 Y 352
B e i n g  p r e c e d e s  d o i n g,  i n  m e  a n d  i n  t h e  w o r l d. T he only way I can know what I should be doing is to focus on who I
should be. There are important things God would have me do, but I am
responsible for becoming the vessel through which He can work. He can
only work for me if I allow Him to work through me. Putting my focus on who God would have me be, is the only sure
way I will ever come close to discerning what He would have me do, and
being able to do it. Being precedes doing, in me and in the world. Dear God,
Please make me who Y ou would have me be,
That I might do what Y ou would have me do. May I embody the love
And extend the peace
That alone can change the world. Amen.DA Y 353
I  p o u r  l i g h t  o n  a n y  t r o u b l i n g  c i r c u m s t a n c e. G od disentangles any dysfunctional ener gy that pervades a situation,
when I place it in His hands. In my mind’ s eye, I pour ligh t on any
troubling circum stance. I loosen my attitudinal grip. I will see it as a
lesson in miracles, as God disp lays His infinite power to turn darkness
into light. I no  longer hold  on to the problem, for God Himself shall ma ke it
right. M y emotional constriction does not serve. Expanding into the
infinity of my being, relaxing into the arms of God, I appr oach the
situation dif ferently. And the situation will change. Dear God,
I lay this pr oblem on Y our altar. Please interpr et this situation for me. May I see only the love in others and in me. Show me what I need to see,
Guide me to what I need to do. Help me to for give. Raise me above the fear in my mind. Thank you, God. Amen.DA Y 354
FOR REFLECTION
O n  R e b u i l d i n g  O u r  L i v e s
J ust as we look to food to fuel our physical selves, we look to
meditation and prayer to fuel our spiritual selves. Meditation is like spiritual e xercise, developing our attitudinal
muscles and making them strong. Consider it your daily workou t. After a
certain p oint in our lives, whet her in relation to physical or attitudinal
muscles, gravity  pulls them dow n if we’re not working to keep them up! Flabby spiritual muscles are things like cynicism, negativity, victim
consciousness, a nger, judgment,  and fear. Just as we do well to exercise
our bodies on a regular basis, we also do well to exercise our minds. Why? B ecause w e wish to be vital, vigorous, and strong. At a c ertain
point, a constan t reenactment of our neurotic dramas becomes as boring
to us as they already are to those around us. W e are ready to rebuild our
lives.DA Y 355
I  b a s e  m y  i d e n t i t y  o n  a n  e t e r n a l  r o c k. I  do not look to t he world for comfort; I look only to God. I do n ot look
to th e w orld for peace; I look only to God. I do not look to the w orld for
security; I look only to God. I base my identity on an etern al rock, no longer at the ef fect of a
chaotic w orld. I seek love that li es beyond the world, that I might bring it
here. Dear God,
May Y our spirit overshadow my mind
And give me eyes to see. May I per ceive the love I know exists
And overlook the r est. May I rise above the darkness of the world
And my mind be bathed in light. May I be calm and comforted
By truth. Amen.DA Y 356
T o d a y  I  c h o o s e  t o  s p r e a d  m y  w i n g s. I  r ealize the huge calling of histo ry at this time. W e have been c alled to
a collect ive geni us, and each of us is being prepared to play our part. Our
world ne eds spiritual giants, and it takes not ego but humility to  sign up
for t he ef fort. M any of my probl ems arose because I chose to play small,
thinking that there I would find safety. But I was born w ith wings, and I’m meant to spread them. Anything
less will hurt me, will deny love  to myself and others, and will mean that
I end my life never having flown the flight of spiritual glory. Dear God,
If left to my own devices,
My per ceptions will be skewed. I surr ender to Y ou everything I think and feel. Please take my past and plan my futur e.
Send Y our spirit to r edeem my mind,
That I might be set fr ee. May I be Y our vessel
And serve the world. May I become who Y ou would have me be,
That I might do what Y ou would have me do. Amen.DA Y 357
FOR REFLECTION
O n  G i v i n g  U p  O l d  S t o r i e s
E ven if your mother or father did n’ t tell you that you were wonderful
when you were a child, your divine Father/Mother tells you that now. Spiritual understanding is a corrective to any false programming you
might have received as a child. Rather than endlessly analyzing a tape
from childhood, you can erase it by recording a new one. Spiritual
growth involves  giving up the stories of your past so the univ erse can
write a new one. Y ou are not denying your childhood; you are simply
transcending any of its negative aspects. God is your rea l Mother and Go d is your real Father. Y ou are loved
and adored and cared for and bl essed. Accept that if even for a moment,
and the torments of mortal childhood begin to pass away.DA Y 358
P r a y e r  e x p r e s s e s  m y  p a s s i o n  f o r  G o d. W ith m y prayers I  invite Him in, He who is already there. W ith pr ayer,
I sp eak to God. W ith miracles, He responds. The endless chain of
communication between loved and lover, between God and man, is the
most beautiful song, the sweetes t poem. It is the highest art and the most
passionate love. Dear God,
I give this day to Y ou,
The fruit of my labor and the desir es of my heart. In Y our hands I place all questions,
On Y our shoulders I place all bur dens. I pray for my br others and for myself. May we r eturn to love. May we all be blessed. May we find our way home,
Fr om pain to peace,
Fr om fear to love,
Fr om hell to heaven. For Thi ne is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory. Fo r ever
and ever. Amen.DA Y 359
I  a s k  G o d  t o  t r a n s f o r m  a l l  n e g a t i v e  t h o u g h t s. H ow do I quit the  negative self-talk, the chronic repetition of thoughts
and feelings that cause me to emotionally spiral downward? It’ s not
always as easy as simply sayi ng, “I won’ t think that way anymore.”
Entrenched thought forms ar e like a buildup of plaque on my
consciousness. But I’m not asked to be my own transformer; I’m asked
only to surrender the thoughts and feelings that need transforming. God
will do the rest. Dear God,
I feel myself falling into the hole
Of self-pity, self-obsession, and negativity. I know I shouldn’ t think this way,
But I’m afraid and I cannot stop. Please r eplace my thoughts with Y ours, dear God. I am willing to see myself and all things differ ently. Please send me the miracle of new eyes and ears,
That I might know my gr eater good. Amen.DA Y 360
FOR REFLECTION
O n  T r u s t i n g  O u r  D e s i r e s
M any people have a hard time allo wing themselves to really want what
they want. They think, at leas t subconsciously, that asking for total
happiness is asking for too much. They don’ t bother, therefore, to truly
listen to their heart’ s desire. But wh en your mind is attuned through prayer, meditation, and
for giveness; wh en your body is attuned through healthy nutrition and
exercise; and when your behav ior is attuned through a sincere ef fort at
healthy living, then you


ins seem as if theymight burst; apply lotion containing the salt aswell. Dilation of the blood vessels when the elas-tic fibers of the walls of the vessels have becomerelaxed; Calc Fluor is the chief remedy to restoretheir contractility (Calc Phos). First stage ofaneurysm (Ferrum Phos). Hypertrophy, orenlargement of the heart (Kali Mur). Irregularitiesof the heart’s action, when due to prolapse ofuterus and other diseases related to excessiverelaxation. Back and extremities – Pain in lower part of
the back, weak, with dragging pains. Burning
CHAPTER 3: C ALCFLUOR 19pains in the sacrum, with confined bowels. Hard
growths or excrescences on the bone surface (sco-liosis). Relaxed conditions of the muscles, allow-ing discoloration of the fingers and toes. Hardswellings. Gouty enlargement of the joints (MagPhos). Varicose ulceration of the veins of thelimbs; apply lotion containing the salt using cot-ton. Cover legs with a poultice of Calc Fluor,Silicea, and Calc Sulph. Skin – Hangnails. Hands or lips chapped
from cold (Ferrum Phos). Skin hard or horny;also use plenty of soap and water. Cracks in thepalms of the hands; mix a quantity of the cell saltin Vaseline, and after washing the hands, rub theointment in thoroughly. Anal fissures, fistulousulcers, when secreting thick, yellow pus (Silicea,Calc Sulph). Tissues – Pus or infections of the bones and
periosteum (bone covering), ulcers, felons(infected hangnails). “When a fibrinous [offibrous protein] discharge is not dissolved by sup-puration [discharge of pus from infection], buthas become hardened, Calc Fluor must be given”(Schuessler). Encysted tumors, swellings, hard-ened enlargements, hardened glands, etc. (KaliMur, Silicea). Relaxed elastic tissues. Bone bruis-es, with uneven hard lumps. Swelling or waterretention from heart disease. Febrile conditions – Fevers, when arising
from relaxed conditions. To address the cause ofthese fevers, alternate Calc Fluor usage with theseremedies: Ferrum Phos, first; Kali Mur, second;Kali Sulph, third. Modalities – Heat will generally give relief,
especially for hardened conditions; cold is some-times beneficial when contraction is required. FACIAL SIGNS OF CALCFLUOR
DEFICIENCY
