 a day. is pacies all kind of burning
problems, bilious conditions and acid peptic disorders.2. 3. 4. 5. 6.Decoction (Kashaya) of the Whole Plant in Bilious Headache,
Debility, Fatigue
Whole plant of Durva grass is collected – powdered. 1 tablespoon is
added to 2 cups of water, boiled and reduced to half a cup. Filtered. is is administered in a dose of 30–50 ml, along with half teaspoon of
sugar or jaggery. It relieves headache, debility and lethargy. Durva Oil in Skin Diseases and Dandruﬀ
25 Grams of durva grass is crushed and ne paste is made. To this 100
ml sesame oil and equal quantity of water is added and oil is cooked till
only 80–90 ml of oil remains. is is ltered and stored. is oil is very much useful in itching skin lesions, dandruﬀ, eczema
etc. Durva Juice with Milk in Acid Peptic Disorders and Gastric Ulcers
Fresh Bermuda grass is taken and crushed well with cow’s milk,
Filtered. Juice is collected. is is administered in empty stomach in a
dose of 10–20 ml, once or twice a day before food. is is used as a
remedy for gastritis, hyperacidity, gastric ulcer and heart burn. Durva Grass for Allergic Rashes in Children
A stful of Burmuda grass is taken and crushed a little. is is soaked
in water for 1–2 hour and ltered. is is administered to children in a
dose of 5–01 ml, once or twice a day, to treat allergic rashes, tinea
infection and such other skin disorders associated with itching etc. Fresh Juice with Ghee in Nasal Bleeding
Fresh juice of durva grass is taken by crushing the leaves. Filtered. Mixed with little ghee. is is used as nasal drops 2–5 drops to eachnostril. is is useful to stop nasal bleeding.105. 6 Elephant Yam Home
Remedies for Fatty Liver,
Foot Corn, Obesity
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Elephant yam is an excellent vegetable. Ayurveda prescribes it for many
diseases such as piles, dysentery, asthma, swelling of lungs, obesity, intestinal
disorders, vomiting, blood borne diseases, menstrual disorders and abdominal
cramps. e paste of the tubers is applied externally to reduce pain in arthritis and to
heal the gangrenous skin lesions. Elephant foot yam botanical name is Amorphophallus paeoniifolius or
Amorphophallus campanulatus. Common names: Stanley’s water – tub, Konjac
Elephant foot yam, also called Konjac has a rich nutritional prole. It provides
appropriately 330KJ/100g energy. Potassium, Phosphorous and Magnesium
are the key minerals found in elephant yam. It also contains trace minerals like
zinc, copper, calcium, zinc and selenium. It has omega – 3 fatty acids which are known to increase the good
cholesterol levels in the blood; simultaneously it decreases the bad cholesterol
and hence acts as a regulator of good and bad cholesterol. e scientists have
identied Diosgenin, a molecular hormone which has potential anticancer
eﬀects.1. 2. 3. 4.It is widely used in the treatment of obesity, haemorrhoids, ssure,
constipation, stula, blood borne disorders. Few of the important simple remedies are compiled here and presented below
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Elephant Yam (Konjac) for in Obesity and Hyper Cholesterol
Conditions
Obese people who cannot control hunger are advised to use this
vegetable in their diet. Suran Kand tubers are cooked well and as per ones need tamarind,
turmeric powder and salt are added and kept ready. Whenever one feels
hungry, 1 bowl of this sabji dish is consumed along with a cup of
buttermilk. is is also useful to reduce bad cholesterol. Tuber Dry Powder in Haemorrhoids and Fissure in Ano
Mature Suran tuber is taken, washed well and sliced. Dried under
shade. It is powdered and stored in an air tight container. is can also be soaked in turmeric water (1 tablespoon turmeric + 1
mug of water) or buttermilk, dried. is powder can be consumed in the dose of 3–5 g rams per day. is
is very useful in relieving haemorrhoids, ssure and constipation. Tuber for Prostate Enlargement
e Surana Kanda – 100 grams is boiled with 2 cups of buttermilk and
2 cups of tamarind juice along with 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder. is is consumed in a dose of 2–3 grams, once or twice a day, before
food for 4–6 weeks for the treatment of BPH (prostate enlargement). Elephant Yam Powder in in Fatty Liver5. 6.In case of fatty liver, elephant foot tuber powder is administered in the
dose of 3–5 grams along with honey or jaggery/palm jaggery. Tuber Paste in Boils, Corn and Swelling
Matured tubers are taken and crushed well to make into ne paste. While making paste little Chuna (dehydrated calcium/lime powder) is
also added. is paste is applied over the swelling and the corns and
even on warts, daily for 4–6 weeks time. In case of rheumatoid arthritis, ne paste is made with ginger juice
and applied. Precaution
Pregnant women must avoid large amount of this tuber. Also few who
experience allergic reactions, should avoid it.1. 2.106. 6 Eucalyptus Home
Remedies: Headache, Sore
Throat, Joint Pain
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
e tender shoots of Eucalyptus provide remarkable nutritional support for
wildlife. e essential oils extracted from eucalyptus leaves are appreciated well
for potent analgesic and anti inammatory properties. Botanical name: Eucalyptus radiate or Eucalyptus globulus. Common name: Neelgiri
e leaves, stem and leaf oil have several medicinal values and being a home
remedy, it is  used worldwide. Few of the home remedies are:
Eucalyptus Leaf Paste Application in Partial Headache
Fresh leaves of the plant are collected and ne paste is made; if
necessary little water can be added. is is applied to the aﬀected side
in cases of partial headache. Within 15–20 minutes signicant relief
can be found. Stem Bark Decoction in Chronic Ulcers and Itching Skin Lesions
One piece (20–30 grams) of the fresh bark is made into decoction (30
grams + 300 ml water, boil and reduce to 150 ml, lter). is
decoction is used to wash the wounds. is relieves itching and pacies
swelling.3. 4. 5. 6.Eucalyptus Oil in Hot Water Inhalation for Cold and Congestion
Few drops of Eucalyptus oil is put into hot water and steam is inhaled
(the head and neck are covered with a towel for maximum steam
exposure to face). is is well known remedy to relieve nasal
congestion, rhinitis, cold and head ache. Eucalyptus Oil Mouth Gargling in Sore roat and roat
Irritation
2–5 ml of eucalyptus oil is added to warm water and mouth gargling is
carried. If necessary, slight rock salt and turmeric powder can also be
added. It subsides recurrent complaint of sore throat, tonsillitis, throat
irritation, pharyngitis etc. Inhalation of Eucalyptus Oil – Put on Hand Kerchief/Towel in
Nausea
Few drops of the oil are put on a hand kerchief or towel. During
motion sickness, nausea, vomiting, headache, fatigue, anxiety etc this is
inhaled. Nilgiri Oil Application and Hot Fomentation in Body Ache and
Joint Pain
A pinch of rock salt is added to Neelgiri oil and slightly warmed. is
is applied over the body parts or over the joints. Later hot fomentation
is given. is relieves pain and swelling.107. 6 Flax Seed Remedies
for Cholesterol, Lactation,
Wasp Sting
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Flaxseed/linseed


/3 cup cranberry juice
1/4 cup pomegranate juice1 cup fresh blueberries or blackberries
1 cup frozen acai berries
1/3 cup silken tofu
2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
Dir ections
1 Combine the cranberry juice, pomegranate juice, blueberries or
blackberries, acai berries, tofu, and walnuts in the blender
container. 2 Secure the lid on the container. 3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit or nuts in the mixture. 4 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 203 (From Fat 78); Fat 9g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 10mg;
Carbohydrate 29g (Dietary Fiber 4g); Protein 4g. Vary It! You can use plain low-fat yogurt in place of the tofu. T r o p i c a l  P i c k - M e - U p
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup coconut cream or coconut milk
2 tablespoons whey protein powder
1 cup cantaloupe melon pieces
1 cup frozen peach slices
1 banana1 tablespoon chopped Brazil nuts (optional)
Dir ections
1 Combine the coconut cream or milk and whey powder and
blend for a few seconds to combine. 2 Peel the banana and break it into 4 chunks. Add banana chunks,
melon, peaches, and Brazil nuts (if using) in the blender
container. 3 Secure the lid on the container. 4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit or nuts in the mixture. 5 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 472 (From Fat 271); Fat 30g (Saturated 25g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 144mg;
Carbohydrate 46g (Dietary Fiber 8g); Protein 12g. Vary It! You can substitute pineapple for the peaches. You also
can add toasted coconut shreds as a garnish. Tip: Coconut cream is a thick, pastelike liquid that is pressed from
the coconut ﬂesh, so it’s similar to and yet thicker than coconut
milk. You can make your own coconut cream by blending fresh
coconut ﬂesh with a small amount of water. Dessert Smoothies
Dessert smoothies, like desserts themselves, can be totally
healthy and low in calories or they can be loaded with extras
that send the calorie count soaring over the top. The one bonus
is that fruit smoothies still always contain whole fresh fruit and
all their nutrients and ﬁber, which makes them healthier than
traditional desserts.Table 15-1 lists some of the yummy ingredients you can
experiment with in making your own spectacular, end-of-the-
meal drinks. C h e r r y  C h e e s e c a k e
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup fresh or canned, sweetened cherries
2/3 cup lightly sweetened almond milk
1 cup frozen strawberries
1/4 cup low-fat cream cheese, at room temperature
1 tablespoon ﬁnely chopped pecans or toasted coconut
Dir ections
1 Pit the cherries if using fresh; drain the cherries if using canned.2 Combine the milk, cherries, strawberries, and cream cheese in
the blender container. 3 Secure the lid on the container. 4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit in the mixture. 5 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 188 (From Fat 98); Fat 11g (Saturated 5g); Cholesterol 22mg; Sodium 165mg;
Carbohydrate 20g (Dietary Fiber 4g); Protein 5g. Tip: For a spectacular presentation that will wow guests, serve
this smoothie in clear shot glasses. This gives everybody a taste
and signiﬁcantly reduces the calories in each serving. You can
ﬁnely chop maraschino cherries and drizzle chocolate syrup as an
alternate garnish. R a s p b e r r y  A p p l e  C r u m b l e
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
2 apples
2/3 cup lightly sweetened almond milk
1 cup frozen raspberries
2 tablespoons whey powder
2 tablespoons rolled oats (large-ﬂake oatmeal)
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Dir ections1 Peel the apples (if not organic), quarter them, and remove the
core and seeds. 2 Combine the milk, apples, raspberries, whey powder, oats,
honey, and cinnamon in the blender container. 3 Secure the lid on the container. 4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit in the mixture. 5 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 213 (From Fat 22); Fat 2g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 113mg;
Carbohydrate 44g (Dietary Fiber 8g); Protein 7g. Tip: This makes a very thick dessert, and you may want to use a
spoon. If you want to drink it, use 1 cup of almond milk. Fruit Mocktail and Cocktail
Smoothies
Along with my dessert smoothies (see the preceding section),
these are the least healthy sections of this book and you may
want to skip right over them. If, on the other hand, you enjoy
getting together for the occasional end-of-the-week drink with
friends, you can pick up some ideas about how to choose
nourishing beverages that can work within an overall healthy
diet. Fruit mocktails are festive, social smoothies without alcohol. Because they tend to be high in calories, they’re best consumed
as an occasional treat. The fruit sugars make them hard to
resist, and they’re so delicious that I’d wager even people who
actually drink alcohol would make the switch, but designateddrivers, pregnant women, or anyone choosing not to consume
alcohol will thank you for making them. You can make up a
blender full half an hour before an event, pour them into shot
glasses, and freeze them — just leave about 3/4 inch headspace
at the top of the smoothies and take them out of the freezer
within a couple hours. Fruit smoothie cocktails are really just the same delicious
smoothies as mocktails with 1 ounce of alcohol per serving
added to the liquids. You can turn any of the fruit smoothies in
this chapter into a cocktail worthy of the best mixologist. For each ounce of alcohol spirits you add to a drink,
you’re adding about 100 calories. Rimming mocktail and cocktail glasses
Rimming glasses is fun and easy to do. All you need is 1 cup granul ated
sugar, 1 tablespoon of your favorite ground spice (like cinnam on) or
freshly chopped herb (such as mint), and 1 or 2 lime or lemon wedges. Follow these steps:
1. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and the spice or herb. 2. Spread the mixture evenly into a saucer  or shallow bow l.
