 throat and  chest trouble.
Nevertheless,  cow's urine as a curative agent is inferior to the patient's
own urine, and  I have known  it to fail in a case  of Bright's disease
brought on by alcoholism.
The wiser  of the  ancient Greeks used nothing but  urine for the
treatment  of wounds. The Eskimos even to this  day adopt the same
measures.
The question  may  be asked if urine‐therapy has been used by anyone in
comparatively  recent times? And the answer is in the affirmative.  Apart
from others, the late W. H. Baxter, J.P., of Leeds and  Harrogate,  not
only took his own urine, but wrote  numerous  pamphlets  on the subject
which  might have been regarded more  seriously had  they  not been
interlarded  with somewhat  irrelevant  moralisings.  "Mr. Baxter,  who
lived to a ripe old  age,  declaring that he had  cured himself  of a
cancerous  growth  by applying his own urine in the form  of compresses,
and  by drinking his own urine neat. He further declared that he had
cured himself  of other  complaints  by these simple means.  Mr. Baxter
contended  that urine is the finest antiseptic  that exists, and, having 14
 made this  discovery,  he formed the daily habit  of drinking three
tumblers full as a prophylactic  against  disease.  He maintained  that if
autogenous  urine is taken  in this way,  the more  innocuous  it becomes.
He applied  it to his eyes as a strengthening  lotion, and  used it, after
shaving, for his complexion.  He also advocated  its external use for
wounds, swellings,  boils, etc. As an aperient he declared it to be
unsurpassed."  (See  Doctors, Disease and Health, by Cyril  Scott.)
I can vouch for the truth of this statement,  as Mr. Baxter was for a short
time one of my patients. But what is not mentioned  in the above  is that
during the treatment  he fasted on urine and  water only.  his fasting, as
the reader will see later, is an, essential  part of the treatment ‐at any
rate in serious  disease conditions.
In some rural districts the use of cow's urine has been advocated  by
doctors for boils. A case  may  be quoted of a man  who had a number  of
painful boils under  his arm. They  were quickly cured by compresses  of
cow's urine.
En passant, I may  mention that not so long ago one of the most
exclusive and  expensive  toilet  soaps  was made from the dehydrated
salts  and fats of the urine of grass‐fed cows, and another  from the urine
of Russian peasants.  ( My informant  was a chemist who knew what he
was talking about.) Furthermore  some expensive  facecreams  contain
hormones  derived from human urine. " What the eye seeth not...."!

  15
 CHAPTER  III.
SOME  OBJECTIONS  ANSWERED

Before  proceeding,  it is advisable  to deal with some objections  which
have been, and may  still be, raised.  It has been argued that if man  were
intended  to drink his own urine he would have been born  with the
instinct But one may as well  argue  that because man  to do so. has not
been born with the instinct  to do deep breathing  exercises or adopt
other  measures  which  have proved conducive  to health, they  are
therefore  invalid or reprehensible.  Take,  for instance, the yogis of India.
By dint  of practising  breathing  exercises,  strange postures,  etc., they
not only arrive at a perfect state of health, but contrive to extend  life
far beyond the usual  three  score  years and  ten. At 150 years of age a
proficient  Hatha Yogi has not even a grey hair.  (See  Rajah Yoga, by
Swami Vivikananda.)  It is true that the science  of Yoga can only be
safely learnt at the hands  of a competent  teacher; but that is another
argument  against the instinct  theory. (See  Heaven Lies' Within Us by
Theos Bernard.)  One notices, by the way,  that man  does not trouble
about his instincts when it is a question  of imbibing strong liquors, or
smoking hundreds  of cigarettes:  in short, when it is a matter of doing
things  which  are bad for him even though the first time he experienced
their "delights"  his instinct rebelled.
And now to answer another  objection.  How can it be right to take back
into the body something  which  the body is apparently  discarding?  And
yet if we turn to Nature,  what do we find? We find that where  instead
of "scientific  " manures,  the dead leaves are put back into the soil, the 16
 resultant flowers are the most  fragrant, the fruits  the sweeter, and  the
trees the healthier.  On the other hand, where  the soil is for some
reason deprived of those chemical substances  produced  by the dead
leaves,  etc., then the trees which  grow in that soil are disfigured  by
excrescences,  which  I think, quite aptly have been called  tree‐cancers.
What we are accustomed  to regard as useless dead leaves are the very
opposite of useless and  should be dug back into the soil instead of
being swept away  by the gardener.  Let


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Abstract
The therapeutic dry fasting method is de-
scribed by the author based of his 25 years of ex-
perience in monitoring fasting patients. The ef-
fect of the method on the human body is exam-
ined in detail, recommendations are provided
on the preparation and exit from dry fasting, as
well as on the actions to be taken in case of pos-
sible complications. Indications and contraindi-
cations are enumerated. The book is intended
for a wide circle of readers who are interested in
fasting and use it as a cleansing and medical pro-
cedure.
  WARNING
All therapeutic suggestions reported in this man-
ual are not a substitute for the advice of the
reader’s own physician. It is highly advisable to
consult medical professionals before undertaking
a water or dry fasting practice. The authors, pub-
lisher, distributors and retailers of this book can-
not be held responsible for any damage or injury
that may be connected, arise from or in any way
associated with the application of the method il-
lustrated in this book. Those who decide to follow
its principles and algorithms will do it under their
own responsibility.

Sergey Filonov
20 questions and answers about dry fasting

Copyright 2019 Vera Giovanna Bani. All rights reserved.
First edition: November 2019
Translated from Russian by Yana Solominskaya (chapters 8 -20)
Translated from Italian by Francesca Morgante (chapters 1 -7)
Cover by Julia Novachenko
Russian title: Сухое лечебное голодание – мифы и реальность
Italian title: Venti domande sul digiuno secco

www.siberika.it
www.dryfasting.info Contents
Foreword by the curator of English and Italian
edition Vera Giovanna Bani .....................................  16
The good fate of therapeutic fasting in Russia and
the contribution of Prof. Yuri Nikolayev
(introductory article by Vera Giovanna Bani) .........  23
Preface by Sergey Filonov .......................................  42
1. What is dry fasting? ............................................  59
2. Is dry fasting a natural method?.........................  62
3. What conditions can fasting help? Indications
and contraindications for fasting and dry fasting. .. 66
4. What is the scientific background of therapeutic
fasting and dry fasting in particular? .......................  71
5. What type of fasting (RDT) are being researched
and commonly used in clinical practice (in Russia)  78
6. What methods of fasting have been developed
and disseminated in the USSR -Russia?....................  86
Ivanov’s method: 42 hours a week of dry fasting .. 86 Shchennikov’s method: the complete dry fast
(CDF) of  7-9- 11 days ................................................... 91
Lavrova’s method: a 5 -stage cascade dry fasting ... 98
Filonov’s method: fractional dry fasting (FDF) .. 105
7. What are the advantages of dry fasting compared
to water  fasting? ......................................................  113
8. What mechanisms does a dry fast trigger within
the body? ................................................................. 124
8.1. The mechanism of toxins burning "in their
own furnace" and production of "endogenous" water
...................................................................................... 124
8.2. Anti -inflammatory and immune -stimulatory
mechanism: the action of free forms of
glucocorticoids........................................................... 128
8.3. The mechanism of acidification of the internal
environment of the organism: the first and second
acidotic crises.............................................................. 137
8.4. Autolysis ............................................................ 150  8.5. The mechanism of rejuvenation and tissue
renewal: apoptosis ...................................................... 155
8.6. Youth and quality of life extension................ 168
8.7. Preventive mechanism: protection against
radiation, adverse environmental factors, prevention
of oncological diseases .............................................. 195
8.8. Renewal of the organism’s energy ................. 208
9. How to properly prepare your body for dry
fasting? ....................................................................  217
9.1. Bowel cleansing. Introduction ....................... 217
9.2. Methods of use of enterosorbents .................. 231
9.3. Intestinal sorbent cleansing procedure ......... 235
9.4. Liver cleansing ..................................................  253
9.5. Intestinal and liver cleansing (week -long
program) ..................................................................... 258
9.6. Accelerated cleansing of the body ................. 270
9.7. Dietary recommendations to follow after
cleansing procedures ................................................. 275 9.8. Buckwheat porridge fast ................................. 276
10. What is fasting accompanied by? ...................  278
10.1. Hunger sensations ......................................... 280
10.2. We akness ......................................................... 284
10.3. Chilliness or fever (more typical of dry
fasting)......................................................................... 286
10.4. Bad breath ....................................................... 288
10.5. Dimmed vision, vertigo ................................ 289
10.6. Headache ......................................................... 290
10.7. Sleep disturbances .......................................... 292
10.8. Pain in various parts of the body ................. 293
10.9. Toothache ....................................................... 296
10.10. Egress of pus ................................................. 297
10.11. Nausea, regurgitation and vomiting
(sorbents required) .................................................... 298
10.12. Palpitations ................................................... 300
10.13. Heartache ...................................................... 301
10.14. Muscle pain from overstrain ...................... 303  10.15. Colds .............................................................. 304
10.16. What to do if menstruation occurs during a
dry fasting practice? ................................................... 305
11. How should you conduct a short dry fast? ..... 306
11.1. Before fasting ..................................................  306
11.2. Essential benefits of fatty acids contained in
fish................................................................................ 308
11.3. The importance of fish oil fatty acids in
sustaining health and vessel health......................... 310
11.4. Home dry fasts up to 5 days ......................... 316
11.5. How to conduct a dry fractional fast properly
...................................................................................... 320
11.6. Recommendations on conducting dry fasting
...................................................................................... 324
11.7. Let’s move on to the day -to-day description of
the 5 -day dry fast ........................................................ 340
12. What time and which days are best for fasting?
.................................................................................  348 13. How to exit from short dry fasts (1 -2-3-4- 5 days)
properly? ................................................................. 351
13.1. Withdrawal from dry fasting.
Recommendations..................................................... 351
13.2. Withdrawal from a 1 -day fast ...................... 352
13.3. Withdrawal from a 48 -hour fast .................. 353
13.4. Withdrawal from a 3 -day fast ...................... 355
13.5. Withdrawal from a 4 -5 day fast ................... 357
13.6. Nutrition program for good digestion (during


