hospital at Nagpur. His blood and urine were tested. They declared
that Subhash had no cancer at all. He now hale and hearty...
Important lnstuctions for Cancer Treatment : In a case of
cancer urine treatment should be adopted with proper consideration
of the nature of the patient and his capacity for taking urine.
Whereas in other diseases urine treatment can be undertaken
gradually, in cancer it should be begun immediately. This is so due
to the fact that growth in cancer is very quick. Besides this, the
patient may have pain and pus in his ears and acute, intolerabel
headache. To get relief from that unbearable pain the patient even
during the course of urine treatment is tempted to take some
soomthing tablets or medicine. The patient should not invite more
misery and make urine treatent ineffective by taking such medicines.
\ CASES OE. CANCE~ : 111
In addition to rubbing and drinkig, the patient of cancer should
observe the following treatments :
1. Wash the ears gently by pouring urine among them through a
syringe; put a few drops in ea,:-h 0f them and then plug them with
cotton soaked in urine. This should be doen twice a day.
2. Keep continuously the cloth-packs of urine on the head. (It
would be better if the head is shaved before doing so.)
3. Have mouth-wash with fresh urine twice or thrice a day. This
should be done by thorough gargling.
4. If cancer be on tongue, it should be rubbed repeatedly with a
~loth-piece soaked in urine.
. 5. Put hot-urine packs on the tumour or growth and thus foment
the affected portion.
6. Drink the entire urine passed during the fast period and desist
from any diet, fruits or juices. There is nothing to be alarmed if
vomiting or loose motions start during the days of fast. The contents
of vomiting and stools should be observed and noted carefully
without any nausea. As the filth is cleared off, vomiting and loose
motions will automatically cease. The fast may be terminated the
next day and no urine need be taken on that day. The quantity of
food may be gradually increased as the digestive power recovers
and normal diet can be resumed i 11 course of time.
After the fast till the full strenght is not regained the patient is
advised to take three ounces of urine once or twice a day; similarly
rubbing and dieting should be continued. A patient of cancer must
not use salt at all till complete recovery is made.
AFTERMATH OF CASES
1. Kaviraj Kaushik Jira of Firozpur district (Punjab) is a popular 112 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
Vaidya. He has developed deep interest and fa1th.n urine therapy
after reading the Hindi. translation of Manav Mutra. He has used this
therapy on a number of patients, suffering from not only cancer and
leprosy but other dangerous diseases also. Here is related a case of
cancer cured by.him by urine therapy alone. Sant Kalasinhji aged
seventy-five suffered from asthma. 'Thereafter he used to get blood
,pJong with cough. Doctors opined tnat it was due to the cancer of
throat and it emitted very bad smell. Urine~soaked cotton was
applied on the wound, and was changed every three hours. He got
some relief. He was given urine to drink under a pretext. After two
months blood stopped. Doctors opined that he was fully cured.
2. A harijan Woman named Zando was emitting blood through
mouth even in ordinary cough. She was hospitalized more than
once but with no improvement. doctors opined that she had
developed the cancer of throat. She was then given urine treatment
under pretext for three days. Blood stopped at once. After coming to
realize the remedy, she drank urine willingly and rubbed it on her
chest for 40 days and could cure herself com~letely. She is now
quite hale and hearty.
3. Shri chhabildas Champaneria is a resident of Bulsar and is
aged sixty-two. He developed throat cancer in 1962 when hewas in
Africa. His throat was quite sore. He quite knew the usalessl'less of
allopathic treatment in caru:er. So he began with urine tlllerq;pycon
2:2-9-62. He used to dr·ink auto-urine three tifl'les a day aRd ap.p.¥y
u:rin~... pa~ks on the throat-tumour and put udne-4rops in the eal'~· rn
one month he completely cured himself of cane.er.
4. Shri Pukhraj Kucheria informs from Daman (Dist. Bulsar) that
he app~ied ufine treatment on two patient of canc;er and T.B. and
he could ~chieve suc;c.ess i r:1 both the cases.
5. Shri Umacharan Sarsvati (Vidtage"SJnhpur, Narasinhpur, M.P.)
writes that he applied urine therapy on himself for manY ailments CASES OF CANCER : 113
like loss of hunger, baldness, and eyNroubles. He cured his village
friends and could get rid of T.B. asthma and stomach ailments.
6. Shri Viren Shah (Shivaji Cutlery Mart, Dadar, Bombay 2) cured
his uncle's cancer by urine therapy and could cure arthritis of his
friend by the same method.
7. Shri Morarbhai R. Patel (Akoti, Bardoli) writes that he had
cancer on his right lung. He could cure it by urine treatment.
8. Shri Maganbhai K. Vaidya (Amalsad) states that he cured two
cancer-patients by urine treatment.
Shri Dinubhai R. Joshi (Advocate, Bombay High court) made a
statment in Malad Seminar on urine therapy that on his advice a
friend was cured of his stomach cancer, another of his throat cancer
and some friends of their small or big ailments by urine therapy. He
emphasized the fact that there were many a people who take
advantage of this therapy but do not dare to declare its benefits
openly.
Cancer of the Womb : Shri Hans relates a case of the cancer of
womb. A wife of small factory~owner had a small child and to avoid
another pregnancy she had inserted a loop. She had leucorrhoea
and so the after-effect of loop was very serious. She had now the
cancer of the womb. There was no benefit from doctor·s"ffeat~~f.
So she undertook urine treatment. She drank auto~urihe as well as
massaged her back and abdomen and. a douche of nim
leaves-boiled urine was given in the vagina. It was given twice a
day. In 40 days she was completely cured. CHAPTER IX
GROWTHS
Some people suffer from hard boils when young or grown up.
These are due to either T.B. or cancer. Sometimes they are
non-malignant and cause swelling on the face and eye~ also. If
these growths are interfered with by injections and operat1ons ~nd
are not cured at an early stage with simple treatments, they turn mto
cancer.
Shri juthabhai Amarsi Shah, a resident of Harjian Ashram,
Sabarmati, has a 14 years old son, Bharat by name. Some hard boils
appeared on both sides of his throat. He could drink even water
wit:, difficulty due to the swelling in the mouth. The doctc~ could.
not give him medicine fearing that the tonsils may be ~ipe ~nd ma~
burst within the throat causing risk of life. He, therefore, adv1sed Shn
juthabhai to take the boy to Dr. Suman shah but he was not easily
available in time. So the father and son returned home.~
Shri Juthabhai had read the Water of Life-the famous book by
Armstrong. He advised this treatment to his son. Father1s sensible
talks appealed to the son and he agreed to giv~ it a. tria.l. On. the
first day, Bharat very reluctantly took some of h1s unne ~~ a smgle
draught but vomited at once due to rausea and some unne came
out with it. However, he felt less pain on that day. Next day he
t.1ok urine In larger quantity. There was no vomiting and had more
relief. Consequently. he became hopeful of cure. On ~he. third ~ay,
he took six to ten ounces of urine without any hes1tat1on w1thm
thrE:e days of-urine treatment, he was completely.relieved of pain.
However he continued the t·eatment for four to s1x days r:nore and
on sixth 'day the hard boils en both sides of his throat disappeared.
This successful end made both the father and the son confirmed
votaries of urine therapy.
114 STOMACH DISEASES :


  was
as alive ten years later  as on that day,  and as healthy." (Extract from
Naturopath  and  Herald  of Health) Nevertheless  these  facts are not
made known  to the general public, nor do those who urge members  of
the community  to be immunized  against this  or that disease inform
them that  not all doctors are in favour of such measures,  being of the
opinion that vaccines and  serums may  later  on produce chronic
afflictions,  not the least of which  is heart disease.
 65
 CHAPTER  X.
FEVERS: MALARIA  AND OTHERS
Case of a mysterious  fever, which  occurs in Africa but is rare in England.