Cubic-shaped raised lines appear in a cross-
hatched pattern, starting from the inner corner ofthe eye and expanding outward across the loweror upper eyelid. Note: The finer the lines, the
greater the cell salt deficiency. Diamond-shaped raised lines start on the
inner corner of the eye and proceed in a slopingor curving fashion across the lower or upper eye-lid. They look like parallelograms or rhombuses.Within these, one can see small raised points. Inacute cases the lines have a fine or stretchedappearance, and in chronic cases the wrinkleslook deeper, appearing like a hanging sack. Note:It is easier to examine these patterns when thepatient’s eyes are closed. Fan-shaped wrinkles start at the inner corner
of the lower part of the eye. Have the person closetheir eyes tightly in order to see these. Brownish-black coloring, though it is often
hard to perceive. This is a brown with blackundertones. The more intense the color, thegreater deficiency. Blue lips show there is a strong Calc Fluor
deficiency, as the muscle and artery strength hasbeen compromised and the heart is having towork harder. (We also see blue lips with a com-bined deficiency in Nat Sulph and Ferrum Phos.) Reflective shine, one of three shines that
appear when there are cell salt deficiencies. Inthis case the skin is as clear as glass or water, witha very thin lacquered appearance. This comes notfrom the stretched skin, but from a fine layer ofkeratin on the skin which reflects light. Small white scales can be a sign of significant
Calc Fluor deficiency; in this case the keratinlayer is flaking off. Referred to as the fish-scaledisease, this often appears on the upper eyelid.Note: This is an indirect sign of a Calc Fluor defi-ciency, so use other signs to verify. Cracked lips, especially in cold weather. Note: This is an indirect sign of Calc Fluor defi-ciency, so use other signs to verify. Translucent tips of teeth can be a sign of a
Calc Fluor, as well as a Calc Phos, deficiency.With a deficiency in Calc Fluor, a patient mayalso lack enamel on the teeth. 20 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIESCHAPTER 3: C ALCFLUOR 21
Calc Fluor (a)
The close-up of this eye shows a typical Calc Fluor raised wrinkle in the corner of the eye, and the brown-
ish-black circle under the eye. The eye has the deep-set Silicea look. The waxy coloring around the eyesshows a Calc Phos deficiency. This waxiness covers an underlying red layer of skin; the red layer showsa Mag Phos deficiency. The half eyebrow is a possible indication of a hypothyroid condition.22 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIES
Calc Fluor (b)
This man’s teeth are very translucent, characteristic of a Calc Fluor deficiency. The tongue pimples are a
sign of a Nat Phos deficiency and possible overgrowth of candida in the body.CHAPTER 3: C ALCFLUOR 23
Calc Fluor (c)
This picture shows a severe Calc Fluor deficiency with the fan-shaped crow’s feet. There is a waxy Calc
Phos deficiency noticeable above the eyes. The bag under the lower eye indicates a Nat Sulph deficiencyand can be a sign of a kidney or liver problem.24 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIES
Calc Fluor (d)
The brownish-black circle under this eye exemplifies a Calc Fluor deficiency. This man also has a Silicea
deficiency, indicated by his deep-set eyes. He also has a liver problem, and this yellowish-brown liver signcan be addressed by using Kali Sulph. CHAPTER 3: C ALCFLUOR 25THERAPEUTIC INDEX OF CALCFLUOR
Adapted from: Therapeutic Index [1890] by Dr. W. H. Schuessler
Cephalhematoma (blood clots in the brain). Cornea, opacities, spots on the. Enamel of teeth deficient. Exudations on the bone surface; hard,
rugged (corrugated), pointed elevations. Knots, hard, of the female breasts. Ozena (foul-smelling nasal discharge). See
also Calc Phos. Suppuration (discharge of pus from infec-
tion) of the bone.Swellings, hard, having their seat in the fas-
cia and capsular ligaments. Swellings of the jaw. Testicles, induration (hardening) of. ASTROLOGY OF CALCFLUOR
Cancer: The Chemistry of the Crab
June 21 to July 22
Adapted from: Cell Salts of Salvation by Dr. George
Carey
Cancer is the
Mother Sign of thezodiac. The mother’sbreast is the ego’s firsthome after taking onflesh and “rending the
Veil of Isis.” The tenacity of those born betweenthe dates June 21 and July 22 in holding on to ahome or dwelling place is well illustrated by thecrab’s grip, and also by the fact that it carries itshouse along wherever it goes in order that it maybe sure of a dwelling. The angels of the twelve zodiacal signs mate-
rialize their vitalities in the human microcosm.Through the operation of chemistry, energy creating the intelligent molecules of Divine Sub-stance makes the “Word” flesh. The cornerstonein the chemistry of the crab is the inorganic saltfluoride of lime, known in pharmacy language asCalcarea Fluorica. It is a combination of fluorineand lime. When this cell salt is deficient in theblood, physical and mental disease (not at ease)is the result. Elastic fiber is formed by the union of the
fluoride of lime with albuminoids (egg-white-like proteins), whether in the rubber tree or thehuman body. All relaxed conditions of tissue(varicose veins and kindred ailments) are due toa lack of sufficient amount of elastic fiber to“rubberize” the tissue and hold it in place.When elastic fiber is deficient in the membranetissue between the upper and lower brain polesCalc Fluor
Summary
ORGAN AND TISSUE AFFINITIES
Bones, veins, tooth enamel, tendons,
sinews, glands, elastic fiber, periosteum(bone covering), throat, larynx, binding oftissues, elasticity of tissues. MODALITIES
Symptoms worse < cold, wet, change ofweather, damp weather, sprains, begin-ning motion. Symptoms better > by continuedmotion, heat, applications of heat, rub-bing. DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS
Brittle, splitting, soft nails; cracking skin;low body temperature; sweaty feet. DISE


 blaming anybody, I told them about my experience
on the airplane when the No Smoking sign set my heart
going. Add a little more fear to the situation, and my
pounding heart could have been the start of a “heart
condition” just as convincing as their daughter’s. They were still uneasy. When their daughter suﬀered
stabbing chest pains, they thought of her as a victim of
illness; now I seemed to say that she was doing it to
herself. The era of mind-body medicine has made this an
extremely sore point. Life was simpler when a disease
without a germ was considered “all in your head.” The
germs have largely been pushed back, but instead of
leaving us free of disease, this has made disease far more
enigmatic. Am I waiting  for cancer to strike me, or is my
personality giving it to me? This girl’s case is a perfect
example; A cardiologist might point to her heart defect as
the cause of her pain; a psychiatrist could say that the
defect didn’t do anythin g—the girl simply panic ked. The
drugs she took induced vomiting, but she still vomits when
they are removed. Her low blood pressure  can cause
fainting, but so can anxiety. Modern medicine has swung
back and forth debating these points endlessly. The result, according to patient surveys, is a huge
increase in guilt. There is such a ﬁne line between probing
a patient’s fears and fueling them. I have sat for hours
counseling people with cancer. They listen attentivelybecause “the doctor is talking.” I tell them they can beat
the cancer, and they quickly, anxiously agree. But when I
am alone again, I am haunted by a terrible thought I see
lurking in their eyes: “You say I’m sick, but really I did it to
myself.”
The girl had not spoke n for quite a while. “So I’m
creating this thing?” she ﬁnally said. “No,” I replied, “but you are certainly participatin g in it. Try taking away your participation—I bet things will
change.”
“How do I do that?” she asked. “You have to break out of your own conditioning,”  I said. “The next time you have an attack, just stand back from it a
little; let the pain be there, as innocently as you can.” If she
could do this, I told her, the whole thing would probably
evaporate. She listened and thanked  me, then I heard nothing more
for two weeks. Perhaps I had touched too many nerves. I
had been making her disease more and more personal,
when what the family desperately hoped for was that it was
impersonal. Conventional medicine goes out of its way to
put diseases  into neat, classiﬁable boxes just so that the
personal element is eliminated. I had noticed while
interviewing her that this girl placed a huge importance on
her diagnosis. She would preface each episode by saying,
“When I get my mitral valve prolapse…” It was as if these
words explai ned everythi ng. They were like a net that drew
together all her symptoms and held them tight. When I
mentioned this, she looked very thoughtful. She had
invested so much in the words mitral valve prolapse  that
they had acquired a kind of magic for her. It was essential
to break the spell of this magic, which can be uncannily
powerful. I was wrong if I thought she hadn’t taken our session to
heart. Out of curiosity I phoned  the family to see how shewas doing. The news was very good: she was oﬀ all
medications and her attacks were now limited to occasional
bouts of chest pain. Her parents would some times see her
sitting with her eyes closed. When they asked what she was
doing, she said, “I just watch the pain until it goes away.”