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epigenetics is all those Italian words (fortiss imo and the like) that give instructions on how the notes should be
played.” (Alexander)

For those unfamiliar with musical concepts, another book, Pottenger’s Prophecy, provides this metaphor for
epigenetics that also incorporates the terminology commonly  used in genetics research: “If you were building a
house, the architect would provide the blueprint (the genotype); and the builder would work with building materials
from the environment (the epigenetic mechanism) to create the house. In turn, the finish ed house would be the
phenotype, the end result.” (p. 24) While Pottenger did not necessarily realize the significance of the conclusions
of his research at the time, Pottenger and his cats paved the way for modern epigenetics.

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RADICAL WELLBEING© 2015 The Chopra Center. All rights reserved.
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Wisdom for Living: Deepak Chopra’s Book of QuotesOnly a few decades ago, conventional medicine viewed the body as a machine
whose parts would inevitably break down until it could no longer be repaired. As a
medical student, I learned that random chemical reactions determined everything
that happened in the body, the mind and body were separate and independent
from each other, and genes largely determined our health and lifespan.
Today scientific research is arriving at a radically different understanding: while
the body appears to be material, it is really a field of energy and intelligence that is
inextricably connected to the mind. We now know that what used to be considered
the “normal” experience of aging—a progressive descent into physical and mental
incapacity—is in large part a conditioned response. The mind influences every cell in
the body and therefore human aging is fluid and changeable. It can speed up, slow
down, and even reverse itself.
There are many studies demonstrating the profound influence of the mind and
beliefs on aging. For example, a landmark study by Harvard psychologist Ellen
Langer, Ph.D., showed that the so-called irreversible signs of aging, including
deterioration in hearing, vision, manual dexterity, muscle strength, and memory,
could be reversed through psychological shifts in awareness and increases in
physical and mental activity.
Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren’t
predetermined. By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus
our attention, we can transform our experience of our body to decrease our
biological age.
These seven steps are practical ways to tap into your inner reservoir of unlimited
energy, creativity, vitality, and love.
Love,GROW YOUNGER AND LIVE LONGER
7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING:  Grow Younger and Live Longer
www.chopra.comEvery day in every way, I am increasing my mental and physical
capacity. I am reversing my biological age by changing my
perception of my body, its aging, and time. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 1Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation. What you experience
as “reality,” including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits
of perception. While most people are conditioned to see the body as a static,
biological machine, you can begin to view it as a field of energy, transformation,
and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself.
Begin to notice both your internal dialogue and how you speak about your body
and aging. If you find yourself saying things like, “I’m hitting the age where I’ll need
reading glasses,” “I’m too old to try yoga (or some other activity),” “I inherited my
dad’s bad back,” or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your
perspective and change what you tell yourself about your body and age.
Keep in mind that your cells are eavesdropping on what you say, so unless you
want to have your father’s bad back or anything else that “runs in the family,” don’t
nurture that seed of intention in your awareness.CHANGE YOUR PERCEPTIONS OF YOUR BODY
AND AGING7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 1
www.chopra.comSTEP 1
“You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body
and by grasping the link between belief and biology.”
~ Deepak ChopraI prioritize self-care by meditating regularly, allowing
myself to rest in the sacred space of silent connection
so I may be calm and centered. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 2STEP 2
Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound
relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the
aging process. During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and
heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall. By its very nature, meditation
calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body
relaxes too.
Research shows that people who meditate regularly develop less hypertension,
heart disease, anxiety, and other stress-related illnesses that speed up aging.
Furthermore, new studies are finding that meditation literally restores the brain. A
groundbreaking study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital found that
as little as eight weeks of meditation not only helped people feel calmer but also
produced changes in various areas of the brain, including growth in the areas
associated with memory, empathy, sense of self, and stress regulation.
This study adds to the expanding body of research about the brain’s amazing
plasticity and capacity to grow and change at any stage of life. We can nurture our
brain’s power and maintain a youthful mind by developing a regular meditation
practice.
Getting Started with Meditation
I usually recommend that people learn a traditional meditation practice from
a qualified instructor. That way, you know exactly what to do at any point in
meditation and with any experience that comes along. Often when people try
to learn on their own or from a book, they learn incorrectly and soon give up in
frustration because they aren’t experiencing the expected benefits. For those who
are interested, the Chopra Center offers instruction in Primordial Sound Meditation,
a natural, easy practice that dates back thousands of years to India’s Vedic traditionMANAGE YOUR STRESS WITH MEDITATION7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 2
www.chopra.comI honor my body’s need for rest by prioritizing deep,
revitalizing, undisturbed sleep. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 3Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so
often neglected or underemphasized. There is even a tendency for people to boast
about how little sleep they can get by on. In reality, a lack of restful sleep disrupts
the body’s innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging
process.

Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each
night. Restful sleep means that you’re not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get
to sleep but that you’re drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleep -
ing soundly through the night. If you feel energetic and vibrant when you wake up,
you’ve had a night of restful sleep. If you feel tired and unenthusiastic, you haven’t
had restful sleep.
You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the
rhythms of the universe, known as circadian rhythms. This means going to bed by
about 10 p.m. and waking at 6 a.m.
Ideally, eat only a light meal in the evening, before 7:30 if possible, so that your
sleep isn’t hampered by the digestive processes. You can go for a leisurely walk after
dinner and then be in bed by 10 p.m.
It’s also very helpful to download your thoughts from the day in a journal before
going to bed so that your mind doesn’t keep you awake.GET ABUNDANT RESTFUL SLEEP7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 3
www.chopra.comSTEP 3I lovingly nurture my body by listening to its needs and
responding proportionately with healthy, alive, vibrant
foods and lots of water.  7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 4There are “dead” foods that accelerate aging and entropy and others that renew and
revitalize the body. Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned,
frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and
freshly prepared food.
A simple way to make sure that you are getting a balanced diet is to include the six
tastes (sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and