Patient, young lady of 17.  Mysteriously  stricken.  Very  weak.
Temperature  105. M.D.  called  in said if recovery took place at all, the
victim  would be ill for six months and  then would be nine months
convalescent.  Patient's father‐a believer in urine‐therapy‐sent for me.
At first  I found the victim  difficult to deal with, but she finally consented
to a urine‐fast  plus plain water. On the sixth day after she had  been
stricken, her temperature  was still 105, and  she was growing rapidly
emaciated,  her urine being thick, foul and  concentrated.  But twenty‐
four hours  after starting my treatment  the temperature  had dropped  to
101 and the urine was clearer. In three days the temperature  was down
to 97, and in five days to 95. Patient bright  and lively‐all was going well.
Doctor much puzzled. Fast was broken at the end of 18 days. The
patient's skin was as clear as that of a child. Within a few days of
breaking the fast  she was up and  doing and feeling perfectly  well.  She
continued  the use  of her own urine and  has thrived upon it. Some
sixteen years ago she married, and  had  three children in the first ten
years.
Malaria.
This in an infectious  disease characterised  by paroxysms  of intermittent
fever, each consisting  of a cold, a hot and  a perspiring  stage. Between
the paroxysms  the  victim  appears comparatively  well.  According  to 66
 Materia  Medica all forms of malaria  are due  to parasites living in the
blood. Mosquitoes  are infected by sucking human  blood  and  in turn
infect human beings by biting them.  The troublesome  and  distressing
feature  of malaria‐which  the allopaths treat (suppress)  with quinine‐is
that when once  contracted  it occurs again and  again, for under  the
usual orthodox treatment  it merely  goes into latency instead of being
totally eradicated.  Under  urine‐therapy,  however,  it is cured once  and
for all. So far I have  never had  a case which  did not clear up in 10 days
or less by dint  of fasting on urine and plain water.
Mr. Q. Athletic type. Very  temperate  and a small eater. Contracted
malaria out East. 'Had it for three  years. During the year before I saw
him in 1920 had suffered from thirty‐six attacks.  He dosed  himself
regularly with quinine. Finally cured himself  completely  with a urine‐
fast  lasting ten days. No more  quinine. Has never had  another  attack,
and  has kept in fine health by adhering to his temperate  habits and
freely  partaking  of the "water of life. "
Blackwater  Fever.
Case related to me by the erstwhile  victim.  Army man  (Major) found by
natives in the backwoods  to be in a state of delirium due to blackwater
fever. They  cured him by fasting him for 10 days, by the applyin f packs
and  by inducing him to take his own urine, and  plain water. I mention
this to stress that I am not the discoverer  of urine‐therapy.
In this chapter I have limited myself to reciting only one case  history of
the various  fevers mentioned,  merely  because to do otherwise  would
be to enlarge  the bulk  of this book to unwieldly  proportions.  I will now 67
 conclude with some remarks about fever in general,  and acute diseases
attended with fever.
When doctors  try to bring down a patient's temperature  by unnatural
means, they  are frustrating  Nature  and  may  be endangering  the
patient's life, or at best laying up seeds for future troubles. A fever is
really a curative process on the part of Nature  to burn  up certain toxins
in the body.  Oh yes, we hear of the "miraculous"  ternperature‐ reducing
effects of wonder  drugs for pneumonia,  but we do not hear so much of
the many people who die of heart‐trouble after the fever has been thus
miraculously  cured! Experience  has taught  me that there  is only one
safe way to treat a fever, which, being a curative process, is neither
incurable  nor need prove  fatal if rightly handled. The modus  operandi
will by now have become so familiar  to the reader that it need not be
repeated here. I need merely  say that not only have I never  seen a
failure with the urine‐fast  plus tap water therapy  (all the urine  passed
should be drunk) but that the fall of temperature  has taken place  withir
any time from 36 to 72 hours, followed by complete  recovery within a
few days.
As to why the urine is so thick, foul and  scanty in cases


 email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frgeneral malaise. On the tongue the white patina
settles at a growing rhythm, the tongue and lips
become dry, mucus is felt on the teeth, the brea th
smells like acetone, the skin becomes pale and
dry, the sense of hunger and thirst are both con-
siderably. A general sense of malaise is the result
of the accumulation of toxins in the blood. At
this moment the patient may feel an internal
heat in the body, which comes  from the organ-
ism triggering its mechanisms of neutralization
of harmful substances. But as soon as the ketone
bodies begin to be utilized, their concentration
ceases to increase. The ketone bodies are high -
energy components, therefore they act some-
what as fuel to begin the synthesis of the new
amino acids that lead to tissue regeneration. The
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and it is necessary to be ready for this.
In the initial stages of DF the state of acidotic
intoxicat ion (or acidotic crisis) may occur on the
3rd- 5th day, after the 3rd or even the 2nd day
from the beginning of the DF. The sooner the ac-
idotic crisis appears, the sooner it passes, the
longer time is left for organic renewal. The high-
est acidification peak  arises at the same time of
the crisis and this causes an acute exacerbation
of all chronic pathologies. Based on the degree of
acute aggravation, it is possible to understand
how successful the fast has been to unhook one
or the other disease and to "eradicate" it from the
body. If the acute aggravation is pronounced,
complete healing can be expected. If instead it is
weak it means that the mechanisms induced by
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problems. In that case, after some time it will be
advisable to repeat the fast to ensure that it takes
care of the residual pathologies. After the aci-
dotic crisis has "eradicated" the disease from the
body, the defense forces previously occupied in
resolving the disease are released and therefore
become m ore available overall. Hence the con-
clusion: as long as the fasting organism does not
overcome the first acidotic crisis it will not be
able to establish the healing of chronic diseases
and the increase of its immune defenses.
The third phase of the dry fast is called the
"compensation or adaptation phase". The dura-
tion of this phase is individual. On average it
starts from the 5th day of DF and ends on the
8th. At this stage there can be an improvement
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comfort. T his improvement can follow a wave
pattern. The feeling of hunger disappears com-
pletely, while thirst may increase. The duration
depends on the fat deposits present in the body.
This phase ends with the second acidotic crisis,
which takes place from the 8th  until the 11th
day.
Between the end of the first acidotic crisis until
the beginning of the second, the organism makes
reserves of vital forces. During the metabolic ac-
idosis in some people the main disease worsens,
the state of mind and health deteriorate, strength
is lost, sleep disappears and body temperature
often increases. These symptoms indicate that
fasting has begun to "eradicate" the disease.
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ysis was the only source of nutrition, during the
secon d acidotic crisis autolysis basically acts as a
natural surgeon. Therefore, to achieve a com-
plete therapeutic effect it is necessary to go
through this second crisis. To express it in fig-
urative terms, it can be said that if the first aci-
dotic crisis eliminates "the stem of the disease",
the second destroys "the root". To understand
how tumors and pathological structures are dis-
solved in a fasting organism, it is necessary to
fully understand the process of autolysis, which,
although very common in nature, it is normally
ignored by physiologists.

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   The term "autolysis" is of Greek origin and lit-
erally means "self -dissolution". Autolysis is the
ability of biological entities to decompose their
structures through a hydrolytic method thanks
to the action of enzymes and phagocytes.
To better understand this mechanism we will
examine it on the basis of examples that exist in
nature. The plant kingdom abounds with exam-
ples of autolysis, but a few will be enough for il-
lustrative purposes. All bulbs,  such as an ordi-
nary onion, contain within themselves a new
plant, surrounded by enough nourishment to
survive a period of rest during which it has no
possibility to take nutrients from soil and air.
The onion can safely germinate in a bucket or in
the bag  where it is stored. It produces shoots and
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sprouts. The bulb gradually becomes soft and at
the end turns into a wrapping for the plant. As
the plant grows, it uses up the remaining con-
tents of the bulb and as similates the shoots.
Beets, turnips and many other tubers grow in a
similar manner. They get the nutrients for
growth through the autolytic absorption of the
contents of the tuber and even when they extract
nutrients from the earth they continue to pro-
duce stems and leaves and to grow.
Humans have general reserves located in the
bone marrow, in the liver, in the blood and in the
fatty tissues, and also private reserves, available
to every single cell. All living beings can use one
or the other reserves for  their nourishment if
they cannot obtain nutrients from external
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(in case of illness, for example).
It is possible to cite many examples of autolysis,
but the ones offered are sufficient to clarify that
it is a common phenomenon. It remains to be
said that the body itself manages this process,
like all other life processes, and that autolysis is
not an uncontrolled and blind action like an ele-
phant striding through glassware.
Fasting practices provide many examples of the
organism's control over the process of autolysis.
For example, it is possible to note that body tis-
sues disappear according to the degree of their
usefulness: fats and pathological thickenings dis-
appear first and other tissues follow only aft er-
wards. Within all living things, from worms to
humans, during the fasting period different
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their weight. Usually the liver loses more weight
than other parts of the body, especially in the in-
itial period, and this is due to the loss of glycogen
and fat. The lungs lose almost no weight and the
brain and the nervous system even less. Vital or-
gans feed off of accumulated reserves and less
important tissues, which means that abstinence
from food can eventually be harmful only after
the depletion of reserves.
The organism has the ability to shift its chemi-
cal component; fasting provides many wonder-
ful examples of this. The assimilation and reor-
ganization of the parts of the organism of living
beings during a period of food absence, the di-
gestion and the redistribution of the reserves, of
the superfluous elements and of the secondary
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fasting represent one of the most wonderful phe-
nomena in biology.
The organism is  not only able to build tissues,
it is also able to destroy them. It does not only
distribute its nutritive reserves, but can also re


 in ter ms of “percentage of high-carbohydrate, high-protein, and high-fat
foods.” Given that the items raw fooders deem “high protein” (nuts and s eeds) average 75% of calories from fat, the problem
becomes apparent rather quickly.
When you follow this author’s “low-fat” guideline (“50% carbohydrate, 30 –35% protein, and 10–15% oils,”) you end up
eating about 30% fat. The high-fat version of his plan (“50% protein, 30–35% carbohydrate, an d 20–25% oils”) yields a minimum
of 60% fat. Although he acknowledges the necessity to moderate the fat con tent of “protein foods” by consuming expensive high-
protein powdered supplements, my experience is that adherents of his plan s lather on the fat with abandon, with little or no
awareness of the extent to which their diets are predominated by fat.
The table below provides another example of the misleading results we ge t when analyzing nutrient content by volume rather
than calories. Consider a salad made of just two ingredients: 6 cups of le ttuce and ¼ cup of almonds. As this table shows, the
almonds account for just 4% of the volume but—surprisingly to many— nearly 80% of the calories.