3. Use a lime or lemon wedge to run around and wet the rim of each
glass. 4. Turn the glasses upside down and set the moistened rims into the
sugar mixture. 5. Twist and lift out. Use a rimming mixture for one evening or event and then discard it. Bacteria can grow in the mixture after it’s moistened.S t r a w b e r r y  D a i q u i r i  D e c o y
Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1/2 cup cranberry or pomegranate juice
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
3/4 cup frozen strawberries
1/4 cup crushed ice
Dir ections
1 Combine the cranberry or pomegranate juice, lime juice, and
strawberries in the blender container. 2 Secure the lid on the container. 3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 30 seconds. Add ice and pulse for 20 seconds
or until ice is evenly mixed in. 4 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 59 (From Fat 3); Fat 0 (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 2mg;
Carbohydrate 15g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 0g. Tip: Add more lime juice until the desired sourness is achieved. N a d a  P i ñ a  C o l a d a
Pre


 concerns, be prepared to experiment
and take note of which seem to be the best reflex
areas to work for getting results.Using reflexology for health
While the reflexology sequences  shown earlier in this book cover the
whole foot and hand and aim to improve general well-being, you can also work
on specific reflex areas to target health concerns. This chapter explains which
reflex areas to work on to boost the body’s natural healing powers. Many people
find that foot reflexology has a more powerful effect than hand reflexology, but
as the latter is often more convenient, reflex areas for both are given. 250 health concernsapplying reflexology
There are no precise rules on how long and how
often you should apply reflexology technique to
particular reflex areas. To some extent it depends
on the nature of the health concern and the age
and general health of the person on whom you
are working (see Cautions, opposite). Sometimes,
you will want to work a reflex area continuously
until you achieve the result you’re seeking, such
as relief from period pains. If the health concern
you are addressing is persistent and has existed
for a number of years−for example, if you
regularly have constipation or headaches−you
will want to work the appropriate reflex areas
every day and perhaps three to four times a day. tips to remember
The following tips on applying reflexology will
help you to apply techniques in a way that is
both beneficial and pleasant to the receiver.  Tension relief: Stress and tension contribute to
many health concerns. Reflexology offers three
strategies for relieving tension. 1 Apply a full foot or hand reflexology sequence. Receiving a reflexology workout from someone
else is more relaxing than working on yourself. using reflexology for health 2512 Consider a “dessert workout,” applying dessert
after dessert (see pp78–83 and 122–125). 3 Work the solar plexus reflex area, applying a
lengthy series of passes at the beginning and end
of your workout.  Feel-good response: During reflexology work,
it is common for the person being treated to
comment, “That feels good” or even “That hurts
good.” Be alert for the feel-good response and take note of the reflex area or dessert the person is
referring to for future reflexology work.  Work within the comfort zone: A comment of
“That hurts” or a foot or hand being drawn away
indicates a reflex area is very sensitive or the
pressure is too strong; treat the area more gently.  Plenty of water: remind people to drink plenty
of water following reflexology work to rid the
body of toxins. CAUTIONS
  an orthodox doctor should
always be consulted about a
medical condition. in the case of
pregnancy, refer to the cautions
on p238.   With children, babies, or elderly
people, work with less pressure
and for a shorter time.   if a reflex area becomes very
sensitive, work elsewhere. When you return to the area on
another day, work it more
frequently but use less pressure
and work it only briefly.   When working the pancreas
reflex area of individuals with
diabetes or hypoglycemia (low
blood sugar), work only lightly
and briefly to begin with.   Do not overwork a reflex
area that reflects an infected
body part.Headaches and migraines
There are many factors that can contribute to a headache or
migraine, but tension is nearly always the culprit. Experiment
with the sequences shown on these pages and then apply
reflexology techniques to the appropriate reflex areas (see
chart opposite), depending on whether you have a migraine
or whether the pain is in a particular part of your head.Common health concerns
This section  covers problems affecting the skin (psoriasis, shingles), eyes and
ears (eyestrain, conjunctivitis, tinnitus), and head and throat (sinus problems,
headache, sore throat) as well as more general disorders (allergies, anxiety and
depression, environmental sensitivity, fibromyalgia, high cholesterol, insomnia). 252 health concerns1 First, use the walk-down/pull-
against dessert (see p123) to
work the neck  and head  reflex
areas, relieving tension. Visualize
your neck and head stretching as
you stretch the fingers.2Work the head, face, and
sinus  reflex areas of the
thumb and fingers, concentrating
on tender areas. Work the areas
just below the nails, seeking out
sensitive spots. 3Move on to work the head
and brain  reflex areas on
the thumb and fingers with the
hook and back-up technique. Search with your fingers for the
most sensitive areas.Working the hands
Hand reflexology gives you the advantage of
working your hands discreetly in an office or
other public place. Reflex areas on the digits
correspond to the head and neck, providing an in 1997 a danish study found
that reflexology helped to ease
headaches. Most importantly,
many participants came to think
of “working on” their headaches
rather than just “living with”
them and thus saw themselves
as agents of their own cure. easily accessible target area. Neck tension often
contributes to headaches, and working the neck
reflex areas may relieve this. Work both hands
evenly, experimenting to see what works best.RESEARCH
selF-helPcoMMon health concerns 253When applying technique to
the feet for the treatment of
headache, remember to carry
out the whole sequence on
each foot. One foot may be
more tender than the other,
which can indicate that more
work in that area is needed. If
you are prone to headaches,
working on your feet regularly
may help to prevent them. 1To relieve tension throughout
the body begin by thumb-
walking through the solar
plexus  reflex area. Make a series
of passes through the area. 2Next, hold the big toe in
place and roll your fingertip
over the top of the toe. Repeat on
the other foot. If you encounter
any particularly sensitive areas,
work them thoroughly.Working the Feet
TYPES OF HEADACHE
the type of headache you have
and where it is located determine
which reflex area(s) to work:
  Migraine headache: thumb-
walk along the tailbone reflex
area on the foot.   Migraine headache with vision
impairment: Walk-down/pull-
against through the neck reflex
area on the index finger.   headache at top of head: Work
the head reflex area on the top
of the big toe.   headache at side of head: Work
the head reflex area on the side
of the big toe.   Pain at back of head: thumb-
walk the head reflex area on the
base of the ball of the big toe.3 To help relieve any tension
that may be present in the
head and neck, thumb-walk down
all sides of the big toe to the base
of the toe. Repeat the procedure
on the other foot.254 health concernsAllergies
Hay fever, a common problem, is an allergic response to
pollen, but other allergies can be triggered by a variety of
factors. Common to all, however, is inﬂammation. Cortisol, a
hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, may reduce levels
of the chemical that causes inﬂammation. Work this reﬂex
area until symptoms subside or, if you are prone to allergies,
work it several times a day as a preventive measure. Anxiety & depression
Relaxation is important for these conditions. Work the solar
plexus reflex area for relaxation, the pancreas reflex area to
help stabilize blood sugar levels, and the adrenal gland reflex
area to normalize the production of adrenaline. 2 Next, thumb-walk through
the adrenal gland  area,
making several passes.1 Work the pancreas  reflex
area on the foot by using the
thumb-walking technique. Make
several passes through the area.Locate the reflex
area relating to the
adrenal gland. Press gently several
times. Repeat three
to four times daily. selF-helP
Rest a golf ball  between the
hands as shown and roll it
through the adrenal gland
reflex areas. Note your reaction to
use of the golf ball. Your hand
may become overly sensitized. If
this happens, give it a rest and
work less when you resume work. selF-helP
Work the solar plexus  reflex area
by pinching the webbing of the
hand. Repeat several times.common health concerns 255High cholesterol
High levels of cholesterol are believed to lead to high levels
of fatty substances in the arteries and subsequent health
problems. Cholesterol can be manufactured by the liver as
well as the pancreas. The brain stem directs such activities. Dizziness, feeling faint & fever
Target the pituitary gland reflex area. For dizziness or feeling
faint, apply technique until the uncomfortable sensation
subsides. For fever, work the area hourly. Apply hook and back-up  to the
pituitary gland  reflex area. If
discomfort persists, pinch the inner
ear reflex area (see pp26-27).Apply the
hook  and
back-up


ELEMENT :  Fire (T ejas)
COLOR:  Y ellow
MANTRA SOUND:  RAM
he t hird chakra is called Mani pura, and the translation is “lu strous
gem” or “the dwelling place of the self.” The Manipura chakra is
strong a nd impo rtant as it repre sents the emer gence of personality into the
outer wo rld. It’ s  the seat of the ego. The element and planet of the third
chakra go hand in hand, as the element is fire and the planet is the sun. The
physical location of the Manipura chakra is the solar plexus, the area just
above the navel. Imagine Manipura as a bright yellow sun shining outward
and sho wing itself to the worl d. The pancreas, adrenal glands, digestive
system, and diaphragm and pso as muscles are all a part of the solar plexus
chakra. The sense for Manipura is sight, and the sense or gan is the eye. The third chakra is the last o f the chakras of physical mat ter. The
lessons we learn from the first three chakras help us move into higher
planes where opportunities for spiritual awakening exist. Many stay stuck in
