 K R A
V i s h u d d h a
ELEMENT :  Space (Akasha)
COLOR:  Sky Blue
MANTRA SOUND:  HUM
he fi fth chakra, which is the firs t chakra totally on the spiritual plane,
is located in th e throat and governs communication and cr eative
verbal e xpression such as singing, chanting, reading poetry out loud, and
recitation. Whe n the fifth chakra is illuminated, all the low er chakras
transcend their limitations. The anatomical  region of the fifth chakra includes the throa t, neck,
shoulders, thyroid, parathyroid, mouth, tongue, jaw, larynx, and vocal
cords. The sense is hearing, and the sense or gans are the ears. The San skrit wo rd V ishuddha  mea ns “ purity,” and I love this translation
because it captures the true essence of the fifth chakra. Its p urity comes
from speaking the truth that resides in our hearts. Pur e  me ans uncontaminated, clear, innocent, clean, or impeccable. When y ou reach  this level of consciousness, you are exploring the part of
you that is pure. Y ou have reached the level of spirit th at is unadulterated. From the heart chakra you come to a place where you are awakened to
truth. Th at is such a beautiful realization. All the debris has been swept
aside. In  the lower chakras you  had to sift through such debris to see thetruth in everything. Now the only thing you see is truth, and it feels clear. There is liberation in seeing truth. V ishuddha is like looking into the Caribbean Sea and not seeing the
bottom of it. One year I took a trip to Jamaica. I had always seen pictures of
the Cari bbean w ith its crystal-clear turquoise waters and its white sands as
far as the eye can see. When I arrived in Jamaica I didn’ t see what I had
imagined. Aroun d my hotel all I could see was lots of seaweed, rocks, and
sand. I was so disappointed because I wanted to experience the beauty of
the c lear waters like I had seen in the pictures. In order to see this, I had to
travel far by bus to find it. When I arrived, it was well worth the trip. Y ou hav e traveled up four chakras to find the clarity of the fifth. The
debris o f deception, lies, and c onfusion has drifted away, and you never
again have to live in darkness. The A yu rvedic d osha that rules the fifth chakra is V ata. The tw o gunas
that rule this chakra are rajas and sattva. The color we attribute to the throat chakra is cerulean blue. The mantra,
or bija (seed) sound, we vocalize for the fifth chakra is HUM. Fifth Chakra Ailments
Ailments of the fifth chakra include diseases of the throat and the thyroid
and parathyroid glands, neck and  jaw problems, speech impediments, colds,
and hearing problems. From a psychological standpoint, imbalances can
include unexpressed grief, sadness, anger, judgment, and feelings of
depression. Fifth Chakra Energy
The pow er that lies within the fifth chakra is the power to trans cend space-
time. Communic ation enables us to transcend space as sound w aves travel
through phone lines, cell towe rs, and internet connections. W e can be
virtually presen t in another place — through audio and mo re recently
through video — without leaving our physical location. Communication happens on m any levels, not only the physical. W e
communicate through words and sounds, facial expressions, body language,
thoughts (also known as telepat hy), and vibration. A thought is a vibrationon a subtle level, which will be  explained in more detail in the chapter on
the sixth chakra. The or gans and body parts in the fifth chakra allow us to
create and absorb the vibrations of sound. Sound can be used to harm or to heal. The voice of a loved one can be
used to say, “I love you,” or it can be used to say, “I never want to see you
again.” When used for unkind intentions, such as in rap lyrics filled with
words of hate, s ound creates separateness and dissonance. How ever, when
harnessed as a powerful expres sion of beauty, as in Mozart’ s  Forty-First
Symphony or Beethoven’ s Fifth, it creates harmony, entrainment, and
synchronization. W ords have the power to heal when you speak inner truth to yourself. Y our inner and outer dialogue about yourself determines how healthy you
are. If you repea t to yourself dai ly, “I’m so fat and I’ll never get thin,” those
words h ave the power to become your reality. However, if you t ell yourself,
“I’m wo rking on  getting healthier each and every day,” you will have quite
a dif ferent outcome. W ords from others also have the power to heal. When a
child fal ls and skins his knee, he will heal faster if his parent says, “Y ou’re
all right. Get up and go play.”
When I was in F rance around 2006, I went to the eye doctor because I
was having trouble reading. I was thirty-five years old at the time and
thought my age was contributin g to the fuzzy words I was seeing. I shared
this thou ght with the doctor, who told me it had nothing to do with age and
that I had some sort of eye dis ease that would cause me to need stronger
and stronger prescriptions as the  years went on. He was very ela borate as he
spoke ab out my future with certainty and conviction. I was taken aback that
he, a medical doctor, could “read” into my future and dared say so with
such doom and gloom. Luckily, I was already on a spiritual path of knowing
that we create our own destiny,  so I brushed it of f as ignorance. However,
his w ords did have power becau se I remember them to this day. Now at age
forty-six, eleven years later, my sight isn’ t a whole lot worse. My
prescription has changed once, but I’m optimistic about my vision staying
the same or getting better over the next decade or more. Can you  see the potential damage in the words you or others  speak? Had I believed the doctor and taken his words to be reality,  I probably
would be blind by now. His words were not truth, but a potential truth.On the positive side of words, h ave you noticed that when you talk to a
person y ou’re close to, your speech patterns tend to mimic each other ’ s? W ords connect in fluid harmony people who like to be together. Y ou can
notice th is best in teenagers. Listen to the way they speak. They  create their
own language with words that o nly they seem to understand. If  you have a
teenager, you know this. And the language changes quickly,  every few
years or  so. W ords such as sick  to  describe something awesom e or LOL,
taken fr om text-speak to mean “laugh out loud,” are already outdated,
according to my teenager, when his siblings used those word s only four
years ago. Singing and chanting are ageless forms of sound vibration. Singing has
been use d for thousands of years to band people together with a purpose. Song has the power to transcend. Much of today’ s soul music originated
from music sung by enslaved Africans in the Americas. They used songs to
strengthen community and tran scend the conditions in which they were
living. T hey also used song to connect with God, which brought them to a
state of transcendent bliss. Singing and chanting can be used unconsciously for brainwave
entrainment. People with close relationships entrain, which means their
bodily rhythms work together in synchronistic harmony through sound. Mothers chant or sing to their babies to soothe their cries. When my
children were babies and they were fussy or I was trying to get them to
sleep, I used to hum a simple,  repetitive tune to them. I’m not sure if I
spontaneously made it up or if perhaps it was hummed to me when I was a
baby. I only hummed it to each of them for their first year of life or so,
when ba bies need the most soothing. The strange thing is, the o ther day my
youngest son, who is now thirteen, told me of the tune I hummed to him as
a ba by. He hummed it back to me and said, “Mom, I loved i t when you
hummed that tune to me. I remember it well.” He couldn’ t have been more
than a year old when he last he ard it, being that he is the youngest. How
could he remember it now, twelve years later? I believe the power of that
sound created synchronization in  his brain that signaled well-be ing. So now
as a young man, when he has a s ense of well-being, in particular around me
as h is mother, that sound comes  to mind as one of his earliest memories of
well-being.Y


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afraid to own the best part of themselves, which is always true of people
who have learned to live from the heart. OceanofPDF.comIN CONCLUSION: “YOU ARE LOVED”
“CAN I HELP  you?”
Hearing the woman’ s voice, I looked up from the mess of glass, water,
and sogg y paper  littering the floor. Hundreds of people had been  rushing by
to catch their planes, and I didn’ t even want help. “I can take care of it,” I
said. “No bother, it’ll only take a jiff,” the woman said. She opened her purse
and produced, miraculously, a towel. She knelt down and started dabbing
around on the floor. I had dropped a carry-on bag in the airport and smashed
a bottle of mine ral water. The exploding glass had ripped the flimsy nylon,
spilling the bag’s soaked conten ts onto the floor. All I could find to clean up
the mess was toilet paper from a nearby men’ s room. “That’ s getting it,” the woman said. “It wasn’ t as bad as all that.”
“You’re English, aren’ t you?” I asked. She nodded and smiled. “My
name’ s Laurel.” As she efficiently finished up, I had time to take a long
look at Laurel. She was plain-looking with pockmarked cheeks  and frowsy
brown hair, wearing no makeup  and a gray stretched-out cardig an. We both
stood up, and I saw her wince slightly. I took the towel and threw it in a
trash receptacle by the men’ s room. Laurel nodded slightly as I thanked her,
and when I offered to walk her to her gate, she hesitated, again very
slightly. “That would be nice,” she said. We gathered our things and headed up
the concourse. I couldn’ t help but notice that she had a decide d limp. “A
very unbeautifu l woman,” I thought, “and very kind.” I wondered what
made Laurel the way she was. When she got to her gate, it turned out that
the flight to London had been delayed for half an hour. We began to talk. “I’m just going home to see my mother,” Laurel said. “She’ s getting on,
and she’s not so cheerful as before. Osteo and the rain. It’s what she must
live with, I suppose.”
“Do you go home often?” I asked.“Me? No, not in twenty years, if I count right.” I must have looked
surprised. “Well, they didn’ t really want me at home. I left the first day it
was legal to drop out of school. My family’ s working class, and after my
leg was hurt—I was riding on my boyfriend’ s motorbike—they just found it
too hard having me around. Natural, I guess.”
Something in me was feeling very pained. “They threw you out, you
mean, because you were crippled?” I asked. “That’ s a bit dramatic. I just use a cane when I have to.” Laurel’ s
recitation of these events had been given in a calm voice, free from
bitterness. “So what made them decide to take you back now, after all this time?” I
asked. “They didn’ t, exactly. I just want them to know, well, what everyone
needs to know.” I looked at Laurel, whose face became eager; she had
decided to tell me something special. “A very remarkable thing happened to
me recently. I went to a women’ s conference being held up in the
mountains. I live in New Hampshire, doing child care and the odd thing or
two to make ends meet. A wom an whose child I take care of couldn’ t go to
this conference,  which was at quite a lovely resort, so she offered me her
place. I decided to go, just on the spur of the moment. So you see, I didn’ t
even belong there with the others.”
“That’ s important to what happened next?” I asked. “You’re a good guesser. I liked being in the mountains and having such a
nice room, but the rest of it, the discussion groups and such, frankly went
over my head. Only the last night did I work up the courage to go to one,
and what do you think? They asked us to close our eyes and imagine a very
sad day in our past. It was some kind of emotional therapy, I think you’d
call it. So I closed my eyes and imagined the first day I was sent to school. I
must have been five, and I cried so hard they couldn’ t get me to let go of
my mother ’s skirt. She was fussing and telling me not to be such a baby. I
think she was quite embarrassed by my carrying on like that. “Then they told us to open our eyes and pick out any strang er in the
room. We were to walk up to her and exchange experiences. I plucked up
my nerve and picked out a woman about my age in the corner. I told her my
experience, and her eyes grew wide and strange.”I had a sudden premonition about how this story would turn out. My skin
tingled, but I held my tongue. “She almost stammered telling  me her own experience,” Laurel said. “And what do you suppose? It was exactly the same as mine. Then I asked
her, ‘You’re from  England, too, aren’ t you?’ and she nodded. ‘I’m Vicky,’
she said, all excited. ‘Don’ t you remember me, Laurel?’
“I stood back, quite amazed. Then I did remember: there had been
another little girl just as frightened as I was that day, crying her eyes out. ‘Do you mean to say we had the same experience? You were going to find a
stranger to tell it to?’ I asked. V icky nodded, and we didn’ t know whether to
laugh or cry. Imagine!”
“It’s an amazing coincidence,” I said. “No, it’s an amazing reminder.” Laurel replied. “You see, I had been
getting discouraged, being alone and without my family. You can see how it
is. And here this astonishing thing happens, and I realized that I couldn’ t
possibly be alone. Y ou do see?”
I had to suppres s the emotion in my voice. “Yes,” I said. “As amazing as
your experience was, the really remarkable part to me is that you know
what it’ s about.”
“Oh yes,” Laurel said. “It’ s about God. It has to be.”
There is nothing more moving than a reminder that spirit is with us. This
woman had been gathered into a web of delicate caring that encloses all of
us, though we do not notice it. Rumi was being quite literal when he said,
There is someone who looks after us
From behind the curtain. In truth, we are not here. This is our shadow. The tragic illusion of everyday life is that we mistake shadow for reality. It
is impossible to be outside the web woven of love, and at moments when
events throw us too far into oblivion, a message comes to say, “You are
loved.”
“So you’ve decided your mother would like to know that she’s not
alone,” I said. Laurel nodded. “But you don’ t owe her anything,” I said. “I owe her everything,” Laurel said. “It’s just that people forget if the
debt lasts a long time.”“Does it matter that she’ s had so little care for you?”
“How do I know that?” Laurel asked, surprised. “Perhaps she can’t show
it.”
It still amazes me how often spirit sends us clues about the real nature of
life. This I took to be a clue about compassion, the closest value to love
itself. To be compassionate is not to take pity; it is to extend care to others
simply because you see their need. Most of us give because doing so
increases our self-image or because we expect something in return,
although it’s difficult to be entirely honest about that. Laurel gave because
she had to—this is love in action, having no doubt about itself. There is no
question of anyone else having to deserve your compassion. If you have it
to give, you will give it where it is needed. The path to love doesn’ t end with ascension, as if that were a fixed and
final stage. Ascension continues as long as you live. Through ascension the
ideals of trust, forgiveness, devotion, and compassion ripen into a golden
harvest whose seed was planted  years before in our first lessons on love. And whatever aspect is revealed at a given moment, they ripen because they
have to. “A lot of peopl e would say that you have a right to be bitter,” I told
Laurel. “They’re probably people who are bitter themselves,” she said casually. We parte d company at her gate,  and for some reason I noticed that she was
carrying one of those dilapidat ed paperback thrillers the British dote on. “That book says a lot about you,” I remarked, smiling. “It does?” she asked. “Yes. It says you like to look for clues.”
I went off to my flight, but this unusual woman has stirred me to write
about compassion as the last thing


 our false world with
so much patience is that he believes in the eventual triumph of
truth. Despite the endless display of selshness in every society, he
is able to witness the possible emergence of love in everyone. Like
gravity to a physicist, love is the primordial energy in the yogi’suniverse, which no lesser force can abolish or successfully oppose,
not in the nal unfoldment of time. But it is not necessary for the millennium to creep on before the
truth triumphs. The yogi is living proof that inner unfol dment can
be hastened; the pure joy of love can be achieved in one lifetime. So
our only choice is how long to delay the moment when we
transform ourselves. The bound, ego-driven self has much to oer—
comfort, security, continuity, power—but the truth sings its own
song, and for some mysterious reason, we are tuned to hear it. I remember a tender, beckoning line from Rumi, the great Su
poet: “Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.”
This is the change that must happen. Right now, everything we
know about ourselves as individuals has been built up over time;
therefore time is also our psychological enemy, reinforcing the
boundaries that keep love out. One must go beyond time to
experience the real value of oneself, which is what a breakthrough
accomplishes. It is not a bad sign when a breakthrough makes one feel
vulnerable and undefended, as Liam so acutely felt. These are
actually desirable emotions, because they announce the possibility
of a new life. They are not safe emotions, however. To be new is to
feel terribly exposed, like a fragile hatchling. A spiritual teacher was
once giving a talk on going beyond the connement of time, seeking
the timeless in every moment, when a member of the audience
anxiously interrupted, “But if I go beyond time, won’t I miss my
morning train? ” One’s rst reaction to the unknown is often like
that: a worried anticipation that the familiar world, with its trains
that run on time, will be pulled out from under. However, the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson armed that for him the
feeling of being totally free of boundaries was “not a confused state
but the cleares t of the clear,  the surest of the sure, utterly beyond
words—where death was an almost laughable impossib ility.” This
certainty was a tribute to the clarity of his experiences. In keeping
with many others who have transcended the waking state, Tennyson
concluded that those rare instances when individuality “seemed todissolve and melt away into boundless being” had shown him “the
only true self.”
If Tennyson was right, then each of us is living outside his true
self. We are not clear and sure; we are trapped in time and the pain
it bring s; we are mortally afraid of death. One might surmise that
the intensity of “the only true self” must be reserved for saints and
poets. But ordinary experien ce, the kind all of us have, is much
more profound than we give it credit for. To begin with, we spend a large part of every day in the
supremely creative act of constructing our self. If this self has aws,
it is not because we are incom petent builders; rather, the problem is
that our past mistakes have turned into us. Since adulthood, the
process of making a self has been left in our own hands, but its roots
go back to earliest childhood, when we had no choice but to imbibe
our parent’s version of selfho od. Without knowing it, we started to
be shaped. In an ideal childhood, we would have been nurtured, in Alice
Miller’s words, “by the presence of a person who was completely
aware of us, who took us seriously, who admired and followed us.”
Awareness is the prime prere quisite here; it is much more  important
than the words and actions  in themselves that a parent directs
toward a child. The words “Mommy loves you” or “You’re a good
boy” mean very little outside the look and tone of voice that
accompany them. A loving gaze turns the words into nourishment; a
troubled, hesitant, or angry gaze can turn the same words to poison. Life has proceeded, of course, on a less than ideal basis for
generation after generation. Alice Miller describes a Greek man, a
restaurant owner in his thirties, who told her very proudly one day
that he never drank alcohol and had his father to thank for it. When
he was fteen and came home one night extremely drunk, his father
beat him so severely that he could not move for a week. From that
time on he could not stand to taste so much as a drop of liquor. This
man was on the verge of getting married when Miller talked to him,
and she asked if he intended to beat his own children. “Of course,”
he replied, “beatings are necessary in bringing up a child properly:
they are the best way to make him respect you. I would neversmoke in my father’s presenc e, for example—and that is the sign of
my respect for him.”
This man was oblivious to what he was actually proposing, that it
is good to break a child’s spirit. Without a qualm, he felt it
necessary for a child to live in fear of severe punishment. After all,
for him the word “respect” basically meant “terror.” This sort of
untruth gets passed on because one generation fails to solve the
problem of the false self and then has no choice but to pass the
problem on. Broken spirits do not see anything wrong in breaking
the spirits of their children. The ideal parent would serve as a sensitive extension of the child’s
psyche. As father and mother mirrored the child’s feelings, he would
see the reection coming back to him, and conforming to it, he
would be shaped by both his own psyche and theirs. A cry of rage
would meet, for example, with an understanding look that said, “I
know why you are angry,” and in that unspoken compassion, anger
would run its course and dissolve. It is our checked feelings, the
ones that our parents labeled “bad” in their eyes, that cause so much
hidden conict later. Without this sensitive, loving interaction,
which must begin from birth, we walk through the rest of our lives
wounded, unable to accept ourselves but never fully knowing why. Having missed  the ideal upbringing, one can still repair the lack
of a totally aware parent by becoming totally aware oneself. The
ancient Indian texts often compare Yoga to becoming your own
parent. The image of “dying  to your father and mother, ” which is
frequently found in the Upanishads, does not mean running away or
turning your back on them. Rather, it means taking on their role
yourself, developing inside your own heart the give-and-take of
awareness that fashions a complete person out of the raw material
of existence. The Art of Not Doing
The morning sun sends bright shafts of light onto the Oriental
carpet in my bedroom, but I do not see them. I am sitting in an
armchair, my eyes closed, meditating. Thoughts run through myhead; I hear the sparrows squabbling outside my window and the
clicking digital  clock in the room; I scratch my ear or shue in my
seat as the spirit moves me. The picture of meditation that many
Westerners have in their mind’s eye is not this. It is of an austere,
disciplined setting, with saron-robed monks sitting row upon row
at sti attention. The room is dark, silent, and unbearably  cold. The
watchful eye of an old abbot is xed on the novice monks; he is
ready to strike them with a bamboo stick if they nod their heads or
slump their shoulders. This aura of renunciation tends to overawe most people. As much
as they might respect the inner fortitude being displayed,
Westerners are very reluctant to endure the same rigors themselves. Yet the outer picture is deceiving; the inner experience of
meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The
outer trappings—how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth—are
really irrelevant. When I sit down to meditat e, my inner experience can best be
described by what I am not doing: I am not focusing my mind or
contemplating any idea. I am not in a spiritual or introspective
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        Certainly we would feel a great deal of
discomfort, and the physical sensation of pain would begin a
complex series  of psychological reactions to produce what is called
suering. Most people believe that pain and suering are more or
less identical. This was not true for Ray, who experienced immense
pain but never converted it into suering. He had an explanation for
this:
“I felt that a decision had been made in the split second while I
was falling, pulling me back from certain death—it didn’t have to
happen that way, but it did. It was a gift.


