, not a daybefore, starvation begins very slowly. Usually it takes a considerable period oftime after that before death occurs. It is important to note that this discussionapplies only to the abstention from food, not water. Death takes place veryquickly in the absence of water.
The chart on the previous page shows numerically the phenomenal ability of
the body to protect the most essential tissues of the body right up to the time ofdeath. If a person fasted for 30 days, the average time it takes for the return ofhunger in a person that is not at all overweight, and then ignored the return ofhunger, and continued to abstain from food—if the person could avoid forcedexercise, keep warm, and had enough hydration, it could take as much as anadditional 20 to 60 days to die of starvation! At death the body would haveexperienced losses of 40 to 60 percent of its starting body weight. (Ancel Keys etal, 1950) A emaciated person can not afford to lose nearly as much weight as anobese person, and death under conditions of starvation will occur earlier. In allcases of starvation the brain, nerves, heart, lungs, kidneys and liver remain largelyintact and functional to the very end. During a fast, it is almost impossible todamage essential organs, unless of course the person creates the damage by fearsabout the process, or by internalizing the fears of others. If those fears arepresent, the fast should not be attempted.
Weight Loss By Fasting
Loss of weight indicates, almost guarantees, that detoxification and healing is
occurring. I can’t stress this too much. Of all the things I find my patients seem tomisunderstand or forget after being told, it is that they can’t heal in a rapid mannerwithout getting smaller. This reality is especially hard for the family and friends ofsomeone who is fasting, who will say, “you’re looking terrible dear, so thin. Yourskin is hanging on your bones. You’re not eating enough protein or nutrient food
to be healthy and you must eat more or you’re going to develop serious
deficiencies. You don’t have any energy, you must be getting sicker. You’re doingthe wrong thing, obviously. You have less energy and look worse every day. Goand see a doctor before it is too late.” To succeed with friends like this, a fasterhas to be a mighty self-determined person with a powerful ability to disagree withothers.
Medical personnel claim that rapid weight loss often causes dangerous
deficiencies; these deficiencies force the person to overeat and regain even moreweight afterward. This is largely untrue, though there is one true aspect to it: afasted, detoxified body becomes a much more efficient digester and assimilator,extracting a lot more nutrition from the same amount food is used to eat. If, afterextended fasting a person returns to eating the same number of calories as theydid before; they will gain weight even more rapidly than before they stated fasting.When fasting for weight loss, the only way to keep the weight off is to greatlyreform the diet; to go on, and stay on, a diet made up largely of non-starchy,watery fruits and vegetables, limited quantities of cooked food, and very limitedamounts of highly concentrated food sources like cereals and cooked legumes.Unless, of course, after fasting, one’s lifestyle involves much very hard physicallabor or exercise. I’ve had a few obese fasters become quite angry with me forthis reason; they hoped to get thin through fasting and after the fast, to resumeovereating with complete irresponsibility as before, without weight gain.
People also fear weight loss during fasting because they fear becoming
anorexic or bulimic. They won’t! A person who abstains from eating for thepurpose of improving their health, in order to prevent or treat illness, or even onewho fasts for weight loss will not develop an eating disorder. Eating disordersmean eating compulsively because of a distorted body image. Anorexics andbulimics have obsessions with the thinner-is-better school of thought. Theanorexic looks at their emaciated frame in the mirror and thinks they are fat! Thisis the distorted perception of a very insecure person badly in need of therapy. A
bulimic, on the other hand stuffs themselves, usually with bad food, and then
purges it by vomiting, or with laxatives. Anorexics and bulimics are notaccelerating the healing potential of their bodies; these are life threateningconditions. Fasters are genuinely trying to enhance their survival potential.
Occasionally a neurotic individual with a pre-existing eating disorder will
become obsessed with fasting and colon cleansing as a justification to legitimizetheir compulsion. During my career while monitoring hundreds of fasters, I’veknown two of these. I discourage them from fasting or colon cleansing, and refuseto assist them, because they carry the practices to absurd extremes, andcontribute to bad press about natural medicine by ending up in the emergencyward of a hospital with an intravenous feeding tube in their arm.
Cases Beyond The Remedy Of Fasting
Occasionally, very ill people have a liver that has become so degenerated it
cannot sustain the burden of detoxification. This organ is as vital to survival as thebrain, heart and lungs. We can get along with only one kidney, we can live with nospleen, with no gallbladder, with only small parts of the stomach and intestines,but we can not survive without a liver for more than a day or so. The liver is themost active organ in the body during detoxification. To reach an understanding ofdetoxification, it helps to know just what the liver does for us on an ongoing basis.
The liver is a powerful chemical filter where blood is refined and purified. The
liver passes this cleansed blood out through the superior vena cava, directly to theheart. The blood is then pumped into general and systemic circulation, where itreaches all parts of the body, delivering nutrition and oxygen at a cellular level. Onits return flow, a large proportion of the depleted blood is collected by the gastric,splenic and superior and inferior mesenteric veins that converge to form the largeportal vein which enters the liver. Thus a massive flow of waste from all the cellsof the body is constantly flowing into the liver. The huge hepatic artery also entersthe liver to supply oxygen and nutrients with which to sustain the liver cellsthemselves.
The liver is constantly at work refining the blood. It is synthesizing, purifying,
renovating, washing, filtering, separating and detoxifying. It works day and nightwithout stopping. Many toxins are broken down by enzymes and their componentparts are efficiently reused in various parts of the body. Some impurities arefiltered out and held back from the general circulation. These debris are collectedand stored in the gall bladder, which is a little sack appended to the liver. After ameal, the contents of the gall bladder (bile) are discharged into the duodenum, theupper part of the small intestine just beyond the stomach. This bile also containsdigestive enzymes produced by the liver that permit the breakdown of fatty foodsin the small intestine.
Sometimes a large flow of bile finds its way into the stomach by pressure or is
sucked into the stomach by vomiting. Excessive biliary secretion and excretioncan also result from overeating, which overcrowds the area. Sometimes colonicsor massage can also stimulate a massive flow of bile. Extremely bitter andirritating, when bile gets into the stomach the person either vomits or wishes theycould. And after vomiting and experiencing the taste of bile, wishes they hadn’t.
When no food at all enters the system, the blood keeps right on passing
through the liver/filter just as it does when we are eating. When the liver does nothave to take care of toxins generated by the current food intake, each passagethrough the liver results in a cleaner blood stream, with the debris decreasing inquantity, viscosity, and toxicity, until the blood becomes normalized. Duringfasting, debris from the gall bladder still pass through the small intestine and intothe large intestine. However, if the bowels do not move the toxins in the bile arereadsorbed into the blood stream and get recirculated in an endless loop. Thistoxic recycling makes a faster feel just terrible, like they had a flu or worse!
The bowels rarely move while fasting. During fasting only enemas or colonics
permit elimination from the large intestine. If done effectively and frequently,enemas will greatly add to the well being and comfort of the faster. Many timeswhen a faster seems to be retracing or experiencing a sudden onset of acute
discomfort or symptoms, these can be almost immediately relieved by an enema
or colonic.
A person with major liver degeneration inevitably dies, with or without fasting,
with or without traditional medicine. Significantly impaired kidney function canalso bring about this same result. Mercifully, death while fasting is usuallyaccomplished relatively free of pain, clear of mind and with dignity. That often cannot be said of death in a hospital. There are much worse experiences than death.
Fasting is not a cure-all. There are some conditions that are beyond the ability
of the body to heal. Ultimately, old age gets us all.
Dr. Linda Hazzard, one of the greats of natural hygiene, who practiced
Osteopathic medicine in the 1920s, had a useful way of categorizing conditionsthat respond well to fasting. These she labeled “acute conditions,” and “chronicdegenerative conditions.” A third classification, “chronic conditions with organicdamage,” does not respond to fasting. Acute conditions, are usually inflammationsor infections with irritated tissue, with