 swelling, redness, and often copioussecretions of mucous and pus, such as colds, flu, a first time case of pneumonia,inflamed joints as in the early stages of arthritis, etc. These acute conditionsusually remedy in one to three weeks of fasting. Acute conditions are excellentcandidates for self-doctoring. Chronic degenerative conditions are more seriousand the patient usually requires supervision. These include conditions such ascancer, aids, chronic arthritis, chronic pneumonia, emphysema and asthma.Chronic degenerative conditions usually respond within a month to three monthsof fasting. The fasting should be broken up into two or three sessions if thecondition has not been relieved in one stint of supervised fasting. Each successivefast will produce some improvement and if a light, largely raw-food diet isadhered to between fasts the patient should not worsen and should be fairlycomfortable between fastings.
If there has been major functional damage to an organ as a result of any of
these degenerative conditions, healing will not be complete, or may be impossible.
By organic damage, I mean that a vital part of the body has ceased to function
due to some degenerative process, injury, or surgery—so badly damaged that thecells that make up the organ can not be replaced.
I once had a twenty five year old man come to my spa to die in peace because
he had been through enough diagnostic procedures in three hospitals to know thathis liver was beyond repair. He had been working on an apple farm in betweenterms at university when he was poisoned several times with insecticide from anaerial spray on the whole orchard. He absorbed so much insecticide that his liverincurred massive organic damage.
When he came to me his body had reached the point where it was incapable
of digesting, and because of lack of liver function, it was incapable of healingwhile fasting, a condition in which death is a certainty. He was a Buddhist, did notfear death and did not want to be kept alive in agony or in prolongedunconsciousness by any extraordinary means, nor did he want to die with tubes inevery orifice. I was honored to be a supportive participant in his passing. He diedfasting, in peace, and without pain, with a clear mind that allowed him toconsciously prepare for the experience. He was not in a state of denial or fear,and made no frantic attempts to escape the inevitable. He went quietly into thatstill dark night with a tranquil demeanor and a slight smile.
Fortunately, in my many years of practice I had the pleasure of seeing the
majority of the people totally regain their health or at least greatly improve it bymeans of the fasting and healing diets. Many cancer patients watched withamazement as their tumors disappeared before their eyes, many arthritics regainedtheir function, serious skin conditions such as psoriasis disappeared, mentalconditions improved, addictions vanished, fatigue was replaced by energy, and fatdissolved revealing the hidden sculpture beneath. I will talk more aboutprocedures and the particular reasons bodies develop specific conditions in laterchapters.
Social/Cultural/Psychological Obstacles To Fasting
Numerous attitudes make it difficult to fast or to provide moral support to
friends or loved ones that are fasting. Many people harbor fears of losing weightbecause they think that if times were really tough, if there was a famine or theybecame ill and lost a lot of weight they would have no reserves and wouldcertainly perish. These people have no idea how much fat can be concealed on aneven skinny body, nor of how slowly a skinny body loses weight while fasting.Substantial fat reserves are helpful as heat-retaining insulation in those rareaccidents when someone is dropped into a cold ocean and must survive until therescue boat arrives. Being fat might keep a person alive longer who is lost in thewilderness awaiting rescue with no supplies, no means of procuring food, and nomeans of keeping warm. On the other hand, fat people would have a far hardertime walking out of the wilderness. And extensive fat deposits are merely fuel anddo not contain extensive nutritional reserves. An obese person fasting withoutsignificant nutritional supplementation would begin starving long before theybecame really skinny. On the balance, carrying excess weight is a far greaterliability than any potential pro-survival aspects it might have.
There are other attitudes associated with weight loss that make it difficult for
people to fast. People hold rather stereotypical notions about what constitutes anattractive person; usually it involves having some flesh on one’s bones. Hollywoodand Hugh Hefner have both influenced the masses to think that women shouldhave hourglass figures with large, upthrust, firm breasts. Since breasts are almostall useless fatty tissue supporting some milk-producing glands that do not give abreast much volume except when engorged, most women fasters loose a goodpercentage of their breast mass. If the fast is extensive, there should also developan impressive showing of ribs and hip bones; these are not soft and cuddly.Husbands, lovers, parents, and friends frequently point out that you don’t lookgood this way and exhort you to put on weight. Most people think pleasantlyplump is healthy.
Skinny men, especially those who had lost a lot of weight during an illness, are
pressured by associates to put on weight to prove that they are healthy. I had aclient who was formerly a college varsity football player. Before his illness he hadlifted weights and looked like a hunk. His family and friends liked to see him thatway and justifiably so. Then he got seriously ill. On a long extended healing diethe lost a significant amount of weight and seemed downright skinny, causing allwho knew him well and cared about him to tempt him with all kinds ofscrumptious delicacies from the best of kitchens. But this case was like LuigiCornaro, a man who never again could look like a hunk. His “friends” made anabsolutely necessary change in life style and appearance far more difficult than itwas already. My client was torn between a desire to please others, and a desireto regain and retain his health. This problem a sick person doesn’t need.
If you have the independence to consider following an alternative medical
program in a culture that highly values conformity and agreement, you are alsogoing to have to defend your own course of self-determined action based on thebest available data that you have. But fasters are usually in fragile emotionalcondition, so I advise my clients who are subjected to this kind of pressure to begtheir friends and associates to refrain from saying anything if they can’t support thecourse of action you have chosen. After this, if friends or relatives are stillincapable of saying nothing (even non-verbally), it is important to exclude themfrom your life until you have accomplished your health goals, have regained someweight and have returned to eating a maintenance diet, rather than getting skinnieron a healing one.
The very worst aspect of our culture’s eating programming is that people have
been wrongfully taught that when ill they must eat to keep up their strength.Inherent in this recommendation is an unstated belief that when the body isweakened by a disease state, the weakness can somehow be overcome withfood, and that the body needs this food to kill the virus, bacteria, or invadingyeast, and uses the protein to heal or rebuild tissue. Sadly, the exact opposite is
the case. Disease organisms feed and multiply on the toxic waste products of
misdigestion, and the body is unable to digest well when it is weak or ill.
There’s an old saying about this: “feed a cold, starve a fever.” Most people
think this saying means you should eat when you have a cold. What the sayingreally means is if you feed a cold then you will soon have to starve a fever.Chcken soup? Protein foods especially are not digested by a diseased body, andas mentioned before, the waste products of protein indigestion are especiallypoisonous. That is all the body needs when it is already down, another load ofpoison which it can’t eliminate due to weakness and enervation.
Weight loss is usually associated with illness, as it should be! In times of acute
illness an otherwise healthy body loses its appetite for food because it is pro-survival to stop eating. It is very hard to coax a sick animal to eat. Their bodies,not controlled by a mind full of complex learned responses and false ideas,automatically know that fasting is nature’s method of healing. Contrary to popularunderstanding, digestion, assimilation, and elimination require the expenditure ofconsiderable energy. This fact may contradict the reader’s experience becauseeveryone has become tired when they have worked a long time without eating,and then experienced the lift after eating. But an ill body cannot digest efficientlyso instead of providing energy extracted from foods, the body is further burdenedby yet another load of toxic material produced by fermented and putrefied food.This adds insult to injury in a sick body that is already drowning in its owngarbage.
Worse, during illness most available vital force is already redirected into
healing; it is not available for digestion. It is important to allow a sick body toproceed with healing and not to obstruct the process with unnecessary digestionor suppress the symptoms (which actually are the healing efforts) with drugs. Ifyou have an acute illness, and you stop all food intake except for pure water andherb teas, and perhaps some vegetable broth, or dilute non-sweet juice, you haverelieved your body of an immense effort. Instead of digesting, the body goes to
work on catching up on healing. The body can and will almost inevitably heal itself
if the sick person will have faith in it, cooperate with the body’s efforts by allowingthe symptoms of healing to exist, reduce or eliminate the intake of food to allowthe body


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OBESITY 103
CHAPTER 15 110
FADS OR FACTS 110
CHAPTER 16 119
MIN-COL 119
CHAPTER 17 123
CASE HISTORIES 123
CHAPTER 18 131
RBTI AND PASTORAL COUNSELING 131
CHAPTER 19 137
OXYGEN 137
CHAPTER 20 144
DIGESTING FOOD 144
CHAPTER 21 152
THE GREATEST LOVE OF MY LIFE 152
CHAPTER 22 158
THE MAN CAREY A. REAMS 158

  5 PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Freedom is a word that has been sounded, spoken, sung from one
end of America to the other for many years.
Freedom of religion. Freedom of choice. Freedom of the press. Freedom to speak, or freedom to be silent. Freedom to promote the progress of science.
America was founded on the principles that all men are created
equal, and that we could each wors hip, serve and obey God as our will
dictated.
Strange how this word called FREEDOM can become so confused
with law, rules and regulations. Such is the case of Carey A. Reams.
I have spent hours, days, and even weeks discussing with Mr.
Reams the health message of the Bible. I have watched him smile and weep as he described how God gave him the formula for perfect health. How God revealed to him in his laboratory the importance of obeying the Scriptures, even when it comes to the way we eat. He has suggested to people the world over the benefits of obeying the holy Scriptures. And for this he has been accused, persecuted, harassed, and yes-imprisoned. Not once, but many times.
Recently I found myself in Riverside, California. To my amaze-
ment this knowledgeable, sweet, gentle, spiritual, God-fearing old man had been placed in the Rivers ide County jail. The charge? Prac-
ticing medicine without a license.
No shots had been given, no drugs administered, no surgery per-
formed, no cobalt, no chemotherapy, no radiation-just minerals, good food, pure water and vitamins.
America, when I realize that God is just, I tremble. As I visited with him at the jail and went into the little cage and
awaited Carey Reams' appearance on the other side I couldn't help asking myself: Why, God? Why? Why would a man in his Seventies, 6 who loves You, loves people, and it is his desire that they be helped,
suffer like this?
I could hear the door creaking on the other side of the cage, and I
looked through the streaked, tear-stained glass and there was "Doc." Our hands lifted to the glass, and our desire was to hold hands but it was impossible.
We looked at each other and our hearts joined by the Spirit of
God.
Doc became very emotional as he saw me, and he kept saying, "Cliff... Cliff..." and held up two fingers. He did this several times
without being able to continue his sentence. Finally, through his an-guish and sobs he completed the sentence: "Two of my fellow inmates have found Jesus, and I'm working on two others." He told me not to worry, "it is all right, the Holy Spirit is in the cell with me."
Our time was soon up and we departed. His last words were:
"Don't worry. No one can lock out fro m my cell the Spirit of the living
Christ."
That was several weeks ago. I have just received word while Carey Reams has been awaiting
trial in the prison he became ill and has now been transferred to the Riverside General Hospital.
America, when I realize that God is just, I tremble.
-Cliff Dudley
  7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to express appreciation to all those who have worked with
me and stood by me in making this book a reality.
- to my children, Laverne Reams, Eugene Reams, and Betty
Brown, who worked diligently with me in my research laboratory from the time they were old enough to help until this day. Some have gone to prison with me and are also still willing to go to prison, if necessary.
- to my wife for putting up with me all these years. It has been her
prayers that have kept me on the battlefront for God. After one of our battles for the Lord she said, "Thank God He only made one like you!"
- to Cliff Dudley, his wife and family.
- to New Leaf Press, Inc., office staff.

* * * * *
 This book is only a book of information for laymen, not intended
for a text book for college graduate biologists, so therefore most col-
lege biologists and biophysicists are going to raise many questions that will not be answered in this book. Seminars are being taught to doctors, chiropractors, and people with degrees, those qualified with common sense to help this nation to be the healthiest on earth.

