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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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course of treatment or making any changes to your diet or medications.
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Dedication

With fondest respect,
I dedicate this book to my friend and mentor,
the late T.C. Fry.

When I gave the eulogy at Terry’s memorial service, I promised tha t his memory would live on. My life, and this book, are
testaments to that intention. May his work continue to influence people  for the better until living healthfully becomes a normal and
natural part of every person’s life.

Also by Douglas N. Graham

Grain Damage
Nutrition and Athletic Performance
Perpetual Health Calendar
The High Energy Diet Recipe Guide

Foreword

As an Ironman triathlete, ultramarathoner, and holder of nearly 1,000 race  first places, I know how important the right diet is.
It dismays me to see how much dietary misinformation is being spread wit h the main goal being to make money. Because so many
people are misinformed about the proper diet, obesity is at the highest rates  in history, and as more people buy into these money-
making schemes, obesity and its associated diseases are going to continu e to increase at horrendous rates.
Over and over again, I hear people saying they’ve tried “everyth ing” to lose weight—low fat, high fat, low carb, high carb, low
protein, high protein, all kinds of pills, shots, powders, and shakes—you n ame it and they say they’ve tried it. The main cause of
their failure is misinformation.
There are reasons for each of these dietary failures. What they wer e told was “low fat,” usually 30%, actually is not low fat at
all, and they have no idea how to get to an effective low-fat 10% as described i n this book. High-fat diets can be dangerous and put
you at risk for the diseases that most Westerners die from prematurely. Low-carb diets are also dangerous, and most people have
no idea that the ideal diet consists of 80% carbs. But,  it must be the right carbs.
High-protein diets lead to osteoporosis, kidney disease, and lack of energy for ex ercise. Most people think that low-protein
diets will never work, having been convinced by the meat and dairy in dustries that the more protein you eat, the better—and nothing
could be further from the truth.
As for pills, shots, powders, and shakes, these gimmicks will never giv e people the health they really seek. What they don’t
realize is that obesity is actually a symptom of eating the wrong diet. The same is true of most of the other diseases we suffer from,
for example, heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, colitis, c onstipation, osteoporosis, acne, erectile dysfunction, dementia,
and even vision and hearing problems. These are all symptoms of the diseas es of consuming the wrong


 and be used by the body’s chemistry. Tomake them soluble, enzymes break down the proteins, separating the individualamino acids one from the other, because amino acids are soluble. Enzymes thatdigest proteins work as though they are mirror images of a particular amino acid.They fit against a particular amino acid like a key fits into a lock. Then they breakthe bonds holding that amino acid to others in the protein chain, and then, what Ifind so miraculous about this process, the enzyme is capable of finding yet anotheramino acid to free, and then yet another.
So with sufficient churning in an acid environment, with enough time (a few
hours), and enough enzymes, all the recently eaten proteins are decomposed intoamino acids and these amino acids pass into the blood where the bodyrecombines them into structures it wants to make. And we have health. But whenprotein chains are heated, the protein structures are altered into physical shapesthat the enzymes can’t “latch” on to. The perfect example of this is when an egg isfried. The eggwhite is albumen, a kind of protein. When it is heated, it shrivels upand gets hard. While raw and liquid, it is easily digestible. When cooked, largelyindigestible.
Stress also inhibits the churning action in the stomach so that otherwise
digestible foods may not be mixed efficiently with digestive enzymes. For all thesereasons, undigested proteins may pass into the gut along with the undigestedstarches. Starches convert best to sugars under the alkaline conditions found inthe mouth. Once they pass into the acid stomach starch digestion is not asefficient. If starches reach the small intestine they are fermented by yeasts. Theproducts of starch fermentation are only mildly toxic. The gases produced byyeast fermentations usually don’t smell particularly bad; bodies that regularlycontain starch fermentation usually don’t smell particularly bad either. In otherwise
healthy people it can take many years of exposure to starch fermentation toxins to
produce a life-threatening disease.
But undigested proteins aren’t fermented by yeasts, they putrefy in the gut (are
attacked by anaerobic bacteria). Many of the waste products of anaerobicputrefaction are highly toxic and evil smelling; when these toxins are absorbedthrough the small or large intestines they are very irritating to the mucousmembranes, frequently contributing to or causing cancer of the colon. Proteinputrefaction may even cause psychotic symptoms in some individuals. Meateaters often have a very unpleasant body odor even when they are not releasingintestinal gasses.
Adding a heavy toxic burden from misdigested foods to the normal toxic load
a body already has to handle creates a myriad of unpleasant symptoms, andgreatly shortens life. But misdigestion also carries with it a double whammy;fermenting and/or putrefying foods immediately interfere with the functioning ofanother vital organ—the large intestine—and cause constipation.
Most people don’t know what the word constipation really means. Not being
able to move one’s bowels is only the most elementary type of constipation. Amore accurate definition of constipation is “the retention of waste products in thelarge intestine beyond the time that is conducive to health.” Properly digestedfood is not sticky and exits the large intestine quickly. But improperly digestedfood (or indigestible food) gradually coats the large intestine, making an ever-thicker lining that interferes with the intestine’s functioning. Far worse, this coatingsteadily putrefies, creating additional highly-potent toxins. Lining the colon withundigested food can be compared to the mineral deposits filling in the inside of anold water pipe, gradually choking off the flow. In the colon, this deposit canbecome rock-hard, just like water pipe scale.
Since the large intestine is also an organ that removes moisture and water-
soluble minerals from the food and moves them into the blood stream, when thelarge intestine is lined with putrefying undigested food waste, the toxins of this
putrefaction are also steadily moved into the bloodstream and place an even
greater burden on the liver and kidneys, accelerating their breakdown,accelerating the aging process and contributing to a lot of interesting andunpleasant symptoms that keep doctors busy and financially solvent. I’ll havequite a bit more to say about colon cleansing later.
The Progress Of Disease:
Irritation, Enervation, Toxaemia
Disease routinely lies at the end of a three-part chain that goes: irritation or
subclinical malnutrition, enervation, toxemia. Irritations are something the persondoes to themselves or something that happens around them. Stresses, in otherwords.
Mental stressors include strong negative emotional states such as anger, fear,
resentment, hopelessness, etc. Behind most diseases it is common to find aproblematic mind churning in profound confusion, one generated by a characterthat avoids responsibility. There may also be job stress or ongoing hostilerelationships, often within the family.
Indigestible foods and misdigestion are also stressful irritations, as are mild
recreational poisons such as “soft” drugs, tobacco and alcohol. Opiates aresomewhat more toxifying, primarily because they paralyze the gut and induceprofound constipation. Stimulants like cocaine and amphetamines are the mostdamaging recreational drugs ; these are highly toxic and rapidly shorten life.
