 madder
root was taken medicinally to treat jaundice,
sciatica, and paralysis, and it was also used as a
diuretic. When ingested, madder imparts its
distinctive color to bones, milk, and urine, and it
probably owed much of its reputation as a diuretic
to this property. Medicinal Actions & Uses Madder fell
largely out of use in the 19th century, and is
now only rarely employed to treat kidney and
bladder stones.Rosa canina  (Rosaceae)
Dog Rose
Description Climbing perennial growing to a
height of 10 ft (3 m). Has curved thorns, leaves
with 2–3 pairs of toothed leaflets, pink or white
flowers, and scarlet fruit (called “hips”). Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe,
temperate areas of Asia, and North Africa, dog
rose grows in hedgerows and thickets and in open
areas. The fruit is picked in autumn. Part Used Hips. Constituents Dog rose hips contain vitamins C
(up to 1.25%), A, B1, B2, B3, and K, flavonoids,
tannins (2–3%), invert sugar, pectin, plant acids,
polyphenols, carotenoids, volatile oil, and vanillin. History & Folklore The hips of the dog rose
were a popular sweetmeat in the Middle Ages. The plants were not esteemed to the same degree
as were cultivated roses ( R. gallica, following entry ),
but dog rose was valued as the source of a widely
used folk remedy for chest problems. Medicinal Actions & Uses Dog rose hips
have extremely high levels of vitamins. When
consumed fresh, they provide vitamins and other
nutrients in a form that is readily absorbed by the
body. This makes rose-hip syrup a nourishing drink
for young children. The tannin content of rose hips
makes them a gentle remedy for diarrhea. The hips
are mildly diuretic. Research Clinical studies investigating the use
of rose-hip extracts for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid
arthritis, and lower back pain have produced mixed
results. Some have shown positive benefits, others
none. It is likely that some people will benefit more
than others, and given that rose-hip extracts are
very safe, rose hips and rose-hip extract are well
worth trying for arthritic conditions. Rosa gallica (Rosaceae)
Rose
Description Deciduous shrub growing to about
5 ft (1.5 m). Has a smooth stem, sharp thorns,
serrated leaves with 2–3 pairs of leaflets, semi-
double deep pink or red flowers, and scarlet hips. Habitat & Cultivation Native to the Middle
East, the rose is not now found in the wild except Dog rose hips are an
excellent source of
readily absorbed vitamins.Hips
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other medicinal plantsRubus fR uticosus
Rubus fruticosus (Rosaceae)
Blackberry
Description Sprawling prickly
shrub growing to 13 ft (4 m). Has palm-shaped leaves with  3–5 lobes, white to pale pink  flowers and clusters of black berries. Habitat & Cultivation Native to
temperate areas of Europe, blackberry is naturalized in the Americas and in Australia. It  is commonly found along roads, in open areas, and in woodlands. The leaves are gathered in summer, the berries in summer and autumn. Parts Used Leaves, berries. Constituents Blackberry leaves contain tannins,
flavonoids, and gallic acid. The fruit contains anthocyanins, pectin, fruit acids, and vitamin C.
History & Folklore As early as the 1st century
ce, the physician Dioscorides recommended ripe blackberries in a gargle for sore throats. In European folk medicine, blackberry leaves have long been used for washing and staunching wounds. Arching blackberry runners that had rooted at both ends were credited with magical properties. In England, for example, children with hernias were pushed under arched runners for a magical cure. Medicinal Actions & Uses Blackberry
leaves are strongly astringent and may be used  as a mouthwash to strengthen spongy gums and ease mouth ulcers, as a gargle for sore throats,  and as a decoction to relieve diarrhea and hemorroids. Like many red or purple fruits,  such as bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus, p. 147), blackberry fruit and juice has significant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity, helping to maintain  a healthy circulation. Related Species See raspberry (R. idaeus,
following entry).History & Folklore In 1735, the Irish herbalist
K’Eogh described uses for raspberry: “an application of the flowers bruised with honey is beneficial for inflammations of the eyes, burning fever and boils … The fruit is good for the heart and diseases of the mouth.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Raspberry
leaves are mainly used to encourage easy labor. While the specific mode of action is unknown,  the leaves are thought to strengthen the longitudinal muscles of the uterus, increasing the force of contractions and thereby hastening childbirth. A decoction of raspberry leaves may be used to relieve diarrhea. The leaves also find use as an astringent external remedy—as an eyewash for conjunctivitis, a mouthwash for mouth problems,  or a lotion for ulcers, wounds, or excessive  vaginal discharge. the 20th century, after a Canadian nurse
observed the recovery from breast cancer of  a patient who had taken the formula. Essiac has  since had a checkered history. Despite attempts  to initiate proper clinical trials, none has yet  been undertaken. Medicinal Actions & Uses Sheep’s sorrel
is a detoxifying herb, the fresh juice having a pronounced diuretic effect. Like other members  of the dock family, sheep’s sorrel is mildly laxative, and holds potential as a long-term treatment for chronic disease, in particular that of the gastrointestinal tract. Related Species Sorrel (R. acetosa) is a
European relative that is also taken for its detoxifying effect. See also yellow dock (R. crispus, following entry)
and Chinese rhubarb (Rheum palmatum, p. 126). Caution Sheep’s sorrel should not be taken by
anyone with a tendency to develop kidney stones.Fruit
Rubus idaeus (Rosaceae)
Raspberry
Description Deciduous shrub growing to
61⁄2 ft (2 m). Has woody stems with prickles, pale
green leaves with 3–7 leaflets, white flowers, and red berries. Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
Asia, raspberry now grows wild and is cultivated in many temperate regions. The leaves are collected in early summer, the fruit when ripe in summer. Parts Used Leaves, fruit. Constituents The fruit contains polyphenols,
especially anthocyanins, which have antioxidant  and anti-inflammatory activity, pectin, fruit sugars, and acids. Raspberry seed oil is rich in vitamin E, carotenes, and essential fatty acids, and is increasingly used in cosmetic skin products.Research A laboratory study in 2012 found that
a raspberry fruit extract reduced joint inflammation, cartilage damage, and bone resorption. Caution Do not take medicinally during the early
stages of pregnancy. Self-help Use Preparing for childbirth, p. 317. Rumex acetosella (Polygonaceae)
Sheep’s Sorrel
Description Slender low-growing perennial. Has arrow-shaped leaves and terminal spikes bearing small green flowers that turn red as their seeds ripen. Habitat & Cultivation Sheep’s sorrel is found
in most temperate regions of the world. It grows in open areas and in meadows, and is gathered in early summer. Parts Used Aerial parts. Constituents Sheep’s sorrel contains oxalates
and anthraquinones (including chrysophanol, emodin, and physcion). History & Folklore Apart from its role as a
salad vegetable, sheep’s sorrel is an ingredient of  an anticancer remedy known as essiac. A Native American formula, essiac also includes burdock (Arctium lappa, p. 65) and slippery elm (Ulmus rubra,
p. 145). Western herbalists learned of it early in Raspberry leaves
and fruit have been used since classical times as an astringent remedy.Rumex crispus (Polygonaceae)
Y ellow Dock,
Curled Dock
Description Perennial, growing to 3 ft (1 m),
with lance-shaped leaves and many small green
flowers arranged in whorls on the upper part  of the stem. Habitat & Cultivation A common wayside
plant in many regions of the world, yellow dock thrives in ditches, on verges and in open areas,  and barely needs cultivation. The roots are dug  up in autumn, chopped, and dried. Parts Used Root. Constituents Y ellow dock contains
anthraquinones (about 2.5%), tannins (3–6%), flavonoids, and oxalates. Medicinal Actions & Uses Though a
valuable herb, yellow dock is not often used on  its own, being combined with other alterative herbs such as burdock root (Arctium lappa, p


 this, comp aring me with the other patients, who were on their backs for days after the treatments. I sug gested it could be due to the diet I was on. The
moment I learned I had cancer I had put myself on a  healthy diet, cut all the chemicalized foods,
and made adjustments to it when a friend in Germany  gave a book on food for cancer patients. The doctors and nurses seemed amused at this and sa id I could eat anything I wanted — it would
make no difference. I continued with my diet. There was a woman doctor in the chemotherapy ward w ho seemed more willing than the others
to discuss my problem with me and I told her of my intention to seek a cure and showed her a
booklet on Dr. Nieper of Hanover. She had not heard  of Dr. Nieper or his treatment and told me I
was responding well to the chemotherapy and should forget about any other kind of treatment
until I had completed the chemotherapy sessions. I couldn’t forget about it, though, as I was
becoming more convinced that chemotherapy was not g oing to give me the long remission I had
hoped for and that I had better look quickly for an  alternative treatment. When I was told I had cancer, my husband and myself  did the contrary to what many people do
in this situation; we told everyone we knew about m y problem, hoping somebody could point us
to a cure. My husband, publishing the English-langu age magazine on the Costa de Sol (an
international retirement center full of informed pe ople from all over the world), is in a good
position to find out about things, and, even before  I began chemotherapy in Frankfurt, we had
gathered a lot of information and were writing to a  dozen doctors and clinics around Europe who
were using unorthodox treatments to cure cancer. A friend gave us a copy of the Healthview Newslette r at this time, and the long interview with
Dr. Kelley in which he explained very clearly his t heory and treatment, gave me tremendous
hope. Here was proof that cancer was being cured. I was given a break in the chemotherapy treatment a nd returned to our home in Spain towards
the end of November 1976. The chemotherapy was taki ng its toll and I felt I was going downhill. I was bald, often depressed, very weak and in pain. Until then, even during the worst moments, I
believed I would somehow fight my way back to good health. When I read somewhere that only
one in ten thousand survived chemotherapy, I assume d I was going to be the one in ten thousand. Now I wasn’t so sure, and was so weak I felt I’d ha d enough and couldn’t go on. The cramps in
