 it infuse for 15 minutes.
Strain, cool and store it in a stoppered bottle for a maximum of three days. Increase amounts in the
above proportion, as required. Chamomile is one of the herbs most used in the Gerson Therapy,
both as an enema component and as an herbal drink.
Sometimes a patient has been doing enemas for the first few days of the treatment without
a problem, but suddenly he/she cannot get more than 8-12 ounces into the colon. This may be a
symptom of a healing reaction or flare-up, and the solution is to take what is possible, release it,
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www.thegersonway.comand take the rest. Even if the coffee solution has to be infused in three small amounts, it doesn’t
matter.
Flare-ups are dealt with in detail in Chapter 16. In brief, they occur when so much bile is
released that the intestine is unable to contain it all. The bile then overflows and backs up into the
stomach. Since the stomach needs to be acid in order to hold and digest food, the highly alkaline
bile produces enormous discomfort: the stomach cannot hold food or liquid, and the patient
vomits. In itself this type of flare-up is welcome, because it clears out a lot of toxic bile—but
in the process the stomach membrane becomes irritated and needs instant relief. To do that, the
patient needs to drink as much peppermint tea as possible. At the same time the coffee enemas are
reduced, since they are causing the heavy flow of bile. The correct order for the next 2-3 days is
two chamomile enemas and only one coffee enema a day, until the nausea and vomiting clear up.
Then the regular schedule can be resumed.
During the flare-up, if the patient vomits and also has diarrhea, the body loses a lot of fluid,
so dehydration must be prevented. One way is to use more chamomile enemas instead of coffee.
Also, the carrot/apple and green juices can be used as rectal implants. The regular 8-ounce dose
of juice is warmed to body temperature, by standing the glass in a warm water bath (NOT on the
stove, and without diluting it), and gently infused into the rectum. This is not an enema,  and the
patient should hold it until the liquid is absorbed. That may not take more than 10-15 minutes
of lying still in bed. These infusions can be used with all the juices, even every hour, instead of
having them as drinks—particularly valuable at times when during the flare-up the patient cannot
even bear to look at a juice, let alone drink it. Please note: do not infuse orange juice into the
rectum.
Another problem occurs when the patient takes in the full 32 ounces of coffee solution, but
after 12 minutes is unable to release it. When that happens, the usual reaction is to take another
enema, expecting it to push out the first lot. But that doesn’t happen, and the patient tends to
panic. The reason of the blockage is that the colon spasms, cramps and doesn’t release the liquid.
Of course there is no danger in this: the colon could actually hold up to 5 quarts—but that is
not the point. If the trouble is caused by cramping, the patient needs to lie down on his/her side,
with a warm water bottle on the stomach, and try to relax. If that doesn’t put things right, a small
amount of castor oil can be applied to the rectum; this usually promotes relaxation and release.
However, if the situation lasts a little longer, including the time for the next enema, it helps to put
2 tablespoonfuls of the regular potassium compound (see Chapter 14 ) into each enema for a few
days. This will help to release the cramping and/or spasming. Please note:  do not use this method
for more than 2-3 days, to avoid irritating the rectum and the colon.
It is only when they are on the regular enema routine that patients realize how much waste
material their bodies have stored over many years. Once the organism gets a go-ahead in the
direction of self-cleansing, it does release a variety of strange, disturbing accumulations which
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www.thegersonway.comappear in the enema returns, including a wide range of parasites. Experts claim that some 85%
of us harbour parasites in our colon, which are best expelled. So the message is not to panic, if
the enema returns contain unusual substances: they prove that detoxification and cleansing is
progressing well.
IMPORTANT NOTE: For patients who have been pre-treated with chemotherapy, the enema
schedule is reduced. It has become evident that such patients must be detoxified more slowly and
cautiously, so as not to release all the remaining toxic chemotherapy residues too rapidly, which
would add up to a dangerous overdose.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 14
Medications
For the general public, “medications” normally mean drugs, used in allopathic medicine in the
treatment of disease. In acute cases and emergencies many drugs are life-saving and highly
valuable. But when it comes to chronic conditions, as a rule the synthetic drugs, which are alien
to the body, can merely alleviate, i.e., suppress symptoms without dealing with the basic cause.
This process is often accompanied by severe side effects, which may require more drugs to
control.
The medications used in the Gerson Therapy belong to a totally different category. Far from
being drugs, they are nutritional supplements, consisting of natural substances present in, and
needed for, the normal functioning of the various body systems. Being natural, they have no
damaging side effects. Their purpose is to make up for the deficiencies of the sick body, until it
recovers sufficiently to cover all its needs. So pure are these substances that even if by mistake
they are incorrectly used, in excessive or insufficient doses, they do no harm—with the exception
of the thyroid/iodine supplementation, which must be correctly adjusted.
Let us take them one by one and explore their purpose.
Potassium Compound
Dr. Gerson found that the basic problem in all chronic degenerative diseases is the loss of
potassium from, and the penetration of sodium into the cells, now known as t he tissue damage
syndrome. The average diet in most countries, especially in the developed world, contains far
too much salt (sodium), which eventually causes the breakdown of the healthy balance within
the body. To correct this, Dr. Gerson added a large amount of potassium (a 10% solution of three
potassium salts) to the already potassium-rich organic vegetarian diet, and observed that this
enabled the sick body to release the excess sodium, together with edema, while also reducing high
blood pressure and, in most cases, pain.
To prepare the compound,  100 grams of three ready-mixed potassium salts are dissolved in
one quart of distilled water and stored in a dark glass bottle, or in a clear one kept inside a large
brown or black paper bag, to keep out all light.
On the full intensive therapy 4 teaspoonfuls of the potassium compound are added to
ten of the freshly prepared fruit and/or vegetable juices. This dosage is reduced after 3-4
weeks to 2 teaspoonfuls in each of ten juices.
In seriously ill patients it takes many months, even 1-2 years, to restore normal potassium
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www.thegersonway.comcontent to the essential organs. The serum potassium level, as shown in the blood test result, does
not reflect the potassium status of the cell. Low serum potassium values may signify healing,
because the depleted tissues are reabsorbing potassium, while high figures may be found in
failures, because the tissues lose it.
Thyroid and Lugol’s Solution
It is a fact, known since Dr. Gerson’s day, that most cancer patients are suffering from a low
basal metabolism. Much of the problem is caused by the chlorine widely used in the purification
of the water supply, and—worse still—by fluoride. Both remove iodine from the thyroid gland,
thus reducing its ability to function properly. The thyroid gland regulates the metabolic rate of the
organism, acting as its thermostat, being capable of raising temperature and producing fever; it
also affects the immune system as well as the proper functioning of all hormone systems. When
thyroid and iodine in the form of 1/2 strength Lugol’s solution are added to the patient


 cancer of the breast and prostate), and other health issues. I believe that
properly
evaluating and treating iodine deficiency will not only help people improve the functioning of their immune systems, it will also play
an integral role to help people achieve their optimal health.
1
 Stadel, B. Dietary iodine and risk of breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer. The Lancet. 4.24.1976
2
 DeLong, FR, et al. 1997 Effect on infant mortality of iodination of irrigation in water in a severely iodine-deficient area of
China. Lancet. 350:771-773
3
 Foster, H. The iodine-selenium connection: Its possible roles in intelligence, cretinism, sudden infant death syndrome, breast
cancer and multiple sclerosis. Medical Hypothesis. 40. 61-65. 1993
4
 WHO. IB1D 3/27. 12 Nov. 1998
5
 WHO IBID 12 Nov. 1998
6
 Hollowell, JE et al. Iodine nutrition in the United States. Trends and public health implications: Iodine excretion data from
National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys I and III (1971-74 and 1988-94). J Clin Endocrinol Metab 83:3401-3408.
1998.
7
 Venkatesh, M, et al. Salt iodization for the elimination of iodine deficiency. 1995
8
 Abraham, G. Orthoidosupplementation: Iodine Sufficiency of the Whole Human Body. The Original Internist. December,
2002
9
 Dietary Reference Intakes (2001). Institute of Medicine
10
 Hollowell, JE et al. IBID. 1998.
11
 Pitman, JA. Changing normal values for thyroidal radioiodine uptake. NEJM. 1969; 280:1431-34
12
 Abraham, G. The Concept of Orthoiodosupplementation and Its Clinical Implications. The Original Internist. June, 2004.
13
 Dunn, J. Editorial: What’s happening to our iodine? J. of Clinical Endocrin. And Metab. Vol. 83, No. 10. 1998
14
 Vobecky, M. Effect of enhanced bromide intake on the concentration ratio I/Br in the rat thyroid gland. Bio. Trace Element
Research, 43:509-513, 1994
15
 Abraham, G. Measurement of urinary iodide levels by ion-selective electrode: Improved sensitivity and specificity by
chromatography on an ion-exchange resin. Optimox Research Info. IOD-03. 1.6.03
16
 Personal communication with Dr. Flechas and Charles Hakala. 11.15.08Chapter 3
Different Forms of Iodine
CHAPTER 3: DIFFERENT FORMS OF IODINE
Iodine is not very soluble in water. Jean Lugol, a French physician, was interested in substances that could treat infections and
became very interested in iodine because it showed promise in this area. In 1829, Dr. Lugol found that potassium iodide added to
water increased the solubility of iodine. Dr. Lugol began using a solution termed “Lugol’s Iodine” that was a mixture of 5% iodine
and 10% potassium iodide in water (see
Figure 6
, next page). Two drops of 5% Lugol’s solution (0.1ml) contains 5mg of iodine
and 7.5mg of iodide. Iodide is the reduced form of iodine which contains an extra electron.
Dr. Lugol began treating many different infections with his solution and had great success. Dr. Lugol’s recommended dose for
a wide variety of problems was two drops per day of Lugol’s solution. This provided 12.5mg of iodine, which is very similar to
the physiologic dose of iodine for sufficiency of the entire body. Dr. Lugol’s solution was widely available at apothecaries and was
routinely prescribed for many different conditions.
Figure 6: Lugol’s Iodine Solution
10% Potassium Iodide
5% Iodine
85% Distilled Water
IODIDE AND IODINE
As mentioned above, it is very difficult to get iodine into a solution that uses water as a solvent. Therefore, as Dr. Lugol
discovered, using the reduced form of iodine (iodide) increased the solubility of iodine. In order to do this, iodine must first be
reduced to iodide. For the science majors, this means that the molecule of iodine has gained an electron, which allows it to form a
salt with certain elements like potassium and sodium. In the case of Lugol’s solution, it is in the form of potassium iodide (10% in
Lugol’s solution). When there is a full complement of electrons in the iodine molecule, it is referred to as iodide.
It was thought that the intestinal tract could easily convert iodine to iodide, but research has shown this is not true.
1
 Different
tissues of the body respond to the different forms of iodine. The thyroid gland primarily utilizes iodide while the breast tissue
concentrates iodine. To decrease the incidence of goiter, potassium iodide was added to table salt.
Donald, 49 years old, had Hashimoto’s disease for ten years. Donald was found to be hypothyroid and to have many
nutritional deficiencies. He was treated with Armour
®
 thyroid, vitamins and minerals, and diet changes–I asked him to
eliminate refined carbohydrates and trans-fatty acids. “I am definitely feeling much better with the thyroid hormone. I
felt like I was dying before. But, I still don’t feel like myself. I still have brain fog and some muscle aches,” he stated.
Iodine testing showed that Donald was iodine deficient. He excreted only 35% of a challenge test of iodine (normal levels
should be over 90%). Donald was initially treated with a form of iodide known as SSKI. He claimed, “I did not feel
worse with the SSKI, I just did not feel better. I still had the brain fog while on it.” Donald was switched to a mixture of
iodine and iodide (Iodoral
®
) and he noticed a definite change. Iodoral
®
 is a tablet form of Lugol’s solution. “Within one
week of starting the Iodoral
®
, my brain fog began to clear. I began sleeping better, my energy improved, and even my
libido picked up. I feel almost totally back to normal. Two months after taking