The accom panying symptoms—dizziness, vomiting,
fainting, et cetera—have disappeared. —
In psychology there are certain extreme feelings—such as
loathing, dread, horror, and awe—that many peop le cannot
face. When these people grow horriﬁed or struck with awe,
they could swear that their emotion comes from outside
themselves. In cases of paranoia, the person might even
think that “they” are broadcasting such feelings into him
through some kind of magic. (“They” can be Martians,
communists, or next-door neighbors.) Freud called these
our “uncanny” emotions and spent many years observing
them in neurotic and psychotic patients. But uncanniness is always present, I think. It is nature’s
way of putting a veil over our most secret fears ; it hides
inner pain from us until the moment when the pain breaks
an invisible dam and comes pouring out. Then the twin
thought arises, “Is this happening to me, or am I doing it to
myself?” It doesn’t really matter  if the end result is a
disease or just a sense of extreme discomfort. The
important thing is to keep the patient from getting twisted
up in his doubts—that way lies total paralysis. Medicine has already paid a very high price for not
dealing adequately with the personal nature of disease. For
one thing, we have aroused guilt without being  able to
assuage it. People are horriﬁed at the idea that they are to
blame for their diseases. Doctors don’t think they are
stoking this guilt. Perhaps it was born out of being told
over and over that no one is to blame. But if you say thatliving right will help prevent a heart attack or cancer, don’t
you have to accept that living wrong will help bring on the
same diseases? The whole issue of blame and responsibility is painful to
untangle. When I had my private practice in endocrinology,
I would see obese patients whose weight put them  at high
risk for becoming diabetic. I would warn them about the
danger of continuing to eat too much; at the same time, I
knew I was feeding their guilt, which would only lead to
more eating. If a patient was a chain-smoker, I would be
very ﬁrm and say, “My God, you know you have to quit
smoking—think of the risks you are running.” Many of
these patients were ex-servicemen I saw at the V.A. hospital
in Boston. After listening to me, they could go to the PX
upstairs, where government-subsidized cigarettes were
being sold at a steep discount. (I bought mine there, too,
having become a smoke r during my night shifts as an
intern.) In fact, no disease points up the paradoxes of blame and
responsibility better than lung cancer. The public is well
aware that this is almost exclusively a smoker’s illness. That puts the responsibility squarely on the patient, but
then a second thought enters. Aren’t these people addicted
to nicotine? A 1988 report by the surgeon general states
that they are, and that their addiction may be harder to
break than addiction to heroin or alcohol. This means that
one is not dealing with a rational situation. Sigmund Freud attempted for many years to stop
smoking after being informed by his doctor that twenty
cigars a day—Freud’s normal ration—was bad for his heart. He stopped once for seven weeks, but his heart went into
palpitations worse than before. He became intolerably
depressed and was forced back to his cigars. When he
didn’t smoke, Freud told his biographer, “the torture was
beyond human power to bear.” I have  witne ssed advance dlung cancer patients waiting for radiation who walk around
a corner to smoke a cigarette—this implies that prevention
may be impossible, beca use it would have to start before
the ﬁrst cigarette gets smoked. In every disease, not just lung cancer, the patients are
often too hooked, too guilty, or simply too convinced to be
helped. There is no denying the deeply irrational streak in
man. At the V.A. hospital we took in every variety of
alcoholic, including the dilapidated, malnourished ones that
were routinely swept in oﬀ the streets by the police. One of
the most frequent conditions in advanced alcoholism is
pancreatitis, or inﬂammation of the pancreas. Everyone
brought in with pancrea titis had to be treated with great
care. They could not eat or digest food, because calling  on
the pancreas only made it more inﬂamed and extremely
painful. Patients would vomit if they tried to eat even one
bite. We had to feed them by drip through an IV tube, insert
another tube into their stomachs to drain the digestive
juices that continued to inﬂame the pancreas, and inject
antibiotics to ﬁght the infection that was often present. It was all we could do to pull these men back from the
brink of death, but when  we had succeeded and they were
discharged back onto the street, we often saw the same
ritual. Looking out the second-ﬂoor window, we could see a
tavern across the street from the hospital. Our patients
walked out the door, barely tottered across the street, and
went into the bar. Their ﬁ


 premier mind/body
fitness programs that cultivate relaxation in the midst of action. They
integrate inten tion, breath, and movement to enhance mind/body
coordination. Scientific studie s on these practices have documented many benefits on
several aspects of health. Peopl e practicing tai chi show impro ved balance
and coordination  as well as enhanced heart and lung fitness. W e encourage
you to find a loc al tai chi or qigong class and use these beautifu l movements
to awaken mind/body integration.T o get a sense of the calming vitality these techniques provid e, try this
simple basic movement. Moving Y our Ener gy
Perform this beginning movem ent with your full attention in your body. All the moves are continuous, fluid, and in slow motion. Stand with your feet a little more than shoulder -width apart, parallel to
each other.Slowly raise your arms forward and upward, while at the same time
slightly bending your knees. Continue until your hands are about
shoulder height, with your fingertips pointing toward each other about
six inches apart, your palms facing toward you. Continue moving slowly as you rotate your shoulder inward, lowering
your hands so your palms face the floor at about waist height. At the
same time, bend your knees a little more.Again, gradually raise your arms and hands until your fingertips are
again facing each other; at the same time, rise up slightly, partially
straightening your knees. Repeat this sequence several times, imagining that you are moving in
water. After a few cycles, slowly lower your hands to your side and
resume a normal relaxed stance. CONSCIOUSNESS IN MOTION
Each of these m ind/body practices encourages the body to expre ss its natural
vitality t hrough movement. As the ener gy of your body is allowed to flow,
the chattering of your mind su bsides and a state of innocen t witnessing
emer ges. This experience of being fully present in your body cultivates
mind/body integration, enhancing the sensitivity of your thou ghts to your
molecules. Just as we know that our though ts and feelings can influence our body, we
know that our bodies influence our psychology and emotions. Changing
your pos ture, po se, or position h as a direct and immediate influ ence on howyou feel  and think. If you are feeling depleted and exhausted, try changing
the w ay you are sitting or standing to reflect a more ener gized position and
notice how your mental state is transformed. Developing enhanced
mind/body integration through yoga, tai chi, and qigong allows imbalances
to be identified  and corrected more readily, before they create more
established conditions. W e encourage you to find y our program of conscious movement. Practicing these procedures w ith your full attention will enable you to
maintain a clear and healthy line of communication between yo ur mind and
body at all stages of your life. MIND/BODY COMMUNICA TION
Not liste ning to your body’ s healthy signals accelerates aging an d is the root
cause of  many illnesses. When your body is expressing a healthy need but
your mind refuses to listen, imbalances begin, and the seeds of mind/body
disintegration are sown. Here are several common examples of mind/body
communication breakdown:
Y our body is tired and needs to sleep; your mind overrides this need in
order to watch a late-night television show. Y our body is full at the end of a meal; your mind insists on returning to
the buf fet for another helping of dessert. Y our body needs to eat; your mind insists that you have to work
through lunch. Y our body is calling you to empty your bladder; your mind refuses to
leave your seat in the middle of a movie. Y our body is asking to stretch; your mind refuses to disturb the other
passengers in your airplane row.Start list ening to  the signals fro m your body and honoring tho se that are
health-promoting. Y ou know w hich signals are good for you and which
come from unhealthy habits. Whenever there is a conflict between your
physical needs and your mental or emotional ones, ask yourself a simple
question: W ill fulfilling this nee d help me grow younger and live longer? If
the answ er is yes, fulfill the need. If the answer is no, because y ou recognize
that the behavio r is potentially harmful, pass. If due to a habit or addiction,
the impulse is so strong that it overrides your better judgment, perform the
action with full awareness and attention in your body. Consciously witness
your choice without harshly judg ing yourself. If you are meditat ing regularly
and are witnessi ng your choices, you will soon find that fewer im pulses arise
to create conflict between your mind and body. Every day in every way,
I am incr easing my mental and physical capacity. My Biostat is set at a healthy ____ years of age. I look and feel a healthy ____ years old. I am r eversing my biological age:
By changing my per ception of my body, its aging, and time;
Thr ough two kinds of deep r est—r estful awar eness and  r estful sleep;
By nurturing my body thr ough healthy foods;
By using nutritional complements wisely; and
By enhancing mind/body integration. 7
Y ou Can Reverse Y our
Biological Age
Through Exercise

ACTION STEP # 6
I am r eversing my biological age thr ough r egular exer cise. I put this into practice by:
Performing some aer obic activity at least thr ee times a  week. Performing twenty minutes of str ength training at least  thr ee times a
week. Consciously making choices that keep me physically active. A complete exer cise pr ogram
includes attention to str etching,
str ength training, and
car diovascular conditioning. Exer cise r everses all
the biomarkers of aging. One of the most important steps to reverse your biological age is regular
exercise. In this age of push-button technology you run the risk of spending
so m uch time in  your mind that you neglect the needs of your body. One of
the critical needs of your body  is to move. “Use it or lose it” is directly
applicable to your physical body. W e are seeing a growing epidemic of
obesity in W estern society th at is now af fecting our child ren, mainly
because the average person—adult or child—spends less time moving their
body than at any point in human history. As a result of not exercising
regularly, we suf fer increased risks for heart disease, high blood pressure,
diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer. Several studies have shown how hazardous inactivity can be to your
health. A report published in 1968 found that if you impose bed rest on
young, healthy men for three w eeks, their measurements of cardiovascular
fitness deteriora te by the equivalent of almost twenty years of aging. As
anyone who has had to wear a cast for a broken bone knows fi rsthand, not
using a muscle leads to wasting and weakness.Exercise alone can alter many of the important biomarkers of aging. Drs. W illiam Evans and Irwin Rosenber g from T ufts University have
documented the  powerful ef fects exercise has on improving m uscle mass,
strength, aerobi c capacity, bone density, and many other key biological
markers of aging. One of the m ost ef fective ways to raise your level of
HDL ch olesterol (the “good” cholesterol) is through exercise. Studies have
shown that men sixty to seventy years old can increase th eir muscle
strength by 100 to over 200 p ercent after just twelve weeks of training. While y our bod y is getting stronger, it is also getting leaner. As a result,
your ability to handle sugar is improved and the risks for d iabetes are
reduced. Regula r weight training strengthens your bones and lessens the
chances for developing osteoporosis. This is particularly important for
women who are at risk of l osing bone once they are be yond their
reproductive years. Of all the appro aches to growing younger, exercise produces the most
prompt r eturns. W ithin a week o f beginning a fitness program, you’ll notice
definite improve ment in your sense of well-being. After a few weeks you
will not be able to go without it. Regular exercise is an essentia l element of
the reversal-of-aging program. T otal Fitness
A complete fitness program includes exercises to enhance flexibility,
strength, and endurance. Improving suppleness in the body improves your
physical and emotional comfort  level and reduces your chances for injury. As discussed in the last chapter, yoga, tai chi, and qigong all expand
flexibility while  enhancing mind/body integration. At least ten minutes of
gentle, c onscious stretching sho uld be a part of every exercise warm-up
routine. Unfortu nately, we see too many people who have the good
intention to start exercising, but  fail to take the time to warm up properly. As a result, the y strain a mus cle or pull a ligament and are unable to
continue the fitness program they need.Building strength enhances vitality and reverses a common feature of
aging known as sar copenia. This word, coined by research ers at T ufts
University, means “lack of flesh.” W eakness, reduced muscle mass, and
incre


. Be aware that most
doctors downplay risks. Remember, a diagnostic test precipitated my own health
crisis. Most often doctors order tests to measure symptoms in order to make a diagnosis. Such testing is not especially useful because it is not designed to measure the causes
of disease: deficiency and toxicity. Doctors should be ordering tests that measure,
directly or indirectly, levels of deficiency and toxicity and what is causing them. If
the tests are not for these purposes, they may be unnecessary. Many diagnostic tests
are ordered solely for defensive purposes, so that physicians can prove they
considered every possibility in the event of legal action. Decline tests if the doctor is
unable to explain how it will help to measure and correct your cellular deficiencyand toxicity. Every invasive test poses some risk. Even a simple blood test poses the danger of
an infection developing at the puncture site. Punctures for removal of fluid from the
joints, bone, spinal column and womb pose greater risks. Be especially wary of
signing an informed consent for a diagnostic test, tip-off about the degree of risk
involved. If the accuracy of test results seems questionable, seek a second opinion. Be
skeptical of any diagnosis based solely on a test. If something is found abnormal and
the doctor wants to prescribe, request to have the test repeated before doing
something that could cause damage, be it needless surgery, biopsies, medications,
anxiety or financial cost. Suppose that a particular medical test is 95 percent
accurate. For every twenty tests given, one false result will occur, usually a false
positive. If a person has this test twenty times in a lifetime, the odds are in favor of
at least one false result. In fact, many diseases can be “cured” simply by redoing the
test. In 1975, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed medical
testing labs nationally and concluded that more than 25 percent of all test results
were wrong; for certain clinical chemistry tests, the error rate was 50 percent. Not a
lot has changed since then. A study in the May 1997 issue of
Hippocrates
examined 169 different kinds of
medical diagnostic tests and concluded that only nine of them actually did anything
for the patient for reducing the incidence of disease. According to the article, many
of these tests regularly led to faulty diagnoses, resulting in unnecessary treatments
the patients did not need, and people with passing chest or back pain were “being
marched off to surgery to get their hearts repaired or spines fixed.”