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and no long er
be a pr isoner t o t heir C andid a.
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int er v ention of an y k ind is t he dr eaded die-off r eac tion.
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possi ble f r om t he bo w els, g etting y ou w el l -h y dr at ed, and
ha v ing y ou t ak e t he
tur pentine onl y t w ic e a w eek. B y t ak ing t he tur pentine t w ic e a w eek, y our
immune
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long y ou c hoose t o t ak e tur pentine, it is import ant not t o e x c eed
t w ic e a w eek and
c ontinue w it h st eps 1 t o 4. T his al lo w s y our immune
s y st em t o heal y ou w it hout a
c leansing r eac tion or a die-off r eac tion.14
TIME OF DAY :  Turpentine ma y be taken in the morning, but most
pe ople complain about burping the taste
of turpentine throughout
the da y. It can also be taken in the ev ening, but at least 2 hours
before be dtime. Some pe ople fe el that they sle ep better if they allo w
2 hours before
be dtime.
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t han ot her s, so y ou should
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w i l l g i v e less die-off, and so c ause y ou
less disc omf ort. If t his dose is w el l -
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 a
decision to deny a need for a particular
result. There is a vast difference.
Could you explain what You mean by the
statement, “Passion is the love of turning
being into action”?
Beingness is the highest state of existence.
It is the purest essence. It is the “now -not now,” the “all -not all,” the “always -never”
aspect of God. Pure being is pure God -ing.
Yet it has never been enough for us to
simply be. We have a lways yearned to
experience What We Are —and that
requires a whole other aspect of divinity,
called  doing.
Let us say that you are, at the core of your
wonderful Self, that aspect of divinity  called
love. (This is, by the way, the Truth of you.)
Now it is o ne thing to be love —and quite
another thing to do something loving. The
soul longs to do something  about what it is,
in order that it might know itself in its own
experience. So it will seek  to realize its
highest idea through action.  This urge to do this is called passion. Kill
passion and you kill God. Passion is God
wanting to say “hi.”
But, you see, once God (or God -in-you)
does that loving thing, God has realized
Itself, and needs nothing more.
Man, on the other hand, often feels he
needs a return  on his investment. If we’re
going to love somebody, fine —but we’d
better get some love back. That sort of
thing.
This is not passion. This is expectation.
This is the greatest source of man’s
unhappiness. It is what separates man
from God.
The renunciate seeks to end this
separation through the experience some
Eastern  mystics have called samadhi. That is, oneness and union with God; a melding
with and melting into divinity.
The renunciate therefore renounces
results —but never, ever renounces
passion.  Indeed, the Master knows
intuitively that passion is the path. It is the
way to Self -realization.
Even in earthly terms it can be fairly said
that if you have a passion for nothing, you
have no life at all.
You have said that “what you resist
persist s, and what you look at disappears.”
Can You explain that?
You cannot resist something to which you
grant no reality. The act of resisting a  thing
is the act of granting it life. When you resist
an energy, you place it there. The  more you resist, the more you make it real —whatever
it is you are resisting.
What you open your eyes and look at
disappears. That is, it ceases to hold its
illusory form.
If you look at something —truly look at it —
you will see right through it, and right
through any illusion it hold s for you, leaving
nothing but ultimate reality in your sight.
In the face of ultimate reality your puny
illusion has no power. It cannot long hold
you in its weakening grip. You see the truth
of it, and the truth sets you free.
But what if you don’t want the thing you are
looking at to disappear?
You should always want it to! There is
nothing in your reality to hold onto. Yet if
you do choose the illusion of your life over ultimate reality, you may simply recreate
it—just as you created it to begin with. I n
this way you may have in your life what you
choose to have and eliminate from your life
what you no longer wish to experience.
Yet never resist anything. If you think that
by your resistance you will eliminate it,
think again. You only plant it more firm ly in
place. Have I not told you all thought is
creative?
Even a thought that says I don’t want
something?
If you don’t want it, why think about it?
Don’t give it a second thought. Yet if you
must think about it —that is, if you cannot
not think about it —then do not resist.
Rather, look at whatever it is directly —accept the reality as your creation —then
choose to keep it or not, as you wish.
What would dictate that choice?
Who and What you think you Are. And Who
and What you choose to Be. This  dictates
all choice —every choice you have made in
your life. And ever will make.
And so the life of a renunciate is an
incorrect path?
That is not a truth. The word “renunciate”
holds such wrongful meaning. In truth, you
cannot renounce anything —because what
you resist persists. The true renunciate
does not renounce, but simply chooses
differently. This is an act of moving toward
something, not away from something.
You cannot move away from something,
because it will chase you all over hell and  back. Therefore resist not temptation —but
simply turn from it. Turn toward Me and
away from anything unlike Me.
Yet know this: there is no such thing as an
incorrect path —for on this journey you
cannot “not get” where you are going.
It is simply a matter of speed —merely a
question of when you will get there —yet
even that is an illusion, for there is no
“when,” neither is there a “before” or “after.”
There is only now; an eternal moment of
always in which you are experiencing
yourself.
Then what is the point? If there is no  way
not to “get there,” what is the point of life?
Why should we worry at all about anything
we do?  Well, of course, you shouldn’t. But you
would do well to be observant. Simply
notice  who and what you are being, doing,
and having, and see whether it serv es you.
The point of life is not to get anywhere —it
is to notice that you are, and have always
been, already there. You are, always and
forever, in the moment of pure creation.
The point of life is therefore to create —who
and what you are, and then to  expe rience
that.
  Chapter 6
And what of suffering? Is suffering the way
and the path to God? Some say it is the
only way.
I am not pleased by suffering, and whoever
says I am does not know Me.
Suffering is an unnecessary aspect of the
human experience. It is not only
unnecessary, it is unwise, uncomfortable,
and hazardous to your health.
Then why is there so much suffering? Why
don’t You, if You are God, put an end to it if
You dislike it so much?
I have put an end to it. You simply refuse to
use the tools I have given you with  which to
realize that.  You see, suffering has nothing to do with
events, but with one’s reaction to them.
What’s happening is merely what’s
happening. How you feel about it is another
matter.
I have given you the tools with which to
respond and react to events in a way which
reduces —in fact, eliminates —pain, but you
have not used them.
Excuse me, but why not eliminate the
events?
A very good suggestion. Unfortunately, I
have no control over them.
You have no contro l over events?
Of course not. Events are occurrences in
time and space which you produce out of
choice —and I will never interfere with choices. To do so would be to obviate the
very reason I created you. But I’ve
explained all this before. Some events you
produce  wilfully, and some events you draw
to you —more or less unconsciously. Some
events —major natural disasters are among
those you toss into this category —are
written off to “fate.” Yet even “fate” can be
an acronym for “from all thoughts
everywhere.” I n other words, the
consciousness of the planet.
The “collective consciousness.”
Precisely. Exactly.
There are those who say the world is going
to hell in a handbasket. Our ecology is
dying. Our planet is in for a major
geophysical disaster. Earthquakes.
Volcanoes. Maybe even a tilting of the Earth on its axis. And there are others who
say collective consciousness can change
all that; that we can save the Earth with our
thoughts.
Thoughts put into action. If enough people
everywhere believe something must be
done to help the environment, you will save
the Earth. But you must work fast. So  much
damage has already been done, for so
long. This will take a major attitudinal  shift.
You mean if we don’t, we will see the
Earth —and its inhabitants —destroyed?
I have m ade the laws of the physical
universe clear enough for anyone to
understand. There are laws of cause and
effect which have been sufficiently  outlined
to your scientists, physicists, and, through them, to your world leaders.  These laws
don’t need to be outl in


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Pharmacology
DMSO IN DISEASE
Although dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was first synthesized by the Russian  s cientist
Alexander Zaytsev in 1866, it took another century for its pharmacotherapeutic
properties to be discovered by Jacob et  al.,1 beginning in 1964. Discovering the
pharmacotherapeutic activities of DMSO is a lesson in how good science works, involving a keen observation, the hypothesis that was formulated, testing, and the conclusion.
Stanley Jacob, a surgeon and, at the time, the head of the Organ Transplant
Program at Oregon Health Sciences University, had observed that besides the cryo -
protective properties exhibited by DMSO in the preservation of frozen organs, its topical application seemed to quickly penetrate the skin without damaging it, result -
ing in a garlicky taste in the mouth within seconds after its application. Intrigued by this suspected cause-and-effect reaction, Jacob and his colleagues
1 began a research
journey to find out what else this simple molecule could do and, in so doing, set off an explosion of publications worldwide that would culminate in more than 45,000 scientific articles, which continue growing to this day.
The use of DMSO as a pharmacotherapeutic agent for clinical maladies dis-
cussed in this chapter has, in some cases, not been clinically exploited to its full extent despite consistent evidence of its safety and efficacy in a host of medical conditions. It is hoped that this review can aid the reader to better understand the unusual properties of this simple molecule and help dispel both unfounded negative notions and positive expectations that have emerged during the history of DMSO and which are either anecdotal in content or unsupported by scientific evidence.
Some of the useful features that characterize DMSO use are as follows:
 1.  I t can be administered intravenously, orally, topically, or intravesically.2,3
 2.  W hen combined with other selected compounds, it can enhance their  t issue
penetration, enhance their pharmacological activity synergistically, and reduce their toxicity by lowering their dose.
4
 3.  I t is relatively nontoxic at a wide range of concentrations and routes of
administration.550 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
PAIN
Pain is essentially an unpleasant perceptual process that arises in response to inflamed
or injured tissues.6 Pain can be perceived from endogenous stressors, including dam -
age and/or inflammation within both neuronal and non neuronal tissues, or by exoge -
nous stress that can be produced by psychosocial factors. Physical pain sensation and suffering can be measured, though not always in a precise manner, to provide useful parameters for clinical assessment. Dangerous tissue-damaging pain often develops from skeletal muscle and from joints and less often from viscera and almost never from liver or lung even when these organs are severely damaged or diseased.
7 The
likely explanation for this curious absence of pain sensation in those organs is that they lack a network of sensory nerves for the transmission of nociceptive signals to the brain.
8 Similarly, viscera, such as gut and urinary tract, can elicit pain following
ischem