my stomach became unbearable and we called in a loc al doctor, a friend of ours, and he gave me
an injection to kill the pains. He called my husban d aside and told him that he had given me
morphine and would come immediately any hour of the  day or night to give me more as I needed
it. He thought I couldn’t live many more days. Anot her doctor friend, who runs a local clinic
where I was having regular blood checks, had receiv ed a report from the Frankfurt hospital,
which stated I had a fist-sized growth on the liver  and several other plum-size growths in the
pelvis area. Questioned by my husband as to my chan ces, he simply shook his head and said,
"malo, malo, malo" (bad, bad, bad). I felt the stomach cramps were indigestion and beca me extremely careful about what I ate. In
fact, at this point I was almost too frightened to eat anything. I knew now I had to do something
quickly before it was too late. We began studying a ll the information we had gathered on cancer
cures and set ourselves a time limit of two days to  make our decision. This was perhaps the most
agonizing time of all. I felt we had to make the ri ght choice the first time, as there wouldn’t be time for another. My Yoga teacher joined us (I had started Yoga some weeks before and each
day was doing some simple exercises, mainly breathi ng exercises, which I believed would
strengthen me and help me relax). We had several bo oks on cancer treatments but kept coming
back to Dr. Kelley’s One Answer to Cancer. It made sense to me and I was particularly
impressed by the fact that Dr. Kelley had gone thro ugh what I was going through and had cured
himself. I had felt convinced about Dr. Kelley for weeks but I was put off by the distance I
would have to travel to see him. He seemed so far a way and I dreaded the journey. I made my
decision at the end of two days and phoned The Kell ey Foundation in Winthrop, Washington. As
much as my husband wanted to go with me, we agreed that it would be more practical if he
stayed at home with our three small children (ages 5, 7, and 9) and I be accompanied on the
journey by my yoga teacher, who — being American — would probably prove more useful
during our time in the States. Winthrop was quite a contrast to the hospital in Fr ankfurt. I had been very impressed at first by
the vast buildings, the army of doctors and nurses,  the apparent efficiency of the Frankfurt
hospital and felt, mistakenly, I had come to the ri ght place and that here they must be clever
enough to cure anything. Arriving in Winthrop, I wo ndered if it could be possible that such
important work as Dr. Kelley’s was being carried ou t in such a tiny place miles and miles from
anywhere. Dr. Kelley himself was quite different from the doc tors in Frankfurt who had made me feel I was
being a nuisance every time I asked a question abou t my condition and treatment. This attitude I
had found frustrating, as it was my life in their h ands and I considered I had a right to know
exactly what they were doing with it. The other pat ients didn’t seem to mind being treated like
children who should keep quiet and do as they were told. At least, I never heard any ask
questions about the treatment they were receiving o r drugs they were being given. When I
suggested to a fellow patient receiving chemotherap y and in constant pain that she eat something
healthier than Frankfurter sausages and ice cream, she said the doctors knew best and they would
surely not give her food that was not good for her. At last I was speaking with a doctor who treated me  like an intelligent human being and was
quite willing to discuss all the details of my illn ess. Dr. Kelley explained everything very clearly,
admitted I was in a bad state but said he saw no re ason why I shouldn’t come through if I
followed the treatment. It was largely up to me. I felt tremendous relief and hope. It was like the
chance to live had been taken away and was now bein g given back to me. I now had a chance
and it was all I asked for. If my recovery depended  largely on my own efforts, I felt confident I
would succeed, as I was ready to do anything to get  well. Returning home, I stopped off at Frankfurt where I had a mid-December appointment for more
chemotherapy. I hated the idea of having more drugs  pumped into me but relatives and friends at
Frankfurt, nervous at the thought of my dropping th e orthodox treatment, advised me to keep the
appointment, and Dr. Kelley did not seem opposed to  the idea of my having one more session. I
went to the hospital but the moment they started gi ving me the injections I felt I had made a
terrible mistake and that all the drugs were going to do was poison my body and weaken it even
more. I felt terrible afterwards. I was in bed for severa l days with pains, nausea and exhaustion, and I
felt very depressed. I felt so weak I couldn’t face  the journey home to spend Christmas with my
husband and my children. I spent all Christmas day vowing I would take no more drugs. All I
wanted now was to go home and start Dr. Kelley’s pr ogram. I began the nutritional program on January 3, 1977. Swallowing all the supplements and taking
the morning enema was a bit of an effort at first b ut after a few days I got used to this and it
became routine. I suffered none of the reactions Dr. Kelley warned me about. In fact, I began to
feel better almost immediately. The pains went and,  except for an ache in the shoulder during a
bout of flu last winter, I have had none since I st arted the program. I followed Dr. Kelley’s advice and became selfish f or a few months, concentrating all my
thought and efforts on my own health and helping my  body to become strong again. I continued
my daily yoga exercises. I started a vegetable gard en so we could have fresh vegetables. I began
to make my own bread, made from whole-grain flour w e bought from an old mill in an inland
Pueblo. I felt now I was doing something positive a nd, after months of pain and depression, was
now on the road to recovery. After eight months, I was re-tested and Dr. Kelley wrote me to tell me I was making very good
progress. This was tremendously encouraging but I a lready


 has a Mammalian Brain. It  can, and does, experience anger. (Don’t test this theory. I promise you, it’s accurate.) But a lion does not make a judgment
about these things. “Was my anger justified? Was it righteous or misplaced? Was it perfect
or overblown? Should I get angry at tha t level in the future? What will the other lions
think?” Lions don’t ask themselves such questions. A human has a brain developed to the third level. A human takes in data, compares it to
other data, organizes ways of responding to that data, weighs all th e options, analyzes the possible and probable outcomes attached to each option, makes a judgment about the best
of those outcomes, and tells the body how to respond. All in one /one -millionth of a second. Pretty incredible, eh? Yet even with all this magni ficent computing equipment housed in
your skull, the response your mind selects may have nothing to do with the moment at hand. Now isn’t that  cute.... The problem is that many humans have not learned yet to use all the faculties of the
mind —including t he ability to consider information not contained in any prior data —to
produce their response to any given situation. Much less have they considered using the
exact same mechanism, the human brain, to create  conditions that they prefer, rather than
endure c onditions they encounter. All that most of our poor minds do is bring up memories and sub -memories from our
recent (this lifetime) and distant (evolutionary lifeline) past. It dumps these data into our
Now and simultaneously projects them onto our Future. This lightning -quick process creates energy in a form that we call “thought” and sends it
into motion. I formulate this phenomenon as: E+motion. For the purposes of this discussion
I call it, simply, emotion. This is the creative force of the universe. I think I need to say that again. This is the creative force of the universe. That it why it is so sad that so many people think
that emotions are things over which they have no control. In fact, it is as I said earlier:
emotions are chosen. The mind decides  to feel a certain way. Emotions are an Act of Will. Only when we understand this can we do as I have described... use emotion to create
conditions we prefer, rather than simply react to conditions we endure. (More on this —
much  more —in part 2  of this discussion.) We’ve already explored at length how to change your emotion. A simple recap: change
the thought that sponsors it. To do that, change the truth that sponsors the thought. To do
that, use your mind to it s fullest potential in the moments immediately after any given
event. Search beyond your Data Bank to create a basis for your truth. (Again, that is what
part 2  of this book is all about.) I have gone deeply into the Mechanics of the Mind here in order to give you a real basis
for understanding how to use them to go beyond them. Can you see now more clearly that this is all that the lady in the workshop did? She did it
rather quickly, too, with just the tiniest facilitation. Fur thermore, she agreed that she could
probably do this in the future on her own, without prompting or help of any kind —because
she suddenly saw what she had been doing. She consciously watched herself pouring what
she judged to be a bad past into the present, projecting a memory of her father all over it. In seeing this, she was doing what spiritual teacher Mary O’Malley and others call
“bearing witness.” Workshop Lady witnessed what she was creating in her mind and
simply made a new choice about that. Now sh e doesn’t have to do that anymore. The process I’ve been describing is about moving to a new thought. And so it’s perfect
that the work that I and others like Eckhart Tolle and Mary O’Malley do in the world is
sometimes described as being part of the New T hought Movement. It is about raising consciousness, or elevating awareness, from Imagined Truth to Apparent Truth, producing
an experience that jumps from Distorted Reality to Observed Reality. It was quite apparent to my workshop participant, as soon as s he stopped to think about
it, that I would never harm her in any way, and that I was not her father. All she had to do to
notice this was look at things more closely, and not simply accept her mind’s first message
about all that. This is what is meant by t he oft -heard injunction: Think Twice. So all you really have to do to change your thought about something is to Think Twice. When you are facing enormous change, and the fear that quite normally can be attached to
it, many people will say to you, “Don’t gi ve it a second thought.”
I’m telling you exactly the opposite. I am a precious occurrence,
and I don’t have long. We, are a precious occurrence. And as long as we think we have —
we don’t have long. Too much time is being wasted
running
from face to face
asking, “What is my name?”
If you don’t yet know it
or if you’ve forgotten,
then become still, go within
and answer it. _______
You, are a Precious Occurrence:
tell us your name. —‘Precious Occurrence’  © 2008 Em Claire  14. AND NOW, A LIFE -ALTERING QUESTION
OKAY, SO WE’RE CLEAR  now that changing your thought is simply a matter of thinking twice,
of having a second thought about it, of noticing the moment. Why don’t we take a real -world example of something that could be happening to you
right now and see how t his process could work, okay? First, I’d like to create a visual to go along with the Notice the Moment  process, so that
you can see exactly what we’ll be doing. By now we all understand that there are three
kinds of “reality.” There is Distorted Reality ( what you think is going on), Observed Reality
(what you see right in front of you), and Ultimate Reality (what is “so” about what is going
on, what is “so” about why  it is going on —and what is “so” about you.) We also know that these realities emerge from three brands of truth: the Imagined
Truth, the Apparent Truth, and the Actual Truth. Here is what that looks like charted out... The small print within each of these levels denotes Points of Origin for your thought
about what is happening in your  life right now. The larger, bold print tells you where those
starting points will lead you. If you wish to change the experience of life that you are having right now, it is simply a
matter of moving this starting point upward on the pyramid. It is a proc ess of lifting your
awareness as high as possible. Now, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on in your life right now, we’ll have to
pretend. Let’s say that you’ve just lost a relationship. Let’s use that situation just for the
sake of this illustrat ion. You can take your own actual situation and apply to it the same
formula we’re going to use here. Okay, now let’s say that it was the other person in your relationship who ended it. The
moment that person walked out the door for the last time, your min d started working. First, your Human Brain searched all past data. It analyzed every other time in your life
when you felt left, deserted, abandoned. It brought up all the data —Judged Data and
Factual Data —from those prior experiences (including the time y our mother left you in the
crib and walked out of the room and you didn’t know when she was coming back) and
compared the information. Now here is something you should know. It is the negatively Judged Past Data to which
your mind will pay the most attention —because it is this data that your ego, which is the
Here and Now operative of the mind, does not want to experience again. So your b rain looked at this negatively Judged Past Data, added it to the Present Data,
and, mixing these data together, birthed a thought that created an emotion that it thinks
serves  you. Namely: deep sadness. This dropped you lower on the Pyramid of Being, movin g
you from Observed Reality to Distorted Reality. In short, you feel terrible. As I’ve described, even if you’ve never, ever been rejected or abandoned before, others
have, and so you will still have a basis in negatively Judged Past Data for creating thou ght
and emotion. It will simply be someone else’s  negatively Judged Past Data —the cellular
memories of your species, brought forward by your Reptilian Brain. From this you could, if
you are not careful, produce an instinctive reaction. And now, yet one mor e possibility, yet one more question: What if you have  had a
previous experience closely resembling your present experience, and your previous
experience was good? What if the Judged Past Data that resembles Present Data holds good
news? (Remember, not all  Judged Past Data is negative data. Some of your previous
experiences could have been judged to be quite positive.) So now, what if your Judged Past Data tells you, Don’t worry. You’ve been through this
before. Everything


 sentence, because the timeless
can’t be measured using a cl ock, so it makes no sense to say that
the timeless is with us “at ev ery second.” Instead, the timeless is
with us, period. This world is timeless. There is no need to wait for
death or Heaven to prove that eternity is real. Once you acknowledge that t he timeless is with us, a question
naturally arise s: How is the timeless related to clock tim e? The
answer is that the two aren’t related. The timeless is absolute, and
since it can’t be measured by  clocks, it has no relative ex istence. How strange. The timeless is with us, yet we can’t relate to it. So of
what good is the timeless? To answ er this  question, we have to back up a bit. Clock  time
has no privileg ed position in reality. There is no reason  why it
should be elevated above dream time or the absence of  time in
dreamless sleep. Clock time is just a quality of daily life, like other
qualities we know as colors, tastes, smells, and so on. Without
human beings to experience these qualities, they don’t exist. Photons, the particles of lig ht, have no brightness without our
perception of brightness; p hotons are invisible and colorless. Likewise, time is an artifact of human experience. Outside our
perception, we cannot know anything about time. This seems to
contradict the cornerstone of  science, which holds that “of course”
there was a physical universe before human life evolved on Earth,
which m eans that “of course” there was time as well, billions of
years of time.Here w e come  to a fork in th e road, because either you a ccept
that tim e, as registered by th e human brain, is real on its own or
you arg ue that, being dependent on the human brain, time is
created in consciousness. The second position is by far the
stronger one, even though fewer people believe it. In our
awareness we constantly convert the timeless into the experience
of time—ther e is no getting around this. Since such a
transformation cannot happen “in” time, something else must be
going on. To get a handle on t his “something else,” let’s look at the
present moment, the now, the immediate present. All e xperience happens in the  now. Even to remember the  past
or antic ipate the future is a present-moment event. Brain cells,
which physically process the conversion of the timeless into time,
function only in the present. They have no other choice, since the
electrical signals and chemical reactions that run brain cells occur
only here and now. If the present moment is the only real time we
can know in th e waking state, why is it so elusive? You can use a
clock as fine-tuned as an atomic clock to predict when the next
second, millisecond, or trillionth of a second will arrive, but that’s
not the same a s predicting the now. The present momen t, as an
experience, is totally unpredi ctable. If it could be predicted, you’d
know your next thought in advance, which is impossible. As we touched on already,  the present moment is always
elusive because  the instant you register it as either a sensation, an
image, a feeling, or a thought, it’s gone. So let’s boil these  insights
down. The now, the place where we all live, can be described as:
the junction point where the timeless is converted into
time
the only “real” time we know in the waking state
a totally unpredictable phenomenon
a totally elusive phenomenon
Now, if  all these characteristi cs are being correctly described, it
turns o ut that we have been fooling ourselves to believe that time
is a  simple ma tter of tick-tock on the clock. In some my sterious
way, ea ch of us occupies a tim eless domain, and to produce a four-dimensional w orld for the purpose of living in it, we mentally
construct it. That is, we create the world in consciousness first and
foremost. Reality, including ordinary clock time, is constructed in
consciousness as well. We mu st not fall into the tra p of saying that the mind creates
reality. The mind is a vehicle for active thinking experience, and,
like tim e and space, it has to  have a source beyond some thing as
transient and elusive as thou ghts. If we trusted our min ds, we’d
equate going to sleep with death. In sleep the conscious mind
gives up the w orld of solid physical objects and clock time. Yet
when w e wake up in the morning, there is a return of solid objects
and clock time. They were held in waiting, so to speak, by
consciousness, even during the eight hours a day that the thinking
mind was out of commission. If th e d irect pa th aims to tak e us beyond the illusion we accept
as r eal, it must deliver the experience of being timeless. In its
fullest state, the timeless experience is simple, natural, and
effortless—it is  the sense of self, which quietly lies insid e every
other experience. We are only partially there. The exercise in this
chapter, which  allows you to experience your body in awareness,
thaws o ut one aspect of the  illusion. The present discussion of
being t imeless thaws out another aspect. In both cases, as
physicality and  clock time sta rt to lose their grip, you realize that
there is another way to live: being metahuman. When you start being metahuman, you exist at the timeless
source of the self. It’s a huge step to know that the timeless is with
us, bey ond any belief in birth and death, age and decay. Things
appear and disappear in our dreams when we’re sleeping. Yet we
don’t m ourn them, because we know that dreams are an illusion. What matters isn’t the things  that appear and disappear, o nly that
you don’t mistake the dream for reality. Discovering that the same is true about our waking dream sets
us f ree from t he fear of death. Metahuman is about mo re than
this. Liberated  from illusion, we can be free of all fear. In the end,
waking up leads to absolut e freedom. We don’t just l ead our
everyday lives. We navigate the field of infinite possibilities.I11

R E C O V E R I N G  T H E
W H O L E  M I N D
magine that you’ve gone to a cabin in the woods that sits by a
small lake. The sun wakes you up very early, and when you walk
down to  the lake in the pale light of dawn, it is perfectly still. The
surface is mirror-like and undisturbed. You have the urge to pick
up a pebble and toss it into the lake. The pebble lands with a plop,
ripples spread  out across the water, and, as the ring of ripples
widens, they fade away until nothing remains but the still surface
of the lake. It h as returned to what it was before you came along to
disturb it. In this modes t experience is reflected the whole story of the
human mind. All that’s needed is to see the scene in reverse, like
running a film backward. The surface of the lake is perfectly still. A faint ring of ripples distur bs the water, at first in a way that’s
barely d iscernible. The ripple s grow bigger and the ring starts to
shrink. All at once a pebble pops out of the water and f lies into
your hand. This is how the human mind looks from the perspective of
metareality. Th ere is pure c onsciousness, still and undisturbed. Faint activity begins to stir, s o faint that you have to be quiet andvery alert to notice it. But this activity—call it a vibr ation in
consciousness—becomes mo re urgent until something fully
formed pops into existence: a sensation, image, feeling, or
thought. In d aily life a myriad of mental events pop into existence, and
they are so con stant and compelling we never experience  the still
surface of the lake, which is pure consciousness. The direct path
aims to recover this experien ce, because a still, undisturbed state
of a wareness is whole mind. Whole mind contains the infinite
potential that is unique to Homo sapiens. A s with so ma ny things
in meta reality, whole mind is already here and now. You  have to
have a lake before you can throw a pebble into it, and you have to
have a lake for the pebble to pop out of it, too. Both p rocesses
occur in the co smos as every subatomic particle emerges from the
quantum vacuum and fades back into it. Likewise, your thoughts
arise from silence, poise in midair only as long as it takes to be
noticed, and then fade back where they came from. If w hole mind is already here and now, why do we ne ed to
recover it? The answer offered in this book is that metareality lies
beyond the illusions of virtual reality, which bamboozles us by
seeming to be real


should	your	foods. For	instance,	you’ll	probably	naturally	favor	lighter,	raw
foods	in	the	spring	after	a	long	winter	of	eating	heavier	foods. When	it’s
freezing	out,	hot	meals	are	going	to	help	keep	that	internal	digestive
agni
	fire
burning,	and	you’ll	intuitively	feel	better	eating	heartier	fare. In	the	midst	of	a
hot	summer,	you	will	be	more	apt	to	naturally	reach	for	cooling,	juicy	fruits
and	coconut	water. Cooler	drinks	are	okay	in	the	summer,	but	we	still	want	to
avoid	very	icy	ones	year-round	for	the	reasons	listed	above. Keep	listening	to	yourself,	and	you	will	stay	beautifully	balanced. You	are	a
dynamic	being	who	is	experiencing	constant	shifts	and	movement	down	to	the
cellular	level. Your	emotions	and	everything	that	is	going	on	in	your	life,	as	well
as	environmental	factors	and	geographic	placement,	are	all	important
influences	on	your	dietary	shifts. It	becomes	imperative	to	listen	to	your	natural
instinct	and	to	be	aware	of	changes	and	influences	in	your	body’s	energies	and
develop	a	greater	and	greater	sensitivity	to	taking	better	care	of	yourself	as	you
become	more	receptive	to	your	own	body’s	needs. Top	Foods	for	Radical	Beauty
While	all	whole	foods	build	beauty,	there	are	some	specific	foods	thatparticularly	help	your	beauty	shine	through. This	is	not	meant	to	be	an
exhaustive	list—just	some	stellar	foods	to	work	into	your	rotation. BITTER	FOODS
According	to
Ayurvedic	principles,	bitter	foods,	which	are	lacking	in	most
American	diets,	help	tone	skin	and	purify	the	body. Foods	that	taste	bitter
typically	contain	potent	antioxidants	and	other	phytochemicals	like	flavonoids
and	polyphenols,	which	are	responsible	not	only	for	their	bitter	taste	but	also
their	phenomenal	health	and	beauty	benefits. Bitter	foods	also	help	to	stimulate
and	improve	digestion	and	support
liver	function. Beneficial	bitter	foods
include	dandelion	greens,	parsley,	cranberry,	collard	greens,	and	bitter	melon. Incorporating	bitter	foods	for	beauty:
Add	bitter	melon	to	your	next	curry	or	stir-fry. (Look	for	it	at	the	Asian
grocery	or	section	of	your	local	market.) Use	collard	greens	as	a	natural	wrap	for	veggie	burgers	or	hummus	or	veggie
wraps. Add	parsley	to	your	green	smoothies. Sip	on	unsweetened,	diluted	cranberry	juice	with	water	as	a	refreshing
beverage. Chop	and	throw	some	dandelion	greens	into	your	green	salads. SOUR	FOODS
Sour	foods	are	another	important	group	that,	according	to	Ayurveda,	can	help
cleanse	the
liver. Sour	foods	such	as	tomatoes,	lemons,	star	fruit,	tamarind,	and
fermented	cabbage	often	include	important	vitamins	like	A	and	C.
Incorporating	sour	foods	for	beauty:
Squeeze	lemon	juice	into	water. Use	lemon	juice	as	a	primary	base	for	your	salad	dressings. Add	tamarind	paste	to	soups. Eat	half	a	cup	or	so	of	fermented	cabbage	(aka	raw	sauerkraut)	with	your
dinner. MUSHROOMS
In	ancient	Chinese	medicine,	mushrooms	are	regarded	as	tonics,	which	meansthey	have	nonspecific	benefits	across	several	systems	of	the	body. Mushrooms
are	one	of	the	few	food	sources	of	vitamin	D,	which	is	important	to	keep	your
bones	and	muscles	beautifully	strong. Certain	varieties,	such	as	shiitake,	help
improve	immunity. 5
	Himematsutake	mushrooms	are	relatives	of	the	common
button	mushroom	that	is	found	at	nearly	every	grocery	store. Very	popular	in
Japan,	himematsutakes	are	believed	to	help	improve	your	skin	and	hair. 6
	Eating
button	mushrooms	may	impart	the	same	benefits! Incorporating	mushrooms	for	beauty:
Slice	raw	mushrooms	into	salads	(be	sure	to	source	organic	varieties). Bake,	steam,	or	sauté	mushrooms	or	stuff	and	roast	Portobello	mushrooms
as	the	main	protein	in	your	meal,	or	as	a	side	dish. Add	freshly	sliced	or	dried	mushrooms	to	your	soups. Try	some	of	the	many	Beauty	Detox	mushroom-based	recipes	(see	Kimberly’s
blog,
kimberlysnyder. com
). BLACK	RICE
Like	brown
rice,	black	rice	offers	various	beauty	benefits,	such	as	fiber	and
minerals,	including	manganese	and	iron. It	is	sometimes	referred	to	as	“purple”
rice	or	even	“forbidden	rice,”	because	in	ancient
China	it	was	reserved	for	the
emperors	and	nobles,	and	the	commoners	were	prohibited	from	eating	it. Thankfully,	now	all	of	us	“commoners”	have	access	to	this	fantastic	food. It
really	is	delicious,	and	it	has	some	striking	properties. You	might	never	think	to
compare	black	rice	to	blueberries	or	blackberries,	but	if	you	put	them	side	by
side,	they	are	actually	nearly	the	same	gorgeous	purple	color. That’s	because	the
bran	of	black	rice	contains	the	same	anthocyanin	antioxidants	as	these	berries. Research	from	the
Department	of	Food	Science	at	Louisiana	State	University
reported	that	a	spoonful	of	black	rice	bran	contains	more	health-promoting
anthocyanin	antioxidants	than	a	spoonful	of	blueberries,	but	with	even	more
fiber	and	vitamin	E	antioxidants. 7
	This	makes	black	rice	wonderful	for	boosting
your	skin’s	natural	beauty. As	with	all	rice,	be	sure	to	soak	it	overnight;	this	will
make	it	easier	to	cook	and	also	make	its	nutritional	benefits	more	readily
absorbed	by	the	body. Incorporating	black	rice	for	beauty:
Add	black	rice	to	bean,	lentil,	veggie,	or	other	vegetarian	soups,	making	an
easy	and	delicious	entrée	with	just	these	two	nutritious	components.Stir-fry	black	rice	with	some	coconut	oil	and	veggies	for	a	healthy	“fried	rice.”
MICROGREENS
These	tiny	powerhouse	greens	not	only	help	you	look	more	beautiful	but	also
make	any	dish,	however	simple,	look	more	beautiful. Just	sprinkle	them	on	top
of	any	meal. They’re	one	of	the	healthiest	and	most	beautiful	garnishes	you
could	use. These	young	greens,	including	red	cabbage,	cilantro,	and	broccoli,
are	harvested	less	than	fourteen	days	after	germination	and	are	about	1	to	3
inches	long. They	contain	up	to	forty	times	higher	levels	of	vital	nutrients	than
their	mature	counterparts. For	example,	red	cabbage	microgreens	have	forty
times	more	vitamin	E	and	six	times	more	vitamin	C	than	mature	red	cabbage. Want	one	of	the	easiest,	most	space-effective	ways	to	nourish	your	beauty? Add
a	handful	of	microgreens	into	your	diet	and	watch	your	skin	glow. Incorporating	microgreens	for	beauty:
Toss	microgreens	into	your	salads. Add	them	to	wraps	and	veggie	b


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1. “Routine	Periodic	Fasting	Can	Reduce	Risk	of	Coronary	Heart	Disease,”
News-Medical,	April	4,	2011,
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Whole	U,	The	University	of	Washington,	September	17,	2014,
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benefits.aspx#_edn6
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Healthful	Antioxidants,”	August	26,	2010. Presented	at	the	240th
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rice-rivals-pricey-blueberries-as-source-of-healthful-antioxidants.html
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August	28,	2015,
https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-
medicine/herbs/aloe-vera
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Induces	Lipolytic	Activity	and	Inhibits	Adipogenesis	in	Human
Subcutaneous	(Pre)-Adipocytes,”
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	6	(May	1,	2009):
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 a powerful
lesson for you as a result of that person’ s being in your life, even if he or
she visited havoc and pain on you. Forgiveness comes with surrendering to
the perfection of it all. Surrende ring replaces questioning why some things
are so painful and dif ficult to grasp.Surrendering goes beyond forgiveness, and can easily carry the burden
not only of this particular chapte r but of the entire book as well. Inherent in
the business of surrendering is the notion of trust. With surrender you trust
the perfe ction and beauty of it all, and at the same time know the paradox
that all of the suffering that seems to go on all over our planet  is a part of
that perfection, as is your own strong desire to end it. Death is not a punishment, but a transition. The only thing that dies is
form, while thought is eternal energy. You are that thought, and can never
die. Surrender completely and stop fighting anything and everything. When
you have this trust you will wonder why you did not surrender long ago,
because of the peace and serenity that you will feel. One way to move in to surrende ring is to make a personal commitment to
forgive every single person that you have ever had any conflict with. Send
each one a gift and a note wishing him or her well, and when you are
tempted to haul out those old thoughts of bitterness and angu ish, remind
yourself that that relationship has healed with the balm of forgiveness. It is
as if you knew you were going to die tomorrow, and you knew also that you
could not make  the transition if you left any people behind you that you
hated. Imagine heaven requiring  love for everyone, no exceptions, and you
having the capacity to make that happen. In many ways, heav en on earth
does require exactly that—love  that is not conditional, that is free from
demands, that allows the loved one the right to be anything that he or she
chooses without  losing your love. This is the kind of surrendering that I am
talking about, a kind of trust that everything is in perfect working order in
the universe, including yourself. As I approached the writing of this work, I surrendered. I accepted that
the principles that I was writing about are true and omnipresent in the
universe. I trusted that comple tely, as I do right now. As I proceeded to
write, I allowed  myself to flow throughout this entire project, no strain, no
worry, no fear that I would not be able to complete my undertaking. I
surrendered to the idea that this book would be written and that I had
nothing to fight or struggle abou t in the production of this work. I would sit
down and simply outline the ideas that I have had as a result of my own life
experiences, my research and reading, my listening to great spiritual
masters. Everything that I needed seemed to come in at just the right time. While
working on a particular chapter, I would receive a tape in the mail fromsomeone who had heard me speak, telling me that this would clarify some
of the points. It always did. On other occasions, someone woul d send me a
book in the mail, telling me that I simply had to read it. That book would be
the one that I needed on that particular day. Many many times when I
wanted a specia l quote to use, I would reach into the massive pile of books
and pamphlets on my huge glass table, and my hands would bring out a
book. While I sat at the typewriter, I would open that particular book to a
page, and there it would be—perfect. Just what I wanted to embellish the
point that I was making. Never before have I had this experience of
effortless perfec tion for such an extended period of time. I surrendered to it
in my writing, and allowed it to flow unimpeded through me to you. No
worry, no stress, no fighting any of it, simply knowing that it is all working
perfectly. I am not advocating an absence  of planning or caring. In fact, you will
find yourself caring and preparing even more than ever before. What I am
describing is the process of knowing that everything is going to work out
because you are at harmony within. You only have love and serenity to give
away. In the process of going about your life’s work, have that inner
knowledge that it is all going to be as it should be. This is what surrendering is about. Inner knowingness. Inner contentment
that overtakes you when you trust the force of the universe to be in
harmony with yourself. Knowing that abundance is your birthright and that
it all flows to and through you when you are no longer challenging
anything. It is like having a guardian angel or a loving observer as a part of
your consciousness, a companion that you are always having compassionate
silent conversations with, a consciousness behind your form. That part is
always perfect. There is no struggle or suffering in that part of you. That is
your transcendent dimension of thought. A sensiti ve Norwegian poet, Rolf Jacobsen, wrote a beautiful poem titled,
“Guardian Angel.” It deserves to be read slowly and lovingly. I am the bird that knocks at your window in the morning
and your companion, whom you cannot know,
the blossoms that light up for the blind. I am the glacier ’s crest above the forests, the dazzling oneand the brass voices from the cathedral towers. The thought that suddenly comes over you at mid-day
and fills you with a singular happiness. I am the one you have loved long ago. I walked alongside you by day and look intently at you
and put my mouth on your heart
but you don’ t know it. I am your third arm and your second
shadow, the white one,
whom you don’ t have the heart for
and who cannot ever for get you. We all have our own connection to that invisible part of us. There is
much more to life than simply living out our days as form, and then
disappearing into an abyss of infinite nothingness. Our thoughts are a magic
part of us, and they can carry us to places that have no boundaries and no
limitations. In that dimensionless world of thought everything is possible. It demands nothing of you, this awakened life, only that you fill yourself
with the life energy that makes the dynamic work, and that you celebrate
the invisible part of you as well as the visible. Let these ideas in and simply
see where they lead you. As you do:
Remember, you do not have to struggle…
You do not have to fight…
You do not have to win…
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        That
bouquet had literally saved her life. How many “chances” were involved in this one incident. If that couple
had not decided  to take flowers to a rehearsal, if the husband had not taken
a byroad, if they had not arrived at the river just as the old woman was
approaching it, if she had not recognized their gift as a sign, she would havelost the last several years of her life, and her family would have been
deprived of their happiness in caring for her. Let me end this chapter with one final story. It happened to me in
February 1959, when I was nineteen years of age. On a particularly  cold evening I was hitchhiking home to Michigan from
Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, Maryland. My oldest
brother would be visiting too, and I would be seeing him for the first time in
two years. I had reached an isolated rest stop somewhere in the middle of
the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The temperature hovered around minus twenty-
five degrees, and the wind was blowing so hard that I could stand hitching
at the edge of the entrance ramp for only ten minutes or so at a time. It was
about 3:00 in the morning, and I was walking out to do another stint of
hitching when I passed another sailor returning to warm himse lf in the gas
station. It was too dark to see anything but the outline of his uniform, but
since we were both in uniform we briefly exchanged words. “Be careful out there, buddy,” the freezing sailor said to me. “It’s so cold that you can only stay out there a few minutes. ”
“Thanks,” I said, “I appreciate it. ”
That was it. I went out to see if I could snare a ride, and the sailor
returned to the comfort of the rest area. After fifteen minutes of standing
there with no “luck,” I had to return to the rest area. As I walked into the
warm room, I saw the sailor with whom I had just talked in the dark. It was
my oldest brother, Jim, who was hitching home from Norfolk, Virginia, to
be with his family and to see me. How many variables had to be precise to bring us together in the middle
of nowhere, talking to each other in the dark, stranded in a freezing
windstorm. I don’t pretend to know the answer, but I do know that there are
no accidents in a perfectly synchronized universe. You will see it only when
you


de or a murmur. Four hours
later, he passed nearly a pint of the same ugly looking and smelling
urine, which he drank without making a long face. The acids of the
stomach had so much deposited on the tongue that the patient did
"1'1ot feel any taste of such urine. Two hours later, the patient had a very copious· and offensive
stools, the equal of which Armstrong had not seen in his 27 years'
experience! During the evacuation, some urine was passed which
the patient drank subsequently. He was now nearly free from pain,
eight hours after he had taken the first draught of urine, Pads soaked
in old urine were placed on his chest, abdomen and head and his
65 66 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
feet and hands were wrapped in. the same way. He passed more
and more u~ine and drank every drop of it. His bowels respon.ded
to the treatment and worked freely and painlessly. T~e evacu~t1o~s
were now clear. On the fourth day, he passed 22_ p1nts of unne 1n
24 hours, all of which he drank. In this way, considerable
improvement had taken place when came ~ set-back. Ar~strong
had to go out of station. In his absence, a fnendly doctor mduced
the patient to take a table-spoonful of grounded whe~t in water. The
result was disastrous. The flow of urine ceased and m 16 hours all
the previous iymptoms reappeared, though in a slightly less
aggravated from. There was nothing else b~t to repeat the treatm~nt
over again. The patient finally broke h1s fast?f 16 d~ys With
orange juice. For one week, he was kept on.s1mple, l1ght and
digestible food. Then the patient was back at h1s work completely
cured. When Armstrong wrote this book that young man was 40. He
lived on a well-balanced diet, drank his own urine and enjoyed
perfect health. The late Dr. Rabagliati was sq impressed by thi~ ca.se that ~e
wrote and sent a detailed accountof it to four med1cal JOurnals m
E 1 d d US A Not one of them published it! Vested interests ng an an.... · h
display the same mentality in every field! The world can see t e
new light only when this mentality changes. CHAPTER VIII
THE TREATMENT OF BURNS & WOUNDS
It was Armstrong's good fortune to prove that urine could cure
even serious wonds. In an accident, Armstrong suffered a grave
laceration and injury to his toes, ankle and foot. The toes forced
back into.the fleshy part of the foot and the toenails were torn off. Naturally the shock and pain were very severe. All the same, he THE TERATMENT OF BURNS & WOUNDS : 67
rejected the help of a medical frined as he was resolved to prove the
effects of urine treatment on the wounds. After having the portions of
his foot put into place by some osteopath, he fasted for four days on
urine and water and applied pads saturated in his own Urine to the
affected parts. These bandages were kept moist by repeated
soakings. On the fifth day when the bandages were finally removed,
the results were astonishing. All the traces of the injury had
disappeared and the fl;!et were healthy and supple. Wounds of persons by accidents or other.vise not healing under. medical or other treatment and for which amputation was the only
suggestion by doctors, were head led by Armstrong by urine therapy. In 1918, a youth came to him. He had received a bullet shot in
the arm an year ago. The wound was about ten inches in length and
about half an inch in width. He used to visit a local dispensary
every week but there was no improvement. At times, the wound
was ulcerous and suppurating. His medical advisers were afraid that
it might ultimately turn gangrenous. So they applied ·poisonous
ointments and dressings. Having got sick of orthodox methods, the
patient resorted to other treatments from which he derived some
benefit but the wound would not heal. In spite of objections from
his wife, he eventually went to Armstrong. All the dressings were
first removed. His wounded arm was then washed three times a
day with old urine. Along with it, the rest of the body was given
gentle massage for a long peroid with old urine. The patient fasted
for three days on his own urine and water. Short spells of sun-bath
were given. At the end of seven more days nothing remained of the
fissure except a very faint scar as thin as a golden thread. Since that cure scores of such patients came to Armstrong and
were healed miraculously. Armstrong on the basis of his