Repeated irritations and/or malnutrition eventually produce enervation. The
old-time hygienists defined enervation as a lack of or decline in an unmeasurablephenomena, “nerve energy.” They viewed the functioning of vital organs as beingcontrolled by or driven by nerve force, sometimes called life force or élan vital.Whatever this vital force actually is, it can be observed and subjectively measuredby comparing one person with another. Some people are full of it and literallysparkle with overflowing energy. Beings like this make everyone around them feel
good because they somehow momentarily give energy to those endowed with
less. Others possess very little and dully plod through life.
As vital force drops, the overall efficiency of all the body’s organs
correspondingly decline. The pancreas creates less digestive enzymes; the thymussecretes less of its vital hormones that mobilize the immune system; the pituitarymakes less growth hormone so the overall repair and rebuilding of cells andtissues slows correspondingly; and so forth. It does not really matter if there is oris not something called nerve energy that can or cannot be measured in alaboratory. Vital force is observable to many people. However, it is measurableby laboratory test that after repeated irritation the overall functioning of theessential organs and glands does deteriorate.
Enervation may develop so gradually that it progresses below the level of
awareness of the person, or times of increased enervation can be experienced asa complaint—as a lack of energy, as tiredness, as difficulties digesting, as a newinability to handle a previously-tolerated insult like alcohol.
Long-term consumption of poor-quality food causes enervation. The body is a
carbon/oxygen engine designed to run efficiently only on highly nutritious food andthis aspect of human genetic programming cannot be changed significantly byadaptation. Given enough generations a human gene pool can adapt to extractingits nutrition from a different group of foods. For example, a group of isolatedFijians currently enjoying long healthy lives eating a diet of seafoods and tropicalroot crops could suddenly be moved to the highlands of Switzerland and forcedto eat the local fare or starve. But most of the Fijians would not have systemsadept at making those enzymes necessary to digest cows milk. So thetransplanted Fijians would experience many generations of poorer health andshorter life spans until their genes had been selected for adaptation to the newdietary. Ultimately their descendants could become uniformly healthy on rye breadand dairy products just like the highland Swiss were.
However, modern industrial farming and processing of foodstuffs significantly
contributes to mass, widespread enervation in two ways. Humans will probablyadjust to the first; the second will, I’m sure, prove insurmountable. First,industrially processed foods are a recent invention and our bodies have not yetadapted to digesting them. In a few more generations humans might be able toaccomplish that and public health could improve on factory food. In themeanwhile, the health of humans has declined. Industrially farmed foods have alsobeen lowered in nutritional content compared to what food could be. I gravelydoubt if any biological organism can ever adapt to an overall dietary that containssignificantly lowered levels of nutrition. I will explain this more fully in the chapteron diet.
Secondary Eliminations Are Disease
However the exact form the chain from irritation or malnutrition to enervation
progresses, the ultimate result is an increased level of toxemia, placing aneliminatory burden on the liver and kidneys. Eventually these organs begin toweaken. Decline of liver and/or kidney function threatens the stability and purityof blood chemistry. Rather than risk complete incapacitation or death from self-poisoning, the overloaded, toxic body, guided by its genetic predisposition andthe nature of the toxins (what was eaten, in what state of stress), cleverly channelssurplus toxins into its first line of defense—alternative or secondary eliminationsystems.
Most non-life-threatening yet highly annoying disease conditions originate as
secondary eliminations. For example, the skin was designed to sweat, eliminationof fluids. Toxemia is often pushed out the sweat glands and is recognized as anunpleasant body odor. A healthy, nontoxic body smells sweet and pleasant (like anewborn baby’s body) even after exercise when it has been sweating heavily.Other skin-like organs such as the sinus tissues,


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 prayer is a result of the prayer’s
action?
If you believe that God is some omnipotent
being who hears all prayers, says “yes”  to
some, “no” to others, and “maybe, but not now” to the rest, you ar e mistaken. By  what
rule of thumb would God decide?
If you believe that God is the creator and
decider of all things in your life, you are
mistaken.
God is the observer, not the creator. And
God stands ready to assist you in living
your life, but not in th e way you might
expect.
It is not God’s function to create, or
uncreate, the circumstances or conditions
of your life. God created you, in the image
and likeness of God. You have created the
rest, through the power God has given you.
God created the proces s of life and life
itself as you know it. Yet God gave you free
choice, to do with life as you will.  In this sense, your will for you is God’s will
for you.
You are living your life the way you are
living your life, and I have no preference in
the matter.
This is the grand illusion in which you have
engaged: that God cares one way or the
other what you do.
I do not care what you do, and that is hard
for you to hear. Yet do you care what  your
children do when you send them out to
play? Is it a matter of cons equence to  you
whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or
pretend? No, it is not, because you  know
they are perfectly safe. You have placed
them in an environment which you  consider
friendly and very okay.  Of course, you will always hope that they
do not hurt themselves. And if they do, you
will be right there to help them, heal them,
allow them to feel safe again, to be happy
again, to go and play again another day.
But whether they choose hide and seek or
pretend will not matter to you the next day,
either.
You will tell them, of course, which games
are dangerous to play. But you cannot  stop
your children from doing dangerous things.
Not always. Not forever. Not in  every
moment from now until death. It is the wise
parent who knows this. Yet the  parent
never stops caring about the outcome. It is
this dichotomy —not caring deeply  about
the process but  caring deeply about the
result —that comes close to  describing the
dichotomy of God.  Yet God, in a sense, does not even care
about the outcome. Not the ultimate
outcome. This is because the ultimate
outcome is assured. And this is the second
great illusion of man: that the outcome of
life is in doubt.
It is this doubt about ultimate outcome that
has created your greatest enemy, which  is
fear. For if you doubt outcome, then you
must doubt Creator —you must doubt  God.
And if you doubt God, you must live in fear
and guilt all your life.
If you doubt God’s intentions —and God’s
ability to produce this ultimate result —then
how can you ever relax? How can you ever
truly find peace? Yet God has full power  to
match intentions with results. You cannot
and will not believe in this (even though  you
claim that God is all -powerful), and so you have to create in your imagination a  power
equal to God, in order that you may find a
way for God’s will to be thwarted.  And so
you have created in your mythology the
being you call “devil.” You have even
imagined a God at war with this being
(thinking that God solves problems the way
you do). Finally, you have actually
imagined that God could lose this war. All
of this  violates everything you say you
know about God, but this doesn’t matter.
You live  your illusion, and thus feel your
fear, all out of your decision to doubt God.
But what if you made a new decision? What
then would be the re sult? I tell you this:  you
would live as the Buddha did. As Jesus did.
As did every saint you have ever  idolized.
Yet, as with most of those saints, people
would not understand you. And when you  tried to explain your sense of peace, your
joy in life, your inner ecstasy, they would
listen to your words, but not hear them.
They would try to repeat your words, but
would add to them.
They would wonder how you could have
what they cannot find. And then they would
grow jealous. Soon jealousy would turn to
rage, a nd in their anger they would try to
convince you that it is you who do not
understand God.