25mg of Iodoral
®
 per day, his iodine test
improved dramatically (94.4% excretion). Update on Donald: After eight years of taking Iodoral
®
, he reported, “I feel
fantastic. It still helps me feel better every day. I could not imagine being without it.”
The breasts, on the other hand, primarily utilize iodine. Studies have shown that iodine deficiency can alter the structure and
function of breast tissue.
2
 This can include dysplasia and atypia that is the forerunner for breast cancer. Animal studies have
shown that iodide (the form of iodine that is present in iodized salt) is ineffective at reversing the pre-cancerous lesions of animal
breast tissue, whereas iodine is much more effective.
3
 Research has also shown that iodine, not iodide, will decrease
lipoperoxidation of breast tissue.
4
Lipoperoxidation is a chemical reaction that can cause damage to the lipids of the cell membrane and mitochondria. This can
lead to many serious illnesses such as cancer and autoimmune disorders. Lipoperoxidation has been found to be elevated in
breast tumors and animal breast tissue exposed to agents that promote cancer. Iodine decreases lipoperoxidation in the body.
This will be more fully explored in
Chapter 5
.
Different body tissues concentrate different forms of iodine. As mentioned above, the breasts concentrate iodine. The
prostate gland concentrates iodine. The thyroid gland and the skin primarily concentrate iodide. Other tissues, including the
kidneys, spleen, liver, blood, salivary glands, and intestines can concentrate either form. With various body tissues responding to
different forms of iodine, it would make common sense that a greater therapeutic benefit from iodine will be achieved by using a
combination of iodine and iodide. My clinical experience has proven, beyond a doubt, that a combination of iodine/iodide (e.g.,
Lugol’s or tableted Lugol’s such as Iodoral
®
 or Iodozyme HP
®
) is much more effective than an iodide-only supplement (e.g.,
SSKI and most other liquid iodide formulations).Leslie, a 43-year-old nurse, suffers with fibrocystic breast disease. “My breasts always hurt and before my period, I
can’t even stand to have a shirt on. The rubbing of clothing is excruciating,” she said. Leslie had been to many doctors
and was told to change her diet. She said, “Eliminating caffeine and chocolate did help somewhat, but I am still
miserable.” When I saw Leslie, she not only had a severe case of fibroc


	also	much	more
vast.	He	beheld	an	“enormous	stream	of	light,	vast	and	full,	deep	in	the	heart
of	life.”	When	he	asked	what	it	was,	the	light	told	him	it	was	the	river	of	life
and	that	he	should	drink	from	it	to	his	heart’s	content.
Fueled	by	limitless	curiosity,	he	now	asked	the	light	to	reveal	the	entire
universe	to	him	“beyond	all	human	illusion.”	He	was	told	to	ride	the	stream	of
life,	and	as	he	did,	he	passed	through	a	tunnel	hearing	“soft	sonic	booms”	onthe	way.	His	speed	accelerated	beyond	the	speed	of	light	as	he	left	the	solar
system,	passed	through	the	heart	of	the	galaxy,	and	became	aware	of	many
worlds	and	many	life-forms,	all	in	a	dizzying	rush.	At	this	point	Benedict
made	a	critical	discovery,	that	what	appeared	to	be	travel	through	space	was
in	fact	the
expansion
	of	his	own	consciousness.	The	appearance	of	galaxies
and	star	clusters	racing	past	was	his	own	consciousness	streaming	past	one
boundary	of	spacetime	after	another.
Benedict	describes	entire	galaxies	disappearing	into	a	point,	of	all	life-
forms	making	their	presence	known,	of	a	second	light	that	contains	every
vibration	in	the	universe.	According	to	the	Vedic	rishis,	these	are	the
primordial	vibrations	from	which	creation	emerges,	which	means	that
Benedict	was	actually	witnessing	the	operation	of	consciousness	itself.
Benedict	finds	his	own	language	for	this	stage,	saying	that	he	was	interfacing
with	the	hologram	of	the	universe.
Passing	into	the	second	light,	he	experienced	a	profound	shift	into	silence
and	utter	stillness.	It	came	to	him	that	he	could	see	to	infinity.	He	was	in	the
void,	or	pre-creation	as	he	calls	it,	and	his	consciousness	was	limitless.	He
was	in	contact	with	the	absolute,	which	wasn’t	a	religious	experience	but	one
of	unbounded	awareness.	He	perceived	all	of	creation	generating	itself
without	beginning	or	end.	Instead	of	one	Big	Bang,	a	singular	event	that
created	the	universe,	Benedict	perceived	millions	of	Big	Bangs	constantly
generating	new	universes.	Since	he	was	beyond	time,	this	was	happening
simultaneously	in	all	dimensions.
After	reaching	this	cosmic	epiphany,	Benedict’s	journey	reversed	itself,
step-by-step,	and	he	woke	up	in	his	bed	at	home	with	the	unshakable
realization,	now	so	familiar	in	the	NDE	literature,	that	death	was	an	illusion.
Benedict	assumed	that	his	return	to	earth	would	be	as	a	baby,	in	a	new
incarnation.	When	he	opened	his	eyes,	however,	he	still	had	the	same	body,
one	that	had	been	dead	for	over	an	hour	according	to	the	hospice	worker	who
was	present	(there	was	no	monitoring	machinery	or	doctor).	The	hospice
worker,	who	had	been	crying	over	him,	assured	Benedict	that	he	had	shown
every	sign	of	being	dead,	including	a	growing	cold	stiffness	in	his	body.	An
amplified	stethoscope	revealed	no	heartbeat.	(In	and	of	itself	this	claim	is
medically	so	outrageous
that
	it	would	lead	a	skeptic	to	discount	every	other
part	of	Benedict’s	story.)
Although	severely	disoriented	at	first,	Benedict	felt	better	than	he	had	in
his	life.	It	took	him	three	months	to	chance	a	new	brain	scan,	being
understandably	nervous	about	his	tumor—but	it	proved	to	be	great	news.	All
traces	of	malignancy	were	gone,	which	his	oncologist	explained	as	a
spontaneous	remission,	a	rare	example	of	a	malignancy	disappearing	on	its
own.	This	sidesteps	the	issue	that	remissions	through	death	are	not	found	in
medical	literature,	and	remissions	of	advanced	brain	tumors,	so	far	as	I	know,are	the	rarest	of	occurrences.
My	own	view	is	that	every	end	point	is	also	a	starting	point.	For	Mellen-
Thomas	Benedict	pure	consciousness	became	the	ultimate	end	of	a	fantastic
journey.	For	the	rishis	it	is	the	starting	point	for	living	in	the	present.	One	of
the	most	genuine	things	about	Benedict’s	experience	is	that	he	wound	up
finding	the	greatest	value	in	the	present:	“People	are	so	busy	trying	to	become
God	that	they	ought	to	realize	that	we	are	already	God	and	God	is	becoming
us.	That’s	what	it	is	really	about.”	His	sense	that	the	void	is	everywhere,	that
the	invisible	domain	contains	everything,	that	God	has	gifted	human	beings
with	every	possible	advantage,	rings	true	spiritually.
Traveling	in	Three	Worlds
A	staunch	materialist	may	consider	it	impossible	to	travel	to	nonphysical
worlds,	but	we	travel	to	other	states	of	consciousness	all	the	time,	in	fact.
According	to	the	rishis,	we	move	between	three	levels	of	awareness	that
account	for	all	experience:
Consciousness	filled	with	physical	objects
.
Consciousness	filled	with	subtle	objects
.
Consciousness	filled	with	nothing	but	itself—pure	consciousness
.
In	each	state	the	soul	looks	different.	In	the	physical	world	the	soul	is
centered	around	emotions	and	idealism.	It	connotes	warmth	of	heart,	love,
devotion	to	God.	We	look	to	our	souls	to	remind	ourselves	that	we	have	a
divine	spark	inside,	and	yet	we	don’t	base	our	lives	on	it.	The	soul	flickers	in
and	out.
In	the	subtle	world	the	soul	is	spirit,	denoting	holiness,	closeness	to	God,
and	freedom	from	the	burdens	of	physical	existence.	The	soul	no	longer	offers
mere	comfort;	it	is	the	bliss	that	pain	was	disguising.	The	soul	is	constant
now;	its	guidance	can	be	clearly	followed	without	confusion.	The	primary
feeling	is	magnetic:	one	is	being	drawn	inexorably	toward	the	divine.
In	the	domain	of	pure	consciousness,	merging	is	complete.	One	sees	that
self	and	soul	are	one.	Since	there	is	no	here	and	there,	the	soul	has	no
location.	It	exists	everywhere	and	nowhere	at	the	same	time.	One	no	longer
seeks	the	soul’s	goodness,	holiness,	or	purity.	It	simply	is.
After	death	a	person	experiences	the	subtle	dimension	automatically,	yet
to	the	rishis	every	dimension	is	enfolded	into	the	others.	The	appearance	of
angels	on	earth	is	possible,	even	though	they	are	properly	consigned	to	the
domain	of	subtle	objects,	and	so	is	the	sojourn	of	the	prophet	Mohammed	to
heaven	on	a	white	horse.	Each	involves	a	shift	in	awareness.	At	the	same
time,	each	state	of	consciousness	has	its	own	particular	qualities	and	isperceived	as	its	own	separate	reality.
THREE	WORLDS:	A	MAP	OF	ETERNITY
1.
Consciousness	of	physical	objects:
	This	is	the	world	of	concrete	things
that	we	verify	through	the	five	senses.	It	obeys	linear	time.	We	appear	to
ourselves	as	physical


