about the formula he fought to protect. The truth he sacrificed everything for deserves to be known.
"Now you have the power to heal the sick and save lives."— John C. Hoxsey to his son Harry, on his deathbed
"You Don't Have to Die" (1956)
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"...a conspiracy does exist to stop the free flow and use of drugs in interstate commerce which allegedly has solid therapeutic value."— Benedict F. Fitzgerald Jr., Special Counsel
Report to the U.S. Congress (1953)