margarine. Composition of Oils
  Saturated  Monosaturated  Unsaturated
Butter  66% 30% 4%
Coconut Oil  87% 6% 2%
Cottonseed Oil  26% 18% 52%
Olive Oil  13% 74% 8%
Palm Oil  49% 37% 9%
Soybean Oil  14% 24% 58%
Sunflower Oil  4% 8% 83%
Safflower Oil  3% 5% 87%
Sesame Oil  5% 9% 80%
Peanut Oil  6% 12% 76%
Corn Oil  3% 7% 84%

This is a major and serious misunderstanding. First of all, margarine is almost indigestible, chemically very much like shortening –
an artificially saturated or hydrogenated vegetable fat. Hydrogenated fats can't be properly broken down by the body's digest ive
enzymes, adding to the body's toxic load. Margarine, bei ng a chemically -treated vegetable oil with artificial yellow color and
artificial flavorings to make it seem like butter, also releases free radicals in the body that accelerate ageing. So, to avo id the
dangers of eating cholesterol -containing butter, peop le eat something far worse for them. There are severe inconsistencies with the entire "cholesterol -is-evil" theory. Ethnic groups like the Danes, who eat enormous
quantities of cholesterol -containing foods, have little circulatory disease. Actually, the li ver itself produces cholesterol; it's
presence in the blood is an important part of the body chemistry. Cholesterol only becomes a problem because of deranged body
chemistry due to the kind of overall malnutrition Americans usually experience on their junk  food diets. Avoiding cholesterol in
foods does little good, but eating a low -fat, low -sugar, complex -carbohydrate (whole foods) diet high in minerals does lower blood
cholesterol enormously. Actually, high quality fresh (not rancid) butter in moderate qu antities is about the finest fat a person could eat. But high quality
butter is almost unobtainable. First of all, it has to be raw, made from unpasteurized cream. Second, butter can contain very  high
levels of fat -soluble vitamins, but doesn't have to. Vi tamin -rich butter's color is naturally bright yellow, almost orange. This color
does not come from a test tube. Pale yellow butter as is found in the commercial trade was probably almost white before it wa s
artificially tinted. Butter from grass -pastured c ows naturally changes from yellow -orange to white and back again through the year
as the seasons change. Spring grass, growing in the most intense sunlight of the year contains very high levels of chlorophyl l and
vitamins. Cows eating this grass put high l evels of vitamins A and D into their cream, evidenced by the orange color of vitamin A. By July, natural butter has degraded to medium -yellow in color. By August, it is pale yellow. Industrial dairy cows fed exclusively
on hay or artificial, processed feed s (lacking in these vitamins), produce butterfat that is almost white. I prefer to obtain my butter from a neighbor who has several dairy cows grazing on fertile bottom land pasture. We always fre eze a
year's supply in late spring when butter is at its be st. Interestingly, that is also the time of year when my neighbor gets the most
production from her cows and is most willing to part with 25 pounds of extra butter. In general, fats are poor foods that should be avoided. Their ratio of nutrition to calori es is absolutely the worst of all food types,
except perhaps for pure white sugar, which is all calories and absolutely no nutrition (this is also true for other forms of sugar. Honey, too, contains almost no nutrition. ). Gram for gram, fats contain many m ore calories than do sugars or starches. Yet gram
for gram, fats contain virtually no nutrition except for small quantities of essential fatty acids. The perverse reason people like to eat fats is that they are very hard to digest and greatly slow the dige stive action of the stomach. Another way of saying that is that they have a very high satiety value. Fats make a person feel full for a long time because their
presence in the stomach makes it churn and churn and churn. Fats coat proteins and starches and delay their digestion, often
causing them to begin fermenting (starches) or putrefying (proteins) in the digestive tract. The best fats contain high levels of monosaturated vegetable oils that have never been exposed to heat or chemicals –like virgin
olive oil. Use small quantities of olive oil for salad dressing. Monosaturated fats also have far less tendency to go rancid than a ny
other type. Vegetable oils with high proportions of unsaturated fats, the kind that all the authorities push because they con tain no
cholesterol, go rancid rapidly upon very brief exposure to air. The danger here is that rancidity in vegetable oil is virtual ly
unnoticeable. Rancid animal fat on the other hand, smells "off. " Eating rancid oil is a sure -fire way to accelerate ageing,  invite
degenerative conditions in general, and enhance the likelihood of cancer. I recommend that you use only high -quality virgin olive
oil, the only generally -available fat that is largely monosaturated. (Pearson and Shaw, 1983)
When you buy vegetable o il, even olive oil, get small bottles so you use them up before the oil has much time being exposed to air
(as you use the oil air fills the bottle) or, if you buy olive oil in a large can to save money, immediately upon opening it,  transfer
the oil to pin t jars filled to the very brim to exclude virtually all air, and seal the jars securely. In either case, keep now -opened, in -
use small bottles of oil in the refrigerator because rancidity is simply the combination of oil with oxygen from the air and this
chemical reaction is accelerated at warmer temperatures and slowed greatly at cold ones. Chemical reactions typically double in speed with every 10 degrees C. increase in temperature. So oil goes rancid about six t imes
faster at normal room temperature than  it does in the fridge. If you'll think about the implications of this data you'll see there are
two powerful reasons not to fry food. One, the food is coated with oil and gains in satiety value at the expense of becoming
relatively indigestible and produc tive of toxemia. Secondly, if frying occurs at 150 degrees Centigrade and normal room
temperature is 20 degrees Centigrade, then oil goes rancid 2 to the 13th power faster in the frying pan, or about 8,200 times  faster. Heating oil for only ten minutes in a hot skillet induces as much rancidity as about 6 weeks of sitting open and exposed to air at
room temperature. Think about that the next time you're tempted to eat something from a fast food restaurant where the hot fa t in
the deep fryer has been reactin g with oxygen all day, or even for several days. Back to butter, where we started. If you must have something traditionally northern European on your bread, you are far bette r off
to use butter, not margarine. However, Mediterranean peoples traditionally d ip their bread in high -quality extra -virgin olive oil that
smells and tastes like olives. It’s delicious, why not try it. But best yet, put low -sugar fruit preserves on your toast or develop a
taste for dry toast. Probably the finest use for butter is melt ed over steamed vegetables. This way only small quantities are needed
and the fat goes on something that is otherwise very easy to digest so its presence will not produce as many toxins in the di gestive
tract. Milk, Meat, And Other Protein Foods
Speaking of butter, how about milk. The dairy lobby is very powerful in North America. Its political clout and campaign
contributions have the governments of both the United States and especially that of Canada eating out of its hand (literally),
providing the dair y industry with price supports. Because of these price supports, in Canada cheese costs half again more than it
does in the United States. The dairy lobby is also very cozy with the medical profession so licensed nutritionists constantly
bombard us with "d rink milk" and "cheese is good for you" propaganda. And people naturally like dairy foods. They taste good and are fat -rich with a high satiety value. Dairy makes you feel full for a
long time. Dairy is also high in protein; protein is hard to digest and this too keeps one feeling full for a long time. But many
people, especially those from cultures who traditionally (genetically) didn't have dairy cows, particularly Africans, Asians and
Jews, just do not produce the enzymes necessary to digest cows milk. Some individuals belonging to these groups can digest goats
milk. Some can't digest any kind except human breast milk. And some can digest fermented milk products like yogurt and kiefer. Whenever one eats a protein food that is not fully digestible, it put refies in the digestive tract, with all the bad consequences
previously described. But no one, absolutely no one can fully


 abnormal habit produces disease. Here is the origin of every so-called disease. The end
is chronic disease and premature death. Until we learn to recognize the fact that symptoms are the result of toxic saturation and learn the
source of the intoxication, we are left with nothing we can do for the sick except provide a brief
and questionable palliation. The man who can offer his patient nothing more than an
anodyne
 or a
sedative
 can do much harm but he can do no good. To be truly effective the care of the arthritic case should be directed at the removal of the cause
of the disease. To give drugs, whether aspirin, cortisone or other of the drugs now in use for
arthritis, which are intended to do nothing more than provide the patient with brief periods of
relief from pain, is to remove no cause. Although most of these drugs are given to “relieve” the
pain, it is asserted that cortisone temporarily relieves some of the other symptoms, but it does not
go beyond palliation, while it does build a more difficult condition to remedy. The body has remarkable recuperative powers and it often succeeds in restoring health in spite
of the remedies. It can do a much better and more speedy job if the remedies and the causes that
have built the disease are removed. The body must be given an opportunity to eliminate its toxic
accumulation by means of a fast and then an opportunity to alter its blood chemistry by means of a
more or less radical change in the plan of eating. This done, the results will be surprising. We do not restore normal nutrition by removing the effects of impaired nutrition. The proposal
to cut into the arthritic joints and scrape away the deposits of lime is but a proposal to try another
means of spectacular palliation. Even if it could be successfully done, it would be but a short time
95until more deposits would take the place of those scraped away. The cutting and the scraping
would have to be done all over again. Nothing can more certainly or more rapidly alter the state of the nutrition of the body than a fast. No other means at our disposal brings about a more rapid change in the chemistry of the body,
especially of its fluids and secretions. Fasting relieves the pains of arthritis, for example, more
effectively than drugs and does it without risk or harm. The duration of the fast in arthritis will have to depend on individual circumstances and should
never be undertaken except under the personal supervision of one who is thoroughly familiar with
the techniques of fasting. It is customary to advise the arthritic to exercise the affected joints to prevent these from
becoming fixed. It is asserted that this stays the development of ankylosis or bony union. However
much truth there may be in this claim, the forced activity tends to aggravate the inflammation and
intensify the pain. I find it better to let the affected joint rest until fasting has enabled the body to
remove the deposits and infiltrations from the joint and to clear up the inflammation. In this way
the stiff joint spontaneously limbers up and may be used without pain. The vast majority of patients with arthritis whom I have been called upon to care for have been
in advanced stages of chronic disease. They have all had months to years of the usual forms of
treatment, including the removal of several “foci of infection,” and they have still suffered. Indeed,
their history shows that they have grown progressively worse under such forms of treatment. They
have been in pain. They were deformed. They were more or less helpless. Why. I repeat: the
primary cause of their suffering had been neglected. Recovery from chronic arthritis is a slow evolution out of a state of ill health and into a state of
