Dianazene


Dianazene was the name given by L. Ron Hubbard to a vitamin compound 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."
In 1958, the Food and [Drug Administration] seized and destroyed 21,000 Dianazene tablets from the Distribution [Center Inc.], a company with ties to the Church of Scientology, because they were falsely labeled as a preventative and treatment for radiation sickness.
Vitamins continue to play a large role in the Scientology Purification Rundown and 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.

Ingredients

A standard dose of Dianazene, according to Hubbard's 1957 book All About Radiation, contained the following ingredients: