 to which it has
strayed, and return to its reservoir or gans in the digestive tract. This “change
of Dosha direction” is usually done by applying medicated oils to the body
and thus  inducin g it to sweat. Once a Dosha has returned back to its reservoir
or gan, su bstances are administered to encourage it to increase i ts force there.
For exa mple, before emesis, which is often used to relieve Kapha, some
doctors increase  Kapha by giving the patient a mixture of yogurt, molasses
and salt. Only th en is vomiting induced. Similar procedures are  followed for
the other Doshas.
Emesis (therapeutic vomiting) is the main purification method for
Kapha, though pur gation may also be used. Emesis is a strong purification
technique as it removes mucus and other undesirable substances from the
stomach, chest and other locations where Kapha concentrates, and
encourages an upward flow of ener gy in contrast to Kapha’ s n ormal heavy,
downward move ment. In contrast purification for V ata should be mild so as
to re strain its no rmally intense nature. The purification of choi ce for V ata is
enema because it helps V ata’ s downward movement (being Airy it tends to
flow up ward), a nd does not rem ove much material from the b ody (as V ata
people t end to lack physical substance). Besides it does not  weaken the
digestive fire as emesis and pu r gation do. Pur gation and blood letting are
preferred purification techniques for the removal of excess Pi tta because it
concentrates in the digestive tr act and in the blood with its i nherent heat.Emesis i s also employed sometimes for Pitta if it is trying to escape the body
by moving upward (causing such symptoms as nausea and heartburn).
Purification is only administered, however, if the patient is relatively
strong and the disease is relatively weak. In other cases, and during
childhood, old age, pregnancy, a nd other such circumstances palliation of the
Doshas alone is performed. Palliation is a seven-step procedure which
includes medicine to digest toxins, medicine to increase the digestive fire,
appropriate diet  and drinks, exe rcise, sunbathing, and exposure  to fresh-air,
each prescribed according to the patient’ s requirements. A yurvedic medicines
are prepared from a wide va riety of substances derived from animal,
vegetable and mineral sources a nd produced in the forms of medicated pills,
powders, jams, wines, milks, ghees (clarified butter) and oils.
Each Do sha requires a unique th erapeutic strategy for the restoration of
internal balance. Specifically, V ata’ s main remedies are heat and oil,
externally and internally, becau se they counteract its dry and cold qualities.
Salty taste works best in small amounts both in medicine and food, since it
improves appetite and digestion, and is antispasmodic and slightly laxative.
Only thereafter sour and sweet tastes are considered and employed.
Medicinal wines are beneficial, as are medicines which have been potentiated
one hun dred or one thousand times. Massage of all kinds is very  desirable. In
certain cases shock treatments, “de-memorizing therapy” (so mething like
“de-programming”), and binding are used. The patient’ s anxieties should be
eliminated, and he or she should be furnished plenty of entertainment and
total relaxation to promote a free flow of Prana in the channels of body and
mind.
Pitta, na turally needs to be co oled. Bitter taste performs this best,
followed by sweet and astringent. Sweet-smelling scents (perfumes, incense,
flowers) help to overcome Pit ta’ s strong odor. Especially ef ficacious are
sandalwood, lot us and rose, all  of which provide a cooling ef fect as well.
Cool showers, moon-bathing, pearl necklaces, white clothes, and sojourn in
green ga rdens am id fountains are other means to calm the system. When Pitta
is permi tted to increase, it infla mes the body’ s tissues thus interrupting the
flow of Prana in the channels. This can be ameliorated by reducing Pitta’ s
native intensity with soothing m usic and by meditation to quie ten the mind.
Regular consumption of raw food and a job or hobby of an absorbing nature
are other routines that should be followed for a timely recovery.Kapha requires intensity and act ivity to break up its natural inertia and
lethar gy. The pungent taste, com posed as it is of the Fire and Air Elements, is
the best Kapha-controlling taste, followed by bitter and astri ngent. When
toxins are present, bitter should first be utilized to clear the channels before
pungent things are employed to reawaken the digestive fire. The astringent
taste is utilized if excess “mois ture” removal is required. All medicines and
foods sh ould be hot, intense and  dry. Aged wines and liqueurs in small doses,
nights without sleep, frequent sexual intercourse, vigorous exercise like
wrestling, running and jumping to cause copious sweating, fasting, smoking,
rough dry warm clothes, and extremely hot baths all decrease Kapha.
Saddling Kapha patients with responsibilities and preventing them from
indulging in their normal stupor helps to overcome their internal stagnation.
The typical A yurvedic treatmen t consists of a remedy, a vehicle, and a
diet regimen. While remedies are most commonly administered either
through mouth or through anus (i.e. by enema), those that tar get structures in
the throat and head are frequently administered through the nostrils. Pastes
and oils are usu ally applied locally, though in certain conditions whole-body
application is used to exert a systemic ef fect. The vehicle helps the remedy
by proper digestion and absorption, and catalyzes its ef fect so as to reduce the
dose and thus prevent possible s ide-ef fects. While hot water can be used as a
vehicle for almost all preparations, other common vehicles include honey,
ghee, oil, jams, and wines.
Most substance s used as medicines can be employed singly or in
combination, the choice depending primarily on the physician’ s preference.
Single d rugs possess the virtue of simplicity, while compounds are usually
formulated from several substances which share specific therapeutic qualities
and so syner gize with each oth er. Since most medicaments can af fect the
body in more th an one way, spe cific vehicles are prescribed to help tar get the
medicine.
The way  in which substances are prepared for administration d epends
on the purpose for which they are to be used. For example, aloe vera is used
in po wdered form to purify the uterus or the digestive tract, in c rude form as
the juic e to soothe burns or ulcers, and as a medicinal w ine for liver
disorders. Some times the preparation of the substance is limited  by its nature,
i.e. while it is easy to obtain juic e from a pulpy leaf like aloe it may be almost
impossible to do so from more fibrous leaves, which will  have to bepowdered, decocted, or otherwise extracted. The nature of the Dosha
involved also af fects formulation: Kapha conditions often do better with
dried powders, V ata problems w ith medicated oils and medicinal wines, and
Pitta disturbances with fresh juices and medicated ghees (see illustration 17).
Minerals need to be purified as well as “humanized” before they
become fit for c onsumption by human beings. Most minerals are transformed
into bhasma (literally, “ash”); these “ashes” are prepared by incinerating the
mineral in the p resence of specific herbal or animal substances. The average
mineral must be incinerated at least seven times before  it can be
administered, but since each incineration potentiates the mineral’ s activity, a
lar ger number of incinerations is  almost always desirable. Mica, for example,
works best after being potentiated one thousand times.
By astute purification and palliation a physician removes all
obstructions to the free movem ent of Prana so that Prana can a gain inflame
the d igestive fire, thus reviving the patient’ s immunity. It is impossible to be
healthy until the life force has f ree access to all parts of the bo dy. The seers
who cognized A yurveda did so  for the benefit of “dwellers in cities and
towns.” They realized that urbanites become more prone to disease because
of the combination of various factors of environmental pollution and due to
overcrowding. Such people may  become candidates for two therapies which
are unique to A yurveda: rejuvenation (rasayana) and virilization (bajikarana).
V irilization is meant to enhance fertility, and rejuvenation to prevent future
diseases by enhancing immunity. These, like A yurveda’ s other therapeutic
modalities aim to maximize harmony between the external and the internal
environment of the individual.P A R T  T H R E E
T R A D I