  noting that before humans showed up, life on Earth for the other
species stayed pretty much the same. Food, shelter, and surviv al were the
name of the game. Things haven’ t really changed that much for them. The
monkeys lived in trees for tens of millions of years, just as they do now. The
fish swam in the waters for hundreds of millions of years, just as they do
now. Everything  on Earth stayed pretty much the same until you humans
showed up with your human mind. You discovered electricity and made the
nighttime bright. You built giant skyscrapers and machinery that never
existed before. You even dug into the earth, extracted minerals, and
developed advanced materials like silicon chips. Then you built a rocket
ship, got in, and flew to the moon.
Compare that to what any other animals have done. They are living
exactly the same as they did a thousand years ago, a hundred thousand years
ago, a million years ago. You’re  not. You used to live in caves;  now you’re
planning to live on Mars. What  did that? Did God hide a rocket ship, and
you found it somewhere? No, your mind did that. Your mind figured out
everything was made of atoms, then you figured out how split the atom. The
human mind actually figured out how the universe was made, all the way
down to the quantum level. Your mind put up the Hubble Space Telescope
that can see back to the beginning of creation. The Hubble can pick up light
that has been traveling through space for more than thirteen billion years.
This allows us to see what was happening thirteen billion years ago. Canyou even think about that? The fact is you can because you have a human
mind.
The human mind is an amazing thing. That is some serious stuff we’ve
figured out. You’re back in there, deep inside, and you have the use of a
brilliant mind. That said, what is the average human doing with their mind?
Einstein used his mind to ponder “thought experiments” about the behavior
of light, gravity, and the physics  of outer space (even though no human had
ever been there!). Meanwhile, you keep your mind busy with relationships,
what people think of you, and how to get what you want and avoid what you
don’t want. You may not have Einstein’ s mind, but compared to any other
living thing on Earth, your mind is brilliant. The question is not whether
your mind is brilliant; the question is what are you doing with that
brilliance?
What we see so far is that the mind by itself, without you interfe ring, is
doing what it’s supposed to be doing. It’s giving you the gift of rendering
the outside world for you to experience. But you had some troub le accepting
that gift. You started resisting when it felt a little too uncomfortable and
clinging when it felt a little too good. This caused the buildup of mental
patterns inside of you. Now, processing current external experiences
becomes distorted by the reactions of past samskaras.
You can think of this as layers of the mind. The first layer is where the
rendering of the present external experience is taking place. We can call that
the here-and-now layer. The next layer is the stored patterns from the past
that you did not release when the external experience was over. We can call
that the samskara layer. But there is yet another layer. This layer is what you
are doing with your brilliant mind to try to solve the discomforts created by
the samskaras. This is the personal-thoughts layer, and it is the one you
identify with the most—you think this is who you are. The combination of
these three layers is what we call the personal mind.  Yours is completely
unique to you and you alone.
We create the personal-thoughts layer when we use the tremendous
intellectual power of our mind to conceptualize an outside world that will
not bother us and will, in fact, make us feel good. It seems perfectly logical.
The problem is, what we think will make us feel good or bad is simply the
result of blocked mental patterns from the past. If we use our mind’ s
brilliance to develop thought patterns based on how everyone and
everything needs to be for us to feel okay, we have limited our life toserving our samskaras. And our personal thoughts don’t stop here. What
good is it to analyze how you need things to be if you’re not also going to
think about how to get them that way? First we figure out the strategy of
how to be okay, then we figure out the tactics of how to make it happen.
Strategy and tactics—that’ s military training. In essence, we are at war with
the world.
The personal mind has taken on the task of how to get the world
unfolding in front of you to be the way you want. That should set off alarm
bells because we’ve already discussed in great detail where the world in
front of you comes from, and it has nothing to do with what’ s going on
inside your head. The moment in front of you is the result of all the natural
forces that caused it to be as it is. The preference system in your mind is the
result of the past experiences that you couldn’ t handle. These are two totally
different sets of forces that have  nothing to do with each other. For example,
there are current impersonal forces that are causing it to rain. There are past
personal forces causing you to not like the rain. You have just pitted
yourself against  the universe, and you are going to lose. Nevertheless, the
personal mind thinks it’s right. You actually think that the universe should
be the way you want it to be.PART IV:
Thoughts and DreamsChapter 16.
The Abstract Mind
Fortunately, your mind has a layer b eyond the layers  of the personal mind. It
has been  called the impersonal mind, the abstract mind, or even the purely
intellectual mind. This layer of mind is not distracted by the inner
commotion caused by your samskaras. It is free to soar unhindered into the
pure brilliance and creativity of a higher expression of mind.
This higher layer of your mind, which we will call the abstract layer, is
what allows you to build rocket ships, develop air-conditioning, and
discover the existence of atoms. The abstract mind is what truly makes
humans great. You are not limite d to experiencing only through your senses;
you are free to explore in the realm of pure intellectual mind. Your mind can
take you pretty much anywhere. Do you want to build rovers that can go to
Mars so you can explore the planet on the internet? Wonderful, you can do
that because your mind is capable of expanding beyond the limit of your
senses and the limit of your personal thoughts. Mind can operate at many
levels—the question is, what are you doing with it?
Intellectually, you have the ability to take images from outside and do
creative things with them. You are free to use your mind’ s power to be
artistically abstr act and intellectually logical. A perfect example  of the latter
would be Einstein’ s thought experiments. Einstein came up with many of
his greatest theories sitting in his armchair and reasoning out very abstract
concepts. This is a great tribute to the power of our minds. It is a far cry
from getting lost in your personal thoughts and making these thoughts about
yourself the total meaning of your life. Once you create thoughts about what
you want and don’t want, and how to force the world to be that way, you
will never be okay inside. You will lose much of the great power of abstract
thought because you cannot abstract from yourself. Life will become a
battle between reality and your mental preferences. This use of mind iscalled the perso nal mind because its thoughts are all about you and your
concepts, views, and preferences.
The teachings of mindfulness, which center awareness on the current
moment, encou rage you to focus on something other than the personal
mind. Focusing on the moment is one way to get your consciousness off its
incessant addict ion to the personal. Another way to transcend the personal
mind is by using  your intellectual mind to create and do things that are not
personal in nature. This inclu des being an engineer who reasons out
problems or a medical researcher who studies diseases and how to cure
them. Artistry, computer science, mathematics—all of these are examples of
beautiful uses of the imperson al mind. The mind is great; it’s just not
supposed to be used for storing all your personal preferenc es and then
thinking the whole world is supposed to match what you stored.
The outside world is simply not going to magically match what  you’ve
stored in your mind. In fact, it is not very intelligent to expect it to. Is it
really intelligent to devote your life to fighting with life so it aligns with
your past good and bad experiences? How can you enjoy life if you are
always worrying and struggling  to get it your way? That’ s what all of our
societies are doing, and that’s what almost every human being has done.
People just haven’t evolved enough to learn not to do that. Rich people,
poor people, sick people, healthy people, married people, single people—
they all are bound in the same way. If they get what they want, they are
relatively okay.


 make up my brain,” no one would deny that mind  is the
word intended.
It’s very difficult, however, to pry neuroscientists from their
belief th at “brain creates mind.” In the emergency room, an EEG
reveals when the victim of a  fatal car accident is brain- dead, at
which p oint th ere is no min d left. Isn’t it obvious that the mind
lived there, beneath the hard shell of the skull? Not at all. Imagine
that you  had never seen a player piano and knew nothin g about
how one works. You walk into a music room, and a piano isplaying “The Blue Danube Waltz” by itself. You can see the keys
going up and down, the hammers striking the strings.
How w ould y ou know if there was an invisible p ianist
performing this magical act? There’s no way to tell. On the other
hand, it seems irrational to jump to the conclusion that the piano
is playing itself. The instrument’s raw materials—wood, steel, felt,
and ivo ry—can be studied down to the atomic level. Nowhere will
you find a tale nt for music. Y et in neuroscience and everyday life,
we say that the brain, which is also a physical instrument, thinks,
feels, sees, and does everythin g else that happens in the mind. We
make t his assumption without the slightest proof that the raw
materials inside a cell—basically hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and
nitrogen—can love or hate Brussels sprouts, enjoy Viennese
waltzes, fall in love, and so on. The fact that the brain is constantly
buzzing with activity doesn’t tell us that a mind is at work or why
each mind is unique at any given moment.
Finding the source of the mind is easy once you put
consciousness first. It’s not hard to do this. We naturally  rely on
the min d because our existence is tied to it. We use our minds in
lots of ways th at do not light  up on a brain scan and that require
no d iscernible brain activity. Can you recognize your spou se’s face
in a  cro wd? Ye s, instantly, but you don’t go through a proc ess that
requires brain activity. Your brain doesn’t flip through a mental
Rolodex until you find a stor ed image of the right face and pick it
out, the way th e witness to a  crime is asked to flip through mug
shots at the police station. Recognition happens in the mind
without burnin g calories in the brain, and unless the brain is
burning calories, it’s not at work.
In t he s ame wa y, you choose words without thumbing thr ough
a dictio nary stored in the brai n. And once you learn the streets of a
new town, you can negotiate them without consulting a map—on
paper o r in your brain. Lea rned things are simply there. The
opposite is also true. If s omeone asks you the meaning of
hydrocephalus  or ratatouille, an d you don’t know the word, you
don’t n eed to comb through your vocabulary for missing words—
you immediate ly know that you don’t know. But a high-speed
computer has to consult its stored memory before it says, “Does
not compute.”Some years ago I met a math prodigy, now retired from being a
professor, who had started publishing in leading math ematics
journals at the age of twelve and subsequently attended P rinceton
at sixte en. He finished his co ursework for a doctorate at Harvard
while still an u ndergraduate. As remarkable as prodigies are, one
comment in an interview with  this math genius stuck in my mind.
When asked how his thinking process was different from other
people’s, he said that he didn’t think in order to solve a math
problem—he p osed the problem to himself, allowed it to incubate,
and waited for the right answer to pop out.
He had developed such abso lute confidence early on and still
continues to rely on it. Should we consider genius exce ptional,
totally divorced from the norm? Not at all. To some degree
everyone has experienced the power of intuition, which can be
defined as the mind jumpin g to a conclusion without h aving to
think th rough all the individual steps along the way. When people
say intuitive things, like “I knew the man I was going to marry
when I first set eyes on him” or “I knew I’d fly jets from the time I
was five,” they didn’t arrive at this certainty by thinking it through.
In all kinds of activities, the mind relies on the knowing element
that is innate i n consciousne ss. This fact must be grasped before
we can venture into the met ahuman possibility of using our full
potential. The  door is slam med shut if “brain creates mind,”
because what makes us hu man—love, compassion, creativity,
insight, and imagination—is beyond the brain.
We can bolster the case by returning to the infant brain yet
again. A t birth  a brain scan will indicate that a newborn’s  brain is
highly active, but no one wou ld claim that a newborn is t hinking,
not in the way adults put wo rds together in their head. W hen an
infant c ries, it is inarticulately saying it is hungry, tired, afraid,
needs changin g, and so on. The mother picks one of the
possibilities and acts accordingly once she pinpoints what her
baby w ants. We don’t assume that the baby knows a nything
beyond its raw discomfort.
At som e point, thinking begins, and an infant’s life bec omes
mind-based. Thinking in words and forming ideas begin to
emerge. But even if you were present at the exact instant a baby
uttered her first word and even if you could map this moment asan even t on a brain scan, the birth of language isn’t in th e brain.
Somehow, purely in consciousness, a thought arises, connected to
a meaning.
At f irst the use  of words is like a parrot repeating what it h ears.
Goo goo  me ans nothing. Mama  i s probably a  parroted word
coaxed out by the baby’s mot her. But then an invisible, silent aha
occurs. Mama  is the concept that attaches to a person, and only
one person in the whole wo rld. Then there’s an acceleration of
speech, and by their second birthday, infants enter what experts
call a “meanin g explosion.” (This is also apparently the point at
which chimpanzee DNA, although 98 percent identical to human
DNA, s tops sh ort. Homo sapiens  is  unique in h aving billions  of
new neural connections deve loping in the first two years of life.) A
typical two-year-old knows ar ound a hundred words; at two and a
half, vocabulary has grown to around three hundred words.
Meanwhile, a change occurs  that is far more significant than
acquiring a vocabulary: toddlers start saying things they have
never heard before, forming new sentences on their own. No one
taught us how to do this, and yet the most advanced computer is
miles behind the average three- or four-year-old. A computer can
be programme d to invent an infinite number of sentences never
said be fore, but it doesn’t know what it’s doing. The process is
totally mechanical—a laptop saying “I love you” doesn’t really
mean it.
Meaning can’t explode out of the meaningless, just as sent ences
that ma ke sense cannot emerge simply by tossing alphabet soup in
the air. Consciousness unfolds as mind, body, and brain, each
process gover ned by meaning and purpose. (A popular
motivational slogan in recent years is “the purpose-driven life,”
which inspires people who feel confused, adrift, and without
purpose. Yet we cannot help  but be purpose-driven from birth—
otherwise, we’d be mindless.)  We may not be able to articu late the
meaning of life, but we are c ertain that there is meaning, and we
are designed to reach for more.
Consciousness is a meaning field. We know this despite
ourselves. In one experiment, participants were told that they
would be taking a hearing test, which required them to listen to
recordings of sentences being said in a very low voice. Even withgood h earing it was hard to make out exactly what was being
uttered, but the participants were told to make the best guess they
could.
What they didn’t know was that each was listening to a
sequence of nonsense syllables, a possibility that occurred to no
one. No matter how low and unintelligible the voice, the
participants heard—or guessed they heard—sentences that made
sense. Yet even before langua ge arose, animals made sense of their
surroundings, learning to rec ognize edible food, potential threats,
a d esirable mate, and thei r own young. We might c all this
recognition ins tinctive, but it doesn’t change the fact that meaning
was inescapable. Even a one-celled amoeba engulfing a smaller
one-celled crea ture is distinguishing food from nonfood. N othing,
not even the