  8 PREFACE

The purpose of this book is to tell how God has revealed to
MODERN MAN His secret of how to live a long, healthy and useful life.
God desires all of His treasures to be in GOOD HEALTH. God never repairs a damaged cello He throws it away and replaces
it with a NEW CELL. God is not in the secondhand parts business,
and what is more, His charges are very reasonable and not grievous or painful to bear. In fact, His fees can be paid with absolute obedience to the laws He has made and written so plainly in the BIBLE.
This book will permit you to p eek through the keyhole about the
secrets of perfect health and how the fullness and joy may be attained. There are many now in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the world that are sharing this knowledge about the TRUE, God-given BIOLOGICAL THEORY OF IONIZATION (RBTI). It will be neces-sary to go to someone taught in the RBTI in order to know how to at-tain perfect health in what I term the eight-lane highway of physical,
mental, moral and spiritual obedience to perfect health. These tests can be made in minutes.
You may choose what direction you will travel-life or death. The laboratory tests are made with standard, orthodox laboratory
equipment. The tests will reveal secrets about your body chemistry that can be compared to the perfect God-given mathematical equation which will accurately denote the mineral imbalance of anyone's body. You will be instructed what to do about your diet problems indicated
in the laboratory tests. Follow the rules; they are God's way of a long, healthy, useful life. The more obedient you are to these health laws the greater your reward.
Would you like to go on a vacation while you are ill? Really, any-
one living a godly, useful, healthy life is just taking a vacation away from Heaven. Enjoy this vacation span between two ETERNITIES.
Plan on leaving for Heaven and taking your vacation away from
EARTH in perfect health. God never intended for anyone to become 9 so EARTHLY ILL until they were dying to go to HEAVEN, or wher-
ever they planned to go when they leave here.
Do not expect this book to tell you what is good for you and what
is bad for you. This book will tell you how to find out and know the four-lane expressway to PERFECT HEALTH.
HAPPY IS HE WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO AND DOES IT.
You will know how to choose LIFE or DEATH.
The RBTI test is the measure of excessive loss of ENERGY. As various organs contain more or less of the elements, it is  pos-
sible by analyzing the urine and sa liva to determine which organ or
organs are losing too much energy.
The excessive loss of energy of any organ will cause the analytical
readings of the specimens to arrange the numbers into a range pattern which will denote the exact area where the loss of energy occurs. A loss of ENERGY is the result of a mineral deficiency.
The excessive elementary energy, or the lack of it, is manifest in
the laboratory readings while it pinpoints the extent of the energy. This type of a test takes the guessing out of the practice of health, and also the guessing for those who practice medicine.
The loss of energy from one organ affects other organs. All of our
organs are more or less dependent upon another.
Too often a diagnosis, which according to Black's Legal Diction-
ary,
is only a GUESS limited by experience, only deals with one organ
and that one wherever the pain is greatest. Pain is often the result of a loss of energy in another area of the body and is settling in the weak-est spot, which causes the pain. Doctoring the pain without removing the cause is of no avail.
The RBTI tests analysis often disagrees with diagnosis because
the RBTI test is not a guess, it is an accurate chemical analysis.
Regardless of how many laboratory technicians performed the
RBTI Test, all counselors would come up with the same answer.
It is difficult to find two doctors that will make a diagnosis exactly
alike on the same problem even when made on the same day.
WHY GUESS WHEN YOU CAN BE SURE? 10 LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS to be guessing.
Please keep in mind as you read this book that God is the author
of mathematics and chemistry. He ma de the laws of life, solids, liq


this “there are no
rules” kind of religion. That’s spir itual
anarchy. I  don’t see how that can work.
There is no way it cannot work —if you are
about the business of creating your Self.  If,
on the other hand, you imagine yourself to be about the task of trying to be what
someone else wants you to be, the
absenc e of rules or guidelines might indeed
make things difficult.
Yet the thinking mind begs to ask: if God
has a way She wants me to be, why didn’t
She simply create me that way to begin
with? Why all this struggle for me to
“overcome” who I am in order for me  to
become what God wants me to be? This
the probing mind demands to know —and
rightly so, for it is a proper inquiry.
The religionists would have you believe
that I created you as less than Who I Am so
that you could have the chance to become
as Who I Am, working against all odds —
and, I might add, against every natural
tendency I am supposed to have given you.  Among these so -called natural tendencies
is the tendency to sin. You are taught that
you were born in sin, that you will die in sin,
and that to sin is your nature.
One of your religions even teaches you that
you can do nothing about this. Your own
actions are irrelevant and meaningless. It is
arrogant to think that by some action of
yours you can “get to heaven.” There is
only one way to heaven (salvation) and that
is through no undertaking of your own, but
through the grace granted you by God
through acceptance of His Son as your
intermediary.
Once this is done you are “saved.” Until it
is done, nothing that you do —not the life
you live, not the  choices you make, not
anything you undertake of your own will in
an effort to improve yourself or render you worthy —has any effect, bears any
influence. You are incapable of rendering
yourself worthy, because you are  inherently
unworthy. You were created that way.
Why? God only knows. Perhaps He made
a mistake. Perhaps He didn’t get it right.
Maybe He wishes He could have it all to do
over again. But there it is. What to do...
You’re making mock of me.
No. You are making mock of Me. You are
saying that I, God, made inherently
imperfect beings, then have demanded of
them to be perfect, or face damnation.
You are saying then that, somewhere
several thousand years into the world’s
experience, I relented, saying that from
then on you didn’t necessarily have to be
good, you simply had to feel bad when you were not being good, and accept as your
savior the One Being who could always be
perfect, thus satisfying My hunger for
perfection. You are saying that My Son —
who you call the One Perfect One —has
saved you from your own imperfection —
the imperfection I gave you.
In other words, God’s Son has saved you
from what His Father did.
This is how you —many of you —say I’ve set
it up. Now who is mocking whom?
That is the second time in this book you
seem to have launched a frontal attack on
fundamentalist Christianity. I am surprised.
You have chosen the word “attack.” I am
simply engaging the issue. And the issue,
by the way, is not “fundamentalist
Christianity,” as you put it. It is the entire nature of  God, and of God’s relationship to
man.
The question comes up here because we
were discussing the matter of obligations —
in relationships and in life itself.
You cannot believe in an obligation -less
relationship because you cannot accept
who and what you rea lly are. You call a life
of complete freedom “spiritual anarchy.” I
call it God’s great promise.
It is only within the context of this promise
that God’s great plan can be complete d.
You have no obligation in relationship. You
have only opportunity.
Opport unity, not obligation, is the
cornerstone of religion, the basis of all
spirituality.  So long as you see it the other
way around, you will have missed the point.  Relationship —your relationship to all
things —was created as your perfect tool in
the work of the soul. That is why all human
relationships are sacred ground. It is why
every personal relationship is holy.
In this, many churches have it right.
Marriage is a sacrament. But not because
of its  sacred obligations. Rather, because
of its unequalled oppo rtunity.
Never do anything in relationship out of a
sense of obligation. Do whatever you do
out of a sense of the glorious opportunity
your relationship affords you to decide,  and
to be, Who You Really Are.
I can hear that —yet over and over in my
relations hips I have given up when the
going gets  tough. The result is that I’ve had
a string of relationships where I thought, as a kid, that I’d  have only one. I don’t seem
to know what it’s like to hold onto a
relationship. Do you think I  will ever learn?
What d o I have to do to make it happen?
You make it sound as if holding onto a
relationship means it’s been a success. Try
not to confuse longevity with a job well
done. Remember, your job on the planet is
not to see how long you can stay in
relationship, it’s t o decide, and experience,
Who You Really Are.
This is not an argument for short -term
relationships —yet neither is there a
requirement for long -term ones.
Still, while there is no such requirement,
this much should be said: long -term
relationships do hold r emarkable
opportunities for mutual growth, mutual expression,  and mutual fulfillment —and
that has its own reward.
I know, I know! I mean, I’ve always
suspected that. So how do I get there?
First, make sure you get into a relationship
for the right reasons.  (I’m using the word
“right” here as a relative term. I mean “right”
relative to the larger purpose you hold in
your life).
As I have indicated before, most people still
enter relationships for the “wrong”
reasons —to end loneliness, fill a gap, bring
thems elves love, or someone to love —and
those are some of the better reasons.
Others do so to salve their ego, end their
depressions, improve their sex life, recover
from a previous relationship, or, believe  it
or not, to relieve boredom.  None of these reasons will work, and
unless something dramatic changes along
the way, neither will the relationship.
I didn’t enter into my relationships for any
of those reasons.
I would challenge that. I don’t think you
know why you entered your relationships. I
don’t think y ou thought about it in this way.
I don’t think you entered your  relationships
purposefully. I think you entered your
relationships because you “fell in  love.”
That’s exactly right.
And I don’t think you stopped to look at why
you “fell in love.” What was it to which  you
were responding? What need, or set of
needs, was being fulfilled?
For most people, love is a response to
need fulfillment.  Everyone has needs. You need this,
another needs that. You both see in each
other  a chance for need fulfillment. So you
agree —tacitly —to a trade. I’ll trade you
what  I’ve got if you’ll give me what you’ve
got.
It’s a transaction. But you don’t tell the truth
about it. You don’t say, “I trade you very
much.” You say, “I love you very much,” and
then the d isappointment begins.
You’ve made this point before.
Yes, and you’ve done this thing before —
not once, but several times.
Sometimes this book seems to be going in
circles, making the same points over and
over again.
Sort of like life.  Touché.
The process he re is that you’re asking the
questions and I’m merely answering  them.
If you ask the same question three different
ways, I’m obliged to continue  answering it.
Maybe I keep hoping You’ll come up with a
different answer. You take a lot of the
romance  out of it when I ask You about
relationships. What’s wrong with falling
head over heels in  love without having to
think about it?
Nothing. Fall in love with as many people
as you like that way. But if you’re going to
form a lifelong relationship with them, you
may want to add a little thought.
On the other hand, if you enjoy going
through relationships like water —or, worse
yet, staying in one because you think you “have to,” then living a life of quiet
desperation —if you enjoy repeating these
patterns from your pa st, keep right on  doing
what you’ve been doing