Crusaders.
Good Pr eserving V arieties
Bearss:  Rind is rich in oil; flesh is very juicy and acidic, with few seeds.
Now tho ught to  be the leading variety in Florida, it is good for preserving;
peaks August through November.
Eur eka:  T he most widely grown lemo n in the world, it is a true “bitter
lemon,” with a h igh juice and ac id content. Rind is smooth and thin; flesh is
tart with few seeds. Season peaks from winter to early spring.
Femminello:  One of the oldest, most popular Italian varieties, with several
strains that produce fruit at dif ferent times. Fruits are medium in size,
oblong with a pointed tip. Rind is yellow, finely pitted, medium-smooth,
medium-thick. F lesh is juicy, v ery acidic, with few, mostly u ndeveloped
seeds. One strain or another is available all year.
V illafranca:  Thought to hav e originated in Sicily, it was the leading lemon
cultivar in Florida for many ye ars. T art juice and few seeds. One strain is
available year -round; one peaks in the summer months.
T wo fruits that are closely related to lemons (in the Citrus  genus but of the
C. medica  s pe cies) are the Citron and the Fingered Citron. Their thick rinds
make both a popular choice for candying or preserving in syrup.Citr on:  L ar ger than lemon, with a tou gh and warty rind that is usually
pared and discarded; the inner pith is very thick, and is sliced or diced and
preserved in syrup or candied. Not used for its flesh or juice, which is dry
and insig nificant, the citron is cu ltivated in the Mediterranean region, where
it ha s naturalized (being original ly from Southeast Asia). Citrons were once
used for medicinal purposes.
Meyer:  A hybrid, possibly lemon crossed with mandarin orange; introduced into the United States
by Frank N. Meyer from a Chinese ornamental plant. Rind is smooth, dark yellow to light orange,
with numerous small oil glands, and is thin, making it perfect for preserving whole. Pulp is pale
orange-yellow, usually in 10 segments with tender walls; sweet, juicy, moderately acid with medium
lemon flavour; seeds are small and relatively few. Season peaks from December to April in North
America, with fruit coming from California, Florida and T exas.
lemon chutney
This chutney gets better and better overtime. In fact, it is best when “aged”
fr om 4 to 6 mon ths. So if you make it in January or February, this tangy
grill bud dy will be r eady for barbecue season in the summer, when it will
lend zest to grilled vegetables, fish and chicken with its spicy, rich
marmalade flavour. Don’ t be put off by the overnight macera ting of the
rind, flesh and salt, because al l you do is chop the lemons, combine with
salt, cover and let stand overnight.
MAKES 4 CUPS (1 L)
8 Bearss lemons (or other thick-skinned variety), scrubbed
2 tbsp (25 mL) pickling salt
4 large cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup (125 mL) dried currants
1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped dried apricots1/2 cup (125 mL) fr eshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup (125 mL) cider vinegar
1 tbsp (15 mL) fr eshly grated gingerr oot
1 dried cayenne pepper, crushed
1 tsp (5 mL) gr ound cardamom
1 tsp (5 mL) crushed coriander
1/2 tsp (2 mL) hot r ed pepper flakes, optional
2 cups (500 mL) + 2 tbsp (25 mL) packed br own sugar
One of the great  rewards of home preserving is that you get
familiar with a wide variety of spices and blends by using
and tasting them in the preserve s. For the Lemon Chutney, I
recommend that you use the f ollowing spices (clockwise
from top): freshly grated peeled whole ginger; one whole
dried (or fresh) c ayenne pepper,  crushed; crushed cardamomseeds; and crushed coriander seeds (still in my spice
mortar). Becaus e I like this chutney to have extra heat for
grilled foods, I add either dried  chipotle or hot red pepper
flakes, but you can omit these if you wish. Use a small,
heavy spice mortar and pestle—mine is cast iron—or a
rolling pin to cru sh the seeds, an d a micro-grater to grate the
fresh gingerroot.
1. Using a vegetable peeler, remove the rind from the lemons, being careful
not to include th e white pith. Us ing a paring knife, cut away and discard the
white pi th from around the lemons. Finely chop the rind. Coarsely chop the
lemons, discarding the seeds.
2. In a non-reactive bowl, combine rind, lemons and salt. Cover with a
clean cloth and set aside in a cool place overnight.
3. In  a Maslin pan or lar ge sau cepan, combine macerated lem on mixture,
garlic, currants, apricots, lemon juice, vinegar, ginger, cayenne, cardamom,
coriander and hot pepper flake s. Bring to a light simmer over high heat.
Reduce heat to m edium and stir in the brown sugar. Stir constantly until the
sugar is dissolved.4. Adjust the hea t to keep the mixture at a regular simmer and c ook, stirring
frequently, for 30 to 45 minutes or until the mixture becomes thick and
mounds on a wooden spoon.
5. M eanwhile, heat four 1-cup (250 mL) jars in boiling water, a nd scald the
lids, lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
6. S kim of f and discard any foam. Fill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-i nch (5 mm)
headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of the jar to
allow air to esca pe, and add mo re hot chutney, if necessary, to leave a 1/4-
inch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe r ims, top with flat lids and screw on metal
rings. Return jars to the hot water bath, topping up with h ot water if
necessary. Bring  to a full rolling boil and process jars for 10 minutes
( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).
7. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up
to 1 year.
Use: Serve Lemon Chutney onc e it has “aged” for at least 2 months right
from th e jar with baked white fish, trout or salmon. Or mix 1 cup (250
mL) chutney with 3 tbsp (45 mL) chopped capers for a flavourful and
dif ferent tartar sauce. Mix with orange juice or an equal amount of
yogurt, and coat chicken before baking. Mix 1/4 cup (50 mL) chutney
with the  same amount of soy sa uce and use for stir-fried foods. Serve as acondiment for cooked chicken or cold cuts, and with a cheese platter or
over brie, cream cheese or goat cheese.
l e m o n  c h u t n e y  d r e s s i n g
1/2 cup (125 mL) Lemon Chutney
2 gr een onions, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup (125 mL) olive oil
In a food processor or blender, combine Lemon Chutney and onions.
Process until well blended. W it h the motor running, add olive oil through
the lid opening in a steady stream and process until combined and slightly
thickened. Cover and refrigerate dressing until needed, up to 1 week.
l e m o n - s e a s o n e d  w h i t e f i s h
In this r ecipe, I have added the  chutney after the fish has been grilled. If
you like, spoon a couple of tab lespoons (25 mL) over the top of the fillets
after they have been turned once on the grill. Cod, per ch, catfish and
picker el work well in this r ecipe.
Rimmed baking sheet or grilling basket, lightly oiled
Br oiler or barbecue grill pr eheated to br oil or high
MAKES 4 SER VINGS
4 whitefish fillets, about 1 inch/2.5 cm thick
1 tbsp (15 mL) olive oil
1/2 cup (125 mL) Lemon Chutney1. Using a paper towel, pat the fish dry. Arrange in single layer on prepared
baking s heet. B rush with olive oil. If using the barbecue, set fillets into
prepared grilling  basket. Bro


 and then sour them for two
days. Soaking, germinating and souring oats with a starter will remove phytic acid. The problem is
that most store-bought oats are heat treated and cannot be germinated.Quinoa Preparation and Phytic Acid Removal

Cooked for 25 minutes at 212 degrees F removes 15-20 percent of phytic acid.
Soaked for 12-14 hours at 68 degrees F, then cooked removes 60-77 percent of phytic acid.
Fermented with whey 16-18 hours at 86 degrees F, then cooked removes 82-88 percent phytic
acid.
Soaked 12-14 hours, germinated 30 hours, lacto-fermented 16-18 hours, then cooked at 212
degrees F for 25 minutes removes 97-98 percent of phytic acid.
Preparing Brown Rice without Phytic Acid
If you eat brown rice with any regularity I recommend removing the phytic acid through this method.
Since brown rice is low in the enzyme phytase, a starter is used to increase the enzyme content and
break down the phytic acid. Brown rice needs to be thoroughly cooked until the rice burst open. Even
better than whole brown rice is cooking with a partially milled rice in which some of the bran is
removed. Alter Eco™ Fair Trade sells semi-polished red rice. Ethnic food stores may also carry this
type of rice.

1
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Soak brown rice in clean water for 16-24 hours at room temperature, without changing the
water. Reserve 10 percent of the soaking liquid (which should keep for a long time in the
fridge). Discard remaining soaking liquid. Cook rice with clean water. This will break down
about 30-50 percent of the phytic acid.
2
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The next time you make brown rice, use the same procedure as above with a fresh batch of clean
water, and add the 10 percent soaking liquid reserved from the last batch. This will break down
more phytic acid.
3
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Repeat the cycle of fresh water soaking with the previous 10 percent reserve. The process will
gradually improve until 96 percent or more of the phytic acid is degraded at 24 hours. It takes
about four rounds to get to 96 percent.
5
Note: You can prepare a phytase-rich starter using small batches of brown rice in case you don’t
want to eat the higher phytate rice.
In the ancient Vedic diet, rice would always be prepared with turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves
and other pungent spices which have a synergistic effect against rice anti-nutrients as well as enhance
overall digestion.
Chapter 6 References
1
 Vonderplantiz, A.
We Want To Live
: Los Angeles: Carnelian Bay Castle Press;2005: 292. More than five consecutive days of raw
eggs may cause thinning of uterine mucus, so a two day break is advised.
2 Radiation Ovens, The Proven Dangers Of Microwaves, Available At:
http://www.ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bondservant/microwaveP.pdf
3 I. EGLI, L. DAVIDSSON, M.A. JUILLERAT, D. BARCLAY, R.F. HURRELL. "The Influence of Soaking and Germination on the
Phytase Activity and Phytic Acid Content of Grains and Seeds Potentially Useful for Complementary Feeding."
Sensory and nutritivequalities of food
 67.9 (2002): 3484-3488. Print.
4
Am-J. Clin-Nutr
. Baltimore, MD. : American Society for Clinical Nutrition. Jan 1991. V. 53 (1) p. 112-119. Calcium: effect of different
amounts on nonheme- and heme-iron absorption in humans.
5 Guyenet, Stephan. "A New Way to Soak Brown Rice." Whole Health Source. N.p., 4 Apr. 2009. Web. 11 Sept. 2010.
<http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-way-to-soak-brown-rice.html>.* * *Chapter 7
Healthy Gums Lead to Healthy Teeth
Having healthy gums will significantly aid your chances of having healthy teeth. Healthy gums also
will improve your overall health and resistance to disease. Gum disease has been directly correlated
as a significant risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
1
 Most people are not even aware that they
have the beginnings of gum disease. Symptoms of gum disease include receding, swollen and
bleeding gums, loose teeth, increased gum pocket size, dying gum tissue and tooth loss. Periodontal
disease, pyorrhea, and gingivitis are some of the many names for different types and stages of gum
disease. About 75% of the US population is afflicted with gum disease. As with tooth decay, gum
disease gets worse with age.
2
 This is not because gum disease is a part of the aging process, but it is
a symptom of physical decay and degeneration that results from our modern lifestyle.
Dentist W.D. Miller, the originator of the most commonly held theory of the etiology of tooth decay,
believed that one of the essential keys to immunity to tooth decay was “the protection of the neck of
the tooth by healthy gums.” Even if you do not have any noticeable gum disease, the advice in this
chapter will teach you how to make your gums healthier. And healthier gums mean healthier teeth and
a healthier body.
I am going to share with you the best of the best solutions that have rapidly induced healing in gum
tissues. There is no guarantee that these methods will work for you. And not all of this advice may be
suitable or accurate for someone with severe gum disease and concurrent loss of teeth.
Gum disease is a disease of modern humans. Weston Price explains:
Many primitive peoples not only retain all of their teeth, many of them to an old age, but
also have a healthy flesh supporting these teeth. This has occurred in spite of the fact
that the primitives have not had dentists to remove the deposits and no means for doing
so for themselves.
3
Many ancient skulls found around the planet still have most or all of their teeth firmly rooted. So tooth
loss from gum disease was either rare or non-existent in our ancestors.Dental Plaque and Gum Disease
Plaque occurs when your body chemistry is out of balance. The plaque I am referring to is the buildup
of debris that sticks to your teeth in an unhealthy way. Particularly, cooked animal proteins that are
not fully digested seem to cause dental plaque.
Calculus deposits are caused by a high level of blood calcium.
4
 The calcium level in your
bloodstream has to do with the type of calcium food sources you eat, as well as your body’s ability to
metabolize the calcium. Calculus appears when there is an excess of calcium in the blood compared
to the amount of phosphorus in the blood.
5
 Increased calculus deposits can be caused when the form
of calcium in your diet is not absorbable. Nonabsorbable calcium creates free calcium in your
bloodstream.
What this means is that plaque is not the root cause of gum disease. Rather plaque appears on the teeth
when the body’s internal chemistry is out of synchronization. This is caused by a faulty diet, excess
sugar, incorrectly prepared whole grains and environmental stresses and toxins.Gum Disease, Bleeding, Swollen Gums and Fat-Soluble Vitamins
Pyorrhea is an advanced stage of gum disease in which ligaments and bones that support the teeth
become inflamed and infected. It is partially a result of the process whereby important nutrients are
not deposited into the gums because they are missing from the diet. When our body chemistry is out of
balance through the over consumption of sweet and processed foods, or the under consumption of
minerals, or a build-up of toxic material in the body, gum disease can result. Dr. Price explained:
Much of what we have thought of as so-called pyorrhea in which the bone is
progressively lost from around the teeth, thus allowing them to loosen, constitutes one of
the most common phases of the borrowing process. This tissue with its lowered defense
rapidly becomes infected and we think of the process largely in terms of that infection. A
part of the local process includes the deposit of so-called calculus and tartar about the
teeth. These contain toxic substances which greatly irritate the flesh, starting an
inflammatory reaction.
Pyorrhea in the light of our newer knowledge is largely a
nutritional problem
.
6
 (Emphasis added.)
According to Dr. Page, a calcium deficiency or excess phosphorus in the blood is the more specific
cause of gum disease.
Pyorrhea, an inflamed condition of the gums, generally occurs when the glands are
malfunctioning, causing a high phosphorus level. By reducing the phosphorus to its
proper relation to calcium, inflammation can be eliminated.
When the phosphorus level of the blood is too high in proportion to calcium, there will be free
phosphorus in the blood which can cause both the presence of calculus and irritated gums. When the
phosphorus level was reduced to be in balance with the level of calcium in the blood the irritation
(gingivitis) usually cleared up.
7
 Fat-soluble vitamin D has the effect of lowering blood phosphorous
and raising blood calcium. Vitamin D deficiency is responsible for problems with the hard areas
under the gums such as the alveolar bone which comprises