the lessons of th e first three cha kras, repeating them time and again but not
necessarily learn ing how to reap  the benefits of these ener gies from a higher
perspective. Certainly it’ s easy to slip up from time to time, but if you learn
how to transcend  the limitations of the chakras of matter, you wi ll be able to
change and evolve so that the next time a problem arises yo u handle itdif ferently. And  that is truly what the third chakra rep resents —
transformation. Manipura is our center of person al power. When this chakra is properly
open an d aligne d, we feel a sense of power in our actions. W e feel we can
ef fectively mani fest our needs and desires, and make a dif ference in our
lives. When balanced, Manipura ’ s power brings about change and forward
movement to achieve goals. Imbalanced, it generates self-serving or
inef fective actions. The A yu rvedic d osha for the th ird chakra is Pitta (fire and water), and
the guna is rajas. The colo r we attribute to the solar plexus chakra is yellow like the sun. The mantra, or bija (seed) sound, we vocalize for the third chakra is RAM. Third Chakra Ailments
Diseases of the third chakra may include diabetes or other diseases of the
pancreas, ulcers, hypoglycemia, digestive disturbances such as irritable
bowel syndrome, digestive tract dysfunctions, and diseases of the liver and
kidneys. Mental  ailments include a severe chemical form of dep ression with
suicidal tendencies. Third Chakra Energy
The des ires for prominence, importance, and success are all p art of third
chakra ener gy. A strong Manipura chakra will have you shine brightly to
the wor ld. Whil e the second c hakra has yin, or female ener g y, the third
chakra has yang, or masculine e ner gy. Linked to the A yurvedic mind-body
type Pitt a, which is composed of  fire and water, third chakra ener gy is about
the sun’ s heat, brilliance, and vibrancy. The sun is bright, shiny, beautiful, and warm. It’ s also penetrating,
constant, and nourishing. The e ner gy of the sun makes people driven, goal
oriented, passionate, and brillian t. People embodying the sun’ s ener gy will
strive hard and never quit. However, the sun can also be hot, overbearing,
too bright, scorching, and unre lenting, and people who are too driven by
solar en er gy can display these qualities. They might be quick to anger,
hotheaded, overimposing, or critical.As with  all ener gies, you can u se third chakra ener gy for pos itive or
negative ends, depending on your perspective. Let’ s suppose  you must
finish a  work project. Y ou ne ed Manipura’ s inner drive and boundless
ener gy to complete the project. However, if you use it to boss people
around, criticize, and point out that your way is better, you may be using it
in the negative. Inner Power
T o a chieve any task, you need  drive, focus, and discipline. Y our drive
comes f rom desire and will. Focus allows you to move ahead in your task
without distracti ons. Discipline is the willpower to put together drive and
focus to reach your goal. Personal power reflects healthy development of the third chakr a. T ake,
for exam ple, a child whose sens e of self emer ges and who begins to express
himself as separate from his parents. Loving parents will view his sense of
individuality and independence as normal development. They will lovingly
guide him while letting him have his own personal preferences and desires,
which may or m ay not match theirs. This child will grow up to have a
positive sense of self and will n ot be afraid to take risks and assert himself. He will be able to ef fectively s tand out from the crowd and trust his own
judgment versus  blindly following out of fear. On the other ha nd, parents
who aren’ t psychologically h ealthy will look at a child’ s sense of
independence as a threat and may squelch his need to dif ferentiate himself. These parents will create unhealthy ties through guilt trips, shame, and
codependent be haviors. They will refuse to cut the umbilical cord, so to
speak. A child who grows up in this kind of environment will have
dif ficulty assert ing his will and knowing what he wants to do in life to
celebrate his unique talents. He may be afraid to stand out from the crowd. As an adult, this child may feel disempowered or choose friends and lovers
who contribute to this sense of disempowerment by dominating over him. In a dulthood, he will need to  work through those third ch akra issues,
formed in early childhood, to take ownership of his inner power. W illpowerFrom inner power arises willpower. Carnal and material desires, formulated
in the second chakra, are held in check by the third. W illpower says, “I will
not h ave that sec ond piece of ca ke” or “I need to stay faithful to  my spouse
despite the fact that this attractive person is coming on to me.” W illpower
helps create the focus needed to manifest desires with one-pointed attention. For me it says, “ I will spend two hours daily writing this book regardless of
all t he distractions in my life.” Y our inner fire comes forth t o for ge the
pathway toward your destiny. Strong willpower helps you delay
gratification. This shows a personal evolution from second chakra ener gy
and its tendency toward impulsiveness and immediate gratification. People
who har ness the willpower ener gy of the third chakra can accomplish great
things personall y and to help others. Inner power and willpowe r combined
give us our sense of positive self -worth. They tell us what we want and how
to get it. Radiant Y ou
Y ou can use thir d chakra ener gy to stand out from the crowd like a beacon. When you’re using it in the pos itive, you rise above as a shining example
for your  friends, family, and pe ers. Often through achievements in school,
work, or  athletic  competition, those working the positive Manipura ener gy
will be inspirations for those looking to attain the same goals. However, if
your dri ve is to seek approval for the sake of being put up on a pedestal,
you will  constan tly fall short an d seek more until you fall completely, often
from a state of exhaustion. Even in great accomplishments there must be a
higher purpose to balance out the temporary high of rising to the top. W e have all hear d stories of film  or sports celebrities who rise to the top
and have everything, only to fall from grace, lose all their money, or
become entrapp ed in the clutches of addiction. This also happens in
everyday life to ordinary people who succeed in getting the top salary,
opulent house, luxury car, or ideal family, only to realize that they’re
fundamentally u nhappy. W ithou t a higher sense of purpose, we all see our
bright lights go out. At this point, the link to the higher chakr as becomes
indispensable.Our Societal Relationship with the Third Chakra
If w e we re to place the United S tates, as a country, into a chakra ener gy, the
third one would be it. W e are a country of overachievers, c onstantly on the
go. W e demand  that stores be open 24/7, and we want everything bigger,
better, faster, and stronger. W e  also tend to be a society of individuals
climbing some invisible ladd er. Sometimes, particularly in  corporate
America, we strive to outshine one another and even


 doesn’ t yet recognize. Galaxies
spin through space propelled by Shakti, but she also carries silent prayers to
God’ s ear. Shakti flows through  creation as the evolutionary impulse that
keeps order from  flying apart into chaos, but her existence is so intimate
that no instrument yet devised can detect it. When the Bible  speaks of “the light” emanating from God to create the
world, Shakti is being described, though stripped of her gender. But Shaktididn’ t appear only at the moment of inception. Creation contin ues as long
as the universe exists; it is the spirit’ s unending expression of love for life. Shakti is cosmic passion, and whenever you feel passion for anything you ar e expr essing Shakti
through yourself. Although most of us consider ourselves fortunate if we can still feel
passion about anything as we grow older, feeling passion for your work or
politics or even sex is not the same as having a passion for life. It is not just
that life is bigge r than work, politics, or sex. Shakti is life itself; it is present
in every rhythmic pulse of existence. A passion for life implies that you are
passion; it is in your very being. Therefore the most natural way to be is
passionate; the slow ebbing of passion is unnatural. If you mourn the fading of passion, realize that nothing endures on the
surface of life, where change is the only constant. Things come and go,
people come and go, and althou gh they once stoked the fires of enthusiasm,
eventually the temperature cools. This is particularly true of sexual desire. Erotic attraction is not a permanent state but an opening that allows us
temporarily to step outside our ego boundaries and enter into the love affair
of Shiva and Shakti. What this means is that sexuality is an opportunity to
be in unity, outside the limitations of the ego-dominated self. The
opportunity must be taken when offered or else your Shakti— the energy
released in sex—will be wasted. In spiritual terms, Shakti flows in any situation, not just sex, that arouses
interest, excitem ent, and attraction. The greatest waste is to expend passion
on needs and drives that are selfish and without spirit. Among these wastes
would be material accumulation, greed, love of money and power for their
own sake, lovel ess sexual activity, and obsession. Shakti is the raw ore of
life, waiting to be refined and shaped. Insights about passion, therefore, all
have to do with sustaining Shakti in yourself and transmuting  it in your
relationship to love and union:
Passion is the ener gy that love cr eates with no object other than itself. The ener gy born of love is cr eative—it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you
are, look ar ound at what you have cr eated. The sour ce of passion is within yourself. When passion wanes it must be r ekindled at its sour ce.PASSION FROM THE  ASHES
“What do you expect me to do? I put myself on the line every day for
fifteen years, and now I’m an old coffee cup? It’s criminal. I’d sue them all
if I had the guts.” Jarret slumped in his chair, his outburst spent. I was
talking with him alone while his wife, Gail, waited outside. For half an hour
our talk had been pointless. Jarret’ s current situation—being fired after a
long time with a company he’d helped to found—had made him depressed
and listless. He had barely aroused himself above feeble complaining until
this sudden outburst—it almost came as a relief. “I don’t expect you to do anything,” I said. “You have money; you can
get along. What’ s next?”