In Appendix A I provide analyses of sample meals that use real recipes  and quantities, to help you begin to get a sense of how
your daily meals stack up in terms of caloronutrient ratio.

The Bull’s Eye: 80/10/10rv
For those who choose to follow the healthiest version of 80/10/10  in order to achieve off-the-charts results in every aspect of
your well-being, we add the suffix rv, standing for “raw vegan,” to the 80/10/10  designation. Also called the “low-fat raw vegan
diet,” 80/10/10rv  presents you with the life-changing opportunity to partake exc lusively of Nature’s bounty—consuming only whole,
fresh, unprocessed and undressed plant foods in the form Mother Earth presen ts them to us.
I have eaten substantially this way and used the 80/10/10rv  program, as it has evolved, with clients for more than twenty years
—with astonishing results. This approach to diet and nutrition has p roven over that time to be the healthiest dietary regimen known
to man. By the time you finish this book, you will have the specifics you nee d to implement this program in your life.

How Close to 80/10/10 Am I?
How does 80/10/10  compare to your  caloronutrient ratio? Well, naturally, each of us is unique, but the ge neralizations are
telling. Various sources suggest that Americans consume 40 to 50% of ca lories from carbohydrates, about 16% protein, and about
35 to 45% fat. 28  After twenty years of doing dietary analysis for my clients, I have  observed that 42/16/42 is typical for most
people.
As this book explains, most of us in the U.S.—even vegetarians and veg ans—tend to gravitate toward this 42/16/42 average,
a proportion that provides far less fuel (carbohydrate) than our bodies need in order to thrive … and a seriously dangerous level of
fat.
You will also step through some calculations so that you can assess the  caloronutrient ratio of commonly consumed raw food
plans. You will see for yourself, through simple examples, something th at became apparent to me years ago: Raw fooders, for the
most part, are consuming astonishing levels of fat—sometimes twi ce that of the fast-food-eating mainstream! Naturally, cooked fat
carries with it a host of problems not present in raw fats, but high level s of either can wreak tremendous havoc with our health.
If you are new to the high-produce way of eating, consider yourself lucky t o have encountered this information early in your
quest. With this book, you can steer clear of the pitfalls that leave so man y vegetarians and raw food enthusiasts disheartened and
unsure of where to turn next. If you are a raw fooders, this book may catapult y ou into a whole new reality, as answers to long-
standing nagging questions begin to emerge. You may find light bulbs goi ng on as you begin to understand why you or your friends
may not have quite thrived as promised on this “healthiest of all diet s.”

Tracking Your Own Numbers
In Appendix D. Resources for Diet Analysis, I describe online tools and othe r resources that you can use to get a sense of
what you are eating. I encourage you to take the time to learn to use a nut rient-analysis tool, at least for a short while. Perhaps the
most important use of these automated calculators is to make sure you get  enough calories for your size and activity level. This is of
critical importance, as undereating in terms of calories is one of the  main reasons that people fail to thrive on a high-produce diet.
To keep it simple, a week or so of tracking your meals online can give you suffi cient information to begin seeing the true
composition of your diet. From there, you will be able to recognize pitfalls and s tart adjusting your caloronutrient ratio. After that,
you may want to log on and catalog a day’s consumption here and there, or as ne w foods come into season, just to make sure you
are still on track … but soon 80/10/10  will become second nature, and no such effort will be necessary.
 Relax … We’ll Get There Together
Most folks find dietary changes more challenging than almost anythi ng else in life. Many patients have come to me desperate
to solve some serious health issue, saying “Doc, I will do anything you sa y, follow any program you suggest. Just don’t mess with my
diet.”
Rare indeed (and gratifying) are the few who are so motivated to feel bet ter that they change directions on a dime. But I
acknowledge that dietary shifts are daunting for nearly everybody. Wit h this in mind, I created the 80/10/10  diet to allow everyone
to transition at a comfortable speed.
By focusing on the caloronutrient ratio (the percentage of carbohydrat es, proteins and fats), rather than on the specific foods,
this plan allows you to set your own pace. Succeeding on 80/10/10  is simply a matter of adjusting the volume of the foods you eat,
in relation to each other, to move yourself in the direction of your target. Gradually increasing healthful carbs from whole fruit and
decreasing fat will work just fine and is far better than making no cha nge at all. The results, especially when tracked with colorful
graphs on Nutridiary.com (See Appendix D. Resources for Diet Analysis  on page 332), will provide you with motivation to continue
making improvements.
Though food diaries and numerical analyses can be helpful, you do not need to buy  a food scale or log meals each day to
receive value from this book. On the pages that follow, I provide the informat ion, meal plans, and sample calculations to give you a
clear idea of how to incorporate the 80/10/10  formula into your life, with or without the high-tech tools.
Just giving conscious thought to what you eat with the caloronutrien t ratio in mind is a first step in the right direction. You can
spend as much or as little effort as you want becoming familiar with you r current diet and how it compares with the 80/10/10  plan.
Please, look to this book for inspiration and guidance toward the body and the health  you desire, but do not be discouraged.
Some people tell me that they feel overwhelmed as they become painfully  aware of how much fat they have been eating and how far
they have strayed from their goals. To those I say take heart … and relax. T he confusion will clear as we step through these pages
together.
By the time you finish reading this book, I venture to say that the road to su ccess will seem nearer and easier for you to follow.
If what you read makes sense and you are ready to take your health and your body t o new levels, simply start steering toward
80/10/10  … the results will come quickly. If you need support and more information, vis it my online discussion group, at
www.VegSource.com  (click on Raw & Sports/Graham).
Even when you have the 80/10/10  concept down to a science, you will never eat in that ratio at every meal, nor even every
day (nor should you). In reality, you will you eat more fat on some days and less  on others. The goal is to eat 80/10/10  as an
average, for an entire year or more. Once you have done that, I’d wager you w ill never look back.

Chapter 5. Carbohydrate: 80% Minimum

Nutritionists and health-minded diet professionals generally agre e that 60 to 80% of our calories need to come from carbohydrates.
Having established so far in this book that the percentage of total calori es in our diet to be provided by both fat and protein should
run in the single digits (not more than 10% each), we can