biochemical dependability. It involves many factors—age, weight, extent of the disease, its
duration, degrees of joint destruction, the amount of ankylosis, previous habits of living and eating,
the amount of nerve energy in reserve, the character of complications that exist (such as heart
disease), the occupation, disposition and environment of the patient. All of these factors determine
the extent of recovery possible and the rapidity with which recovery can take place. Chief among the requirements of recovery is a willingness and determination to carry out all
instructions. Those who cheat and who balk at restrictions and rules are less likely to achieve the
return of good health. An absolute minimum of sugar and starches should be included in the diet. Self-control, self-denial, many restrictions, a dogged determination to get well, even if the
restrictions are sometimes irksome and the progress discouraging, help in recovery. 9623
Peptic Ulcer
When, on July 28, 1939, William J. Mayo, M. D., the last of the two brothers who established the
famous Mayo clinic, died, the press carried the story that he died of a sub-acute perforating ulcer,
an abdominal ailment he had specialized in treating. Said one dispatch: “Stricken shortly after he
returned from a winter vacation in the southwest, Dr. Will underwent a stomach operation at the
clinic last April and never fully recovered. ”
It was but a few years after Dr. Mayo’s death when it was announced from this same clinic that
operation for ulcer is not good treatment. While operations are still being performed for ulcers,
they are not performed so frequently as formerly. It is no unusual thing for a specialist to die of the disease in which he specializes. That they
“take their own medicine” attests to their sincerity; that they cannot protect themselves reveals that
the knowledge they possess is not dependable. A man may be a leading surgeon and not know the
cause of the peptic ulcer, and endurated (hardened) pylorus, the fibroid tumor, the gallstone or
kidney stone that he cuts out. This is a very unsatisfactory situation; without a knowledge of cause,
the specialists is working in the dark. The symptoms of “diseases of the stomach" are many—and often not nearly so clear-cut as the
layman may imagine. It is true there are a few more or less “fixed symptoms” of stomach ulcer—pain, tenderness at
the pit of the stomach, vomiting and hemorrhage, but these may also be symptoms of cancer or they
may be present in less serious diseases of the stomach. For these reasons diagnosis of ulcer from
the symptoms alone is very difficult. X-ray and fluoroscopic examinations are made to confirm the
examiner's suspicions, but it is only in exceptionally pronounced cases that this means can prove
anything conclusively. The fact is that the X-ray often indicates ulcer where no ulcer exists and often fails to reveal an
ulcer where one does. Falsely called an “executive's disease,” peptic ulcer is said to kill 11,000 persons a year in this
country, through hemorrhage and complications. Thirteen million Americans are said to have
peptic ulcer. It may be open to serious doubt that there are that many executives in the nation. Abuses in eating, drinking, smoking, sex, the emotions, and in other facets of living are the most
likely causes. Tilden says that “the sexually enervated are slow to reproduce tissue. Ulcers refuse
to heal; infections slowly, but surely, take place; chronic diseases are uncontrollable. ” In the
sexually abused there is laid the groundwork for the evolution of many diseases. The prevailing concept is that peptic ulcer, that is, ulcer of the lower end of the esophagus, the
stomach and of the upper end of the duodenum, is due to the action of the gastric juice (the
hydrochloric acid and pepsin) of the stomach digesting and corroding the walls of these parts of
the digestive tube. As the food is carried below the duodenum, bile and other juices render the
content alkaline, so that there is no action of the pepsin and hydrochloric acid, hence no peptic
ulcers below the duodenum. This concept is far from being as certain as some believe. The membrane of the stomach is
chemically non-corrosive. For untold ages the lining of these organs has been in contact with the
digestive juices and this juice has been digesting the toughest protein foods that man has eaten and,
97normally, throughout all this time, the gastric juice has not digested the delicate lining of the
stomach, esophagus and duodenum. To say that suddenly the acid and pepsin of the stomach digests and corrodes the lining of these
organs and let the matter rest there is to fail to understand the cause of peptic ulcer. It is said that something happens to the internal chemistry of the body to cause the gastric juice to
digest the stomach; it is believed, by some, that emotional stresses may be the cause of this
chemistry change. Once the
 membrane collapses, so the theory runs, the stomach juice certainly
acts on the tissues and extends the ulcer, often eating through the wall of the stomach or duodenum
(perforation) with fatal results. It is significant in this connection that this digestion that is assumed to be certain is an
exceedingly slow process, often requiring years for its climax. Yet this self-digestion does not occur in the healthy stomach, no matter how much acid may be
secreted. Hydrochloric acid is a normal secretion of the glands of the stomach, a necessity in the
digestion of protein foods. To believe that it is disease-building is not rational. An excess of acid
secretion due to some evanescent cause may give rise to discomfort and distress, but there will


cause disease, but this cannot be further from the truth. All we have going on here is a natural process of  toxic elimination once u begin to understand how the human body works. (I’ll leave you to go away and do your own research on that)  V ACCINES AND THE V ACCINE AGENDA WRITTEN BY REMI NAHARWhen your body is out of  harmony it chooses to ﬁght back against that toxicity and your immune system is strong enough and capable of  doing that without a plethora of  pharmaceutical drugs and in this case, vaccinations. Our immune system is designed to eliminate any dead or morbid matter, which is very toxic. Ask yourself  this, as Dr William Trebing puts it: “If germs create disease in us, then why don’t we always have some form of epidemic to deal with. ”In the world we are living in, we are psychologically violated and abused with so much propaganda which causes us to believe that the pharmaceutical industry and government/media are in favour of  us being at our best in health; this is clearly a huge deception and fallacy we are facing across the world and have been, for some centuries now. The vaccine industry is a multi billion dollar industry which proﬁts of  off  us being sick and unwell. By being vaccinated or having your child vaccinated, you are putting them or yourself  at a very high risk in one form or another, which could lead to a small illness, ongoing sickness, or even lead to sudden fatality. I want to share a few quotes here by some MD’s (aka doctor of  medicine) … The surgeon general, Leonard sheele MD spoke before the AMA in 1955 stating;   “No batch of vaccine can be proven safe before it is given to children. ” Hugh Fudenberg, MD, and one of  the most respected imunogeneticists in the world, compiled research on Alzheimers disease concerning the years 1970-1980. At  public meeting in 1997 he stated the following; “The chances of getting Alzheimers disease is ten times higher if an individual has had ﬁve consecutive ﬂu shots between 1970 and 1980, than if they had just one, two or no shots. ”   Guylaine Lanctot, MD, author of  Medical Maﬁa, quotes;  The medical authorities keep lying. Vaccination is a disaster to the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illness and brain damage. We are changing our genetic code through vaccinations. ” V ACCINES AND THE V ACCINE AGENDA WRITTEN BY REMI NAHARThere is an abundance of  ingredients, which are highly toxic, that are found in all types of  vaccines including the ﬂu shot. I want to take a look at some of  the vaccines we are given, what some of  those vaccines contain and also what harm they can cause to our physiology. Here is a list of  vaccines that are given to us from birth up until the age of  around 10 years of  age, and usually given in separate doses at different stages of  our early years of  childhood when the human system, in its most natural and pure state, is building itself  up within its own immunity and self  dependency on an cellular level (but that doesn't matter to the medical cartel) ; MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) | Influenza (Flu) | HepA (Hepatitis A | HepB (HepatitisB)  Pertussis; DTaP (Diptheria, tetanus and whooping cough) | Varicella; Var (Chickenpox) IPV (Polio) | RV (Rotavirus)  Now if  u ask me, that is a massive amount of  vaccines (which millions, if  not, billions of  us have no clue about what is being injected directly into the bloodstream) going into a young baby/toddler/child to kickstart their life, and there are a few more vaccines i don't know too much about and cannot remember off  the top of  my head right now, unfortunately. Also, i will leave a link below here that will show you directly from the immunisation action coalition website, connected to the CDC, in regards to immunisations for children aged 0-10years old and what the are given in such a short space of  their lives. https://www. immunize. org/catg. d/p4019. pdf Here are some other vaccines (some which are usually repeatedly given) we are told we must have as we grow above the age of  18 years plus into an elderly age (65+), and are told we need them to keep ourselves continually “protected and disease free”. Im not sure who and what we are being protected from. The vaccine ingredients that have already been planted in us from birth or the people who are trying to keep us as customers. - i’ll leave that for you to chew on. Here is the shortened list I've compiled together; IIV or RIV ( Influenza inactivated or Influenza recombinant) | Tdap or Td ( Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) | MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) | VAR (Varicella) | HepA and HepB (Hepatitis A and B) | HPV (Human papillomavirus) V ACCINES AND THE V ACCINE AGENDA WRITTEN BY REMI NAHARI am trying to keep this thesis/article as short as possible but there is so much we need to know and realise that has been hidden from us that we all deserve to know and be informed about. If  you've got this far into reading, thank you, and i really hope this will help u make more careful and better decisions for you and your loved ones health. I now want to go over a list of  the colossal amount of  toxic and harmful ingredients that are found in these and many other vaccines and then touch up very brieﬂy on the harm, injury or in some cases, death, that some of  these ingredients can cause within our bodies. Thimerosal - a Mercury derivative that is as toxic as Mercury itself (an ingredient found in over 50 vaccines, some of them being Polio, small pox shots and Flu shot) Monkey kidney cells -  a monkeys kidney is injected with what is assumed to be Poliovirus and other toxic stabilisers. This continues until the monkey sickens and nearly dies. The cell culture is then mixed with carrying agents Polysorbate 60 - a well proven carcinogen Mercury - one of the most lethal and deadliest toxins known to humankind. There is endless research which links this with Dementia and disorders like Alzheimers and parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis and also Autism. By the age of only 6, millions and millions of children have had this ingredient injected right into their bloodstream, over and over again and many have come out extremely ill or even died due to the high toxicity of mercury Latex rubber - linked to life threatening allergic reactions  and cause anaphylactic shock and even death Formaldehyde - an extremely poisonous carcinogen that is heavily linked to brain and colon cancer Aluminium - a potent carcinogen linked by research to nervous system breakdown disorders like parkinson disease and Alzheimers. Glyphosate - also linked to cancer and can cause fatality Aborted Fetal tissue cells - this can be found in the MMR, HepA and Varicella vaccine Genetically modified yeast, bacterial and viral DNA - can cause Genetic