And if they were unsuccessful at tearing
you from your joy, they would seek to harm
you, so enormous would be their rage. And
when you told them it does not matter,  that
even death cannot interrupt your joy, nor
change your truth, they would surely  kill
you. Then, when they saw the peace with which you accepted death, they would  call
you saint, and love you again.
For it is the nature of people to love, then
destroy, then love again that which they
value most.
But why? Why do we do that?
All human actions are motivated at their
deepest level by one of two emotions —fear
or love. In truth there are only two
emotions —only two words in the language
of the  soul. These are t he opposite ends of
the great polarity which I created when I
produced the universe, and your world, as
you know it today.
These are the two points —the Alpha and
the Omega —which allow the system you
call “relativity” to be. Without these two points, withou t these two ideas about
things,  no other idea could exist.
Every human thought, and every human
action, is based in either love or fear. There
is no other human motivation, and all other
ideas are but derivatives of these two.  They
are simply different ver sions —different
twists on the same theme.
Think on this deeply and you will see that it
is true. This is what I have called the
Sponsoring Thought. It is either a thought
of love or fear. This is the thought behind
the thought behind the thought. It is the  first
thought. It is prime force. It is the raw
energy that drives the engine of human
experience.
And here is how human behavior produces
repeat experience after repeat  experience; it is why humans love, then destroy, then
love again: always there is the  swing from
one emotion to the other. Love sponsors
fear sponsors love sponsors  fear...
...And the reason is found in the first lie —
the lie which you hold as the truth about
God—that God cannot be trusted; that
God’s love cannot be depended upon; that
God’s acceptance of you is conditional; that
the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt.  For if
you cannot depend on God’s love to always
be there, on whose love can you  depend?
If God retreats and withdraws when you do
not perform properly, will not  mere morta ls
also?
...And so it is that in the moment you pledge
your highest love, you greet your  greatest
fear. For the first thing you worry about after
saying “I love you” is whether you’ll hear it
back. And if you hear it back, then you
begin immediately to wor ry that the love
you have just found, you will lose. And so
all action becomes a reaction —defense
against loss —even as you seek to defend
yourself against the loss of God.
Yet if you knew Who You Are —that you are
the most magnificent, the most  remarkable,
the most splendid being God has ever
created —you would never fear.  For who
could reject such wondrous magnificence?
Not even God could find fault in  such a
being.
But you do not know Who You Are, and you
think you are a great deal less. And  where
did you g et the idea of how much less than
magnificent you are? From the  only people whose word you would take on everything.
From your mother and your  father.
These are the people who love you the
most. Why would they lie to you? Yet have
they not told you that yo u are too much of
this, and not enough of that? Have they  not
reminded you that you are to be seen and
not heard?
Have they not scolded you in some of the
moments of your greatest exuberance?
And, did they not encourage you to set
aside some of your wildes t imagining?
These are the messages you’ve received,
and though they do not meet the criteria,
and are thus not messages from God, they
might as well have been, for they have
come from the gods of your universe surely
enough.  It was your parents who taught  you that
love is conditional —you have felt their
conditions many times —


ituations you may see as problems. This doesn’t mean blaming yourself or others, but taking
whatever steps you can to transform circumstances into a greater benefit.
3. Establish your awareness in defenselessness. Let go of the need to defend your point of view. Stay
open to all perspectives without being rigidly attached to any of them.
NURTURE YOUR INTENTIONS EVERY DAY
Daily life presents many unexpected demands and challenges, and it’s easy to fall into the grip of our ego’s
fears, demands, and confusion. It’s important to remind yourself of your intentions and spiritual purpose.
Some people find it helpful to write down their intentions and review them each day; for others, periods of
regular meditation and prayer are invaluable.
Spend time in silence, connect to your infinite nature, and center your intention inside yourself. Intend for
everything to work out as it should, and then let go and allow opportunities and openings to come your way.
Practicing the above steps will help you experience your innate wholeness. When that happens, you will feel
subtle changes in the feelings and thoughts, including a sense that all is well. You will feel a lightness in your
body, deep peace, and the realization that your internal dialogue has become quieter. You may experience
healing on a physical or emotional level. You may also notice that you’re acting out of complete integrity and
that synchronicities and unexpected opportunities are becoming more abundant in your life. These are all signs
that you are connecting to your true nature, which is whole, infinite, and unbounded.© 2012, The Chopra Center for Wellbeing
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STANLEY W. JACOB
JACK C. DE LA TORRE
JACOB • DE LA TORRE
CHEMISTRY
First isolated as a chemical compound by a Russian chemist in 1866,
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Contents
Foreword ................................................................................................................... ix
Authors ...................................................................................................................... xi
Introduction ............................................................................................................ xiii
Chapter 1 Chemistry of DMSO ............................................................................ 1
Chemical Structure and Properties of DMSO ..................................... 1
DMSO Solvation and Chemical Activity ............................................. 3
Protein Folding ..................................................................................... 4
Permeability Enhancement .................................................................. 4
DMSO as a Chemical Chaperone ........................................................ 5
DMSO as an Electrolyte ....................................................................... 8
Cryoprotection ...................................................................................... 9
DMSO in the Sea and the Atmosphere .............................................. 10
References .......................................................................................... 11
Chapter 2 DMSO in Basic Pharmacology .......................................................... 15
Absorption, Fate, and Excretion of DMSO ........................................ 15
Penetration .......................................................................................... 16
Chemical Chaperones ........................................................................ 16
DMSO as a Pain Medication .............................................................. 17
Anti-Inflammatory ............................................................................. 21
Prostaglandins .................................................................................... 21
Cardiac Disease .................................................................................. 24
Ulcerative Colitis ................................................................................ 28
Skin Penetrant .................................................................................... 29
Wound Healing ................................................................................... 29
Burns and Scar Tissue ........................................................................ 30
Respiratory Stimulation ..................................................................... 32
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ............................................... 33
Experimental Blunt Chest Trauma ..................................................... 34
Autophagy .......................................................................................... 35
Diuresis ............................................................................................... 36
Cholinesterase Inhibition ................................................................... 36
Solvent Action .................................................................................... 37
Veterinary Uses .................................................................................. 37
Teratology and LD50........................................................................... 38
Ocular Effects..................................................................................... 39
Intrawound Administration of DMSO ............................................... 40
References .......................................................................................... 40vi Contents
Chapter 3 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology .......................................................... 49
DMSO in Disease ............................................................................... 49
Pain..................................................................................................... 50
Interstitial Cystitis .............................................................................. 59
Gastrointestinal Disorders .................................................................. 61
Autoimmune Disorders ...................................................................... 61
Respiration ......................................................................................... 62
Amyloidosis and Scleroderma ............................................................ 62
Thromboembolic Events .................................................................... 63
Platelet Deaggregation and Free Radical Scavenging ........................ 66
Tissue Factor and Inflammation ......................................................... 68
Clinical Toxicology ............................................................................ 70
References .......................................................................................... 71
Chapter 4 DMSO in Genetics ............................................................................. 81
Protection from Ionizing Radiation ................................................... 81
DMSO Protection of Single- and Double-Stranded DNA Breaks .....83
DMSO in Cellular Differentiation...................................................... 88
Cancer Stem Cells and Differentiation .............................................. 92
References .......................................................................................... 93
Chapter 5 DMSO in Basic Microbiology ............................................................ 99
DMSO in Bacterial Infections ............................................................ 99


 and
the pain went with it.