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 Puccio told the Senate
Subcommittee. “I finally found Dr. Jacob through a lady in Pennsylvania. I called
him and went to Portland. Dr. Jacob examined me, and he verified the diagnosis.
At that time, I was becoming Oriental-looking; my skin was being pulled back. I
was having difficulty breathing and walking and eating. He put me on topical
DMSO, but it burned my skin, since scleroderma has a tendency to make your
skin tissue thin.”
Senator Edward Kennedy, Subcommittee Chairman, asked about the woman’s
troubles with opening her mouth and her problem with eating, which she had told
him of before the beginning of the hearing.
“Because it constricts your tissue, it thickens the tissue, and it makes your skin
so tight you cannot move. It was difficult for me to drive; it was difficult for me to
turn the ignition in my car or turn my body. It was just very difficult....  I have a
letter here from my dentist. He could not do any dental work on me for a while.
Now, I can open my mouth like anybody else does....  I went to Dr. Jacob, and
he gave me the medication, which I brought back to Virginia. I painted it topically,
but it burned my skin. I called him back, and he said, ‘Let us try taking it orally,’
so I started taking it orally. Within about six months my condition reversed almost
immediately....  I can do anything anybody else can now. Unfortunately, I have
to be on that drug for the rest of my life.”
Mrs. Puccio also paints on a form of DMSO called 87-2, which was developed
by Robert Herschler (see
Chapter 5
). This is mixed with different chemical
complexes, including urea. It is almost odor-free. She paints it on her skin at night,
and by morning the odor is gone. She is extremely conscious of the odor. When
she drinks it, she said, she does not go out. “I drink it on Saturday, and I am not
out of the house until Monday evening, because I am conscious of it.”
Her eyes were examined every year for the seven years she used DMSO. “I
have not had problems with my eyes,” said Mrs. Puccio. Her statement about
experiencing no eye problems is significant, as we shall see.
On April 9, 1980, writing to United States Representative Claude Pepper whohad chaired the House Select Committee on Aging to investigate “DMSO: New
Hope for Arthritis?” Lillie Forister of Artesia, New Mexico, told of her particular
form of arthritis—scleroderma. Mrs. Forister wrote:
I was twenty-five years old with a five-year-old daughter when I was told I
have scleroderma and that there is no cure and very little help for it.
About the first thirteen years, it wasn’t too bad. I had ulcers on my
fingertips. I only had pain while the ulcers were healing, and being cold
during the winter months.
But the last six years have been something else. In 1974, I had an
amputation of my first toe. And then in 1979, I lost two more. I am
enclosing some pictures so you can get an idea of what has happened to
me.
The last five years, during the winter months, the only way to get by is
to live on pain pills and then it doesn’t do the job, just takes the edge off.
You lose weight and walk the floor at night, because you can’t sleep for
the pain. The pain is with you day after day ’til you don’t think you can
take it any more.
Then the first part of 1979, I started having chest pains and trouble
with my lungs. I couldn’t even clean up one room without sitting down and
resting. I’ve always been able to take care of myself. And it’s very hard
for me to have to accept help from others. Another thing about this
disease, if you can’t get health insurance or [even] if they will [give you
insurance], it’s so high you can’t afford it.
That’s the bad side of scleroderma. Now for the good part, the only
ray of hope I’ve had in nineteen years. I went to Portland, Oregon, to see
Dr. Jacob last July. He started me on a treatment with DMSO. After the
first week, I felt better than I had in nineteen years. I could button my own
clothes, reach behind my head. The pain was almost nothing. Four months
later I no longer had chest pains.
I have just come through one more winter and it’s the best winter I’ve
had in six years. I had a few bad points where the
pain was pretty rough,
but they didn’t last long. Now when I get ulcers I use DMSO and it clears
them up. Also, I didn’t have any more amputations. I feel that now I might
have a chance to see my children grown and to be able to enjoy my
grandchildren.
Please help us, we need you to help us fight for a better, pain-free life.THE NEW TREATMENT FOR SCLERODERMA
Lillie Forister was begging for help not only for her own problem but also for the
approximately 150,000 other Americans suffering from scleroderma. While the
disease itself may not immediately kill them, death in adults follows severe and
progressive muscle weakness, difficulty in swallowing, malnutrition, and failure of
the respiratory system with superimposed lung infection, such as pneumonia. And
as they linger, discomfort in general and pain in particular pervade their lives.
The victims of scleroderma experience gradual thickening of the skin of the
fingers, aching in most joints, upset of the gut, extreme fatigue, and muscle
wasting. The facial features turn masklike. The skin becomes taut, shiny, and
inflexible on the fingertips, which develop ulcers. The sclerodermatous patient gets
calcification on bony eminences, friction rubs over the knees and tendon sheaths,
and the formation of large bursae. Contractures of the fingers, wrists, and elbows
resulting from skin hardening prevent fine movements, sometimes even gross
movements, such as Jean Puccio’s inability to drive her car.
Internally, there is gastric acidity due to an incompetent functioning of the
lower food tube sphincter. Poor absorption from the small intestine occurs from an
overgrowth of anaerobic bacteria. Large pockets or sacs develop in the large
intestine and biliary cirrhosis develops. The lungs don’t work right and defective
gas diffusion results. Heart failure can hit any time and tends to be chronic and to
respond poorly to medication. Kidney disease is a major cause of death in PSS,
usually signaled by sudden high blood pressure that drugs won’t bring down.
And for all these symptoms of scleroderma there is no specific treatment. No
drug has proved valuable—nothing was even somewhat effective—until DMSO.
“There is no doubt in my mind, the drug relieves certain types of pain. It is not
a curative agent and all the reports we have read about ‘miraculous and
outstanding’ should be completely disregarded. There
is nothing miraculous about
this compound at all, but it does relieve pain in a temporary manner. It is not a
cure. None of our anti-rheumative drugs are curative. DMSO applied topically is
indeed a safe, therapeutic agent to use,” said Arthur L. Scherbel, M.D., founder of
the Department of Rheumatic Disease at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in
Cleveland, Ohio, and formerly the department’s senior consultant.
In his practice, Dr. Scherbel dealt with patients who have very serious diseases
that are challenges to any form of therapy. He is expert in the pathology of PSS.
There are no good, highly effective therapeutic agents for the rheumatic connective
tissue diseases of which scleroderma is one. No drug exists today that iscompletely effective and without toxicity for providing the victims with relief, and
certainly there’s no cure.
Dr. Scherbel began using DMSO twenty years ago and found that it blocked
pain for sufferers of scleroderma. This pain relief comes about because the
solvent blocks conduction in the small nerve fibers—C&A delta, the fibers
important in the recognition of pain. If 75 percent DMSO is used directly on the
nerve fibers (in laboratory experiments) and not removed, within two days all
nerve conduction will cease. If 100 percent DMSO is put on these nerves, the
conduction block will occur more rapidly and usually will not be reversible. The
conclusion is that the smaller peripheral nerve fibers, when preferentially blocked
by DMSO, become diminished in their central response to a stimulus that
ordinarily would cause pain.
1
The healing of ulcers occurs, as well, and this is more difficult to explain.
Marvin F. Engel, M.D., of Brunswick, Georgia, delivered a paper before the
Section on Dermatology of the Southern Medical Association, at its sixty-fourth
annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, November 18, 1970, where he described how the
skin’s blood vessels look after DMSO