Mutations. and here are some more ingredients found in vaccines;  Acetone | Chicken Embryo | Pork gelatin | Dog kidney cell protein and DNA | Polysorbate 80 | Sodium hydroxide | Gelatin | Neomycin | Borax, and many many more…  V ACCINES AND THE V ACCINE AGENDA WRITTEN BY REMI NAHARMany of  these vaccines are the cause of  illnesses and diseases such as ADHD, eczema, asthma, bowel cancer, lung cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer’s, nut allergy (and many other allergies), dementia, lead poisoning, Osteoporosis, skin cancer, vomiting, rashes and a whole lot more. In Dr. W. Trebing’s book called ‘Good bye germ theory,’ he quotes “another obvious problem with the administration  of vaccines, is that you are overriding your bodies natural defences to toxic input. With every shot you weaken your bodies ability to care for itself, especially if you receive these shots in succession. ” There is a very dark and evil entity behind all that is going on today within this earth. There is an agenda behind what is being played out right now in what we all know as a pandemic (even though the very media control the narrative being pushed on humanity and it is nothing more then fear tactics to keep us in line and within their demands even though that is not the way government is supposed to govern its people, right. ) Life was never meant to be this way. The pharmaceutical industry as we know it today was created by a man who goes by the name of  John. D. Rockerfeller. He was an monopolist and a key component of  the bloodline in the Rockerfeller family in how they have restructured the way medicine is formed (doing his utmost best to eradicate natural holistic medicine) and used for there very own sinister agendas. He created a strategy you may be familiar with called “problem-reaction-solution. ” That is, create a problem and make people fearful, and then offer a (pre-planned) solution. (Does this remind you of  anything, or even the PLANdemic we are in today. ) There are many people in a position of


 had been encouraged to breathe normally and
through the nose? The breathing volume of athletes and nonathl etes alike is
crying o ut for attention, and greater awareness would be wort h all of the
ef fort, if even just one young life were saved.CHAPTER 12
E l i m i n a t e  E x e r c i s e - I n d u c e d  A s t h m a
I n childhood, treatments for fort y-three-year -old Julian’ s asthma included
cough medicine, trips to the coast for the benefits of sea air, and inhaling
steam from a boiling kettle. On some nights, Julian remembers his
wheezing being so bad that he st ayed up most of the night with his head out
the w indow in an ef fort to breathe. Any individual who experien ced asthma
as a  child durin g the 1970s and  1980s can probably testify to the lengths
that similarly worried parents took to try to help their children to breathe. By the late 198 0s Julian had been prescribed various relievers and
preventative me dications, in addition to regular trips to the hospital for
nebulizer treat ment. This never -ending cycle of medication and
hospitalizations continued for many years, and although Julian tried to keep
fit, he often found he was unab le to breathe, particularly during the small
hours of the night. Fast-forward to 2006, and Julian was taking higher doses of asthma
medication while his fitness level gradually reduced, a totally u nproductive
cycle th at was beginning to s eriously af fect his health and well-being. Julian’ s story is typical of any individual with moderate to severe asthma;
although physic al exercise can be very beneficial, many persons with
asthma simply tend to avoid it for fear of having an attack. In early 2007, Julian attended one of my Dublin courses at which we
focused on breathing through the nose, breathing light, and practicing
breath h olds while walking. Julian took his last dose of reliever medication
the day after the course. W ithin s ix mon ths, Julian’ s asthma had drastically improved,  and by
Christmas 2007,  he had his last dose of preventative medication. His fitnessalso improved and he was able to swim a mile per day, five times a week. In
2008, J ulian’ s GP agreed to reclassify his medical record as “asthma
resolved.”
Over the next three years, Julian’ s exercise plan evolved to include eight
hours of  high-in tensity indoor cycling, circuits, and stretching  classes per
week, as well as  the techniques of nasal and reduced-volume breathing he
learned from my course. These changes, along with adj ustments to his eating habits, allowed
Julian to  improv e his performance and enjoy more ener gy and stamina at a
higher level of activity. At the age of forty in 2012, Julian ran five half-
marathons and covered over 750 training miles. He achieved a personal best
of 1 :46 i n his third half-maratho n; two weeks later he complete d the Berlin
full mar athon in 3:57. Following the Berlin Marathon, he ran  the Dublin
City Ma rathon in 4 hours. In six months, Julian had knocked over 8 minutes
of f his first half-marathon time. In si x ye ars, Jul ian progressed from a chance encounter with one of my
books to attending my breathing  course, improving his fitness, completely
eliminating prescription medicine for his asthma, and running h alf and full
marathons in very respectable times! The word asthma  derives from Greek and means “to pant.” While
asthma has been around for a very long time, it af fects more p eople today
than ever before. Exercise-indu ced asthma af fects an estimated 4 to 20
percent of the g eneral populati on and 11 to 50 percent of cer tain athlete
populations. Interestingly, one study showed that while 55 percent of
football athletes  and 50 perce nt of basketball players displayed airway
narrowing conducive to asthm a, athletes from the sport of water polo
showed significantly fewer asth ma symptoms. Later on in this section we
will investigate why this might be. So, what causes asthma? The  most common theories include the
hygiene hypothesis, which rests on the premise that too much cleanliness
means children are not exposed to enough germs, resulting in diminished
immune capabilities later on in life. A second commonly cited explanation
is an increase in  pollution, but while this may well be a trigger, it is not
necessarily the cause. For instan ce, the west of Ireland, where I live, has a
high asthma rate but very good air quality.Might there be another factor that plays a significant role in causing
asthma—that of  habitually breathing too much? If this were true, then
surely reducing breathing volume could result in a reversal of th e condition. By look ing at the causes and symptoms of asthma, and the p hysiological
changes resulting from the condition, we can begin to determi ne just how
important breathing exercises can be in treating asthma. Since asthma is a condition cha racterized by dif ficulty in breathing, a
logical approac h would be to  attempt to find the root cause by first
addressing poor breathing habi ts. T ackling asthma from this angle is not
new and  was employed by the ancient Greek physician Ga len and the
sixteenth-century doctor Paracelsus, who recommended breath holding and
breathing exercises for the treatment of coughing and narrowed airways. The prevalence of asthma increa ses relative to wealth. Increased wealth
leads to a chan ge in living standards: Food becomes more processed,
competitive stress increases, houses become more airtight, we perform less
physical exercise, and the majority of our jobs are sedentary. Fifty years
ago, our living and working situations were quite dif ferent, and asthma rates
were sig nificantly lower. During  that time, we ate more natural foods, had
less competitive  stress, our ho uses were drafty, and most occupations
involved physical labor. B ack then, our lifestyle was conducive to a more
normal breathing volume, and, as a result, asthma was far less common. As we have se en, normal breathing volume for a healthy adult is
generally agreed  to be 4 to 6 liters of air per minute, but adults with asthma
demonstrate a resting breathing volume of 10 to 15 liters per mi nute, two to
three times more than required. Imagine the ef fect on the respiratory system
when an  individ ual breathes twice or three times too heavily all day, every
day. Normal breathing during rest involves regular, silent, abdominal breaths
drawn in  and out through the no se. People with asthma, on the other hand,
display habitual  mouth breathing with regular sighing, snif fing, and visible
movements from the upper chest. During an exacerbation of asthma,
symptoms like wheezing and breathlessness increase along with respiratory
rate, relative to the severity of the condition. In other words, as asthma
becomes more severe, there is also an increase in breathing volume. While it  is well documented that people with asthma breathe too much,
there is a need to determine whether the increase to breathing volume is acause or ef fect of the condition. As the airways narrow a feeling of
suf focation is generated, and a normal reaction is to take more air into the
lungs to try to eliminate this sensation. Either way, it is a vi cious cycle;
narrowed airways lead to heavier breathing that causes an increase in
breathing volum e, resulting in th e narrowing of the airways and  on and on,
worsening the condition and esta blishing bad breathing habits as a matter of
necessity. The only way to  determine whether breathing too much causes asthma
is to  investigate what happens when a group of individuals with asthma
practice breathing exercises designed to bring their breathing volume
toward normal. A st udy at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane found that when the breathing
volume of adults with asthma decreased from 14 liters to 9.6 liters per
minute, their symptoms reduc ed by 70 percent, the need for rescue
medication decr eased by 90 percent, and the need for preve nter steroidmedication decr eased by 50 percent. The study found a direct relationship
between the reduction of breat hing volume and improvement to asthma. The closer breathing volume reduced toward normal, the greater was the
reduction of asthma symptoms s uch as coughing, wheezing, chest tightness,
and breathlessness. Furthermore, the trial’ s control group—who were taught
the hosp ital’ s in-house asthma management program—made zero progress. The reason for this was solely due to the fact that there was no change to
their breathing volume. Further studies reinforced these findings by
showing that people with asthma who practiced reducing their breathing
volume had far better asthma co ntrol with a significantly reduced need for
preventive steroid and rescue medication within 3 to 6 months. Since 20 02 I have taught thousands of children and adults with asthma
how to address the root cause of their condition—breathing too much. T riggers such as animal dander, dust mites, exercise, pollution,


 convenience of using rolled oats. But once you’ve eaten oats maderight, you’ll never prefer the flavor of rolled oats again. And if the human body hasany natural method of assaying nutritional content, it is flavor. Nutritionally, millet is almost the same story as oats. Millet seed is protected by
a very hard hull. Cooking unhulled millet is almost impossible. After hours ofboiling the small round seeds will still be hard and the hulls remain entirelyindigestible. Worse, the half-round hulls (they split eventually) stick in your teeth. But prehulled millet, sitting in the sack for weeks and months, loses a lot ofnutrition and tastes very second-rate compared to freshly-hulled millet. It ispossible to buy unhulled millet, usually by special order from the health fooddistributor—if you’ll take a whole sack. Millet can be hulled at home in smallbatches. Here’s how we figured out how to do it. There probably are betterways. Using a cheap steel-burr flour mill, set the burrs just far enough apart that the
seed is ground to coarse grits, but not flour. This pops the hulls loose. An old millwith worn-out burrs works great for this job. Then you have to get some handseed cleaning screens just large enough to pass the grits but not pass the hulls(most of them). Window screen or other hardware cloths won’t work. Seedcleaning screens come in increments of 1/128 inch; we use a 6/64" round screen. Other batches of millet might work better with a screen one step larger or smaller. It will take you a little ingenuity to find hand-held screens. They’re used by seedcompanies and farmers to clean small batches of seed for inspection and areusually about one square foot in size with a quality wooden frame. Larger framesmade of the same screening material are used in big seed cleaning machines. (Thehulls could also be winnowed out by repeatedly pouring the grit/hulls mixture backand forth between two buckets in a gentle breeze. ) After you’ve screened out most of the hulls, the rest will rinse out, floating off