“To make a long story short,” said Bell, “we practically bathed Daryll in the
stuff for two days, and on Saturday afternoon, he missed [making] the Olympic
team by a quarter of an inch. On Sunday, we went back and competed again, and
we continued to treat him over Saturday night and Sunday morning, and he went
back and competed again and he missed the Olympic team in the triple jump by a
half-inch. He obviously did not come back to where he was, but the fact that he
was even able to compete, I thought was a minor miracle. He competed with no
discoloration of the leg; it was totally gone in two days, and the soreness was
gone. I think, obviously, the strength was not quite back there, but the fact that he
was able to operate at all is an amazing thing.”
PUTTING DMSO TO USE IN FOOT CARE MEDICINE
At about the same time Sam Bell was making his attempt to get Daryll Horn
accepted as a member of the United States Olympic team, DMSO was intriguing
scientists throughout the world. Pharmaceutical companies were beginning to
allocate quantities of the drug for research. They solicited participation from
proven and respected medical investigators who were willing to enter into clinical
trials in their separate specialties. They started to use DMSO for burns, arthritis,
skin conditions, musculoskeletal pain of all kinds, and many other conditions.
“Soon there were hundreds of publications reporting on ‘miraculous cures’ with the
drug, for everything from ingrown toenails to vascular headaches,” said Dr. Jack
C. de la Torre, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at the
University of Miami School of Medicine.
Merck and Company, one of the several pharmaceutical companies considering
DMSO as a commercial product, approached various medical
organizations to
select outstanding members as investigators. The American Podiatry Association
(APA) was asked early in 1965 to select doctors of pediatric medicine to
participate. I, Morton Walker, D.P.M., had just won the 1964 APA SilverAnniversary Gold Medal for scientific research and writing, the highest award ever
presented by the American Podiatry Association. Therefore, Merck and Company
executives were directed to me as a candidate for their DMSO research project.
The Food and Drug Administration had already approved other clinical
investigations that had previously brought me nine additional research, writing, and
scientific exhibit awards. I eventually won twenty-two such awards.
Merck and Company offered to pay all costs for the study and record keeping
of DMSO treatment on foot and leg problems. During that 1964–1965 period, the
drug companies of Merck, Syntex, Squibb, Geigy, Schering, and American Home
Products collectively spent $20 million to finance clinical trials. There were 1,500
clinical investigators involved, most of them physicians. In the spring of 1965
when the Merck pharmaceutical company made its grant offer to me, Connecticut
podiatrists were not permitted by law to give internal medication, so the drug
would only be used on the skin for foot and leg troubles.
The year before this new Merck and Company clinical trial, I had concluded a
study for the Armour Pharmaceutical Company on the chymotrypsin (a pancreatic
enzyme) product Chymar (whose name has now been changed to Biozyme). For
that investigation, I applied the Chymar ointment under an impervious wrapping. It
was the first time plastic coverings were used in podiatry for driving a medication
into the locally affected inflamed tissues of the feet, for example for corns and
calluses. I adapted this technique for the DMSO clinical trial, too, and it worked
quite well.
Alternately, I inaugurated a technique of driving in the DMSO, especially for a
deep-seated lesion like a painful heel spur, using ultrasound. Instead of the usual
ultrasound gel or mineral oil, DMSO was applied as the coupling agent between
the ultrasound machine’s quartz crystal and the skin. This worked well. I was able
to eliminate much of my patient’s heel spur inflammation.
These foot and leg studies were conducted over a four-month period starting in
1965. Certain precautions were taken before beginning the studies. Much reading
on the subject was done. For two months, only a few podiatric patients received
the DMSO treatment. A long memorandum from the pharmaceutical company
arrived September 8, 1965, detailing all the benefits of the product, how the doctor
should use it,
what it’s for, how DMSO acts in the body. This was a memorandum
sent to every medical researcher in the country who had been certified by the FDA
to use DMSO on an experimental basis. A representative of Merck and Company
arrived with more DMSO supplies and with report forms for recording patient
responses in a full-scale clinical trial.Unknown to me, a woman in Ireland died from the administration of DMSO on
September 9, 1965. This report was not
documented
 and, in all probability, she
died from other causes simply while using DMSO. But the death produced panic
among officials of the FDA and brought great political repercussions for Dr.
Stanley Jacob and his co-workers at the University of Oregon. No notification
from the pharmaceutical company or the FDA relating to this occurrence arrived,
however, and the clinical investigation on DMSO for foot and leg problems
continued.
I performed clinical trials on the lower extremity problems of 124 patients.
Excellent results came out of the different DMSO applications. Records were
kept; objective and subjective observations were reported on the furnished forms;
more DMSO supplies were requested.
This podiatric study of DMSO came to an abrupt halt November 10, 1965,
when a “Dear Doctor” letter arrived advising that all research on the project must
cease. The FDA demanded that the used and unused supplies of DMSO and all
records of patients for whom it was administered must immediately be returned to
the sponsoring pharmaceutical company. I didn’t have to mail these items because
a company representative promptly arrived to take everything away—all patient
reports, supplies of DMSO, even duplicates of the records. Instructions were given
to report any deleterious effects from the product’s use, but there were none. No
published report ever appeared in the medical literature on this four-month
podiatric study of DMSO’s adaptation for a variety of foot problems. All the
records of clinical trial were confiscated, and what follows are strictly the
impressions of this researcher twenty-seven years later. They are based on the
patients’ personal foot health histories with relation to their individual toe, foot,
ankle, or leg problems.
BIG TOE BUNIONS
Bunions are formed from deviation of two adjoining bones, usually at the joint of
the big toe and the first metatarsal.
There are two types of bunion. The acute type, or bursitis, is sudden and
painful. If it is not given proper attention, the acute bunion may
gradually develop
into the second type—the chronic bunion, or
hallux valgus
, which is an often
painless deformity of the big toe. Sometimes, however, it aches a lot.
The bursitis bunion is an inflammation of a bursa, a sac containing fluid about
the consistency of the white of an egg. This bursa acts as a lubricant between theskin and the bones. Continual irritation by external pressure such as an ill-fitting
shoe causes the sac to become inflamed, and the condition gets acute and painful
—a bursitis.
Hallux valgus is a common affliction that strains the foot and produces an
abnormal prominence of the big toe joint. It widens the foot to bring about a loss of
balance. Standing and walking become difficult. Arthritis in the foot can occur
early in life from this condition.
