 As long as there are people
in your life, you can guarantee you will be emot ionally hurt at some point. It’ s inevitable. Y ou’re going through life trying to get your needs met, and so is
everyone else. If I’m trying to get my needs met and you’re trying to get
your nee ds met, there will be some clashes. Most of the time wh en someone
hurts yo u or disagrees with you, it’ s not even about you. Think about this
for a second. Have you ever considered the idea that most people are
absorbed with their own needs and desires? The alco holic father who ignores you is just worried about getting his
next drin k. The teacher who sco lds you for talking is just trying to manage
the thirty children in her class an d to get the job done. The person who cuts
you of f on the road is just trying to get to work on time. The jealous sister
who talks badly about you is just trying to get the attention and love that she
feels she  isn’ t receiving. Most o f the time you’re just in the way  of another
person getting his or her needs met. It doesn’ t make it right, just, or fair; it
just is. Each person has his or her own pathway. When you hold on to past h urt, you are weighing yourself down
unnecessarily. Y ou’re creating heaviness in your own heart  that could
otherwise be lifted by simply l etting go. Whatever happened in your past
needed t o happe n so that you could be where you are today. If you had only
good tim es or people who lifted  you up all the time, you couldn ’ t have had
the e motional and spiritual grow th to reach higher heights. Y ou needed the
adversity, resistance, and someti mes even hatred to propel you toward your
destiny. A couple of yea rs back when I was training for a half marathon, I hired
a personal trainer to teach me how to gain strength through weight training. I wanted  to make sure I didn’ t injure myself, and I knew that by creating
muscle mass I w ould be less prone to injury. During the first session the
trainer worked me hard but took it a little easy on me. But after the first
session he pushed me to the limit. He added more weight, created more
resistance, and added even more repetitions. During the session, it was
awful. I’m not g ood at handling pain. I complained and nearly cried, but I
did wha t he asked me because I knew I wanted to be stronger. Y ou might
ar gue that I was  paying him to put me through this adversity. W hile this is
true, I couldn’ t have gained muscle mass without the pain and resistance. Iwas hurting after every session, to the point of barely being able to walk the
next day. But I was grateful, because I knew that the next time I
encountered his tough workouts it would be easier, for a time. If I had
avoided the workouts and the weight lifting I wouldn’ t hav e seen any
positive changes in my body. Letting go of past hurt is as easy as a decision. Y our ego might  tell you
otherwise, but it’ s really that si mple. Y es, you may have grow n up in an
abusive household. Y ou may have had a spouse cheat on you. Any number
of thing s may have happened in your past, however unfortun ate. Y et the
choice to hold on to the hurt or to let it go is all yours. When you make the choice to let go, it doesn’ t mean continuin g to put
yourself in the same situations that allowed the hurt in the fi rst place. It
means le tting go  and then making dif ferent choices that can put you on a
dif ferent path. F ORGIVENESS
Once yo u make the conscious choice to release the hurt and pa in, the only
way to complete ly heal your hea rt is through the power of for giveness. The
act of for givene ss is extending grace to a person (including yourself) for
what occurred. Of fering for give ness doesn’ t mean you’re condoning the act
itself or  suggesting that it was acceptable. For giveness means  that you’re
choosing peace rather than the turmoil that the grievance holds. When you
hold on to the need to be righ t or to seek revenge in any w ay, you’re
destroying your own heart. The other person has perhaps long for gotten
what ha ppened. Or maybe the person never realized she’d done anything
wrong in the fir st place. By kee ping the grievance alive in your heart, you
are allowing the poison to grow. I o nce had a client whose husband had committed suicide five years
prior to our con versation. Even though they were separated w hen he took
his l ife, she confessed that she was still furious at him for selfishly killing
himself, as they had a young da ughter who needed him. I explained to her
that by holding t hat anger she w asn’ t hurting him (he was alread y dead), but
she was hurting herself. I suggested that she write him a letter outlining allthe r easons why she was angry, after which she was to place it on his grave
or burn it to let go of all the negativity. Letting go of h urt and for giving are about keeping your hea rt space
pure. Healing the Spiritual Body
When man has love, he is no longer at the mer cy of for ces gr eater than
himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful for ce. — L EO  B USCAGLIA
The most important lesson we can learn from our emer ging spirituality at
the level of the  fourth chakra is that our Creator is infinite love. The
wellspring of love flowing through the entire universe is infini te. There is
no s hortage of unconditional lo ve. Every person has equal access to this
love reg ardless of age, gender, r ace, or socioeconomic status. The question
remains: How open are you to receiving this love? Human love is almost always conditional in at least one a spect or
another. If you expect perfect, unconditional love from another human
being yo u will constantly be disappointed. The only perfect lov e is one that
comes from your spiritual Source. The awakening you experience in the fourth through seventh chakras is
through harness ing this unconditional love, from your Source, and being
able to use it in your interactions and relationships. In order to b est achieve
this, you  will need to regularly practice balancing through lettin g go of the
constant demands of the ego. Those demands sound something like this:
“I don’ t want to for give him. He started it.”
“She hurt me first when I was being nice.”
“He doesn’ t deserve a second chance.”
“She ruined my life with her betrayal.”
“I hate him.”As I mentioned in the third c hakra, you will never lose y our ego
completely whil e you are alive. Y ou can, however, hush it down a bit. This
generally happe ns when you sh ift your internal conversation from “What’ s
in it for me?” to “What’ s in it for you?”
C HOOSING  P EACE
The ego is alwa ys concerned about being hurt, af fronted, and humiliated. It’ s constantly in reaction mo de. Dr. W ayne W. Dyer used to quote
frequently from A C ourse in Miracles : “I c an choose p eace rather than
this.”  When you’re co nfronted with expressions of hatred and fear, you can
choose how you react to them. Y ou can react with your ego or with your
heart. It’ s a simple choice. It’ s not always easy to choose peace, but it’ s a
choice nonetheless. And you will be continually confronted with people
who wil l give you opportunitie s to practice. There is no shortage of these
people. Choosing peace might mean you  walk away with no comment. It might
mean you answer with empathy  and understanding. Or it could mean you
no longe r wish to associate with that person. Choosing peace means making
the choice not to be of fended or to let other people’ s remarks harm you. O PENING  Y OUR  H EAR T
Cleansing your heart space is the first half of clearing the fou rth chakra. The next part is keeping the doors to your heart open. In his book Love:
What Life Is All About, p sycho logist Leo Buscaglia states, “Love is always
open arms. If  you close your arms about lo ve, you will find that you are left
holding only yourself.” I believe this to mean that you should neither clasp
too tightly nor r elease and then refuse to let anyone else in. When you love
fully an d unconditionally, you r loved ones feel equally loved by you
whether they are close or far, or whether they are pleasing you or not. Either
way, it’ s all the same. The idea is to love in the same way that your Creator
loves. God doesn’ t change his m ind about the way he loves you. Y ou


rea dy in a state of ecstasy that is permanent and unshakab le. But only
at moments when your boundaries fade away do you have flashes of reality. Then direct intuitive knowing becomes possible, and you can see yourself
for who you are, sublime and ecstatic. Thousands of years ago the
Upanishads expressed our twofold nature in a beautiful metaphor:
Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal,
live in the same tree. The first one pecks at the fruit,
sweet or bitter; the second looks on without eating. Thus the personal self pecks at the fruit of this world,
bewildered by suf fering, always hungry for more,
but when he meets the true Self, the resplendent God,
the source of creation, all his cravings are stilled. The two birds in the tree, self and Self, are inseparable; both sit in the same
tree (the body) faced with the same fruit (the material world). Yet for all
their closeness the bird who craves the fruit does not know its mate. It takes
an awak ening to reveal the Self, and although in one sense it is awesome,
being “the resplendent God,” in another sense it is just one’s intimate
beloved, who has faithfully kept watch through all time, waitin g only to be
seen. Once it is seen everything in life changes. As the Upanish ads declare,
the life of the self, once united with the Self, rises to a blessed level:
Good and evil both vanish;
delighting in Self, playing like a child with Self,
he does whatever is called for, whatever the result. When self-realiz ation dawns, there is no longer any question of struggle
or effort. The spirit guides you to do whatever is called for, according to
your own makeup. In reality universal love requires only one thing, that the
sweet point in the heart expand until bliss and peace become the nature of
our life. This first happens within individuals, then it happens torelationships based on spirit, finally it extends to whole families and
societies. A single point in the heart can expand to liberate the world. Ecstasy is therefore not an individual feeling at all but a glimpse of the
wholeness waiting to be seen everywhere. The Upanishads state this very
explicitly:
Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,
unreachable, nearer than breath, than heartbeat. Our senses tell us that we are breathing and that our hearts beat,  but there is
a breath within the breath that is spirit (in Christian terms it has been called
afflatus, the breath of God). Near as spirit may be, centur ies of cultural prejudice have made it
necessary to rediscover our intuitive, direct knowledge of it. Many
disciplines and techniques can be employed here, particularly meditation. In
this book I have concentrated on the expansion of conscious ness that is
available throug h love, motivated by the tragic absence of love we see all
around us. Yet the road to the Self is not closed on any side—the
transcendent is “nearer than breath, than heartbeat”—and fortunately a
multitude of teachings exist to put our feet on the path. In the end the path does not actually ascend anywhere in time or space. The self is still the self, the ego is still the ego, the senses are still the
senses. How can you go anywh ere to capture what is already so close to
you? The mystery is that this “pathless path,” as the masters refer to it,
causes immense  transformation. There is a world of difference between
those who live in love and those who only touch upon it fitfully. Perhaps the
greatest differen ce is this qualit y called ecstasy, which is the actual feeling
of breathing God’ s breath and beating with His heart. I do not want to betray the intimacy of ecstasy; it is the most private of
love affairs. Being becomes your beloved, and the merging of yourself with
another person follows with complete ease and naturalness. If one had to
lay down some  kind of pattern for how ecstasy is attained, it would be
extremely general, as follows:The time comes when seeking is over and realization begins. First the
mind becomes aware of its own activity while standing apart from it. Ordinarily we are immersed in our own inner dialogue; the stream of
thoughts, wishes, fears, and fantasies running through our heads keeps us