ritical	building
component	for	cells	in	brain	and	eye	tissue.	A	real	egg	supplies	an	average	of
200	to	400	milligrams	of	DHA.	Make-believe	supermarket	eggs	contain	an
average	of	only	18	milligrams.	Without	adequate	DHA,	the	body	uses	whatever
substitute	is	available	to	build	those	cells,	causing	them	to	malfunction.	DHA	is
sadly	lacking	in	our	modern	diets,	causing	an	epidemic	of	brain	dysfunction,
including	depression,	mood	disorders,	attention	deficit	disorder	and	a	host	of
other	medical	problems.	Similarly,	a	real	egg	contains	ten	times	the	vitamin	E	of
a	supermarket	egg.	To	make	matters	worse,	make-believe	eggs	are	loaded	with
pesticides,	hormones,	antibiotics	and	a	host	of	other	toxins.
We	have	few	real	eggs	because	we	have	few	real	chickens.	Real	chickens
must	be	raised	outdoors	in	the	fresh	air	and	sunshine,	eating	their	natural	diet	of
bugs,	worms,	pigweed,	dandelions	and	other	living	foods.	Most	of	today’s
chickens	are	cage	reared,	confined	in	factories	where	they	do	not	obtain	the
benefits	of	exercise	or	sunlight	and	are	fed	nutritionally	deficient,	processed
chicken	feed.	Neither	the	meat	nor	the	eggs	of	these	unhealthy	animals	supporthealthy	human	life.
Commercial	chickens	are	fed	an	incredibly	deficient	and	toxic	diet.	They	are
so	malnourished	and	unhealthy	that	they	must	be	fed	a	lifetime	of	antibiotics	and
other	drugs	to	keep	them	alive.	Ninety	percent	of	commercial	chickens	have
cancer	at	the	time	of	their	slaughter.	If	these	chickens’	cells	are	so	malnourished
and	unhealthy,	how	can	you	expect	your	cells	to	be	healthy	when	you	eat	their
meat	and	eggs?
Pork	is	no	different.	Pigs	are	fed	a	diet	of	recycled	waste,	filled	with	toxins,
and	more	than	80	percent	have	pneumonia	at	their	time	of	slaughter.	Likewise
with	beef,	cattle	fattened	in	feed	lots	are	so	malnourished	and	sick	that	they
require	a	variety	of	drugs	just	to	keep	them	alive.	In
Diet	for	a	New	America,
John	Robbins	described	their	typical	diet:
[S]awdust	laced	with	ammonia	and	feathers,	shredded	newspaper	(complete
with	all	the	colors	of	toxic	ink	from	the	Sunday	comics	and	advertising
circulars),	“plastic	hay,”	processed	sewage,	inedible	tallow	and	grease,
poultry	litter,	cement	dust,	and	cardboard	scraps,	not	to	mention	the
insecticides,	antibiotics	and	hormones.	Artificial	flavors	and	aromas	are
added	to	trick	the	poor	animals	into	eating	this	stuff.
The	animals	are	not	the	only	ones	tricked.	The	consumer	is	“tricked”	into
buying	these	make-believe	foods	and	into	thinking	that	they	contain	the	nutrients
required	to	support	healthy	life.	Dr.	Joseph	Beasley	in
The	Kellogg	Report
wrote
that	shortchanging	nutrients	over	a	period	of	time	“is	bound	to	involve	human
illness,	particularly	chronic	conditions	such	as	today’s	high-technology	medicine
can’t	seem	to	get	a	handle	on.”	Again	and	again,	well-meaning	parents	go	to	the
store	thinking	they	are	feeding	their	families	fresh,	wholesome	foods,	only	to	be
fooled	by	the	multitude	of	offerings	of	deficient,	make-believe	food	products.
Carl	Pfeiffer,	Ph.D.,	M.D.,	related	in
Mental	and	Elemental	Nutrients
an
experiment	at	the	University	of	California,	Irvine.	Healthy	rats	were	fed	foods
that	an	average	American	would	purchase	in	a	supermarket:	white	bread,	sugar,
eggs,	milk,	ground	beef,	cabbage,	potatoes,	tomatoes,	oranges,	apples,	bananas
and	coffee.	The	rats	developed	a	variety	of	diseases.	Dr.	Pfeiffer	concluded	that
if	the	average	human	diet	could	not	support	the	health	of	rats,	then	it	probably
would	not	do	much	better	for	humans.
In
Diet	for	a	Poisoned	Planet,
David	Steinman	describes	an	experiment	in
which	four	sets	of	rats	were	fed	different	diets.	The	first	set	ate	natural	foods	and
drank	clean	water.	Throughout	the	three-month	experiment,	these	rats	remained
alert,	calm	and	social.	The	second	set	was	fed	the	same	food	as	the	first,	with	theaddition	of	hot	dogs.	These	rats	became	violent	and	fought	each	other
aggressively.	The	third	set	ate	sugar-coated	breakfast	cereal	and	drank	fruit
punch.	These	rats	became	nervous,	hyperactive	and	aimless.	The	fourth	set	was
fed	only	sugar	donuts	and	cola.	These	rats	had	trouble	sleeping,	became
extremely	fearful	and	were	unable	to	function	as	a	social	unit.	The	poor	nutrition
of	these	foods	(not	to	mention	the	toxic	food	additives)	had	a	profound	effect	on
the	behavior	of	these	animals.	Many	children	today	struggle	with	hyperactive,
antisocial	and	even	violent	behaviors.	The	time	has	come	to	consider	how	their
diet	may	be	causing	this	behavior.
More	Unreal	Than	Ever
As	if	our	foods	were	not	“make-believe”	enough,	modern	technology	has
taken	another	unhealthy	leap.	We	now	have	totally	artificial,	synthesized
products	that	are	consumed	as	“food.”	The	food	industry	is	creating	products
such	as	artificial	sweeteners	(saccharine	and	aspartame)	and	man-made	fats,
including	margarine,	Olestra	and	nondairy	creamer.	As	Paul	Stitt,	author	of
Fighting	the	Food	Giants,
wrote,	“An	ever	increasing	proportion	of	the	food	we
eat	is	no	longer	even	food	but	is	now	a	conglomerate	of	high-priced	chemistry
experiments	designed	to	simulate	food.”	More	and	more	Americans	are	eating
these	fabricated,	imitation,	processed	foods;	if	you	want	to	eat	a	good	diet,	you
cannot	subsist	on	foods	that	are	not	real—foods	that	are	completely	foreign	to
the	body.
What	are	the	real	foods	that	your	body	needs	in	order	to	become	healthy	and
stay	healthy?	Your	body	needs	nutrients:	vitamins,	minerals,	amino	acids,
essential	oils,	oxygen,	water,	sunlight	and	fuel	(calories).	With	the	exception	of
water,	air	and	sunshine,	the	nutrients	necessary	to	keep	your	cells	healthy	must
come	primarily	from	the	healthy	plant	and	animal	cells	that	you	eat.	If	the	fruits,
vegetables,	meats	and	other	foods	that	you	eat	are	not	healthy,	they	cannot	keep
you	healthy.	If	you	are	hoping	for	health,	but	eating	a	diet	that	is	made	up	of
unhealthy	plants	and	animals,	or	foods	so	highly	processed	that	they	no	longer
resemble	plants	or	animals,	you	are	hoping	for	the	impossible.
A	professor	of	chemistry	wanted	to	demonstrate	the	superiority	of	fresh	foods
to	his	class.	He	purchased	“fresh”	oranges	at	a	local	supermarket	and	measured
their	vitamin	C	content.
There	was	none