Jarret sighed and looked away. Whatever was next, he didn’ t have the
energy for it. “Gail wants to move to Florida, but I’d really feel used up
down there.” I knew this couple from my former medical practice, and Gail
had more or less forced her husband to see me on the pretext that his
depression might have some physical cause. In truth she wanted someone
who might productively listen to Jarret’ s endless resentment without being
driven as crazy by it as she was. “Gail doesn’t seem like the type who wants to park you in a retirement
community,” I said. “Not at fifty-three. Perhaps Florida repre sents a new
start to her.”
Jarret shrugged. “We used to do stuff with boats down there. We were
just kids.” I asked what kind of stuff with boats. “Racing. We both grew up
around the water, and actually Gail first took an interest in me when I was
crewing on a friend’ s sloop. It’ s ancient history.”
It didn’ t seem like that to me. “Do you mind if I call Gail in?” I asked. Jarret shrugged, preoccupied with his grievances and annoyed by my
refusal to discuss them any further. When Gail came back in, she looked worried but not drained or in
despair—whatever hope lay in the situation, she was it. “First off, there’ s nothing physically wrong with your husband,” I said,
much to her relief. “And there’ s nothing wrong psychologically either.”
Both of them looked surprised, and Jarret protested, “If you think there’ s
nothing wrong with me, try sitting where I am.”“I’d like to,” I said. “Not many people get to stand at a crossroa ds; it’s an
incredible oppor tunity. The trouble is that you are framing it in your mind
as a loss—the loss of your reaso n for living. Was your old job your reason
for living?”
“That company wouldn’ t exist without me,” Jarret replied, evading the
question. “That describes why you put your heart and soul into it fifteen years
ago,” I said. “But how did you feel about it lately?”
“He was wasting his time,” Gail interjected. Jarret glared at her. Her
comment came as no surprise. She had already informed me that what Jarret
was good at—bringing innovative ideas into production— no longer
counted for much at the computer company he’d helped to build. The
company had entered a phase of consolidation in which management skills
were far more important than innovation; Jarret had become less than
useful, a fact he bitterly resented. “Your situation has changed, but you don’t want to accept the emotions
that accompany  change,” I pointed out. “I’m not telling you to pretend
you’re not angry, and although it’s harder to admit I’m sure you’re also
hurt. Y ou must feel betrayed by those who should be most grateful to you.”
“Damn right,” Jarret grumbled. “But by framing  this as a negative situation,” I said, “you’ve missed the
beauty in change, which is that it renews passion. That’ s really what you
need.” I asked Jarret to imagine what he’d like to do if he had all the money
and time he needed. He shook his head. “Nothing,” he replied. “That’ s resistanc e talking,” I said. “You’ve invested yourself in negative
emotions, and as a result you’ve  missed the source of passion that’s as close
to you as anythi ng in your life.”  Jarret looked confused. “Just turn to your
right,” I said. “There she is.”
Now Gail looked confused and embarrassed. “In your certainty that this
problem is all about you,” I said, “you’ve shut down the flow of passion
inside you, and at the same time you’ve shut Gail out. You’ve taken a
wonderful opportunity to renew your bar gain with life and made it a waste.”
Jarret sat back, looking chagrined. “I’m not here to attack you,” I said,
“but you’ve been hurting Gail quite a lot without noticing it. What we’re
here to talk about is how to use your marriage to make your life worth
living, from a very deep level. Your motive for throwing yourself into yourcompany once had passion in it, but now I sense that what you miss is
externals—power, money, status, respect. At this point, in my opinion,
you’re not ever going to have that passion again.”
The couple looked stunned, and I sensed that Gail wanted to jump in to
defend her husband. Instead, she said, “He’ s just not being used well at his
old company. That’ s why I thought we could build sailboats or start racing
again.”
“Because you see Jarret from a deeper level than he sees himsel f,” I said,
“you see him from the level of love. You want to bring out his passion
because passion is vitality—that’ s what makes a marriage, dedication to
being alive. But your vitality is as important as his, and I don’t see him
doing much to sustain it.”
“You’re wrong,” Gail said. “I never feel more alive than when we do
things together.”
“Only there hasn’ t been much time for that, I imagine. You should
seriously consid er sailing, or whatever it is you can share with mutual joy,
as your purpose


 sip my coee, could such a man have felt the brush of
wings?”
The Mask of Maya
In his own very dierent words, Selzer is posing the same
question as my spiritual grandfather: Is there a mysterious force that
brushes us at times, lifting ordinary life above the laws that seem to
bind it? “What is to one man a coincidence is to another a miracle,”
Selzer writes. “It was one or the other of those I saw last spring.”
But isn’t there  a third altern ative? The body might be a mask, anappearance of reality suited to the ve senses, which usually  follows
the well-known set of physical laws, but is also free to change. If
this is so, then the strange events that occasionally crop up would
not really be miracles but glimpses behind the mask, or small
windows into a corridor of reality that is usually sealed o. If I use the phrase “the body is an illusion,” I am demoting this
structure of skin and bones from the xed, predictable, solid status
it seems to have in time and space, but I am not implying that we
should give up on it, treating it as indierently as the illusory
patterns that a swirl of cigare tte smoke makes in the air. The body is
precious to us, all the more so because  it is not xed and predictable. We have a wide choice about how to react to the illusion. It can
be made into something deceptive, unreal, and unrelia ble. But I
could also regard it as something marvelous, enchanting, and
surprising, like the illusions  of Houdini. Certainly I am free to
choose this second interpretation. That is what my spiritual
grandfather did when he approached the even greater illusion of life
as a whole: for him, the Mysterious One was not a deceiv er. He was
the all-powerful animating force that makes things happen,
sometimes according to the rules but not always. After all, they are
His rules. In the Indian tradition, the formal term for this omnipotent force
is Maya. Maya is a Sanskrit word that means “illusion” or
“delusion,” but much more besides. The eminent mythologist Joseph
Campbell has traced the shades of meaning contained in this word. Maya comes from the root verb ma, “to measure out, to form, to
build,” denoting the ability of the gods to change form, to make
worlds, to assume masks and disguises. Maya also means “magic,” a show of illusions. In warfa re it can
mean camouage or deceptive tactics. Finally, when used by
philosophers, Maya denotes the delusion of thinking that you are
seeing reality when in fact you are only seeing a layer of trick
eects superimposed upon the real reality. True to its deceptive nature, Maya is full of paradoxes. First of all,
it is everywhere, even though it doesn’t exist. It is often compared to
a deser t mirage, yet unlike a mirage, Maya does not merely oat“out there.” The Mysterious One is nowhere if not in each person. Finally, Maya is not so omnipotent that we cannot control it—and
that is the key point. Maya is fearful or diverting, all-powerful or
completely impotent, depending on your perspective. If cancer is
just Maya, then its frighten ing appearance is a bogeyman, to be
dispelled by anyone who sees through it. The fearful illusion
becomes a wonderful show if only you can manipulate it. Maya would be a worthless or degrading trick if we could not
pierce its mask. Who wants to be told that he is too ignorant to see
the real reality? In the case of a doctor, one is almost forced to
pierce the mask of Maya, because so many patients, like Joe Riker,
keep throwing our ignorance  back into our faces. My own patient,
Mr. Elliott, at least had a slim objective reason—the bad news about
his heart—that he could blow up out of all proportion. But I cannot
really convince myself that this reason is good enough. Somewhere
deep inside, each of us know s that the rules that hold life together
are provisional, and we can decide, with barely a wisp of a reason,
to stop abiding by them. A secret decision maker can awake in panic
and anger, roaring, “I made this body, I control it, and I will do with
it what I will!”
Maya does not generally shift this violently. The body has been
set up to operate like a well-behaved machine. Yet to claim that the
body is literall y a machine is to express a subjective decis ion, not an
objective fact. One time I was asked to speak in front of a small
audience of Boston doctors, and the physician who introduced me, a
pathologist, began genially, “I’m sure we will all nd the views of
mind-body medicine intriguing, but I must declare that I am a
scientist, and until I can see it under my microscope, I cannot
believe that a thing is real.”
“I’m embarrassed to begin,” I responded, “because I was going to
try to prove that what you can see under your microscope has no
reality at all. I don’t want to put you out of a job.”
“Go ahead,” he said amiably, “I don’t think you can prove that,
and besides, I secretly want to be a psychiatrist anyway.”
Everybody laughed, but I wonder if he grasped that I was serious. If you exclude every part of a human being that can be viewedunder a microscope, nothing remains for the scientist to hold on to. Every atom inside us is more  than 99.999 percent empty space, and
the “solid” particles whizzing around are themselves just compact
bundles of energy vibrations. As you sift through this solid-looking,
convincing body, you only have to go so far before you wind up
with a handful of nothing. Yet this nothing is not really a void but a
womb. With incredible fertili ty, our inner space gives birth to “love
and hate, joy and sorrow, misery and happiness, pleasure and pain,
right and wrong, purpose, meaning, hope, courage, despair, God,
heaven and hell, grace, sin, salvation, damnation, enlightenment,
wisdom, compassion, evil, envy, malice, generosity, camaraderie,
and everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.” That is quite
an impressive list of things for scientists to exclude from reality. (R.