 It ispossible to buy unhulled millet, usually by special order from the health fooddistributor—if you’ll take a whole sack. Millet can be hulled at home in smallbatches. Here’s how we figured out how to do it. There probably are betterways.
Using a cheap steel-burr flour mill, set the burrs just far enough apart that the
seed is ground to coarse grits, but not flour. This pops the hulls loose. An old millwith worn-out burrs works great for this job. Then you have to get some handseed cleaning screens just large enough to pass the grits but not pass the hulls(most of them). Window screen or other hardware cloths won’t work. Seedcleaning screens come in increments of 1/128 inch; we use a 6/64" round screen.Other batches of millet might work better with a screen one step larger or smaller.It will take you a little ingenuity to find hand-held screens. They’re used by seedcompanies and farmers to clean small batches of seed for inspection and areusually about one square foot in size with a quality wooden frame. Larger framesmade of the same screening material are used in big seed cleaning machines. (Thehulls could also be winnowed out by repeatedly pouring the grit/hulls mixture backand forth between two buckets in a gentle breeze.)
After you’ve screened out most of the hulls, the rest will rinse out, floating off
as you wash the grain prior to cooking. We never hull more than enough millet fortwo or three meals and keep the uncooked (unwashed) millet in the freezer in anairtight jar. It is interesting how people will accept poor nutrition and itsconsequent sickness as the price of convenience.
If you eat much buckwheat you should also figure out how to hull (sometimes
called groating) it yourself. Someone should write a thorough book on the home
milling of cereals. And perhaps sell the equipment by mail. Probably would be agood little homestead business.
Something else you need to keep in mind about seed. Even though the
embryo’s food supply is protected by the seed coat, it still slowly deteriorates,steadily oxidizing and losing nutritional value. Eventually old seed looses the abilityto sprout. The decline in germination ability matches a decline in nutritional quality.Any seed you are going to use for eating should possess the ability to sprout,strongly and rapidly. (After you’ve comparatively sprouted a few grain samples,you’ll know what I mean by this.) Fortunately, cereal grains usually sprout well forquite a few years after harvest if they have been stored cool and dry. Eating deador near-dead seeds will help move you closer to the same condition yourself.
Finally, one more warning about buying store bread. Salt-free bread tastes
“funny” to most people. It bakes fine, salt is not necessary to the leaveningprocess, but no bakery could stay in business without salting their bread. Thestandard level of salt is two percent by weight. That is quite a lot! Two percentequals one teaspoonful per pound. I’ll have more to say about the evils of salt.
I imagine some of my readers are feeling a little overwhelmed by all these
warnings and “bewares ofs,” and intricacies. They are used to taking noresponsibility for securing their own food supply quality and have come to expectthe “system” to protect them. I believe it is not because of lack of governmentintervention, but because of government intervention itself, our food system is veryperverse. Until our mass consciousness changes, if you wish to make yourself andyour family truly healthy, you are going to have to take charge and become quite adiscriminating shopper. Unconscious consumers are on a rapid road to the totalunconsciousness of death.
And again, let me remind you here that this one small book cannot contain
everything you should know. The bibliography at the end of should become yourguide to earning your post-graduate education in nutritional health.
Freshness Of Fruits And Vegetables
Most people do not realize the crucial importance of freshness when it comes
to produce. In the same way that seeds gradually die, fruits and vegetables gothrough a similar process as their nutritional content gradually oxidizes or isbroken down by the vegetables own enzymes, but vegetables lose nutritionhundreds of times more rapidly than cereals. Produce was recently part of a livingplant. It was connected to the vascular system of a plant and with few exceptions,is not intended by nature to remain intact after being cut. A lettuce or a zucchiniwas entirely alive at the moment of harvest, but from that point, its cells begin todie. Even if it is not yet attacked by bacteria, molds and fungi, its own internalenzymes have begun breaking down its own substances.
V egetables, especially leafy vegetables, are far more critical in this respect than
most ripe fruits. All, however, deteriorate much like radioactive material; theyhave a sort of half-life. The mineral content is stable, but in respect to the vitaminsand enzymes and other complex organic components, each time period or “halflife” results in the loss of half the nutrition. Suppose a lettuce has a half life of 48hours, two days after harvest only 50 percent of the original nutrition remains.After two more days, half the remaining half is gone and only 25 percent is left.After two more days half of that 25 percent is lost. Thus six days after harvestand a lettuce contains only bout 12 percent of its original nutrition. A two dayhalf-life is only hypothetical. Those types of produce I classify as very perishableprobably do have a half-life of from 36 to 48 hours. Moderately perishableproduce has a half life of about 72 hours; durable types of produce have half livesof 96 hours or longer.
Very Perishible  Moderately Perishible Durable
lettuce zucchini apple
spinach eggplant squash
Chinese cabbage sweet peppers oranges
kale broccoli cabbage
endive cauliflower carrot
peaches apricots lemons
parsley beets
The half life of produce can be lengthened by lowering its temperature. For
that reason, sophisticated produce growers usually use hydrocooling. Thisprocess dumps a just-cut vegetable into icy water within minutes of beingharvested, lowering core temperature to a few degrees above freezing almostimmediately. When cut vegetables are crated up at field temperatures, and stacksof those crates are put in a cooler, it can take the inside of the stack 24 hours, orlonger, to become chilled. Home gardeners should also practice hydrocooling. Fillyour sink with cold water and wash/soak your harvest until it is thoroughly chilledbefore draining and refrigerating it. Or, harvest your garden early in the morningwhen temperatures are lowest.
Still, when you buy produce in the store it may have been sitting at room
temperature for hours or possibly days.
The bottom line here: fresh is equally as important as unsprayed or organically
grown!
The Real Truth About Salt And Sugar
First, let me remind certain food religionists: salt is salt is salt is salt and sugar is
sugar is sugar. There are no good forms of salt and no good forms of sugar. Saltfrom a mine and salt from the sea both have the same harmful effect; white sugar,natural brown sugar, honey, molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, whatever sweet
have you. All are sugars and all have the similar harmful effects. I know of no
harmless salt substitute that really tastes salty. Nutrisweet is basically harmless tomost people and can be used as a very satisfactory replacement for sugars. (Afew people are unable to tolerate nutrisweet, causing the anti-chemicalists tocirculate much anti-nutrisweet propaganda, but you should carefully consider thisthought before dismissing nutrisweet—there is almost no food substance thatsome people are not allergic to or unable to digest. The fact that nutrisweet ismade in a chemical vat and the fact that some cannot handle nutrisweet does notmake it “of the devil.”
And its not all black and white with the other items either. Sea salt does have
certain redeeming qualities not found in mined salt and under certain very specialconditions, eating small quantities of salt may be acceptable. Similarly, some formsof sugar are not quite as harmful as other forms, though all are harmful.
The primary health problem caused by table salt is not that it contributes to
high blood pressure in people with poor kidneys, though it does that. It is not thateating salt ruins the kidneys; salt probably does not do that to most kidneys. Thereal problem with salt is that sodium chloride is an adrenal stimulant, triggering therelease of adrenal hormones, especially natural steroids that resist inflammation.When these hormones are at high levels in the blood, the person often feels verygood, has a sense of well-being. Thus salt is a drug! And like many drugs of itstype, salt is a habituating drug. However, we are so used to whipping our adrenalswith salt that we don’t notice it. What we do notice is that we think we like thetaste of salted food and consider that food tastes flat without it. But take away aperson’s salt shaker and they become very uncomfortable. That’s because theaddict isn’t getting their regular dose.
What’s wrong with repetitive adrenal whipping is that adrenal fortitude is
variable; many people’s adrenals eventually fail to respond to the prod of salt andthe body begins to suffer from a lack of adrenal hormones. Often those inheritingweak adrenals manifest semi-failure in childhood. The consequence is that
ordinary, irritating substances begin causing severe irritation. The person becomes
allergic to pollen, dust, foods, animal danders, etc. We see asthma