experiments, claims that cases of simple and poisoned wounds
treated at once take four to six days to heal whilst those first
medically treated and almost rendered gangrenous, take from ten to
twenty days to heal by urine therapy. 68 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
Burns : The statistics of cases of burning in America is worth
nothing. In a given year about eight thousand of them almost half
the number of which were children under five, died of burns. Thousands of others who survived the effects of burns, were
destined to suffer from unsightly scars. For years, the burns were
treated with boiled tea-leaves. In 1925, one doctor extracted tannic
acid from tea-leaves and the same was applied for treatment of
burns. Thus the treatment was rendered more scientific but the
problem of scars was not solved. Tannic acid was then replaced by picric acid. Later the surgeons
tried surgical methods; They took healthy skin from another part of
the body, usually the buttocks, and grafted it on to the burnt
portions. But sometimes, the wound left by the removal of the
healthy skin turned septic and consequently the patient suffered
considerable pain. Armstrong had to say that in such cases surgery
was misused as they could have been treated successfully with
natural means like urine therapy. Armstrong has given an important extract from a letter to him by
Doctor George. S. Cotton : "Your literature regarding urine therapy
was received here. I have put the urine therapy to the test and the
results have been astonishing. In the treatment of burns, wounds,
etc., urine therapy cannot be beaten by any other treatment. It
appears to me tllat you are furthering a great truth which should be
broadcast to the suffering humanity." CHAPTER IX
SOME MISCELLANEOUS CASES
It is self-deception to consider any disease as a minor one. No
disease is minor. In case a disease is not traced at once, gradually it
takes a serious form and sometimes turns fatal. The urine therapy is
equally efficacious in. minor cases qS in those of serious nature. SOME MISCELLANEOUS CASES : 69
Armstrong gives a detailed account of such smal or serious diseases
successfully cured with urine treatment. 1. Menstruat\on Trouble: A woman suffered from too prolonged
and too frequent menstruation. She first tried allopathy but with no
avail. Then she tried herbalism from which though she obtained
partial relief, was physically weakened. Once she had her monthly
course for as long as a fortnight. She decided to try urine therapy. Although at first her urine was heavily charged with menstrual
blood, she was nevertheless heroic enough to take it. Within three
days, the urine became normal. She continued the fast for 28 days,
during which she was rubbed with urine of a healthy person for
several hours every day. The result was a complete cure, not only of
the menstrual trouble but also of long standing catarrh and
increasing tendency to deafness. 2. Nephritis : A young woman was a patient of nephritis with
other distressing symptoms. For several weeks, she had been under
the treatment of two doctors. At last, she visited a specialist who
told her mother that the case was hopeless one. The patient was
then brought to Armstrong. To encourage and induce her to take
urine, Armstrong went so far as to drink himself a little of that
offensive looking fluid that she passed. After a fast of 30 days on
urine and cold water and daily rubbings, the patient was cured of
her grievous complaint. Never did any other malady develop
subsequently. When she came to Armstrong she weighed 106 lb. For
four months after the cure, she continued to use urine internally and
externally along with a balanced diet twice a day. As a result she
weighed 136 lb. which would be the normal weight for a woman of
her height and build.. 3. Obesity: A married lady aged 30 weighed 174 lb. She was
childless. Though she lived on an ill-balanced diet, she was not a
glutton. She masticated her food properly and drank water after or
in-between the meals only. Previously she had tried various
alterations in her diet but without any effect. She had fasted on plain
water only but as soon as she would resume


	difference	between	jumping	over	a	tree	as	we	just	did	and
jumping	over	a	tree	in	a	dream? Then	he	answers	his	own	question. In	a
dream	you	can	comfortably	jump	over	a	tree	because	it’s	natural	in	the	dream
world. You	know	that	you	are	going	to	wake	up,	and	when	you	do	you	realize
that	all	the	events	in	your	dream	were	just	neural	impulses	in	your	brain. There	was	no	“real”	tree;	you	look	back	on	the	whole	dream	world	as	an
illusion. The	reason	you	can’t	jump	over	a	tree	in	the	physical	world	is	that	you
don’t	realize	you	can	wake	up. A	sorcerer	is	someone	who	has	learned	to
wake	up	completely,	so	to	him	jumping	over	a	tree	is	natural. It	all	happens	as
neural	impulses	in	the	brain. There	is	no	“real”	tree. But	if	you	buy	into	the
tree	being	real,	you	must	accept	the	limitations	of	such	a	world. One	suddenly	realizes	the	immense	challenge	of	shifting	one’s	allegiance
away	from	the	physical. Does	it	involve	being	able	to	leap
over
	trees? That
would	be	an	extreme	case	(although	not	unheard	of:	Catholic	and	Hindu	lore
are	filled	with	levitating	saints,	and	a	nun	in	Egypt	even	had	to	be	coaxed
down	from	her	perch	in	the	air	above	the	tree). The	fact	that	so	few	of	us	ever
explore	the	mystery	of	life	after	death	is	testimony	to	our	fixed	allegiance. Yet
there	are	moments	when	we	realize	that	we	already	have	the	power	to	shift
from	one	level	of	consciousness	to	another	without	the	illusion	of	dreaming. Let	me	illustrate. “Thirty	years	ago	I	found	a	switch	inside	my	head	that	can	change
reality.”	The	man	speaking	is	Harold;	he	is	around	sixty	and	a	retired
freelance	editor. We	met	at	a	large	New	Age	book	convention	two	years	ago. “I	was	born	with	a	congenital	heart	defect	that	put	me	at	risk	for	dying
young,”	Harold	went	on. “This	was	something	I’d	grown	used	to	growing	up. But	after	college	my	defective	heart	landed	me	in	the	hospital	as	a	prime
candidate	for	a	pacemaker. “Unfortunately,	there	were	complications—an	infection,	all	kinds	oftrouble. One	night	during	the	worst	of	it	I	was	lying	in	my	hospital	bed. The
nurse	came	in	to	take	my	temperature,	and	as	she	left	she	forgot	to	turn	off	the
light. I	was	irritated,	but	I	was	too	sleepy	to	get	out	of	bed. Then	the	lights
went	off. “At	first	I	didn’t	think	this	was	unusual,	even	though	I	had	a	direct	view
of	the	light	switch	and	hadn’t	seen	anybody. A	few	seconds	later	the	lights
went	on	again. Then	off,	then	on. I	didn’t	freak	out	but	just	lay	there,	staring
at	them. It	was	obvious	that	no	one	was	flicking	the	switch,	but	I	could	even
hear	the	buzzing	of	the	fluorescent	bulbs	going	off	and	on. Suddenly	I	had	the
strangest	idea:
It’s	me
. “At	that	moment	I	wasn’t	sleepy	anymore;	I	felt	a	sense	of	extraordinary
clarity. Have	you	ever	heard	of	such	a	thing? Turning	the	lights	off	and	on
with	your	mind?”
I	told	him	I’ve	heard	of	much	stranger	things. Did	the	episode	repeat
itself? “Not	for	a	long	time. Fast	forward	to	last	month. A	hot	summer	night	in
New	York. My	plane	was	four	hours	late,	and	I	was	seething. I’d	missed	all
my	connections	and	was	just	standing	there	waiting	impatiently	for	my	bag	to
come	off	the	carousel. All	at	once	I	had	this	thought:
they’ve	lost	my	bag
. Sure	enough,	everyone	grabs	their	luggage,	but	my	bag	never	shows	up. “So	I	march	into	the	lost	baggage	office,	and	I	begin	to	grumble	at	the
clerk,	who	couldn’t	care	less. Yawning,	she	phones	somebody	to	see	if	any
bags	have	been	left	behind,	then	in	a	bored	voice	she	tells	me	to	fill	out	a
claim. Nothing	unusual	so	far.”
On	the	verge	of	losing	his	temper,	a	faint	notion	entered	Harold’s	head. It’s	just	as	easy	to	be	happy	as	angry. You	can	make	this	a	positive	situation
. “What	I	saw	in	my	mind’s	eye	was	an	invisible	switch. And	I	knew	if	I
flipped	the	switch,	everything	would	change. So	I	did. The	clerk	smiled	at	me
and	said	she’d	phone	to	find	out	about	my	bags. I	mean,	she	acted	as	if	she
hadn’t	already	done	that. She	phoned,	and	then	she	told	me	that	my	bag	had
been	located. I	felt	a	strange	sense	of	accomplishment. Then	a	pretty	girl
standing	in	line	behind	me	said	that	her	bag	was	lost	on	the	same	flight. Inside
I	had	the	idea,
You	should	get	your	luggage,	too
. And	the	next	instant	the
clerk	said	that	they’d	found	another	bag	besides	mine. It	was	the	girl’s,	of
course.”
“And	you	connect	this	incident	to	what	happened	in	the	hospital	thirty
years	ago?”	I	said. “Wouldn’t	you? After	the	airport	incident	I	used	the	switch	a	couple	more
times. Once	to	get	a	seat	on	a	completely	full	flight,	another	time	to	get	my
room	changed	in	a	hotel	when	they	said	I	couldn’t.”