 Australia we found that those living near the sea were using animal life
from that source liberally, together with the native plants and animals of the land. They have not
cultivated the land plants during their primitive life. In the interior, they use freely the wild animal
life, particularly wallaby, kangaroo, small animals and rodents. All of the edible parts, including the
walls of the viscera and internal organs are eaten.
    The native Maori in New Zealand, used large quantities of foods from the sea, wherever these
were available. Even in the inland food depots, mutton birds were still available in large quantities.
These birds were captured just before they left the nests. They developed in the rockeries about
the coast, chiefly on the extreme southern coast of the South Island. At this stage, the flesh is very
tender and very fat from the gorging that has been provided by their parent. The value of this food
for the treatment of tuberculosis was being heralded quite widely in both Australia and New
Zealand. In the primitive state of the islands large quantities of land birds were available and
because of the fertility of the soil and favorable climate, vegetables and fruits grew abundantly in
the wild. Large quantities of fern root were used. Where groups of the Maori race were found
isolated sufficiently from contact with modern civilization and its foods to be dependent largely on
the native foods, they selected with precision certain shell-fish because of their unique nutritive
value.
    A splendid illustration of the primitive Maori instinct or wisdom regarding the value of sea foods
was shown in an experience we had while making examinations in a native school on the east coast
of the North Islands. I was impressed with the fact that the children in the school gave very little
evidence of having active dental caries. I asked the teacher what the children brought from their
homes to eat at their midday lunch, since most of them had to come too great a distance to return
at noon. I was told that they brought no lunch but that when school was dismissed at noon the
children rushed for the beach where, while part of the group prepared bonfires, the others stripped
and dived into the sea, and brought up a large species of lobster. The lobsters were promptly
roasted on the coals and devoured with great relish. Other sea foods are pictured in Fig. 74.
    The native diet of the tribes living in the islands north of Australia consisted of liberal quantities
of sea foods. These were eaten with a variety of plant roots and greens, together with fruits which
grew abundantly in that favorable climate. Few places in the world have so favorable a quantity of
food for sea-animal life as these waters which provide the richest pearl fisheries in the world. This
is evidence of the enormous quantity of shell-fish that develop there. Here, as off the east coast of
Australia, are to be found some of the largest shell-fish of the world. It was a common occurrence7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 158/250to see these shells being used by natives for such purposes as water storage and for bath tubs of a
size approximately that of a wash tub. Australia and New Zealand are near enough to the Antarctic
ice cap to have their shores bathed with currents coming from the ice fields, currents which abound
in food for sea animals. The great barrier reef off the east coast of Australia extends north to within
a few leagues of New Guinea. Murray Island is near the north end of this barrier. The fish in the
water at times form such a dense mass that they can be scooped into the boats directly from the
sea. Fishermen wading out in the surf and throwing their spears into the schools of fish usually
impale one or several.
    The incidence of tooth decay on this island was less than one per cent of all of the teeth
examined. Another important sea food in these waters was dugong, referred to as sea cow in
northern waters. This animal is very highly prized but is becoming scarce. We found its meat very
much like lamb. It lives on the vegetation of the sea floor in shallow water. As we flew over the
bays of Eastern Australia going northward in search of colonies of native Aborigines, we could see
these sea animals pasturing in the clear water among the ocean plants.
    During these investigations of primitive races, I have been impressed with the superior quality of
the human stock developed by Nature wherever a liberal source of sea foods existed. These zones
of abundant marine life were largely in the wake of the ocean currents drifting from the ice fields of
the poles. The Humboldt Current is probably the most liberal carrier of marine life of any of the
ocean currents. It leaves the ice field of the Antarctic and bathes the west coast of South America
from its southern tip nearly to the equator, where the coast line changes direction and the
Humboldt Current is deflected out into the ocean. It meets here a warm current coming down from
the coast of Central America, Panama and Columbia. If the superb physiques that Nature has
established among the Maori of New Zealand, the Malays of the Islands north of Australia, the
Gaelics of the Outer Hebrides and the natives on several of the archipelagos of the Pacific, owe
their superior physical development to sea foods, we should expect to find that the tribes which
have had contact with the great Humboldt Current food would also have superb physiques.
Unfortunately, very little has been known of the ancient cultures that have developed along the
coast of Chile and Peru. It has been reported that of all the Indian tribes of South America, those
in Patagonia were the most stalwart. While the west coast of Peru is bathed by the Humboldt
Current with its nearly inexhaustible supply of human nutrition, the lands bordering that shore are
among the most desolate deserts of the world. The zone between the Andes Mountains and the
coast for approximately a thousand miles is utterly barren, consisting of moving sand dunes and
jagged promontories. Practically the only break in this waterless, treeless desert is to be found in
the few ribbons of water that trickle down from the melting snows of the Andes Coastal Range.
This coast has no rainy seasons. Any vegetation grown, now or in the past thousands of years, has
had to be watered from the limited supply afforded by these rivers which seem so insignificant
when compared with the vastness of the territory. These river bottoms contain the alluvial deposits
from the Andes and are very rich when watered. It has been only by means of gigantic engineering
undertakings that the water from these rivers has been carried through great irrigation ditches,
sometimes fifty to a hundred miles long for the purpose of making it possible to utilize these river
bottom lands for agriculture.
   In many of the primitive tribes living by the sea we found emphasis on the value of fish eggs and
on some animal forms for insuring a high physical development of growing children, particularly of
girls, and a high perfection of offspring through a reinforcement of the mother's nutrition. It is also
important to note that in several of the primitive tribes studied there has been a consciousness that
not only the mother should have special nutrition, but also the father. In this group very great value
was placed upon a product obtained from a sea form known locally as the angelote or angel fish,
which in classification is between a skate and a shark. The young of the angelota are born alive,
ready for free swimming and capable of foraging for themselves immediately at birth. Twenty to
thirty young are born in one litter. The eggs of the female before fertilization are about one inch in
diameter, slightly oval but nearly spherical. They are used as food by all, but the special food
product for men is a pair of glands obtained from the male. These glands weigh up to a pound
each, when they are dried. They have a recognized value among the natives for treating cases of7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 159/250tuberculosis, especially for controlling lung hemorrhages. The sea foods were used in conjunction
with the land plants and fruits raised by means of irrigation in the river valleys. Together these
foods provided adequate nutrition for maintaining high physical excellence.
    In Chapter 13 I have discussed the probable order of these ancient cultures and the possible
extent of their duration. Very little is known of their origin. Evidence has recently been discovered
in Panama indicating that both the wealth and the culture of Peru were carried northward by
maritime conquerors and that the cultures of Central America, including the Maya culture may have
had their origins in these ancient cultures of Peru.
    While the coastal area of Peru saw the development of many magnificent cultures through past
ages, the highlands of Peru also have left much evidence of superior attainments and wisdom. The
two great Indian linguistic groups of the Andean highlands of today are the Aymara of Southern
Peru and Bolivia and the Quichus of central and northern Peru. The Aymara are credited with
being the descendants of the Tauhuanocan culture which preceded the Incan culture in the
highlands. The Quichu are credited with being the descendants of the Incan culture which had its
zenith just prior to the coming of the Spaniards. In Chapter 14 I have shown photographs of these
racial stocks as they are found today in the Andean Sierras. It may be possible that in former times
the vast


. In part II, I want to get to
these greater depths by exploring the quantum mechanical human body—
Ayurveda’ s term for the invisible software that shapes, controls, and creates
the physical self.
In chapter 1 I stated some of the basic principles underlying the quantum
mechanical body: it is a netwo rk of intelligence, the collected know-how
not just of the brain but of the body’ s other 50 trillion cells;  it responds
immediately to our slightest thought and emotion, giving rise to the
constant flow and change that is basic to our nature; it is not localized in
space-time but is far more general, extending in all directions like a field.
You cannot see your own quantum body, because it is made entirely of faint
vibrations, fluctuations in the field, but you can be aware of it—indeed,
your senses are keenly attuned to the quantum field, whose activity is more
basic than either matter or energy. The fact that you can be aware of a level
in natur e 10 to 100 million times more subtle than the atom seems so
surprising that I would like to expand on the notion.
EXPLORING THE INNER WORLD
You already know that the doshas are like a switching station where
thoughts turn into matter. At first this seems impossible. Matter  is solid and
stable; it can be seen and touched, measured and weighed. Thoughts, on the
other hand, are fleeting and invisible; they cannot be seen or touched, andmeasuring them (as with an electroencephalogram, or EEG), is an
extremely crude  affair. As one witty physiologist put it, unders tanding the
brain with an EEG is like trying to understand the rules of football by
sticking electrodes to the outside of the Astrodome and listening to the roar
of the crowd.
Readings taken by looking into the skull are also distinctly limited.
Thanks to the ultra-modern technology called PET (positron-emission
tomography), it is now possible to image a single strong emotion or
perception while a person is experiencing it. (This involves tracing patterns
made by radiois otopes as the brain goes through the process of having a
thought.) But these patterns, revealing as they are, do not tell us what kind
of thoug ht is being processed. You cannot tell love from hate; you cannot
image the difference between a sane mind and an insane one, much less
decode the incredible subtlety and miraculous variety of the mind body
connection.
The only way truly to penetrate this realm is subjectively, from inside the
quantum mechanical body. Here is where the trick of turning  mind into
matter is actually being managed. If meeting a snake in the woods frightens
you, your heart starts to pound, your throat becomes dry, and your knees
turn to rubber. By the time you jump back in fear, a split-second
transformation has taken place inside you. Your mental impul se— totally
abstract and nonmaterial—has manifested itself physically as molecules of
adrenaline, which are concrete and totally material. The decision that makes
this possible occurs subjectivel y; you choose to send a faint intention to
your quantum mechanical body, and without hesitation it carries out its
orders. Jumping back in fear is not your only option. If you were not afraid
of snake s, there would be no adrenaline; instead, you might generate the
chemicals that cause happiness and excitement, the thrill of discovery, or
you might have a much more casual reaction altogether.
This opens the way for Ayurveda, which says that your mind gives you
control, the ability to have any reaction you want. The great misfortune is
that all of us are preprogramme d along extremely rigid lines; we have only
a few reactions instead of infinit e ones. Because of that, we pay a price. Themind body connection ceases to be effortless and natural; stress starts to
accumulate, and negative signal s from the mind begin to damage the cells.
An old Indian saying goes, “If you want to see what your thoughts were like
yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to see what your body will
be like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today.” Most of us would be pretty
upset to apply this test to ourselves. The real medicine our bodies need is
medicine for our awareness.
QUANTUM MEDICINE
Once you know that there is a quantum body paralleling your physical
one, many things make sense that were mysteries before. Here are two
tantalizing facts about heart attac ks. Fact 1: More heart attacks occur at nine
o’clock on Monday morning than at any other time of the week.  Fact 2: The
people who are least likely to suffer a fatal heart attack are those who report
a high degree of job satisfaction.
Putting these two facts together, you begin to suspect that an element of
choice is at work here. Although heart attacks are supposed to strike at
random, it looks as if at least some heart attacks are controlled by the
people having them. Certain people who hate their jobs get out of them on
Monday morning by giving themselves a heart attack, while those who love
their jobs do not. (Let’ s leave aside the question of why the job haters don’t
choose a less drastic outlet for their frustrations.) In conventional medicine,
there is no known mechanism for giving yourself a heart attack using your
mind. In Ayurveda’ s perspective, however, the heart is a printout of the
same impulses that fill the mind, including the mind’ s disappointments,
fears, and frustrations. At the quantum mechanical level, mind and body are
united; therefore, it comes as no surprise that a deep, smoldering
dissatisfaction lodged in the mind should express itself in a physical
equivalent—a heart attack.
Indeed, any dissatisfaction must express itself physically, becaus e all our
thoughts turn into chemicals. When you are happy, chemicals in your brain
travel throughout your body, telling every cell of your happiness. Whenthey hear the message, the cells “get happy,” too; that is, they begin to
function more effectively by altering their own chemical processes. If you
are depressed, on the other hand, the opposite happens. Your sadness is
relayed chemica lly to each cell, causing a feeling of heartache, for example,
and your immune system to grow weaker. Everything we think and do
originates inside the quantum mechanical body and then bubbles up to the
surface of life.
You have probably heard of experiments in which hypnotized subjects
make their hands warmer, cause red patches to appear on their skin, or even
raise blisters, just by the power of suggestion. This mechanism is not unique
to hypnosis. We do the same thing all the time, only we do not usually have
voluntary control over it. A typical heart-attack victim would be shocked to
discover that he gave himself his attack. Yet, if you look beyond the grim
implications, the really exciting  news is that we have enormous, untapped
powers. Instead of unconsciousl y creating disease, we could be consciously
creating health.
Because he is a doctor himself,  Gerald Rice knows just how sick he is.
After practicing internal medicine in Boston for twenty-five years, he was
diagnosed at age 50 with chronic leukemia, or cancer of the blood’s white
cells. Gerald has been living in a mounting sense of panic for several
months since he was diagnosed. Obsessed by his condition, he sits up at
night poring over medical journals. What he reads is very discouraging.
Patients with his form of leukemia usually live only a few years after the
initial diagnosis.
It is still early. Gerald has noticed almost no symptoms other than feeling
unusually tired during the day, but his white count is soaring above 40,000,
more than four times the normal level, which is between 4,000 and 11,000.
A leading cancer institute in New York City has urged him to try some new
forms of chemotherapy, but he is apprehensive about exposing  himself to
the side effects of the medication when he currently has no symptoms. He
has decided to wait despite the fact that going without treatment frightens
him very much. A number of oncologists tell him the same thing: once hiswhite counts get above 50,000, he must do something. Gerald lies awake at
night fixated on this number; it is a frontier he dreads crossing.
Recently, having read of cancer cases that had progressed well under
Ayurvedic treatm ent, he turned to us. Gerald’ s stance was very guarded, and
his initial questions betrayed considerable anxiety about what he was
getting himself into.
“What’ s your protocol for treating chronic leukemia?” he demanded
immediately.
“This isn’t a cancer clinic,’ ’ he was told. “All our seriously ill patients
begin with basically the same treatment.”
This shocked him, since by his standards of practice, every specific
variety of cancer merits its own intensive, narrowly focused approach. In
Ayurveda we follow a different logic. Our goal is to reach the level of
perfect balance  that lies within every patient, no matter how sick.
Experiencing this level brings healing, in and of itself, using the body’ s own
methods.
“Right now your condition is dominated by feelings of dread and panic,’ ’
he was told. “You are sending overwhelming signals of distress to your
immune system,  and you know as a physician that the immune response is
extremely sensitive to such messages.” He had