Osteoarthritis is a frequent consequence of ignoring the big toe bunion.
Calcification at the points of stress comes on; joint expansion locks in; the
deformity can be accommodated only with bigger shoes.
With DMSO application, the acute stage of bunion, primarily bursitis,
improved remarkably. Hallux valgus did not. The impervious wrapping and
ultrasound both worked well with DMSO painted onto the inflamed area. The
procedure entailed using DMSO and ultrasound as the office treatment and
sending the patient home with DMSO under the plastic cover to be held in place
with a protective felt padding and supportive strapping for three days.
At the time of this study, no DMSO supply was ever dispensed for application
by the patient at home because it was uncertain what the side effects would be. It
was kept strictly under my control, and I made the applications in the podiatry
office.
Invariably the pain of bunion disappeared by the time the patient returned. No
further treatment was needed until the patient brought on a resurgence of the
bunion flareup by wearing fashionable but abusive footwear.
HAMMERTOES
The hammertoe, one of the most painful of foot ailments, is marked by contracture
of the tendons on the top of the foot. Accompanying this phenomenon is a laxity of
the ligaments and angulation of the second and third phalanges, the individual
bones of each toe.
T


 the mouth) during the meal
contributes to a more rapid emergence of feelings of
saturation and is a tool against obesity. Therefore, there is
have a pleasant and tranquil environment and this can be done
each on their own, wherever he was.
Advances in rapid elimination of symptoms (but not their
reasons) with different medication allowed
founders of modern medicine in his time push into the shadows
fletcherizm. But the current crisis of the same medicine does
actual return to fletcherizmu and its variants. Experience
and practice the author confirm this. The method of prolonged chewing
has several advantages over the separate power supply. They are reduced
to the next.
- Therapeutic chewing accessible to everyone and does not require medical
control.
- Therapeutic chewing - is a process separate food in a clean
form, since any food consisting of protein, fat and carbohydrates,
digested separately: in the mouth and small intestine to digest
of carbohydrates, and in the stomach - protein components.
- The body smoothly and slowly with the usual diet
leads to normal, all systems of the gastrointestinal tract
and restores the natural immune system without the possibility of
violation of the established system of biorhythms of the body.
- Medical chewing required to restore the body systems
the least amount of energy compared with other methods.
Therefore we obtain the energy savings of an organism allows
implement most of its restoration opportunities.
- Provides recovery of the body and its systems:
digestive, nervous, immune, and others.
- Significant reduction in food intake (2-4 times)
prevents the appearance of excess weight after the course
therapeutic chewing and reduces food costs, reduces
amount of slag produced in the body, making it easier to work
allocation system, contributing to their rehabilitation.
- Naturally produced by the conditioned reflex -
a long habit of chewing the end of treatment cycle
which can persist for years with occasional repetition
the cycle of therapeutic chewing. It can not provide any other
system recovery, including any kind of fasting.
- A signal for repeating the cycle of therapeutic chewing may serve as
appearance in the morning raid on his tongue.
252
252And now some examples.
Andrew K. asked me for help. He weighed 240 kg. Not
times to lose weight, but then it grew even more. After
familiarity with the system of medical chewing began losing weight and up to 8
months of continuous therapy chewing threw 100 kg.
Two women from Armenia, weighed 100 kg and 120 kg. After treatment
chewing weighed 65 kg, respectively, and 70 kg.
My neighbor Kostya was hospitalized with a stomach ulcer - perforation.
His mother came to me asking for help. I advised
discharged from the hospital on receipt. Kostya was thoroughly chew
scheme of medical chewing. Ceased to eat meat.
A month later he was healthy. Now he chews a long time.
Alesha from the village Pokrovskoye Ryazan region suffered ulcer
stomach. One month of munching on the scheme of medical chewing. Within a month
was healthy.
Patient NM in November 1998 came in 81 th hospital in the city of Moscow
diagnosed with a bleeding stomach ulcer. Doctors Hospital insisted
for immediate surgery, but the patient refused and moved to
therapeutic chewing. Chewed 21 days each spoonful of food (porridge on the water)
for 3 minutes. After 21 days he was discharged from the hospital. Ulcer healed.
since 1998, periodically applies a therapeutic chewing. Relapse
peptic ulcer disease is no.
Patient L., age 62, suffered from insulin dependent diabetes
and asthma. It took her about two years for full recovery in
relatively low level of self-organization in carrying out
therapeutic chewing.
There are many other examples.
Most my main idea - it's the combination of the two natural methods.
Dry fasting cleans the body and normalizes the exchange
substances, very good, naturally lost weight, stomach
decreases and acquires its normal volume. On the other hand,
after fasting in the body with the large reconstruction
processes. Cells actively absorb nutrients, and if
at this time do not limit yourself to eating, your weight quickly
reaches the same standards and are likely to exceed it by several
kilos. If the output immediately begin to apply the method
therapeutic chewing, the stomach will never be stretched, the body
would ideally absorb all the nutrients, respectively,
restoration and rejuvenation of the body will be optimal. I
never seen a single person who when combined
these two methods to gain weight. On the contrary, even at the exit, he again
begins to fall.
Everything is as always very simple, just need a little stretch will
and patience.
Usually, all my patients, I give full such recommendations.
Go to a certain food, clean the intestines, liver (about
that you learn in the next chapter). We must start with the weekly 24
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253hours of wet starvation. Occasionally, some starved to three times
a week for 24 hours. In other words, one day they ate, and the next
day hunger strike. If a man allowed himself too much in those days, while eating, then
24-hour fasting several times a week quickly forced to lose
this weight. Then they go to a three-day wet-fast, let alone
then start making waterless fasting days.
More detail in my written the next chapter. We at the Center
they basically are combined starvation, several
courses. It looks like this: five days of dry hunger, five
Wet days, the yield of seven days, then again everything is repeated. Starve
more than 10 days makes no sense, as the weight falls mainly in the first
7-10 days. For such courses can naturally throw of 15
to 30 kg, but can be more - it all depends on the weight and purpose.
Here are some simple tips violating feeding regime, the implementation
which helps to achieve a common goal - to lose weight, lose weight.
1. To distract from thoughts about food, try to do some
or interesting work, read a book, go to the movies, walk
outdoors. Remember, boredom - your enemy, you have an ally
overeating and obesity.
2. Apply a meal in a small dish to make it seem
large quantity, take a fork or spoon a small
the amount of food, cut thin slices of bread to emerged
the illusion of a more ample servings. There is a need to slow, then the sense of
satiety is attained earlier.
3. If you want to go to visit, before leaving eat anything
diet, such as lettuce, then it would be easy to refrain from
temptation to try anything for you forbidden to visit.
4. If you are very hungry and feel that you do not soak
until the next meal, drink slowly sips a third
glass of milk.
5. Preferably in the house have the scale to continuously monitor the mass
his body. Control can serve as a measurement of centimeter
waist belt in the morning: one inch waist - is one kilogram
weight.