 comes
earlier. The faster it goes, the longer it remains to
rejuvenation. For example, if acidotic crisis occurs
2-day elimination period, then the regeneration will be 3 - days. at this time can
you smell of acetone breath, nausea, dizziness, lack of
air weakness. Hunger weakens, the desire tolerated. Blood
pressure varies depending on the characteristics of an organism.
Do not be afraid of any phenomena, since due to adaptation
organism to new conditions of life symptoms
more acute. The best thing about this period - the calm,
slow nature walks.
4-th day. Pressure drops or is likely to rise, the body temperature
may be increased. It is physiologically normal for
SH. There are chills or fever, depending on the nature of the patient
and symptoms of the disease, as well as by gender and age.
Responding to an increase in body temperature, the organism causes
slowing the growth of microorganisms. Immune system becomes easier
hunt down and kill all the alien and change. Also observed
lowering the threshold of cold, the normalization of thermoregulation
processes, expressed in hot flashes and requiring the use of
cold water, which stabilizes the patient's condition. All
colds completely excluded. at this time can be
walk barefoot in the snow or dew, pour cold ice water,
walk around naked in nature.
Day 5. Begin to deteriorate all chronic diseases,
and even those about which we do not know. The most affected
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314Disease bodies make themselves felt pain, and this should be
ready. We must thank your body for such a good
healing work. If nausea is good help
Massage the abdomen and cold on the liver. If hard to walk,
it is better to lie down in a quiet cool place and listen to
good classical music. Due to the struggle of the organism
with disabilities increased body temperature, and the person feels hot.
Blood pressure may rise or fall depending
on the individual. You can take
cold shower, there are more to air in lightweight clothing or
even without it in any weather. If there is snow, you can ho dit-on
it barefoot. Can be insomnia, increased thirst, pressure
can jump. mainly weight loss during the passage of the SG
1 to 2 kg, depending on the weight with which began in hunger and what
was physical activity. Of course, every person in his own way
unique and individual. Dry starvation can take place
completely differently, but I tried to describe those manifestations
I watched the majority of patients.
I often ask, at what time and what days is better to starve.
Each season has its pluses and minuses. in May, is very effective
hungry for the treatment of liver, I have many patients in May cured
hepatitis. in August and September, the ideal output and fast, high quality
restoration of the body. in October and November, the SG is easier to pass.
Worst of all SG transferred in January and March. But, in principle, it is not
plays a dominant role. The main thing - if a serious problem,
the sooner the better, regardless of the time.
Yoga recommends fasting on a certain day of the week
according to the date of birth. This day is almost always the same
a good day for different horoscopes.
Birthday Zodiac Signs day for fasting
March 21 - April 19 Aries Tuesday
April 20 - May 20 Taurus Friday
May 21 - June 21 Gemini Wednesday
June 22 - July 22 Cancer Monday
July 23 - August 23 Leo Sunday
August 24 - September 22 Virgo Wednesday
September 23 - October 23 Libra Friday
October 24 - November 21 Scorpio Tuesday
November 22 - December 21 Sagittarius Thursday
December 22 - January 19 Capricorn Saturday
January 20 - February 18 Aquarius Saturday
February 19 - March 20 Pisces Thursday
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315Another important moment for starvation - taking into account the moon phase. Easier
all, as a rule of fasting from 1 to 3 days take place in days
new moon or full moon. And some people easier to starve
the new moon, the other - the full moon.
Also emphasizes the 11-day recommended for fasting
ancient sources. The hardest part usually begin to starve
on the waning moon (when the moon is waning). You can, of course, not
consider all these rhythms and fast, say, on Saturdays, as advised
Porfiry Ivanov. However, Saturday is chosen too casually.
LEAVE dry fasting Ya RECOMMEND TION
- Day of fasting is from 8 am to 8 am the next day. In
Many of the recommendations is that you need to go out at night, but
under dry starvation primary treatment is the night (the mechanism I
described in the chapter "Treatment of Disease").
- The release dates should be twice the dry fasting.
If the SG for five days, then the output - for ten days.
- Exit from the SG must be strict because the output of the SH is much
more important than the process of SG.
- After the SG body is clean, so download it
should only clean, fresh, high quality products
no pathogenic organisms.
- The order of output: first drinking water. Water should ideally be
thawed, dew or spring. Importantly, how to drink: in the first glass
Water should be added three capsules of the drug "LINEKKS"
drink a glass of water for fifteen minutes. and that vital
Important: Do not rush, sip by sip. So that the latter
sip was somewhere in the fourteenth minute. Drink a glass before
Ten minutes is very risky. System of water consumption can
not cope well if syncope lightly. and so for
two hours of drinking eight glasses of water. Then you can clean
teeth. in very rare cases that the first sips of water may
cause nausea. Then each sip of water necessary to keep
in the mouth, mixing it with saliva and then swallow 20-30
seconds. Drinking water can be combined with washing in the shower. After the shower
oblitsya well with cold water, then take a warm (hot
not) a bath with herbal infusions (not more than 8 minutes). At the same time
with washing should continue to drink water up to 12 hours.
- 12 hours must have a warm protein broth (as you want)
fish, no vegetables, well cooked, no salt and no bread.
The broth can be cooked with spices (but not the spice).
After the SG should start eating small portions. This
extended time out of the SG is the need to
gradual feed load on the pancreas, which
inactive during fasting, and now must be carefully
put into operation.
- At 14 o'clock to eat animal protein in the form of fermented milk
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316Product: kefir, whey Bolotov - much as you want,
small portions. When exiting, follow these
Important: water, food, eat slowly,
small portions. Drank a sip and swallowed a piece,
Sit down, listen to yourself. If portions of food during chewing,
you do not feel any taste or it tastes like cotton wool
- It means that your stomach is not ready yet to digest this
product. For you, this food - the ballast. Wait a few days
and try it again. If, during or after taking portions
felt discomfort: pain in the stomach, dry mouth,
domestic reluctance to use it on, then stop
taking this product. This means that it is harmful, and not
regret money spent on food, health is more expensive.
- In the absence of discomfort, the amount of food consumed should
to the size of a tea cup. Time of consumption - the same
fifteen minutes. If you feel uncomfortable at the mere sight
food, immediately go to a different form. One patient of mine, having
a great experience out of the hunger strikes on the water to exit from the first
five-day dry hunger strike prepared raw vegetables. After
Water it is the turn of vegetables. He swallowed the first piece, wait
minute. Would like to continue, but then felt a sharp pain in the abdomen, as if
knife stuck. Then I realized that the pain disappears when you eat cooked
vegetables. After this long time-to-protein foods: kefir
and fish broth. and had no problems. This is necessary because
after the end of the SG body for protein synthesis and new cell acute
needs in construction materials, which are animal
protein. Violation of this rule can lead to negative
consequences!
- You can add some salt diet from the third day out, it's best
use stone or sea salt. Very, very gradually,
dose to the tip of a knife.
- Do not forget about the method of therapeutic chewing.
- Starting from the second day, you can use a little
waste products of bees: honey, pollen. Food should
be diverse and well saturated with vitamins and micro-
macrocells. during the first five days after the start of output
of LFG use only fresh and clean high-quality
products. You can not eat sugar and sacchariferous,
canned foods.
- During the exit, especially in the early days, you need to take care of oneself
from drafts and cold. in the first days of release immune system
reconstructed on the disposal of food and water, so the body
weakened, then the body will be reconstructed and immunity will be even
stronger than before fasting.
Exit


 depth of 100 ft (30 m)
below sea level. Commercial harvesters rake plants
off banks and rocks. The cleaned seaweed, after
being boiled with sulphuric acid for 6 hours, yields
agar, which sets to form a jelly. Around 6,500 tons
of processed agar are produced each year.
Part Used Seaweed extract (agar).
Constituents Agar contains polysaccharides,
mainly agarose and agaropectin (up to 90%), which
are very mucilaginous.
History & Folklore Agar is commonly used
as a thickening agent in food preparation, but its
most widespread application is in scientific research,
where it is used as a culture medium for growing
micro-organisms in petri dishes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Like most
seaweeds and their derivatives, agar is nutritious
and contains large amounts of mucilage. Its chief
medicinal use is as a bulk laxative. In the intestines,
agar absorbs water and swells, stimulating bowel
activity and the subsequent elimination of feces.
Related Species While G. amansii  is the main
agar-producing species, G. cartilagineum  (found
on the Pacific coast of North America) and other
closely related species around the world are being
used as alternative sources.Habitat & Cultivation Native to
southeastern provinces of China, gardenia prefers
humid, tropical climates. The fruit is gathered
when it turns reddish-yellow.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents Gardenia fruit contains iridoid
glycosides. The flowers are the source of the
essential oil.
History & Folklore Gardenia has been used in
Chinese medicine for at least 2,000 years. It provides
an important essential oil used to flavor teas. The oil
is also used to make perfumes. Gardenia perfumes
often blend gardenia, jasmine, and tuberose.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In the Chinese
herbal tradition (pp. 40–43), gardenia is a “bitter, Gaultheria procumbens
(Ericaceae)
Wintergreen
Description Aromatic low-lying shrub growing to
6 in (15 cm). Has leathery, oval leaves, small white or
pale pink bell-shaped flowers, and brilliant red fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to North
America, wintergreen is found in woodland and
exposed mountainous areas. The leaves and fruit
are gathered in summer.
Parts Used Leaves, fruit, essential oil.
Constituents Wintergreen contains phenols
(including gaultherin and salicylic acid), 0.8% volatile
oil (up to 98% methyl salicylate), mucilage, resin,
and tannins.
History & Folklore Wintergreen was popular
with Native Americans, who used it for treating back
pain, rheumatism, fever, headaches, sore throats, and
many other conditions. Samuel Thomson, founder
of the 19th-century Physiomedicalist movement,
combined it with hemlock ( Conium maculatum, p.
193) to treat severe fluid retention. The leaves have
been used as a substitute for tea ( Camellia sinensis, p.
181), for example during the American
Revolutionary War (1776–1784).
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wintergreen is
strongly anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and soothing to
the digestive system. It is an effective remedy for
rheumatic and arthritic problems, and, taken as a tea,
it relieves flatulence and colic. The essential oil, in the
form of a liniment or ointment, brings relief to
inflamed, swollen, or sore muscles, ligaments, and
joints, and can also prove valuable in treating
neurological conditions such as sciatica (pain resulting
from pressure on a nerve in the lower spine) and
trigeminal neuralgia (pain affecting a facial nerve).
The oil is sometimes used to treat cellulitis, a bacterial
infection causing the skin to become inflamed.
Cautions People who are sensitive to aspirin
should not take wintergreen internally. Oil of
wintergreen should never be taken internally,
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216Gelsemium sempervirens  other medicinal plantsGelsemium sempervirens
(Loganiaceae)
Y ellow Jasmine,
Gelsemium
Description Evergreen woody climber growing
to 20 ft (6 m). Has shiny, dark green leaves and
clusters of fragrant, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
southern U.S. and Central America, yellow jasmine prefers damp sites. The rootstock is unearthed in autumn.
Part Used Rootstock.
Constituents Y ellow
jasmine contains indole alkaloids (including gelsemine and gelsedine), iridoids, coumarins, and tannins. The alkaloids are toxic and act as a depressant to the central nervous system.
History & Folklore It is unclear whether
yellow jasmine was used in Native American medicine. The plant came into regular use only  in the middle of the 19th century. It was first employed by followers of the Eclectic herbal movement, and then later became an official medicine, listed in the Pharmacopoeia of the  United States from 1863 to 1926.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A potent medicinal
herb, yellow jasmine is prescribed in small doses  as a sedative and antispasmodic, most commonly for neuralgia (pain caused by nerve irritation or damage). Y ellow jasmine is often given for nerve pain affecting the face. The herb is also applied externally to treat intercostal neuralgia (nerve pain between the ribs) and sciatica (pain resulting from pressure on a nerve in the lower spine). Y ellow jasmine’s antispasmodic property is used in treating whooping cough and asthma. The herb is occasionally taken for migraine, insomnia, and bowel problems, and also to reduce blood pressure. Y ellow jasmine is also used in homeopathic medicine.
 RQ Cautions Y ellow jasmine is an extremely
toxic plant that should be used only under professional supervision. The plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.Parts Used Root, aerial parts.
Constituents Wild geranium contains up to
30% tannins.
History & Folklore Native American peoples
used wild geranium for sore throats, mouth ulcers, infected gums, and oral thrush. The herb was later used by European settlers for diarrhea, internal bleeding, cholera, and venereal diseases.
Medicinal Actions & Uses An astringent and
clotting agent, wild geranium is used today much as in earlier times. The herb is often prescribed for irritable bowel syndrome and hemorrhoids, and it is used to staunch wounds. It may also be used to treat heavy menstrual bleeding and excessive vaginal discharge.
Related Species See herb robert
(G. robertianum, following entry).
Caution Wild geranium should only be taken for
a few weeks at a time.
Geranium robertianum
(Geraniaceae)
Herb Robert
Description Strong-smelling annual or biennial
herb growing to 20 in (50 cm). Has deeply cleft
red-green leaves, bright pink flowers, and pointed seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
Asia, herb robert is naturalized in North America. It is gathered in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Herb robert contains tannins, a
bitter principle (geraniin), traces of volatile oil, and citric acid.
History & Folklore Herb robert’s unpleasant
odor has earned it the name “stinking Bob” in parts of England.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Herb robert
is little used in contemporary European herbal medicine. It is occasionally employed in much the same way as Wild geranium (G. maculatum, preceding entry), as an astringent and wound healer. The herb bears closer investigation as a remedy. According to one authority it is effective against stomach ulcers and inflammation of the uterus, and it holds some potential as a treatment for cancer.Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
central Asia, avens is a common wayside plant. The root is dug up in spring, and the aerial parts are picked in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Avens contains phenolic
glycosides (including eugenol), tannins, a volatile  oil, and possibly a sesquiterpene lactone (cnicin).
History & Folklore Once known as herba
benedicta (blessed herb), avens was credited with significant magical powers in the Middle Ages. A German text of 1493 states that if avens root is in the house, the devil is powerless. According to tradition, the root should be unearthed on March 25th.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Avens is an
astringent herb, used principally for problems affecting the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract. The herb tightens up soft gums, heals mouth ulcers, makes a good gargle for infections of the pharynx and larynx, and reduces irritation of the stomach and gut. It may be taken for peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, and dysentery. Avens has been used in a lotion or