Perhaps	you	are	overeating
fats,	especially	the	worst	kinds	(cooked,	fried	fats	and	heated	vegetable	oils).	You
also	may	be	eating	foods	that	are	congestive	or	allergenic,	or	that	you	aren’t
digesting	completely.
IS	YOUR	SKIN	BREAKING	OUT?
Breakouts	can	indicate	a	toxic	buildup	in	your	system.	Your	elimination	organs
may	be	overwhelmed,	which	can	encourage	impurities	to	push	out	through
your	skin.	There	may	be	excessive	phlegm	buildup	from	overeating	congestive,difficult-to-digest	foods	(such	as	dairy),	or	your	digestive	system	may	be
compromised.
IS	YOUR	SKIN	RED	OR	RASHY?
Inflamed,	red,	or	rashy	skin	might	indicate	that	you	are	consistently	eating
something	that	is	triggering	an	inflammatory	or	allergic	response.	Alternatively,
you	might	be	eating	foods	that	are	too	“hot”	for	your	system.	In
Ayurveda,
internal	overheating,	known	as	excessive
Pitta
,	is	considered	a	major	cause	of
aging.
If	you	are	experiencing	any	of	these	skin	conditions,	don’t	worry!	We	bring
these	up	so	you	have	an	honest	base	of	assessment	as	we	start	to	delve	into
dietary	remedies.	These	skin	issues	can	be	balanced,	starting	with	establishing
powerful	new	nutritional	rhythms	for	your	long-term	lifestyle.	Let’s	dive	in.
Boost	Your	Circulation
Optimal	circulation	is	extremely	important.	Consider	a	huge,	majestic	apple
tree.	The	roots	of	the	tree,	buried	deep	in	the	soil,	have	to	absorb	minerals	and
water	from	the	earth	and	then	pull	them	upward	into	the	trunk	and	outward
branches	of	the	tree	to	nourish	each	tiny	burgeoning	twig	and,	ultimately,	the
fruit—in
this	case,	the	apples.	Without	proper	circulation	throughout	the	tree,
the	apples	would	not	get	the	nourishment	they	need,	and	they	certainly	would
not	be	as	juicy,	delicious,	or	beautiful.
It’s	the	same	with	your
body.	Circulation	ensures	that	nutrients	flow
efficiently	throughout	your	entire	body,	including	up	into	your	hair	follicles	to
nourish	every	hair	on	your	head.	It	also	allows	oxygen	to	reach	all	of	your	cells
so	they	can	turn	over	and	the	new	cells	grow	healthily.	Tissue	healing	is	an
intricate	process	that	is	also	regulated	by	circulation.
5
	Fat	stored	in	your	fat	cells
needs	to	be	accessible	so	it	can	be	flushed	out	to	help	you	maintain	your	ideal
weight.	This	process	also	removes	aging	toxins,	pollutants,	chemicals,	and
additives	from	your	body.
Think	back	to	the	tree	analogy.	In	your	case,	the	“fruits”	of	your	beauty
include	the	outer,	visible	parts.	But	your	body	cannot	possibly	be	expected	to
build	healthy	hair	or	glowing	skin	without	excellent	circulation	supplying	all	its
needs	and	efficiently	removing	the	waste	that	constantly	builds	up	in	your
system.
QUICK	BEAUTY	CIRCULATION	TESTTake	a	look	down	and	examine	your	fingernails.	Do	you	see	a	white	half-moon
shape	at	the	base	of	each	fingernail?	This	can	indicate	that	you	have	good
circulation	and	vitality	flowing	through	your	body.	If	all	or	part	of	the	half-moon	is
missing,	it	can	mean	that	your	circulation	needs	a	boost.	Either	way,	there	is	much
you	can	do	to	improve	your	circulation	further	and	allow	your	beauty	to	shine
through.	Check	back	in	the	future	to	see	if	the	half-moon	shapes	eventually	emerge
or	grow	more	prominent	as	you	take	steps	to	improve	your	beauty	circulation.
Excessive	toxins,	mucus,	arterial	plaque,	and	waste	buildup	can	congest	your
system	and	reduce	your	circulation.	Capillaries,	which	are	very	tiny	and	narrow,
carry	nutrients	and	oxygen-rich	blood	through	their	thin	walls	to	surrounding
tissues.	They	also	allow	for	cellular	waste	to	return	to	the	blood	so	it	can	be
excreted	from	the	body.	If	there	are	buildups	or	obstructions	in	your
circulatory
system,	beauty-building	nutrition	and	oxygen	become	blocked,	and
your	hair,	skin,	and	nails	all	suffer.	A	buildup	of	toxicity	in	your	system	also
taxes	your	whole	body	and	contributes	to	accelerated	aging.	For	instance,
research	shows	that	heavy	metals,	one	of	the	many	types	of	toxins	we	are
exposed	to	from	the	food	and	water	supply,	as	well	as	the	environment,
contribute	to	aging.
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Your	outer	beauty	isn’t	the	only	element	of	Radical	Beauty	that	requires
excellent	circulation.	Magnetic	energy	is	also	captivatingly	beautiful	and
dependent	on	this	process.	Have	you	ever	met	someone	who	was	so	full	of
passion	and	life	that	you	couldn’t	help	but	feel	drawn	to	her?	A	certain	light
pours	out	of	her	eyes	and	her	authentically	joyful	smile.	Her	gestures	and
movements	and	even	the	way	she	walks	all	seem	fluid	and	full	of	liveliness.
We’re	all	attracted	to	that	kind	of	energy.	Energy	comes	from	the	combustion
of	fuel,	which	requires	oxygen.
Prana
,	or	your	life-force	energy,	is	circulated
through	the	blood,	or
rakta
.	The	better	your	circulation,	the	more	oxygen	is
available	to	all	of	your	body’s	cells,	and	the	more	naturally	energized	you	will
feel.	This	will	make	you	all	the	more	positively	energetic	and,	in	turn,	all	the
more	beautiful.
There	are	actually	two	different	circulatory	systems	that	work	together	to
keep	your	body	healthy:	the
cardiovascular	circulatory	system
	and	the
lymphatic
circulatory	system
.	The
lymphatic	system	is	discussed	in	detail	later	(see
this	page
);
here	we	focus	on	using	foods	to	boost	your	cardiovascular	circulation.	But	both
systems	have	to	be	supported	in	order	to	maximize	your	beauty	results.
Supporting	Your	Cardiovascular	System	for	More
Beautifying	Oxygen	and	Nutrient	FlowPerhaps	you’ve	only	thought	of	your	cardiovascular	system	in	terms	of	how	it
impacts	your	heart	health,	but	it	also	has	a	big	effect	on	your	beauty.	The
cardiovascular	system	pumps	nutrients	throughout	the	body	to	nourish	the
glowing	skin	and	the	strong	hair	and	nails	you	desire.	With	each	heartbeat,
oxygen-	and	nutrient-rich	blood	is	distributed	to	every	cell.	To	boost	your
beauty,	you	need	this	pumping	action	to	efficiently	reach	all	your	cells	and
carry	the	maximum	amount	of	oxygen	and	nutrition.
FOODS	TO	INCORPORATE	FOR	OPTIMAL	CIRCULATION
Listed	below	are	some	of	the	most	effective
foods	for	boosting	your
cardiovascular	system.	Eating	these	foods	is	not	a	quick	fix;	you	can’t	munch	on
a	handful	of
blueberries	and	expect	dramatically	thicker	hair	the	next	day.	But
these	are	excellent	foods	to	incorporate	in	order	to	see	gradual	but	long-term
shifts	in	your	hair,	skin,	and	energy.	Going	at	your	own	pace,	start
incorporating	them	into	your	regular	routine.


been continuous for years, but no improvement had resulted; rather the reverse, for the epileptic seizures had increased in n umber
and sever ity as time went by. Before the fast the attacks were recurring at intervals of two weeks, and the latest seizure had
happened but three days before the fast began. Food was denied for fifty -six days, and, from the moment of the inception of the
method to the present writing not a convulsion has occurred, nor has there been a semblance of attack, while in general health the
patient has been better than at any time of her life.

The fast in this instance is to be noted in several minor ways, one of which is  that on each of the fifty -six days the patient walked a
distance of at least two miles; another, that on the fortieth day of abstinence a mass of dead intestinal worms passed from t he
bowels in the enema. Improvement was constant from the first, but, afte r the evacuation of these parasites, it increased rapidly, and
natural hunger asserted itself on the fiftyfifth day. The loss in weight was consistently normal, averaging about three -quarters of a
pound for each day of the fasting period.