6. Try not to visit the pastry department, and will not happen
in a society with a sweet tooth. Remember: there is a piece of cake in his mouth 2
minutes in the stomach 2 hours, but a lifetime on the hips in the form of excessive
fat.
7. Necessarily rule out food dishes and products that increase
appetite: spicy food, spices, meats, etc.
8. Be sure to hang in the kitchen scheme therapeutic chewing to
She was constantly before his eyes during a meal.
9. Ideally, the best after 6 pm is not.
10. One of the main conditions of reliable high-quality diet
- Must be pre-programmed himself to the weight that you
want. Take a piece of paper and left-handed writing your numerals
desired weight and always keep before the eyes of these figures.
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254Of short-term SM DRY
Starving in the J-machine interface CONDITIONS BEFORE tions
FOOD in preparing TOVKE to starvation Yu
To show the important role of nutrition, I would like to tell you about
amazing Hunza tribe. The tribe, which lives in India in the Valley
Hunza, called an "oasis of youth." Life
inhabitants of this valley of 110-120 years. They almost never get sick,
look young. One of the missionaries organized a hospital there
and was both discouraged - go weeks, months, and patients
was not - and I'm glad this discovery: it means that there is a certain image
life, approaching the ideal, when people feel
healthy, happy, not age, as in other countries, has a 40 -
50 years of age.
Hunza to a hundred years playing outdoor games, women in this
age still have their babies. According to the scientists who have studied
the life of this tribe, they eat mostly raw fruits
and feta cheese. Interestingly another: the inhabitants of Happy Valley
there is a period when the fruit is not ripe - it is called "starvation
in spring and lasts from two to four months. During these months they
almost nothing to eat only once a day, drink a beverage made from dried
apricots. Apricots there most honorable fruit. tribe is
even a saying: "Your wife will not follow you there, where no
apricot fruit. " It is curious that diet in this
tribe erected a cult and is strictly enforced. There should be less.
It is in the enviable power is the secret of Hunza health. They
eat a little, in their diet


ptic and diuretic, disinfecting the
urinary tract and mildly increasing urine production.
Besides its role in treating cystitis and inflammatory
bladder conditions, heather has been used to
treat kidney and bladder stones. Cleansing and
detoxifying, it is helpful for rheumatism, arthritis,
and gout. A hot poultice of heather tips is a
traditional remedy for chilblains and rheumatism.Parts Used  Leaves, buds.
Constituents Tea contains xanthines, caffeine
(1–5%), theobromine, tannins including polyphenols,
flavonoids, fats, and vitamin C. Green tea contains
significant levels of polyphenols; black tea, which
is produced by a process of fermentation, has
lower levels.
History & Folklore  In China and Japan
many rituals have developed around tea drinking.
Significantly it is mostly green tea that is drunk in
this way.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Due to its
astringency, tea is useful in digestive infections,
helping to tighten up the mucous membranes of
the gut and reduce looseness. A strong brew of tea
may be used to soothe irritated eyelids,
insect stings, swellings, and sunburn, and
in an emergency, if nothing better is at
hand, tea makes a serviceable treatment
for minor burns. In Ayurvedic medicine tea
is considered astringent and a nerve tonic.
The caffeine in tea may help to relieve
headaches, though less effectively than
coffee ( Coffea arabica, p. 192). In light of
research, green tea is recognized as being a
much healthier drink than black tea.
Research  Green tea’s strong antioxidant
activity is due to polyphenols, which give the
leaf potential as a cancer preventative.
The high intake of green tea in China and
Japan is thought to be partly responsible for
the low incidence of cancer in these countries.
Clinical trials indicate that green tea may help to
promote weight loss and treat hepatitis, and
there is the suggestion that it helps to prevent
tooth decay. A recent clinical trial indicated that
green tea has a genoprotective action, helping to
prevent degenerative changes within the body, and
potentially slowing the aging process. A 2013 clinical
trial found that green tea extract taken by women
for 4 months successfully shrank uterine fibroids.Heather
flowering tips in a
poultice ease the
aches and pains
of rheumatism.
Tea leaves are picked throughout the year and used both
as a beverage and medicinally.Camellia sinensis syn. Thea sinensis
(Theaceae)
Tea
Description  Evergreen shrub clipped to 5 ft
(1.5 m) in cultivation, with leathery, dark green
leaves and fragrant white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Cultivated principally in
India, Sri Lanka, and China, tea has been grown
since the earliest times.
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182Cananga odorataother medicinal plantsCananga odorata syn. Canangium
odoratum (Annonaceae)
Ylang-Ylang
Description  Evergreen tree growing to 80 ft
(25 m). Has lance-shaped leaves and strongly
scented yellow-green flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Indonesia
and the Philippines, ylang-ylang is cultivated in tropical Asia and Africa.
Parts Used  Flowers, essential oil.
Constituents  The essential oil contains
linalool (11–30%), safrole, eugenol, geraniol, and sesquiterpenes (including 15–25% germacrene).
History & Folklore  The flowers are a traditional
adornment in the Far East. Their scent is thought to have aphrodisiac qualities.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The flowers
and essential oil are sedative, antimicrobial, and antioxidant. The oil has a soothing effect, and its main therapeutic uses are to slow an excessively fast heart rate and to lower blood pressure. With its reputation as an aphrodisiac, ylang-ylang may be helpful in treating impotence.
 QCaution  Do not take the essential oil
internally without professional supervision.
Canella winterana syn. C. alba
(Canellaceae)
Canella,
Wild Cinnamon
Description  White-barked tree growing to
49 ft (15 m). Has elliptical leaves, red flowers, and
purple-black berries.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to the
Caribbean and Florida, canella is found in coastal swamps and scrubland. The bark is collected by gently beating the branches.
Part Used  Bark.
Constituents  Canella contains about
1% volatile oil (including eugenol, alpha-pinene, and caryophyllene), alpha-aldehydes (including canellal), resin, and mannitol.
History & Folklore  Canella has for a long
time been used as a flavoring for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum, p. 240).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Canella is cytotoxic
(kills cells), antifungal, and repels insects. It is also aromatic, stimulant, and antiseptic. Canella is often used in the West Indies and Latin America as a substitute for cinnamon (Cinnamomum spp.,  p. 81). The infusion is drunk for its pleasant flavor and tonic effect (the bark is considered a sexual stimulant). Canella is also used for stomach problems and indigestion.Cannabis sativa (Cannabinaceae)
Marijuana,
Huo Ma Ren (Chinese)
Description  Erect, branching annual growing to
13 ft (4 m). Has fine, serrated, segmented leaves. Both male and female plants flower; the female plant produces seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to the Caucasus,
China, Iran, and northern India, marijuana is culti-vated the world over, both legally (for the fiber and seeds) and illegally (for use as a recreational drug).
Parts Used  Flowering tops of female plants, seeds.