 day in the ornamental nursery. It was to be very, very light work. She was to continue on the lemon and water and a very light diet, along with lots of vegetable juices, very low carbohydrates, a little fruit for break-fast and no more throughout the day. She continued to lose 50 pounds a month until her weight dropped to 260 pounds, which was about normal for her big size. To this day sh e is still that size. This was in
1968.
The refractometer I had given her is an instrument to measure the
total carbohydrates in the urine. She kept her urinary sugar between land 2. She had to keep it there and it  was very difficult to do because
her own fats turned to sugar. But she did it and is the picture of health today. She can pick up and carry 300 to 400 pounds.
This is one case where the birth control pill caused overweight. It caused the pancreas to stop manufacturing thyroxine. The pancreas takes the glycogen from the liver and manufactures
thyroxine out of it. It goes to the thyroid gland which adds potassium to it, and the potassium then forms with the thyroxine and forms a substance similar to grandma's old-fashioned soap, which dissolves the excessive oils in our body and is a weight-control factor. It is the governor for weight. The birth cont rol pill upset the thyroxine manu-105 facturing in the pancreas and therefore it didn't manufacture enough
and the lady just kept putting on weig ht. This is one great cause of
overweight.
You can go on all the calorie-counting diets you want and if this is
the problem you will starve to death and still won't lose any weight.
There are other factors involved also, but this is a very serious one
that really upsets the weight. If the pancreas should manufacture too much thyroxine and the thyroid adds potassium to it, then you would have trouble putting on weight. If it doesn't manufacture enough you will have too much weight. Doctors give thyroid extract with the po-tassium for the thyroid gland, which is the worn-out cell of the thyroid gland. The thyroxine is the cell that is not worn-out. Which makes all the difference in the world in the results you get.
You may have a case wherein the pancreas is manufacturing the
right amount of thyroxine, but the body does not have enough potassi-um, therefore, you can be over or under weight from that problem. But probably it would be overweight. But it may be either one. The RBTI test tells us definitely whether this is the cause of overweight, or whether it is something else.
The reason the liver is not manufacturing enough glycogen is that
there are not enough calciums of the right kind present.
Therefore the liver doesn't have the material to make the amino
acids that the pancreas needs to manufacture the thyroxine to control the body weight. For people who are too skinny the thyroid manufac-tures too much thyroxine. For the overweight it doesn't manufacture enough thyroxine. This is easily remedied by the correct diet.
Overweight can be a genetic cause. You cannot do very much
about the weight if it is a genetic thing because the genes at the time of conception determine your weight throughout your life. Many peo-ple will be thin until they reach 50 years of age, or varying ages, and then it's a matter of looking like se nior citizens. Generally people with
big bones, broad shoulders, big head, and large feet have more weight than they want. But if it is a genetic  normal weight there isn't anything
you can do about it. 106 If your body is in any range outside of A of the RBTI test you can
take a diet and bring your body back to range A, and then your body
weight will drop to its genetic normal. However, it may not be the weight you desire. You will generally look in weight like some of your aunts, uncles, or grandparents, but you'll wish you didn't.
Another cause of overweight is a lack of calciums in the diet,
which can cause extreme nervousness. These people eat, eat and eat. This is not obesity, this is a nervous condition. They eat in order to overcome the nervousness. In eating they are trying to get more calci-ums and yet the body doesn't pick it up. Nature is craving food like an alcoholic craves his drink, as a person who is on pot craves dope. Hence the gaining of weight. Also, we find that by eating it helps to control temper. If these persons don't eat they become very irritable, and very difficult to live with.
Other causes of overweight: • People who eat too much fats, foods that are too rich, too much
carbohydrates, and especially those who eat them late at night (espe-cially carbohydrates) when the body already has a sufficient amount.
• Eating too much potato and bread. The starch in the potato can
be converted very easily into sugar by the liver. A very poor choice of foods can be the cause of overweight.
• Not drinking enough distilled water, to regulate the foods. • Slow digestion of food. It digests so slowly until the body chem-
istry is starving all the time. They eat all they can hold, feel stuffed.
• Skip breakfast, have a brunch. At noon they have a lunch, and in
the evening eat a big, big meal. They get up feeling miserable in the morning. They feel like something the cat has drug in, and they can't do one-tenth of the work that they  ought to be doing. They are trying
to hold a job. They are upset and irritable. The brunch does not even digest. They have their lips poked out for someone to step on, and generally someone accommodates them before the day is over. Their favorite song is that "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." This too can cause overweight: just plain frustration.
These are factors that need to be determined before we can pin-
point the cause and effect of overweight. 107 Weight is very easy to control.  Anyone who will keep the carbo-
hydrate sugar level between 1 and 2 of the RBTI test, eat a great varie-
ty of foods, especially vegetabl es, and cut down on meats (way down
on all kind of meats, and do away with the eating of unclean meats), I have never seen one person whose weight wouldn't drop to its genetic level. (By unclean meat I am speaking of those referred to in Leviticus 11: pork and all its products, including ham, bacon, sausage, pork chops, spare ribs, pork roast, salt bacon, cracklings-any part of a hog is unclean to man. All the shell fish, including shrimp, tuna, mackerel, catfish, oysters, lobster, clams, scallops. Any fish without fins and scales is unclean for human consumption. Then there is also the rab-bit, guinea pig, crow, buzzard, bald eagle, muskrat, and snakes.) The unclean meats digest in a period of an average of three hours, causing more energy to be released than a body can consume.
The clean meats digest in an average of 18 hours, giving the per-
son a chance to use the energy as it is made available. The same prin-ciple is putting high-test gasoline in the car that is not manufactured for it. The car will run better if regular gasoline is used.
The high-test gasoline will burn up the pistons and the valves. The
steel and the iron is not tempered for the heat of the high-test gasoline.
I am against the abuse of foods. Use temperance in all things. I am not against fried chicken, but  there are people who have it
every day. I am not against coffee, but there are people who drink 20-30 cups a day. Coffee many times can be an asset to people with ar-thritis or bladder or urinary problems, even weight problems. Coffee with chickory is good for people with low calciums and have nervous disorders. Coffee should be weak enough for you to see the bottom of the cup for it to be a diuretic.
Watermelon juice can be a very fine diuretic, providing that you
are not fat, or do not have high blood sugar. Some people can take wa-termelon juice and have high blood sugar without raising it, but some cannot.
There are conditions in which pe ople have high blood sugar and
also urinary problems. These kind of conditions require opposite diets. Even in a retreat under the very best of controlled diet, it is sometimes 108 very difficult to make a diet that will show immediate improvements
for the person to recognize the improvement. However, in a retreat the
testers and the doctors who are supe rvising can tell from one test to
another whether the person is improving or not. No one is kept in a re-treat whose body does not respond to diet. If the body chemistry does not respond in seven days they are asked to leave because it simply means that the RBTI is not effective for their body chemistry.
There is less than one percent of all people tested whose body
chemistry will not respond to these tests.
There are people who come too late to the retreat. But if we can
keep a person living for 30 days, and their body chemistry continues to improve, and they follow through on the diet after they go home, take the test as instructed, as far as we know, they all get well.
There are people who wish to go back into their old way of


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Cure Tooth Decay Book Description
Foreword By Timothy Gallagher D.D.S. President of the Holistic Dental Association
Introduction

100% Real Dental Healing Testimonials
Leroy from Utah
Ms. Steuernol from Alberta, Canada
Mike from Ashland, Oregon
Pioneering Tooth Cavity Remineralization
CHAPTER 1
DENTISTRY'S INABILITY TO CURE CAVITIES

Reaffirm Your Choice to Cure Your Cavities
The Real Cause of Cavities
Remembering Your Connection
Fear of the Dentist
How Conventional Dentistry Works
Micro-organisms
Conventional Dentistry’s Losing Battle Against Bacteria
The Failure of Conventional Dentistry
Chapter 1 References
CHAPTER 2
DENTIST WESTON PRICE DISCOVERS THE CURE

Lack of Nutrition is the Cause of Physical Degeneration
The Healthy People of the Loetschental Valley, Switzerland
Modern Swiss were Losing Their Health
The Healthy People of the Outer Hebrides
Gaelics on Modern Foods are Losing Their Health
Genetics and Tooth Decay
Aborigines of Australia
Nutritive Values of Diets Compared
Fat-soluble Vitamins and Activators
Why Tooth Decay with Modern Civilization?Weston Price's Tooth Decay Curing Protocol
Dr. Price's Protocol Summarized
Chapter 2 References
CHAPTER 3
MAKE YOUR TEETH STRONG WITH FAT-SOLUBLE VITAMINS

How Teeth Remineralize 101
Hormones and Tooth Decay
Cholesterol
The Miracle of Vitamin D
Vital Fat-Soluble Vitamin A
Cod Liver Oil Heals Cavities
Weston Price’s Activator X
More Fat-Soluble Vitamin Sources: Bone Marrow, Brain, Kidneys, and Glands
Organs from the Water
Fat-soluble Vitamin Summary
Chapter 3 References
CHAPTER 4
REMINERALIZE YOUR TEETH WITH WISE FOOD CHOICES

The Town without a Toothache
Deceptive Labeling
Pasteurization Kills Milk
Obtaining Raw Milk
Good Soup Heals Your Teeth
Blood Sugar
Sweeteners
Protein for Your Teeth
Protein Assimilation
Low Quality Proteins
Fermented Foods & Enzymes
Vegetables for Minerals
Are Grains the Hidden Reason for many Modern Diseases including Tooth Cavities?
The Anti-Scorbutic Vitamin and Your Teeth and Gums
The Effect of Oats on Children’s Teeth
Problems with Unfermented Grains
The Effects of Soaking and Sprouting on Phytic Acid
Grain Bran and Fiber
Indigenous People’s Fermentation of GrainSafe Grains Guidelines
Eating Grains At Home
Beans
Breakfast Cereals and Granola
Nuts and Nut Butters
Trace Minerals Repair Cavities
Do Multi-Vitamins Fight Tooth Decay?
Soy Products
Fake Milks
Nightshades
Organic Food Is Better
Healthy Fats
Hidden Monosodium Glutamate
Health Food Bars, Energy Bars and Tooth Decay
Addictive Substances
Prescription Drugs, Recreational Drugs and Your Teeth
Thanks Giving
Chapter 4 Part C References
Chapter 4 Part B References
Chapter 4 Part A References
CHAPTER 5
NUTRITION PROTOCOLS THAT REMINERALIZE AND REPAIR
CAVITIES

Nature’s Rules for Healing Teeth
Remineralize Your Teeth with Diet
Balanced Tooth Decay Remineralizing Program
Food Intake Suggestions
Foods to Avoid in All Protocols
The “One-Amazing-Meal-a-Day” Protocol
Food Intake Suggestions
Tips for Going out to Eat
Advanced Tooth Decay Healing
Daily Food Intake
Healing Tooth Cavities on a Vegetarian Diet
Daily Food Intake
Self Care
Common Mistakes Made By People Who Think They Are Eating a Healthy Diet
Cleansing and Fasting
Heal Your Teeth in Six Weeks or Less
Chapter 5 ReferencesCHAPTER 6
STOP CAVITIES WITH YOUR NEXT MEAL