D. Laing made up the list, but then he is a psychiatrist.) Scientists defend objective facts by saying, “I can see and touch
this thing; it has measurable dimensions; it follows objective laws
that mathema tics can describe to the nth power.” This sort of
reasoning does not prove much. If I go to a movie, I can walk right
up to the screen and count the stitches on the actors’ clothes. If I
take a diagnostic look, I can nd signs of disease  in their
appearance, and with the proper microscope, I could probably
examine the skin cells on the celluloid image. None of that makes
the image real. Our bodies occupy three dimensions instead of the
two occupied by a movie, which means that I can go deeper into the
image I see and touch, but that doesn’t make it any more real,
either. What makes the body more real than a movie is Maya. Above all
else, Maya is convincing. If it were not, we would all see through it,
and yet the next layer of reality would be Maya as well. The process
doesn’t ever have to end. As long as you want “proof” that the
sensory world is real, Maya is deep enough to have all the layers
you want: organs give way to tissues, tissues to cells, cells to
molecules, and on to atoms, protons, electrons, quarks, and nally—
nothing. Intellectually, we all know that empty space is all there is at the
bottom of things, but to keep everyday life going, we agree tocertain conventions. “Objective” science is the keeper of these ad
hoc rules and performs an extremely valuable task so long as it
remembers that rules are made to be broken. For example, in the
midst of this machine we call a body, nothing is more orderly and
reliable than the heart. Its complex workings have challenged
brilliant medical minds for four hundred years, ever since William
Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood. But like every other
part of the body, the heart is just empty space when you get down
to it. The “real” heart is not this tough bundle of twitching muscles
that beats 3 billion times before it expires but the organizing power
that pulls it together, that creates a thing out of nothingness. Dr. Harvey’s Metaphor
Historically, the heart played a key role in turning the body into a
machine. As early as 1616 Harvey wrote a simple sente nce in his
notebook: “The movement of the blood is constantly in a circle, and
is brought about by the beat of the heart.” No one had ever
expressed such a daring thought before (at least not in the West;
ancient texts from India give credence to the claim that Ayurvedic
phys


 been so toxic that their bodies had been
stashing uneliminated toxins in their fat for years. They are usually so addicted to  caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol, and so forth, that
when they had fasted, even briefly, their bodies were forced to dip into highly -polluted fat reserves while simultaneously the body
begins withdrawal. People like this who try to fast experience highly unp leasant symptoms including headache, irritability,
inability to think or concentrate, blurred vision, profound fatigue, aches, etc. Most of these symptoms come from low blood s ugar,
but combined with the toxins being released from fat and combined with goi ng through multiple addictive withdrawals, the
discomforts are more than most people are willing to tolerate. Fasting on juice is much more realistic for cases like this. I t is little
wonder that when a hygienist suggests a fast to improve health, this typ e of case asserts positively that fasting is quite impossible,
they have tried it, it is absolutely terrible and know that they can’t do it. This rejection is partly due to a cultural expectation (one reinforced by western medicine) that all unpleasan t symptoms should
be avoided or suppressed. To voluntarily experience unpleasant sensations such as those mentioned above is more than the
ordinary timid person will subject themselves to, even in order to regain health. They will allow surgery, drugs with  violent and
dangerous side effects, painful and invasive testing procedures and radiation –all unpleasant and sometimes extremely
uncomfortable. These therapies are accepted because someone else with authority is doing it to them. And, they have been told  that
it they don"t submit they will not ever feel better and probably will die in the near future. Also people think that they hav e no
alternative, that the expert in front of them knows what is best, so they feel relieved to have been relieved of the resp onsibility for
their own condition and its treatment. Preventative Fasting
    During the years it takes for a body to degenerate enough to prompt a fast, the body has been storing up large quantities of
unprocessed toxins in the cells, tissues, fat depos its, and organs. The body in its wisdom will always choose to temporarily deposit
overwhelming amounts of toxins somewhere harmless rather than permit the blood supply to become polluted or to use secondary
elimination routes. A body will use times when th e liver is less burdened to eliminate these stored toxic debris. The hygienists"
paradigm asserts that the manifestation of symptoms or illness are all by themselves, absolute, unassailable proof that furth er
storage of toxic wastes in the cells, tissues, fat deposits, and organs is not possible and that an effort toward elimination is
absolutely necessary. Thus the first time a person fasts a great quantity of toxins will normally be released. Being the resi dent of a
body when this is happening can be quit e uncomfortable. For this reason alone, preventative fasting is a very wise idea. Before the body becomes critically ill, clean up your reserve fuel supply (fat deposits) by burning off some accumulated fat that
is rich in toxic deposits and then repl ace it with clean, non -toxic fat that you will make while eating sensibly. If you had but fasted
prophylactically as a preventative or health -creating measure before you became seriously ill, the initial detoxification of your
body could have been accompli shed far more comfortably, while you were healthy, while your vital force was high and while your
body otherwise more able to deal with detoxification. Each time you fast, even if it is only one day, you allow your body to go through a partial detox, and each time it becomes easier
and more comfortable than the last time. The body learns how to fast. Each time you fast it, your body slips into a cleansing  mode
more quickly, and each time you fast you lighten the load of stored toxins. Perhaps you have already eliminated the caffeine your
body had stored, which frequently causes severe headaches on withdrawal, not to mention fatigue. It certainly helps to have t his
behind you before you go on to the elimination of other irritating substances. Many people  have gone through alcohol or tobacco
withdrawal, and understand that it is very unpleasant, and also that it must be done in the pursuit of health. Why not withdr aw from
the rest of the irritating and debilitating substances we take into our system on an ongoing basis, and why not grit your way
through the eliminative process, withdraw, from food addictions such as sugar or salt, and from foods that you may be allergi c to
like wheat, dairy products or eggs. It is very wise to invest in your own insuran ce plan by systematically detoxifying while you are still healthy. Plan it into your
life, when it is convenient, such as once a week on Sunday, or even once a month on a quiet day. Take a few days of vacation,  go
to a warm, beautiful place and devote part  or all of it to cleansing. Treat yourself by taking an annual trip to Hawaii, fasting at a
hotel on the beach –do whatever it takes to motivate yourself. And consider this: vacations are enormously cheaper when you stay
out of restaurants. If you have accustomed your body to 24 hour fasts, then you can work on 48 hour fasts, and over time work up to 72 hour fasts,
all on a continuum. You may find it becoming increasingly comfortable, perhaps even pleasant, something you look forward to. Fasting a relatively detoxified body feels good, and people eventually really get into the clean, light, clear headed, perhap s
spiritually aware state that goes along with it. By contrast, fasting when you are sick is much more difficult because your vitality or vital force is very low, you already have
no energy, and probably have unpleasant symptoms that must be dealt with at the same time. There may be the added stress of
being forced into a cleanse because you are too nauseous to eat. Most people l et their health go until they are forced into dealing
with it; they are too busy living, so why bother. The truth is that our body does age, and over time becomes less able to deal with insults; the accumulated effect of insults and
aging eventually l eads most of us to some serious degenerative illness. Normally this begins happening around age 50 if not
sooner. Some of us that were gifted with good genes or what I call "a good start" may have reached the age of 60 or 75 or eve n 90
without serious illn ess, but those people are few and far between. Why not tip the scales in your favor by preventing or staving off
health problems with systematic detoxification at your own convenience. Climb into the drivers seat and start to take control and gain conf idence in your own ability to deal with your body, your own
health, and your own life. When it gets right down to the bottom line, there is really only one thing in the world that is re ally yours,
and that is your life. Take control and start managing it. The reward will be a more qualitative life. Chapter Four
Colon Cleansing

From The Hygienic Dictionary
Autointoxication. [1] the accumulations on the bowel wall become a breeding ground for unhealthy bacterial life forms. The he avy
mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host for putrefaction. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the
toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on t oxic
substances. Here i s the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. Bernard Jensen, Tissue Cleansing Through
Bowel Management. [2] All maladies are due to the lack of certain food principles, such as mineral salts or vitamins, or to t he
absence of the norma l defenses of the body, such as the natural protective flora. When this occurs, toxic bacteria invade the lower
alimentary canal, and the poisons thus generated pollute the bloodstream and gradually deteriorate and destroy every tissue, gland
and organ of the body. Sir Arbuthnot Lane. [3] The common cause of gastro -intestinal indigestion is enervation and overeating
When food is not digested, it becomes a poison. Dr. John.H. Tllden, Impaired Health: Its Cause and Cure, 1921. [4] a clogging  up
of the large i ntestine by a building up (on) the bowel wall to such an extent that feces can hardly pass through. autointoxication is a
direct result of intestinal constipation. Faulty nutrition is a major underlying factor in constipation. The frequency or qua ntity of
fecal elimination is not an indication of the lack of constipation in the bowel. Bernard Jensen, Tissue Cleansing Through Bow el
Management. I am not a true believer in any single healing method or system. I find much truth in many schools and use a w ide variety of
techniques. The word for my inclination is eclectic. The most effective medicine in my arsenal is water fasting followed closely in potency by other, less rigorous detoxifying di ets. Colon cleansing ranks next in healing power. In fact it is difficult to separate colon cleansing from fasting because detoxification
programs should always be accompanied by colon cleansing. Further down the scale of efficatiousness comes dietary reform to
eliminate allergic reactions and to present the body  with foods it is capable of digesting without creating toxemia. Last, and usually
least in effectiveness in my arsenal, are orthotropic substances (in


 of the fast is required in acute disease than in chronic disease. When disease is the result of years of wrong life, and if the condition of the patient is one of grave
weakness, with severe organic impairment, much skill will be required to take the individual
through a fast of sufficient duration to accomplish the desired results. In such situations, it would be hazardous to rely on inexperienced and untrained men. I am
aware that there are some untrained laymen attempting to conduct fasts. I believe it is vitally
important to investigate beforehand to be sure you have the best and most experienced man
available. In this connection I must point out also that, while there are several schools of so-called
healing recognized by law in this country, few of the practitioners of any of these schools have any
knowledge of and experience with fasting. We cannot select any
doctor
 at random, without
knowing his special training, to supervise a fast. It is a fundamental rule of
hygienic
 practice that all the needs of normal physiology are present
in states of illness. And in periods of abstinence, they must be met according to a degree of need
and functional ability, to the end that organic and functional integrity may be preserved or restored. Let us understand this clearly: when we fast we do not also cease to breathe or to take water. There is never an absence of need for oxygen; we continue to become thirsty at intervals and we
drink. Fasting is abstinence from food, not abstinence from all of the essentials of life. And it is
abstinence from food only in the sense that we abstain from taking in the raw materials of nutrition
for a period of time, while the body draws on its stored-up supplies. We still need and use food. Fasting is not suspended animation. Indeed, although it is a period of greatly reduced activity,
some of the processes of life are actually accelerated during periods of abstinence. The ordinary
needs of life: food, air, water, warmth, sunshine, activity, rest, sleep, cleanliness, poise of mind,
remain basic needs of the fasting organism. Food (nutriment) with which to sustain the functioning tissues of the body is obtained from the
reserve stores within the body. Water is taken according to the demands of thirst; warmth is
required so that the body does not become chilled; sunshine is needed in keeping with the
somewhat reduced metabolic activities of life; cleanliness is still a requirement; sleep is a
necessity; mental and emotional stabilization is especially important. This means that the techniques of fasting are significant and should at
least, in a broad general
sense, be recognized and understood by anyone interested in this field or contemplating a fast. Where do these techniques begin? Some say they should begin long before the fast starts—with
the earliest stages of fast preparation! 1. PREPARATION
53Many complicated plans have been designed to prepare the individual or patient for a fast. Some of these involve a period on special foods intended to empty the intestinal tract of material
before the fast is started. Others are rituals involving fasting a day, eating two days, fasting two
days, eating four days, and so on in this manner, with the goal of gradually preparing one for a fast
of considerable length. All such plans are wasteful of the patient’s time and money, since they
revolve around the idea of feeding at a time when a fast is needed. As there is no reason why one
may not go into a fast abruptly and without these rituals, they are not recommended here. The truly
essential preparation is in the mental and emotional attitudes. If you can understand the wisdom and rationality of fasting, and rid your mind of all fear of this
perfectly normal process, you can fast with ease. Satisfy yourself that the fast will prove to be
highly beneficial and enter upon it without fear and anxiety. Mental unrest and fear can make
fasting difficult or impossible in cases in which it would otherwise prove of the greatest possible
benefit. When I first started my work, I served for a few months under the direction of Milo A.