fixated. We buy into a mental drama that has no conclusion. The mind gains
its restless energy from our participation. Being fixated on your own ment al
drama is all it takes to cause the drama to work itself up. At certain moments, however, the fixation is not so alluring. Some part of
ourselves detaches from the mind’ s activity—the first stage of ecstasy is
just this faint awareness of being a witness to the drama rather than an
engaged participant. The observer has begun to put a slight distance
between itself and the observed. The second step is the stilling of the mind. This is not achieved by force
or indeed by any action at all. Doing anything is the opposite of being still. Because we have spent our whole lives in activity, non-doing is extremely
unfamiliar. Most of the time it occurs by accident—out of the blue, one
notices that the stream of consciousness has ceased, like turning  off a water
tap. Sexual activity is so often associated with ecstasy because it is one of
the few times that most people can be fully distracted from their minds. Whether a person tries to make it happen or not, what creates stillness in the
mind is simply that the observer  is able to continue to stand apart for longer
than a moment. Gaining some distance between the observer and the observed is so rare
that the second stage of ecstasy occurs quite infrequently. For most of us the
excursions away  from mental activity last only a few seconds. But if we
manage to achieve the second stage, stillness takes on a surprising aspect. Our attention reveals to us that silence has its own dynamism. The still
mind, though devoid of thoughts, quivers and vibrates all the same. There is
a kind of trembling anticipation  that can go one of two ways. Either a new
thought will be born to bring back the internal dialogue or the faint
trembling of silence will lead to even deeper silence. Poised here at the edge of ecstasy, you cannot make your mind choose
one way over the other. Even people who have experienced silent mind
many times, such as in prolonged practice of meditation, do not go past the
front room of silence at will. But if the mind chooses to plunge into deeper
silence, the third stage has been reached. This deeper silence doesn’ t quiver;it cannot be disturbed by even the faintest activity. One experiences it like
the softest black velvet or the deepest dark cave. Anyone who has come this
far is now truly “standing outsid e.” Of course it would be just as accurate to
say that you are standing inside, because inside and outside have lost their
difference. Y ou are merely there where ecstasy is. The fourth and final stage requires nothing new on your part—once your
attention has been captured by deep silence, the inner transformation is
complete. What ever is to happ en next dawns of its own accord. One is
brought face to face with pure Being, pure awareness, pure joy. In ancient
Sanskrit terms, sat chit ananda,  eternal bliss consciousness, reveals itself. A
Christian saint might call the same experience “the face of God.” The poet
of the Song of Solomon put it in lover ’s terms:
My eyes are radiant with your spirit;
my nostrils fill with your fragrance. My ears delight in your music,
and my face is covered with your dew. But these are images only. The fact that ecstasy exists is the promise that
kindles our faith on the path to love; tastes of it are the water that refreshes
our quest. We take faith from those living masters who have reached the
goal. They stand apart from us, yet they are clothed in the same flesh and
bones; they move, act, breathe, and live as the rest of us do. Only secretly,
in their realized  souls, do they know with utter certainty that, like the two
birds in the tree, they are Self while we are self. I often turn to a few pages of dialogue between an Indian discip le and his
master that bring this contrast to life for me. The disciple is resisting the
idea that there is anything beyond the world of the senses. He is the
questioner; the answerer is the South Indian master Sri Nisar gadatta
Maharaj:
Q: Is your world full of things and people as is mine? A: No, it is full of myself. Q: But do you see and hear as we do?A: Yes, I appear to see and hear and talk and act, but to me it just happens,
as to you digestion or perspiration happens.... Q: If you are the world, how can you be conscious of it? A: Cons ciousness and the world appear and disappear together, hence they
are two aspects of the same state.... As long as the mind is there, your
body and the world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective,
enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on
the thread of memory. Q: So is


 chances; more often he was somber and depressed. His
normal self, with its normal relationship to the body, had collapsed
in confusion. Nothing was properly connected anymore. His body
was no longer his; it was a strange, fearful object. He wanted to
distance himse lf from this thing, but he was becoming more and
more mesmeri zed by it. Stare at a monster long enoug h and you
become the monster—that adage was coming true for Lou. One day I asked him to close his eyes and sit quietly. As he did, I
said, “For the moment, let’s take time o from talking or thinking
about your case. Just be yourself. Don’t identify your mind with any
particular problem; don’t do anything. ” I paused, and we both sat in
silence. “Do you notice any pain. ” I asked. “No,” he murmured. “Good,” I said. “Now just sit comfortably appreciating whatever
comes to mind. If you have a strong thought, even a gripping one,
just let it go by. You’ll nd that it’s not hard to do. ” Another pause,
and then, “Did you feel any impulse of fear or anxiety. ”
He nodded. “Don’t mind that,” I said. “It’s just a passing cloud. What I want
you to notice is that there are spaces between your thoughts, like
patches of blue between the clouds. When you notice such a space,just give a nod. ” He closed his eyes again, and after a moment, he
slowly nodded. We continued the exercise for a few more minutes. “Do you feel anxious now.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: How long can a heart survive without oxygen?,
A: Up to 4 minutes.
Q: What is the purpose of the nervous system in the human body?,
A: To project our sense of self onto the body, allowing us to perceive the world in a consistent and meaningful way.
Q: What is the main difference between a yogi and a non-yogi?,
A: A yogi can halt their blood flow for hours and still maintain a sense of self, whereas a non-yogi would not be able to do so.
Q: What is the goal of Yoga, according to the text?,
A: To help individuals transcend the limitations of their own minds and connect with a higher reality.
Q: What is the main difference between a yogi and a non-yogi in terms of their relationship with their bodies?,
A: A yogi is able to separate themselves from their physical sensations and emotions, while a non-yogi is deeply attached to their physical form and emotions.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Certainly we would feel a great deal of
discomfort, and the physical sensation of pain would begin a
complex series  of psychological reactions to produce what is called
suering. Most people believe that pain and suering are more or
less identical. This was not true for Ray, who experienced immense
pain but never converted it into suering. He had an explanation for
this:
“I felt that a decision had been made in the split second while I
was falling, pulling me back from certain death—it didn’t have to
happen that way, but it did. It was a gift. My mind went back to
that moment many times, and I found that the memory triggered a
dierent awareness in me. I can only compare it to meditation: Iwas in a place pain couldn’t reach. I had a sense of oating and of
great calmness. “Sometimes the nurse would  be packing my knee wound, which
was very uncomfortable physically. I would see her doing it, and the
signal of pain registered, but instead of stinging my mind, so to
speak, it made me feel inten se—what?—not exactly pleasure but a
sensation hard to name, intensely sweet, very intimate. It was pain
turning to tingling joy. Every time that happened, I would wonder
at it and be very glad.”
Once he slipped into this privileged state of awareness, Ray could
divorce himsel f from his pain for hours at a time. Signicantly, he
had practiced meditation since he was eighteen, virtually all of his
adult life, and was familiar with settled states of awarenes s. He soon
showed that he was doing much more than evading pain. His sister
writes, “When  I rst saw the surgical wound around Ray’s right
knee, I was frightened at how much muscle they had been forced to
remove. Despite the grafts, there was nothing visible but tendon,
and when we returned to Seattle, several specialists advised that
muscle tissue be brought around from the back of his leg for a new
graft. “That meant major surgery, and Ray’s doctor decided to postpone
it. Keeping the tendon exposed raised the chance of infect ion, but he
wanted to wait and see for another month. In that time, Ray healed
himself amazin gly. We dressed his knee twice a day and showered it
with loving attention. (Ray would say afterwards that he could lie
back and literally feel this attention being soaked up by his body.) Ray meditated a great deal and was up and around, tendin g the new
colts and enjoying his life to the full. “When his doctors saw him four weeks later, they were in a state
of disbelief. New muscle had started to come up around the tendon
spontaneously, appearing in every gap, and new skin was rapidly
advancing to cover it.”
Muscle regeneration is a highly uncertain process, and there is no
guarantee that it will occur at all if the damage is this extensive. One would certainly not predict the rapid granulation of new tissue
that appeared in Ray’s destroyed knee. With undisguised wonder,one of his doctors exclaimed, “I don’t know why, but you’re a great
healer, Ray.” No further surgery was required. Much has been written about what makes certain people heal
better and faster than others. Ray embodied many of the most
desirable quali ties. He had the courage to get up out of his hospital
bed and walk on his leg within days after his accident. When his
arm had to be amputated, he immediately learned to tie his shoes
with one hand. He unhesitatingly and hungrily accepted love when
it was oered by his family and friends. These are rare qualities of
heart and mind. Although every doctor has seen such patients, “great healers”
have proved to be too rare and too individual to study as a class. Therefore, we do not really know their secret. I believe  that what
makes such people extraord inary is not anything they do: it is
something they are. We all are. That is, we all have the certainty that we exist. A
clever debater can make you doubt almost anything you ever
believed in, but not this. “I am” lies at the core of every  person, a
rock-solid certainty he has no reason to doubt. Unless you are caught in a tortured dilemma like Hamlet, to be or
not to be is not the question. Existence comes as inevitably as being
born. Strangely, some people  take more advantage of this state than
others. They do not do more or feel more or think more. Somehow,
like light passing through a crystal-clear lens, life comes through
them clearer, brighter, and sharper than through people who exist
dully. This fact has not been lost on psychiatry, though it is seen from
the opposite end. Very few people come to therapy exhibiting
clarity. They come feeling extremely needy and dependent, or
feeling so much anxiety that they can barely face up to the ordinary
challenges of existence. Sometimes they are so depressed that
nothing in their lives, howev er vivid and moving, registers as more
than a gray smudge. In all these cases, something has gone wrong,
not just in thinking and feeling, but in being. They have lost the gift
for living.The Feeling of Specialness
Where does the gift come from? In Ray’s case, it seems to express
itself rst and foremost as a bedrock sense of security: “I was sure
from the rst that I was going to recover. There’s no expla ining why
—it was like a secret I shared with God. I called it a gift because
there are no real words to describe it. I was given a chance to
remake myself. I didn’t know how to do that, only that it was going
to happen and nothing could stand in its way.”