 similar studies,
Bengmark describes an average survival of only 7.8 months(2), and Morris a median
survival of 11.4 months.(3)
Obviously, Mr. Beesley's progress represents a most unusual outcome for this
disease.
As a footnote to this case, the author was surprised to learn that supporters of
Lawrence Burton, an unconventional therapist with a clinic in the Bahamas, had been
advertising Mr. Beesley as a "Burton Success." When I  mentioned these reports to Mr.
Beesley, he explained that he received several weeks of Burton Therapy in the fall of
1975 — after he had already improved significantly on the Kelley program.
Furthermore, Mr. Beesley claims he never finished the prescribed Burton protocol,
and never received any further treatment from Burton. Mr. Beesley himself attributes
his recovery to his many years on the Kelley regimen and not to Burton.
Unfortunately, I  have found over the years that many unorthodox therapists
repeatedly claim Dr. Kelley's long-term patients as their own; misrepresentation
obviously does not help cancer patients.
References:
1. Pestana, C., et al. "The Natural History of Carcinoma of the Colon and Rectum."
American Journal of Surgery 108:826-829, 1964
2. Bengmark, S. and Hafstrom, L. "The Natural History of Primary and Secondary
Malignant Tumors of the Liver." Cancer 23:198-202, 1969
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3. Morris, M.J. et al. "Hepatic Metastases from Colorectal Carcinoma." Aust. & New
Zealand Journal of Surgery 47:365-368, 1977.
Breast Cancer Testimonials
Sonia Nemethy
Mrs. Sonia Nemethy is a 53-year old woman alive more than 17 years since
diagnosed with breast carcinoma. She first noticed a painless mass in her right breast
in 1970. After biopsy studies confirmed infiltrating carcinoma, she went to surgery for
a right radical mastectomy at St. Anthony's hospital in Florida.
Mrs. Nemethy was believed cured, and received no further treatment at that time.
In 1973, after a second tumor developed in the left breast, Mrs. Namethy returned to
St. Anthony's and underwent a left radical mastectomy for what proved to be
infiltrating carcinoma. Mrs. Nemethy was again assumed to be cured, but over the
following year, her health gradually deteriorated. She suffered fatigue, lethargy and
bouts of depression persisting for months at a time.
In mid-1974, Mrs. Nemethy also developed pain along the length of the vertebral
column and into the right shoulder. By late 1  974, the pain was so severe at times she
was unable to dress or walk. Although Mrs. Nemethy consulted her physicians
repeatedly, an evaluation was not pursued. Finally, in May of 1975, at Mrs.
Nemethy's insistence, her doctor arranged for a series of spinal X-rays. These studies
revealed an obvious abnormality in the fifth lumbar segment, described as "indicative
of osteolytic metastasis disease."
On May 28, 1975, Mrs. Nemethy returned to surgery for a bilateral oophorectomy
(removal of both ovaries), a procedure doctors hoped would slow the growth of the
tumor and ease her bone pain. Despite the surgery, Mrs. Nemethy was told she
probably would not live out the year.
In desperation, after leaving the hospital on May 31, Mrs. Nemethy decided to
investigate alternative cancer therapies. She quickly learned of Dr. Kelley, consulted
with him and began the Kelley Program in the summer of 1975.
Within six months, the persistent pain and depression completely resolved.
Furthermore, a bone scan performed at the end 1975 showed some improvement,
and a third bone scan from mid-1976, was completely normal.
Today, 12 years after her last episode with cancer, Mrs. Nemethy still follows the
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Kelley program and is in excellent condition.
As discussed previously, the five-year survival rate (at that time) for patients with
metastatic breast cancer approaches 0% regardless of therapy. And ophorectomy,
which may lead to symptomatic improvement in this group, is not curative. As
Hellman writes, "In patients whose tumors are estrogen dependent the procedure can
be expected to induce a regression lasting 9 months to 12 months. In unselected
series (of patients) almost 30% to 40% of patients w ill respond. Prophylactic
castration (ovary removal) following mastectomy does not decrease the potential
relapse rate or prolong the survival of those who relapse."(1)
In summary, this patient developed evidence of metastases after successive
mastectomies for recurring breast carcinoma. Although she did undergo
oophorectomy, Mrs. Nemethy continued to deteriorate after the procedure. Her
extensive disease and many symptoms resolved only after she began the Kelley
Program.
Judy S. ~ Glendale, CA
9-Year Victory Over Breast Cancer
In January of 1973, I  had another checkup from my breast doctor in Beverly Hills (a
breast surgeon, tops in this field). I  had been going to him every six months for two
years, then every four months for one year, then every two months until January of
1973, at which time he told me the lump in my left breast had gotten very large and I
would have to go to surgery. His nurse told me he was an expert and that he could
tell by feeling the lump if it was malignant or benign and that a mammogram gave a
96% account of the tumor whether it was malignant or benign. The doctor explained
how nicely he would remove the breast, etc., and about bras for women whose
breasts have been removed. He also was going to Europe for two months; my surgery
would be scheduled when he returned.
I  had read Dr. Kelley's book some months before and I  decided to go to one of our
local health food stores where I  had bought the book to talk to the owner, who was
always well informed on natural foods and vitamins. She told me to call some people
in town who had gone to Dr. Kelley and that I  should by all means go to him. I  was
very encouraged when I  talked to the people who had gone to Dr. Kelley. All had
cancer at one time, and one person in particular was most helpful to me.
I  was just starting a new job at this time as a singer in a famous Italian restaurant
singing opera and musical comedy. This was several times around for me to "start"
my career again after having three children and being a housewife for a few years. I
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was very excited but was not feeling good.
I  flew to see Dr. Kelley, then in Texas, and my cancer count was 600. I  took Dr.
Kelley's advice, went home and started on his program of diet, enemas and
supplements. I  was weak at first but in a few months I  really started feeling so much
better. My husband was totally against the program, my friends at church thought I
was crazy and I  found it was difficult to pay for all the supplements, but I  was
determined to stay on the entire program.
I  kept my appointment with the breast surgeon but had been on Dr. Kelley's
program for two months when I  returned for my examination. I  was told the lump had
gone down and no surgery was needed. I  left his office in early March of 1973 and
have not been back since. The following year I  was not only singing four nights per
week but was working at a very busy TV station eight hours per day.
I  continued to see Dr. Kelley once a year and my cancer count continued to
decrease until my last checkup in August of 1977 when my cancer count was 60,
which Dr. Kelley says is normal.
I  couldn't say enough about how I  would never take any other treatment for cancer
than Dr. Kelley's. In fact, I  consult him on all my physical problems, I  wouldn't think
of taking another doctor's advice without asking Dr. Kelley's first. I  tell everyone
about Dr. Kelley!
I  am a most happy and satisfied patient of Dr. Kelley!
Dr. Kelley: "Many people want me to make decisions for them: Should I  have
chemotherapy? Should I  do this? Should I  do that? Should I  do what the doctor tells
me to do, or not to do what he tells me to do? These kinds of questions have given
me many, many hours of frustration and anxiety. First of all, I  am in a legal position
where I  cannot tell the patient not to do what the doctor tells them to do. And I  know
the physician does the very best he knows how. It is just that he is suffering from a
great deal of ignorance. So, legally I  am in a very bad situation.
"Morally, I  am even in a worse position. It becomes quite a dilemma in my mind.
All of us would like to take the easy way out