About 70 percent of all pregnant American women undergo ultrasound
evaluations, yet studies published in medical journals including
Lancet
and the
Canadian Medical Association Journal
show that ultrasound may affect fetal
growth, resulting in babies with lower birth weight. In addition, children are twice as
likely to have delayed speech development if they were examined via ultrasound as a
fetus. A 1995 study done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and reported
in
Science
found that low-frequency ultrasound increases the permeability of human
skin, allowing proteins to pass through more easily. Ultrasound definitely affects the
body’s tissues, yet it is presented to patients as a procedure free of risks and side
effects. Should You Have Surgery? Modern surgery certainly is one of the crowning achievements in modern
medicine. Surgery works very well to correct physical problems, such as those
sustained in accidents, sports injuries and from birth defects, but surgery does notsolve disease problems. Unfortunately, most surgery is performed to address disease
problems, wasting resources and permanently damaging the patient. Every part of
the human body is important to the functioning of the whole; removing
malfunctioning body parts does not solve the real problem. Surgery should not be
performed unless there is absolutely no alternative, and there is almost always an
alternative. Most conventional cancer treatments—especially surgery— are directed by the
mechanistic belief system described earlier. Cancer is regarded as affecting a
specific location or body part that should be removed physically or otherwise
poisoned and killed. Completely forgotten is that cancer is a systemic disease
affecting the entire body, and that a sounder approach is to restore cancerous cells to
normal by addressing their deficiency and toxicity. Cancer patients who properly address their deficiency and toxicity may
experience what is termed “spontaneous remission.” A study by Dr. Harold Foster at
the University of British Columbia in 1988 found that virtually every one of two
hundred cancer patients who had experienced a spontaneous cancer remission had
actually done something to improve their cell chemistry. Eighty-seven percent had
made major changes to their diet, while others had used nutritional supplements and
detoxification programs. Currently, numerous alternative treatments for cancer are
available (see appendix D). A heart bypass operation is another example of unnecessary surgery. In 1992,
Nortin Hadler, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina
Medical School, concluded that 95 to 97 percent of the coronary bypass surgeries
done that year were unnecessary—even though patients usually are told that without
the surgery they will die. In truth, almost all coronary disease is preventable with
diet, supplements and exercise. Likewise, coronary disease is reversible, as pioneers
like Nathan Pritikin, more recently Dean Ornish, M.D., and others, have proven. How much surgery is necessary? Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, in
Confessions of a
Medical Heretic,
said, “My feeling is that somewhere around ninety percent of
surgery is a waste of time, money, energy, and life.” Dr. Mendelsohn cites an
independent review of people recommended for surgery. The study found that most
of these patients did not need surgery and half of them needed no medical treatment
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        Rather than thinking of genes as an absolute and unchanging set of instructions,
one might think of them as a variety of possibilities—a set of “what if” instructions. If certain circumstances are present, then a person’s genes express in a particular
way; if other circumstances are present, those same genes express in a different way. Biochemist Roger Williams maintained that genes alone are entirely useless threads
of chemicals. Genes alone do not determine our sickness or health. If genes, in the form of cellular DNA, were the primary control of the cell—if
they were the “brain” of a cell, so to speak—then the cell would die without them,
but this does not happen. Scientists commonly perform a process called denu-
cleation, a process whereby the nucleus of a cell and its DNA are removed. After this
process, cells continue to perform normal functions for months. Consider how changes in diet, lifestyle and environment over the past one hundred
years have coincided with massive increases in rates of chronic disease. For
example, in 1900 cancer affected only 3 percent of the U. S. population; now about
50 percent of all men and 40 percent of all women develop cancer in their lifetime. Our environment has changed so radically that blaming disease increases solely on
inherited genes is illogical. Consider how environmental factors can affect genetic expression. Environmental
temperature, for example, affects the expression of genes that control the coloration
of Himalayan rabbits. These rabbits, accustomed to cold temperatures, usually haveblack ears, forepaws, noses and tails, but when raised in warm temperatures they
have no black markings at all. Same rabbits, same genes, but different environments
and, therefore, different expressions of genes. Similarly, plants with the genetic
capacity to flower and fruit only do so when a precise set of environmental
requirements (such as temperature, sunlight and moisture) “turn on” the necessary
genes. “Disease genes” function the same way. When people move from one part of
the world to another— adopting the diet and lifestyle habits of the new environment
— they also develop the disease conditions common to that new environment. For
example, people from countries with low rates of heart disease and cancer, such as
Japan, suffer like the rest of our population once they move here. A compelling question in the discussion of heredity is how long you will live—
your life span. A low-calorie diet is the only thing that consistently has been shown
to increase life span. Genetic expression causes this to happen. A study in the
September 2001
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
found that a high-
calorie diet (the typical American diet) caused changes in genes that reduced the
expression of disease-protective genes and turned on genes that accelerate the aging
process. But the good news is that the study also showed that by taking older animals
and putting them on calorie-restricted diets for merely four weeks, about half of the
gene expressions that were contributing to the aging process reversed. Changing
internal cellular environment (by reducing calories) not only helps to prevent the
expression of aging genes in the young, it can also slow and even reverse the aging
process in the old. As biologist Steven Rose pointed out in his 1997 book,
Lifelines,
much of what
goes on in a cell is at least as much a product of the environment in and around the
cell as its DNA. This environment is something we create with our diet, toxic
exposures, lifestyle, and even with our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions. “Organisms,” Rose wrote, “are active players in their own fate. ”
Indeed, even mental climate affects the environment we create for our cells and
genes. Cells depend on the


 at best; subjected to, at worst. This probably ste ms
from an innate squeamishne ss, but, be that as it may, the
insertion into the anus, urinary or gans and genitals of
various kinds of enemas such as water, medicated and
nonmedicated oils and milks, and herbal decoctions is an
integral part of A yurvedic practice. This is because
A yurveda state s that the status of the alimentary canal and
other internal or gans is of v ital importance to one’ s overall
health. Vasthi  (basti ) is the word for a medicated enema, and in A yurveda
vasthi  involves the introduction o f herbal and medicinal
concoctions in a liquid medium  into and also  on to  the body. Sites
where  vasthi  may be administered therefore also include external
areas su ch as the eyes, lower back, head and the chest region. It is
believed that these medicinal  vasthi  remove wastes and toxins from
the body  (either  internally or e xternally), balance the function s of
the  doshas, provide nourishment and raise the body’ s mmunity. Vasthi  is m ost ef fective in the treatment of  vata  disorders,
although many enemas over a prescribed period of time are usually
required. There are dif ferent typ es of  vasthi  given for many vastly
dif fering ailmen ts, including constipation, chronic fever, c old,
sexual disorders, kidney stones, heart pain, backache, sciatica and
other pains in the joints. Many other  vata  disorders such as arthritis,rheumatism, gout, muscle spasms and headaches may also be
treated with the varying  vasthi. After a doughnut-style mix of gram flour and water is placed on the lower back and
deemed watertight, warmed medicated  oil is poured into the “container”. It is left to
seep into the client’ s sacrolumbar region or “foment” as Ayurvedic physicians call
it.The nurtu ring Ayurvedic Penthouse at the Oriental Spa in Bangkok offers a
number of  vasthi  treatments including  hrid  or  uro vasthi, an effective therapy for
complaints of the heart and respirat ory organs. Warm medicated oil, chosen
according to the client’ s complaint and doshic imbalance, foments on the chest
area for 40 minutes or so.A Keralan therapist at the atmosphe ric Ayurmana facility at Kumarakom Lake
Resort pours warm medicated oil on to the skull of a client. Prior to this therapy,
which is thought to relieve stress and regulate brain function, it is recommended
the head be shaved. Vasthi  is o ne of the five main procedures of the famous (or
infamous)  panchakarma  therapy (see page 46), but it may also be
used in localize d areas for nec k complaints  (greva vasthi), knee
joint conditions  (janu vasthi ) an d heart dis ease or asthma and
respiratory diseases ( hrid  or  uro vasthi ). In  Ind ian spas, a couple of
vasthi  therapies are of fered for one-of f “try-outs”:
Siro V asthi
Usually of fered for conditions such as facial paralysis, depression,
insomnia, dryness of nostrils, mouth and throat illnesses and se vere
headaches,  siro vasthi  is on some Indian spa menus as a relaxing,
stress-relieving and hair -conditioning therapy. Siro vasthi  (siromeans “head”) involves the application of lukewarm herbal oils
poured into a cap fitted on the h ead for any time between 15 to 60
minutes. The oils are left to s tagnate on the scalp for the time
required; accord ing to one’ s  dosha, cu rrent imbalances and/or
medical conditions, medicated herbs will have been added to the oil. An antioxidant medicated oil called  dhan wantharam  that contains
28 herbs and an  earthy fragrance is often used as it has rich pain-
relieving properties. Kathi V asthi
A  vasthi  treatment that concentrates on the sacro-lumbar region of
the back (kathi), this is a curati ve treatment useful for lower back
problems. It is also used for c omplaints that af fect the abdomen,
such as irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual and
urinary tract disorders. It involv es the pouring of warm medicated
oil i nto a n enclo sed area of the lower back, created with a reser voir
of dough (see right). In some spas,  kathi vasthi  is used as a rejuvenative therapy to
de-stress, relieve exhaustion or help with localized lower back pain. Providing the  kathi vasthi  is administered by a qualified A yurvedic
physician who has chosen the correct medicinal oil, a 20- to 60-
minute session should not do any harm — and the gentle
administering of  warm, soothing oil on the back can be extremely
pleasant. A therapist prepares a dough mixture, then places it on the back for a  kathi vasthi
session in the soothing surrounds of the Deva spa at Mandarin Oriental Dhara
Devi in Chiang Mai, Thailand.unani  An Holistic Graeco-Arab Medical
System
Although most spa-goers in the W est will have heard of
A yurveda, they may not be so familiar with another bra nch
of medicine known as Unani that is practiced extensively in
India. Unani originated in Greece with the philosoph er -
physician Hippocrates (460–377  BC ) and was formulated
over time by v arious Islamic scholar physicians in wha t is
now the  Middle East. Noted Arab physicians such as Rha zes
(850–925) and  A vicenna (aka Ibn Sina 980–1037) fur ther
developed Unani and, by the European Middle Ages, it had
became the authoritative basis for the study of medicine. It
was instrumen tal in introducing professional standards of
practice to medicine all over Europe. Unani was introduced to India during the medieval period, and over
time, mass acceptance and co ntinuous use led to many U nani
hospitals, resear ch centers and clinics being built. Its heyday  in
India la sted from the 13th to the 17th centuries, as the D elhi
Sultans, the Khiljis, the T ughlaqs and the Mughal emperors
provided patronage to Unani scholars, often employing them as
court physicians. During this period, many drugs and herbs native to India were
added to  the existing apothecary of Unani remedies. Clinical t rials
and experimentation resulted in expansion, and even though Unani
suf fered setbacks during the colonial period, it had becomeentrenched in Indian life. T oday, India has the lar gest number of
educational, research and health care institutions of Unani medicine
in the world with over 20,000 registered Unani practitioners
(hakims ) and countless non-registered ones who practice on a
hereditary basis. Unani is recognized by the W orld Health Or ganization (WHO ) as
a holistic traditional medical system. In 1977 when the  WHO
established its traditional medicine program, it declared: “There is
no d oubt that thi s branch of med icine is making and will continu e to
make a very sig nificant contribu tion to our ef forts to achieve health
for all.”