as you wash the grain prior to cooking. We never hull more than enough millet fortwo or three meals and keep the uncooked (unwashed) millet in the freezer in anairtight jar. It is interesting how people will accept poor nutrition and itsconsequent sickness as the price of convenience. If you eat much buckwheat you should also figure out how to hull (sometimes
called groating) it yourself. Someone should write a thorough book on the home
milling of cereals. And perhaps sell the equipment by mail. Probably would be agood little homestead business. Something else you need to keep in mind about seed. Even though the
embryo’s food supply is protected by the seed coat, it still slowly deteriorates,steadily oxidizing and losing nutritional value. Eventually old seed looses the abilityto sprout. The decline in germination ability matches a decline in nutritional quality. Any seed you are going to use for eating should possess the ability to sprout,strongly and rapidly. (After you’ve comparatively sprouted a few grain samples,you’ll know what I mean by this. ) Fortunately, cereal grains usually sprout well forquite a few years after harvest if they have been stored cool and dry. Eating deador near-dead seeds will help move you closer to the same condition yourself. Finally, one more warning about buying store bread. Salt-free bread tastes
“funny” to most people. It bakes fine, salt is not necessary to the leaveningprocess, but no bakery could stay in business without salting their bread. Thestandard level of salt is two percent by weight. That is quite a lot. Two percentequals one teaspoonful per pound. I’ll have more to say about the evils of salt. I imagine some of my readers are feeling a little overwhelmed by all these
warnings and “bewares ofs,” and intricacies. They are used to taking noresponsibility for securing their own food supply quality and have come to expectthe “system” to protect them. I believe it is not because of lack of governmentintervention, but because of government intervention itself, our food system is veryperverse. Until our mass consciousness changes, if you wish to make yourself andyour family truly healthy, you are going to have to take charge and become quite adiscriminating shopper. Unconscious consumers are on a rapid road to the totalunconsciousness of death. And again, let me remind you here that this one small book cannot contain
everything you should know. The bibliography at the end of should become yourguide to earning your post-graduate education in nutritional health. Freshness Of Fruits And Vegetables
Most people do not realize the crucial importance of freshness when it comes
to produce. In the same way that seeds gradually die, fruits and vegetables gothrough a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or isbroken down by the vegetables own enzymes, but vegetables lose nutritionhundreds of times more rapidly than cereals. Produce was recently part of a livingplant. It was connected to the vascular system of a plant and with few exceptions,is not intended by nature to remain intact after being cut. A lettuce or a zucchiniwas entirely alive at the moment of harvest, but from that point, its cells begin todie. Even if it is not yet attacked by bacteria, molds and fungi, its own internalenzymes have begun breaking down its own substances. V egetables, especially leafy vegetables, are far more critical in this respect than
most ripe fruits. All, however, deteriorate much like radioactive material; theyhave a sort of half-life. The mineral content is stable, but in respect to the vitaminsand enzymes and other complex organic components, each time period or “halflife” results in the loss of half the nutrition. Suppose a lettuce has a half life of 48hours, two days after harvest only 50 percent of the original nutrition remains. After two more days, half the remaining half is gone and only 25 percent is left. After two more days half of that 25 percent is lost. Thus six days after harvestand a lettuce contains only bout 12 percent of its original nutrition. A two dayhalf-life is only hypothetical. Those types of produce I classify as very perishableprobably do have a half-life of from 36 to 48 hours. Moderately perishableproduce has a half life of about 72 hours; durable types of produce have half livesof 96 hours or longer. Very Perishible  Moderately Perishible Durable
lettuce zucchini apple
spinach eggplant squash
Chinese cabbage sweet peppers oranges
kale broccoli cabbage
endive cauliflower carrot
peaches apricots lemons
parsley beets
The half life of produce can be lengthened by lowering its temperature. For
that reason, sophisticated produce growers usually use hydrocooling. Thisprocess dumps a just-cut vegetable into icy water within minutes of beingharvested, lowering core temperature to a few degrees above freezing almostimmediately. When cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures, and stacksof those crates are put in a cooler, it can take the inside of the stack 24 hours, orlonger, to become chilled. Home gardeners should also practice hydrocooling. Fillyour sink with cold water and wash/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilledbefore draining and refrigerating it. Or, harvest your garden early in the morningwhen temperatures are lowest. Still, when you buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room
temperature for hours or possibly days. The bottom line here: fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically
grown. The Real Truth About Salt And Sugar
First, let me remind certain food religionists: salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is
sugar is sugar. There are no good forms of salt and no good forms of sugar. Saltfrom a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect; white sugar,natural brown sugar, honey, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, whatever sweet
have you. All are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects. I know of no
harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty. Nutrisweet is basically harmless tomost people and can be used as a very satisfactory replacement for sugars. (Afew people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet, causing the anti-chemicalists tocirculate much anti-nutrisweet propaganda, but you should carefully consider thisthought before dismissing nutrisweet—there is almost no food substance thatsome people are not allergic to or unable to digest. The fact that nutrisweet ismade in a chemical vat and the fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does notmake it “of the devil. ”
And its not all black and white with the other items either. Sea salt does have
certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt and under certain very specialconditions, eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable. Similarly, some formsof sugar are not quite as harmful as other forms, though all are harmful. The primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to
high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys, though it does that. It is not thateating salt ruins the kidneys; salt probably does not do that to most kidneys. Thereal problem with salt is that sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering therelease of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist inflammation. When these hormones are at high levels in the blood, the person often feels verygood, has a sense of well-being. Thus salt is a drug. And like many drugs of itstype, salt is a habituating drug. However, we are so used to whipping our adrenals


 that I’ve been calling
intention. In a sense, this universal mind is totally impersonal. It is pure
love, fondness, beauty, and creativity, always expanding and endlessly
abundant. You emanated from this universal mind. And as I keep telling
you, universal means everywhere and at all times. In other words, infinite. As long as your wishes are aligned with the forward movement of this
everlasting principle, there’s nothing in nature to restrict you from attaining
the fulfillment of those wishes. It’s only when you choose to allow ego to
oppose the expanding, receptive forward movement of the infinite mind of
intention that the realization of your wishes doesn’t feel fulfilling. Life itself
is eternal, and you spring from this infinite no thing called life. Your ability
to connect to the eternal and live in the here-and-now will determine your
staying connected to intention. Life Is Eternal
We all live on a stage where many infinities gather. Just take a look
outside tonight and contemplate the infinity of space. There are stars so
distant from you that they’re measured in the distance that light travels in an
Earthly year. Beyond those stars that you can see are endless galaxies that
stretch out into something we call eternity. Indeed, the space that you
occupy is infinite. Its vastness is too huge for us to see. We’re in an infinite,
never-ending, never-beginning universe. Now pay close attention to this next sentence. If life is infinite, then this is
not life. Read that again and consider that life truly is infinite. We can see
this in everything that we scrupulously observe. Therefore, we must
conclude that life, in terms of our body and all of its achievements and
possessions, which without exception begins and ends in dust, isn’t life
itself. Grasping life’s true essence could radically change your life for the
better. This is an enormous inner shift that eliminates fear of death (how can
you fear something that can’t exist?) and connects you permanently to the
infinite Source of Creation that intends everything from the world of
infinite Spirit, into a finite world. Learn to be comfortable with the concept
of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being.While we’re in this finite world of beginnings and endings, the power of
intention maintains its infinite nature because it’s eternal. Anything you
experience as other than eternal is simply not life. It’s an illusion created by
your ego, which strives to maintain a separate address and identity from its
infinite Source. This shift toward seeing yourself as an infinite spiritual
being having a human experience, rather than the reverse—that is, a human
being having an occasional spiritual experience, is loaded with fear for most
people. I urge you to look at those fears and face them directly right now;
the result will be a permanent connection to the abundance and receptivity
of the universal Source that intends all of Creation into temporary form. Your Fear of the Infinite
We are all in bodies that are going to die, and we know this, yet we can’t
imagine it for ourselves, so we behave as if it weren’t so. It’s almost as if
we’re saying to ourselves, Everybody dies but me. This is attributable to
what Freud observed. Our death is unimaginable, so we simply deny it and
live our lives as if we weren’t going to die... because of the terror that our
own death instills. As I sat down to write this chapter, I said to a friend that
my goal was to leave the reader with a complete absence of the fear of
death. Let me know if it touches you in that way, even on a minor scale. When I was a seven-year-old, I lived with my older brother, David, in a
foster home at 231 Townhall Road, in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. The people
who took us in while my mother worked to reunite her family were named
Mr. and Mrs. Scarf. I remember this as if it occurred yesterday. David and I
were sitting on the back porch of our home, and Mrs. Scarf came outside
with two bananas in her hand and tears flowing down her face. She gave us
each a banana, saying, “Mr. Scarf died this morning.” It was the first time
I’d experienced the concept of death connected to a human being. In my
seven-year-old naïveté, I asked her, attempting to soothe her obvious pain,
“When will he be back?” Mrs. Scarf responded with one word that I’ve
never forgotten. She simply said, “Never.”