are	eating	unhealthful	diets,	you	must	be	the	one	to	set	a	different
example.
People	often	ask	me	if	I	miss	some	of	the	“bad”	things.	No,	I	don’t.	Tastes
change.	New	tastes	can	be	acquired	in	a	few	weeks,	and	old	ones	can	be	lost.	I
used	to	love	filet	mignon,	but	after	not	eating	it	for	ten	years,	I	lost	my	taste	for
it.	I	had	a	fantastic	filet	mignon	a	couple	of	years	ago,	and	I	didn’t	like	it.
People	also	often	ask	me	whether	this	healthy	lifestyle	costs	more	than	some
may	be	able	to	afford.	I	have	found,	actually,	that	eating	a	healthy	diet	costs	less
than	eating	a	poor	diet.	It	costs	a	lot	more	to	make	yourself	sick.	People
regularly	tell	me	that	they	cut	their	food	budgets	in	half	by	improving	their	diets.
Organic	fruits,	vegetables,	beans,	grains	and	unprocessed	oils	may	be	more
expensive	than	their	nonorganic	counterparts,	but	in	the	end	a	diet	made	up	of
healthful	foods	is	cheaper.	Consider	what	you	pay	for	organic	whole	grains	per
pound	versus	what	you	pay	for	packaged	breakfast	cereal	per	pound,	and	you
will	realize	quickly	that	unhealthful	processed	foods	are	much	more	expensive.
Deadly,	make-believe	foods	like	ice	cream,	cola	drinks	and	potato	chips	are
expensive,	provide	little	nutrition	and	damage	your	cells.	Not	purchasing	them
saves	your	money	and	your	health.	Even	when	a	healthful	choice	does	cost
more,	the	purchase	is	well	worth	the	investment	because	being	sick	is
very
expensive.	The	same	holds	true	for	supplements.	The	most	expensive
supplement	of	all	is	one	that	doesn’t	work,	no	matter	how	little	you	pay	for	it.
High-quality	supplements	cost	more,	but	they	deliver	the	most	nutrients	to	your
cells.	Most	cheap	vitamins	do	nothing,	or	almost	nothing,	and	many	contain
toxins;	many	vitamin	products	cause	both	deficiency	and	toxicity.
Another	important	investment	in	health	is	to	spend	a	little	more	on	personal
care	and	home-care	products	that	do	not	harm	your	body.	In	making	selections
of	toothpaste,	shampoo,	deodorants,	skin	creams	and	cosmetics,	the	most
important	criterion	is	that	your	body	not	be	harmed.	Selecting	organic	foods	is
not	good	enough;	you	must	also	select	safe	products.
If	a	product	cannot	be	ingested	without	poisoning	you,	then	it	is	not	safe
enough	to	put	on	your	skin	or	your	hair	or	your	teeth.
Look	at	the	swallowing
warnings	on	a	typical	tube	of	toothpaste.	(Consult	appendix	C	for	safe	brands	of
toothpaste	and	other	products.)	The	sad	truth	is	that	most	personal-care	products
are	toxic;	those	toxins	bioaccumulate	in	your	body	and	cause	disease.Look	at	Your	Health	in	a	New	Way
The	perspective	we	have	to	change	is	the	way	we	look	at	and	evaluate	our
own	health.	If	you	are	going	to	solve	your	own	health	problems,	you	must	first
acknowledge	they	exist.	We	all	grow	up	thinking	that	health	is	a	given,	until	we
“get	sick.”
Rather	than	being	static,	however,	health	is	a	sliding	scale,	and	our	position
and	direction	on	that	scale	can	change	on	a	daily	basis.	This	is	why	we	need	to
learn	how	to	evaluate	our	own	health,	in	a	meaningful	and	ongoing	way,	so	as	to
avoid	letting	ourselves	deteriorate	to	the	point	where	we	become	sick.
As	I	was	gradually	losing	my	health,	no	one	told	me	I	was	sick.	In	fact,	I	was
told	the	opposite.	At	my	periodic	physical	exams	my	physicians	pronounced	me
in	perfect	health,	even	though	I	had	required	many	fillings	in	my	teeth	and	I
suffered	from	a	serious	immune	deficiency	disease,	namely	from	a	seasonal
allergy	called	“hay	fever.”	Each	year	I	suffered	from	one	or	more	colds	and
every	several	years	from	a	bout	of	flu.	I	was	led	to	believe,	however,	that	tooth
decay,	colds,	flu	and	allergies	are	all	normal	and	that	I	was	healthy.
The	fact	is	no	one	should	have	tooth	decay,	colds,	flu,	allergies	or	any	other
disease.	If	you	do	have	any	of	these	problems,	you	are	experiencing	substantial
amounts	of	cellular	malfunction	and	you	are	sick.	Living	with	even	that	amount
of	cellular	malfunction	shortens	your	life	and	makes	you	susceptible	to	a	host	of
other	disease	problems.	Unless	you	do	something	different,	your	health	will	only
get	worse	with	time,	not	better.
Health	cannot	be	improved	by	continuing	to	do
the	same	things	that	made	you	sick.
Now	is	the	time	to	make	health	your
responsibility.
How	to	Read	the	Warning	Signs
We	all	need	to	learn	how	to	read	the	body’s	signals	so	that	we	can	evaluate
our	own	health	and	health	decline.
Our	body	tells	us	when	it	is	having	trouble;
our	problem	is	that	we	don’t	listen.
Subtle	signals	are	ignored	until	the	problem
becomes	serious	enough	to	demand	attention.
How	healthy	are	you?	Often	the	warning	signs	are	evident	in	your	appearance;
simply	put,	you	don’t	look	well.	In	addition,	you	should	ask	yourself	whether
you	are	experiencing
•	Fatigue
•	Aches	and	pains
•	Skin	problems•	Allergies
•	Digestion	troubles
•	Sleep	difficulties
•	Susceptibility	to	infections
•	Weight	issues
•	Mood,	thought	or	behavior	problems
These	warning	signs	appear	in	ways	that	are	usually	easily	recognized.
Consider	individually	the	signs	listed.
Appearance
The	body	gives	off	visual	signals,	and	we	can	learn	to	recognize	them.	I
remember	once	seeing	a	friend	and	thinking,
He	doesn’t	look	well.
Not	long
thereafter,	he	was	diagnosed	with	brain	cancer.	How	many	times	have	we	looked
at	others	and	realized	that	they	didn’t	look	well?	Before	I	took	sick,	my	family
thought	I	looked	pale.	Are	you	pale?	Are	there	dark	circles	under	your	eyes?	Are
there	wrinkles	on	your	face?	Is	your	hair	graying?	How	well	do	you	move?	Are
you	well-coordinated?	Are	your	eyes	dull?	Appearance	matters,	it	is	easy	to
check,	and	it	should	be	checked	on	a	regular	basis.
Energy	Level
Fatigue	is	probably	the	most	common	complaint	made	to	doctors	in	our
society	because	energy	production	at	the	cellular	level	is	one	of	the	first	things
affected	as	our	cells	malfunction	and	become	diseased.	If	you	do	not	have	the
energy	you	used	to	have,	aging	is	not	the	problem.	You	are	getting	sicker.
Remember	the	boundless	energy	that	healthy	people	like	the	Hunzas	had?
They	performed	physical	feats	such	as	traveling	sixty	miles	in	one	day	on	foot