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


constructed on the internal supply, and only one piece
bread can lead at best to an ulcer, and at worst - to the very
big trouble.
No, it's better to scrupulously adhere to multiply
trusted function.
Notes.
1. During the exit is very important not to overeat. Output - a kind of
disease, alteration of systems with internal power supply to the external.
No need to eat more than you want your body (mental appetite "after
long abstinence has nothing to do with the actual demands
organism).
2. It is very important to chew food (do not forget
about the method of therapeutic chewing, your stomach is decreased and adopted
normal volume, no need to stretch). Since many
do not, especially fruits and vegetables is ground to at
mouth, they turned into mush.
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2933. If raw vegetables cause pain, they are boiled or replace
liquid porridge. When patients with digestive organs
very good also vegetable soups with rice.
Effect.
This starvation, of course, still does not cure severe illness, but
its results are very noticeable. Cleaned joints appears
great flexibility, are headaches, reduced
sleep. Significantly improves cardiac performance, reduced
and allergies often disappear. Undergo many skin diseases,
neurodermatitis and neuralgia.
Man begins keenly perceive the world,
appears lightness of body and clarity of thought. Renewed energy,
increase strength.
How often starve?
It depends on the age and health. In general, fast
can be approximately six months of age and into old age,
moreover, the older the person, the more it needs periodic
abstinence from food.
Healthy people under 40 years may be recommended to starve to crisis
once a year, from 40 to 50 years old - twice a year, from 50 to 65 years - three times a year
and over 65 years - 4 times a year. Those involved in yoga and those who want to
maintain the highest degree of health and work,
and at a young age well starve to crisis often - 3-4 times
per year.
SKI FIELD physiological heat of Fasting (FPG)
ON Arakel Jan
I really like this kind of fasting. It is very easy to carry,
it can be done at home and it can be
good preparation to dry starvation. This method has
rejuvenating, cleansing effect. I therefore fully
cite the author's technique.
"We live three hundred years?" Suren Arakelyan Avakovich
Difficult wartime childhood in the mountains of Armenia. Large family:
eight children. Father was not. Somehow to survive, the mother was holding
cow, sheep and birds. Feeds missed. Children have to feed, let alone
cow - that God would send. Each winter the children seemed to last for
Cell Chinarki. But no, get out. and a year later, and after two.
How come no later Suren, already a student veterinary
College in his native village for the holidays, rejoiced: alive nurse
and the milk does not stint, although the age of the cow's standards rather
respectable. Instead of the usual 12 Chinarka lived 20 years, and lived
would have if it had not passed on the meat.
Chinarka remembered more than once. Years later, Souren Arakelian
Chief vet farm near Moscow Ostankino, decided to
on a bold experiment. Obese older chickens, cease to be
eggs and destined for slaughter, he put on starvation diets.
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294No feed - just water with a small addition: Drugs
the basis of which the grass growing in the mountains of Armenia - Arakelian
conventionally called it anti-stress. During prolonged starvation
the animal appears panic mode, and the drug takes
him. So, hungry, hens like senses and fix it - again
began to carry eggs.
It was a sensation. and an occasion for a new, extensive and well
prepared by the experiment. He was raised in 1964 in the city
Marx Saratov region on the basis of Poultry Research Institute (Suren
Avakovich after graduation, was sent to the institution). Thousand
Japanese chickens rekordistok outlived what is called a century. Eggs
no longer allowed, remained - for meat. Some of these unpromising
"Granny" and gave Arakelyan. Began a seven-day FPG
- A physiologically beneficial starvation (so defines a scientist
starvation using anti-stress drug). This
was a risk. Not only for Japanese women. " More than six tons of meat -
public good, and for him Arakelian said.
A month later, it's a miracle. The old, oblezshih
and matted feathers from chickens grown new: silky and bright.
Birds are energetic, agile, disappeared crest, his voice was
high - almost chicken. And most importantly, Rejuvenation (now
could safely use the word) the chickens have returned to the forgotten
cause a distant youth - began to lay eggs.
Here are the figures from the official report: one month after the FPG swept
63% of chickens in a month - already 91%.
Thus, hunger does not kill. On the contrary, reasonable, verifiable, it
returns youthfulness. Last month FPG chickens began to live
an average of 18 years - instead of six tempered nature. Specific
lifetime extended three times!..
The effect of the return of young farm animals
enormous. Cow, giving three thousand liters of milk a year, lives
usually ten years. If you need to make up nine thousand liters per year,
life is shorter - about four years. But is it enough to give her one month
in the year to rest, applying the PPG - and the duration
life will increase threefold. That is, instead of lost in four months
"Idle" 3000 liters obtain 60000. Not to mention the fact that after
starvation diet the animal gets used to eating less.
What happens when a physiologically useful starvation?
The animal as it is for major repairs. From
cells out sodium and in its place from the intercellular spaces
falls potassium. Only the replacement of one chemical element
on the other, and the like. But the sodium salts contribute
preservation of organic matter. In the usual diet in the cells
as it preserved all the waste products. including
and slag - the main cause of aging, the conviction of the scientist. Withdraw
slag - to prevent aging. That's why regular FPG -
reasonable prevention "living machines".
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295To rejuvenate itself tried in 1965, when ill
chronic gastritis and gastric ulcer and conventional treatment did not
helped. FPG applied to human beings: starve first, second
and the third day of each month, one week - once every three months, two
weeks - twice a year and a month once a year. In this case, only drink
water with the addition of anti-stress medication. in the days of fasting I
twice a day, morning and night, cleanse the bowel, rinsed
mouth soda solution with 10 drops of iodine on
glass; swab dipped in this solution was washed with ears
and nose, take a shower, wash children's soap.
FPG plus natural food have helped many of my friends
get rid of atherosclerosis and metabolic polyarthritis, hypertension,
Some gastro-intestinal diseases, there have been cases
successful treatment after a heart attack.
Natural Nutrition: eating only fresh vegetable
cells and the exclusion of food of animal origin. It twice
per day. One meal is, for example, 50 g raisins or
Two raw carrots, or one orange, apple or 100 g
Cabbage, or 50 grams of peas, beans, lentils, or 100 g crude
wheat grains, buckwheat, pearl barley. Cereals and dried fruits
I was soaked, pre-clearing them with hot water.
Calories missing completely. First, the person at all
requires three to five times less than commonly believed. Secondly,
in natural nutrition and periodic fasting energy
the body more efficiently.
In meat are the same essential amino acids, as in the raw
leguminous plants, young nettles, vegetables and fruits.
In my 56 years I approach old age do not notice pood weights
'm still easy. Hopefully, the program is 120 - years of healthy
work life successfully.
Therapeutic cocktail recipe
Physiologically useful starvation. Helps me, but it is not
means that it is suitable to all.
Stress medicine: it consists of six components -
herbs from the mountains of Armenia.
Recipe: 1 kilogram of a person is taken 0.01 g of food
citric acid, 0.01 ml infusion of mint, 2 g of honey, 2 ml
water. This is the norm for 6 days. If you weigh 80 kg and starve for 3 days,
take, respectively, 0.4 g of citric acid, 0.4 ml of the present mint
80 g honey, 80 ml of water. Divide it into three parts and take on
once a day.
Citric acid - the only acids, connecting
in the body with calcium. Calcium citrate - a unique
vital salt with alkaline properties. At its dissolution
released phosphorus and calcium, accumulate in the bone
depot. When our supply 60% of phosphorus and calcium is
transit.
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296Connecting to the ATF, citric acid "burn", releasing
energy. If you drink a solution