Unani’ s goal is the preservation of health, the encouragement of
self-healing and the restoration  of the body’ s equilibrium. In its
infancy it was a rigorous syste m that eliminated superstition and
harmful folk practices, and as developments and discoveries were
made, i t added to its repertoire of remedies and practi ces. Nowadays, Una ni practitioners  combine herbal medical remedies
with dietary advice, regimental therapy, psychological practices,
sur gery and spiritual discipline. As w ith other ho listic practices,  a Unani  hakim  tends to look at
the patient as a whole — mentally, physically, emotionally and
spiritually — before prescribing  a course of treatment. Dr Mathai of
the integrative medicinal retreat called Soukya explains: “Unani
aims to promote  positive health and prevent diseases and is based
around s ix essentials: good air a nd water, a balanced diet, exercise
and rest, psychic movement and rest, sleep and wakefulness, and
evacuation and retention. Remedies are usually herbal, although
ingredients of animal, marine an d mineral origin are used. Humoral
theory (the presence and balance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and
black bile) is at its heart, and the temperament of a person is
accordingly exp ressed by Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Choleric and
Melancholic. According to Unani theories, any change in these
humors brings about changes i n the status of health of a human
body.”A copy of the  Makhzani-Hikmat  or  The Family Doctor and Hakeem: An


of the  Inner  Smile and  the Six Healing  Sounds,  set forth  in my book
Taoist Ways to Transf orm Stress into Vitality. All three  med itations
are emphasized  throu ghout the Taoist Sys tem, and  their  mastery
is essential  to your successful  practice  of Healing  Love. As y ou read  the information provided  in this book  and become
aware of concepts  not contained  in W estern thought,  you will
deepen  your underst andin g of the relevancy  of these  practices  to
your physical,  emotional  and spiritual  advancement. Mant ak Chia
- 24 -Chapter I
Chapter 1
  Taoist View of
Women’s Chi En ergy
A. How Energy  is Used. The Taoist sages  looked  at their  own energy  as a total  unit. In one
day for instance,  a young and healthy  person  earns  100 perce nt of
his requir ed ener gy from  eating,  resting,  and exercise,  and spends
approximately  60 to 70 perce nt maintaining  his daily  life: working,
eating,  digesting,  breathi ng, walking, etc. One  might consider  100
percent  energy  as 100 energ y credits,  similar to bank  credit. But,
as he  ages,  he graduall y earns  less and less, even  though  his
body  requires  the same expenditu res, and he starts  to overdra w
his account  by drawing energy  from  the vital  organs- the kidneys,
liver spleen,  lungs,  heart,  pancr eas and glands  and,  finall y, from
the brain. Taois m explains  that the ma jor wa y men lose  energ y is through
ejaculation,  while women’s  major loss of energy  occurs  throu gh
menstruation,  and not through  sexual  intercours e. For a young,
healthy  woman,  this me ans an addition al energ y expenditu re as
she carries  on her daily  business. Assum ing that a woman  starts
having  periods  at age  twelve and continues  through  menopause  in
her fifties, she  could  have  as many as 300  to 500 menstrual  periods
in her  lifetim e. Each  month the  ovaries  produce  an egg  that contains
highly  perfected  creative  ener gy. A great  deal of energ y also goes
into creating  necessar y hormones as we ll as the  uterine  lining,
which provides  a nest  for a fertilized  egg. If we conside r our
tremendous  population  toda y we cannot  afford  many children,  but
we can afford  one or two. This me ans we use only  one or two
eggs. The rema ining  300 to 500  highl y charge d eggs  are elim inated. This expenditur e accounts  for 30  to 40 perce nt of a woman’s  daily
energy  allotment. If  this sexual  energ y is continually  permitted to
pour outward, she loses 30  to 40 perce nt of her life-force  energy. However: there  is a wa y to transform this ener gy into vital energ y
for the orga ns, glands,  brain,  bone  marrow  and into spiritual  energ y. - 25 -Taoist View of  Woman’ s
B. Principal  Energy-“Ching”
   We are all born with an abunda nce of energ y that the Taoists
call the  principal  ener gy, or “Ching.”  In w omen  it is Ching, the
generativ e or creative  ener gy, that is necessar y to ma ke the eggs,
create  the uterine  lining  and hormones,  and keep  a woma n sexuall y
active. The Ching  energy, supple mented  with the energy  of the  air
we breath e and the food  we eat, permits the  woma n’s body to
endo w her eggs  with the life-force  energ y that will be carried  into
the next gener ation. The Ching  energ y also converts  into life-force  energy  for the
organs,  which energ y is called  “Chi.”  The ancient  Taoists,  after
identify ing this type of energ y, observe d that conserving  or restoring
Jing ener gy could  promote a  longer  and healthier  life. *
   Sexual  energy  (creativ e energ y) is the  only energy  that can be
doubled,  tripled  or increased  even  more. Therefo re, if we  want to
conserve  or restor e lost principal  energ y, sexual  energy  provid es
the means to  create  that extra  power if we conserve,  recycle, and
transform it back  into principal  energ y. We then  will have  more
energy  available  to transform into  Chi, wh ich in turn beco mes
transformed  into another  type of energ y called  “Shen.”  The w ord
“Shen”  means spiritual  energ y (Fig. 1.1)
C. Emoti onal Expense
   When we  are young and healthy  we expend  this principal  energ y,
or Ching, freely, which serves  us well until w e reach  the age of
approximately  24 years. Although  in the  Tao Syst em it is believed
that each  person  is born with the good  virtues  of gentlen ess,
kindness,  respect,  honesty, fairness  and righteous ness,  when he
   Ching:  Generative or creative  ener gy. Ching  is the mo st refined
substance a perso n is born with. It is als o referred to as the “pr incipal
Energy” as it is essentia l for carry ing out the functi ons of  the bo dy All other
energies in the body  are d epen dent on Ching. Ching  is transform ed into
Chi or life force as it interacts with the vital  organs. The co nservation and
nurturing of chi ng energy  is the bas is for the Taoist Internal pr actices. Jing
is store d in all l iving tissue, especia lly the kidn eys, sperm a nd ova. Part of
Ching is Essential En ergy. Ching is the e nergy  prod uced b y the sexual
organs. In  women it is the energy  of the ovari es, in m en, that of the sper m.