By now almost everyone has read accounts of the brief near-death
experiences that occur to thousands of people every year. The
details change from story to story, but a common theme is the
sudden descent of a complete sense of security. People who come
back to life after their hearts stop beating frequently report that as
they “went into the light” or hovered above their bodies looking
down on themselves, they felt completely protected. Often this
feeling lingers  when they reluctantly take up the burden of their
bodies once more. They now nd it dicult to worry about the
things one is supposed to worry about, especially dying. It may be
that this is how we are meant to feel even without the near-death
experience. To be may not be a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly
is. Some people grow up nurturing a secret feeling that they are
some


 any o ther way. How To Give Yourself An Enema
    Enemas have been medically out of favor for a long time. Most people have never had one. So here are simple directions to sel f-
administer an effective enema series. The enema bag you select is important. It must hold at least two quarts and be rapidly refillable. The best American -made brand
is made of rubber with about five feet of rubber hose ending in one of two different white hard plastic insertion tips. The b ag is
designed for either enemas or vaginal d ouches. It hangs from a detachable plastic "S" hook. When filled to the brim it holds
exactly one -half gallon. The maker of this bag offers another model that costs about a dollar more and also functions as a hot water
bottle. A good comforter it may make,  but the dual purpose construction makes the bag very awkward to rapidly refill. I
recommend the inexpensive model. The plastic insertion tips vary somewhat. The straight tubular tip is intended for enemas; the flared vaginal douche tip can be
useful for enemas too, in that it somewhat restrains unintentional expulsion of the nozzle while filling the colon. However,  its four
small holes do not allow a very rapid rate of flow. To give yourself an enema, completely fill the bag with tepid water that does not exceed body temperature. The rectum is
surprisingly sensitive to heat and you will flinch at temperatures o nly a degree or two higher than 98 Fahrenheit. Cooler water is
no problem; some find the cold stimulating and invigorating. Fasters having difficulty staying warm should be wary of cold wa ter
enemas. These can drop core body temperature below the point of comfort. Make sure the flow clamp on the tube is tightly shut and located a few inches up the tube from the nozzle. Hang the filled ba g
from a clothes or towel hook, shower nozzle, curtain rod, or other convenient spot about four to five feet above th e bathroom floor
or tub bottom. The higher the bag the greater the water pressure and speed of filling. But too much pressure can also be
uncomfortable. You may have to experiment a bit with this. Various body positions are possible for filling the col on. None is correct or necessarily more effective than another. Experiment
and find the one you prefer. Some fill their colon kneeling and bending forward in the bathtub or shower because there will l ikely
be small dribbles of water leaking from around the  nozzle. Usually these leaks do not contain fecal matter. Others prefer to use the
bathroom floor. For the bony, a little padding in the form of a folded towel under knees and elbows may make the process more
comfortable. You may kneel and bend over while placing your elbows or hands on the floor, reach behind yourself and insert the
nozzle. You may also lie on your back or on your side. Some think the left side is preferable because the colon attaches to t he
rectum on the left side of the body, ascends up the left side of the abdomen to a line almost as high as the solar plexus, then
transverses the body to the right side where it descends again on the right almost to the groin. The small intestine attaches  to the
colon near its lower -right extremity. In fa ct these are the correct names given for the parts of the colon: Ascending, Descending
and Transverse Colon along with the Sigmoid Colon or Rectum at the exit end. As you become more expert at filling your colon with water you will begin to become awa re of its location by the weight,
pressure and sometimes temperature of the water you're injecting. You will come to know how much of the colon has been filled
by feel. You will also become aware of peristalsis as the water is evacuated vigorously and disc over that sensations from a colon
hard at work, though a bit uncomfortable, are not necessarily pain. Insertion of the nozzle is sometimes eased with a little lubricant. A bit of soap or KY jelly is commonly used. If the nozzle  can
be inserted without lubricant it will have less tendency to slip out. However, do not tear or damage the anus by avoiding necessary
lubrication. After insertion, grip the clamp with one hand and open it. The flow rate can be controlled with this clamp. Keep ing a
hand on the c lamp also prevents the nozzle from being expelled. Water will begin flowing into the colon. Your goal is to empty the entire bag into the colon before sensations of pressure or
urgency to evacuate the water force you to remove the nozzle and head for t he toilet. Relaxation of mind and body helps achieve
this. You are very unlikely to achieve a half -gallon fill up on the first attempt. If painful pressure is experienced try closing the
clamp for a moment to allow the water to begin working its way around  the obstacle. Or, next time try hanging the bag lower,
reducing its height above the body and thus lowering the water pressure. Or, try opening the clamp only partially. Or, try pa nting
hard, so as to make the abdomen move rapidly in and out, sort of shak ing the colon. This last technique is particularly good to get
the water past a blockage of intestinal gas. It is especially important for Americans, whose culture does not teach one to be tolerant of discomfort, to keep in mind that  pain
is the body's  warning that actual damage is being done to tissues. Enemas can do no damage and pose no risk except to that rare
individual with weak spots in the colon's wall from cancers. When an enema is momentarily perceived unpleasantly, the correct
name for the ex perience is a sensation, not pain. You may have to work at increasing your tolerance for unpleasant sensations or it
will take you a long time to achieve the goal of totally filling the colon with water. Be brave. And relax. A wise philosophe r once
said th at it is a rough Universe in which only the tigers survive --and sometimes they have a hard time. Eventually it will be time to remove the nozzle and evacuate the water. Either a blockage (usually fecal matter, an air bubbl e, or
a tight ‘U' turn in the colon, usually at either the splenetic, or hepatic flexures located right below the rib cage) will prevent further
inflow (undesirable) or else the bag will completely empty (good. ) or the sensation of bursting will no longer be tolerable. Go sit
on the to ilet and wait until all the water has passed. Then refill the bag and repeat the process. Each time you fill the colon it wil l
allow more water to enter more easily with less unpleasantness. Fasters and cleansers should make at least three attempts at a
complete fill -up each time they do an enema session. Water and juice fasters will find that after the first few enemas, it will become very easy to inject the entire half -gallon of water. That is because there is little or no chime entering the colon. A fter a few days the entire colon will seem (this is incorrect) to be
empty except when it is filled with water. This is the point to learn an advanced self -administered enema technique. An average
colon empty of new food will usually hold about one gallon of water. That is average. A small colon might only hold 3/4 gallon, a
large one might accept a gallon and a half, or even more. You'll need to learn to simultaneously refill the bag while injecti ng water,
so as to achieve a complete irrigation of the whol e colon. There are several possible methods. You might try placing a pitcher or
half-gallon mason jar of tepid water next to the bag and after the bag has emptied the first time, stand up while holding the tube  in
the anus, refill the bag and then lie down  again and continue filling. You might have an assistant do this for you. You might try
hanging the bag from the shower head and direct a slow, continuous dribble of lukewarm water from the shower into the bag whi le
you kneel or lie relaxed in the tub. Thi s way the bag will never empty and you stop filling only when you feel fullness and pressure
all the way back to the beginning of the ascending colon. Of course, hanging from a slowly running shower head the bag will
probably overflow and you will get spla shed and so will the bathroom floor when your wet body moves rapidly from the tub to the
toilet. I've imagined making an enema bag from a two gallon plastic bucket with a small plastic hose barb glued into a hole d rilled
in the bottom or lower edge. If I w ere in the business of manufacturing enema bags I'd make them hold at least one gallon. A word of caution to those folks who have a pattern of overdoing it, or tend to think that more is better. This is not true w hen it
comes to colon cleansing. Do no t make more than three attempts to fill and clean the colon with an enema bag. Usually the colon
begins to protest and won't accept any more fill -ups. When having colonics on a colonic machine it is a good idea to continue until
the water comes back reason ably clear for that session. It is not a good idea for a faster to have colonics that last more than three -
quarters of an hour to an hour maximum, or it will be too tiring. Even non -fasters find colonics tiring. After all, the colon is
basically a big


m scares the wits out of the parents, although it is usual for the youngster to be as
well as ever the following day. As soon as the child recovers from the acute indigestion the
spasms cease. The child with indigestion should not be fed. Sometimes an older child, suffering with a mild feverish condition and inflammation of the
digestive tract, will imagine that he is hungry and will demand food. This demand should not be
acceded to. Feeding will only serve to increase its discomfort and retard his recovery. Hunger
here is not genuine but most always only in the mind. Gastritis is inflammation of the stomach. It may be immediately occasioned by over-feeding or
eating freely of candy. When a baby becomes enervated from too much excitement, too much
handling, overclothing, cold or in any other way, resulting in inhibition of excretion, a channel of
compensatory or supplementary elimination is established through which to expel the accumulated
toxin. The mucous membranes of the body are favorite channels through which fontannels—
openings for use in discharge of excretions—are established for elimination purposes. If, as a
consequence of local irritation, from overeating or candy eating, for example, the lining of the
stomach is requisitioned to do vicarious duty, the baby has gastritis or indigestion. If the lining of
the intestine or colon is chosen for supplementary services, a diarrhea will develop. Perhaps a week or longer before the beginning of a fever, the observant mother may notice white
specks in the bowel movements of her baby. These mean that the milk is not being well digested,
perhaps due to overfeeding. The white specks may vary from small, white milk-curds throughout
the stool to an amount of milk curd that makes up two-thirds to three-fourths of the stool. If the
stool is gray and the consistency of putty, it is composed largely of undigested milk curd. If the
stool is sour, this indicates fermentation. If the condition is corrected at this stage, nothing further