I went upstairs to my bunk, peeled my banana, and lay there attempting
to comprehend the concept of never. What did being dead forever really
mean? I could have handled a thousand years, or even a billion light years,
but the idea of never was so overwhelming, with its no ending, and more noending, that I was almost sick to my stomach. What did I do to handle this
incomprehensible idea of never? Simple, I forgot about it and went on about
the business of being seven years old in a foster home. This is what
Castaneda meant when he said that we’re all in bodies on their way to
dying, but we behave as if they’re not, and this is our greatest downfall. Your own death. Essentially, there are two points of view regarding this
dilemma of your own death. The first says that we’re physical bodies that
are born and we go on to live for a while; and then ultimately we
deteriorate, our flesh wears out, and then we die and are dead forever. This
first perspective, if you embrace it either consciously or otherwise, is
terrifying from our alive viewpoint. Unless you embrace the second point of
view, it’s completely understandable that you fear death. Or you may
welcome it if you hate or fear life. The second point of view says very
simply that you’re eternal, an infinite soul in a temporary expression of
flesh. This second point of view says that only your physical body dies, that
you were whole and perfect as you were created, and that your physicalness
emanated from the universal mind of intention. That universal mind was
and is formless—it’s the pure energy of love, beauty, kindness, and
creativity, and it can’t die, since there’s no form involved—no form, no
death, no boundaries, no deterioration, no flesh, no possibility of it wasting
away. Now which of these two points of view gives you the most comfort? Which is associated with peace and love? Which invokes fear and anxiety? Obviously the idea of your infinite self keeps you on friendly terms with
infinity. Knowing you’re first and foremost an infinite being consciously
connecting with your Source, which is eternal and omnipresent, is surely
the more comforting prospect. Because of its infinite nature, it’s
everywhere, and it then follows that the whole of Spirit must be present at
every point in space at the same moment. Thus, Spirit is present in its entirety everywhere, which includes you. You
can never, ever be separate from it. You’ll learn to laugh at the absurd idea
that you could ever be separate from the universal mind. It’s your Source.You are it. God is the mind through which you think and exist. It’s always
connected to you, even if you don’t believe in it. Even an atheist doesn’t
have to believe in God to experience God. The question then becomes, not
whether your body is going to die, but rather, on what side of infinity you
wish to live. You have two choices, either you live on the inactive or the
active side of infinity. In either case, you have an appointment with infinity,
and there’s no way to avoid it. Your appointment with infinity. Reread the Joseph Campbell quote at
the beginning of this chapter. Eternity is now! Right now, right here, you’re
an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge
with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings. We identify everything in this material world through a space-time
continuum. Yet infinity has no preference for time and space. You aren’t the
elements that make up your body; you merely make use of the elements. You go beyond space and time and are merged with the infinite universal
mind. If you haven’t recognized it, it’s because of your fear. You can keep
your appointment with infinity while you’re in your temporary body, with
its slavish adherence to time and space. My objective in this chapter is to
help you realize and do this. If you make this merger, I assure you of a life
without fear of death. Let’s take a look at both of the elements in the space/time prison in which
we find our material bodies and all of its treasures. The factor of space
means that we’re experiencing separation from everyone and everything. This is my space as defined by my boundaries; those are your spaces. Even
your most cherished soul mate lives in a world apart from yours. No matter
how close in space you get, the boundaries are separate. In space, we’re
always separate. Trying to imagine an infinite world without space and
separation is extremely difficult, until we make our appointment with
infinity. Time is also a factor of separation. We’re separated from all of the events
and memories of our past. Everything that has happened is separate from
what’s happening right now. The future is also separate from the here-and-now where we’re living. We can


 not scientifically useful for anything.) Often
times you will hear of the cause being a bacterial contaminant such as
E. coli or Salmonella, or the viral infection Norovirus-also known as the
“stomach flu.”
These nasty guys are transmitted by drinking contaminated water,
or touching your hand to your mouth after coming in contact with a
contaminated object. They are also often found in foods-especially if
employees don’t follow a strict regime of hand-washing. Most cases will
pass on their own within 48 hours, and unfortunately your body just has
to get the bug out of its system. Like the flu and common cold, easing
the symptoms of food poisoning is usually the only thing you can do.Food Poisoning
-Various herbs found in the
cupboard have shown to be
effective against some food-borne
pathogens, and you can try either
making a tea with them or nibbling
on some. They include basil,
rosemary, thyme, sage, spearmint,
and fennel. -Don’t take anti-diarrheal
medications, as it will only slow
the elimination of the all the bad
stuff your body is trying to get rid
of. -As with pretty much anything,
stay hydrated. Y our body is
probably losing fluids rapidly, and
staying plenty hydrated will help
flush your system clean faster than
if you weren’t getting enough. -Avoid dairy. -A dear friend of mine once got
terrible upset stomach, and on a
whim I brought them a plain bagel
with a little bit of plain turkey and
some cold soda water to drink. It
proved t
82Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingActivated charcoal (or activated carbon) is a form of carbon that has been processed so that it has a bounty
of small pores to increase the surface area available to adsorb toxins, turning it into a sort of filter. The word
adsorb, not absorb, is important here. The charcoal does not absorb toxins; rather toxins will bind to all the
hundreds of little pores to be carried out of your system. This also means the “filter” does eventually fill up, but
it can still carry a shocking amount of nasties. Large amounts of activated charcoal are actually used in hospitals
in case of oral overdose or alcohol poisoning because of this. The term “toxins” here also applies to viruses,
bacteria, and other impurities, so it can help clear out the system when you are suffering from food poisoning. Another bonus is that it doesn’t target the good stuff in your system, which means you aren’t wiping out
beneficial bacteria.Activated Charcoal
-A high quality bottle of
activated charcoal capsules
OR powder supplement1. Follow the dosing on the back of the bottle or bag, and use only as
needed, not daily. Take some at the first sign of food poisoning. 83Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Food PoisoningY ou will need… DirectionsApple cider vinegar is a traditional remedy that is turned to for just about everything (you’ve probably seen it
in a plethora of recipes already, and will continue to see it crop up) so it’s not surprising that it helps with food
poisoning. More specifically, although not studied scientifically, it may have antimicrobial properties, destroying
or inhibiting the growth of the little buggers that are making you sick.Plain Apple Cider Vinegar
-2 tablespoons of ACV
-2 tablespoons of warm water1. Stir apple cider vinegar into warm water-these amounts can be
changed, just keep it at a ratio of 1:1. Drink this several times a day to
help speed up recovery. 84Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Food PoisoningY ou will need… DirectionsThis is a nice homemade version of ginger ale, minus all the sugars and additives that don’t really help. I like
to drink this when suffering from any kind of stomach ache, including ones brought on by food poisoning. The
ginger has an incredibly soothing action on inflamed and irritated intestines/stomach while the citrus adds a little
extra acidity that I like to think, whether it’s true or not, makes the environment less friendly to whatever bug is
afflicting me. If you do want a natural sweetener (and I’ll admit I usually do) stir in organic raw honey.Ginger Ale
-1/2 cup soda water (club soda/
sparkling water/fizzy water)
-A slice of fresh lime
-1 cup of peeled, grated or
finely chopped, ginger root
-5 tablespoons of honey, or to
taste (optional)
-2 cups of fresh water1. Grate peeled ginger root, or chop finely, and bring fresh water to a
boil in a saucepan. 2. Add the ginger, and reduce the heat to medium low, letting the ginger
water simmer for 20 minutes. 3. Remove from heat and strain the liquid, pressing on the solids to get
every last drop out. If you are using honey, let the liquid cool some and
then stir it in. keep this liquid refrigerated for up to 2 weeks. To make a
glass of ginger ale, add 7-9 tablespoons of the ginger water to ½ cup of
club soda and squeeze a lime slice into it. Give it a good stir, sip slowly,
and rest. 85Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Food PoisoningY ou will need… DirectionsGas and bloating are uncomfortable to begin with, but to make the whole situation about ten times worse,
society makes the very idea of them uncomfortable as well. It’s quite ridiculous really, to make something very
natural into such a taboo. But there’s to be no shying away here! Gas is just air in the digestive track, which
can build up excessively and lead to bloating. It is given off as a byproduct when bacteria in the large intestine
breaks down certain foods. We know that a lot of foods can trigger gas, namely ones that contain carbohydrates. This is because some
carbohydrates (sugars, starches, and fiber) are not fully digested in the stomach. When they pass into the
intestine the job of breaking them down lands on the bacteria, and gas is released in the process. Those who
suffer from IBS or Crohns will feel the effects of gas more strongly than others, while even something as benign