Ching energy  is de nser than Ch i and therefore moves sl ower  when  circu lated
in the body. As C hing e nergy  circu lates insi de the body the orga ns are
revitaliz ed and no urish ed. - 26 -Chapter  I
Shen
Spiritual  Energy
ChiLife Force
Ching
Principal  Energy
Fig. 1.1 Transformation  of Principal  Energy  into Life- Force and
                       Spiritual  Energy. - 27 -Taoist View  of Wom an’s
or she gro ws up all kinds  of cultural  and social influences  gradu ally
change  all the  good  virtues. The perso n begins  to live under  constant
stress,  feeling  the pressures  of hastiness,  anger  fear worry and
other  negative  emotions. These grad ually eat up the principal  life-
force,  lessening  the sexual  creative  energy. By the age of 24 too
much of life’s  stress has develop ed and accu mulated,
acco mpanied  by emotional  disturba nces  or problems, and  over
stimulated  sexual activit y. The principal  energy, spent  so freel y in
younger years, begins  to be transformed  into a  negative  energy,
stimulating  and forcing  more emotional  energy  and increasin g sexual
activity
   As the  negative  emotions drain  the life- force  from  us, robbing
us of  our sexual  energy, they can account  for a loss of  anywhere
from 10  to 60  percent  of our  life-force  energ y. Too mu ch negativ e
emotional  energ y leaves  us w ith less life-force  ener gy to work with,
and therefo re less energy  to build  hormones  and replace  the lost
sexual  energy. There  will not be enough  energy  left with which to
build  and feed  the soul and  spirit. 1. “Dumping”  Negative Emotions
    People  regar d negative  emotions  as “garb age energ y” which
must be dispose d of in so me w ay. Since  negative  emotional  energy
and sexual  energy  still constitute  our life-force  energy, if we  dispose
of or dum p out this  “garba ge energy,” we are also  dumping  out our
life


 yourself. This is not about shutting up the voice. Don’t ever fight
with your mind. You’re the one who did this to your mind; how dare you
complain about the mind. If you keep eating food that’s making you sick, do
you yell at the food. Of course not—you change your behavior. Likewise,
since it is these stored samskara s that are messing up the greatness of your
mind, you chang e your inner behavior. The way to do this is quite simple:
release the samskaras you’ve already stored and don’t store any more. Easier said than done, but we will certainly explore how to do this. One thing comp licates our task. The mind is not the only force making
it difficult to find peace inside—there are also emotions. It’s bad enough
that the mind is constantly relea sing stored energy through that inner voice,
but the mind has a little sister, the heart. The heart can create emotions that
make it really interesting to live in there. Sometimes it’s like there are
volcanos going on inside, and other times your inner state is so beautiful
you just want to melt into it. What’ s going on with that. And moreimportantly, what can you do about it. As you might expect, that is exactly
where we’re going as we contin ue our journey into exploring what it’s like
to live inside yourself. PART V:
The HeartChapter 21. Understanding Emotions
Examining the nature  of the world around us, as well as the nature of mind,
teaches us a lot about ourselves. One thing becomes pretty clear: it’s not
always easy living inside. The thoughts being created by the mind can be
very uncomfortable, and the world coming in through the senses can start a
veritable firestorm within. On top of all this, there is something else we
experience inside that can be even more disturbing than thoughts: emotions. Emotions are very different from thoughts, but most people don’t
bother to separate them. The combination of your thoughts and emotions
makes up what can be called your psyche, or your personal self. The psyche
is comp letely distinct from your physical body. The psyche is the
nonphysical world going on inside you. Clearly seeing the difference between your thoughts and your emotions
is very important. If you were asked to point to your thoughts, you would
not point to your toes; you would point to the area around your head. This is
because thoughts are generated  in the mind which is associated with the
brain. On the other hand, if you were asked to point to where emotions like
love come from, you would point to your heart. That’ s why valentine cards
have hearts on them and not toes—we associate the emotion of love with
our heart. That is understandable because emotions are generated by the
heart. Not just nice emotions—all emotions. If someone does something that
hurts you or makes you jealous, you feel the pain or turmoil in your heart. If
you get inspired at work, you can put your whole heart into the project. This
is not referring to your physical heart—you can’t put that into the project. What we are referring to is your spiritual heart or your energy heart, which
we will soon discuss in great depth. Your emotions are not physical. You can be standing next to someone
who is experiencing joy or sadness, and they don’t necessarily show it. Emotions are not something you see; they are something you feel. In fact,
the words “emotions” and “feelings” are interchangeable. Just like you
experience your thoughts inside, you experience your feelings inside. Nonetheless, your emotions are completely dif ferent from your thoughts. Let’s examine this difference. As we previously explored, your mind
creates thoughts and presents them to you in two different ways. One is
verbally via that voice inside your head, and the other is visually in your
mind’ s eye. Your heart communicates quite differently. Your emotions do
not talk to you verbally. They are not simply a voice inside your head
saying, “I feel so jealous. ” The voice says that because you feel jealous. There is a feeling, a sensation— that is what an emotion is. That’ s why we
use the word “feelings” when we talk about our emotions, as in “He hurt my
feelings. ” Sayin g this means the interaction with the person created an
emotion inside of you that was uncomfortable. Thus, you have verbal or
visual thoughts inside your mind, and you also have these totally different
things called emotions emanating from your heart. They are actually
vibrations. They  don’t form specific objects like thoughts do. They’re more
etheric. Emotions are more like clouds instead of defined objects. They
come up and can be like waves flowing over you. They flush what we call
your aura or energy body. Emotions are simply the sensation of
experiencing a change in your energy. Like Obi-W an in Star Wars put it, “I
felt a great disturbance in the Force. ”
You are always having inner feelings, but you don’t notice them until
they change. Notice that you only talk about emotions when they go to the
extremes. “It hurt me tremendously. I can’t believe how you hurt me. ” Or, “I
felt so much love. It was the most beautiful feeling I ever had. ” These are
examples of extremes in your emotions, and they catch your attention. You
probably don’t notice it, but you have a normal state of emoti onal energy
flowing through your heart all day. When it drops out, you notice the change
and say, “My heart fell out from  under me. I lost my strength. ” Your heart
can fall out from under you when fear takes over. Something happens and
the energy just drops. In contras t, you can say, “My heart has wings. ” All of
a sudden the emotional energy in your heart rises up and inspires you. These
are chan ges from the steady state of emotional energy that normally flows
through your heart. As you get more and more in tune with your emotions,
you will notice that, like thoughts, emotions are almost always there. Just as with thoughts, the questions become: Who is it that feels these
emotional shifts. How do you know you feel anger. How do you know you
feel love. You know because you are in there, and you are aware of what is
going on in there. That clarity is very deep, spiritually. You have been so
concerned about the emotions, themselves, you didn’ t realize you are the
one in there experiencing them. The goal of this journey we are taking
together is not to change your thoughts or emotions, it is for you to stay
seated in the seat of Self while accepting these dif ferent shifts that are taking
place. From this vantage point, the emotions can change, you can notice
them changing, but you don’t go anywhere. You remain the one who notices
the emotions, hears the thoughts, and looks out through the eyes. Who is
this one. This is what our journey is about. There is no spirituality
anywhere excep t in the seat of Self. Spirituality is about spirit, and the seat
of Self is spirit. When you sit back in the seat of witness consciousness, it does not
require a willful process of watc hing your emotions. Instead, it’s the simple
awareness of what is going on in there. It doesn’ t take will or effort to do
this. You are simply aware that you hear or see your thoughts and that you
feel your emotio ns. If you pay attention, you will notice emotions can be
like the sensatio n of wind flowi ng over you. Wind can be very comfortable,
like a gentle breeze. Or wind can be frightening, like a one hundred mile per
hour hurricane blowing in your face. Surely you have noticed that emotions
can be like this. It doesn’ t take effort to notice them, but it can take effort to
handle what you notice. Emotions are very sensitive vibrations emanating
from the heart, and as such they can shift very easily. The heart is much
more sensitive than the mind, and we have much less control over it. Without question, when your heart emanates a particular vibration of
energy, your mind will start talking accordingly. It’s very much like a
freshwater sprin g. If you dive down to the source of the spring, there’ s
going to be water bubbling up from the opening. When that water hits the
surface, it creates ripples and all kinds of patterns. The activity on the
surface is very different from what emanates at the source. So it is with your
heart. Your heart is releasing energy of a given vibration rate, and that
vibration rises into your mind automatically. You don’t have to first notice
that you feel jealous and then decide you had better think about it. What’ s
going on in the heart ends up in the mind as thoughts. The samskaras you
stored are trying to release their energy from the heart, and that is causingthe mind to get active. The roots of the samskaras are stored in your heart. That is where the patterns you shoved out of your mind went. They did not
dissipate. They went down further into the source of your energy flow,
which is in your heart. Very few people understand their heart. Many intellectuals just want to
keep it suppresse d because it is much too sensitive and reactive. They would


 with ADD can wind up with diabetes, weightproblems, and experience difficulty holding jobs. Childrenwith ADHD often become adults with type A personalities—workaholics—and are at risk for developing bi-polar disorder.They frequently develop chemical dependencies on alcohol,cigarettes, methamphetamine, and other substances. Veryoften hormonal problems lead to depression in children.Children are also prone to thyroid conditions. Girls with lowprogesterone and high estrogen are more likely to have difficultygetting pregnant later on and are also possible candidates formiscarriages, morning sickness, postpartum depression,fibroids, endometriosis, asthma, migraine headaches, breastcancer, weight problems, and other difficulties. The fact is that children are being exposed to toxic drugs
such as anti-depressants, birth control pills, and stimulants forhyper-activity. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to treat the146 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  actual cause of their problems by replacing the hormone that
is missing? A PREVENTABLE TRAGEDY
On December 13, 2006, four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of
an overdose of drugs given to her for treatment of ADHD/bi-polar disorder. Her parents were arrested on murdercharges, accused of over-medicating their daughter to “keepher quiet.” Her teachers, the school nurse, the principal, hersocial workers, even her pharmacist, all knew she was over-medicated. She was described as being like a floppy doll,unable to sit up, and she was shaking so badly she needed helpto get off the bus every day. T o me, this girl’s death represents a microcosm of the
tragedy of ADHD. Do you blame the parents who hadADHD themselves, the doctor who prescribed these toxicmedications, the pharmacist who knowingly dispensed toomany drugs, her school, or the social workers? Her deathmight easily have been prevented if the medical professionwas aware of how hormones contribute to this condition. Istrongly feel that her ADHD/bi-polar disorder might havebeen eliminated with proper nutrition and utilizing naturalbio-identical progesterone. In 2002, there were about 2.5 million children in the United
States on anti-psychotic medication alone, and millions of otherson stimulants and anti-depressants. T oday there are probablymore. How many have wound up like Rebecca Riley or will doso in the future?147 HORMONAL IMBAL ANCES IN CHILDREN THOUGHTS ON CHOLESTEROL
chapter SEVENTEEN