 joints.
“I am going to advertise you all over Canada,” she said to the
Hygienist
 who conducted her fast
and after-care. She kept her word, but the important thing in this connection is that, after the
92passage of over three years, she is still free of arthritis. She has had no recurrence of pain and
inflammation. Her enthusiasm for fasting in particular and
Hygiene
 in general knows no bounds.
These two cases may be taken as typical of hundreds of similar cases the writer has seen
recover during the past more than forty years. Not all of these recoveries have continued on for
years without recurrence; some of the individuals were foolish enough to return to their former
disease-producing mode of living, but they have been able to remedy the recurrences by returning
to good physical behavior, so that they have remained well.
Keeping well requires that we give a reasonable amount of intelligent attention to the manner in
which we live. It takes no more time and effort to eat sensibly than it does to eat imprudently and
indiscriminately. One must breathe—it requires no more time to breathe pure air than it does to
breathe impure air. Indeed, in all the ways of living, not more time, often less time is required to
live rightly than wrongly.
Why shall we go through life taking an antacid after each meal, when it is possible to eat in such
a way that we can at all times be comfortable after meals? Why shall we take aspirin for recurrent
headaches, when we can live in a manner to avoid headaches? Why take a daily laxative, when it
is easily possible to have normal bowel movements? The intelligent reader will have no difficulty
in answering these questions.
Discomfort has meaning to the observing and reasoning individual. The intelligent man should
see in all discomforts and pains hints of warnings that he should slow down and eliminate some of
his indulgences. He should heed their warnings. Nature is a remarkable teacher and if we accept
her instructions and observe her warning signs, health and long life will be ours.
Because of its very painful nature and its tendency to completely incapacitate the sufferer,
rheumatic arthritis is one of the most serious and most dreaded disease of man. Developing, as it
does in the joints, it soon, unless its causes are removed, makes an invalid or a semi-invalid of the
patient. The pain is so severe and so persistent that it rapidly destroys all peace of mind and
prevents rest and sleep. Although probably developing most frequently in cold, damp areas,
arthritis is found in all localities.
Several varieties of arthritis are known, but listing then is of no practical importance. Were we
laboriously to draw a picture of each of the several varities in the forms of the disease, we would
be but filling up space and wearying the reader. All of these several variations are traceable to the
same underlying cause, and are remediable by eliminating this cause.
Pain and swelling of the tissues surrounding the joints are prominent features of the early stages
of arthritis. As soon as inflammation develops, efforts are made to immobilize the joint. The
muscles and ligaments become tensed and contracted, the on-guard condition thus developed
seemingly increasing the pain.
Involving as it does the joints, especially the surrounding tissues, arthritis presents a more
complicated problem than the more simple, transient pains and aches that may be called
rheumatism, such as lumbago, or so-called muscular rheumatism. Developing, as it frequently
does, in the cartilage that pads the ends of the bones of the joints, the arthritis may lead to
destruction of the cartilage and produce deformity.
If the cause is not removed, the denuded ends of the bones will ultimately unite (ankylose) so
that the joint becomes fixed and immovable. When this bony union takes place the pain ceases, but
the joint is forever lost.
Rheumatic arthritis is not built in a day. The vigorous and strong may practice enervating habits
for years before it evolves. Or such individuals may, after its first appearance, hold it in check for
93years before it becomes a serious crippling influence. We should know that arthritis represents an
end-point in a pathological process that has been years in its development.
Before the development of the joint inflammation, there are aches and pains, with periods of not
feeling well, periods of not being able to sleep, of poor appetite, of indigestion, and of other
evidences that all is not well within. So long as we continue to close our eyes to the existence of
the many “minor” symptoms and refuse to recognize them as forerunners of the more complex
stages of disease, just so long will we refuse to make
those changes in our way of life that are
essential to the prevention of arthritis.
How often do people who are bothered with vague musuclar pains, a little stiffening of the
joints, a “touch of neuritis,” an “attack” of lumbago or of sciatica, mistake the significance of these
warning signs. They palliate these symptoms with drugs, massage, manipulations, hot baths, and
persist in the way of life that builds trouble.
Suppressing symptoms does nothing to remove their causes and fails to check the further
development of a chronic state and the possible development of invalidism.
Fundamentally and primarily the cause of arthritis is toxemia. This is the summing up of a
multitude of abuses of the body in eating, drinking, emoting, in sexual activity, and in other forms
of activity. Eating too much from childhood lays the foundation for the toxemia. No one knows just
how many subtle toxins are involved in the cause of arthritis. It may be said that hundreds or even
thousands may be involved in its production.
Years will elapse before it becomes possible to isolate all the compounds amino acids alone
are capable of forming with one another and with other by-products of proteins and carbohydrates.
It is safe to assume that no single poison is alone and independently responsible for the evolution
of any complex pathology.
How can we hope, in our present state of ignorance, to isolate and analyze one particular toxic
substance that is the cause of cancer or of Bright’s disease or of insanity? Can it be asserted with
any degree of assurance that the toxins responsible for any one or all of the so-called degenerative
diseases differ in any essential? The character of the disease resulting from the toxic saturation is
determined by individual factors rather than by the character of the toxin.
I describe the cause of arthritis as a perversion of nutrition in a toxemic subject. There seems to
be no doubt that the primary irritation leading to the abnormal changes in the joints is due to the
presence in the blood and lymph of an unstable toxic material accumulating for months and years in
one who is enervated. These sufferers are always heavy eaters, but are especially prone to overeat
on sweets and starches—bread, potatoes, cakes, pies and candy.
Their joints are likely to be stiff and they find it difficult to get around in the morning when they
first arise. Stiffness wears off after a little use of the limbs, but the knee joints, ankle joints, elbow
joints, and other joints of the body are likely to complain bitterly when used. There may be no pain
and there are rarely any constitutional symptoms, so that the patient is likely to think that the
stiffness is entirely local.
Wrong food combinations, excesses of starches and sugars, condiments, coffee, tea, liquors, and
tobacco are potent factors in laying the groundwork for the evolution of arthritis. Added to these
factors may be any form of
enervating emotional unrest, sensual indulgence, and physical
overactivity. With all of this said, arthritis seems to develop only in those of the so-called gouty or
arthritic or rheumatic diathesis—or predisposition. Diathesis is only a word and will remain more
or less meaningless unless we understand the factors behind the predisposition.
Rheumatic arthritis, as distinguished from traumatic and tubercular arthritis, represents an
94impaired state of nutrition in addition to the common toxemia. The calcium deposits and stone
formation that are part of the disease indicate that the nutritional perversion is similar to, if not
identical with, that which is back of the formation of gall stones, kidney stones, hardening of the
arteries, deposits of lime on the valves of the heart, deposits in the feet in gout, and the formation
of stones in other parts of the body.
When enervation and toxemia have lowered resistance, anything that puts an added strain upon
the body may precipitate an arthritic crisis in one who is predisposed to the development of
arthritis. Acute illness, “infection,” a “focus on infection,” indigestion, an unusual meal, cold,
getting wet, anxiety and overindulgence of the emotions, may precipitate a crisis.
So-called infections from abscessed teeth or abscesses elsewhere in the body should be
recognized for what they are—
secondary sources of trouble.
 Super-added to toxemia and
gastrointestinal putrefaction, they complicate the condition of the patient. They are never primary
causes.
Yet, it sometimes happens that a patient is able to resist the other sources of troubles but not
these plus the secondary "infection,” so that, when the source of secondary "infection” is removed,
the symptoms temporarily clear up. This is heralded as a great victory for
science.
 Recurrence too
frequently viti