Tooth Decay Healing Diets that Worked
Recipes for Healing Your Teeth
Bone Broth Recipe
Bieler’s Soup
Eggnog Tooth-Strengthening Formula
Spicy Steak Tartare for Fighting Tooth Infections
Fish Head Soup
Ayurvedic Green Drink
Poke (pronounced POH-kay) Fish Salad
Cooking Suggestions
Preparing Grains So That They Do Not Cause Cavities or Disease
Phytase Content of Grains
Vibrant Sourdough
Oat Preparation
Quinoa Preparation and Phytic Acid Removal
Chapter 6 References
CHAPTER 7
HEALTHY GUMS LEAD TO HEALTHY TEETH

Dental Plaque and Gum Disease
Gum Disease, Bleeding, Swollen Gums and Fat-Soluble Vitamins
Gum Disease, Vitamin C, and Scurvy
The Amazing Blotting Technique and Healing Gum Disease Naturally
How to Blot at Home
Sea Salt for Your Gums
Herbal Treatments for Gum Disease
Oil Pulling for your Teeth and Gums
Healing Gum Disease Program
Chapter 7 References
CHAPTER 8
DENTISTRY AND ITS HIGH PRICE

Toxic Dentistry
Diseases and MercuryWhat to Do About Current Mercury Fillings?
Mercury Fillings Lead To Crowns and Root Canals
More Dental Dangers from Toxic Dentistry
Safer Filling Materials
Finding a Good Dentist
Finding a Dentist to Work with Diet
Minimally Invasive Dentistry
Getting a Second Opinion
Taking Charge at the Dentist’s Office
Cavities and X-rays
The Dental Code of Silence
Root Canals
Focal Infections
Dental Implants
Dental Abuse
Do I Have a Cavity? Understanding Tooth Decay
Monitoring Tooth Decay and Tooth Remineralization
Understanding Tooth Remineralization
How to Treat Your Decayed Tooth
Still not Sure? Talk to Your Tooth
The Vicious Cycle and Tooth Decay
The Hidden Need to Be Sick
Busting the Myth that Food-Stuck-On-Teeth Causes Cavities
Tooth Care
Healing Tooth Pain
Dental Sealants
Teeth Whitening At the Dentist’s and At Home
Brushing, Flossing and Toothpaste
Tooth Brushing
Tooth and Gum Healing
The Fluoride Deception
Tooth Decay is Not an Infectious Disease
Moving Beyond Painful Dentistry
Chapter 8 References
CHAPTER 9
YOUR BITE: A HIDDEN CAUSE OF CAVITIES AND A FRESH LOOK AT
ORTHODONTICS AND TMJ

Your Ideal Jaw Position and Enjoyment of Life
Genetics versus Intercepted Heredity
Why Teeth are Crowded and Wisdom Teeth are Misaligned
Your Bite and TMJ Pain, Night Grinding, and Tooth DecayThe “Feel Good” Substance P
Profound Effects of TMJ Dysfunction and a Bad Bite
Orthodontics
Dental Orthopedics Focuses on Normal Development
Conventional Orthodontic Practices Damage Faces
Orthodontics Does Not Address the Physiological Cause of Crooked Teeth
Functional Orthopedics
Craniopathy
Functional Appliances and Practitioners
Functional Dental Appliance Goals
Finding a Functional Orthopedist
Regaining Your Dental Health
Chapter 9 References
CHAPTER 10
YOUR TEETH CAN HEAL NATURALLY

The Evidence and Proof That Cavities can Remineralize and Heal
Curing Tooth Decay — Parting Words
Get Support
Give Support
Healthy Teeth Are Your Birthright
Chapter 10 References
BONUS CHAPTER
REMINERALIZE AND REPAIR YOUR CHILD'S TOOTH CAVITIES
NATURALLY

From Fear to Faith, From Suffering to Peace
Children's Tooth Decay is Not an Easy Road for Most
Treating Children's Tooth Decay Naturally
Surgery on Children for Tooth Decay?
Toxic Dentistry in Children’s Mouths
England’s Dentists say, “No Benefits, no Proof, and


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p. 126) is a commonly used laxative, containing
anthraquinones that irritate the gut wall and stimulate bowel
movement. This laxative effect, however, occurs only when
large quantities of the herb are used. At lower doses other
constituents, notably tannins, which dry and tighten up
mucous membranes in the gut, have greater effect. As a
result, Chinese rhubarb works in two apparently opposite
ways depending on the dosage: as a laxative at moderate to
high doses; to treat diarrhea at a lower dose.
 This example reveals a couple of fundamental truths
about herbal medicine. Firstly, the experience of the herbal
practitioner and of the patient often provide the most
reliable guide to the medicinal effect of individual herbs.
Secondly, the value of a medicinal herb cannot be reduced
simply to a list of its active constituents.
Plants as Foods & Medicines
In general, the human body is much better suited to
treatment with herbal remedies than with isolated chemical
medicines. We have evolved side-by-side with plants over
hundreds of thousands of years, and our digestive system
and physiology as a whole are geared to digesting and
utilizing plant-based foods, which often have a medicinal
value as well as providing sustenance.
 The dividing line between “foods” and “medicines” may
not always be clear. Are lemons, papayas, onions, and oats
foods or medicines? The answer, very simply, is that they
are both. Lemon ( Citrus limon, p. 82) improves resistance
to infection; papaya ( Carica papaya, p. 183) is taken in some
parts of the world to expel worms; onion ( Allium cepa,
p. 164) relieves bronchial infections; and oats ( Avena sativa,
p. 175) support convalescence. Indeed, herbal medicine
comes into its own when the distinctions between foods
and medicines are removed. Cultivation of medicinal plants in Cameroon. Scientific research indicates that
whole-plant preparations may often be gentler and more effective remedies
than isolated plant chemicals.Ginkgo, one of the oldest known plant
species, improves the circulation of blood
to the head.
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12
The developmen T of herbal medicineThough we might eat a bowl of oatmeal oblivious to the
medicinal benefits, it will, nonetheless, increase stamina, help the nervous system to function correctly, provide a good supply of B vitamins, and maintain regular bowel function.
A similar range of benefits is provided by many of the other gentler-acting herbs listed in the Encyclopedia.
Herbal Treatments
The strategies that herbal practitioners adopt to prevent illness or restore health in their patients are different in the many and varied herbal traditions across the planet, but
the effects that herbal medicines have within the body to improve health do not vary. There are many thousands
of medicinal plants in use throughout the world, with a tremendous range of actions and degrees of potency. Most have a specific action on particular body systems and are known to be suitable for treating certain types of ailments. See p. 13 for specific actions.
Digestion, Respiration, & Circulation
Improving the quality of the diet is often an essential starting
point in sustaining or regaining good health. The saying “Y ou are what you eat” is by and large true, though herbalists prefer to qualify it, saying “Y ou are what you absorb from what you eat.” Herbal medicines not only provide nutrients, but when needed they also strengthen and support the action of the digestive system, speeding up the rate of processing food and improving the absorption of nutrients. The body requires another kind of “nutrient” to
function—oxygen. The lungs and respiratory system can
be helped with herbs that relax the bronchial muscles and stimulate respiration. Once taken in by the body, nutrients and medicines are carried to the body’s estimated one hundred trillion cells.
The circulatory system has a remarkable ability to adapt
to an endlessly shifting pattern of demand. At rest, the flow
of blood is mainly toward the center of the body, while when active, the muscles in the limbs make huge demands. Herbal medicines work to encourage circulation in particular ways. Some, for example, encourage blood to
flow to the surface of the body; others stimulate the heart  to pump more efficiently; while others relax the muscles of the arteries, lowering blood pressure.
Clearing Toxicity & Soothing Skin
After circulation has carried nutrients to the cells, waste
matter must be removed. All too often in our polluted world, high levels of toxicity in the body are an underlying cause of  ill health, and herbalists use a wide range of cleansing herbs that improve the body’s ability to remove toxins. Perhaps
the finest example of a detoxifying herb is burdock (Arctium lappa, p. 65), which is used extensively in both Western and Chinese medicine. Once herbs such as this reduce the toxic “load,” the body is able to invest greater resources
in repairing and strengthening damaged tissue and
weakened organs. The skin also plays an important role in good health.
Antiseptic plants fight infection, while vulnerary (wound-healing) herbs such as comfrey (Symphytum officinale,  p. 138) encourage blood clotting and help speed the healing  of wounds.
Nervous, Endocrine, & Immune Systems
Good health depends on having a healthy, balanced nervous system. In order to ensure long-term good health of the nervous system, it is important to adapt well to life’s daily demands, to avoid excessive anxiety, worry, or depression, and to get sufficient rest and exercise. The latest research shows that the nervous system does not work in isolation but is complemented by the endocrine system, which controls the release of a whole symphony
of hormones, including the sex hormones, which control fertility and often affect vitality and mood. The nervous system is also intimately linked with the immune system, which controls the ability to resist infection and to recover from illness and injury.
 This incredible complex of systems—part electrical, part chemical, part mechanical—must function harmoniously if good health is to be maintained. In health, the body has a seemingly infinite capacity, via its controlling systems, to adjust and change to external pressures. This ability to adapt to the external world while the body’s internal workings remain constant is known as homeostasis. Many herbs work with  the immune, nervous, and endocrine systems to help the body adapt more effectively to stresses and strains of all kinds: physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual. They are effective because they work in tune with the body’s processes.
 Some herbs are adaptogenic, meaning that they have an ability to help people to adapt, either by supporting the nervous system and easing nervous and emotional tension,  or by working directly with the body’s own physiological processes to maintain health. The prime example of an adaptogenic herb is ginseng (Panax ginseng, p. 118), which  is an effective remedy at times of great mental or physical stress, but in certain cases can also be taken when a relaxing effect is required, for example to relieve headaches, or to ensure a good night’s sleep.
Complex Natural Medicines
As can be seen, an herb is not a “magic bullet” with a single
action, but a complex natural medicine composed of many active constituents that work on different body systems. By combining scientific research into active constituents with clinical observation and traditional knowledge of the whole plant, we can develop a rounded picture of each herb’s range of medicinal uses.
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Nervines,  e.g., rosemary ( Rosmarinus
officinalis, p. 128), support and strengthen
the nervous system. Relaxants,  e.g., lemon
balm ( Melissa officinalis, p. 113), relax the
nervous system. Sedatives,  e.g., mistletoe ( Viscum
album, p. 283), reduce nervous activity. Stimulants,
e.g., kola nut ( Cola acuminata, p. 192), increase
nervous activity. Tonics,  e.g., oats ( Avena  sativa,
p. 175), improve nerve function and tone, and
help to restore the nervous system as a whole.
Circulation & heart
Cardiotonics,  e.g., dan shen  (Salvia  miltiorrhiza,
p. 130), vary in action. Some slow heartbeat
rate, while others increase it. Some improve
the regularity and strength of the heart’s
contractions. Circulatory stimulants,  e.g., cayenne
(Capsicum  frutescens, p. 74), improve the
circulation of blood to the extremities.
Diaphoretics,  e.g., ju hua (Chrysanthemum  x
morifolium, p. 78), encourage blood flow to
the surface of the body, promote sweating, and
lower blood pressure. Spasmolytics,  e.g., cramp
bark ( Viburnum opulus, p. 150), relax the muscles,
helping to lower blood pressure.
Digestive organs
Antiseptics,  e.g., ginger ( Zingiber