Elevated cholesterol is often a barometer pointing to some
underlying problem in the body’s metabolic system. It’s anextremely complex issue that goes way beyond what I intendto cover in this book. However, I would like to addresscertain factors. The liver is the main source of cholesterol, and the raw
material for making cholesterol is the fat that is stored there.The primary source of this fat is excess carbohydrates that areingested, rather than fat that is ingested. A study was done atJohns Hopkins University to determine the effect on choles-terol of eating white meat (fish and chicken) versus red meat(all other meats). The results showed that white meat and redmeat
lowered cholesterol by the same amount. T o a large extent the thyroid gland controls cholesterol
metabolism. In fact, when I went to medical school they oftenreferred to the cholesterol level as “the poor man’s thyroid test.”Unfortunately, many doctors fail to assess thyroid functionwhen dealing with elevated cholesterol because the emphasis inmedicine is on treating the symptom and not the cause. Givingthyroid hormone can very often lower the cholesterol level. Most people are aware of HDL and LDL as two types of
cholesterol. These are actually lipoproteins that transport
149cholesterol throughout the body. Both are necessary for
proper health. LDL has a reputation for being “bad” because itcan oxidize and cause damage to the coronary arteries. HDL isconsidered “good” because it prevents LDL from oxidizing: thehigher the HDL level, the better. There are studies indicatingthat more people with low total cholesterol levels have heartattacks than those with high levels. If this is the case, then pre-sumably the issue is not the level of cholesterol but whether ornot it is being oxidized. It is estimated that 20 percent of the American population
has Syndrome X, a disease of hyperinsulinemia, or highinsulin. Insulin puts sugar not only into fat cells, where it getsconverted into fat, but also into the liver—where it also isconverted into fat. This is the primary fuel used to manufac-ture cholesterol. If someone has high LDL cholesterol and alsohas a low HDL cholesterol and an elevated triglyceride level(the hallmarks of Syndrome X), lowering their insulin leveloften helps bring the total cholesterol level down. As people get older, hormone levels go down, and most
hormones are made with cholesterol. One theory says that therise in cholesterol levels as we get older is partially a responseby the body to the lowering of our hormones, that is, it istrying to provide more substrate to raise our hormones. Alongthese lines, one might anticipate that bio-identical hormonereplacement would lead to a lowering of cholesterol. STATIN DRUGS AND COENZYME Q- 10
The largest-selling drugs in the world are Lipitor and Zocor. Other statin-type drugs that lower cholesterol by preventingcholesterol production include Pravachol, Mevacor, Lescol,Crestor, and Vytorin. All these drugs have the same side effects,150 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  which include brain damage and memory loss. Perhaps this is
not surprising, given that most brain tissue is made up ofcholesterol and there are special cells in the brain that producecholesterol. I suspect that years from now, statin drugs may beimplicated in an epidemic of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’sdisease. They can also cause damage to the liver, nerves,muscles, and the heart. The most serious side effects areirreversible kidney failure and sudden death. One of the most powerful antioxidants for the heart is
coenzyme Q-10. As people get older, the body producesdecreasing amounts of this element. Because of this, there areprobably no benefits to taking a statin drug after the age of 60. Statin drugs lower coenzyme Q-10 levels, which is what
produces the majority of the side effects of these medications.Obviously, if you are taking one of these drugs, I wouldrecommend also taking coenzyme Q-10. It is available in drugstores and health food stores. My recommended dosage is atleast 200 mg a day. One wonders if the utilization of antioxidants by
themselves might be of more benefit in preventing coronaryartery disease than lowering cholesterol. A FRIENDLY WARNING
Many people have heard of Vioxx, a pain medication removed
from the market because of cardiac concerns. Recently a juryawarded 253 million dollars to the wife of a patient who diedof a heart attack while on Vioxx. This sum was primarilypunitive damages, because evidence at the trial indicated that themanufacturer had been aware of cardiac problems associatedwith Vioxx for many years. In point of fact, this was not secretinformation. The association between Vioxx and heart151 THOUGHT S ON CHOLESTEROL  attacks was generally well publicized in various studies but
unfortunately was not noted by the physicians, whoprescribed 2.3 billion dollars worth of the drug per year. Inmy view, the jury was saying: we understand that drugs cancause serious side effects, and if a drug company knows thata certain segment of a population (e.g., heart patients) shouldnot take a certain drug, then the company should let theFDA and the drug-taking population know it, too, and sendout “Dear Doctor” letters. That brings us to the medication Zocor, made by the
same pharmaceutical company. Right now, it is the numberone selling drug in the world. Side effects of the drug includebrain damage, memory loss, nerve damage, irreversiblekidney damage secondary to severe muscle damage, heartdamage, and sudden death. Most, if not all, of these sideeffects are related to the lowering of coenzyme Q-10, anextremely potent antioxidant that the heart cannot functionwithout. Sixteen years ago the company that manufacturesZocor received a patent for a new formulation of Zocor thatincludes coenzyme Q-10. When the time comes forstatin-type drugs to be scrutinized more for safety, this factmay come back to haunt the manufacturers. It may representanother example of prior knowledge of potential problemsand not publicizing the fact that all people taking statindrugs should probably also be taking coenzyme Q-10.152 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  MORBID OBESITY AND
ROGER P. chapter EIGHTEEN
Roger P., 47, arrived for his intake interview weighing 420
pounds. His pear-shaped body was the classic body type forsomeone who is pouring out excess estrogen along with toomuch insulin. His hormone imbalance was accompanied by a host of
other problems. He was reclusive, a drinker, and his body wasin constant pain. As Roger tells his story, the reader willappreciate the extent of his struggle against obesity, whichcreated devastating physical and emotional havoc. I’ve been fat my whole life. Being the fat kid in school made
me an outcast. When you’re always on the outside looking in, yourlevel of caring declines. I felt that everything and everyone wasagainst


 them is acetylcholine, which is deficient
in Alzheimer ’s patients; another is dopamine, the lack of which leads to
Parkinson’ s disease. No one knows precisely why some neurons grow fifty
dendrites for sending message s while others grow ten thousand. One
encouraging finding, however, is that by remaining mentally active, older
people may actually be growing new dendrites all the time. This much-publicized news was founded on brain research by Marian
Diamond at Berkeley, who showed that the brains of rats grew or shrank
according to the kind of experiences they were exposed to. Rats confined to
small cages and deprived of social interaction with other rats began to
develop shrinkin g cortexes and a loss of dendrites. On the other hand, if an
old rat was put back into rat society and given lots of stimulati on, its brain
expanded and grew new dendrites. This helped to give a physiological
explanation for something we have all observed: Lonely, isolated old people
are much more likely to be confused, disoriented, dull, and vacant than are
their peers who remain actively involved with family and friends. Because of our materialistic bias, growing new dendrites sounds very
scientific and reassuring. In actuality, the situation turns out to be more
complex. To have more dendrites is not the same as having a more
developed brain. Babies are born with many more dendrites than adults
have; the proces s of maturation consists of pruning the excess, whittling thecortex down to its most useful connections. However, it is still encouraging
to find that old brains may be capable of replacing lost dendrites as they are
needed. It was long thought that we are born with a set number of brain cells that
never divide to form new ones, yet recently it has been found that the DNA
in neurons is active, which may lead to new conclusions. Some neurologists
also doubt that the brain is actually losing a million neurons a year. Robert
Terry, a neuroscientist at the University of California at San Diego,
determined that there is no significant decline in neuron density in three
important areas of the brain. The number of large neurons does decrease,
but is offset by an increase in smaller neurons. Also, large neurons appear
not to be dying but shrinking. Two other neuroscientists, Samuel Weiss and Brent Reynolds at the
University of Calgary in Alberta, found that they could stimulate dormant
brain cells to active life. They cultured mouse neurons in the laboratory and
gave them a chemical called epidermal growth factor, causing some
immature, inactive brain cells to divide and form mature ones. The human
brain is almost certainly storing such dormant cells perhaps as a
replacement reserve. It is also encour aging that the brain has its own natural mecha nisms for
activating itself  in old age. New dendrites grow longer and sprout new
branches past age 80. As neurons shrink, they create new synapses, which
in turn stimulate more electr ochemical activity in the brain. Natural
substances stimulate this growth and repair—in particular nerve growth
factor (NGF), one of a class of proteins known as trophic factors. NGF
seems to have important functions. At Johns Hopkins, NGF prevented the
degeneration of old neurons in rats and monkeys; when injected into the
brains of old rats, it significantly improved their spatial memory. One hope
is that Alzheimer ’s patients can regain function using chemicals that induce
neuron activity (nerve growth factors have already been tried in Sweden
with some success). All this good news about the aging brain lifts our expectations that to
keep one’s faculties intact is completely normal. “Older people may not be
as quick in timed tests,” neuroscientist Robert Terry remarked, “but they
don’t lose judgment, orientation, or vocabulary. There is no way that peoplelike Picasso, the cellist Pablo  Casals, or Martha Graham could have
continued to be so successful on half a brain. ”
Preserving intelligence in old age. To document whether declin e in
intelligence is a natural part of aging, researcher Lissy Jarvik at Columbia
conducted studies on twins beginning in 1947. The subjects showed no
significant drop in I. Q. from ages 65 to 75. Often there is a sharp drop in
intelligence in the year preceding one’s death, but there are many
inconsistencies from individual to individual, and also from one intelligence
test to another. Old people cannot simply be lumped togethe r; it is the
individual, not old age alone, that makes the dif ference. As corro borating evidence, we can turn to a long-term study at Duke
University that found no general decline in intelligence among older
subjects (ages 65 to 75) unless they were suffering from high blood
pressure. It is well known that small, often barely detectable strokes are
associated with hypertension, which may be at work here. Whatever the
specific cause, sickness, not the aging process itself, seems to create the
decline in mental functioning so long associated with senescence. Although
the neurological  picture is not yet clear, it is completely realistic to expect
to survive with your memory and intelligence intact. The topic of aging and I.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the Hayflick limit, and how does it relate to real-life aging?,
A: The Hayflick limit is a concept that suggests that every generation of cells is the offspring of a limited number of mother cells. However, the author argues that this is not directly applicable to real-life aging, as humans produce new cells throughout their lives, and cells can adapt to their environment.
Q: What are some of the potential risks and limitations of hormone replacement therapy?,
A: The text does not explicitly discuss the risks and limitations of hormone replacement therapy, but it does mention the potential side effects of giving human growth hormone to elderly individuals, which led to a temporary rejuvenation, but the benefits were not sustained after the treatment was stopped.
Q: What is the significance of Abkhasia in the context of aging research?,
A: The region of Abkhasia is significant because it is a place where the traditional concept of aging is reversed, and people are expected to be active and engaged in their communities until the end of their lives. The author argues that this culture's emphasis on lifelong learning and mental and physical activity is the key to their remarkable longevity.