will develop; but if not immediately corrected, inflammation of the stomach, small intestine and
large intestine will develop. If the indigestion is confined to the stomach, the child will be restless, irritable and feverish. At
first there will be vomiting of food stuff. This is soon followed by vomiting of water and mucus,
which may be slightly tinged with yellow. If food is withheld and water given in small doses, this
74crisis will end in a day to three or four days. The baby is likely to be thirsty and mothers are prone
to mistake this for hunger, and to feed. The food will be vomited, even water is frequently ejected. Water, when given, should be warm and taken in small amounts. It is important for mothers to
know that it is not a kindness on their part to feed a sick child. Food should always be withheld in
stomach and intestinal diseases. In short, while always acting under proper
Hygienic
 direction with your child, do all that you
can to let the natural tools of rest and peace and quiet restore the child if there is upset or illness—
or even if it is only a question of how much he wants to eat. For there are ways in which the instinctive wisdom of the infant or child in such matters may be
far greater than we could possibly guess. 75Fasting to Help You Get Well
In this section of the book we will examine more closely the uses of fasting for health. In general
we will seek to give the reader a grasp of the nature of certain malfunctions and the way in which
the fast can be of value. Again we stress the fact that fasting in itself has no force but rather it
enables the body’s organs and recuperative forces to turn their full energies upon the problem to be
corrected. This is the great secret power within. 7617
Fasting in Acute Disease
“My baby is dying,” a mother said over the telephone to a
Hygienist. It was the winter of 1927. The
Hygienist
 was located in New York City, the mother called him
from Nyack, N. Y. “How do you know the baby is dying. ”
The mother’s reply was not heartening: “He has pneumonia. Five physicians have just held a
consultation. It is their verdict my baby will die. There is nothing more that science can do. ”
“Let’s fool them,” said the
Hygienist. “We could try to save her, you know—”
Over the phone the
Hygienist
 then advised: “The first thing I want you to do is go to the table at
the bedside of your baby and sweep all the boxes and bottles of drugs that are there into the waste
basket. Next, open the window and let some fresh air into the room. Keep your baby warm, but
give it some fresh air. Give the baby as much water as it wants, but no food and no more drugs. ”
Twenty years later this baby, grown to splendid young womanhood, was married and wedding
pictures of her and her husband are prized possessions of the
Hygienist
 who took over after the
physicians had declared the baby would die. It is not unusual to see patients recover after it has been declared that every thing had been done
that science could do. This is so because the very things that science does are so often the causes
of death. Drugs to suppress the cough and anodynes to stop the pain in the chest in pneumonia are
frequent causes of death. Feeding in pneumonia is also dangerous. When in both pneumonia and
pleurisy the patient is fed, not only is the toxemic supersaturation kept up, but the feeding prevents
resolution, that is, it prevents the inflamed lung or pleura from returning to normal. This may result
in abscess formation. In the acute forms of disease—fevers and inflammations—the desire for food is absent,
indicating that no food should be taken. There is an absence of the digestive juices, perhaps the
walls of the digestive system are pouring out mucus profusely, as in acute gastritis or in typhoid
fever, just
as do the lining membranes of the nose and throat in a cold; the normal muscular
movements of the digestive tract are suspended, and there is absence of power to digest food. Inflammation, pain and fever each suspend the digestive secretions and the movements of the
stomach. When the sufferer with acute disease is fed his pains and discomforts are increased, his
temperature rises and his chances of recovery are reduced. In acute disease the digestive system is
as little fit to digest food as the limbs are for locomotion. Both require rest. What good does it do
for a man to take food, even the finest food, if he is unable to digest and assimilate it. Restless,
suffering with nausea, not only with no desire for food, but actually loathing it, and not retaining it
when swallowed, food certainly should not be taken. Forced feeding under such conditions is not
nourishing, but depleting. Fasting is the only rational plan of care of a sick person presenting such
symptoms. A man is prostrated; everything tastes bitter to him, every little noise is agonizing and his mind
wanders. His tongue is coated with a yellow-brown coat, the region over his stomach and bowels
is sensitive, he vomits at short intervals, his temperature is above normal. 77Should he be fed. Or could he be fed without adding to his discomfort and without danger. Loss of desire for food is one of the first symptoms of acute disease. Go over the whole list—
smallpox, typhoid fever, typhus fever, pneumonia, diphtheria, measles, cholera, and you realize
that one of the first developments in these crises is the suspension of all desire for food. Wisely,
nature cuts off all demand for food when it cannot be used. Fasting is a means of getting through
such crises. The fast is a temporary expedient by means of which the body achieves some of its urgently
needed work, an expedient employed by the living organism to help it over many of the
emergencies of life. It is almost correct to say that fasting and surgery are all that are of value in
disease. But we can say this only if we recognize that the regular or ordinary elements of nature’s
great plan of
Hygiene
 are as essential in illness as in health, except that their use must be modified
to conform to the crippled powers of the organism. Instead of fasting being a
cure,
 it is an essential and integral part of the healing process. When
the digestive system is prostrated and all desire for food is cut off, as it is in acute disease, we
have an expedient that is as much a part of the remedial process, the process of restoration, as the
concomitant prostration of the body as a whole that sends the sick person to bed. To be extremely
precise, the fasting process is an actual part of the
remedial process
 that we call disease. Including surgery among the useful expedients in disease does not imply approval to all surgery
performed today. Skillfully done, as much of it is, it is performed all too often for purely
commercial motives rather than only
when there is a legitimate reason for it. The fact will
someday be known that fasting will obviate the supposed need for much of the surgery


a), cancer, and stomach ulcers. ***
What you need to know about sour/tart cherry juice:
Tart cherries should not be confused with the sweet, black cherry variety. Sour cherries contain 4 times the amount of malic acid than found in
apples. Hence, you only need a fourth of the quantity, i.e. 8 oz. cherry juice
versus 32 oz. apple juice during each of the 6 days of the cleanse
preparation. Make certain to only buy sour cherry juice in glass bottles! Most health
food stores stock organic, preservative-free tart cherry juice. Studies suggest sour cherries may help reduce risk factors for type 2
diabetes, which makes tart cherry juice a good option for diabetics who
wish to do the liver flushes and cannot use apple juice because of its high
sugar content. The juice has also shown to help reduce inflammation of joints and inhibit
tumor growth, improve blood flow, lower blood pressure, and increase
heart and brain health. It can be used by those suffering from Candida problems. Dietary recommendations (for the first 5 days):
During the entire week of preparation and cleansing, avoid foods or
beverages that are ice-cold; they chill the liver and, thereby, reduce the
effectiveness of the cleanse. All foods or beverages should be warm or at
least room temperature. If you are used to eating only raw foods, you may
continue doing that. To help the liver prepare for the main part of the
cleanse, try to avoid foods from animal sources, including meat, fish,
poultry, eggs, dairy products (except butter), fried food items, and refined
sugar or foods that contain it. Otherwise, eat normal meals, but avoid
overeating. It is best to consume fresh salads, cooked vegetables, grains,
legumes, nuts, seeds, natural fats and oils, herbs, spices, and fruits during
the preparation time. Please note the important dietary instructions for Day
6 of the preparation phase below. The best times for cleansing:
The main and final part of the liver flush is best done over a weekend, or
when you are not under any pressure and have enough time to rest. Although the liver flush is effective at any time of the month, it should
preferably coincide with a day between full moon and new moon, or new
moon and full moon. If possible, avoid doing the actual flush on full moon
day when the body tends to hold on to extra fluids in the brain and tissues17.07.2017 The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Flush By Andreas Moritz
http://www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/Andreas-Moritz-Amazing-Liver-Flush.asp 4/17and is, therefore, more reluctant to release toxins 190. The days around
new moon are the most conducive for cleansing and healing. Please read this if you take any medication! While some people on prescription medication have done liver flushes
successfully, others have reported that they did not release any stones, or
felt very sick for a day or two. In 99 percent of all cases, pharmaceutical
medications are merely symptom-suppressive and non-cause-oriented, and
therefore, useless, unnecessary, and increasing harmful, especially if taken
long-term. For instance,
blood pressure medication is now known to cause congestive heart
failure, hypertension, and kidney disease;
arthritis medication damages the liver and kidneys and causes more pain
and more arthritis;
statins increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and liver damage;
anticancer drugs cause more cancers and spread them in the body, etc. (for more details, see Chapter 3)
There are numerous simple, proven, and completely natural methods of
restoring balance in the body that are far more effective and also void of
any harmful side effects. For instance, vitamin D alone, which the body produces in response to
regular sun exposure, can balance blood pressure, normalize blood sugar
and cholesterol, prevent and reverse cancer, stop infections such as
tuberculosis, heal skin diseases, and help with almost every other illness. In many cases, hypertension is just due to chronic dehydration and can be
corrected in a matter of days. This book contains plenty of information you
can use to make the necessary changes to your diet and lifestyle and
escape the vicious cycle of taking toxic drugs that only further the
occurrence of illness and debility and which, in turn, requires new drugs
that cause further symptoms of disease. If you have already become drug-dependent, I recommend you work under
the supervision of a naturopathic doctor to gradually wean yourself off the
medication while you also follow the guidelines for diet and lifestyle
outlined in this book, or in greater detail, in my book Timeless Secrets of
Health and Rejuvenation. While liver flushes help the body to detoxify and heal itself, medications
like antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, or antibiotics do the exact
opposite. It is risky for the body to undergo two incompatible and opposing
processes at the same time. In fact, taking medication while doing a liver