 oil.
History & Folklore  Chufa nuts have been
found in the excavations of the earliest settlements
in the Nile Valley, and since ancient times they have
remained a popular food in the region. The Greek
physician Dioscorides, writing in the 1st century ce,
mentions their ability to comfort the stomach.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Chufa is regarded
as a digestive tonic, having a heating and drying effect
on the digestive system and alleviating flatulence. It
also promotes urine production and menstruation.
The juice is taken to heal ulcers of the mouth and
gums. Ayurvedic medicine classifies the nuts as
digestive, tonic, and aphrodisiac.
Related Species  Many other species of
Cyperus are used as foods or medicines. For
example, in Chinese herbal medicine C. rotundus
is used as a liver tonic, to counter indigestion and
to promote menstruation. C. stolonifera, native to
tropical regions of Asia and Australia, is thought
to ease stomach pain and act as a heart stimulant.
Perhaps the most famous Cyperus species of all
is papyrus ( C. papyrus ). This plant provided fiber
for the first writing paper, invented by the ancient
Egyptians. Papyrus was also chewed like sugar cane,
and used medicinally in eye compresses and to
bandage wounds.Lemon grass  makes
a soothing tea.
Artichoke  flower heads are nourishing and beneficial for the
liver and digestion. Cypripedium pubescens
(Orchidaceae)
Lady’s Slipper,
American Valerian
Description  Perennial orchid with several
stems sheathed by broad lance-shaped leaves.
Has beautiful, complex golden-yellow and purple
flowers in late summer.
Habitat & Cultivation  This herb is native to
eastern North America. Its natural habitat is woods
and pastures, but due to overharvesting, it is rarely
found in the wild. It is cultivated to a limited degree.
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200Cytisus s Copariusother medicinal plantsPart Used  Rootstock.
Constituents  Lady’s slipper is poorly
researched, but it is known to contain a volatile oil,
resins, glucosides, and tannins.
History & Folklore  Lady’s slipper was held in
high regard by Native Americans, who used it as a sedative and antispasmodic. It was commonly taken to ease menstrual and labor pains, and to counter insomnia and nervous conditions. The Cherokee used one variety to treat worms in children. In the Anglo-American Physiomedicalist tradition, lady’s slipper had many uses. Swinburne Clymer (in Nature’s Healing Agents, 1905) considered the plant “of special value in reflex functional disorders, or chorea, hysteria, nervous headache, insomnia, low fevers, nervous unrest, hypochondria, and nervous depression accompanying stomach disorders.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Due to its scarcity
and cost, lady’s slipper is now rarely used. A sedative and relaxing herb, it treats anxiety, stress-related disorders such as palpitations, headaches, muscular tension, panic attacks, and neurotic conditions generally. Like valerian (Valeriana officinalis, p. 148), lady’s slipper is an effective tranquilizer. It reduces emotional tension and often calms the mind sufficiently to allow sleep. Indeed, its restorative effect appears to be more positive than that
of valerian.
Caution  In view of its rarity, lady’s slipper should
no longer be used medicinally. Myddfai recommend broom as a means to treat
suppressed urine: “seek broom seed, and grind into fine powder, mix with drink and let it be drank. Do this till you are quite well.” Broom tops have been pickled and used as a condiment similar to capers (Capparis spinosa, p. 182).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Broom is used
mainly as a remedy for an irregular, fast heartbeat. The plant acts on the electrical conductivity of the heart, slowing and regulating the transmission
of the impulses. Broom is also strongly diuretic, stimulating urine production and thus countering fluid retention. Since broom causes the muscles of the uterus to contract, it has been used to prevent blood loss after childbirth.
 QCautions  T ake broom internally only under
professional supervision. Do not take during pregnancy, or if suffering from high blood pressure. The plant is subject to legal restrictions in
some countries.History & Folklore  Mezereon was formerly
well used in northern Europe, both internally as  a purgative and externally as an ointment for cancerous sores and skin ulcers. The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) recorded that the bark was applied to the bites of poisonous reptiles and rabid dogs. People have reportedly died simply from eating birds that have eaten the highly poisonous berries.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Today, mezereon
is considered too poisonous to be ingested. Mezereon is used occasionally as an external counterirritant and is effective on rheumatic  joints, increasing blood flow to the affected area.
 RCautions  Under no circumstances should
mezereon be taken internally. It should only be used externally under professional supervision,  and never on open wounds.
Mezereon was once
used as a remedy
for rheumatic joints.Broom, taken under professional guidance, helps to
regulate an overly rapid heartbeat.
Cytisus scoparius syn. sarothamnus
scoparius (Fabaceae)
Broom
Description  T all deciduous shrub growing
to 61⁄2 ft (2 m). Has narrow ridged stems, small
trefoil leaves, and bright yellow flowers in leafy
terminal spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
broom is commonly found on heaths and verges,
and in open woodland. It is naturalized in many
temperate regions, including in the U.S. The flowering tops are picked from spring to autumn.
Parts Used  Flowering tops.
Constituents  Broom contains quinolizidine
alkaloids (particularly sparteine and lupanine), phenethylamines (including tyramine), isoflavones (such as genistein), flavonoids, a volatile oil, caffeic and p-coumaric acids, tannins, and pigments. Sparteine reduces the heart rate and the isoflavones are estrogenic.
History & Folklore  Both the common and
species names of this plant indicate its usefulness  as a sweeper (“scopa” means “broom” in Latin). Broom’s medicinal value is not mentioned in classical writings, but it does appear in medieval herbals. The 12th-century Welsh Physicians of Daphne mezereum
(Thymelaeaceae)
Mezereon
Description  Hardy deciduous shrub growing
to 4 ft (1.2 m). Has oval to lance-shaped leaves,
clusters of red or pink flowers, and small  red berries.
Habitat & Cultivation  Mezereon is found in
Europe, North Africa, and western Asia, in damp mountain woodlands. It is cultivated as a garden plant. The root and bark are gathered in autumn.
Parts Used  Root, root bark, bark.
Constituents  Mezereon contains diterpenes
(including daphnetoxin and mezerein), mucilage, and tannins. Though highly toxic, daphnetoxin and mezerein have antileukemic properties and have been used to treat cancer.Datura stramonium (Solanaceae)
Thornapple
Description  Robust annual growing to 3 ft
(1 m). Has lobed oval leaves, long white or violet
trumpet-shaped flowers, and spiny fruit capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation  Thornapple grows in
the Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It  is cultivated for medicinal use in Hungary, France, and Germany. The leaves and flowering tops are harvested in summer, and the seeds in early autumn when the capsules burst.
Parts Used  Leaves, flowering tops, seeds.
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Constituents  Thornapple contains 0.2–0.45%
tropane alkaloids (especially hyoscyamine and
hyoscine), flavonoids, steroidal lactones,
withanolides, coumarins, and tannins. The tropane
alkaloids are similar to those found in deadly
nightshade ( Atropa belladonna, p. 69), acting to
reduce secretions and relax smooth muscle.
History & Folklore  Thornapple has a long
history of medicinal use. If taken in sufficient doses,
it causes hallucinations; the Delphic oracle in ancient
Greece and the Inca in South America may have
used it as an aid to making prophecies. Though it is
hallucinogenic, thornapple has traditionally been
used to treat insanity.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  At low doses,
thornapple is a common remedy for asthma,
whooping