The medical his tory of the next subject, a woman forty -five years old, tells of continuous treatment for thirty years for the disease
symptom known as psoriasis in its diffuse form. At the time that the patient sought natural means of assistance the inflamed,
bleeding su rfaces characteristic of the symptom covered at least one -third of the skin of the body, and they were not confined to
any particular locality, appearing indiscriminately upon trunk, arms, and legs, but the hands, face, and feet were not affect ed. The
sores were exuding bloody serum, and there was intolerable itching, so much so that in order to exist in any condition approachin g
comfort, local application of mercurial preparations had long been resorted to, to relieve both the pain and the inconvenienc e.
These of course were only temporary in effect, and the major symptoms returned shortly, more angry and more obstinate.

The general health of the patient apart from the distressing symptom described was excellent, strange to say. And to this a s trong
const itution and robust physique in large part contributed. Perhaps, as is at times assumed, the channel taken by nature to rid th e
body of toxic matter, if sufficiently extensive, precluded the development of other and differing symptoms of disease. This h as
been held to have been proved in instances of syphilitic infection, which in the majority of cases seems to grant immunity fro m
minor though equally infectious disease, the latter being subordinated to the dominant blood taint.

When first under observatio n the patient weighed 172 pounds, and her habits were those of a woman in comfortable circumstances
with the idea ingrained that three and even four generous daily meals were necessary for the conservation of health and stren gth.
She was, however, disheart ened and discouraged because of the almost unbearable distress occasioned by the state of her body,
and, as a last resort only, she consented to undergo a fast.

After three weeks of preparation, abstinence from food succeeded and continued without interr uption for seventy -five days. At no
time during this period was anything excepting water ingested, and at no time was the patient unable to cover on foot the dis tance
from her home to the office of her physician. Once this subject had grasped the philosoph y of the method and had experienced the
progressive improvement that marked her case, an excellent physical organization and a determined will made her more than equ al
to the attainment of the object in view, and, as a consequence, she was easy to treat.

The fast was typical and was remarkable in nothing save its length, a phenomenon due again to the extreme resistance which is
always discovered in the normally functioning body. Loss in weight not unusual, and at the end of the fast a diminution in th is
respect of but 32 pounds was noted, the patient then tipping the scales at 140. Until the twentieth day, there was in evidence
slightly lowered temperature and pulse, with some chilliness, but, while pulse and temperature remained below register in the  early
stages of abstinence, by the sixth week normal had been reached. The enemas contained solid feces until about one -third of the
fasting period had elapsed, and thereafter, until the last week without food, large amounts of yellowish -white mucus formed par t of
the discharge. This catarrhal refuse eliminated thus from the intestines indicated that the eliminative function had again be en
established through normal channels. In fact, a significant feature connected with any symptom of disease of the character
expressed in this subject is the failure of function through normal avenues other than the skin to perform, the surface of th e body
suffering from overwork and disease in consequence.

It was not until the fourth week that visible improvement in exudation  from the open sores became noticeable in respect to
granulation, although the exudation had begun to diminish during the third week and at this time also the itching had greatly
subsided. As healing of the sores progressed, the unpleasant minor symptoms d isappeared, healthy skin soon forming in patches
that increased in size and gradually covered the denuded spaces.

After breaking the fast, general health continued excellent, and the sole remaining signs of the psoriasis were the scarred e dges
surroundin g areas latest to heal. Even these in time vanished, and no trace, excepting slight discoloration, the result of previous
mercurial treatment, was left as a reminder of the hideous and distressful malady of previous years.
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While the patient during the fi rst few days of the fast felt some trepidation as to its efficacy and its outcome, after improvement of
the condition appeared, its psychological effect was such that her determination to carry on to the return of hunger became f ixed.
Again it is to be not ed that fear enters and disaster results while fasting a functional case only when the method is incorrectly
conducted. This case is a supreme example demonstrating the truth that, in the absence of organic disease, there is no danger
whatever in abstainin g from food until nature asserts by the return of hunger that systemic purification is completed.

Another case presents itself --that of a woman thirty -four years old, partially paralyzed and suffering from general functional
disease. In this patient two of the dorsal vertebrae had been displaced in early life in such manner as to compress the spinal cord,
thus causing paralysis of the lower trunk and legs. In the absence of any history of accident the only tenable theory of caus ation of
this condition is that of lack of development of the muscles supporting the spine in the dorsal region, this in turn due to faulty
nutrition in youth. In all her life this woman had never known a moment of comparative health, and intermittently in earlier days
severe fevers  with inflammatory intestinal symptoms had occurred, eventually creating contractions in the colon, a condition that
caused constipation and consequent septicemia. When first examined, the case had been bedridden for one year, and it was evid ent
that by re ason of the very evident ankylosis existing in the displaced vertebrae referred to there was small hope of correcting the
paralysis noted. The symptom that impelled the employment of means other than medicine for relief in this case was an ominous
congesti ve chill from which the woman with difficulty rallied. The fast was entered and carried to what may be regarded as a
successful end after fifty -eight days of abstinence.

The medical history of this case showed an inherited tendency towards scrofula or co nstitutional tuberculosis, and there had been
manifested at intervals offensive running sores, the thumb and index finger of the left hand having been amputated some years
previous because of a non -healing scrofulous abscess. All of the ulcers that had app eared had, without exception, been diagnosed
by attending physicians as tubercular in character and had been treated from the medical viewpoint accordingly.

Two days after the beginning of the fast, an abscess broke through the surface of the skin at the  base of the spine immediately over
the sacrum. The discharge from this sore was most profuse and offensive, and the area affected spread until it was at least t hree
inches in diameter, with depth such that within ten days after the skin had broken the per iosteum of the sacrum was exposed. For a
week hot fomentation were continuously applied, and gangrenous tissue in process of formation was cauterized by carefully
focusing the rays of the sun upon the ulcer with a large reading glass. By the tenth day the discharge ceased being offensive, and
shortly thereafter healthy granulation or healing began. When the fast was at an end, the sole evidence of the existence of t his sore
was a circular spot of slightly reddish normal skin of which a subjacent cushion of soft and healthy tissue showed that natural work
of repair had proceeded despite total abstinence from food. This is undoubtedly the point of greatest interest and import to be noted
in the treatment and progress of the case, for it is to be remembered tha t the blood of this woman had in all probability been tainted
from birth, and that it had been poisoned and repoisoned for years by continuous addition to accumulated toxic substances


