The views of these alternative healers, as summarized by authors Thomas S. Cowan, MD and Sally Fallon in their recent book The Fourfold Path to Healing (2004) is that the real vitamin C is actually a complex of nutrients that includes bio-flavonoids, rutin, tyrosine, copper and other substances known and unknown. (Cowan and others 2004 p. 21) Ascorbic acid, which has been vitamin C since at leas