. As purification
continues, the urine returns to normal.
Loss of weight that results from fasting is consequent upon the utilization of the body’s reserves
in nourishing the vital tissues and the excretion of toxic accumulations. This loss should be
regarded as part of the process of purification and the resulting improvement should be welcomed.
The degree of unwholesomeness of the tissues helps to determine the rapidity with which weight is
lost.
Loss is greatest in the early days of the fast, fat people losing at a faster rate than thin
individuals. There are however, thin individuals who because of the toxic state of their tissues
lose as rapidly as overweight fasters during the first few days. Losses at this stage range from a
pound and a half a day, at the start of the fast, to four to six pounds in very stout individuals. After
a few days of fasting, the rate of loss slackens. In the later stages of a long fast, less than a quarter
of a pound a day may be lost.
It is easily possible to exaggerate the importance of weight loss in any consideration of fasting.
The emaciated person who remains thin on his various “weight gaining” diets may be very
reluctant to lose more weight, although generally after the fast, he will gain weight on much less
food than he has been in the habit of eating. It is an error to think that fasting is of benefit only to
fleshy people.
The
feeling
 of weakness, sometimes experienced during a fast is due, in the main to functional
inactivity. There is a general functional let-down as the organism takes full advantage of the
proffered opportunity to rest. The heart slows, circulation slows, there is a slowing of respiration.
The glands of the body reduce their activities. In general, the tired body heaves a sigh of relief and
goes to bed. This is just what is needed and proof that it is beneficial is seen by the fact that vigor
returns as the body rests and is cleansed, long before food is taken. Indeed weakness during the
first few days of the fast may be nothing more significant than an absence of the accustomed
stimulation.
Many people undertake to fast with the mistaken idea that the cleansing processes carried on
during this period are necessarily of extremely trying and of disagreeable nature. This is true in
only a minute percentage of cases; it is by no means the rule. On the contrary, most fasters go
through even long fasts without the development of any dramatic or extraordinary crises. Most of
the work of excretion is carried on without the production of troublesome crises. When a crisis
does develop it should be welcomed, as it is almost always of a remedial nature.
51Skin eruptions rarely develop during the fast, but are definitely eliminative processes when they
do occur. Giddiness, fainting, palpitation of the heart, and symptoms of this nature, though not
common, should not be regarded as crises. They present no danger to the faster.
Perhaps the most annoying development that occurs while a fast is in progress is that of nausea
and vomiting. Not only is it a trying time while it
lasts, but the faster is very weak also.
Fortunately, there can be no doubt that this crisis is definitely beneficial and it does not occur in
more than fifteen percent of cases. Nausea and vomiting can develop on the first day of the fast or
at any time thereafter. Generally, a crisis develops after several days of abstinence. In a few
instances they develop after four or more weeks of fasting.
What is ejected is usually a rather abnormal and watery bile with considerable mucus. The liver
works over-time (for a day to a few days) and much of the bile thus turned out is regurgitated into
the stomach, and is thrown out. The faster is so greatly benefited by the ordeal that he is well
compensated for the discomfort. These episodes may last a day or they may last two, three, four
days or a week. Rarely does vomiting persist beyond a week. The faster's strength returns when
vomiting ceases.
If it persists for several days and water is not retained there is some inevitable dehydration.
This is a serious matter, especially in cases where vomiting lasts for several days. The possibility
of breaking the fast must be considered promptly. The faster is weakened by the dehydration and
the recovery of strength is slow. If there is diarrhea along with the vomiting, and this occurs very
rarely, the dehydration is more severe.
In such cases, if vomiting does not subside after a reasonable time, break the fast. This is not
always easy as there is a tendency to vomit the food as well as the water. In supervising some
fasters, I have often tried several kinds of juice before finding one that could be retained.
Diarrhea in a fast is not as common as vomiting, but it does occur occasionally. When it does
develop, it may come at any period of the fast, even after thirty-five days. The discharge is
composed of bile, mucus and retained feces. This crisis is undoubtedly of a cleansing character. It
may be viewed in the same light as the diarrhea that accompanies marked edema in nephritis
(Bright’s disease) by which much of the edematous fluid is expelled from the body. That this ever
occurs in non-fasters I am not sure, but it is a common development in fasting a dropsical case.
5211
Nine Basic Steps
Let me warn emphatically that fasting is a much more complicated process than generally realized
even by some of its ardent advocates. It involves much more than merely going without food. There
is an art to fasting as
well as a science of fasting. The uses of fasting seem, at times, almost
unlimited. Its inconveniences are not great, its dangers are few and rarely seen. Yet for the most
satisfactory results it must be conducted in accordance with a few well-ascertained rules and
techniques by an experienced man. It is not a process to be left to the guidance of anyone of meager
knowledge or no experience in conducting fasts.
Paradoxically, less supervision of the fast is required in acute disease than in chronic disease.
When disease is the result of years of wrong life, and if the condition of the patient is one of grave
weakness, with severe organic impairment, much skill will be required to take the individual
through a fast of sufficient duration to accomplish the desired results.
In such situations, it would be hazardous to rely on inexperienced and untrained men. I am
aware that there are some untrained laymen attempting to conduct fasts. I believe it is vitally
important to investigate beforehand to be sure you have the best and most experienced man
available. In this connection I must point out also that, while there are several schools of so-called
healing recognized by law in this country, few of the practitioners of any of these schools have any
knowledge of and experience with fasting. We cannot select any
doctor
 at random, without
knowing his special training, to supervise a fast.
It is a fundamental rule of
hygienic
 practice that all the needs of normal physiology are present
in states of illness. And in periods of abstinence, they must be met according to a degree of need
and functional ability, to the end that organic and functional integrity may be preserved or restored.
Let us understand this clearly: when we fast we do not also cease to breathe or to take water.
There is never an absence of need for oxygen; we continue to become thirsty at intervals and we
drink. Fasting is abstinence from food, not abstinence from all of the essentials of life. And it is
abstinence from food only in the sense that we abstain from taking in the raw materials of nutrition
for a period of time, while the body draws on its stored-up supplies. We still need and use food.
Fasting is not suspended animation. Indeed, although it is a period of greatly reduced activity,
some of the processes of life are actually accelerated during periods of abstinence. The ordinary
needs of life: food, air, water, warmth, sunshine, activity, rest, sleep, cleanliness, poise of mind,
remain basic needs of the fasting organism.
Food (nutriment) with which to sustain the functioning tissues of the body is obtained from the
reserve stores within the body. Water is taken according to the demands of thirst; warmth is
required so that the body does not become chilled; sunshine is needed in keeping with the
somewhat reduced metabolic activities of life; cleanliness is still a requirement; sleep is a
necessity; mental and emotional stabilization is especially important.
This means that the techniques of fasting are significant and should at
least, in a broad general
sense, be recognized and understood by anyone interested in this field or contemplating a fast.
Where do these techniques begin? Some say they should begin long before the fast starts—with
the earliest stages of fast preparation!
1.
PREPARATION
53Many complicated plans have been designed to prepare the individual or patient for a fast.
Some of these involve a period on special foods intended to empty the intestinal tract of material
before the fast is started. Others are rituals involving fasting a day, eating two days, fasting two
days, eating four days, and so on in this manner, with the goal of gradually preparing one for a fast
of considerable length. All such plans are wasteful of the patient’s time and money, since they
revolve around the idea of feeding at a time when a fast is needed. As there is no reason why one
may not go into a fast abruptly and without these rituals, they are not recommended here