Synthetic materials, fluorescent lighting and TV sets lower beneficial
negative air ions. Open windows minimize this harmful effect. If cooking 92
 and heating with gas or ker osene ensure that combustion gases are
removed. Many people are allergic to these.
Preferably use mattresses with natural fibres such as kapok, wool,
horsehair or cotton; latex or natural rubber may be best. A cheap
alternative is straw or hay from a pesticide -free source. Innerspring
mattress may direct confused magnetic fields into the body, depending on
how the spirals have been tempered. When moving a compass across the
surface of the mattress the needle should not be deflected from its north -
point ing position.
Foam rubber mattresses may emit toxic gases that are a factor in cot
death. Wrap them in clear polythene with only a small opening at the
bottom. Use natural blankets and sheets on top of the mattress. Even
sheepskin is chemically treated and  can cause problems. Frequently
expose pillows and featherbeds to the sun to kill moulds and dust -mites.
This can greatly reduce asthma problems. Alternatively, use an airtight
pillowcase.
Preferably do not use steel -framed beds or steel -spring frames that  deflect
the compass needle, move the bed if there are metal beams or live wires
in the wall behind the bed. Featherbeds may contribute to arthritis due to
static electricity between the feathers. Try to sleep with the head in a
northerly direction or othe rwise between north and east. Our brain waves
are slowest when the head points towards magnetic north. Cover your
head during cold nights to minimize heat loss.
Sleep in total darkness or cover your eyes during sleep, as production of
beneficial melatonin is interrupted by exposure to electric light, although
moonlight and red light are harmless. Try to avoid even short exposure to
electric light in the first part of the night.
If you live in a modern house try to sanitize it by minimizing the use of
synth etic items that release chemicals, as for instance formaldehyde from
glued material such as many carpets, chipboard or plywood. Avoid
solvents and smelling household cleaners and disinfectants, tobacco
smoke, mothballs and insect sprays. If the outside air  is reasonably clean, 93
 good ventilation helps to minimize such problem.
Minimize Electromagnetic -Pollution
Strong electromagnetic fields (EMF’s) of about 50 to 60 cycles per
second (hertz, or Hz), and the related electromagnetic radiation (EMR)
are harmful. Long -term exposure can aggravate any existing health
problem, especially lack of energy or fatigue, irritability, aggression,
hyperactivity, sleep disorders, nightmares and emotional instability.
Increasing numbers of individuals are becoming hypersensit ive to EMR.
Chronic exposure to high levels of EMR, especially while asleep, is a
constant drain on our vitality. It creates chronic stress, which interferes
with the regeneration and healing that normally takes place during a good
night’s sleep.
EMR exists around power lines, power tools, electric stoves, heaters,
boilers, freezers and television sets when in use, extending up to several
meters around the appliance. Keep your distance if possible. Using an
electric iron or an electric keyboard or work ing with handheld power tools
can quickly drain our energies. When working with electric equipment we
can reduce harmful effects by holding our hands under running water
from time to time, in addition to having a shower in the evening or walking
barefoot o n grass. Try to minimize electromagnetic pollution, especially
while sleeping when the pineal gland is most susceptible.
Preferably switch off all power points in the bedroom and unplug all
electric leads with 2 -prong plugs before going to sleep but defini tely any
power points or leads close to the bed. This applies also to waterbeds,
which need to be switched off or unplugged overnight. Three -prong plugs
may remain connected to power points because this allows stray
electricity to flow off through the eart h connection.
If the head faces a wall with power points or other electric wiring inside
the wall close to the bed, then move the bed towards the middle of the
room so that you can walk around the bed. When using an electric
blanket, warm the bed beforeha nd and disconnect the power before you
go to bed or better still, connect the blanket to a good earth. Do not 94
 habitually remain near a working electric appliance, and minimize
fluorescent lighting, watching television, using video games, computers
and even  electric typewriters and hand -held electric tools.
The main problem with compact fluorescent bulbs is the unnatural
frequency distribution of the light. This can be corrected with more
expensive full -spectrum lights,  but these are cool blue and more pleasa nt
if combined with a warmer light. To increase melatonin production for
improved sleep, use only a warm light in the evening and avoid the blue
spectrum several hours before bedtime.
Stray currents and radiating fields can still be emitted from electric wires
even if appliances are switched off. AC electric fields do not disappear
when an appliance is switched off, only AC magnetic fields disappear.
Keep live wires away from your body. Preferably do not live near high -
voltage lines, microwave towers or el ectric -train tracks. Alternatively take
extra precautions to shield your home.
An increasing hazard is microwave radiation from ovens, mobile (cell)
phones, cordless phones, keyboards and other equipment. Most
dangerous are long -reaching microwave stations, Wi-Fi, Cel -Fi routers
inside the house for phones and computers, or equipment such as a
mouse or keyboard that are not connected by wires, but USB modems
for wireless broadband are harmless. If you need to use such devices
place the sender as far away as  possible from bedrooms and where you
spend most of your time or  switch off when not needed. Also,  flat or liquid
crystal screens are usually safe. With mobile phones use the speaker
mode whenever possible. Do not routinely keep the phone close to your
body.
Electro -proofing your house
The measures outlined so far will go some way to reduce the harmful
effects of electromagnetic radiation or EMR on your health. However,
often they are not enough. There is a simple way to check if your home
and workplace a re sufficiently safe. You can do this by measuring the
electricity that is absorbed by your body. For this you need a digital 95
 voltmeter that can measure millivolts (mV).
Obtain some insulated electric wire that is long enough to reach from
most rooms to the ground outside and attach an alligator clip to each end.
Finally,  you need a ground stake or earth spike, a copper pipe is good,
which you drive into moist soil. One end of the wire is clipped to a clamp
at the top of the ground stake and the other to the black probe of the
voltmeter. It is not good enough to  attach the  earth wire to a water pipe
or to the main electricity ground stake of the house as they may carry
high voltages. Only do this if the earthing has been checked and found
to be acceptable.
To close the circuit,  you now hold the metal end of the red probe f irmly
in one hand. However, it is more convenient to hold a piece of copper
pipe, which is connected through a clipped or soldered insulated wire to
the red probe. Set the dial to 2 AC Volt; if it shows less than 200 mV that
is good, and you can switch the  meter to the 200-mV setting. Preferably
the reading should be below 100 mV in commonly used rooms and on
your bed below 10 mV.
Usually the reading is much higher, and you may get more than 2 V while
lying on the bed. You can reduce this by moving the bed  away from the
wall, but mainly by using earthed wire -mesh under the bed or mattress.
For protection from harmful geopathic stress or earth radiation as from
underground streams you may place an earthed aluminium foil under the
bed with the shiny side towa rds the ground.
You may also sleep on an earthed electric blanket. Cut off the plug and
solder or clip an earth wire onto all three wire strands or attach a plug to
the earth wire. Also,  a steel frame or innerspring mattress may need to
be earthed. Earth any metal parts, such as window frames, metal wall
cladding or roofing iron that show an unacceptably high reading when
touched with one hand while holding the earthed probe in the other.
This is especially the case if there are high -voltage powerlines,
microwave towers or transformers nearby, or power lines that form a
right angle at street corners. Combine all internal earth wires to a main 96
 earth wire and  connect this to a long ground stake behind the house in
moist soil.
It is also possible to get a go od earth by connecting the earth wire to a
moist part of a tree or large outside plant. If measuring the EMR in your
bedroom is not conveniently possible, then just put some chicken wire
under your mattress and connect it to a good earth ( e.g., ground stake )
for protection against dangerously high EMR or earth radiation.
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forfreshair;afterdrinkingmilk;tightclothes.
Peopleneedingthisremedytendtobesluggish,to
moveslowlyandtolookwhiteandpasty.Thereisa
spinelessfeeltothem-adultshavealimphandshake
andmayslumpdownintheirchairswhentalkingto
you.Exertionofanysortleavesthemweak,sweaty
andbreathless-evenclimbingthestairs-andthey
feelbetterforlyingdown.Thechildrenareslowto
learntowalk,slowtoproduceteethandtheirfon-
tanellesareslowtoclose.Theyhavelargeheadsand
bellies.
Thisisachillyremedyandpeoplewhoneeditwill
beworseforcoldanddampalthoughtheycanover-
heateasilyandthenbesubjecttohotflushes.Their
feetandhandsarealwayscoldandoftenclammy,
eveninbed.Theyhatedraughtsorfreshairandthey
cancatchcoldeasilyafterswimmingorgettingwet.
Beingwarmrelievestheirsymptoms.
Thechildrenespeciallysweatontheirheadsandat
thebackoftheneckwhilstasleep-soprofuselythat
theymaywettheirpillows.Adultssweatwhenthey
exertthemselves.Theirsweatsmellssour,asdotheir
stools,theirvomitandtheirurine.Theyhaveasour
tasteintheirmouths.
Calcareaisaremedythataffectstheassimilationof
food-themetabolism isslowandeverythingturnsto
fat.Milkmayturnsourintheirstomachsandmay
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Calcareacarbonica(Calc-c.) •61
aggravatethemandmakethemfeelnauseous.They
craveeggs,especiallyboiledeggs,especiallywhenill,
andmayalsowanttoeatstrange,indigestiblethings
likechalkorpencils.Theyhaveoneunusualsymptom
andthatisthatconstipationmakesthemfeelgenerally
better.
EMOTIONAL/MENTAL SYMPTOMS
Anxiousduringtheevening.Confused.Depressed.
Despairofgettingwell.Fearfulgenerally;ofdeath;in
theeveningMelancholic.Sluggish.Stubborn.
Tearful.
Worseforthinking.
Calcareacarbonicababiesareusuallyhappvandcontent
andwillsitandwatchtheworldgoby.Thevmayeven
seemlethargicattimesalthoughthevwillusuallybe
moredifficulttohandleifthevareteethingorunwell
astheirstubbornsidewillcomeoutmorestronglv
then.Olderchildrenaresluggishandsensitiveto
beingteasedorcriticised.Adultsaresensitiveand
melancholic; fullofself-pitv,thevweepeasilyabout
theirproblemsandfeeltheyarefailures.Theytalk
repeatedlyabouttheiranxietiesandworriesandbore
closerelativesandfriendsaway.Theirmemories
areweakandtheybecomeeasilyconfusedbecause
thinkingisdifficultforthem.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsPains:aching;inlowerback;sprained
feeling.
Worsefordamp;ongettingupaftersitting.
Causeslifting.
Thebackfeelsweak;thepersoncannoteasilvsit
straightandsoonslumpsdowninthechair.
Breastfeedingproblems
SymptomsMilksupplyover-abundant.
Thebreastsmayalsobeverylargeanduncomfortable.
Brokenbones
SymptomsBonesslowtomend.
IfafractureisnothealingwellafterSymphytumhas
beengiven,CalcareacarbonicaorCalcareaphosphorica
canbegiven(oneweekon,oneweekoff,untilithas
healed).GiveCalcareaphosphoricaunlessthereare
stronggeneralsymptomsthatwouldindicateCalcarea
carbonica.
Commoncold
SymptomsNasalcatarrh:dry;smelly;yellow.Nose
blocked.With:lossofsmell;painlesshoarseness.
Worseduringthemorning.Constipation
SymptomsStools:hardatfirst;large;pale;sour
smelling.
Betterforbeingconstipated.
Theinitiallarge,hardstool(whichmaybeclay-like,
orlikelumpsofchalk)isfollowedbydiarrhoea
(seebelow).Thepersondoesnotsufferwiththis
constipation-infacthefeelsbetterforit.
Cough
SymptomsCouch:dryatnight;looseduringthe
morning.Mucus:copious;smelly;yellow;sour;
tough;tastessweet.Withsymptomsoffever(see
below).
Worseplayingthepiano;morning;eveninginbed;
duringfever.
Thepersoncoughsupmucuswithdifficulty.Infants
especiallyarepronetocoughsduringboutsofteeth-
ingandthecoughmaythenlastallwinterifnot
treated.
Cramp
SymptomsCramp:incalves;hands;solesoffeet;toes.
Worseatnight;duringpregnancy;stretchinglegin
bed.
Thesearethecrampsthatcomeonwhenstretching
limbsonwakingupinbed(duringthenightorfirst
thinginthemorning).
Diarrhoea
SymptomsInteethingchildren.Stools:containing
undigestedfood;sour;watery.
Worseafterdrinkingmilk.
Causesdrinkingmilk;teething.
Thediarrhoeafollowsaformedstool,isfullofun-
digestedfoodandsmellssour.
Earache
SymptomsPainsthrobbing.Withnoisesintheear.
ThetypicalCalc-carbgeneralandemotionalsymptoms
willbepresent.
Exhaustion
SymptomsWithbreathlessness. Dizziness.
Worseformentalexertion;forslightestphysical
exertion;forwalking;walkingupstairs.
Thepersonisparticularlyworseforwalkinguphillor
upstairs.
Eyeinflammation
SymptomsInbabies.Dischargepurulent.Eyes:
sensitivetolight;watering.Eyelids:gluedtogether;
gritty.Withsymptomsofcommoncold.
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Thisistheinflammation thataccompanies acommon
cold,andtheeyesmaywelloozeanasty-smelling
discharge.
Flatulence
SymptomsBelly/stomach: bloated;intolerantof
tightclothing.
Headache
SymptomsPains:burning;bursting;maddening.
Betterforlyingdown.
Worseforlight;fornoise;onrightsideofhead.
Causescold,dampweather;gettingwet;mental
exertion.
Theheadpainsareworstinthebackoftheheadand
spreaduptothetopofthehead.Theyareoftenworse
whilstreadingandforanyjarringupwardmovement.
Thepersonfeelsbetterforlyingdownwithhiseyes
closed.
Hoarseness
SymptomsPainless.
Worseinthemorning.
Indigestion
SymptomsBelchessour.Belly/stomach: bloated;
hard.Painspressing.Withflatulence;heartburn.
Insomnia
SymptomsAnxiousdreams.
Worsebeforemidnight.
Causesover-activemind;worry.
Thesepeoplebecomesleeplessfromworryandthey
havepersistentlyanxiousthoughts.Theiranxious
dreamsmaybeinterspersedwithpleasantones.
Jointpain
SymptomsPains:cramping.
Worseforwetweather.
Causeswetweather.
Painsareworseforthecold.WhenRhustoxicodendron
hasworkedwellbuthasstoppedhavinganyeffect,
Calcareawilloftenhelpifthetypicalgeneraland
emotional/mentalsymptomsarepresent.
Sorethroat
SymptomsThroatdry.
Causeschangeofweather.
Sprains
SymptomsSprains:ofankle;ofhand;ofwrist.
Worseforlifting.
Causesliftingheavyweights.Thisremedyisusefulforclumsypeople(adultsor
children)whostumblefrequentlywhilewalkingand
spraintheirankleseasilyasaresult.Alsoforsprains
fromliftingheavyweightsthatdonotclearupwith
Rhustoxicodendronand/orRutagraveolens.
Stiffneck
Causeslifting.
Teething
SymptomsPainfulinchildren.Slow.Difficult.
Withdiarrhoea(seeabove).
Babiesmaymakeachewingmotionwiththeirjawsin
theirsleepandgrindtheirteeth,orrathertheirgums!
Toothache
SymptomsPainsgnawing.
Worseforcoldair;drawingincoldairbetweenteeth;
hotdrinks/food.
Causesdraughts;cold,dampweather.
Vomiting
SymptomsVomit:curdledmilk;sour.
Calcareafluorica(Caic-f.)
Othernames:calciumfluoride;fluorspar;fluorideof
lime;flu