Constituents  Marijuana contains
over 60 different types of cannabinoids,
including THC (delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol). It also contains flavonoids, volatile oil, and alkaloids. It is the only plant to contain THC, one of the main psychoactive constituents. The seed oil contains approximately 55% linoleic acid, 20% alpha-linolenic acid and 1.5% gamma-linolenic acid.
History & Folklore
In ancient Egypt, marijuana was used to treat
inflammations of the eye and “to cool the uterus.” First records of marijuana’s use in India date back
to about 800 bce, where it is recommended
for congestion. Famously, Queen Victoria took marijuana as an analgesic—in the 19th century
the plant was a standard painkiller for menstrual pain and cramps. From 1840 to 1900, over 100 papers were published recommending marijuana as a medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  In view of its
long history as a medicinal treatment, it is hardly surprising that marijuana has, at one time or another, been recommended for almost every illness. As an analgesic, it appears to relieve pain with minimal side effects, being particularly helpful for cancer and AIDS patients undergoing chemotherapy. For those suffering from multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and other muscular illnesses, marijuana can reduce neurological overactivity and muscle spasm. The plant provides effective treatment for glaucoma,
in which pressure within the eye is abnormally
high, and is hypotensive, lowering blood pressure. Marijuana relieves asthma, menstrual pains, the pain of childbirth, and of arthritis and rheumatism, and may have value as an antidepressant. It encourages and induces sleep. The seeds are used in Chinese medicine as a strong but well-tolerated laxative, especially for constipation in the elderly; and as a dietary supplement to provide a balanced and healthy supply of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Research  Modern research shows marijuana to
be a sedative, an anti-inflammatory agent, and an analgesic as effective as codeine. Research has focused on the constituent THC, but it is clear that the complex of constituents within marijuana has a significantly wider range of applications. Clinical studies from 1975 onwards have shown that the cannabinoids are powerfully antiemetic, especially in those having chemotherapy. To varying degrees, clinical trials indicate that marijuana or its cannabinoids relieves symptoms in multiple sclerosis (such as tremor, muscle spasm, and poor coordination), in spinal cord injuries, epilepsy, glaucoma, chronic pain, and loss of appetite. Now
that medical marijuana is legally available in a number of U.S. states, there is
accumulating evidence of just how
effective the herb, and extracts of it, are in relieving pain. A 2015 article in the Journal of
the American Medical Association found “30%
or greater improvement in pain with
cannabinoid compared to placebo,”
i.e., marijuana extracts on average
produced a 30% or more improvement
when compared to an inert substance. It also
found that availability of medical-grade marijuana was associated “with a 15–35% decrease in substance abuse admissions.” Not only is medical marijuana a valuable analgesic, it also helps to prevent addiction to other painkillers, in particular opioids, such as code


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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
I Forms of Fasting______________________________________________3   79 II A Short History of Fasting_____________________________________4
IlI Physiological Reactions to Fasting_____________________________7
IV Efficiency of Fasting________________________________________15
V The Complete Fast___________________________________________34
VI Safely of the Fast___________________________________________40
VII Symptoms of the Fast________________________________________45
VIII Supervising the Fast_______________________________________53
IX Breaking the Fast___________________________________________60
X Living after the Fast__________________________________________66
Bibliography TABLE OF CONTENTS
I Forms of Fasting______________________________________________3
II A Short History of Fasting_____________________________________4
IlI Physiological Reactions to Fasting_____________________________7
IV Efficiency of Fasting________________________________________15   80 V The Complete Fast___________________________________________34
VI Safely of the Fast___________________________________________40
VII Symptoms of the Fast________________________________________45
VIII Supervising the Fast_______________________________________53
IX Breaking the Fast___________________________________________60
X Living after the Fast__________________________________________66
Bibliography__________________________________________________74
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Founded in 1948 as the American Natural Hygiene Society, many of the principles upon which
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advantages of following a plant-based diet, the importance of avoiding unnecessary drugs and
surgery, the self-healing powers of the human body, and the role fasting can play in the recovery of
health.
A small movement began among some physicians who observed that patients who adhered to
their unconventional concepts generally experienced better health than those patients who did not.
Further investigations led these physicians, including Herbert M. Shelton, to a powerful concept
— health is the result of healthful living.
The National Health Association is committed to bringing the timeless principles of its founders
as well as the most accurate and up-to-date information about healthy living to people all over the
world. At a time when millions of people are suffering needlessly because of unhealthy lifestyle
choices, the voice of the NHA offers much needed hope.
This book describes the concept of fasting as an approach to health care that has had beneficial
effects for thousands of people who fasted under Herbert M. Shelton’s care for a variety of health
problems.
Nothing in this book is intended to constitute medical treatment or advice of any nature.
Moreover, as every person responds differently to fasting, it is strongly emphasized that any
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6Dedication
To the millions of sufferers who are agonizing through their lives in search of health and not
knowing where or how to find it, in the firm conviction, born of years of practical experience in
the application of fasting to the problems of health, that fasting and a
Hygienic
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7Foreword
Dr. Herbert Macgolfin Shelton was born on October 6, 1895, in a small farmhouse in Collin
County near the small town of Wylie, near Dallas, Texas. The population in 1890 was 500, today
in excess of 25,000. Dr. Shelton told me, “I was born in a storm and it seems I have lived in a
storm ever since.”
Dr. Shelton’s academic background followed naturally from his keen interest in Hygiene which
developed early, as a teenager (1911), when he read Dr. Russell Trall’s
True Healing Art
 based
on a lecture Trail delivered to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington in 1862. From what Dr.
Shelton told me, his constant companions during these years were the writings of Russell Trall,
Sylvester Graham, Isaac Jennings, Robert Walter, Charles Page
et al.
 He was fired with
enthusiasm when he discovered the logical principles of Hygiene and their implacable
consistency. He looked forward to the day when he, too, could use this invaluable knowledge in
the care of the well and the sick.
He graduated from the International College of Drugless Physicians, Chicago (1920) founded by
the famous physical culture exponent Bernarr


. Cover, return to a boil, and simmer for 5 minutes. Add cau
liflower, broccoli, and squash, cover, return to a boil, and simmer for 10
minutes.
Barbecued Onions for Tortilla Soup:
2 tablespoons safflower oil
1 large white onion, sliced
2 tablespoons Hain or Robbie's barbecue sauce
Prepare the Barbecued Onions,
In large skillet, heat oil. Add onion, and saute until it begins to soften.
Add barbecue sauce, and continue saut6ing, stirring frequently, until
onion is thoroughly wilted. If you are having the New York Goodwich
tomorrow, you can reserve lA cup onions, if desired.
1% • FIT FOR LIFE Complete the soup.
Add cabbage and zucchini to soup. Return to boil and add bouillon,
sea salt, pepper, and cumin. Stir in Barbecued Onions. Simmer for 5
minutes.