168
-Leek Bisque, 192
Steamed Vegetables in Lemon Butter Sauce.
206-207
Stew for Two, 162
Sweet Basil, 173
234 • INDEX Yam Slew, 211-12
Case for Health, A (Diamond). 119
Casein, 8?, 85, 103
Cason, Dr. Arthur, 41
Castelli, Dt. William, 50, 65
Catabolism, 24
Cauliflower, 74, 101-104, 128
Crustv Butter-Crumb Vegetables, 176-77
Curried Vegetables, 183-84
Harvest Soup. 167
New York Coodwich. 159-60
-Pea Cream Soup, 190
Soup. Perfect Creamv, 152-53
Toastie, 166
Cedarlane, 131, 133
Celery, 128
Fresh Vegetable Juice Coektail, 152
Celerv root (ecleriac), 128
Salad. 212
Celestial Seasonings, 138
Cells, 72,92
composition of. 17-18
reproduction. 25
Cellulite. 52
Cereals. 132
Cesar Cardini Foods. 135
Champion juicer, 119
Chard, 128
Chattcrjca, J. B., 78n.
Cheese, 84, 85, 134
California Tostada. 187-88
Chemical-free foods. J22-23, 144
Chemicals in meats. 76-77, 83
Chcrimoya. 125
Cherries, 124
Chicken
Easy Roast, 154
Garlic Broiled, 198
Salad. Curried. 164-65
see also Meat
Children. 115-17, 143
Chips, 132
Chocolate, 98-99
Chop Suey, Farmer's, 200
Chowder, Country Corn. 158-59
see also Soup(s)
Cinque, Dr. Ralph, 6, 104
Circadian rhythms, 21
Cleansing, see Detoxification; Elimination cycle
Coffee, >9. 95-97, 119
decaffeinated, 96
substitutes, 138
Colds, 81, 116
Colitis, 62
Columbia University, Institute of Human
Nutrition, 99
Combining foods, principle of properly, 37-47, 84
the digestive process and, 37-43
increased energy resulting from. 38. 43, 45, 46,
47
weight loss resulting from, 43-44, 46-47
when to eat fruit, 51-52, 54-55, 56, 59, 115,
143
Common Sense Guide to a Sew Way of Eating. The
(Diamond), 112
Concentrated foods. 29. 32. 33, 35, 84
digesting, 39, 42, 43
at salad bars, 141
Condiments, see Seasonings and condiments
Cooking, 34, 43. 53. "5
preparation time. 144
Corn. 74, 128
Bread, Honey, 219
California Tostada. 187-88
Chowder. Country. 158-59
on the Cob, Perfect, 18(1
Salad, Curried, 210-11
Cornell University. 97 Cornell University Medical Center, 44
Cornish hens, see Meat
Cottage cheese for Farmer's Chop Suey. 200
Country Corn Chowder, 158-59
Couscous, 131, 201-202
Cousins. Dr. Norman, xiiin., 92
Cracked wheat (bulgur). 132
Tabouli, 205
Crackers, 132
Cravings, 33, 112
Creamy Avocado Dressing, 222
Creamy Dressing, 175
Croutons, Garlic, 163
Crusty Butter-Crumb Vegetables, 176-77
Crusty' Roasteds, 221
Cucumbers, 74. 127
Cuke-A-Tillas, 170-71
Hilled. 185
Energy Salad, 149-50
Nuts and, 162
The Properlv Combined Sandwich, I 50- 51
Raita, 184
Vegetable-Fruit Platter, 156
Currants, 127
Curried Cabbage, 163-64
Curried Chicken Salad, 164-65
Curried Corn Salad, 210-11
Curried Mayonnaise Dressing, 165
Curried Vegetables, 183-84
Cyborski, Cathy Kapica, 77n.
Daikon, 128
Dairy Council of California, 104
Dairy products, 80-87, 144
shopping list, 134
see also individual dairy products
Dandelion greens, 128
Dapoca Foods, 138
Date(s), 54, 86, 115, 124
Shake, 194-95
Degenerative diseases, 6, 19-20, 30. 32-33. 34, 81
see also individual diseases, e.g. Arthritis; Heart
diseases
Dehydration, 77
Depression. 110, 111
Dc Schryver, Adrien, 70n.
Detoxification, 30-36, 38, 39, 91, 111, 112
discomfort from, 61-64
fruit consumption and, 50-51. 59
theory of, 61-66
Detoxification Workshops, 11 3
Deviating from the program, 6, 65
Diabetes, 95
Diamond, Harvey (author), 1-106. Ill), 111, 112,
119
Diamond, Marilyn (author), 27, 107-225
Diarrhea, 62, 77
Diet and Salad Suggestions (Walker), 85n., 103n.
"Diet and Stress in Vascular Disease," 78n.
Dietary Goals for the United States, 19
Diet for a Small Planet (Lappe). 71
Diets
fad. 5-6. 7, 8-9
ineffectiveness of. 9-12
Digestive system, 17, 38, 39, 99
dairy products, digestion of, 82-83, 103
energy required for digestion, 38, 39, 41-42,
50-51, 53, 55, 56,68
meat-eating and suitability of human, 75-76
properly combined foods to aid, 39-47
Dijon Dressing, 181
Dilled Cucumbers, 185
Dinner, 5
four-week sample menus and recipes, 149-222
substituting a main-course salad for, 140, 143
Dip
Fruit, 170
INDEX • 235 Dip (cont.)
Great Guacamolc, 176
Nut Butter, 158
Disease, 6, 19-20, 30, 35
defining, xiv
degenerative, see Degenerative diseases
diet and, 64-65, 68
DNA, 17, 18, 98
Dr. Bronner's All-Onc-God-Faith Inc., 132, 134,
136
Dolomite, 105
Dosti, Rose, I04n.
Dressings, see Salad drcssingls)
"Drug Resistant Salmonella from Animals Fed
Antimicrobials," 83n.
Drugs, 62, 105
Ducellier, Armand, 111
Dulse, 86
Ear infections, 81, 87, 116
Early American Life (Lewis), 45-46
Easv Fruit Salad, 186-87
Easy Roast Chicken, 154
Eden Foods, 129, 132. 133, 135, 137
Edward and Sons, 132, 134
Eggplant, 74, 128
Eggs, 79
Einstein, Albert, 74
Elimination cycle, 21. 22, 25, 26. 29. 38, 46, 59,
91, 114, 116
high-water-contcnt food, 29-30, 36
theory of detoxification, 61-66
see also Detoxification
Ellis, Dr. William A., 84
El Molino Mills. 133
Endive, Belgian, 128
Energy, 56
balance, xii, xiv, 6, 7, 14
dairy product consumption as drain on, 84
to digest food, 38, 39, 41-42, 50-51, 55, 56, 59,
68
Energy Udder, 120-21
increased,


 ofu Mousse with Almond Praline

Carrot Coriander Soup
1 teaspoon ghee
1 cup leeks, chopped
1 tablespoon ginger, fresh, chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon red chili flakes
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
3 cups carrots, cubed
¼ cup golden raisins, chopped
2 teaspoons coriander, dried
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon asafetida
4–5 cups vegetable stock
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup low-fat coconut milk
2 tablespoons cilantro or parsley

In a soup pot, heat up  the ghee and add the leeks and the ginger. Add the pepper, chili  flakes, and 1
teaspoon of Braggs. Add the carrots and the raisins. Sauté for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the coriander,
cumin, asa fetida and the rest of the Braggs. Continue to sauté 3 to 5 minutes. Sauté until lightly
browned. If the mixture gets too dry, add a little broth. Add vegetable stock to cover and bring to aboil. Cook  the soup u ntil carrots are soft. Puree soup with a food processor or a han d blender. Add
lemon and coconut milk just before serving. Garnish with freshly chopped cilantro or parsley.
Roasted V egetable Barley Risotto
Barley
1 teaspoon ghee or olive oil
3 medium-size leeks, chopped
6–8 cups vegetable stock, made flavorful by adding herbs
and leeks
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon basil, dried
1 teaspoon black pepper
2 cups pearl barley, or ganic

In a heated  braising pan, heat ghee and add the leeks. Sauté 1 minute, add 2 tablespo ons vegetable
stock, Braggs, vinegar, basil, and pepper. S auté until the leeks are clear. Add the barley. W ith a lar ge
spoon, toss the barley  around in the pan to brown. Don’ t let the barley get too dry. Add ½ cup of
stock, if necessary. Sa uté until the barley becomes golden brown or caramelized. Co ntinue to add ½
cup of stock at a time when the mixture becomes dry. Always add enough stock to cover the barley as
it cooks. Keep a lid h andy to use during the cooking process. Continue to check an d stir the barley
every few minutes to make sure enough liquid is in the pot to cover the barley. This will take up to 30
minutes at a rapid boil.
Roasted V egetables
2 carrots
2 zucchini
1 medium-size eggplant
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon Italian herbs
 Remove the ends from the carrots, zucchini, and eggplant. Cut each in half. Slice each into ¼-inch
slices. Set aside. Combine the oil, Braggs, vinegar, pepper, and Italian herbs in a lar ge bowl. Whisk
together with a wire whisk. Add the vegetables and coat with the marinade. Remove from the bowl
and lay out on a spra yed sheet pan. Roast  in the oven for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Y ou can also
cook them on an outside grill. Remove from oven and cool of f.
T o Assemble
½ cup roasted red pepper, fresh or from a jar
1 cup white beans, cooked, or 1 can, rinsed
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh mint, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh basil, thinly sliced
1 cup tomatoes, chopped
¼ cup parsley, chopped

As the barley continu es to cook, and the l iquid absorbs, keep adding the stock until the barley is
tender to the taste. Be careful not to overcook. Slice your roasted vegetables into 1-inch bite-size
pieces. Add the chopped vegetables into the pot with the cooked barley. Add the roasted red peppers
and the cooked white beans. Add freshly chopped rosemary, mint, and basil to the pot. T oss all
ingredients. Place the risotto into an attractive serving dish and garnish with freshly chopped parsley
and tomatoes. Add your favorite grated cheese for a rich taste.
Cranberry and Sweet Potato Chutney
1 teaspoon ghee
½ cup leeks or shallots, chopped
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
2 cups sweet potato, diced into small pieces
1 cup cranberries, dried
1 can apple juice concentrate, or ganic, frozen
½ teaspoon cloves, whole
3 cinnamon sticks
½ teaspoon cardamom, dried
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
½ teaspoon coriander
 In a sauté pan heat the ghee and add leeks. Sauté for 1 minute and then add pepper, Braggs, and the
sweet potatoes. Sauté together for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the cranberries and apple juice. As the apple
juice concentrate begins to melt, add th e cloves and the cinnamon sticks. Add the cardamom,
balsamic vinegar, apple cider vinegar, and the coriander once the liquid is melted and a rolling
simmer is achieved. Allow the mixture to simmer at a reduced heat for up to an h our. The liquid
should reduce to create a smooth yet thick consistency. Serve warm or chilled.
Or ganic Field Greens with Apple V inaigrette
1 lar ge Granny Smith apple, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon juice poured into ½ cup water
¼ cup almonds, roasted
3 cups or ganic field greens
1 cup spinach, washed
¼ cup feta cheese, crumbled
½ cup cherry tomatoes or yellow pear tomatoes
1 cup sunflower or alfalfa sprouts

Dressing
1 cup apple juice
¼ cup balsamic vinegar
¼ cup honey
1 teaspoon tarragon
1 teaspoon thyme
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons basil, chopped
¼ cup olive oil