Crane, M.D., who conducted the Crane Sanitariums in Elmhurst, Illinois. Dr. Crane never placed a
patient on a fast if the patient feared it. Instead, he would put him on a diet and permit him to
mingle with the other patients. Usually within a few days the patient would ask if he could not fast. This is one of the advantages of being with others. One sees and realizes that they are not
starving but actually benefiting. Fears vanish before reality. 2. REST
The techniques of fasting are based on simple physiological principles. They do not involve the
need for nor the use of any measures that are foreign to the regular needs of the living organism. Treatments, special modalities, and forcing measures have no place in fasting. The most important
technique of the fast is that of reducing activity, mental, sensory, and physical, to a bare minimum,
so that the energy of the faster may be conserved and his healing and excretory processes may be
accelerated. The faster should bear in mind the simple rule of compensation. In order to expend on one side,
nature must conserve on the other. What he does not expend in unneeded activity is available for
use in elimination and repair. Physical rest is secured by ceasing physical activities, by resting in bed, by relaxing. Physical
activities expend considerable energy and prevent the recuperation of energy that is essential to
restoration of normal nerve energy. Mental rest is secured by curtailing mental activities and emotional
unrest. Debating highly
controversial issues is harmful. Allowing oneself to become upset or involved in trivial disputes
of any nature is harmful. Emotional poise is the secret of mental rest. It is not always easy for the
faster to cease worrying or to overcome anxiety, but everything constructive should be done to
provide for tranquility. Sensory rest is secured by retiring to a quiet place and avoiding use of the eyes in reading,
viewing television, going to the movies or similar eye-straining activities. Noise is especially
destructive of poise and wasteful of energy. Quiet, peace, and sensory inactivity provide for
conservation of energy. In using rest, however, we do not urge a state of suspended animation nor dormancy, nor a state
of embryonic passivity. What is sought here is the absence of strain, the physical sense of peace by
which rest becomes possible. Rest does not heal, but is one of the essentials of efficient healing, as well as in maintaining
health. It is of great value to the enervated and toxemic. Not
tonics
 and
stimulants,
 not
sedation
54and
tranquilization,
 nor
hypnotization,
 but rest is the great need of the organism that has been
lashed into impotency by stimulation and excesses in food, sex, emotional unrest, work and the
various deficiencies from which man suffers. Organs that have been lashed into impotency by overwork and
stimulation
 may be rested into
full functioning vigor. Added
stimulation,
 whatever its nature, only further depletes them. 3. ACTIVITY
The faster rests during the time he abstains from food for the reason that in the normal exercise
of the functions of life, feeding and activity should balance each other. There are authorities who
permit their fasters to take long walks and require them to take daily exercise of various kinds. In
reducing fasts, some moderate exercise, under supervision is permissible. For other fasts I believe
even moderate exercising is a needless expenditure of energy and a waste of reserves. Activity
should be geared to the food eaten. When no food is taken, activities should be reduced to a
minimum. Rest is the need, not expenditure. 4. WARMTH
A faster’s resistance to cold is likely to be lower than that of the person who is eating regularly. He chills easily. Chilling inhibits elimination, increases the discomforts of the faster and causes a
more rapid utilization of reserves. It is important, therefore, that the faster keep warm. This is
necessary even in July and August. The feet, in particular, should be kept warm. Cold feet will
prevent the faster from sleeping. 5. WATER
The faster will be thirsty at intervals, though rarely as often as when he was eating. The normal
demand for water should be met with the purest water available. Mineral waters and waters with a
bad taste are not
advisable. A soft spring water, rain water, distilled water, filtered water or any
water that is free of impurities is acceptable. It should be taken only as thirst demands. There is nothing to be gained by drinking large
quantities of water, despite a lack of demand for this, on the theory that this flushes the system. It is
true that the more water one drinks the more fluid will the kidneys excrete, but this does not
represent an increase of elimination of waste. Indeed it may result in a lessening of the amount of
waste excreted. In summer, there may be a desire to drink cold water. Cool water is excellent, but very cold or
ice water may slow down and retard recovery. Hot water may be relished under certain conditions
more than cold water or water at room temperature. In some cases hot water may be sipped in
moderation with the advice or permission of the supervisor; in others its use is inadvisable. 6. BATHING
There is the same need for cleanliness while fasting as while eating. Bathing should be
performed daily or as often as needed. The


1 tbsp sesame oil 2 tbsp soy sauce
 1 tbsp honey or agave nectar
 1 cm fresh ginger, peeled and minced
 1 garlic clove, crushed
 1 jalapeno pepper, deseeded and finely
chopped
1. Toss the salad ingredients in a bowl. 2. Mix the vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce,
honey or agave, ginger, garlic and
pepper. Mix into the salad. Bean Cakes (Moi-Moi –
Nigerian)
A favourite side dish, especially at
Nigerian parties. It is easy to prepareand quite healthy as the cooking method
is steaming. You can get the peeled beans
from the local African or Asian grocery
stores. Banana leaves are usually used
for cooking in cakes but, in their
absence, I use the foil takeout boxes. Serves 6
 250g black-eyed beans (bean flour can
be used but it’s not the best option)
 1 onion
 1 red chilli pepper
 2 tbsp dried ground crayfish
 100 g cooked prawns
 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
 1 tsp salt 3 hard-boiled eggs (optional), cut into
chunks
 6 foil takeout boxes
 Note. If using already peeled beans, just
wash them thoroughly and blend. 1. Place the beans in a large bowl. Cover
with water and soak overnight. 2. Rub the beans briskly between your
palms to remove the skins. Fill the
bowl with water and the skins will
float to the top. Discard the skins. Continue this action until the beans are
clean and no skins are left behind –
soak them again if necessary. 3. In a food processor, blend the beans,
onion, ground black pepper and 10 mlof water until smooth. 4. Pour into a bowl. Add the crayfish,
prawns, oil and salt and mix
thoroughly. 5. In a large saucepan, add enough water
just to fill the base and bring to the
boil. Use the foil boxes as a measuring
guide: only half of the box should be
submerged in water. Pour small
amounts of the mixture into individual
boxes. If you are using eggs, add some
into each box. Cover with the lids,
place in the saucepan and steam for an
hour until firm. 6. Serve warm or hot with tomato sauce
and salad. Avocado with Peanut andRomaine Lettuce
Serves 4
 3 avocados (ripe but firm), stone
removed and cut into cubes
 Juice of ½ lemon
 2 tbsp peanuts, ground
 ½ tsp cinnamon
 ½ tsp paprika
 Salt and chilli powder to taste
 1 bunch romaine lettuce leaves,
separated and washed
 10 g fresh chives, chopped to garnish
1. Place the cubed avocado in a bowl and
sprinkle with lemon juice. Set aside.2. Mix the ground peanuts, cinnamon,
paprika, salt and chilli powder together
thoroughly. 3. Arrange the individual lettuce leaves on
a platter like cups. 4. Scoop avocado onto each lettuce leaf,
sprinkle peanut mixture over the
avocado and garnish with chives. Baked Sweet Potato Skins
Instead of the traditional potato skin, I
use sweet potatoes for a slightly different
twist. Serves 4–6
 3 large sweet potatoes 8 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
 1 tbsp parsley, chopped
 1 tsp basil, chopped
 ½ tsp garlic powder
 ½ tsp salt
 Olive oil spray
 1 spring onion, finely chopped
 110 ml fat-free sour cream
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C or Gas Mark
6. 2. Wash the potatoes thoroughly and
pierce all over with a fork. Wrap them
individually in foil and bake for an
hour or until they are easily pierced
with a fork. Remove and allow to cool
slightly.3. In a small bowl, mix the parmesan,
parsley, basil, garlic powder and salt. 4. When the potatoes are cool enough to
handle, quarter them length-wise. Scoop out the flesh, saving a ½ cm
shell. Cut the strips in half crosswise –
you should have 20–24 wedges. 5. Line a baking tray with foil. Place the
wedges on the tray and coat lightly
with olive oil spray. Top with the
cheese mix. 6. Bake in the oven for about 10–12
minutes or until golden brown. Place
on a serving platter, sprinkle with
chopped spring onions and serve with
sour cream. Creamy Courgette andGarlic
A vegetarian dish everyone will love –
it’s nutritious as well. Serves 4–6
 2 tbsp Olivio or unsalted butter
 6 garlic cloves, crushed
 1 onion, finely chopped
 3 leeks, finely chopped
 1 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
 3 medium courgettes, washed and
grated
 3 medium yellow squash, washed and
grated
 2½ tbsp sour cream ½ tsp fresh ground black pepper
1. Melt the Olivio or butter in a saucepan. Add the garlic, onion and leeks and
sauté over a low heat for 5 minutes. 2. Mix in the thyme, courgettes and
squash. Cook, stirring frequently for 5–
7 minutes or until the courgettes and
squash are tender. 3. Place on a plate, top with sour cream
and sprinkle with ground black pepper. Bok Choy Slaw
A versatile side dish that goes well with
lamb or chicken. Crunchy and absolutely
delicious.Serves 4
 4 tbsp rice wine vinegar
 1 tbsp sesame oil
 2 tsp honey
 2 tsp Dijon mustard
 ¼ tsp salt
 600 g bok choy, washed and thinly
sliced
 2 carrots, peeled and shredded
 2 spring onions, chopped thinly
1. In a medium bowl, whisk the vinegar,
oil, honey, mustard and salt until
smooth. 2. Add the bok choy, carrots and spring
onions. 3. Toss to coat thoroughly with thedressing. Vegetable Stir Fry
An easy way of introducing vegetables as
a side dish to your menu. You can make
this dish sweet, spicy or have it as it is. Chicken or shrimps can be added to
make it a meal on its own. Serves 4
 1 tbsp grapeseed oil
 2 red onions, sliced
 150 g mushrooms, sliced
 2 courgettes, chopped
 1 head white cabbage or Chinesecabbage, shredded
 2 tbsp Szechuan stir-fry sauce
 1 tsp sesame oil
 1 tsp agave nectar or honey (optional)
 Salt and pepper to taste
1. Heat the grapeseed oil in a wok or
saucepan. Sauté the onions for 2