 for
barrenness, and to hasten delivery, and to help of the digestive and urinary systems. The essential oil
is strongly antiseptic and anti-mucus, and in Spain is
used to treat bronchial and lung infections.
Caution  Do not take the essential oil internally
except with professional advice.
Myrtle  was described by the
Greek physician Dioscorides
as “a friend to the stomach.”
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240NicotiaN a tabacumOther medicinal plantsexpectoration. ’Tis used outwardly in baths for
the womb, and the itch.” Catnip has an excitatory
effect on cats.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Catnip settles the
stomach, is sedative and, as it stimulates sweating, reduces fever. The herb’s pleasant taste and gentle action make it suitable for colds, flu, and fever in children, especially when mixed with elderflower (Sambucus nigra, p. 132) and sweetened with honey.
Catnip is markedly antiflatulent, helping to settle indigestion and colic. The herb is also useful in treating headaches related to digestive problems.  A tincture is beneficial as a friction rub for rheumatism and arthritis.
Self-help Use  Digestive infections, p. 305.of Asia and the Mediterranean region for its seeds and as a garden plant. The seeds are gathered once they are ripe.
Parts Used  Seeds.
Constituents  The seeds contain 40% fixed
oil, a saponin (melantin), alkaloids, and up to  1.4% volatile oil.
History & Folklore  Black cumin was found in
the tomb of Tutankhamun, but its role in ancient Egypt, medicinal or otherwise, is unknown. Dioscorides, a Greek physician of the 1st century ce, recorded that black cumin seeds were taken  to treat headaches, nasal congestion, toothache, and intestinal worms, and, in large quantities, as a diuretic, to promote menstrual periods, and to increase breast-milk production.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Like many
culinary herbs, black cumin seeds are beneficial for the digestive system, soothing stomach pain and spasms and easing gas, bloating, and colic. The seeds are also antiseptic and are used to treat intestinal worms, especially in children. Cumin seeds are much used in India to increase the production of breast milk.
Research Recent research indicates that
black cumin seed may prove useful in metabolic syndrome, a condition that typically involves raised cholesterol levels, raised blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. The seeds are also antiviral and show promise in the treatment of chronic viral infections, such as hepatitis C.
Caution  Love-in-a-mist (N. damascena) should
not be used as a substitute for black cumin seeds.Nymphaea alba (Nymphaceae)
White Water Lily
Description  Perennial aquatic plant with deep
roots, plate-shaped leaves on long cylindrical stems, and large-petaled white flowers occasionally tinged with pink.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
white water lily is found in ponds and in still water in lakes, rivers, and canals. The rhizome is gathered
in autumn.
Parts Used  Rhizome, flowers.
Constituents  The rhizome contains alkaloids
(nymphaeine and nupharine), resin, glycosides,  and tannins.
History & Folklore  According to the
17th-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper, “The leaves do cool all inflammations … the syrup helpeth much to procure rest, and to settle the brains of frantic persons.”
White water lily flowers have a sedative effect, calming
nervous tension and anxiety.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The rhizome
of the white water lily is astringent and antiseptic.
A decoction treats dysentery, or diarrhea due
to irritable bowel syndrome. White water lily has
also been employed to treat chronic bronchitis and kidney pain, and taken as a gargle for sore throats. The rhizome may be used to make a douche for vaginal soreness and discharge, or to make a poultice for boils and abscesses. White water lily flowers have long been reputed to reduce sexual drive. Their generally calming and sedative effect on the nervous system makes them useful in the treatment of insomnia, anxiety, and similar disorders of this nature.
Research  Studies suggest that white water lily
may, as has been claimed, act as an anaphrodisiac, diminishing sexual drive. The plant has been found to lower blood pressure in animals.
Related Species  The white pond lily (N. odorata)
is a close American relative used for much the same purposes. The rhizome of the white lotus (N. lotus), Nigella sativa (Ranunculaceae)
Black Cumin
Description  Annual herb growing to 1 ft
(30 cm). Has an upright branching stem, fine
deeply cut leaves, gray-blue flowers, and
toothed seedpods.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to western
Asia, black cumin is grown throughout much  Notopterygium incisium
(Apiaceae)
Notopterygium Root,
Qiang Huo (Chinese)
Description  Carrot-family member with an
upright ridged stem, deeply cut leaves, and flowers
in dense clusters.
Habitat & Cultivation  Notopterygium root
is native to central and western China. The root is unearthed in spring or autumn.
Part Used  Root.
Constituents  Notopterygium root contains
furanocoumarins, sterols, and a volatile oil.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Notopterygium
root is taken mainly for colds and chills, fevers, headache, general aches and pains, and malaise. The herb is warming and pungent, counters cold and damp conditions, and promotes sweating, especially in fevers. It is also prescribed for neck and back pain.
Caution  At high dosage notopterygium root
may cause vomiting.Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae)
Tobacco
Description  Annual or biennial plant growing
to 3 ft (1 m). Has an erect stem, large oval leaves, and pink or white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Tobacco is native
to tropical America. It is now grown worldwide, chiefly for smoking tobacco but also as the source of an insecticide. Leaves for smoking are gathered, dried, and cured.
Parts Used  Leaves.
Constituents  Tobacco contains alkaloids (notably
nicotine) and a volatile oil. Nicotine is stimulant
and addictive.
History & Folklore  Even in 17th-century
England, opinions on smoking were sharply divided. King James I unsuccessfully tried to ban “a custome loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the braine [and] dangerous to the lungs.” In Central America, tobacco was prescribed by the Maya as a treatment for asthma, convulsions, and skin disease. Tobacco has been used as part of rituals in many Native American cultures.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Tobacco is no
longer used medicinally. The dried leaves make a good insecticide, but external application should  be avoided as nicotine is readily absorbed through the skin.
 Caution  Tobacco should not be taken in
any form.
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native to tropical Africa and Asia, has been used
medicinally since the earliest times, and is taken
for indigestion, dysentery, and other
gastrointestinal problems.
Ocimum basilicum (Lamiaceae)
Sweet Basil,
Basil
Description  Strongly aromatic annual growing
to 20 in (50 cm). Has shiny oval leaves, a square
stem, and small white flowers in whorls.
Habitat & Cultivation  Sweet basil, also
known as basil, is probably native to India. Over
150 varieties are now grown around the world for
their distinctive flavor and essential oil. The leaves
and flowering tops are gathered as the plant comes
into flower.
Parts Used  Leaves, flowering tops, essential oil.
Constituents  Sweet basil contains a volatile oil
(about 1%), which consists principally of linalool
and methylchavicol, along with small quantities
of methyl cinnamate, cineole, and other terpenes.
History & Folklore  In his 1st-century ce
Materia Medica, the Greek physician Dioscorides
described the African belief that eating sweet
basil stopped the pain caused by a scorpion’s sting.
The herb was used in Roman times to relieve
flatulence, to counteract poisoning, as a diuretic,
and to stimulate breast-milk production. Basil also
has a history of use in Ayurvedic medicine.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Sweet basil acts
principally on the digestive and nervous systems,
easing flatulence, stomach cramps, colic, and
indigestion. It can be used to prevent or relieve
nausea and vomiting, and
helps to kill intestinal
worms. Sweet basil has a mildly sedative action, proving useful in