flush, may alter its concentration in the blood to undesirable levels; hence,
the warning.17.07.2017 The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Flush By Andreas Moritz
http://www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/Andreas-Moritz-Amazing-Liver-Flush.asp 5/17Once off pharmaceutical drugs, you can then safely do liver flushes. Cautionary note about cancer drugs
Those who have undergone chemotherapy and wish to do liver flushes
need to wait 6-8 months after the last round of treatment. Chemo drugs
produce an excessive amount of intrahepatic gallstones because of their
high toxicity, but it takes a while before all the chemical toxins are absorbed
by bile and formed into stones. Doing a liver flush too soon after receiving
these drugs would release much of the unbound poison into the intestinal
tract and literally burn holes through it. A Note on thyroid medication
Those who have had their thyroid removed (or have an underactive thyroid)
and are taking thyroid medication will need to continue taking the medicine
when doing the liver flushes. It is one of the few exceptions to the rule. I
have not seen any diminished effectiveness of the liver flush when taking
thyroid hormone. Food supplements
If you take natural food supplements, such as minerals and nonsynthetic
vitamins, you may continue taking them, but it is best to avoid taking any
supplements or medicines during the actual liver flush, unless they are
absolutely essential. Besides, they are wasted as they are flushed out with
the bile and Epsom salt. Age Considerations
Children as young as 9 or 10 years old can do liver flushes, but they should
only take half the amounts of cleanse ingredients (see separate
instructions below). I have also had people in their 90s who also had
excellent results with liver flushing. Cleanse your colon BEFORE and AFTER you do a liver flush
Having regular bowel movements is not necessarily an indication that your
bowel is unobstructed. Colon cleansing, done either a few days before or,
ideally, on Day 6 of preparation, helps to avoid or minimize any discomfort
or nausea that may arise during the actual liver flush. It prevents back-
washing of the oil mixture or waste products from the intestinal tract into
the stomach and it also assists the body in swiftly eliminating the released
gallstones. Most cases of nausea during liver flushes are due to not
properly cleansing the colon beforehand. Colonic irrigation (colon
hydrotherapy) is the most thorough method to prepare the colon for the
liver flush. Colema-board irrigation is an almost equally effective method,17.07.2017 The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Flush By Andreas Moritz
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Clean in Chapter 5). This is what you need to do on Day 6 of the preparation:
Drink all the 32 oz. (1 liter) of apple juice or all the 8 oz. of sour cherry juice,
or any of the other chosen options, in the morning. You may start drinking
the juice soon after awakening. If you feel hungry in the morning, eat a light
breakfast, such as fruit or a hot cereal like oatmeal. Avoid regular sugar or
other sweeteners, spices, milk, butter, oils, yogurt, cheese, ham, eggs,
nuts, pastries, cold packaged cereals, and other processed foods. Freshly-
pressed fruit juices or vegetables juices are fine. For your lunch meal you
may eat plain cooked or steamed vegetables with rice (preferably white
basmati rice), buckwheat, quinoa or similar grains, and flavor it with a little
unrefined sea or rock salt. If you prefer to eat fruit or raw vegetables, that’s
fine, too. Please do not eat any protein foods, nuts, avocado, butter, or oil,
or you might feel ill during the actual flush. The main thing is to save as
much bile as possible for the liver flush, which is required to remove as
many stones as possible from the liver and gallbladder. Eating fat or
oilcontaining foods would use up that bile and render the liver flush
ineffective. Also, do not eat or drink anything except water after 1:30 p.m.,
otherwise you may have difficulty passing stones! Follow the exact
schedule below. Please do not attempt the liver cleanse until you have
carefully read


ist Alfred Nobel
invented dynamite by combinin g the chemical nitroglycerine with silica to
form a less vo latile explosive  than nitroglycerine alone. Although his
invention was initially intended to be used for blasting rock for industry, it
later became synonymous with  war and destruction. A few years afterNobel’ s invention, doctors disco vered that this same chemical was ef fective
in helpi ng to reduce high bloo d pressure and treating the cardiovascular
condition known as angina pectoris. In the human body, nitrogly cerine—the
same ma terial used to make explosives—converts to the gas nit ric oxide to
provide amazing benefits for cardiovasular health. In his later years, Nobel
suf fered from heart disease, and when doctors tried to prescribe
nitroglycerine to relieve his condition, he declined it, writing to  his friend:
“Isn’ t it the irony of fate that I  have been prescribed nitroglycerine, to be
taken internally! They call it T rinitrin, so as not to scare the chemist and the
public.” It was u nfortunate that Nobel could not envision how a chemical so
destructive outside the body could actually help it internally. In 1 896 Alfred Nobel suf fere d a stroke and died. In his w ill, the
majority of his wealth was endowed to provide “prizes to those who, during
the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.”
Although the motives of Nobel remain unclear, many commentators,
including Albert Einstein, were of the view that this final act was an attempt
to reliev e his conscience and promote world peace. T o ameliorate the
negative ef fects from the invention of dynamite, Nobel ensured that a
prestigious ceremony would tak e place each year to recognize those who
make the greatest positive contributions to life. In an  iro nic twis t of fate, nearly  one hundred years after Nobel ’ s death,
three do ctors, Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro, and Ferid Murad, were
awarded the Nobel Prize in Ph ysiology or Medicine for discovering how
nitric oxide had many important beneficial ef fects for the cardiovascular
system. Had Alfred Nobel conceded to the wishes of his doctors, it is
possible that his life may have been extended. Sometimes referred to as the mi ghty molecule, nitric oxide is produced
within t he 100,000 miles of b lood vessels throughout the human body,
including the paranasal sinuses surrounding the nasal cavity. Nitric oxide sends a signal for the blood vessels to relax and dilate. If
there is too littl e nitric oxide, blood vessels constrict and the heart has to
raise the  pressu re to send blood  throughout the body. The eas iest way to
understand this is to imagine a  garden hose with a knot in it : The water
cannot flow freely and the pressure must rise if the water has any chance of
flowing from one end to the other. Persistent high blood pressure or
hypertension da mages the arterial blood vessels, causing a buildup ofplaque and cholesterol and also  possibly blood clotting. If the  blood clots
and leads to an obstruction, this may cause the heart or brain to be deprived
of blood and oxygen, resulting in a heart attack or stroke. Nitric o xide plays a monumental role in human health by r educing
cholesterol, rev ersing the buildup of plaque in the blood v essels, and
helping to prevent blood clotting, all of which significantly incre ase the risk
for h eart attack and stroke. Acc ording to Nobel laureate and d istinguished
professor of pharmacology Dr. Louis Ignarro: “[Nitric oxide] is the body’ s
natural defense to prevent all of these things from happening.”
Producing suf ficient nitric oxi de enables blood flow to be directed
ef fortlessly around the body, ensuring that vital or gans receive suf ficient
oxygenation and nutrients. As blood vessels relax, the heart is able to
normalize the pressure required to distribute blood throughou t the body. W ays to increase nitric oxid e include slow nasal breathing, regular
moderate physical exercise, and eating foods that produce nitric oxide. As nitric  oxide is produced inside the paranasal sinuses as well as the
blood vessels, breathing gently and calmly through the nose all ows the gas
to be picked up  and carried to the lungs and blood. According to Jon
Lundber g, professor of nitric oxide pharmacologics at the world-famous
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, lar ge amounts of nitric oxide
are cons tantly r eleased in the n asal airways of humans. As we  breathe in
through the nose, nitric oxide w ill follow the airflow to the lungs, where it
plays a role in increasing the amount of oxygen uptake in the blood. Dr. Dav id Anderson of the Nat ional Institutes of Health in the United
States al so believes that how we  breathe may well hold the key for how the
body regulates blood pressure. It is well known that slow, gentle breathing
from the diaphragm relaxes a nd dilates blood vessels, but the reasons
behind t his lasti ng drop in bloo d pressure is not completely understood. A
plausible explan ation is that the regular practice of relaxed breathing
activates the body’ s relaxation response, resulting in improved  blood gas
regulation and dilation of blood vessels. As we partake in  physical exercise, blood flow increases and stimulates
the inner lining of the blood vessels to produce more nitric oxide. An
interesting study by a team of researchers from Hiroshima University
Graduate Schoo l of Biomedical Sciences compared changes to blood flow
in re sponse to dif ferent intensities of physical exercise. Exercise intensitydescribes the perceived ef fort by  individuals while physically moving their
bodies. For example, most people will agree that walking at a moderate
pace is a low-intensity exercise  because it is easy to sustain a nd involves
light dem ands in terms of brea thlessness and recovery. The study, which
was published in the journal Cir culation,  found that low-intensity exercise
—which expends about the same amount of ener gy as window-shopping—
wasn’ t enough to optimally increase blood flow. Conversely, high-intensity
exercise—which includes vigorous activity at a fast pac e—actually
worsened blood flow. But the middle path—moderate-intensity exercise,
such as a brisk w alk or a light jog or cycle—increased product ion of nitric
oxide and improved blood flow throughout the body. While physical exercise is an excellent way to increase nitric oxide,
diet, die tary supplements, and nasal breathing also play significant roles. In
a r ecent conversation with Irish cross-country running coach Jo hn Downes,
he t old me how  he actively en courages his athletes to drink beet juice,
explaining how he witnessed an increase in performance and reduction of
cramping as a result. Since Joh n isn’ t a man to waste ener gy on unfruitful
training practice s, I decided to find out more. I soon di scovered a study
conducted by the University of Exeter that investigated the ef fects of
increased dietary intake of beet juice, which is rich in the nitrates required
to g enerate nitric oxide. A study group of men aged between n ineteen and
thirty-eight drank about two cups of beet juice every day for a week. This
resulted in a “remarkable reduction” in the amount of oxygen  required to
perform exercise  in comparison with a control group who drank water: The
beet juice drinkers were able to cycle up to 16 percent longer before tiring. Furthermore, blo od pressure within the beet juice drinkers dropped (within
normal levels), even though it wasn’ t high to begin with. In conclusion, the
researchers commented that the reduction of oxygen required for
submaximal exercise following the drinking of beet juice “cannot be
achieved by any other known means, including long-term endurance
exercise training.”