Q: What are some of the limitations of genetic engineering in the context of aging research?,
A: The text does not explicitly discuss the limitations of genetic engineering in aging research, but it does mention that the results of genetic engineering in fruit flies, yeast, and humans are not directly applicable to humans, and that individual experiences and choices play a significant role in the aging process.
Q: What are some of the potential limitations and challenges of relying solely on medical research to combat aging?,
A: The text highlights the limitations of medical research in combating aging, citing the example of the failed attempt to rejuvenate elderly individuals with human growth hormone. It also emphasizes the importance of personal initiative and lifestyle choices in determining one's health and longevity.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Longevity  is still an
individual achievement; it comes primarily to those whose expectations are
high enough to reach for it. America could become a land where no one
ever grows feeble and crippled by age, but for that to happen,  we need to
see the entire human life cycle as a rising curve. Today, fortunately, few
“normal” signs of aging have gone unchallenged, and major studies have
proved that we have expected far too little of the aging body, which holds
great potential for improvement at very advanced ages. Not Older, Better
In 1958, a uniqu e project began in Baltimore, where eight hundred men and
women between the ages of 20 and 103 volunteered to be examined as they
aged. Each returned every year or two to go through an extensive battery of
tests. The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, as it is officially known,
grew to be the most famous of its kind. Its basic purpose was to determine
how different bodily organs change over time. Hundreds of separate
findings have emer ged, and in general they fully support the optimism of
the new old age. Some key findings:
• As people age, their physical status varies widely from individual to
individual, and by the time they reach 80 and 90, the differences havegrown to be tremendous. • While physical performance always declines over time as measured
in a group, this does not alwa ys hold true for each person. Some
people manage to retain lung capacity while everyone around them is
losing it; others actually improve in kidney function or the amount of
blood their hearts pump with each stroke. In most of these cases, the
person kept up the use of the organ in question; “use it or lose it” was
the key. • Mental function is also mainta ined with use. For instance, someone
who earns his living solving problems tends to retain that ability as he
ages, even though that function declines for the group as a whole. • The most comp lex organs, such as muscles, are the first to diminish. Losing muscle tissue is the main reason why people are unable to
perform as much work as they age. • Being moderately overweight in middle age apparently doesn’ t
shorten one’s life span (this depends, however, on avoiding the
harmful side effects of being overweight, such as diabetes,
hypertension, and congestive heart failure). • Remaining sexually active throughout one’s early and middle years
gives one the best chance of remaining


assstoolabsent. Stools:
black;hard;smallballs;likesheep'sdung/droppings;
'shy'(recede). Withunfinishedfeeling. Thestoolwilllieinthebowelandthepersonhasno
desiretopassit. Noristhereanypainthatwould
normallybeassociatedwithsuchconstipation. The
constipationmaybeacuteafteranoperation. Itmay
alternatewithdiarrhoea,whichmaycomeonafter
suddenjoyorafterfright. Cough
SymptomsBreathingdifficult;slow;snoring. Worseduringsleep;onfallingasleep;onwaking. Thebreathingslowsdownduringsleepandwhenthe
feverisstrong;itbecomesirregularandlaboured,like
awakingsnoring. Thisaspectisverymarkedinthis
remedypictureandneedstobepresentforittowork
successfully. Fever
SymptomsHeat:burning;intense. Withdeepsleep;
sweating(seeGeneralSymptoms). Betterforuncovering. Worseduringsleep;forsweating. Apersonwiththisfeverwillexperienceoverpowering
sleepinessandyawning,willfallasleepandthen
breatheslowlyandloudlyasifsnoring. Heatcomeson
duringsleep,andsweatingwhichdoesnotrelievethe
symptoms. Ifwoken,thepersonwillbedazedand
confused,willwanttouncover,andiseitherdelirious
andexcitableorstupefiedandsemi-consciousduring
thefever. Insomnia
SymptomsWithsleepiness. Sleepslightlyandrestlesslyandhearseverysound. Is
sleepybutcannotfallasleep,andthebedmayfeelhot. Retentionofurine
Causesshock. Afterashockorfrightthepersonisunabletopass
urine. Petroleum (Petr. ) Othernames:petra-rock;oleumoil;coaloil;rockoil
Theword'petroleum'originatesfromtheLatinfor
'rock'(Petra)and'oil'(Oleum). Thetermcommonly
referstotheliquidcrudeoilwhichcomesfrombe-
neaththeearth'ssurface,althoughpetroleumalso
occursintheearthingaseousorsolidforms,andafew
petroleumlakesortarpitsareknownthroughoutthe
world. Itisformedovermillionsofyearsfromthe
remainsofmarineplantandanimallifedeposited
underthesea,wheretheydecomposewithout
oxygen;heat,pressureandtimeconvertthisinto
petroleum. Petroleumwasknowntomanyancientpeoples,
whoreferredtoitas'burningwater'anduseditinthe
formofbitumentocaulkshipsandbuildroadsaswell
astogivelight. Morerecently, ithasprovideduswith
heatingandafuelforthiscentury'smachinery. Itis
refinedandprocessedintonumerousproducts,such
assolvents,paints,asphalt,plastics,cleansingagents,
waxesandjellies,medicines,explosivesandferti-
lisers. Thecrudeoilhasbeenusedforthetreatmentof
wounds. Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefrompurified
oilorfromcrudeoilfromwhichatinctureisprepared
andthendilutedandsuccussedinthenormalway. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Dislikes:meat;fatty,richfood. Sweat:one-sided;
smelly. Worseforfreshair;duringthemorning;travelling
(boat,car,train,bus,etc. ) ThisisasmallremedythatIhaveincludedbecause
ofitsusesintravelsicknessandnauseaduringpreg-
nancy. Thereisageneraldislikeoffreshairwhichalso
aggravatesthenausea. EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Confusedinfreshair. Forgetful. Irritable. Quarrelsome. PeopleneedingPetroleumwillbegenerallyworsefor
andalsomentallyconfusedoutinthefreshair. They
maynotrecognisewell-knownstreetsandmaymake
mistakesinfindingtheirway. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Chilblains
SymptomsChilblains:onfeet,hands,toes;in-
flamed. INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Phosphoricacid(Pho-ac. ) •129
Feetbecomecoldand'fallasleep'easily,andthe
handsbecomecoldandchapped. Thechilblainsare
painfulanditching,andoccurinthewinterduring
coldweather. Diarrhoea
SymptomsDiarrhoeaduringthedayonly. Pains
pressing. Withravenousappetite. Thisisaveryspecificdiarrhoeathatoccursonlydur-
ingthedayandisnotaccompaniedbyalossof
appetite. Headache
SymptomsPains:inbackofhead;pressing. With
heaviness;nausea(seebelow). Theheadacheusuallycomesonwhentravellingand
accompaniesthenausea. Nausea
SymptomsWithdizziness. Worseforfreshair. Thisnauseaisusuallyaccompaniedbydizzinessand/
orheadache. Travelsickness
SymptomsWithheadache(seeabove);nausea(see
above);vomiting.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the characteristic symptom of people needing Opium?,
A: An abnormal lack of pain, as if the senses have been blunted.
Q: What is the main action of Phytolaccas a remedy?,
A: It is used to treat various conditions, including breastfeeding problems, post-natal depression, and anxiety.
Q: What is the main action of Pulsatillanigricans as a remedy?,
A: It is used to treat various conditions, including teething, and is also used in treating children.
Q: What is the main action of Sepia as a remedy?,
A: It is used to treat various conditions, including depression, anxiety, and exhaustion, and is often needed for women who are worn out from caring for children and have no emotional support.
Q: What is the main action of Rhustoxicodendron as a remedy?,
A: It is used to treat various conditions, including toothache, and is often needed for people who are extremely sensitive to cold and damp weather.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Exhaustion
SymptomsExhaustion:nervous;sudden. Worseongettingupinthemorning;duringamen-
strualperiod;forsweating;forwalking. Causessweating. Thelegsfeelstiffandweak.Thisoftenaccompanies
theSepiahotflushes,orpregnancy. Eyeinflammation
SymptomsEyes:burning.Eyelids:gluedtogether;
swollen. Worseafterawalk;duringtheevening;forreading. Theevesfeelsore,asifthereweresandinthem. Faintness
SymptomsHeatwithfaintness.Coldnessafterfaint. Worseforexercise;duringafever;duringmenstrual
period;inastuffyroom. Sepiatypescaneasilyfeelfaintandarealways
generallyworseforstandingforanylengthoftime. Fever
SymptomsWithsweating(seeGeneralSymptoms). Worseintheautumn;forsweating;forbeingcovered. Causesanger. Sepiamavbeneededinafluoranyotherinfection
wherethecharacteristicgeneralandemotionalsymp-
tomsarealsopresent.Theaccompanying feveris
oftenseverewithexternalheatandinternalchilliness. INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Silica(Sil. )•149
Thefeelingofheatisfollowedbychillswithshaking
andnothirst.Beingcoveredupwarmlymakes
patientsfeeluneasy(whichisanunusualandhelpful
symptom);theydonotwanttobecoveredevenwhen
chilled. Hairloss
SymptomsHairfallsout. Causesmenopause. Headache
SymptomsExtremities icycold.Pains:inbones;
bursting;pressing;shooting;tearing;throbbing;in
waves. Betteraftereating;forfreshair. Worseforbendingdown;duringmenstrualperiod;
forgettingheadcold;fortravelling. Causesartificiallight. Painscanbealmostanywhereinthehead,although
theleftsidewilloftenbemoreaffectedthantheright. Hotflushes
SymptomsFlushmovesupthebody. Worseduringtheafternoon/evening; aftersweating. Thehotflushfeelsasifwarmwaterwerebeingpoured
overthebody,and/ortheflushstartsinthebodyand
movesupwards. Insomnia
SymptomsWakingafter3a.m.Withsleepiness. Thepersonwakesinthenightandcan'tgetbackto
sleep,andmaylieawakethinkingdismalthoughts.In
themorningheorshefeelsexhausted. Labourpains
SymptomsPains:distressing;severe. Thepainsdragdownandaremuchbetterforvigorous
exercise.Sepiacharacteristicemotionalsymptomswill
bepresent.Periodproblems
SymptomsPeriodspainful.Pains:aching;dragging