establishes how we value and treat other people. The more
intelligent we are, the stronger a conscience we have and
the less we seek to interfere with others or impose our will
upon them.
Directly outwardly, intelligence creates morality, which Intelligence: The Power of Perception
may be little more than the arbitrary customs of a partic-
ular society. Directed inwardly, intelligence creates univer-
sal ethics like non-violence, which transcend all cultural
prejudices. Through our inner intelligence, we act ethical-
ly and humanely, not for material or social gain, or even for
heavenly reward, but for the good of all.
Organized religion, with its dogmas and institutions, is
another product of the outward-oriented intelligence. It
results in the clash of beliefs and their exclusive claims. It
ties us to a particular church, book or savior as truth. On
the other hand, directed inwardly, true intelligence creates
spirituality or the quest for eternal truth beyond name and
form. It leads to the truth of our own inner Being, our
higher Self in which the insistence upon a belief, savior or
institution appears naive.
Intelligence and Awareness
True intelligence is the aspect of consciousness that is
awake, cognizant, and developed, while consciousness
(Chitta) itself is the mental field as a whole, particularly its
undeveloped core. Consciousness, as it evolves, turns into
intelligence that articulates and clarifies it. Consciousness,
when directed toward a particular principle, value, or
higher good, becomes intelligence. In its highest function,
intelligence becomes spiritual discrimination, through
which we discern the inner reality from outer forms, which
releases our consciousness from its negative conditioning.
Consciousness contains everything in the mental field
in a potential or seed form. Intelligence allows us to
become aware of the contents of consciousness, which oth-
erwise lie hidden and unperceived. I he cultivation of
awareness, which is meditation, is necessary to develop
true intelligence. However, the mind's intelligence (Bud- Ayurveda and the Mind
dhi) is always an awareness of something and remains con-
ditioned by its object. We must eventually step beyond it
to discover our true Self (Atman) beyond the mind. The
Self is the origin of intelligence. The reflection of its
unconditioned intelligence endows the mental field with a
conditioned intelligence. Our conditioned intelligence is
an instrument for the unconditioned intelligence of the
Self. From conditioned consciousness and intelligence
(Chitta and Buddhi), we must move to unconditioned con-
scious and intelligence (Chit and Jnana).
Cosmic Intelligence
Intelligence has a cosmic as well as individual reality.2'
Cosmic Intelligence is the evolved or sattvic portion of
Cosmic Consciousness. It is the mind of God at the sum-
mit of creation, through which God functions as the Cre-
ator-Preserver-Destroyer of the universe.24 Cosmic Intelli-
gence is the field of God's action, the manifestation of His
laws. It is the Divine Word, the Logos, through which the
universe is created. From it comes the first or ideal cre-
ation, of which this material world is an imperfect reflec-
tion.
Cosmic Intelligence is responsible for the structure and
order of the cosmos, while Cosmic Consciousness governs
the world process and being. A portion of Cosmic Intelli-
gence descends into matter and becomes the Divine flame
that constructs the worlds.2' Our individual intelligence is
our particular portion of Cosmic Intelligence or the Divine
Word. This Divine flame is ever awake at the deepest level
of our consciousness as our inner guide.26 It directs our evo-
lutionary process from matter to spirit, from the uncon-
scious to the superconscious, from ignorance to enlighten-
ment. Cosmic Intelligence is the inner guru who works to
awaken our internal wisdom. Intelligence: The Power of Perception
Cosmic Intelligence contains all cosmic laws (Dhar-
mas), from those that govern the physical world to the eth-
ical principles that govern our karma. It is the field of nat-
ural law, in which all the laws of life are held. Our
individual intelligence naturally strives to learn the laws of
Cosmic Intelligence, through which the entire universe
can be comprehended. Cosmic Intelligence establishes
what is dhannic, or in harmony with cosmic law, as
opposed to what is adhannic, or contrary to it. Individual
intelligence grows through aligning itself with Cosmic
Intelligence that is its source. This happens not by mere
study of books, but by studying nature and, above all, by
observing oneself.
Composition
True intelligence develops from sattvic or finer matters
of consciousness (Chitta). However, directed outwardly,
intelligence becomes contaminated with rajas, or emotion-
al impurities, which cloud its perception,27 and by tamas,
which causes wrong judgment.
The seat of true intelligence, like that of consciousness,
resides in the heart. However, the seat of intellect, or outer
intelligence, is the brain, which is connected with the
senses. Intelligence mediates between the outer mind that
works through the brain and the inner mind located in the
heart.28 To merge intelligence into the heart is the way to
transcend the outer world and return to the inner Self.
This is the basis of all true meditation.
The field of intelligence makes up the sheath of intelli-
gence or wisdom, Vijnanamaya Kosha. This sheath medi-
ates between the causal (karmic) body and the astral or
subtle body of impressions. Without the proper develop-
ment of the intelligence sheath, the potentials of the deep- Ayurveda and the Mind
er bliss sheath (Anandamaya Kosha) cannot develop. It
serves as the door that links the outer world of the mind-
body complex with the senses and the inner world of con-
sciousness, which transcends the senses. Intelligence is
knowledge predominant29 and allows us to understand
things.
Intelligence adds the power of fire to the basic ether
and air elements of consciousness (Chitta). Like fire, it is
penetrating, luminous and transformative in action. Intel-
ligence corresponds to Pitta, or fire, among the biological
humors. Pitta people are usually rational, discriminating,
good speakers, and usually have more perceptive minds
than others, for good or ill. Similarly, intelligence relates
to Tejas, the vital fire essence which provides courage, fear-
lessness and determination. Without Tejas, we lack the
independence and clarity necessary to develop our intelli-
gence properly.
Energy/Awakened Prana
By its sattvic nature, intelligence transcends outward
vital and sensory activity and works as the conscious guide
of all the Pranas. It creates sattvic Prana or conscious use
of our life-energy. Intelligence has the power to control the
mind, senses and vital force, according to its experiential
knowledge. For example, once we have really learned that
walking across the street without looking puts us in dan-
ger of being run over, we will not fail to look when we
cross the street, even if we are in a hurry. The problem is
that if our intelligence is not developed properly, it is
dominated by the mind, senses and vital force and we do
things on impulse that later we must regret. This inabili-
ty of intelligence to control our impulses is one of the main
causes of disease.30 Intelligence: The Power of Perception 101
True intelligence relates to what we have learned not
merely theoretically but in our own life-experience and
behavior. It is the wisdom of life. On the other hand, what
we know merely conceptually has no real vitality. It
reflects life on the outside, imitating the ideas and opin-
ions of others, and cannot change us fundamentally. The
energy of intelligence is the power that we place in knowl-
edge — the Prana we direct toward discovering the truth.
The Prana of intelligence is ever awake and attuned to the
eternal, developing the aspirations of our soul.
In yogic practice, Prana begins to awaken. We experi-
ence expanded energy through the breath, or feel various
currents of energy moving through the body, awakening
our subtle faculties. We gain more energy, enthusiasm and
creativity. This Prana has an intelligence that can teach
and guide us. Prana has become the teacher of many yogis
and has taught them asana, mantra and meditation. Sur-
rendering to that awakened Prana becomes their disci-
pline. Yet we must be careful not to surrender to an infe-
rior Prana, or inferior vital urge, which is what we do when
we are pursuing outer enjoyment, but to discover the
Prana of intelligence (Buddhi-Prana).
The awakened Prana and the awakened intelligence
(Buddhi) are related. As Buddhi awakens, so does Prana.
As our Prana awakens, so does Buddhi. The awakened life
and awakened intelligence move together. Intelligence
purifies and clarifies our life. On the other hand, without
vitality our intelligence remains superficial and theoreti-
cal. The wisdom of life is this


 because it was not fashionable. A
whole host of medical problems that arose from that fashion have made it
obvious to the medical profession and the rest of us how important breast
feeding is. Thankfully, now, a majority of mothers do their best to breast
feed their newborn babies.
Prolonged fasting and starvation, overeating and parenteral feeding can
seriously alter the composition of gut flora and start a chain of health prob
lems, so supplementing beneficial bacteria in a form of probiotic would be
a good idea in these situations.
Generally, when gut dysbiosis is caused exclusively by poor diet it is
usually fairly mild and can be corrected by better eating habits.
Unfortunately, in our modern world it is rare not to be exposed to other
factors which would also damage your gut flora, antibiotics for example.
Disease
Different infectious diseases, like typhoid, cholera, dysentery, salmonella
and some viral infections can cause lasting damage to the gut flora.
Repopulating the gut with beneficial bacteria has to he an important part
of the treatment of patients with these serious infections.
Different chronic illnesses are accompanied by serious defects in gut
flora, like diabetes, autoimmune disease, endocrine disease, obesity and
neurological conditions. It is a common after-effect of surgery, chemo
therapy, hormone therapy and radiotherapy.
Stress
A short-term stress has a detrimental effect on the gutflora,but it usually recov
ers well after the stressful situation is over. However, a long-term physical or
psychological stress can do permanent damage to the indigenous flora. Other factors %
Physical exertion, old age, alcoholism, pollution, exposure to toxic sub
stances, seasonal factors, exposure to ionising radiation and extreme
climates all have a profound effect on our friendly bacteria.
Every one of us carries a unique mixture of microbes in the gut. Under
the influence of drugs and other factors, listed above, this gut flora will be
changed in a unique way in every one of us, predisposing us to different
health problems. It is a completely unpredictable process and the science
so far has not got very reliable methods of testing for the full range of
microbes in the gut, let alone treating any abnormalities. This damage gets
passed from generation to generation as a newborn child gets its gut flora
from the mother. And as the damage gets passed through generations, it
gets deeper and deeper. This process reflects in the severity of healthprob-
lems related to abnormal gut flora seen in generations. For example, this is
quite a common scenario, which I see in my clinic: a grandmother has mild
digestive problems as a result of low-key gut dysbiosis. She passes moder
ately abnormal gut flora to her daughter. On top of that she decides not to
breast feed, because it is not fashionable. As a result, her daughter suffers
from allergies, migraines, PMS and digestive problems. Then she takes
contraceptive pills from the age of 16 which deepens the damage to her gut
flora, not to mention a few courses of antibiotics along the way for various
infections and a diet of fast foods. After 10 years of being "on the pill" she
has children, to whom she passes her seriously abnormal gut flora. Her
children develop digestive and immune problems, which then lead to
eczema, asthma, autism and other learning problems.
Most of the factors, described here, are hard to escape in the modern
world. Under the influence of these factors, the beneficial bacteria in the
gut lose their ability to fulfil all the functions we have looked at in the pre
vious chapters. They are unable to protect the digestive tract from oppor
tunistic flora and transitional bacteria, viruses and fungi, which sets up a
whole chain of pathology in the gut and the rest of the body. To gain more
understanding of what happens in this situation, let us have a look at the
opportunistic flora, which lives in our digestive system. 5. THE
OPPORTUNISTIC FLORA
We talked in detail about the essential flora (the good bacteria) of the gut
and its multiple functions. Let's look at the second group of bacteria now -
the opportunistic flora. This is a large group of various microbes, the
number and combinations of which can be quite unique. There are around
500 different species of them found in the human gut. These are the most
common: Bacteroids, Peptococci, Staphylococci, Streptococci, Bacilli,
Clostridia, Yeasts, Enterobacteria {Proteus } Clebsielli Citrobacteria, etc.),
Puzobacteria, Eubacteria, Spirochaetaceae, Spirillaceae, Catenobacteria,
different viruses and many others. Interestingly, many of these opportunis
tic bacteria when in small numbers and under control actually fulfil some
beneficial functions in the gut, like taking part in the digestion of food,
breaking down lipids and bile acids.
In a healthy gut their numbers are limited and tightly controlled by the
beneficial flora. But when this beneficial flora is weakened and damaged,
they get out of control. Each of these microbes is capable of causing
various health problems. It is a fascinating area for future research,
because it appears that it is the character of our individual opportunistic
flora that may determine what disease we succumb to. Yes, we carry most
of our future health problems in our own gut pretty much from birth. As
long as we take good care of our defenders, the beneficial flora, those bad
dies may never show their ugly faces. Unfortunately, our modern life-styles
sooner or later damage our indigenous bodily flora and whatever oppor
tunists were waiting for their turn become active.
The best known is the fungus Candida albicans, which causes untold
misery to millions of people. There is an abundance of literature published
about Candida infection, so we will not concentrate on it here, However, I
have to say that a lot of what is described as Candida Syndrome is in effect
a result of gut dysbiosis (abnormal gut flora), which include the activity of
lots of other opportunistic and pathogenic microbes. Candida albicans is
never alone in a human body. Its activity and ability to survive and cause
disease depend on the state of trillions of its neighbours - different bacteria, viruses, protozoa, other yeasts and many other micro-creatures.
In a healthy body Candida and many other disease-causing microbes are
very well controlled by the beneficial flora. Unfortunately, the era of anti
biotics gave Candida albicans a. special opportunity. The usual broad-spec
trum antibiotics kill a lot of different microbes in the body - the bad and
the good. But they have no effect on Candida. So, after every course of
antibiotics Candida is left without anything to control it, so it grows and
thrives. At the dawn of the antibiotic era the medical profession recognised
this phenomenon, so it used to be a rule to prescribe Nystatin (an anti-can-
dida antibiotic) every time a broad-spectrum antibiotic was administered.
However, for whatever reason, doctors stopped this practise decades ago
and now we are paying the price for it - Candida infection has become
extremely common. Apart from antibiotics another factor in our modern
world plays a major role in Candida overgrowth - our diet. Candida flour
ishes on sugar and processed carbohydrates and these are the foods, which
nowadays dominate our western eating habits.
Some opportunists, listed above, when out of control get through the gut
wall barrier into the lymph and bloodstream and cause problems in
various organs in the body. But of course, the first place to suffer will be the
digestive system. Holding an abnormal bacterial mass, it is no surprise that
the digestive system cannot function well. The most common result of gut
dysbiosis is the infamous Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), where a whole
host of opportunistic bacteria populate the intestines, causing the
unpleasant symptoms of IBS. More and more research is coming out link
ing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis with the activity of opportunistic
gut flora getting out of control.
Certain opportunists, when not controlled by damaged good bacteria,
get access to the gut wall and damage its integrity, making it "leaky". For
example, microbiologists have observed how common opportunistic
gut bacteria from the families Spirochaetaceae and Spirillaceae have an
ability due to their spiral shape to push apart intestinal cells, breaking
down the integrity of the intestinal wall and allowing through substances
which normally should not get through. Candida albicans has this
ability as well. Its cells attach themselves to the gut lining literally putting
"roots" through it and making it "leaky". Partially digested foods gets
through this leaky gut wall into the blood stream, where the immune
system recognises them as foreign and attacks them. This is how food aller
gies or intolerances develop. What is happening is that foods do not get a
chance to be digested properly before they are absorbed through the damaged gut wall. In many cases, when the gut wall is healed food allergies
disappear.
Opportunistic flora constantly produces toxic substances, which are the
by-products of their metabolism. In a healthy situation many of these by
products can