Along w ith beet juice, essential nitric oxide–producing, heart-pr otecting
food sources to include in you r diet include fish, green vege tables, dark
chocolate, red wine (a glass pe r day—not the bottle! ), pomegranate juice,
green or black tea, and oatmeal. Food sources to be limited in your diet
include the usual culprits of meat and processed foods. Along  with eatingthe r ight foods, supplementing your diet with the amino acid L-ar ginine has
been pr oven to increase nitric oxide production, although results vary
depending on age and genetics. These simple changes to y our diet, in
addition to simply breathing ligh tly through your nose, may pro vide the key
to lifelong cardiovascular health. Most of us neve r give a moment’ s thought to our cardiovascula r health,
taking fo r grante d that our hear t will continue to perform its essential task
for s eventy years or more. But  heart-related problems are not limited to
those with a his tory of heart disease; completely avoidable cardiac issues
can be experie nced by young and otherwise healthy individuals, and
prevented simply by increasing nitric oxide levels and by chang ing the way
they breathe. In 1 909


 requirement (the dose recommended by the FDA as being
‘generally recognized as safe’) they should not expect to see any therapeuticeffect unless they have scurvy, beri beri, rickets, goiter, or pellagra. In these days of vitamin-fortified bread and iodized salt, and even vitamin C
fortified soft drinks, you almost never see the kind of life-threatening deficiencystates people first learned to recognize, such as scurvy. Sailors on long seavoyages used to develop a debilitating form of vitamin C deficiency that could kill.Scurvy could be quickly cured by as little as one lime a day. For this reason theBritish Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today thatis why British sailors are still called limeys. A lime has less than 30 milligrams ofvitamin C. But to make a cold clear up faster with vitamin C a mere 30 mg doesabsolutely nothing! To begin to dent an infection with vitamin C takes 10,000milligrams a day, and to make a life threatening infection like pneumonia go awayfaster might require 25,000 to 150,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily, administeredintravenously. In terms of supplying that much C with limes, that’s 300 to 750 ofthem daily—clearly impossible. Similarly, pellagra can be cured with a few milligrams of vitamin B
3, but
schizophrenia can sometimes be cured with 3,000 milligrams, roughly a thousandtimes as much as the MDR. There are many many common diseases that the medical profession does not
see as being caused by vitamin deficiencies. Senility and many mental disordersfall in this category. Many old people live on extremely deficient diets comprisedlargely of devitalized starches, sugars, and fats, partly because many do not havegood enough teeth to chew vegetables and other high roughage foods, and theydo not have the energy it takes to prepare more nourishing foods. Virtually all oldpeople have deficiency diseases. As vital force inevitably declines with age, thequantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases, then the ability to breakdownand extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished, frequently leading to seriousdeficiencies. These deficiencies are inevitably misdiagnosed as disease or aging. Suppose a body needs 30 milligrams a day of niacin to not develop pellagra,
but to be fully healthy, needs 500 milligrams daily. If that body receives 50milligrams per day from a vitamin pill, to the medical doctor it could not possiblybe deficient in this vitamin. However, over time, the insidious subclinical deficiencymay degrade some other system and produce a different disease, such as colitis.But the medical doctor sees no relationship. Let me give you an actual example.Medical researchers studying vitamin B
5 or pantothenic acid noticed that it could,
in what seemed to be megadoses (compared to the minimum daily requirement)largely reverse certain degenerative effects of aging. These researchers weremeasuring endurance in rats as it decreased through the aging process. How theymade this measurement may appear to some readers to be heartless, but the bestway to gauge the endurance of a rat is to toss it into a five gallon bucket of coldwater and see how long it swims before it drowns. Under these conditions, theresearcher can be absolutely confident that the rat does its very best to stay alive. Young healthy rats can swim for 45 minutes in 50° Fahrenheit water before
drowning. Old rats can only last about 15 minutes. And old rats swim differently,less efficiently, with their lower bodies more or less vertical, sort of dog paddling.But when old rats were fed pantothenic acid at a very high dose for a few weeksbefore the test, they swam 45 minutes too. And swam more efficiently, like theyoung rats did. More interestingly, their coats changed color (the gray went away)and improved in texture; they began to appear like young rats. And the rats onmegadoses of B 5 lived lot longer—25 to 33 percent longer than rats not on largedoses of B
5. Does that mean “megadoses” of B 5 have an unknown drug-like
effect? Or does that mean the real nutritional requirement for B 5 is a lot higher
than most people think? I believe the second choice is correct. To give you anidea of how much B
5 the old rats were given in human terms, the FDA says the
minimum daily requirement for B 5 is about 10 milligrams but if humans took as
much B 5 as the rats, they would take about 750 milligrams per day. Incidentally, I
figure I am as worthy as any lab rat and take over 500 milligrams daily. My point is that there is a big difference between preventing a gross vitamin
deficiency disease, and using vitamins to create optimum functioning. Any sickperson or anyone with a health complaint needs to improve their overallfunctioning in any way that won’t be harmful over the long term. Vitamin therapycan be an amazingly effective adjunct to dietary reform and detoxification. Some of the earlier natural hygienists were opposed to using vitamins. However, these doctors lived in an era when the food supply was better, whenmass human degeneration had not proceeded as far as it has today. From theirperspective, it was possible to obtain all the nutrition one needed from food. Inour time this is unlikely unless a person knowingly and intelligently producesvirtually all their own food on a highly fertile soil body whose fertility is maintainedand adjusted with a conscious intent to maximize the nutritive content of the food.Unfortunately, ignorance of the degraded nature of industrial food seems toextend to otherwise admirable natural healing methods such as Macrobiotics andhomeopathy because these disciplines also downplay any need for foodsupplementation. Vitamins For Young Persons And Children
Young healthy people from weaning through their thirties should also take
nutritional supplements even though young people usually feel so good that theyfind it impossible to conceive that anything could harm them or that they evercould become seriously sick or actually die. I know this is true because Iremember my own youth and besides, why else would young people so glibly ridemotorcycles or, after only a few months of brainwashing, charge up a hill into thebarrel of a machine gun. Or have unsafe sex in this age of multiple venerealdiseases. Until they get a little sense, vitamin supplements help to counteract theirinevitable and unpreventable use of recreational foods. Vitamins are the cheapestlong life and health insurance plan now available. Parents are generally verysurprised at the thought that even their children need nutritional supplements; very
few healthy children receive them. A few are given extra vitamin C when acutely
ill, when they have colds or communicable diseases such as chicken pox. Young people require a low dose supplement compared to those of us middle-
aged or older, but it should be a broad formula with the full range of vitamins andminerals. Some of the best products I have found over 25 years of research andexperimentation with young people are Douglas Cooper’s “Basic Formula” (lowdose and excellent for children) and “Super T Formula” (double the dose of BasicFormula, therefore better for adolescents and young adults), also from DouglasCooper Company; Bronson’s “Vitamin and Mineral Formula for Active Men andWomen” and Bronson’s “Insurance Formula.” “Vitamin 75 Plus;” and “Formula2” from Now Natural Foods are also good and less costly. Healthy very small children who will swallow pills can take these same
products at half the recommended dose. If they won’t swallow pills the pills canbe blended into a fruit smoothie or finely crushed and then stirred into applesauce. There are also “Children’s Chewable Multi-Vitamins + Iron” (1-5 yearsold) from Douglas Cooper that contains no minerals except iron, Bronson’s“Chewable Vitamins” (make sure it is the one for small children, Bronson makesseveral types of chewables) and a liquid vitamin product from Bronson calledMultivitamin Drops for Infants. These will be a little more costly than cutting pillsin half. There is also an extraordinarily high quality multivitamin/mineral formula for
children called “Children’s Formula Life Extension Mix” from Prolongevity, Ltd.(the Life Extension Foundation), it is in tablet form, and slightly more expensive. I hope that my book will be around for several generations. The businesses
whose vitamin products I recommend will not likely exist in twenty years. Evensooner than that the product names and details of the formulations will almostcertainly be altered. So, for future readers discovering this book in a library ordusty shelve of a used book store, if I, at my current level of understanding, weremanufacturing a childrens and young adults vitamin formula myself, this is what it
would contain. Any commercial formulation within 25 percent of these figures plus
or minus would probably be fine as long as the vitamins in the pills were of highquality. Vitamin C 500 mg B
1 30 mg
Vitamin E 50 iu B 2 30 mg
Vitamin A 500 iu B 3 niacinamide 100 mg
Vitamin D 25 iu B 5 50 mg
Magnesium 100 mg B 6 30 mg
Calcium 400 mg B 12 30 mcg
Selenium 10 mcg Chromium 20 mcgManganese 2 mcg Biotin 30 mg
Zinc 5 mg Iodine (as kelp) 5 mg
PABA


 world of infinite possibilities. It’s the
active side of infinity where intentions manifest. Stephanie was five years old when she came down with meningitis and
had to have both of her legs amputated. Today at age 12, she rides her own
bicycle and has dreams that go way beyond those of most teenagers who
possess all of their limbs. Her personal slogan is: Push to the limit. After two major heart operations while just a toddler, the doctors told
little Frankie’s parents that they could do no more. Frankie lived only
because she was on a life-support machine. When her parents were advised
to have the machine turned off because Frankie couldn’t survive and would
only suffer, they finally agreed. But Frankie survived. She was somehow on
the active side of the world of infinite possibilities. The caption beneath her
photo says it all: You didn’t think you could get rid of me that easily, did
you? The power of intention involves staying on the active side of infinite
possibilities. George Bernard Shaw, who was still creating into his 90s, has
been quoted as saying, “You see things as they are and you say, ‘Why?’ But
I dream things that never were, and I say ‘Why not?’” Think of Shaw’s
words as you practice staying on the active side of infinity and seeing the
infinite possibilities that are available to all of us. A sense of awe. You have to admit that just the concept of infinity is
awesome. No beginning. No ending. Everywhere at once. No time. And all
of it here and now. The fact that you’re a part of this infinite universe and
that you emerged into the finite is mind-boggling. It defies description. The
active side of infinity inspires a sense of awe. When you’re in a state of
awe, you’re in a persistent state of gratitude. Perhaps the surest way to
happiness and fulfillment in life is to thank and praise your Source for
everything that happens to you. Then, even when a calamity arises, you can
be assured that you’ll turn it into a blessing. In the inactive side of infinity, you assume that you’re only here
temporarily, and therefore you have no obligation to the universe, the
planet, or its inhabitants. By denying your infinite nature, you move through
life taking everyday miracles for granted. As you become acquainted with
your eternal nature, you have a very different point of view. You’re in a
persistent state of gratitude for all that shows up. This state is the secret to
fulfilling your own individual human intentions, and without it, all of your
most sincere efforts will amount to naught. Being in a state of gratitude actually creates magnetism, and of course, a
magnet draws things to itself. By giving authentic thanks for all the good
you now have, as well as the challenges, through this magnetism you’ll start
the flow of more good into your life. Every successful person I know is
grateful for everything they have. This process of giving thanks opens the
door for more to come. It’s how being in active infinity works. Your sense
of awe at all of the miracles you see around you allows you to think, see,
and live more of these miraculous occurrences. In contrast, a state of
ingratitude stops the infinite flow of abundance and health. It’s a door
closer. A sense of humility. The active side of infinity fosters a sense of
humility. When humility enters your soul, you know that you’re not alone in
this world, because you sense the heart of the power of intention, which is
in each and everyone of us. To quote the Talmud, “Even if you be otherwise
perfect, you fail without humility.” When you embrace the active side ofinfinity, you’re looking at something so enormous that your little ego is
dwarfed in the process. You’re looking out at forever, and your little life is
but a tiny parenthesis in eternity. One of the reasons for so much contemporary depression and ennui is the
inability to see ourselves connected to something greater and more
important than our own puny egos. Young people whose primary focus is
on their possessions, their appearance, their reputations with their peers—in
short, their own egos—have very little sense of humility. When the only
thing you have to think about is yourself and how you appear to others,
you’ve distanced yourself from the power of intention. If you want to feel
connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will
only be found in service to others, and in being connected to something far
greater than your body/mind/ego. I always told my young clients in counseling who were desperate for
approval from their peers that the more they chase after approval, the more
they’ll be disapproved of because no one wants to be around those who beg
for approval. People who receive the most approval are unconcerned about
it. So, if you really want approval, stop thinking about yourself, and focus
on reaching out and helping others. The active side of infinity keeps you
humble. The inactive side of infinity keeps you focused on me, me, me, and
ultimately is a roadblock to your connection to intention. Wilhelm Stekel made a remarkable comment on the importance of
humility (which was quoted by J. D. Salinger in Catcher in the Rye). Stekel
wrote: “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a
cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for
one.”