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Brinkley,
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irreversible stage,
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supervision,
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terminal stage,
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Drug addicts,
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Drugs,
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Duncan, Garfield,
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Duodenal ulcer,
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Duodenitis,
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Dyspnea,
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Eczema,
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adrenal,
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imbalance of,
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pituitary,
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thyroid,
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Enteroptosis,
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Enzymes,
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Epilepsy,
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Exercise,
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Exhilaration,
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Experiments,
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next chapter, the way in which th is transgression of natural law has
affected the human mind will be traced.

7. The Sources of Evil

It was earlier mentioned that human needs for protein are lower
than is usually stated, and that animal foods not only provide an
excess of protein, but introduce into the body economy unnatural
nitrogenous substances. It is a biological law that an animal can only deal efficiently with substan ces to which it has become adapted
in the course of its long evolution.  Changes in size and shape can be
brought about in a few generations, but functional changes require much more time. Recent estimates of the time necessary for evolving quite different metabo lic and enzymatic lines, such as
would be incurred in a radical change of diet, runs into many millions of years. In every function studied, man remains identical
to the higher primates, to the chimpanzee, the gorilla and the gibbon
in particular, which means that the nearly universal'mixed' type of
human feeding is an abnormality and is bound to cause some sort of functional trouble. The possible consequences to the body have been pointed out from time to time by medical men and other
scientists, but most people have cons idered the risks worth taking, if
indeed they have been willing to accept the evidence of bodily
damage at all. It is only recently that the effect on the mind has become more apparent. The price that has to be paid for such widescale dietary transgression seems truly enormous. As far back as 1931, Quastel and Wheatley had indicated that certain products
of protein digestion, especially  those resulting from bacterial
decomposition, possessed properties analogous to the most potent mind-affecting drugs such as mescalin, which might play a role in mental disturbances. At the time, this information was felt to be awkward, if not preposterous, possibly because it was felt unlikely
that such an important item of food could be incriminated in mental
disorder. Whatever the reason, it is only some forty years later that
the problem was reopened, when the role of the monoamines in brain functioning was discovered. Ketz distinguishes between the biogenic amines, manufactured by the brain tissues, responsible for
normal mental states, and a wide range of slightly altered
monoamines which could be responsible for more unusual states, like mystical ecstasy, hallucinati ons and 'high' dreams. Between
normality and psychosis, one might find a graduation of subtle alteration of the monoamine molecules.
Since mescalin was isolated in 1943, the biochemical
connection of the more elusive aspects of human experience, in
love, in the arts, in mystical a nd other states, has been apparent.
Evidently, nature has made use of  drug-like substances produced by
the brain itself, such as reserpine. This does not imply that the mind 'is nothing but a chemical brew', but it does indicate that even the
most elusive mental functions, such as the humanizing sensitivities,
have a biological basis, an indication which should be obvious enough if the universe is a consistent enterprise. Although engendered by brain cells, there is every indication that mental experience in itself is not a part of the physical and chemical order. But whatever the nature of the mind, it is undoubtedly very much
affected by biochemical events. There is a definite pharmacology of the soul.
The monoamines are products of protein metabolism, a fact
which makes the proteins as important to the mind as to the body. The finer aspects of protein metabolism are only now beginning to be unravelled. For too long it has been crudely assumed that brain and body can manufacture their protein needs from any kind of food protein, so long as the chemical building blocks are supplied. Very
slight changes in molecular structure, barely detectable by the
chemist, can have profound effect s on living functions, particularly
in such a precariously balanced one as the brain, with its billions upon billions of cells and interconnections. Ketz has suggested the
possibility 'that the different amines give some characteristics to the
newly synthetized proteins, impar ting a "colour code" of affective
qualities as it is being formed'. Very slight shifts from the normal might have enormous affectiv e, emotional, behavioural
consequences.
For every so called 'normal' protein that features in nutrition,
there may be millions of such mi nor abnormal molecular variations.
Although the body does possess an outstanding ability to select the protein ingredients it requires, this ability is only likely to refer to the ingredients which form part of the normal nutritional pattern, a pattern minutely and exactingly set by evolution. The possibility already referred to, of a wide conf usion regarding the 'normal' in
human nutrition, makes it possible that the human mind is exposed
to protein products which are in  various ways abnormal, with
possibly momentous effects on brain function.
The abnormal amines could be both manufactured in the body
during the metabolism of abnormal proteins, as well as by bacterial
action on protein wastes in the alimentary tract, especially in the
colon, on the nitrogenous products which have resisted absorption, usual in a'mixed' diet. It is here that one can make a clear distinction between foods of animal  origin, and of plant derivation.
Besides the large amounts of proteins in animal foods, there are a host of substances related to the amines, the purines and the
pyramidines, and those released by putrefactive changes. These
form what analysts term the extractives, consisting of the more easily hydrolyzable and soluble protein products, and therefore all the more easily absorbed. These are completely absent in fruits and
many vegetables, and only present in minor amounts in seeds and
nuts. However, some plant foods do contain significant amounts
also, as does cocoa, yeast extract, and many pulses.
On a diet of fruit and vegetables, low in protein, a fermentative
bacterial flora prevails, which is  biochemically the opposite of
putrefication, a living process in which yeasts are active, producing B vitamins and other substances usef ul to the body. Putrefaction is
rightly associated with death. On a'mixed' diet, not only is protein
usually in excess, but the vegetable fibres present hinder the digestion of protein, providing more wastes for the putrefactive bacteria in the colon. One must conclude that the diet of most humans, the world over, is particularly favourable for the
production and absorption of abnormal amines.
The normal monoamines would be presumably concerned in
initiating the humanizing predispositions, the aspirations to goodness and harmonious social relationships, to love, compassion
and co-operation, and the joys and ecstasies that go with their fulfilment. The more elusive, yet important pursuits of purity, of the
mystical and spiritual, are connected. The abnormal amines, on the
other hand, are disruptive rather than integrating, more likely to excite the lower, prehuman aspect of mind, normally quiescent but easily aroused, accounting for the mi schief and the insensitivity in
the human midst, and, when more severe, for the violence and hatred, the horrors and bestialities of existence.
To find such a biochemical basis to evil, in world-wide
aberrations of diet, must appear as the over simplification of an immensely complex problem. Certainly no two individuals are likely to react in the same way to the same abnormalizing conditions, and some people will be better equipped than others to
resist the inhuman tendencies, as some societies have been more
active than others in encouraging an acceptable level of human behaviour. But statistically, over sufficient time, abnormal effects on the mind will push behaviour toward s the inhuman and bestial. It
is not the rarer outburst of loving, the sudden craving for beauty and
purity, that count so much as the steady loading of thought, desire
and action in directions which are subtly not properly human, for ever waiting for the periodical occasions for more terrible venting, in the tragedies of individual exis tence as in the recurring crises of
human history.

8. Love, Lust and Aggression

The destructive anger and hatred of human beings serves no
biological purpose; on the contrary, they are a threat to human
survival. Although primates, and humans, are not territorial animals,
in the sense that the carnivores ar e territorial, they do resent
encroachment into their habitats. Gorillas can get very angry and
ferocious. It is evident therefore th at the capacity for anger has been
purposefully retained in the evoluti on of the primates, to meet threat
and challenge, even if their usua l and normal patterns of existence
are peaceful. As humans became hunt ers with the Ice Ages, they did
in fact acquire some of the territorial predispositions of carnivores
and hunting animals. This is unders tandable, for game is scarce at
the best of times, a given area only being able to provide a tenth or
less of game compared to vegetable foods. With this cortically
involved territorialism, there has arisen a capacity for exercising
anger, violence and ruthless-ness. Bu t this is not natural; it is purely
existential.
If the usual is confused for the normal, it is impossible to make
sense of the historical, and prehistorical, facts of man's extreme and unbiological aggressiveness. Attempts to find reasons and advantages for it, are fanciful. While aggressiveness as a normal pattern of life in many animals is clearly biologically advantageous,
attempts to transpose such