as stress can cause it. Bloating can be caused by both water retention, air, and various health conditions. In this
chapter, I am referring to bloating caused by excessive gas. While intestinal gas is usually harmless, it can be
very unpleasant when you experience a build-up!Gas & Bloating
86Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comGinger can help aid digestion, and the break-down process of foods that can give us gas, therefore reducing
the discomfort and potentially helping everything pass quickly and smoothly. I think the best form of ginger for
relieving gas is tea. The warmth helps relieve the cramping feeling while the ginger does its work.Ginger
-1 piece of fresh ginger root,
2-3 inches long
-1 cup of boiling water
-A little bit of lemon and honey
(optional)1. Scrub your gingerroot clean and slice it thinly. Place the slices in a
mug and cover with boiling water. 2. Steep, with the mug covered, for 10-15 minutes. Remove the slices;
add honey and lemon to taste, and drink daily as needed. If possible,
drink immediately after a meal. 87Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Gas & BloatingY ou will need… DirectionsPeppermint, like ginger, will also help with digestion, reduce gas, and alleviate the uncomfortable bloating it
causes. Chamomile will help relax the smooth muscle in the intestines, and give you a break from any spasms or
cramps you may be experiencing.Peppermint Chamomile Tea
-2 teaspoons of dried
peppermint OR  ½-1 cup of
fresh peppermint
-2 teaspoons of dried
chamomile
-1 cup of boiling water
-Honey and lemon to taste
(optional)1. Pour boiling water over the peppermint and chamomile, and let it
steep covered for 10 minutes (if you are using dried herbs) or 15 minutes
(if the herbs are fresh.) 2. Strain, add honey and lemon to taste, and drink directly after
mealtime. 88Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Gas & BloatingY ou will need… DirectionsIf you happen to be suffering from gas as a result of constipation, this is a good remedy to turn to. Even if you
aren’t constipated, lemon water is enormously helpful at reducing gas. It is speculated, but not known, that it
may help digestion because of its acidity, and therefore lessen gas. It has always worked for me, and I feel no
need to look any further past that. Sometimes to add a little kick to this, I’ll toss in a few fresh peppermint leaves,
but it’s not usually needed.Warm Lemon Water
-1 tablespoon of lemon juice
-1/2 cup of warm water1. Mix lemon juice (fresh, if possible) into warm water. Drink once daily to
prevent gas and 2-3 times daily if you are actively experiencing gas. 89Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Gas & BloatingY ou will need… DirectionsA headache can be caused by a multitude of factors, from all too
common tense or knotted muscles to mysterious migraines. There is a


 the mesentery without causing tissue in·
jury. The electrodes in the aorta and the vena cava
were introduced through vascular catheters. A small
glass partition was used as a support for the mesentery
(plastic material was unsuitable as it easily produced
spontaneous diapedetic bleedings ). After 1.2 cou
lombs were applied, pieces of the mesenteries were
excised, ftxed in formalin, stained (haematoxylin -eo
sin) and examined microscopically. The relative appearances of small arteries and veins,
arterioles, venules and capillaries could now be in
spected.. While it is evident that results from instanta
neous and prolonged exposure of vessels to electric
fields may differ, the actual results are nonetheless
informative. In general, small arteries appeared empty and often
very narrow compared to the accompanying relatively
wide veins, which contained large amounts of granulo
cytes. This tendency was present in all four combioa-
138 Biologically closed electric circuits Fig. XII: 23. Regional contractions were commonly ob
served in smaU arteries (A) exposed to an electric field. Sometimes a small vein (V) appeared slightly narrower than
the accompanying artery as seen in this figure. Mesentery of
dog, haematoxylin..eosin. tions of polarity and electrode positions (Fig. XII: 24). Around the mesenteric anode, granulocytes accumu
lated in veins in increasing number up to the electrode
and even beneath it. Around the mesenteric cathode,
an area ofaboun 10-15 mm in diameter was completely
free of cellular elements in the arteries and veins. Immediate ly peripheral to the cell-free zone, granulo
cytes were collected in veins in increasing amounts up
to the cell-free zone. The locations of granulocytes and the relative cali
bres of arterioles, capillaries and venules are illustrated
in Fig. XII: 25. These studies showed a clear tendency
in all four combinations of polarity and electrode posi
tion. The arterioles and arterial portions of capillaries
were all narrow and empty of blood cells in regions of
variable size. The corresponding venules and venous
capillaries were wide and contained occasionally large
amounts of granulocytes. These cells also appeared
often in the in~erst itial tissue. In three experime nts in dogs, two 4 x4 mm plati
num electrodes were placed 2.5 em from each other
against the mesentery. These experiments showed the
same tendency as the previous experiments with re
gard to the calibre of arterioles, capillaries and venules
and to the local accumulat ion of granulocytes. Even
after application of voltages between the electrodes of
as lillie as 100 mV (10 pA, 30 minutes, 0.018 cou
lombs), granulocytes collected selectively in small
veins, venules and venous capillaries (Fig. XII: 26). 4. Selective distribution of granulocytes in a
closed circuit
How is it possible that granulocytes accumulate in
veins, venules and venous capillaries when corre
sponding small arteries, arterioles and arterial capillar-.-..·
•... ; '...._.......
~·.. " Fig. XII: 24. Overview of dog rruosenteries with different
electrode positions and polarities, each exposed to 1.2 cou
lombs at 5 V between the electrodes. In each of the electrode
combinations smallan.eries were empty of blood cells. Small
vcins contained varying degrees of increased numbers of
granulocytes outside a cell·free zone around the electronega -
ies are narrow and empty of blood cells? This problem
is further considered in Chapter XIV, Sections 1-K,
where an alternative theory to so-called chemotactic
accumulation of leukocytes and charged compounds in
tissue is presented. A preliminary brief explanation
will be given in this connection. tivc mesenteric electrode (a and,) and directJy up tO lhe elec
tropositive mesenteric electrode (band t!). A = "small" arte
ries, V = "small" veins (approx. 0.1 mm in diameter ). M.es • mesentery, Ao • aorta, V. cava • vena cava inferior. Scale same in each view. Haematoxylin-c os-in. All mammalian cells, including blood cells, are
known to carry a surplus of fixed electronegative
charges on their surfaces (79). Under the inllue.nce of
an electric field of suitable strength in relation to the
charged cells, and considering the factors of cell size,
steric characteristics of cellular charges and matr~x
Biologically closed electric circuits 139 ~';.-··.. -. \,~. -....... "...
'.,. -·. '....,, -..
~
Fig. XII: 25. Distribution of granulocytes in four different
combinations of electrode posidons ~nd combinations of vol·
tagcs in dog mesentery. In each combination arterioles and
arteda_l capillaries (Ac) are e.mpty and narrow while the ven·
140 BiologicaUy closed electric circuits •. \,..'-.........
ulcs and \'enous capillaries (Vc) arc relatively wide ~md con·
tain granulocytc.-s, some of which also appear in the dssue. Mcs ;s; mesentery, Ao:;:; aorta, V. cava= vena cava inferior. Scale same ln each ''iew. HaematOx yJin.eosin. •.... Fig. XII: 26. Meoentery of dog. Narrow small anery (A) is
vinually empty of cells and widened small ••ein (V) contains
selectively accumulated granulocytes peripheral to the zone
free of cells around the cathode. Anode positioned on the
mesentery 3 em away from the cathode. 100 mV, IO!lA, 30
minutes, 0.018 coulombs. Haematoxylin-eosin. properties oftissue, the charged cells will be attracted or
repelled depending on the polarity of the electric field. The electronegative granulocytes will consequently be at
tracted to an anode and repelled by a cathode like any
charged particle in an electrophoretic process. This pro
cess requires an activated closed electric circuit, which
in the present experiments was created by an external
source of electric power, cables, electrodes and the
conducting media in the tissue. We are therefore still
only simulating the existence of a BCEC in our experi
ments. This is one of the reasons we must wait until
later (Chapters XIV, XVI) for discussion of bow gran
ulocytes can accumulate electrophoreticaUy over an
endogenou s, activated closed circuit (the VICC). The accumulation of granulocytes in vessels toward
the anode, positioned against the mesentery, is readily
explained as an electrophoretic attraction of the granu
locytes. Around the cathode, however, electronegative
particles and cells should be repelled. A cell-free zone
was therefore also regularly observed around the cath
ode. Nevertheless, outside this zone large amounts of
granulocytes accumulated in ves.els (Fig. Xll: 21\). The mechanism of this phenomenon is explained in
Chapter XIV (and illustrated in Fig. XIV: 18). 5. Mechanisms of regional contraction of
arterioles and arterial capillaries
Is there any mechanism which can explain the local
regions of field induced contractions of small arteries,
arterioles and arterial capillaries while corresponding
venous vessels are wide? The capillaries, small vessels
arteries and veins are provided with nerve fibres which
evidently offer one possibility for neurogenous im
pulses of contraction. Another or an as$0datcd mecha
nism may be connected to the pericytes, which fur
thermore are described to be involved in the contrac-
ll-814586 NorrkJUtmm tion of capillaries. We may now focus our attention to
the remarkable fact that pericytes are sparsely found in
the lungs and in the vessels of very small animals (78). Let us anticipate that the pericytes are involved in a
mechanism of segmental small vessel contractions in
duced by electric fields of a closed circuit (identified as
a VICC system). In this case pericytes should not
cover the entire capillary net as this should jeopardize
a segmental mode of contractions. Consequently, pos
sibilities of modulating selective closed circuit, "long·
or short-distance" electrogenic transports should not
be possible (see also Fig. Xll: 30a). Small animals as
the shrew (smallest mammal, weight 2 g) should need
very few pericytes because their