A sense of generosity. If asked, Why do you give us light and warmth? I
believe that the sun would answer, It’s my nature to do so. We must be like
the sun, and locate and dispense our giving nature. When you’re on the
active side of infinity, giving is your nature. The more you give of yourself, no matter how little, the more you open
the door for life to pour in. This not only compensates you for your gift, italso increases the desire to give, and consequently the ability to receive as
well. When you’re on the inactive side of infinity, you view life in terms of
shortages, and hoarding becomes a way of living. Generosity, as well as the
inclination to reach your intentions, is lost when you think in these terms. If
you can’t see an infinite universe, with infinite supply, and infinite time and
an infinite Source, you’ll be inclined to hoard and be stingy. The power of
intention is paradoxically experienced through what you’re willing to give
to others. Intention is a field of energy, which is emanating in infinite
supply. What can you give if you don’t have money to give? I love Swami
Sivananda’s advice, and I encourage you to consider it here. Everything that
he suggests, you own in infinite amounts. The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to your self, respect;
to all men, charity. Make giving a way of life. It is, after all, what Source and nature do
eternally. I’ve heard it said about nature that trees bend low with ripened
fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble men bow graciously. This is
the way of generous things. A sense of knowing. Your infinite Source of intention has no doubt. It
knows, and consequently it acts upon that knowing. This is what will
happen for you when you live on the active side of infinity. All doubt flies
out of your heart forever. As an infinite being in a temporary human form,
you’ll identify yourself primarily on the basis of your spiritual nature.This sense of knowing that comes from the active side of infinity means
that you no longer think in terms of limits. You are the Source. The Source
is unlimited. It knows no boundaries; it’s endlessly expansive, and endlessly
abundant. This is what you are, too. Discarding doubt is a decision to
reconnect to your original self. This is the mark of people who live self-
actualized lives. They think in no-limit, infinite ways. One of the no-limit
qualities is the ability to think and act as if what they’d like to have is
already present. This is another one of my ten secrets for success and inner
peace in the book of the same title. The power of intention is so doubt-
deficient that when you’re connected to it, your sense of knowing sees what
you’d like to have as already present. There are no contrary opinions
whatsoever. Here’s my advice for accessing the power of intention: Stay on the active
side of the infinite, where all of the energy for creation exists in everlasting
supply. Night and day, dream of what you intend to do and what you intend
to be, and those dreams will interpret your intentions. Let no doubt into
your dreams and intentions. The dreamers are the saviors of the world. Just
as the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so too do the
manifestations of man find nourishment in the visions of our solitary
dreamers. Be one of those dreamers. A sense of passion. The Greeks have given us one of the most beautiful
words of our language: enthusiasm. The word enthusiasm translates to “a
God within.” Within you is an


 electrolytes all out of
whack if you don’t consciously
drink more. -A simple, delicious, way to put
a stop to diarrhea is pineapple. Pineapple contains bromelain,
which helps relieve digestive
discomfort as it breaks down hard
to digest proteins (hence why
pineapple is used to make meat
tender) and lessen inflammation
in the irritated colon. Studies
suggest that it may help diarrhea
especially in cases related to
E. coli. If you suffer from IBS, it
can help with inflammation, gas,
and other discomforts as well. However, there’s always too much
of a good thing, and pineapple
can also worsen diarrhea if eaten
in excess. -Avoid dairy like the plague, it’s
quite hard to digest even at full
health, and your body doesn’t
need the extra strain or irritation. Rice, Carrot, and Potato
-If you find the mixture too dry or
bland, soften the veggies in a little
bit of broth, chicken or otherwise,
and pour that over the rice as well. For some more variety, add in
some celery as well. 69Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingIt doesn’t sound like it would help with diarrhea, but it actually has a long history of use in Sweden, with
doctors “prescribing” it for patients who are afflicted. This is one I didn’t know of until recently, but I find it quite
fascinating, and love that there are some theories to back it up. Blueberries contain tannins, the same stuff in
wine that makes your mouth feel dry. They are natural astringents, contracting tissue and reducing inflammation. Both of those things are desperately needed when things aren’t passing through you quite right. They also have
substances that are antibacterial in nature (anthocyanosides) which are helpful if the upset is being caused by
bacteria, especially E. coli. Finally, they contain pectin, a water soluble fiber, and you get fluids.Dried Blueberry Soup
-2-3 cups of water
-1 cup of dried blueberries,
gently crushed
-A pot1. Gently crush the dried blueberries and add to 2-3 cups of water in a
pot over medium heat. 2. Bring almost to a boil and then reduce to a gentle simmer for 5-10
minutes. Pour into a mug like tea and enjoy 1-2 times daily, ideally
leaving the solids in and eating them as well. Y ou can also eat like soup. 70Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DiarrheaY ou will need… DirectionsCarob flour (or powder) sounds a little exotic, but you should find it in the baking aisle or health food section. It is
made from the dried, ground, pods of the carob tree that grow in the Mediterranean, and has been a traditional
treatment for soothing an upset tummy. It is very rich in pectin, that soluble fiber that acts as a binding substance
(it’s what makes gelatin become semi-solid, if you need a visual.) Stash some in the pantry to have in case of
emergency. Mixing it with water helps it go down and gets some extra fluid into you, while a little pinch of salt is
always good when you are losing electrolytes. Feel free to leave out the salt if you are watching sodium intake.Carob Flour, Water & Salt
-2-3 tablespoons of carob flour
-A ½-1 cup of water
-A pinch of salt1. Mix up carob flour, water, and salt in a glass and drink the whole thing. Y ou can do this as often as needed, but I would recommend 2-3 times a
day. 71Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DiarrheaY ou will need… DirectionsCarrot is another good source of pectin, and white rice is wonderful at binding, so much so that too much can
cause constipation. The starchy grain absorbs liquid and is high in soluble fiber-the same goes for potato, which
is quite starchy and also easily digested. Making up this bland meal is a good way to get solid food into your
body while simultaneously slowing down or, hopefully, stopping diarrhea. Cooked Carrot, Potato & Rice
-1 carrot, peeled
-1/2-1 potato, peeled
-White rice
-Broth1. Peel and dice the carrot and potato, and cook until the veggies are
soft. 2. Put over the top of a bowl of cooked white rice. Mixing a little chicken
broth into the rice can make it less “dry” and add some different flavor if
you find you need something extra to get it down. 72Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com DiarrheaY ou will need… DirectionsI have an incredibly vivid memory from a time when I was about 5 or
6 years old,  standing in my mom’s upstairs work space, most likely
snooping out the TV that was tucked away there until my sister and I
were given permission to watch it. One moment I was fine, the next my
whole world went silent. A little bit of sound trickled back as I wobbled
down the stairs, and I remember going up to my mom and saying “mom
I can’t hear anything” with my voice so weirdly far away and muffled. Y ou may have guessed by now, given the title of this chapter, that I had
an ear infection. Ear infections are one of the most common causes of
ear aches, especially in children, but to fully understand ear aches, you
must first know about a marvelous little body part called the Eustachian
tube. The Eustachian tube is a narrow channel that lies in the middle
ear and connects to the back of the throat, just above the soft palate,
allowing fluid to drain into the back of the throat to be swallowed. It
also maintains equal air pressure across the tympanic membrane, more
commonly known as the eardrum, so it can freely vibrate in response to
sound waves. Normally the Eustachian tube lies collapsed to protect the middle ear
from germs lurking in our noses and mouths, but sometimes it becomes
narrowed, or blocked, and fluid begins to build up in the ear. Anything
from allergies, to colds, to the excess mucus and saliva produced while
a baby teethes, can contribute to the blockage and fluid build-up. While
the fluid does not usually cause pain on its own, it can make hearing
hard because it inhibits the movement of the eardrum. It also creates
the perfect environment for an ear infection, which will hurt. When there
is fluid build-up bacteria gets easily trapped in the fluid, and begins to
multiply. The middle ear gets inflamed and painful and you wind up with
an earache. These remedies focus on relieving the pain and discomfort. While there are some natural remedies that may help get rid of bacteria
in the ear, I am not knowledgeable enough about them to recommend
anything internal. Earache
-Little ones are more prone to
ear infections because their
Eustachian tubes are floppier,