Heat tortillas in hot dry skillet. Cut into thick strips. Add to soup. Add
cilantro. Adjust seasonings. Any leftover soup can be saved for lunch on
the weekend. Serves 5 or 6.
GRANDMA'S COLESLAW 20 Min.
1 small head cabbage, grated or finely sliced
lA cup boiling water
Sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
1 large carrot, peeled and finely grated
1 small green pepper, sliced very thin
Juice of 1 small lemon
lA cup fresh dill or 2 tablespoons dried dill
1-2 cups mayonnaise (Hain Saf-flower mayonnaise, if available)
Pour boiling water over cabbage. Add salt and knead well to soften cab
bage. Add carrot and green pepper. Add lemon juice, dill, and mayon
naise. Mix thoroughly. Refrigerate. This coleslaw ages well in the
refrigerator for days. If there is any left over, save and put it on a New
York Goodwich!
DAY EIGHTEEN—THURSDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One.
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
New York Goodwich (see page 159) or Energy Salad (see page 149)
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 197 DINNER:
Fresh Vegetable Juice Cocktail, if desired (see page 152)
Garlic Broiled Chicken, * or baked potato with raw butter
Perfect Sauteed Mushrooms *
Zucchini with Basil Vinaigrette*
GARLIC BROILED CHICKEN 25 Min.
Basting Sauce:
Vi teaspoon garlic, minced
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
V2 teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Fresh ground black pepper
1 whole chicken breast, halved, skinned
Combine all ingredients for basting sauce in small bowl. Brush over
chicken. Broil for 10 minutes each side, 2 inches from heat, brushing
frequently with sauce. Serves 1-2.
PERFECT SAUTEED MUSHROOMS 10 Min.
Vi pound fresh mushrooms (For maximum freshness, select only those
whose caps are tightly closed around the stem.)
1 tablespoon butter
Sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning (optional)
1 scant tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Cut ends from stems of mushrooms. Slice mushrooms lengthwise into
!/s- to '/4-inch slices. Melt butter in large skillet. Add mushrooms, tossing
lightly in butter, until they just begin to soften. Add seasonings and
lemon juice. Serves 3.
198 • F7T FOR LIFE ZUCCHINI WITH BASIL VINAIGRETIY 15Min.
6 small zucchini
1 tablespoon red onion, finely slivered
1 green pepper, finely julienned (optional)
1 red pepper, finely julienned (optional)
Basil Vinaigrette:
lA cup fresh basil, chopped, or 1 tablespoon dried basil
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
lA teaspoon sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Fresh ground black pepper (optional)
Cut zucchini into '/4-inch diagonals, and place in vegetable steamer, cov
ered, over boiling water for 3 minutes or until just tender. Transfer to
serving dish. Add onion and peppers, if desired. Combine vinaigrette
ingredients in small bowl. Whisk and toss with vegetables, taking care not
to break zucchini. Serves 3.
MAIN-COURSE SALAD DA Y
DAY NINETEEN—FRIDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One.
LUNCH:
Continue on fruit and juice. You may also have raw vegetables and the
Vegetable-fruit Platter, if desired (see page 156).
DINNER:
1/2 cantaloupe, or 1/2 honeydew melon, or 1 whole grapefruit
Farmer's Chop Suey *
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 199 FARMER'S CHOP SUEY 20 Min.
1 small iceberg or romaine lettuce, washed, dried, and coarsely
chopped
2 cups spinach, coarsely chopped
6 radishes, sliced
1 medium cucumber, peeled and sliced
1 large tomato, cubed
1 green pepper, sliced
1 small sweet red pepper, sliced (optional)
1-4 tablespoons seal I ions, sliced, according to taste
Vi cup sour cream
1 cup creamed cottage cheese
1 teaspoon dried dill or 1 tablespoon fresh dill
'/s teaspoon dried tarragon
Sea salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Combine all vegetables in large bowl. Mix together sour cream and cot
tage cheese in small bowl. Add dill, tarragon, sea salt, and pepper to
taste. Pour over salad, and toss well. A perfect main-course salad for dairy
lovers! Serves 2.
Freeze J or 2 large bananas, peeled, for tomorrow's Smoothie before going to
bed.
DAY TWENTY—SATURDAY
BREAKFAST:
Same as Day One, or Berry Smoothie. *
LUNCH:
Fresh fruit or carrot juice (optional)
Avotillas,* or Energy Salad (see page 149)
200 • FIT FOR LIFE DINNER:
Couscous, * and French Peas and Lettuce, * or Baked Garden
Vegetables *
Salade Parisienne with Asparagus (see page 173)
BERRY SMOOTHIE 3 Min.
1 cup fresh orange, apple, or tangerine juice
1 cup fresh or frozen berries—strawberries, raspberries, or blueberries
1 or 2 large bananas, fresh or frozen
Combine all ingredients in blender until smooth and thick. Kids love
these!
NOTE: You can substitute any fruit you like for the berries.
AVOTILLAS 5 Min.
3 corn tortillas
Vi avocado, cut into 6 slices
Mayonnaise or mustard
Spike (optional)
Alfalfa sprouts
Heat tortillas in hot dry skillet. Spread with mayonnaise or mustard.
Place 2 slices avocado down center of each. Sprinkle with Spike. Add
layer of sprouts. Roll tightly. Serves I.
COUSCOUS 15Min.
Couscous recipes tend to vary slightly. This one is basic, but if the recipe
on your box of couscous is different, follow it. It will be correct for that
particular grade of couscous.
A FOUR-WEEK EXAMPLE OF THE FITNESS LIFE-STYLE • 207 2 cups water
1 cup couscous
2 tablespoons sweet butter
V*—Vi teaspoon sea salt
Bring water to a boil. Add couscous, butter, and sea salt, and simmer,
stirring continuously, for about 2 minutes or until most of water is ab
sorbed. Remove from heat, cover, and allow to stand for 10—15 minutes.
Serves 2-3.
FRENCH PEAS AND LETTUCE
2 tablespoons sweet butter
1 clove garlic, halved or minced
3 cups fresh or frozen peas (If you are using frozen, use petite peas.)
1 small romaine or butter lettuce, coarsely chopped
Vi teaspoon dried thyme
V* cup water
Sea salt, seasoned salt, or salt-free seasoning
Additional 1 tablespoon sweet butter (optional)
Fresh ground black pepper
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy saucepan. Add garlic, and saute 2-3
minutes to flavor butter. Remove garlic (if halved) and add peas. Saute to
coat with butter. Add lettuce, thyme, water, and sea salt. Simmer, cov
ered, over low heat for 5 minutes for frozen peas and for 10-15 minutes
for fresh peas, stirring frequently to make sure peas don't burn. If water is
absorbed before fresh peas are soft, add a little more. Toss with 1 table
spoon butter, if desired. Use as sauce for couscous, or combine with
couscous and mix well. Serves 2 or 3.
BAKED GARDEN VEGETABLES
This easy method