“Don’t	things	like	that	happen	all	the	time	without	the	involvement	of
special	powers?”	I	asked. Harold	looked	bemused. This	was	different. Hecould	tell	that	he	was	causing	it. Several	things	are	striking	about	his	experience. It	involved	a	deliberate
change	of	awareness. It	felt	special,	even	eerie. It	made	Harold	see	himself	in
a	new	light. It	expanded	the	possibility	of	what	the	mind	can	do,	yet	somehow
“flicking	the	switch”	felt	normal	at	the	time. Finally,	once	the	experience	was
over,	it	faded	away	and	was	basically	forgotten. Can	we	say,	then,	that	Harold
took	a	trip	into	the	Akashic	field? Vedanta	would	say	that	Harold	experienced
a	shift	in	consciousness,	and	when	that	happened,	the	world	“out	there”
shifted	with	it. This	is	also	how	moving	into	the	afterlife	works,	via	an
internal	shift	that	creates	a	different	external	environment. It’s	important	to	grasp	that	the	domains	of	physical	objects,	subtle	objects,
and	pure	consciousness	are	actually	one	domain—Akasha—seen	in	three
aspects. This	becomes	evident	in	a	phenomenon	like	faith	healing,	which
brings	together	pure	consciousness	(God),	a	subtle	event	(prayer),	and	the
physical	body. The	light	so	often	seen	by	those	who	are	healed	is	a	subtle
energy,	which	can	also	be	perceived	as	an	electrical	or	nervous	charge	in	the
body,	a	seizure,	rapture,	or	dizziness. In	her	book,
The	Healing	Touch	of
Mary
,	Cheri	Lomonte	recounts	the	follow


 to live, would you spend three hours lying in the x-ray department
waiting for a test to be done. Hell, no. You’d say, “Take me back to my
room. This is the last twenty-four hours of my life, and I’m not going tospend one-eighth of it in the x-ray department. ” Then they’ll probably get
the test done in five minutes. I tell all my patients to make their choices based on what would feel
right if they knew they were going to die in a day, a week, or a year. That’ s
one way of giving people an immediate awareness of how they feel, even if
they have never paid any attention to feelings. We don’ t have the luxury of
five years of psychoanalysis when someone may not live that long. We have
to begin change immediately, and the best way is by asking what you’d
want to do with this short period of time. INDIVIDUAL  REACTIONS
Any psychological picture of cancer can only be a general one, of
course, and examples from other people can only serve as guideposts. Though the broad features are the same, the specifics are dif ferent for each
individual. However, many of our cancer patients are astonished when other
cancer patients outline their personalities and life stories without ever
having met them before. That can be a key motivating factor. The patient
may think, “W ow. If you know all that, I guess I’d better change my life. ”
The work of uncovering conflicts is the most important job facing the
patient, for when the outer choices match the inner desires, ener gy formerly
tied up in contradictions becomes available for healing. My job as a physician is not only to find the right treatment but to help
the patient find an inner reason for living, resolve conflicts, and free healing
energy. Although the mind is incredibly powerful, it often takes something
equally powerful to turn it on. That’ s why I ask patients to mobilize their
faith in everything they can possibly believe in. Patients who want to get
well through the doctor alone or God alone are minimizing their chances. More often than not, such people are really thinking, “I’m not so sure I
want to survive, so I’ll limit myself to the comfortable choices. ” The
frequency of passive suicide remains unknown, but it’ s definitely a factor. The one crucial question is what approach will work for each person. Never underestimate the value of the truth, even if it’ s a shock. I remember
a patient who was in congestive heart failure, not taking her medicine,
smoking like a chimney, and then coming to me for a gallbladder operation. I asked her, “Did you come here to have me kill you. ”The question surprised her. She said, “Nobody has talked to me like that
since I gave up psychotherapy. ” I just explained that, before I could deal
with her gallbladder, I had to deal with her depression and try to give her a
reason for living. I recently saw a patient with a brain tumor that had already progressed
to the point of causing seizures. She was trying to decide whether to have it
surgically removed or treat it only with a nutritional program. A friend had
asked her to talk to me, since her regular doctors were all angry at her for
shying away from aggressive treatment of this critical illness. I sat and
talked with her until we got to the root of the problem—the fact that she
was very depressed, with no great desire to go on living. Therefore, it was
easier for her just to change her diet a little. This would cause her no great
discomfort, and if she died it would be no great loss as far as she was
concerned. My ef fort, then, was to show her how to make her life
interesting enough to continue living. Then she would be in a position to
choose modern techniques for dealing with the emer gency, as well as to
change her outlook thoroughly for the future. I recommend that patients do not reject standard medical techniques, at
least as one option. Most people are simply not strong enough to “leave
their troubles to God,” that is, heal themselves through finding peace of
mind and developing a clear conscience. Drugs and sur gery buy time, and
may cure, while patients work to change their lives. Soon after we’d set up ECaP, I was interviewed by the Midnight Globe
tabloid. The resulting article was very fair and the quotations accurate, but I
was upset by the headline: “Sur geon Says Mind Can Cure Cancer. ” I
thought it was simplistic and misleading. The more I worked with patients,
however, the more I came to see that the statement was correct. Now I
consider those omnipresent supermarket newspapers to be important
medical journals. (I say this tongue mostly in cheek. ) The mind can cure
cancer, but that doesn’ t mean it’ s easy. The paradox is wonderfully expressed by an old Sufi story. A stranger
comes upon a man on his hands and knees under a street lamp in front of
his house. He’ s looking for his keys, and the stranger gets down on all fours
to help him. After a time, the stranger asks, “Where exactly did you drop
them. ”
“In my house,” comes the reply. Exasperated, the stranger asks, “Then why are you looking out here. ”“Because it’ s dark in the house. ”
The light is better in our conscious minds, but we must look for healing
in the dark unconscious. The doctor works in the light. He is verbal and
logical. The patient’ s world may be dark, but there are sources of
illumination. Within each of us is a spark. Call it a divine spark if you will,
but it is there and can light the way to health. There are no incurable
diseases, only incurable people. OceanofPDF. com4
In the long run…no conscious will can ever r eplace the life instinct. —C ARL JUNG, Late Thoughts
OceanofPDF. comThe Will to Live
One of my patients, as soon as she was diagnosed as having cancer, went
home and donated all her clothes to Goodwill Industries. More clearly than
anything she ever said, this act showed her belief that the disease would
inevitably kill her, so she might as well give up without a fight. For many people, “Y ou have cancer” are the three most dreaded words
in our language. Those who hear them experience many emotions, which
often change as people accept the news and deal with it. Some of these
feelings may remain buried in the unconscious, and it’ s essential to bring
them into the patient’ s conscious awareness. Initially, the diagnosis is always handled with some degree of denial. This allows a person to accept it over a period of time. Sometimes patients
are more depressed six months later than when they first hear the bad news,
because it may take that long to truly hear what they have been told. Some
persons seem to disbelieve the diagnosis, going on with their lives as
though nothing is wrong. Usually they are simply denying their emotions:
internally they are coming apart, but they refuse to reveal their feelings,
perhaps because of early parental messages, such as “Don’ t tell the
neighbors your troubles. ” That is a sure way to self-destruct. Performing for
the sake of others destroys you. A small number may act almost psychotic, really believing that nothing
has happened to them. If a person can maintain that kind of abnormal
denial, then cancer is not an emotional stress. But the majority cannot. Others seem to accept the truth, yet refuse to admit it on a deeper level. These are often the ones who submit to treatment but never commit
themselves wholeheartedly to trying to get well. One of my patients
declined to join ECaP  with the explanation “I haven’ t told my children I
have cancer, so how can I appear in a group. I might meet someone I
know. ” To many people, it’ s less painful in the short run to keep up a false
front than to confront the terror of a life-threatening illness. Knowing the
truth yet refusing to admit it prevents an ef fective response. Sharing one’ s
fears and problems leads to relief and healing within the body. Knowing
what you are fighting and how to fight are the keys. Denial may be better
than stoicism or despair but it is not the best approach. I try to carefully
convert deniers into fighters. As we’ve seen in the previous chapter, those who develop cancer have
often felt a sense of despair about their lives for months or years. After the
diagnosis, they may feel this even more painfully, sometimes withdrawing
from all human contact. They may also see their impending death as a sort
of sacrifice or martyrdom. These are the ones who refuse to spend money
on treatment because they feel they must save it for other people’ s needs,
such as their children’ s college education. Some simply have never done
anything for themselves and don’ t “know how. ” Others are trading their
illness for conditional love and may even, in a sense, die to gain love. Many cancer patients experience a flood of self-pity, an attitude of
“Why me. ” This is usually linked to strong feelings of anger, only some of
which are conscious. The patient wonders why he, instead of someone else,
has been af flicted with a predisposition to cancer. Hence many people get
furious with


 are reduced and in turn due to tannin (astringent
predominant) it acts as absorbent and hence the food withstanding capacity of
the intestine is gradually increased. erapeutic Application
If the above unique and specic classical principles are applied, the drug
Hareetaki and its derived formulations can be used with wider application. For example,If a patient is suﬀering from skin disease, the individual is of vata or kapha
constitution, has lesser digestive capacity better to administer the formulation
Triphala choorna which is well indicated in this condition, by mastication or
by proper chewing. Same is applicable in mouth ulcer also. Making the drug into ne paste and then administration serves as laxative. So, Hareetaki alone or Hareetaki predominant drugs like Triphala choorna,
Saptamrita loha etc can be taken in the form of ne paste or else immediately
after the intake of powder medicaments water can be administered for the
same eﬀects/benets. Well cooked Hareetaki formulations get the ability to control the intestinal
motility. is can be eﬀectively obtained by the physicians by recommending
the relative formulations like Dashamoola hareetaki, Dhatryavaleha etc in the
diseased conditions like Irritable bowel diseases, Mal absorption syndromes,
intestinal atulence, abdominal distension, mal digestion, abdominal colic etc. Haritaki fried in castor oil pacies both Vata and Pitta associated conditions
or where the intestines have developed dryness due to improper food and
habits, chronic diseases, mal nourishment, dominated vata, tissue damage
associated conditions etc. Ritu Haritaki – Harad Consumption Based on Season
Varsha Ritu – In rainy season, Harad is given along with Rock Salt. Sharat Ritu – In Autumn, it is  given along with sugar. Hemanta Ritu – In early winter, it is given along with ginger. Shishira Ritu – In winter, it is  given along with Long pepper fruit. Vasanta Ritu – In Spring, it is  given along with honey. Greeshma Ritu – in summer, it is  given along with jaggery.133. Jati – Jasminum
grandiorum Remedies:
Conjunctivitis, Wounds,
Ulcers
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
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Jasmine is called Jati in Ayurveda. It balances all the three Doshas and is used
in treating wounds, ulcers etc. Botanical name – Jasminum grandiorum Linn
e plant is commonly found throughout in India. It balances all the three Doshas. e plant undergoes pungent kind of bio transformation (Katu vipaka) and
possesses hot quality. Jasmine Remedies
Chewing the Tender Leaves of Jasmine for Mouth Ulcers
4–5 tender leaf buds are chewed regularly twice or thrice a day. is reduces
the severity of the mouth ulcers. is acts as preventive medicine too. Leaf Decoction for Washing the Wounds and Cancroids Ulcerse matured green leaves are taken and decoction is made. is decoction is
used to wash the wounds and ulcers. General method of preparation of decoction (kashaya) – 1 tablespoon of
powder is added with 2 cups of water, boiled and reduced to 1 cu p, ltered. Jasmine Flower Paste/Garland Application to Suppress the Breast Milk
is is a unique folklore practice. e owers are made into garland and tied
around the breast. Or else the ne paste of the owers is applied around the
nipples. is is said to be eﬀective to suppress the breast milk in needy people. Leaf Oil for Chronic Skin Diseases
e leaves are made into ne paste and by adding coconut oil or sesame oil the
oil is cooked (likewise ghee can also be cooked). is ghee or oil is eﬀective to
cure the varieties of skin diseases. is is found benecial even in steroid
dependent skin diseases. Leaf Fresh Juice for Conjunctivitis
Fresh leaf juice obtained from the tender leaf buds is instilled to the eyes, in
case of conjunctivitis. is is very eﬀective and indicated in all the age group
and all seasons too. Jasmine owers are considered to be the auspicious oﬀerings to the Gods. e owers are considered to be aphrodisiacs also. e lipid extract of the
jasmine ower is used abundantly in aroma therapy. us the drug jasmine
appears to be unique in various contexts and ill health conditions.1.134. Long Pepper
Remedies: Splenomegaly,
Cough, Hoarse Voice
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
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Pippali – Long pepper is famous for its adaptogenic, anti atulent, digestive
and liver – protective eﬀects. e plant long pepper is a creeper which spreads on the ground and climbs
even over the trees. Varieties of bush peppers are also found and usually the long pepper is
grafted for such bush peppers for better yield and easy plucking. Botanical name – Piper longum Linn
Piperaceae Family. Pippali is used as adjuvant in several preparations. In Rasashastric medicines,
Pippali is found as highest used herbal drug. Its bio enhancing eﬀect has been
proved and hence this made the modern scientists too appreciate this drug. e herb has remained less in use in kitchens, but it has every ability and
characters to use as a spice. Few important simple preparations are discussed here below –
Long Pepper Powder with Honey for Cough, Cold, Sore roat2. 3. 4. 5.Pippali is made into ne powder and kept ready. 2–3 grams of this is
mixed with honey and licked. is helps to pacify cough, cold, sore
throat etc. Pippali Hot Infusion in Sore roat and Recurrent Tonsillitis
Pippali coarse powder is made and soaked with hot water in the ratio
of 1:4 and kept for a while. is is taken by mixing 1 spoon of ghee, in
lukewarm condition twice daily. Dose is 30–50 m l.