narrower, and more horizontal
than ours, making it easy for
bacteria to enter and get trapped. The fact that they get the sniffles
all the time doesn’t help either. 73Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingThese four essential oils create a potent pain-killing blend that will relieve acute adult earaches. For children
over the age of 5 years, this recipe may be used at a 3-5% dilution. This recipe is at a 10% dilution for adults-it is
stronger than other blends because of the nature of earaches. Note that this should NEVER be dripped directly
into the ear canal.Ache Relief Blend
For adults:
-4 drops of lavender oil
-2 drops of peppermint oil
-5 drops of tea tree oil
-5 drops of eucalyptus oil
-1 tablespoon of any liquid oil
For children over the age of
5 years:
-4 drops of tea tree oil
-2 drops of lavender oil
-1 tablespoon of any liquid oil1. Mix your essential oils with your carrier oil, and rub behind ears, and
into the sides and back of the neck. Y ou will probably have some left
over, in which case store it in an appropriate container. 74Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com EaracheY ou will need… DirectionsHeat alone in the form of a warm washcloth or something of the like will do wonders for an earache, but go one
step further and add an onion to the equation. Antibacterial with anti-inflammatory properties, onions can be an
enormous help when it comes to earaches.Onion Steam Treatment
-1 yellow onion
-a jar1. Place onion in a 350 degree oven until nice and warm or easily
punctured. 2. After you’ve removed it from the oven, cut it in half and place one half
of it in a glass jar and prick a few holes in it to release the steam. 3. Rest your ear over the opening of the jar for 10-15 minutes. If tilting
your head downwards is painful, you can also lie on your side and hold
the jar against your ear. It’s fine if the onion is touching your ear; just
make sure to prepare an explanation if someone asks why your head
smells like an onion. Repeat with the other half if needed. 75Copyright 201


 the mesentery without causing tissue in·
jury. The electrodes in the aorta and the vena cava
were introduced through vascular catheters. A small
glass partition was used as a support for the mesentery
(plastic material was unsuitable as it easily produced
spontaneous diapedetic bleedings ). After 1.2 cou
lombs were applied, pieces of the mesenteries were
excised, ftxed in formalin, stained (haematoxylin -eo
sin) and examined microscopically. The relative appearances of small arteries and veins,
arterioles, venules and capillaries could now be in
spected.. While it is evident that results from instanta
neous and prolonged exposure of vessels to electric
fields may differ, the actual results are nonetheless
informative. In general, small arteries appeared empty and often
very narrow compared to the accompanying relatively
wide veins, which contained large amounts of granulo
cytes. This tendency was present in all four combioa-
138 Biologically closed electric circuits Fig. XII: 23. Regional contractions were commonly ob
served in smaU arteries (A) exposed to an electric field. Sometimes a small vein (V) appeared slightly narrower than
the accompanying artery as seen in this figure. Mesentery of
dog, haematoxylin..eosin. tions of polarity and electrode positions (Fig. XII: 24). Around the mesenteric anode, granulocytes accumu
lated in veins in increasing number up to the electrode
and even beneath it. Around the mesenteric cathode,
an area ofaboun 10-15 mm in diameter was completely
free of cellular elements in the arteries and veins. Immediate ly peripheral to the cell-free zone, granulo
cytes were collected in veins in increasing amounts up
to the cell-free zone. The locations of granulocytes and the relative cali
bres of arterioles, capillaries and venules are illustrated
in Fig. XII: 25. These studies showed a clear tendency
in all four combinations of polarity and electrode posi
tion. The arterioles and arterial portions of capillaries
were all narrow and empty of blood cells in regions of
variable size. The corresponding venules and venous
capillaries were wide and contained occasionally large
amounts of granulocytes. These cells also appeared
often in the in~erst itial tissue. In three experime nts in dogs, two 4 x4 mm plati
num electrodes were placed 2.5 em from each other
against the mesentery. These experiments showed the
same tendency as the previous experiments with re
gard to the calibre of arterioles, capillaries and venules
and to the local accumulat ion of granulocytes. Even
after application of voltages between the electrodes of
as lillie as 100 mV (10 pA, 30 minutes, 0.018 cou
lombs), granulocytes collected selectively in small
veins, venules and venous capillaries (Fig. XII: 26). 4. Selective distribution of granulocytes in a
closed circuit
How is it possible that granulocytes accumulate in
veins, venules and venous capillaries when corre
sponding small arteries, arterioles and arterial capillar-.-..·
•... ; '...._.......
~·.. " Fig. XII: 24. Overview of dog rruosenteries with different
electrode positions and polarities, each exposed to 1.2 cou
lombs at 5 V between the electrodes. In each of the electrode
combinations smallan.eries were empty of blood cells. Small
vcins contained varying degrees of increased numbers of
granulocytes outside a cell·free zone around the electronega -
ies are narrow and empty of blood cells? This problem
is further considered in Chapter XIV, Sections 1-K,
where an alternative theory to so-called chemotactic
accumulation of leukocytes and charged compounds in
tissue is presented. A preliminary brief explanation
will be given in this connection. tivc mesenteric electrode (a and,) and directJy up tO lhe elec
tropositive mesenteric electrode (band t!). A = "small" arte
ries, V = "small" veins (approx. 0.1 mm in diameter ). M.es • mesentery, Ao • aorta, V. cava • vena cava inferior. Scale same in each view. Haematoxylin-c os-in. All mammalian cells, including blood cells, are
known to carry a surplus of fixed electronegative
charges on their surfaces (79). Under the inllue.nce of
an electric field of suitable strength in relation to the
charged cells, and considering the factors of cell size,
steric characteristics of cellular charges and matr~x
Biologically closed electric circuits 139 ~';.-··.. -. \,~. -....... "...
'.,. -·. '....,, -..
~
Fig. XII: 25. Distribution of granulocytes in four different
combinations of electrode posidons ~nd combinations of vol·
tagcs in dog mesentery. In each combination arterioles and
arteda_l capillaries (Ac) are e.mpty and narrow while the ven·
140 BiologicaUy closed electric circuits •. \,..'-.........
ulcs and \'enous capillaries (Vc) arc relatively wide ~md con·
tain granulocytc.-s, some of which also appear in the dssue. Mcs ;s; mesentery, Ao:;:; aorta, V. cava= vena cava inferior. Scale same ln each ''iew. HaematOx yJin.eosin. •.... Fig. XII: 26. Meoentery of dog. Narrow small anery (A) is
vinually empty of cells and widened small ••ein (V) contains
selectively accumulated granulocytes peripheral to the zone
free of cells around the cathode. Anode positioned on the
mesentery 3 em away from the cathode. 100 mV, IO!lA, 30
minutes, 0.018 coulombs. Haematoxylin-eosin. properties oftissue, the charged cells will be attracted or
repelled depending on the polarity of the electric field. The electronegative granulocytes will consequently be at
tracted to an anode and repelled by a cathode like any
charged particle in an electrophoretic process. This pro
cess requires an activated closed electric circuit, which
in the present experiments was created by an external
source of electric power, cables, electrodes and the
conducting media in the tissue. We are therefore still
only simulating the existence of a BCEC in our experi
ments. This is one of the reasons we must wait until
later (Chapters XIV, XVI) for discussion of bow gran
ulocytes can accumulate electrophoreticaUy over an
endogenou s, activated closed circuit (the VICC). The accumulation of granulocytes in vessels toward
the anode, positioned against the mesentery, is readily
explained as an electrophoretic attraction of the granu
locytes. Around the cathode, however, electronegative
particles and cells should be repelled. A cell-free zone
was therefore also regularly observed around the cath
ode. Nevertheless, outside this zone large amounts of
granulocytes accumulated in ves.els (Fig. Xll: 21\). The mechanism of this phenomenon is explained in
Chapter XIV (and illustrated in Fig. XIV: 18). 5. Mechanisms of regional contraction of
arterioles and arterial capillaries
Is there any mechanism which can explain the local
regions of field induced contractions of small arteries,
arterioles and arterial capillaries while corresponding
venous vessels are wide? The capillaries, small vessels
arteries and veins are provided with nerve fibres which
evidently offer one possibility for neurogenous im
pulses of contraction. Another or an as$0datcd mecha
nism may be connected to the pericytes, which fur
thermore are described to be involved in the contrac-
ll-814586 NorrkJUtmm tion of capillaries. We may now focus our attention to
the remarkable fact that pericytes are sparsely found in
the lungs and in the vessels of very small animals (78). Let us anticipate that the pericytes are involved in a
mechanism of segmental small vessel contractions in
duced by electric fields of a closed circuit (identified as
a VICC system). In this case pericytes should not
cover the entire capillary net as this should jeopardize
a segmental mode of contractions. Consequently, pos
sibilities of modulating selective closed circuit, "long·
or short-distance" electrogenic transports should not
be possible (see also Fig. Xll: 30a). Small animals as
the shrew (smallest mammal, weight 2 g) should need
very few pericytes because their