Soak the chopped apples in the lemon water.
Place the almonds on a baking sheet and roast in the oven for 20 minutes or briefly dry sauté them.
Combine the dressing ingredients in a blen der minus the olive oil. Blend until smooth. Slowly add
the olive oil and blend until the mixture begins to thicken.
Place the greens, drained apples, feta cheese, and tomatoes in a salad bowl. T oss with the dressing.
Arrange the salad on a plate and garnish with almonds and sunflower sprouts.Cocoa T ofu Mousse with Almond Praline
2 tablespoons ghee, unsalted butter, or canola oil (for a vegan
dessert)
2 tablespoons apple juice
1 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips (T ropical Source)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
12 ounces silken tofu, low-fat, firm or extra firm
¼ cup maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Coconut or fresh fruit for garnish

In a small saucepan, melt the ghee and ap ple juice with the chips and vanilla. Stir frequently to
avoid burn ing. Use a double boiler if you like. When the chips are melted, remove fr om the heat and
stir into a creamy consistency. Set aside.
In a blender or food processor, combine tofu, syrup, and vanilla extract. Blend at high speed for
one minute. Scrape the sides down and continue to blend into a smooth consistency. Add the melted
chips to the blender or processor. Continu e to blend until smooth and well incorporated. Spoon the
mousse into small dessert bowls or reserve in a container with a tight-fitting lid. Place in the
refrigerator to chill.
Almond Praline
1 tablespoon ghee
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 cup almonds, sliced

Heat the ghee and ma ple syrup in a small sauté pan. Add the almonds. Stirring frequently, coat the
almonds well and sau té until golden brow n. Remove from heat and cool of f. Garnish mousse with
almond praline and coconut or fresh fruit.
MIDDLE EASTERN CUISINESpinach and Lentil Soup
Hummus
Quinoa T abouli
Cr eamy T ofu Cucumber and Mint Raita
Ratatouille Stew
Maple W alnut Filo T riangles

Spinach and Lentil Soup
1 teaspoon ghee
½ teaspoon red chili flakes
3 cloves garlic (optional)
1 teaspoon ginger
2 cups leeks or onions
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon rosemary, fresh, chopped
1 tablespoon Braggs Liquid Amino Acid or tamari sauce
½ cup bulgur wheat
1 teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon allspice
1 cup lentils, sorted and rinsed
5 cups vegetable stock
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons tomato paste
4 cups fresh spinach, chopped

In a soup pot, heat the ghee and add the red chili flakes, garlic, ginger, and leeks. Add pepper,
rosemary, and Braggs. Sauté for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the bulgur and sauté until gold en brown. Add
the cumin and allspic e and continue to sauté. Add the rinsed lentils, the stock, and  the bay leaves.
Bring the soup to a b oil. Add tomato


 are cola drinks containing
caffeine and sugar stimulants, cigarettes full of toxic substances, and eventually alcohol and street
drugs, giving a brief ‘high’ and leading to addiction.
The same vicious circle affects adults, too. Since the conventional American diet is devoid
of live nutrients, the body remains unsatisfied and craves more—not quantity but quality, proper
nutrition that it needs to function smoothly and well. Sadly, people don’t know or understand this,
and so they try to satisfy their craving with rich desserts, ice cream, cakes and cookies. These
don’t satisfy, either, but they do create weight gain, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and
eventually diabetes and worse. Obesity is a morbid condition indeed, and can only be overcome
by changing to a junk-free, nutrient-rich wholesome diet.
One doesn’t need a degree in nutrition to know that all kinds of sugar are fattening, and that
the modern Western diet with its vast range of convenience foods is over-rich in sugar. However,
when it comes to official policy concerning nutrition, such basic facts are often swept aside for
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www.thegersonway.comcommercial reasons, which frequently clash with the interests of public health. One such recent
clash concerned the upper safe limit of sugar added to food, as recommended by the WHO (World
Health Organization). Professor Colin Campbell reported on this event in his book, The China
Study,  and with his permission we quote his account:
“The recommendation on added sugar is as outrageous as the one for protein. When this FNB
(Food and Nutrition Board) report was being released, an expert panel put together by the WHO
(World Health Organization) and the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) was completing
a new report on diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases. Professor Philip James
was a member of this panel and a panel spokesperson on the added sugar recommendation. Early
rumors of the report’s findings indicated that the WHO/FAO was on the verge of recommending
an upper safe limit of 10% for added sugar, far lower than the 25% established by the American
FNB group.
“Politics, however, had early entered the discussion, as it had done in earlier reports on added
sugars. According to a news release from the director-general’s office at the WHO, the US-based
Sugar Association and the World Sugar Research Organization, who ‘represent the interests of the
sugar growers and refiners, had mounted a strong lobbying campaign in an attempt to discredit
the WHO report and suppress its release.’ According to The Guardian newspaper of London,
the US sugar industry was threatening to ‘bring the WHO to its knees’ unless it abandoned these
guidelines on added sugar. WHO people were describing the threat as ‘tantamount to blackmail.’
The US-based group even publicly threatened to lobby the US Congress to reduce the $406
million US funding of the WHO if it persisted in keeping the upper limit so low at 10%. There
were reports that the Bush administration was inclined to side with the sugar industry.
“So, for added sugars, we now have two different upper ‘safe’ limits: a 10% limit for the
international community and a 25% limit for the US,” is Professor Campbell’s wry conclusion.
Clearly, despite official claims, the obesity epidemic hitting the American people is not solely the
result of insufficient exercise!”
Osteoporosis
Also known as ‘brittle bones,’ this progressive loss of bone mass is unfortunately becoming
very common. It causes fractures or breaks at the slightest impact, such as a fall or other
accident. Fractures are immensely painful and heal slowly—or, in old people, not at all. A serious
break, necessitating weeks of bed rest, can lead to infected bedsores and other, potentially fatal
complications.
More women than men suffer from osteoporosis, so it is assumed to be caused by ageing, post-
menopausal loss of the female sex hormone estrogen, lack of exercise, and smoking. However, we
have seen a 28-year-old man suffering from this condition!  The conventional medical treatment
prescribes female hormones, calcium, Vitamin D, and regular exercise. The best that these can
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www.thegersonway.comachieve is to slow down the disease process, not reverse it. Moreover, female sex hormones can
cause cancer of the breast, the ovaries or the uterus; the body is unable to utilize the calcium and
the synthetic Vitamin D; this treatment does not restore bone mass.
In the course of worldwide research it was found that women in SE Asia, who regularly bear
six to eight children and nurse them all, do not suffer from osteoporosis. In fact it is virtually
unknown in those parts. Referring to this fact, the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible
Medicine (PCRM) reports: “The average calcium intake in Singapore is 389 mg/day, less than
half of the recommended daily allowance in the U.S. Yet the fracture rate in Singapore is five
times lower than that of the U.S., where the calcium intake is much higher.” Further on the report
comments: “Dietary and lifestyle factors that encourage the loss of calcium include: Animal
protein, sodium, caffeine, phosphorus, tobacco and sedentary lifestyle.” In one study it was found
that “Eliminating meat from the diet cuts the urinary calcium losses in half.” Also, “Cutting
sodium intake by half can reduce calcium requirements by 160 milligrams per day. Avoiding
tobacco has demonstrable effects: smokers have 10% weaker bones than non-smokers.”
Despite clear scientific proof that calcium is not the answer to osteoporosis, in January of
1997 a new advertising campaign promoting milk consumption was launched, sponsored by
the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. Among other things the publicity claimed,
“With calcium galore, milk is one of the best things around.” The ads featured female or male
celebrities sporting the new ‘celebrity milk moustache,’ The PCRM lodged a complaint with the
Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., pointing out that “increasing milk consumption
is one of the weakest possible strategies for protecting the bones, and to suggest otherwise is
dangerously misleading.”
The PCRM also stated that since calcium was needed in the diet, the kind provided by green
vegetables appeared to be of greater bio-availability (was better assimilated) than the calcium
found in milk To underline their claim, they added: “Excessive calcium intake does not fool
hormones into building much more bone, any more than delivery of an extra load of bricks will
make a construction crew build a larger building.”
As the evidence accumulates, it becomes increasingly clear that osteoporosis, like so many
chronic degenerative complaints, is largely the result of wrong eating habits. Further confirmation
comes from best-selling author John Robbins, considered to be a world-class expert on the dietary
link with the environment and health. He writes, “One long-term study found that with as little
as 75 grams of daily protein (less than three quarters of what the average meat-eating American
consumes), more calcium is lost in the urine than is absorbed by the body, establishing from the
diet a negative calcium balance.” 5 Every study came up with the same result: The more protein
was taken in, the more calcium was lost. Dr. John McDougall, one of the nation’s leading medical
authorities on dietary association with disease, adds: “I would like to emphasize that the calcium-
losing effect of protein on the human body is not an area of controversy in scientific circles.
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www.thegersonway.comThe many studies performed during the past 55 years consistently show that the most important
dietary change that we can make if we want to create a positive calcium balance that will keep our
bones solid, is to decrease the amount of protein we eat each day.” 6
All the above serves as yet another proof that the Gerson Therapy not only maintains the
calcium balance of the body, but that it is also able to reverse osteoporosis by restricting animal
protein, salt and smoking, while flooding the body with calcium from vegetable sources, along
with the proper enzymes to lodge this calcium in the bones. In fact, in numerous patients bone
mass has been increased and the discomfort or pain of osteoporosis has been cleared.
Case History:  After stumbling and falling on an uneven pavement, long-term recovered
Gerson patient A.C.  was sent for an X-ray by her doctor, to check whether her hip had been
fractured. The hip turned out to be unharmed, but osteoporosis was discovered in three places
in the spine. The woman doctor, who gave the patient the bad news, offered her a supply of
painkillers, which she refused on the grounds of feeling no pain. Instead, she got in touch with
Charlotte Gerson


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The Guide To Healthy Eating, 2
nd
 Edition;

The Guide to a Gluten-Free Diet, 2
nd
 Edition;

The Guide to a Dairy-
Free Diet;
 and
The Soy Deception.