minutes. Add the mushrooms and
courgettes and cook for 3 minutes. 2. Mix in the cabbage. Drizzle the
stir-fry
sauce over the vegetables and sauté
until the cabbage is just wilted. 3. Drizzle with sesame oil and agave or
honey (if you are using it for a sweet
twist). Add salt and pepper to taste. Mix thoroughly.Spicy Vegetables
Serve this dish on its own or with
wholemeal pitta bread. Serves 2–4
 2 tbsp olive oil
 2 tsp black mustard seeds
 2 onions, finely chopped
 2 garlic cloves, chopped
 1 cm ginger, chopped
 ½ tsp turmeric
 ½ tsp coriander
 1 tsp ground cumin
 ¼ tsp chilli powder
 2 carrots, peeled and chopped 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
 2 tomatoes, chopped
 250 g green beans, trimmed and cut
into small pieces
 Salt and pepper to taste
 ½ tsp garam masala
1. Heat the oil in a heavy saucepan and fry
the mustard seeds until they pop. 2. Add the onions, garlic and ginger. Sauté, stirring continuously for 5
minutes or until the onions are golden. 3. Add the turmeric, coriander, cumin and
chilli powder, and sauté for about 30
seconds. Then toss in the vegetables. Mix until they are thoroughly coated
with the spices. 4. Add salt, pepper and 3 tablespoons ofwater. Cover and cook for 15 minutes
or until the vegetables are tender. 5. Stir gently every 5 minutes and add a
little more water if necessary. Sprinkle
with garam masala and stir. Stewed Greens
This recipe is packed full of nutrients,
vitamins, fibre, folic acid – you can’t go
wrong with it. Serves 4–6
 600 g collard greens, washed and
chopped
 200 g spinach, washed
 200 g kale 4 tbsp olive oil
 1 onion, chopped
 4 tomatoes, chopped
 1 green chilli pepper, deseeded and
finely chopped
 Juice of ½ lemon
 1 tbsp plain unbleached flour
 225 ml water
 ½ tsp salt and black pepper
1. Steam the greens in a steamer for about


 Continue to walk while holding your breath until you feel a
medium to strong air shortage. Release your nose, inhale
through it, and minimize your breathing by taking very short
breaths for about 15 seconds. Then allow your breathing to
return to normal. •   Continue walking for 30 seconds and r epeat:  Continue
walking for around 30 seconds while breathing through your
nose, the n gently exhale and pin ch your nose with your fingers. W alk w hile holding the breath until you feel a medium to
strong h unger for air. Release your nose and minimize your
breathing by taking short breath s in and out through your nose
for a bout 15 se conds. Then allow your breathing to revert to
normal. •   Repeat br eath holds 8 to 10 tim es:  While continuing to walk,
perform a breath hold every minute or so in order to create a
medium to strong need for air. Minimize your breathing for 15
seconds following each breath hold. Repeat for a total of 8 to
10 breath holds during your walk. This exercise will take about 12 minutes to complete and is highly
ef fective at teaching your body to do more with less. At first yo u may only
be able to hold your breath for 20 or 30 paces before you feel a strong air
shortage (or less if you have ast hma or are out of breath). As the number of
paces per breath hold increases, the air shortage you experience will
progress from easy to moderate to strong. As you feel an increased hunger
for air, the breathing muscles in your abdomen or neck will begin to
contract or spasm. An added ef fect of the contractions is to p rovide your
diaphragm with a workout, thereby strengthening your main breathing
muscle. During the longer breath holds, as you feel your breathing muscles
spasm, f ocus on  relaxing your b ody. Allow your muscles to go soft as you
hold your breath. Relaxing the body in this way allows a longer breath hold
with less stress. W ith repetition, as the weeks go by, you will find yourself being able to
hold your breath for 80 to 100 paces. Y our ability to hold your breath will
increase with practice and without stressing your body. Do not overdo it. Ideally, your breathing should re cover easily and become calm w ithin 3 or 4
breaths. While this exercise is a challenge, it should not be stressful. If you notice any side ef fects, such as an elevated or stronger than
normal p ulse for  a prolonged pe riod after completing breath holding, then it
is b est to refra in from performing the stronger breath holds. Instead,
concentrate on breathing lightly  both during rest and physical exercise to
bring benefit to your health and sports. Breath holding can also be incorporated into a jog, run, or bike ride. While you may not be able to h old your breath for as many paces during a
jog as you can during a walk, the quality of the exercise will be better
because of the greater accumulation of carbon dioxide in the blood. Breath holding during training  adds an extra load that would only
otherwise be experienced during maximum intensity exercise. Here is a breath-hold exercise to try while jogging or running:
•   Run and hold:  T en  to fifteen minutes into your run, when your
body has warmed up and is sw eating, gently exhale and hold
your br eath until you experience a medium to strong air
shortage. The length of the breath hold may range from 10 to
40 p aces and w ill depend on your running speed and BOL T
score. •   Br eak f or 1 minute and r epe at:  Following the breath hold,
continue to jog or run with nasal breathing for about 1 minute,
until your breathing has partially recovered. •   Repeat br eath holds 8 to 10 times:  Rep eat the brea th hold 8 to
10 t imes during your run, follo wed each time by a minute of
nasal breathing. The breath holds should be challenging but
should also allow breathing to  recover to normal within a
couple of breaths. If you find this exercise in any way stressful, or have dif ficulty
recovering your  breathing after a breath hold, then refrain from doing the
exercise until your BOL T score has increased to at least 20 seconds. Br eath Holding During Cycling
A similar practice can be employed as you ride your bicycle:
•   A fter your bo dy has warmed up, exhale and hold your breath
for 5 to 15 pedal rotations. •   Resume nasal breathing while continuing to cycle for about 1
minute. •  Repeat this exercise 8 to 10 times throughout your ride. Br eath Holding During Swimming
Swimming is the only sport in which breathing volume is controlled, as the
face is immersed in the water and the weight of the body on the water
restricts breathing even further. Breathing through the mouth is probably the
best opt ion during swimming,  as nasal breathing may result in water
inhalation. T o incor porate reduced breathing during swimming, you will need to
increase the number of strokes between breaths. Y ou can do this in gradual
increments, incr easing the number of strokes between breaths fr om 3 to 5 to
7 over a series of lengths. This exercise was employed by former Olympic
swimmer and triathlete Sheila T aormina, who achieved the fastest 1. 5 km
swim during the Sydney Gam es in 2000. In my correspon dence with
T aormina, she explained how reduced breathing was used to create a
training ef fect so that the swimmer would be challenged to do more with
less. However, unlike some spo rts, such as underwater hockey, the breath
hold is never pushed to an absol ute maximum, in order to ensure the safety
of the swimmer. In addition to the hematological benefits from breath-hold training, it
has been found that breath ho lds also improve swimming coordination. After breath-hold training, swimmers have shown increases in VO 2  peak as
well as an increase in the distance traveled with each swimm ing stroke. During t he front crawl it is necessary to turn the head sideway s every few
strokes in order to take a breath. However, each time a swim mer takes a
breath, hydrodynamic drag take s place, which ultimately wastes ener gy and
reduces performance. One of the benefits of having a high BOL T score is
that bre athing becomes more ef ficient, meaning that less air is required
during a  swim. Reducing the number of breaths minimizes drag, helping to
conserve ener gy for improved performance. The same training has also been  applied to underwater hockey players,
who perform their sport below t he surface of the water in a swimming pool. The obje ct of the game is to pass a weighted puck along the bottom of the
pool using an underwater hoc key stick, scoring points in th e opposing
team’ s g oal. As play takes place underwater, it is advantageous, if not
essential, that players are able to hold their breath for long periods of time. Part of the train ing of underwater hockey players includes prolonged and
repeated breath holds and con trolled breathing, which lead to a higher
tolerance for carbon dioxide and an increase in breath-hold time. Researchers inv estigating the ef fects of short repeated breath holds on
underwater hockey players found that these exercise s reduced
breathlessness and produced a higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the
blood. I n addition, lactate values were found to be lower in underwater
hockey players compared to untrained individuals, meaning th at the pain
from lac tic acid buildup was reduced. These athletes clearly have a high
tolerance for carbon dioxide, most likely explained by their experience with
prolonged breath holding for their sport. As we have already seen, reduced
sensitivity to carbon dioxide translates into reduced breathlessness during
exercise as less breathing is re quired to eliminate excess carbon dioxide. This allows greater physical exertion with lighter breathing—enabling your
body to do more with less. Advanced Simulation of High-Altitude T rainingNormal oxygen saturation at sea  level varies between 95 and 99 percent. T o
receive any benefit from hypoxic (reduced oxygen) training, oxygen
saturation levels  must drop below 94 percent (and ideally to  below 90
percent). The ef fect of this m ethod depends on two factors: oxygen
saturation durin g training, and the length of the exposure to reduced
oxygen. Lowering oxyge n saturation below 90 percent for a duration of 1 to 2
minutes can significantly incre ase the production of EPO, and this can
easily be achieved by using this exercise. Before y ou con sider doing this exercise, please get the a ll clear fr om
your physician. T his exercise is only suitable for those who have good
physical fitness,  perfect health, a BOL T score of longer than 30 seconds,
and are accustom ed to performing intense physical exercise. In other words,
if you wish to try this exercise, you must be familiar with experiencing
strong air shortages. Please refrain from doing this exercise if any of the
following statements apply to you:
•   Y ou are in any doubt about your capabilities to perform inten se
physical


 author's opinion on the topic of diet and nutrition?,
A: The author argues that there is no single "right" diet for everyone, and that each person must find their own optimal diet through experimentation and self-study.