 and thus much higher than that found in publicly accessible areas in the vicinity of a base-station, the information  content of the radiation
emitted by the latter is the same; accordingly, these results are not irrelevant to the consideration of
potential adverse health effects associated with chronic exposure to base-station radiation.
3.2 Difficulties in replication
It should be noted that difficulties sometimes experienced in attempts to independently replicate
certain frequency-specific non-thermal effects are actually to be expected.  For in consequence of the
highly non-linear, non-equilibrium nature of living systems, even the slightest differences in the physiological state of the biosystems used, and in the conditions obtaining in a particular experiment can, in consequence of deterministic chaos, assume singular importance
55.
 Quite apart from this problem, however, discrepant results can often be traced to certain differences in experimental protocols that only become apparent upon close scrutiny.  Examples of this can be found in the attempt
56 to replicate the resonant influence of centimetre microwaves of sub-thermal
intensity on cell division in the yeast S. cerevisiae  found by Grundler et al.17, and the attempt by
Malyapa et al.57 to replicate the increase in DNA  breakage under low intensity microwave irradiation
found by Lai and Singh37, 38.

15
 In the case of the yeast experiments, several features can be identified that could well account for the
differing results, such as differences in the phase of the cell cycle at which exposure occurred, the use of synchronised cells in one experiment but not in the other, and differences in the imaging systems used (real-time vs. non-time lapse) to monitor cell division.
 In the case of the DNA  experiments, whilst both groups used microwave radiation of the same
frequency, they irradiated different systems (live rats vs. a cell line), and used very different assays to
assess the DNA  damage; in addition, the replication attempt did not separate the (positively charged)
bound protein from the (negatively charged) DNA  strands, thus obtaining much less migration in the
electrophoresis field, which was also applied for a much shorter time than in the original experiment; both these features militate against the formation of the ‘comet’ tails used to assess the degree of fragmentation.
3.3 Relevance of experiments to conditions realised in actual mobile phone usage
Quite apart from possible differences in the physiological states of the animals used in the original an
replication experiments, it should not be overlooked that differences in irradiation conditions can also contribute to difficulties in achieving replication; in addition, they can also be a confounding factor in assessing the relevance of positive animal results to humans (as also, incidentally, can differences in the ratio of the duration of irradiation to the lifetime of the species in question.)  Thus, for example, whereas, for humans, whole-body  exposure is realised arise only in the case of a base-
station, where ‘far-field’ conditions obtain, this is not necessarily so for animals, which, depending on their size, can be whole-body exposed to the near- field of a 900MHz phone antenna (or its
experimental surrogate), the characteristics of which are quite different.  In the case of humans, by contrast, use of a phone primarily results only in a rather localised  exposure to the near-field of the
antenna.  A further factor to be remembered is that in many experiments, subjects are not exposed to the actual emission of an real GSM  mobile phone, but rather to that of a ‘surrogate’ microwave
generator whose the output can differ in certain crucial ways.  For example, it may not even be
pulsed, and even if it does so at the GSM  frame repetition rate (217Hz), it most probably will not
contain the (bioactive) multi-frame  frequency of 8.34Hz, and certainly not the 2Hz that characterises
the DTX  mode.

B-4. Indications of Non-thermal Adverse Health Impacts of Exposure to GSM and
        similar microwave radiation
The popular belief that adverse health effects can be induced only by the heating effect of GSM
radiation is a fallacy:  1. There is rather consistent empirical, anecdotal evidence from many countries that the health of
some people is adversely affected in various ways when they are exposed to this kind of radiation,
despite its intensity being  well below  existing safety limits based on consideration of the SAR.   It
should be stressed that the anecdotal  nature of many of the reported health problems – such as
headache, sleep disruption, impairment of short term memory, nose bleeds and, more seriously, an
increase in the frequency of seizures in some children already suffering from epilepsy - does not
constitute grounds for dismissing them out of hand, as is so often advocated.  For given the paucity, to date, of systematic epidemiological studies pertaining to this relatively recently introduced

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 technology, such reports are an indispensable source of information – a point acknowledged in last
year’s Report58 of the UK Commons’ Select Committee, dealing with the question of mobile phones
and health.
 2. More disturbingly, not withstanding the absence of any overall  increase in the incidence of brain
tumours amongst users of mobile phones (mainly analogue ones, it should be emphasised), a statistically significant increase (by a factor of between 2 and 3) in the incidence of a rather rare kind of tumour (epithelial neuroma) in the periphery of the brain - where the radiation has the greatest
access - the laterality of which correlates with mobile phone use, has been found
59 in an
epidemiological study in the USA, as part of the WTR  Programme60.
  3. There is documented evidence
61, 62 that long-term (involuntary) exposure to microwave radiation
of intensities intermediate between that realised near an active phone and that found in the vicinity of
a base-station (but at somewhat different carrier frequencies than used in GSM ) does causes serious
illness, such as leukaemia and lymphoma, in certain exposed people.  This is the conclusion reached by a relatively recent reanalysis of the Lilienfeld report on the Moscow US Embassy irradiation
during the ‘cold’ war, based on information that only became fully available following the Freedom of Information Act, which reveals that the original verdict of no serious health effects was, in fact, a sanitised version of Lilienfeld’s findings, in which his statements of concern had been deliberately removed by the State Department.    4. A US Defence Intelligence Agency document
63 dated March 1976, reviewing Soviet work on
biological effects of non-thermal exposure to microwave and radiofrequency radiation makes interesting, but disturbing, reading.  For not only have many of the effects there reported now been found in the case of exposure to GSM  telephony radiation, but the following extract (which,
incidentally, was eventually also removed) reveals a less known ‘dark side’ of the issue that is consistent with the Moscow Embassy affair, and one that presaged – as it turned out - the subsequent deployment of this kind of radiation in psychotonics and other forms of non-lethal microwave weaponry:
‘The potential for the development of a number of antipersonnel applications is suggested by the research published in the USSR, East Europe and the West.  Sounds and possibly even words which appear to be originating intracranially can be induced by signal modulation at very low average power densities.  Combinations of frequencies and other signal characteristics to produce other neurological effects may be feasible in several years.  The possibility of inducing metabolic disorders also suggested.  Animal experiments reported in the open literature have demonstrated the use of low level microwave signals to produce death by heart seizure or by neurological pathologies resulting from breaching of the blood-brain barrier’.
  5. An invaluable indicator of the potential noxiousness of the pulsed microwave fields emitted by
base-stations is the increasing number of reports - some published, some as yet anecdotal - of adverse effects on the health and well-being of various animal species, specifically cattle, dogs, birds and bees.  In the case of the affected cattle reported in one particular study
64, the cattle (which were found
to line up, all facing away from the mast) displayed a variety of problems, including severely reduced

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 milk yields, emaciation, spontaneous abortions, and still births.  Especially relevant are the following
facts: ( i) the condition of the cattle was found to improve dramatically when they were removed to
pastures well away from the mast, only to deteriorate again once they were brought back, ( ii) the
adverse effects appeared only after  GSM  microwave antennae had been erected on a tower that had
formerly been used to transmit only (analogue) TV and radio signals, associated with which there had, in this case, been no evident health problems.  It should be noted that this is not an isolated
occurrence, similar problems with cattle being reported from elsewhere
65.  In the case of domestic
canine pets, there are a number of anecdotal reports of their immune systems being adversely affected, again in a reversible  way.  Finally, there are reports of declines in bird and bee populations
following the commissioning of new base-station masts.   It should be noted that the occurrence of adverse effects in animals  is particularly significant, in that
it indicates that the effects are real, and not psychosomatical, as is often claimed, in the case of humans exposure, by those who maintain that base-station radiation is harmless.  Furthermore,