Dr. Brownstein’s office is located at:

Center for Holistic Medicine
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Ste. 192
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www.drbrownstein.com
www.centerforholisticmedicine.comContents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction to Iodine
Chapter 2: Iodine Deficiency and Iodized Salt
Chapter 3: Different Forms of Iodine
Chapter 4: Iodine and the Thyroid Gland
Chapter 5: The Oxidation and Organification of Iodine
Chapter 6: Iodine and Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Chapter 7: The Selenium/Iodine Connection
Chapter 8: Iodine, Breast Cancer, and Fibrocystic Breast Disease
Chapter 9: The Importance of Iodine Before Pregnancy
Chapter 10: Children, ADHD, Autism, and Iodine
Chapter 11: Toxic Halides: Bromide and Fluoride
Chapter 12: Detoxification Questions and Answers
Chapter 13: Iodine Dosage Guidelines
Chapter 14: Case Histories
Chapter 15: Questions and Answers
Chapter 16: Final Thoughts: Overcoming Medical Iodophobia
Appendix
IndexDEDICATION
To the women of my life: Allison, Hailey, and Jessica, with all my love
To physicians not satisfied with the dogma who are willing to search for a new paradigm that promotes
health.
To my staff: Thanks so much for all of your help and encouragement. I appreciate all of your hard work.
And, to my patients. Thank you for being interested in what I am interested in.
Last, but certainly not least. I dedicate this book to my mentor on iodine: Dr. Guy Abraham.PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
Of all the elements known so far to be essential for human health, iodine is the most misunderstood and the most feared. Yet
iodine is the safest of all the essential trace elements, being the only one that can be administered safely for long periods of time to
large numbers of patients in daily amounts as high as 100,000 times the RDA. However, this safety record only applies to
inorganic nonradioactive forms of iodine. Based on a review of the literature, both forms, iodine and iodide, are needed for
optimal function of every organ and cell of the human body.
1
Some organic iodine-containing drugs, such as amiodarone, are extremely toxic and prescribed by physicians. The severe
side effects of these drugs are blamed on inorganic iodine although studies have clearly demonstrated that it is the whole molecule
that is toxic, not the iodine released from it. A case in point: the thyroid hormones are organic iodine-containing substances. Not a
single physician has attributed the effects of thyroid hormones to inorganic iodine. Why not? They are basically the same forms of
iodine covalently bound to an organic molecule. This author believes that this inconsistency of doublethink is most likely due to
decreased cognition caused by iodine deficiency. Medical iodophobia may have caused more human misery and death than both
world wars combined by
preventing meaningful clinical research in the daily amount of iodine needed for optimal physical and
mental health
2
.
It is of interest that the recommended daily amount of iodine for supplementation by clinicians of previous generations, that is
12.5-37.5 mg in the form of Lugol’s solution, turns out to be the exact range of intake for sufficiency of the whole human body,
based on a recently developed loading test.
3
 Iodine/iodide in the proper amounts resulted in increased urinary excretion of heavy
metals such as lead and mercury; and had a detoxifying effect by increasing excretion of the toxic halides fluoride and bromide.
4
 It
is time to wake up and realize that we are sitting on the shoulders of the giants of past generations who have given us useful
information, which we have discarded in favor of preconceived ideas by self-appointed experts.
This book by Dr. David Brownstein is a welcome departure from the past and a fresh look at facts only, discarding myths and
unfounded concerns about inorganic nonradioactive iodine/iodide. Patients will be grateful to Dr. Brownstein for bringing to light a
simple, safe, inexpensive way of healing many medical conditions.
The ultimate Healer is the Creator of heaven and earth. His guidance has been felt constantly during this project by this
author. May He bless and guide Dr. Brownstein and his patients.
“I the LORD am your healer.”
(Exodus 15:26)
Guy E. Abraham, M.D., FACN.
1
 Abraham, G.E., Flechas, J.D., Hakala, J.C., Orthoiodosupplementation: Iodine sufficiency of the whole human body. The
Original Internist, 9:30-41, 2002.
2
 Abraham, G.E., The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect of Increasing Iodide Intake on the Thyroid. Townsend Letter, 245:100-101,
2003.
3
 Abraham, G.E. The safe and effective implementation or orthoiodosupplementation in medical practice. The Original
Internist, April 2004 (In press).
4
 Abraham, G.E., Iodine Supplementation Markedly Increases Urinary Excretion of Fluoride and Bromide. Townsend Letter,
238:108-109, 2003Preface to the Fourth Edition
(Author’s note: Dr. Abraham died before I began working on the 5
th
 Edition of this book. He was gracious to write a new
Preface for each edition. I am including the last Preface that he wrote for me.)
Less than five years ago, David Brownstein, M.D. introduced to the medical community and to consumers, his book on the
essential element iodine, describing his experience with the orthoiodosupplementation program and the iodine/iodide loading test.
1
 This test is simple, straightforward, and practical.
Since then, he has crisscrossed the continental U.S.A. from East to West and North to South, lecturing on his experience with
inorganic non-radioactive iodine to physicians, other healthcare professionals and consumers. Due mainly to his persistent efforts,
reassuring healthcare professionals that inorganic non-radioactive iodine is safe and effective, there are now thousands of
physicians and other healthcare professionals using the iodine/iodide loading test and implementing orthoiodosupplementation
safely and successfully in their practices. After trying orthoiodosupplementation on themselves and their loved ones, they became
confident that medical iodophobia was not justified for the inorganic, non-radioactive forms of this essential nutrient.
The number of publications presenting new research data on the orthoiodosupplementation program has increased markedly
in this short time. As of December 2008, 23 manuscripts have been published. Dr. Brownstein is the sole author or coauthor in
five of these publications. These publications are available on our website at
Optimox.com
, under Iodine Research.
Dr. Brownstein and I coauthored a publication, reporting the positive effect of vitamin C at 3000 mg/day on a defective
cellular transport system for iodine, emphasizing the importance of a complete nutritional program for best results with
orthoiodosupplementation.
2
 In collaboration with Drs. Brownstein and Flechas, I recently published a procedure for assessing the
saliva/serum ratio of inorganic iodide as an index of the efficiency of the iodine/iodide symporter system.
3
 We have established
normal values and have demonstrated a negative effect of elevated serum bromide on this ratio, suggesting that bromide interferes
with cellular uptake of iodide. Iodine intake in daily amounts from 50 to 75mg iodine in the form of Lugol’s tablet (Iodoral®) had
a positive effect on the saliva/serum iodide ratio and decreased serum bromide.
Abnormalities in the cellular uptake of iodine were reported in breast cancer patients with elevated bromide levels.
4
Organification defects in the utilization of cellular iodide were reported in a subject with fibromyalgia.
5
 Iodine alone at
100mg/day
markedly improved the symptom scores. The addition of high dose vitamin B2 and B3 further improved the overall well-being in
FM patients.
6
The iodine project is now eight years old and strong, but not without enemies. Continued research and publications,
education of physicians and consumers, and more widespread utilization of the orthoiodosupplementation program are the most
effective ways to fight iodophobic bioterrorism and medical iodophobia.
The future of the essential element iodine in medical practice looks very promising. We are rediscovering what our medical
predecessors already knew. To quote Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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: “When I was a medical student, iodine in the form
of KI was the universal medicine. Nobody knew what it did, but it did something and did something good. We students used to
sum up the situation in this little rhyme…If ye don’t know where, what, and why; prescribe ye then K and I… Our medical
predecessors, possessing very few and crude instruments only,