Q: What is the author's stance on the topic of organic and chemical fertilizers?,
A: The author suggests that organic fertilizers can also be detrimental to nutrition, as excessive use can lead to a reduction in nutritional content. The author emphasizes the importance of focusing on avoiding empty calories and maximizing nutrition.
Q: What is the author's view on the relationship between diet and health?,
A: The author argues that a diet that is low in nutrition and high in empty calories can lead to a range of health problems, including tooth decay, poor dental health, and reduced fertility.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Interestingly, that is also the time of year when myneighbor gets the most production from her cows and is most willing to part with25 pounds of extra butter. In general, fats are poor foods that should be avoided. Their ratio of nutrition
to calories is absolutely the worst of all food types, except perhaps for pure whitesugar, which is all calories and absolutely no nutrition (this is also true for otherforms of sugar. Honey, too, contains almost no nutrition.). Gram for gram, fatscontain many more calories than do sugars or starches. Yet gram for gram, fatscontain virtually no nutrition except for small quantities of essential fatty acids. The perverse reason people like to eat fats is that they are very hard to digest
and greatly slow the digestive action of the stomach. Another way of saying that isthat they have a very high satiety value. Fats make a person feel full for a longtime because their presence in the stomach makes it churn and churn and churn.Fats coat proteins and starches and delay their digestion, often causing them tobegin fermenting (starches) or putrefying (proteins) in the digestive tract. The best fats contain high levels of monosaturated vegetable oils that have
never been exposed to heat or chemicals—like virgin olive oil. Use smallquantities of olive oil for salad dressing. Monosaturated fats also have far lesstendency to go rancid than any other type. Vegetable oils with high proportions ofunsaturated fats, the kind that all the authorities push because they contain nocholesterol, go rancid rapidly upon very brief exposure to air. The danger here isthat rancidity in vegetable oil is virtually unnoticeable. Rancid animal fat on theother hand, smells “off.” Eating rancid oil is a sure-fire way to accelerate aging,invite degenerative conditions in general, and enhance the likelihood of cancer. I
recommend that you use only high-quality virgin olive oil, the only generally-
available fat that is largely monosaturated. (Pearson and Shaw, 1983)
When you buy vegetable oil, even olive oil, get small bottles so you use them
up before the oil has much time being exposed to air (as you use the oil air fills thebottle) or, if you buy olive oil in a large can to save money, immediately uponopening it, transfer the oil to pint jars filled to the very brim to exclude virtually allair, and seal the jars securely. In either case, keep now-opened, in-use smallbottles of oil in the refrigerator because rancidity is simply the combination of oilwith oxygen from the air and this chemical reaction is accelerated at warmertemperatures and slowed greatly at cold ones. Chemical reactions typically double in speed with every 10 degrees C.
increase in temperature. So oil goes rancid about six times faster at normal roomtemperature than it does in the fridge. If you’ll think about the implications of thisdata you’ll see there are two powerful reasons not to fry food. One, the food iscoated with oil and gains in satiety value at the expense of becoming relativelyindigestible and productive of toxemia. Secondly, if frying occurs at 150 degreesCentigrade and normal room temperature is 20 degrees Centigrade, then oil goesrancid 2 to the 13th power faster in the frying pan, or about 8,200 times faster.Heating oil for only ten minutes in a hot skillet induces as much rancidity as about6 weeks of sitting open and exposed to air at room temperature. Think about thatthe next time you’re tempted to eat something from a fast food restaurant wherethe hot fat in the deep fryer has been reacting with oxygen all day, or even forseveral days. Back to butter, where we started. If you must have something traditionally
northern European on your bread, you are far better off to use butter, notmargarine. However, Mediterranean peoples traditionally dip their bread in high-quality extra-virgin olive oil that smells and tastes like olives. Its delicious, why nottry it. But best yet, put low-sugar fruit preserves on your toast or develop a tastefor dry toast. Probably the finest use for butter is melted over steamed vegetables. This way only small quantities are needed and the fat goes on something that is
otherwise very easy to digest so its presence will not produce as many toxins inthe digestive tract. Milk, Meat, And Other Protein Foods
Speaking of butter, how about milk? The dairy lobby is very powerful in North
America. Its political clout and campaign contributions have the governments ofboth the United States and especially that of Canada eating out of its hand(literally), providing the dairy industry with price supports. Because of these pricesupports, in Canada cheese costs half again more than it does in the UnitedStates. The dairy lobby is also very cozy with the medical profession so licensednutritionists constantly bombard us with “drink milk” and “cheese is good for you”propaganda. And people naturally like dairy foods. They taste good and are fat-rich with a
high satiety value. Dairy makes you feel full for a long time. Dairy is also high inprotein; protein is hard to digest and this too keeps one feeling full for a long time.But many people, especially those from cultures who traditionally (genetically)didn’t have dairy cows, particularly Africans, Asians and Jews, just do notproduce the enzymes necessary to digest cows milk. Some individuals belongingto these groups can digest goats milk. Some can’t digest any kind except humanbreast milk. And some can digest fermented milk products like yogurt and kiefer.Whenever one eats a protein food that is not fully digestible, it putrefies in thedigestive tract, with all the bad consequences previously described. But no one, absolutely no one can fully digest pasteurized cows milk, which is
what most people use because they have been made to fear cow-transmitteddiseases and/or they are forced to use pasteurized dairy products by healthauthorities. I suspect drinking pasteurized milk or eating cheese made frompasteurized milk is one of the reasons so many people develop allergic reactionsto milk. Yet many states do not allow unpasteurized dairy to be sold, even
privately between neighbors. To explain all this, I first have to explain a bit more
about protein digestion in general and then talk about allergies and how they canbe created: and if you’ve read this book carefully and remember everythingyou’ve read, please forgive me; I am going to repeat a few things said in aprevious chapter about digestion in general..
Proteins are long, complex molecules, intricate chains whose individual links
are amino acids. Proteins are the very stuff of life. All living protoplasm, animal orplant, is largely composed of proteins. There are virtually an infinite number ofdifferent proteins but all are composed of the same few dozen amino acidshooked together in highly variable patterns. Amino acids themselves are highlycomplex organic molecules too. The human body custom-assembles all itsproteins from amino acids derived from digesting protein foods, and can alsomanufacture small quantities of certain of its own amino acids to order, but thereare eight amino acids it cannot make and these are for that reason called essentialamino acids. Essential amino acids must be contained in the food we eat.. Few proteins are water soluble. When we eat proteins the digestive apparatus
must first break them down into their water-soluble components, amino acids, sothese can pass into the blood and then be reassembled into the various proteinsthe body uses. The body has an interesting mechanism to digest proteins; it usesenzymes. An enzyme is like the key for a lock. It is a complex molecule thatlatches to a protein molecule and then breaks it apart into amino acids. Then theenzyme finds yet another protein molecule to free. Enzymes are efficient, reusablemany many times. Enzymes that digest proteins are effective only in the very acid environment of
the stomach, are manufactured by the pancreas and are released when proteinfoods are present. The stomach then releases hydrochloric acid and churns awaylike a washing machine, mixing the enzymes and the acid with the proteins untileverything has digested. So far so good. That’s how its supposed to be. But. Dr. Henry Bieler, who
wrote Food Is Your Best Medicine,  came up with the finest metaphor I know of
to explain how protein digestion goes wrong. He compared all proteins to thewhite of an egg (which is actually a form of protein). When raw and liquid, thelong chains of albumen (egg white) proteins are in their natural form. However,cook the egg and the egg white both solidifies and becomes smaller. What hashappened is that the protein chains have shriveled and literally tied themselves intoknots. Once this happens, pancreatic enzymes no longer fit and cannot separateall the amino acids. Cooked proteins may churn and churn