 seem more important than it really is in the overall course of
events. After the event passes, life goes on the same and disappointment
ensues.
Glamorization, of course, is starkly obvious in advertising. Here we see
it sui generis.  The cowboy is the glamorization of masculinity, and the
ballet dancer is the glamorization of femininity. Men are attracted bypersonality, not the brand; thus, the cowboy represents the glamorized male
who is rugged, cool, suave, and in control. The consumer projects onto the
product that it will give him those desired personality traits.
Glamorization is living at a fantasy level. Therefore, when we proceed
to let go of a desire, we must dissect away that which is exaggeration,
fantasy, and romanticization. Once we have relinquished the glamour, it will
be relatively easy to surrender the desire itself. If you let go of the
romanticization of the cowboy, for example, then the cigarette or the
cheesebur ger that he was handling in the commercial will lose its appeal. In
fact, much to our surprise, we will find over and over again that the desire
was attached to the glamorous fantasy; there was no reality in it in the first
place. Because there was no reality in it, the world is constantly selling us
dishonesty, catering to our desire for that romantic, glamorized aspect. It
promises to make us more important than we really are. Glamour at that
level of dishonesty is a fake.
The mind protests: “Do I have to give up all that glamorous
excitement? Do I have to let go of my pictures of emotional gratification
and excitement?” The answer is obviously “No.” W e don’ t have to give
them up at all. And we can achieve the goals ef fortlessly and easily once we
are conscious of what we are choosing. W e can have them directly. W e can
be attractive, but we won’ t get it in a fake way such as driving a certain
style of car. W e will get it by letting go of our smallness and owning our
greatness, thereby reflecting it out into the world. W e can easily become
that exciting person whom people are eager to know. Just choose to be that
person and let go of the block of desiring to be that way. W e can have what
we want directly without detouring through some fraudulent promise that
will lead us into frustration and disappointment.
The way to become that exciting person whom people want to know is
very easy. W e simply picture the kind of person we want to be and
surrender all the negative feelings and blocks that prevent us from being
that. What happens, then, is that all we need to have and to do will
automatically fall into place. This is because, in contrast to having  and
doing, the level of being  has the most power and ener gy. When it is given
priority, it automatically integrates and or ganizes one’ s activities. This
mechanism is evidenced in the common experience, “What we hold in mind
tends to manifest.”The Power of Inner Decision
These are not philosophical positions but practical processes that can be
proven through experience. It is easy to experiment with these concepts and
watch the automatic results take place. Because of the mind’ s tendency to
want to attribute credit elsewhere, other than to the power of our own
consciousness, it is good to keep a diary to write down goals that we would
really like to achieve and then check them of f and make follow-up notes.
Why? Because it will take a while before we believe that it is truly our own
power that is accomplishing these ends.
Here is an interesting example of the denial of inner power. A man,
who was desperate for a job and pretty frantic about it, was instructed on
how to apply the letting go technique to his job situation. Because he was of
a religious nature, he was advised to for get about getting a job, to turn it
over to God, and to surrender his desire in the matter while staying open to
what might happen. A week later, he recounted: “W ell, the day after I
surrendered wanting a job, nothing happened. Then I got a long-distance
phone call from my brother -in-law, and I am going to be joining his firm. If
it weren’ t for my brother -in-law, I never would have gotten a job. It’ s a
good thing I didn’ t wait for God!”
This is a good example of what the mind has a tendency to do. It was
his own surrender, of course, that brought in the call from his brother -in-
law. He so frantically desired the job that the desire was blocking the
fulfillment of that goal. When he let go of wanting a job, it quickly
appeared within 24 hours. But the propensity of the mind is to disown one’ s
own power and project it elsewhere onto the world. This is why people in
their own estimation think they are powerless. They have the power, but
they have merely projected it onto external forces. W e are all powerful
beings who have become unconscious of our own power; we have denied
and projected it onto others out of guilt and our own sense of smallness.
The majority of what happens in our lifetime is the result of some
decision we have made somewhere in the past, either consciously or
unconsciously. Because this is so, it is very simple, then, to see our past
decisions by looking at our life and tracking backwards.
This principle is demonstrated by a woman who came for
psychotherapy. She needed treatment because, in her words, “My
relationships never work out.” She had one unsatisfactory love af fair after
another and was always left feeling used and abused. She was full ofresentment, self-pity, and depression. The problem, of course, was given in
her opening sentence, “My relationships never work out.”
Because we deny the power of our own mind, we don’ t see the
glaringly obvious. It is very curious how we have become so unaware. Here
is a woman who has the answer sitting right there, but she does not see that
it is the answer. She really doesn’ t see the power of her own belief system.
Our mind is so powerful that, if we hold in mind a single thought such as,
“My relationships never work out,” then that is most likely going to happen
in our life. Our unconscious genie, which can only take orders and not make
decisions, sees to it that our relationships don’ t work out.
Of course, she got a lot of payof fs from her disappointing relationship
history. She got to experience self-pity, resentment, jealousy, envy, and all
those gratifications that the small self feeds on endlessly. If we look at the
small part of ourselves, we will see that this is the kind of thing in which it
just loves to wallow. The small self glorifies in how miserable life is, how
tough luck is, how rotten our experiences have been and how mean people
have been to us. But we pay a big price when we listen to this set of
programs.
The corollary is obviously true. If our mind, by its decision, has the
power to make negative things happen in our life, then it has equal power in
the opposite, positive direction. W e can choose all over again. This time we
can choose the positive. W e can cancel the old programs, and we can do
that by beginning to relinquish the gratification we were getting out of the
negative payof fs.
Now that we have looked at the subject a bit, we can come up with the
term that most aptly describes this set of emotions: “selfishness.” The mere
use of the word instantly sets up a resistance due to guilt. W e all feel guilty
because of selfishness. This puts us in an impossible position because, in
order to carry out what the world has taught us, we have to indulge in the
very thing for which it then condemns us: selfishness. T o look at the
subject, let’ s first make a decision that we are not going to beat ourselves up
about it and get into the self-indulgence of guilt. That’ s what guilt is, really,
isn’ t it? Self-indulgence.
Instead, let’ s look at the term “selfishness” as merely describing the
collective motivations and modes of operation of the small self that is a
genetic aspect of the mind which, due to our own naïveté, we allowedourselves to be programmed with, and which we are now resolved to de-
program in reverse, like the “uninstall” command on a computer.
The reason to let go of selfishness is not because of guilt. Not because
it’ s a “sin.” Not because it’ s “wrong.” All such motivations come from
lower consciousness and self-judgment. Rather, the reason to let go of
selfishness is simply because it is impractical. It doesn’ t work. It’ s too
costly. It consumes too much ener gy. It delays the accomplishment of our
goals and the realization of our wants. Because of its very nature, the small
self is the creator of guilt and its self-perpetuator; that is, out of guilt we
strive to accomplish and achieve success. Then, when we achieve success,
we feel guilty because we have it.


 in the organism is the first and all-important agency in the
performance of all vital functions, any mechanical or other means
being applicable only under control of the vital principle.  The best
appliances known to art are only valuable as auxiliaries thereto, to be
used by it as aids or conditions, but never to thwart or oppose vital
operations.  The  first principle of our system is expressed in the
phrase “Vitality cures” ; and the second is like unto it : “The rapidity
and certainty of cure depend upon the amount of vitality” ; so that all
appliances  calculated  to  improve  circulation  and  consequent
nutrition, thereby increasing the vital forces, must be such as will not
reduce  or  deplete  them  beyond  certain  and  prompt  restoration.
Nutritive-cure  processes  use  vitality  to  produce  vitality,  never  to
reduce it.  The elasticity of the circulating vessels under the influence
of the vital forces of the organism have more to do with circulating
the blood than any other single agency, the relaxation of the vessels,
which causes congestion, being dependent upon failure of the vitalpowers as well as upon obstructions in them.  But as the organism
makes use of a variety of mechanical and chemical principles to aid
its  vital  operations,  so  the  skilful  physician  may  apply  these  in
extraordinary degree or manner to meet extraordinary conditions, or
supply extraordinary wants ; but depletion must not be permitted, the
reason being more fully set forth in Chapter III, of this work.
All vital functions, including circulation, being ultimately dependent
upon vitality, the accumulation of this force is what is sought at all
times ; and to this end rest is the important condition.  This should
always alternate with every form of treatment.  And by rest we mean
chiefly  and  preeminently  mental  quiet.   Muscular  motion  is  not
always opposed to rest, but mental activity is ; especially that activity
which  grows  out  of  dissatisfaction,  disquiet,  doubt,  fear,
hopelessness, misanthropy, etc.  Faith, hope, and charity are among
the  most  valuable  agencies  that  can  be  brought  to  bear  upon  a
patient to induce rest.  Faith, which sustains the sinking spirit ; hope,
that buoys him up and bridges him over his pain and suffering ; and
charity, which insures a mental peace, quiet, love, satisfaction, are
worth millions of gold to the sinking soul.  Let there be sleep, if
possible, with content, satisfaction, confidence, trust, and circulation
and nutrition will surely follow.
Second  ;  By  withholding  or  withdrawing  the  obstructions  to  its
normal operations.  The capillaries are minute, hair-like, microscopic
vessels, about 1-3000 part of an inch in diameter in the human body,both ramifying and investing all structures in such way as to bring
every fibre of the body into intimate contact with the blood in these
vessels.  Their size, situation, and functions, therefore, render them
peculiarly  liable  to  obstructions.   Impurities  which  would  readily
circulate  through  the  heart  or  arteries  without  inconvenience
frequently lodge in the capillaries, and totally obstruct the circulation
and nutrition of the part.  Indeed, it may be stated as a self-evident
truth that all obstructions, injuries, diseases—that all impurities and
debilities that afflict any organ or organism result from obstructions
of, and take place in, the capillaries of that organ or organism.  The
great concerns of the organism are dependent upon the little affairs ;
the circulation as a whole upon circulation in the varied parts ; the
development of structure upon nutrition, which takes place in the
minute capillaries.  Unquestionably the irritants which cause boils,
ulcers, erysipelas, small-pox pustules, rheumatism, sprains, bruises,
and all other inflammations, produce their effects by first obstructing
the capillaries, whence we have irritation, congestion, inflammation,
ulceration, pain, and the accompanying excitement of the general
system  denominated  fever.   In  this  way  irritants  or  poisons
introduced into the circulation through the breathing of impure air,
the drinking of impure drinks, the eating of impure or unwholesome
foods,  become  the  cause  of  violent  and  destructive  diseases,  by
irritating and obstructing the capillaries of the system.
High Living.  We have here the explanation of the evils connected
with the use of rich food, or what is popularly termed high living.
Such a term is a misnomer.  It is the worst kind of living—of lowliving—because it defeats its own ends.  It fails to nourish, because
the feeding is overdone.  Every person should eat such food and as
much of it as can be properly prepared, circulated, and used, and no
more.  Every addition obstructs the process of nutrition and brings a
wearied and suffering condition upon the patient, which explains the
ennui, inertia, debility, laziness, and generally enfeebled condition of
thousands.   Whoever  would  have  good  capillary  circulation  and
consequent health and strength should carefully avoid all causes of
obstruction ; should eat only such substances as are required for the
proper development of the organism; should, indeed, eat to live and
grow strong, not live to eat.  Blood thickened from excess or because
of impurities is frequently a cause of such obstruction.  More people
suffer from thick than from thin blood, and those who suffer from the
latter suffer from it as a secondary condition, not as a primary one.
Blood which is thin but pure and properly vitalized will be easily
circulated, quickly used, and strength and vigor will result ; but if
thick from any cause, so as to pass tediously and laboriously through
the capillaries, nutrition will be correspondingly obstructed.  Sugars,
candies,  and  other  sweetmeats  are  therefore  great  causes  of
obstruction.  All spices, including pepper, mustard, common salt as
usually  employed,  are  injurious  condiments.   Tea,  coffee,  cocoa,
spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, are all excitants and irritants,
tending to inflame the capillary vessels, and so produce dangerous
diseases.  That capillary system which is in an inflammatory state as
the  result  of  these  substances,  may  at  any  time  be  excited  to
extraordinary activity by any sudden change of temperature, accident
or external injury, so as to produce violent inflammations or fevers ;
whereas,  if  the  blood  were  pure  and  the  capillary  circulationundisturbed, no such inflammation or fever could take place, even
though the exciting causes were brought to bear.
Overeating is  well  known  to  be  a  cause  of  ill  health,  but  it  is
popularly  supposed  that  the  evil  results  from  overloading  the
stomach, whereas the mischief lies in overloading the circulation.
More  blood  than  can  be  circulated  and  appropriated  causes
congestions,  which  produce  serious  diseases.   To  overload  the
stomach is to make a person uncomfortable, to be sure; possibly to
derange  digestion  and  cause  dyspepsia  ;  but  by  overloading  the
circulation  we  have  obstructed  livers,  kidneys,  brains,  sometimes
followed  by  nervous  disorders,  apoplexy,  paralysis,  epilepsy,  etc.
Overloaded circulation is a common condition, much more prevalent
than overloaded stomach.  Sugars, candies, milk, butter, and eggs
even, when freely used, tend to the former conditions ; while the
latter is caused by the solid and often wholesome foods.  To introduce
into the stomach abundance of food of such character as the system
requires  is  excellent  practice,  and  difficulty  of  digestion  is  no
objection to the food, provided it can be digested at all.  Ease of
digestion, on the other hand, maybe a serious objection, while foods
that pass into the circulation without being digested at all, are, under
ordinary circumstances, to be rejected.
One word more as to the foolish habit of stuffing patients in order to
make them grow strong.  Physicians, friends, and patient all agree
that the latter is suffering from want of nutrition, and immediately,with a senselessness that is marvellous to behold in a man claiming
to  understand  physiology  and  the  laws  of  the  organism,  food  in
excess, such as beefsteak, beef-tea, rich food, cod-liver oil, etc., is
urged  upon  the  unoffending  stomach.   There  seems  to  be  afloat
among the people an indefinite idea