 discomfort. Accumulatingappetite (true hunger) is like the multiplicationof uncut and uncashed coupons on a railwaybond or on a Government bond. The feeling ofpossession is a joy of itself; and the ability tocollect the proceeds when needed and at leisureis comfortable rather than uncomfortable.Under circumstances of intelligent nutrition, ifwe pass one mealtime we wait patiently for the
next, with the knowledge that we areaccumulating appetite coupons.
SECOND  RULE.
Have you yet learned what true hunger is?
Don't go on unless you have done so. Take a
little more time ; skip a meal or two, and giveNature a chance to show you what real appetite(true watering of the mouth) is. Having learnedto recognise healthy hunger and appetite, andto know what it is to have both of them begging
you for satisfaction, proceed with the second rule.
From the food available at the time take that
first which appeals most strongly to theappetite. It may be a sip of soup, or a bite ofbread and butter, or a nibble of cheese, or,perhaps a lump of sugar. It may be a piece ofmeat, though I doubt that a true appetite willcall for such at the beginning of a meal. Nevermind what it may be, give it a trial. If it besomething that should be masticated in order togive the saliva a chance to mix with it andchemically transform it, chew it " for all that itis worth."" For all that it is worth " means for the
extraction and enjoyment of all the good tastethere is in it.
If the food selected by the appetite happens to
be soup, or milk, or some mushy substance, getall the good taste out of it, doing all you can toaccomplish this ; for to get the taste out of foodis an assurance of digesting it, and the pleasureit gives in the process is Nature's way of gettingyou to do the right thing in helping her tonourish yourself properly. Sip, taste, bite, presswith the tongue against the roof of the mouth,the food in the mouth, not because of anysuggestion of mine, but in response to thenatural instinct to move it about and get out ofit all the taste there is in it.
THIRD  RULE.
The moment appetite begins to slack up a bit,
the moment saliva does not flow so freely as atfirst, the moment there is any degree ofsatisfaction of the appetite, stop eating!
You will have a return of appetite; you will
have another chance to eat; appetite isbeginning to have " that tired feeling " herself ;be kind to her as she has been kind to you. Give
her a rest! Give her a rest! Give yourself a rest!
Rest is the antidote of "that tired feeling "!
Therefore rest the appetite before it gets tired,Stop eating before you are overloaded.
Now, having learned how to do the right
thing in eating so as never more to have " thattired feeling," don't begin to overdo. Don't bendbackward too far. Don't ever overdo a goodthing.
Be temperate ; be deliberate. Be thoughtful;
be forethoughtful ; be forethoughtful withoutbeing fearthoughtful. Don't overdo chewing, forthen you take away much of the pleasure ;smother the psychic enjoyment of eating, andraise the very mischief again.
Just be natural, and know that being natural
is being deliberate in enjoying the thing you aredoing, for that is Nature's way.
To the above simple rules I will append a few
recommendations which occurred to me andwhich I wrote while in a respirationcalorimeter, an experience which I will relate ina subsequent chapter. This list of recommen-dations has since been included in theInstructions to the Medical Department of the
United States Army, under the heading :
Method of attaining Economic Assimilation of
Nutriment and Immunity from Disease,
Muscular Soreness and Fatigue.
(1) Feed only when a distinct appetite has
been earned.
(2) Masticate all solid food until it is
completely liquefied and excites in anirresistible manner the swallowing reflex orswallowing impulse.
(3) Attention to the act and appreciation of
the taste are necessary, meantime, to excite theflow of gastric juice into the stomach to meetthe food—as demonstrated by Pawlow.
(4) Strict attention to these two particulars
will fulfil the requirements of Nature relative tothe preparation of the food for digestion andassimilation ; and this being faithfully done, theautomatic processes of digestion andassimilation will proceed most profitably, andwill result in discarding very little digestion-ash(fæces) to encumber the intestines, or to compelexcessive draft upon the bodily energy forexcretion.(5) The assurance of healthy economy is
observed in the small amount of excreta and itspeculiar inoffensive character, showing escapefrom putrid bacterial decomposition such asbrings indol and skatol offensively intoevidence.
(6) When digestion and assimilation have
been normally economic, the digestion-ash(fæces) may be formed into little balls rangingin size from a pea to a so-called Queen Olive,according to the food taken, and should be quitedry, having only the odour of moist clay or of ahot biscuit. This inoffensive character remainsindefinitely until the ash completely dries, ordisintegrates like rotten stone or wood.
(7) The weight of the digestive-ash may range
(moist) from 10 grams to not more than 40-50grams a day, according to the food; the latterestimate being based on a vegetarian diet, andmay not call for excretion for several days ;smallness indicating best condition. Foods differso materially that the amount and character ofthe excreta cannot be accurately specified. Somefoods and conditions demand two evacuationsdaily. Thorough and faithful Fletcherizingsettles the question satisfactorily.(8) Fruits may hasten peristaltis * ; but not if
they are treated in the mouth as sapid liquidsrather than as solids, and are insalivated,sipped, tasted, into absorption in the same waywine-tasters test and take wine, and tea-tasterstest tea. The latter spit out the tea after tasting,as, otherwise, it vitiates their taste, and ruinsthem for their discriminating profession.
(9) Milk, soups, wines, beer, and all sapid
liquids or semi-solids should be treated in thismanner for the best assimilation and digestionas well as for the best gustatory results.
(10) This would seem to entail a great deal of
care and bother, and lead to a waste of time.
(11) Such, however, is not the case. To give
attention in the beginning does require strictattention and persistent care to overcomelifelong habits of nervous haste ; but if theattack is earnest, habits of careful mouthtreatment and appetite discrimination soonbecome fixed, and cause deliberation in takingfood unconsciously to the feeder.
(12) Food of a proteid value of 5-7 grams of
* Forwarding muscular movement which advances food
along the whole  extent of the alimentary canal.nitrogen and 1,500-2,500 calories of fuel value, *
paying strict attention to the appetite forselection and carefully treated in the mouth,has been found to be the quantity best suited toeconomy and efficiency of both mind and body insedentary pursuits and ordinary businessactivity; and also, such habit of economy hasgiven practical immunity from the commondiseases for a period extending over more than
* The organic materials of human diet are usually classified
into three divisions :—
(1) The Proteids, or Albuminates—the characterising
element occurring being nitrogen. The nitrogenous foods are :
flesh (without the fat), eggs, milk, cheese, legumes (peas, beans,lentils, etc.).
(2) The Fats, or Hydro-carbons. All animal and vegetable
fats and oil. Emulsions of mineral oils have been shown to passthrough the system unchanged, and therefore cannot be
regarded as food.
(3) The Carbo-hydrates (sugars and starches): bread,
potatoes, and grain generally.
Protein is the tissue builder; heat and energy are derived
largely from the non-nitrogenous foods.
A Calorie (large) is the unit of heat required to raise one
kilogram of water to 1° C. The full value of a food is ascertained
by means of the calorimeter, or apparatus used to determinethe specific heat of substances, or the amounts of heat evolved
or absorbed in various physical and chemical changes.
Calorimeters take very diverse forms, varying from quite simplevessels to highly complex apparatus, according to the particular
kind of determination to be carried out in them.fifteen years, whereas the same subject was
formerly subject to periodical illness. Similareconomy and immunity have shown themselvesconsistently in the cases of many test subjectscovering periods of ten years, and appliesequally to both sexes, all ages, and otheridiosyncratic conditions.
(13) The time necessary for satisfying
complete body needs and appetite daily, whenthe habit of attention, appreciation anddeliberation have been installed, is less thanhalf an hour, no matter how divided as tonumber of rations. This necessitates industry ofmastication, to be sure, and will not admit ofwaste of much time between mouthfuls.
(14) Ten or fifteen minutes will completely