is is eﬀective in sore throat, eosinophilia, tonsillitis etc. Long Pepper Fruit Decoction for Indigestion, Cold, Hoarseness of
the Voice etc. 10–20 ml of Pippali decoction is administered twice or thrice daily in
case of indigestion, low digestion, poor appetite, cold, hoarseness of the
voice, rhinitis etc. Long Pepper Remedy for Intestinal Worms
Long pepper, cumin, black pepper and Vidanga are taken in equal
quantity and ne powder is made. is is administered in the dose of
3–5 grams twice or thrice a day. is is very eﬀective against intestinal
worms and colic pain. Long Pepper with Lemon Juice for Diarrhoea, Splenomegaly
Dried pippali fruits are soaked in lemon juice and kept in sun shade till
complete drying. is is repeated for 3 times. en it is powdered and
kept ready. is is administered in the dose of 1–2 grams twice or
thrice daily. It has signicant benets on low digestion, diarrhoea,
fever, lack of strength, splenomegaly and loss of hunger.1.135. Lotus Remedies:
Burning Urination, Skin
Diseases, Face Scars
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
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Lotus owers are good cardiac tonics, diuretics, coolants, blood puriers,
complexion enhancers and antipyretic in nature. Botanical name – Nelumbo
nucifera belongs to Nymphaceae family. Depending upon the color several sub species are named and almost all
varieties have the similar properties. Red, blue/violet and white colored plants are commonly found. Red colored
is most used and appreciated in therapeutics and white takes next priority. Usually it is found in the ponds, lakes or back water. It is cultivated in tubs
and ower buckets. Flowers, petioles and seeds/fruits are used in medicinal eld. Fruits are rich
in protein and used as food also. e owers are sweet in taste, cold in potency and balance Vata and Pitta
Dosha. Few important simple Lotus remedies are explained here below –
Hot Infusion of the Lotus Flower in Burning During Urination and
in Haematuria2. 3. 4. 5.e lotus owers are taken (dry or wet


the blades on and off until the ice is chopped and the mixture is
smooth.) 6 Spoon the ice into 2 glasses, serve with a spoon, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 535 (From Fat 425); Fat 47g (Saturated 17g); Cholesterol 78mg; Sodium 97mg;
Carbohydrate 21g; Dietary Fiber 2g; Protein 13g. Vary It! You can use cottage cheese in place of the mascarpone
cheese if you prefer. Vary It! You can substitute pecans or hazelnuts for the walnuts. M o c h a  I c ePrep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 minute • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup 10 percent to 18 percent cream
1/4 cup espresso coffee, chilled
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 scoop chocolate ice cream (about 1/2 cup)
2 tablespoons chopped bittersweet chocolate, melted
1 cup ice cubes
Dir ections
1 Combine the cream, coffee, vanilla, and ice cream in the blender
container. 2 Secure the lid on the container. 3 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 30 seconds or until smooth. 4 With blender running on a medium speed, add melted
chocolate through the opening in the lid. Blend for 15 seconds
or until well mixed. Add ice and start blending on a low speed. Gradually increase to high and blend for 35 seconds or until
smooth. If you have a tamping stick, use it to move the ice
around; otherwise, you may need to stop and stir the mixture,
freeing the ice around the blades, and resume blending. (If
you’re using a blender with a pulse button, pulse the blades on
and off until the ice is chopped and the mixture is smooth.) 5 Spoon the ice into 2 glasses, serve with a spoon, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 326 (From Fat 214); Fat 24g (Saturated 15g); Cholesterol 51mg; Sodium 63mg;
Carbohydrate 25g; Dietary Fiber 2g; Protein 5g.Granite
The word granite gives you an indication of the texture of these
iced treats. Similar to the chipped or shaved ice drizzled with
ﬂavored syrup and served in paper cones or cups you may have
enjoyed at amusement parks when you were a kid, granite are
the simplest of all frozen desserts. The dessert version of this chilled treat is made from fruit and
sugar that is cooked or puréed, spread into shallow pans,
frozen, and stirred frequently to keep it from freezing into a
solid block of ice. When ice forming in the fruit-sugar mixture is
stirred, it gets broken into smaller pieces that ultimately cause
the granita’s texture to resemble sand or granite. The more
sugar used, the easier it is to keep the granita from forming a
solid frozen brick. My blended versions use the same fruit and sugar
combinations, but the addition of ice to the blender makes them
ready to consume instantly. The singular form of granite is granita. Easy frozen granite
For an easy method of achieving the Italian ices popul ar on the streets of
Italian (and some North American) cities in the summer, doubl e the
amount of liquid, fruit, and sugar in either of the recipes in this section. Omit the ice and use fresh fruit instead of frozen fruit. Blend until smooth,
pour the mixture into one or two ice-cube trays, and freeze  for at least
three hours and up to two days in advance. Note: Place the ice-cube tray in the coldest part of the freeze r. In a ches t
freezer, the coldest place is the ﬂoor, while in an upright freeze r, that spotis usually at the top of the freezer. Allow some space around the trays for
cold air to circulate — this will help the mixture to freeze  quicker. Unmold the cubes into the blender cont ainer and secur e the lid. Starting
on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend the ingredients
for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no visible pieces  of fruit in
the mixture. If you have a tamping stick, use it to move the cubes  around;
otherwise, you may need to stop and stir the mixture, freeing the frozen
purée around the blades, and resume blendi ng. (If you’re using a blender
with a pulse button, pulse the blades on and off just until the cubes  are
chopped and the mixture is smooth.) Granite made this way will be stronger  in taste becaus e the ice, which
tends to dilute the taste, has not been added to them. L e m o n  G r a n i t a
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1 tablespoon lemon rind
1 lemon
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 to 1 cup sugar, to taste
1 cup ice cubes
Dir ections
1 Grate the 1 tablespoon of lemon rind into the blender container. 2 Peel the lemon, break into sections, and remove the seeds.3 Combine the orange juice, lemon juice, and sugar in the blender
container. Taste and add more sugar if needed. Add lemon,
lemon rind, and ice. 4 Secure the lid on the container. 5 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no
visible pieces of fruit in the mixture. If you have a tamping stick,
use it to move the ice around; otherwise, you may need to stop
and stir the mixture, freeing the fruit and ice around the blades,
and resume blending. (If you’re using a blender with a pulse
button, pulse the blades on and off until the ice is chopped and
the mixture is smooth.) 6 Spoon the granita into 2 martini or wine glasses, serve with a
spoon, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 244 (From Fat 1); Fat 0g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 4mg;
Carbohydrate 64g; Dietary Fiber 1g; Protein 1g. Vary It! To make this drink icier, pour the mixture into a shallow
pan and freeze for up to 40 minutes. Scrape the ice into 2 glasses,
and serve with a spoon. M a n g o  G r a n i t a
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
3 mangoes
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1/2 cup fresh apricot nectar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 to 1 cup sugar, to taste1 cup ice cubes
Dir ections
1 Peel the mangoes, cut them in half, and remove the ﬂat stone. 2 Combine the orange juice, apricot nectar, lemon juice, and
sugar in the blender container. 3 Secure the lid on the container. 4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend
the ingredients for 15 seconds or until sugar is dissolved into
juice. Taste and add more sugar if needed. 5 Add mangoes and ice. Start blending on a low speed and
increase to high. Blend for 30 seconds or until smooth. If you
have a tamping stick, use it to move the ice around; otherwise,
you may need to stop and stir the mixture, freeing the fruit and
ice around the blades, and resume blending. (If you’re using a
blender with a pulse button, pulse the blades on and off until
the ice is chopped and the mixture is smooth.) 6 Spoon the granita into 2 martini or wine glasses, serve with a
spoon, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 460 (From Fat 9); Fat 1g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 9mg;
Carbohydrate 119g; Dietary Fiber 6g; Protein 2g. Vary It! You can use grapefruit juice or orange juice in place of
the apricot nectar. Vary It! To make this drink icier, pour the mixture into a shallow
pan and freeze for up to 40 minutes. Scrape the ice into 2 glasses,
and serve with a spoon. SherbetIn Harvest of the Cold Months, Elizabeth David says, “All around
the Mediterranean, snow from the mountain ranges was carried
to the ice stores of the cities. The Mamluk kings of Egypt had
snow shipped from Lebanon to Cairo in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries.” And we know that sweet juices and
syrups were poured over the precious snow and served to
nobility, clergy, and royalty. Derived from sharbât, the Arabic word for fruit syrup, our
modern sherbet is descended from those refreshing luxuries of
fruit syrup or condensed juices drizzled over snow. What most
likely began as an indulgent treat exclusively for royalty has
become a favorite of many Westerners. Somewhere in the long journey from the deserts of the Middle
East to Europe and subsequently to North America, sherbets
became infused with dairy —sometimes milk only,