 her little one
around), though she might appreciate someone playing with her
older child or helping with laundry, dishes, meals, and so on. Or
perhaps what she needs is a shower—or to spend quality
moments with her older kid(s)—and for someone to hold her little
one during that time.
PILLAR OF DIET
During the process of labor and birth, a mama’ s digestive fire goes
completely out. The postpartum diet focuses on gently rekindling this fire
with nourishing yet easy-to-digest foods and eating practices.
Eat at regular times throughout the day, assuring that you are
sitting down, focused on eating, as peaceful as possible, and
chewing your food thoroughly. Having someone lovingly prepare
your meals and teas and bring them to your bedside at the
proper times is one of the most nourishing ways of being
“mothered” so that you can focus on mothering your little one.
Have simple, easy-to-digest, warm, well-cooked, mushy foods
with digestive spices (such as cumin, coriander, fennel, ginger).
Gradually increase the complexity of meals throughout the six
weeks to assure digestion stays balanced.
Add a couple of tablespoons of ghee to every meal to support
digestion and elimination, pacify vata, and remove ama (toxins)
from the system.
Stay hydrated! Achieve hydration during the postpartum window
through mineral-rich sources such as soups, stews, broths,
herbal infusions, and warming elixirs. Hydration is crucial for
encouraging regular bowel movements; drinking warm prunejuice as needed will also support elimination (best after lochia
discharge has slowed).
Full details for a postpartum diet are provided in chapter 8.
PILLAR OF HERBS
Among the many herbs that can be supportive to a postpartum mama, the
following are some Ayurvedic staples that you will want to have on hand
for daily consumption.
Panchakola ghee. Panchakola ghee is infused with five spices
(pippali, pippali root, ginger, black pepper, and chitrak) that help
to increase agni (digestive fire) and decrease ama (toxins). It
should be mama’ s first food after delivery; then use 1–2
tablespoons of this ghee on each meal for the first ten days.
Dashamula  tea. Dashamula is a combination of ten roots that
work together synergistically to pacify vata and ground, warm,
and nourish mama during her postpartum window. It is a tonic
that removes vata from the nervous system and womb, supports
digestion and elimination, reduces pain, and creates a calming
effect on the mind. Drink in the morning and evening (see recipe
on this page ).
Milk tonic. Milk tonic (see recipe on this page ) soothes nerves,
encourages healthy digestion and elimination, and restores
strength and vitality; during the weeks postpartum it also helps
build a healthy milk supply. Drink each night before bed.
Ginger tea, CCF tea (see recipe on this page ), and fenugreek
tea. Drink these teas throughout the day for digestion and
lactation support.PILLAR OF BODY CARE
Postpartum body care is focused on moving excess vata from the body by
deeply nourishing mama and providing her with warmth, oiliness, stability,
and love. Some days it may feel overwhelming or impractical to include all
this into your postpartum care. Know that it is not “all or nothing.”
Sometimes if we can’ t do it all “perfectly” we may think, “What’ s the use
of doing any of it at all?” Of course it is best if you can do the following
each day, though know that any amount is beneficial. Be as steady and
consistent as possible for the full six weeks.
Postpartum belly wrap.  Traditionally, a postpartum belly wrap is
made with a long piece of cotton cloth, wrapped many times around
your entire torso and hips. This secure container supports your
organs in returning to their prepregnancy size and position, helping
you to heal faster and more completely. It also brings a feeling of
emotional and physical stability and support. You can make a wrap
yourself with a long piece of cotton cloth or you can purchase one
online. If you are making your own, choose a natural fiber such as
cotton or cotton muslin. Look for the softest, thinnest natural-fiber
fabric you can find. Choose fabrics that are not stretchy or only
slightly stretchy, about 1 foot wide by 24 feet long.
Peri bottle after (and while!) using the bathroom.  A peri bottle is a
plastic squirt bottle that can be used to clean the perineal area,
greatly reducing stinging during urination. You can use water or your
sitz-bath tea (recipe on this page ). Dilute the tea by one-half with
clean water and fill the bottle.
Daily abhyanga (warm oil massage) followed by a shower or
bath.  As noted in chapter 2, a basic of Ayurvedic body care is
abhyanga, or warm oil massage. In the postpartum period, rather
than doing the massage yourself, consider hiring an Ayurvedic
massage therapist or an Ayurvedic postpartum doula, if possible, forat least the first two to six weeks. Your friends, parents, or partner
can also learn how to do this, which can be a sweet bonding and
nourishing time for all of you. It is quite simple, actually! For
postpartum massage, use at least a cup of warm sesame oil—
optionally infused with any combination of brahmi, ashwaganda,
bala, and rose—and rub gently and lovingly onto your body with
repetitive strokes: long strokes on the long bones, circles around the
joints. Massage for thirty minutes to an hour to really absorb the oil,
keeping the oil on your body for thirty minutes to an hour afterward.
Abhyanga is simultaneously cleansing and nourishing; it moves
stuck emotions or stagnated energy, boosts the immune system,
enhances digestion, soothes the nervous system, quiets the mind,
and helps the postpartum mama feel cared for, confident, and loved.
Ideally, you’ll take a warm shower or bath afterward.
Herbal baths at least four times per week.  Many herbs can help
soothe tender perineal tissue, heal tears and episiotomies (yes, you
can take herbal baths if you have had stitches!), reduce
inflammation, and even shrink hemorrhoids after a vaginal birth.
Taking herbal baths at least four times a week can also soothe the
nervous system, give space for mama to process her birth
experience, lighten depression, calm anxiety, improve sleep, and
bring strength. Use any combination of plantain leaf, yarrow,
calendula, lavender, sage, marshmallow root, and witch hazel to
create healing and rejuvenating baths (see “Guidelines for an Herbal
Bath” on this page ). An herbal bath can be taken as soon as an hour
after a vaginal birth as long as mama is healthy and there are no
signs of infection. If you do not have a tub at home, a sitz bath can
be used instead—though Ayurveda says full body immersion will
give you much deeper benefits.
Hot pack.  Place a hot pack on your belly and lower back for at least
thirty minutes daily. The warm quality helps to pacify the coolness of
vata. The hips and pelvis are also known to be the main site of vata.Applying warmth to these areas will support healing and help with
lower back pain or postpartum contractions, as well as help you feel
nourished, stable, and warm.
Basti.  Use a warm oil enema, or basti, for seven consecutive days,
starting after two weeks postpartum, to deeply nourish your pelvic
region and assure that vata dosha is stable. Use ¼ cup sesame oil
mixed with ¼ cup warm water.
How to W rap the Belly the Ayurvedic W ay
Sarva Blackwell of Inner Sun & Moon School of Natural and Holistic
Therapeutics, which of fers an Ayurvedic doula training, provides the
following instructions for a postpartum belly wrap.
Start with one end of the cloth at the side of one hip and wrap
diagonally up toward the opposite ribs.
Bring the cloth straight across the back to the other side of the
ribcage and then cross in front, back toward the opposite hip from
where you started. Continue in this crossing pattern, occasionally
twisting a single twist at the sides of the body to give extra support
and to help the cloth angle diagonally more easily.
Wrap from the hips up to the bra line. Experiment by wrapping until
you find a way of doing it that feels most comfortable and supportive
to you. The wrap should be simultaneously firm and gentle—you
should feel firmly supported but be able to breathe and move around
easily.
Think of it as wrapping a sprained wrist with an ace bandage.
You can wear the belly wrap as much as 24/7 during the six
weeks postpartum if you like. Consider wearing it ten or twelve hours
a day to start and see how it suits you. If you want to belly bind daily