 behavior. And each time you engage in any kind
of a self-put-down, you reinforce that old bugaboo that others have
laid on you and reduce your own opportunities for any kind of love
in your life, be it self or other-directed love. Surely you are too
worthy to go around putting yourself down.
Accepting Yourself Without Complaint
Self-love means accepting yourself as a worthy person because
you choose to do so. Acceptance also means an absence of complaint.
Fully functioning people never complain, and particularly they don’t
complain about the rocks being rough, or the sky being cloudy or
the ice being too cold. Acceptance means no complaining, and hap-
piness means no complaining about the things over which you can
do nothing. Complaining is the refuge of those who have no self-
reliance. Telling others about the things you dislike in yourself helps
you to continue the dissatisfaction since they are almost always
powerless to do anything about it except deny it and then you don’t
believe them. Just as complaining to others accomplishes nothing,
so permitting others to abuse you with their own tote bags full of
self-pity and misery helps no one. A simple question to ask will
generally end this useless and unpleasant behavior. “Why are40 / Your Erroneous Zonesyou telling me this?” or “Is there anything I can do to help you with
this?” By asking yourself the same questions, you will begin to re-
cognize your complaining behavior as ultimate folly. It is time spent
in a wasteful manner, time which might be put to better use in
practicing self-loving kinds of activities, such as silent self-praise,
or helping someone else to achieve fulfillment.
There are two occasions when complaining is least appreciated
in the world: (1) Whenever you tell someone else that you are tired.
(2) Whenever you tell someone else that you don’t feel well. If you
are tired, you can exercise several options, but complaining to even
one poor soul, let alone a loved one, is abusing that person. And it
won’t make you less tired. The same kind of logic applies to your
“not feeling well.”
Nothing is being said here about informing others of how you
feel when they can help you in any small way. What is being chal-
lenged is complaining to others who can do nothing but endure the
grumbling. Additionally, if you are truly working on self-love, and
you are experiencing any pain or discomfort, you will want to work
on this yourself, rather than choosing someone to lean on and have
them share your burden.
Complaining about yourself is a useless activity, and one which
keeps you from effectively living your life. It encourages self-pity
and immobilizes you in your efforts at giving and receiving love.
Moreover it reduces your opportunities for improved love relation-
ships and increased social intercourse. While it may get you attention,
the noticing will be done in a light that will clearly cast shadows on
your own happiness.
Being able to accept yourself without complaint involves an un-
derstanding of both self-love and the complaining process, which
are mutually exclusive terms. If you genuinely love you, then com-
plaining to others who can do nothing for you becomes absurdly
impossible to defend. And if you notice things in yourself (and oth-
ers) that you dislike, rather than complaining you can actively set
about taking the necessary corrective steps.
The next time you are at a social gathering of four or moreFIRST LOVE  / 41couples, you can try this little exercise. Chronicle how much conver-
sation is actually spent in complaining. From self to others, to events,
prices, the weather, and on and on. Now, when the party is over
and everyone has gone their separate ways, ask yourself, “How
much of the complaining that went on tonight accomplished any-
thing?” “Who really cares about all of the things that we bemoaned
tonight?” Then, the next time you are about to complain keep the
uselessness of that night in mind.
Self-Love vs. Conceit
You may be thinking that all of this talk about self-love involves
a form of obnoxious behavior akin to egomania. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Self-love has nothing to do with the sort of
behavior characterized by telling everyone how wonderful you are.
That’s not self-love, but rather an attempt to win the attention and
approval of others by chest-thumping behavior. It is just as neurotic
as the behavior of the individual who is overloaded with self-con-
tempt. Boastful behavior is motivated by others, by an attempt to
gain their favor. It means the individual is evaluating himself on the
basis of how others see him. If he were not, he would not feel the
need to convince them. Self-love means you love yourself; it doesn’t
demand the love of others. There is no need to convince others. An
internal acceptance is sufficient. It has nothing to do with the view-
points of others.
The Rewards for Not Loving Yourself
Why would anyone choose not to love himself? Where is the ad-
vantage? The dividends, while they may be unhealthy, are neverthe-
less there for you to examine. And this is the core of42 / Your Erroneous Zoneslearning to be an effective person—understanding why you behave
in self-defeating ways. All behavior is caused, and the road to elim-
inating any self-destructive behavior is strewn with the potholes of
misunderstanding your own motives. Once you comprehend the
why of your self-malice and the maintenance system for retaining
it, you can begin to attack the behaviors. Without the understanding
of self, the old actions will continue to recur.
Why have you chosen to engage in self-denouncing ways, however
slight they may seem to you? It may be that it is just plain easier to
buy the stuff that others tell you than to think for yourself. But there
are other dividends as well. If you choose to not love yourself and
treat yourself as unimportant by placing other heads higher than
your own, you will…
• Have a built-in excuse for why you can’t get any love in your
life, that is, you simply are not worth being loved back. The excuse
is the neurotic payoff.
• Be able to avoid any and all risks that go with establishing love
relationships with others, and thereby eliminate any possibility of
ever being rejected or disapproved.
• Find that it is easier to stay the way you are. As long as you’re
not worthy there is just no point in trying to grow or to be better
and happier, and your payoff is remaining the same.
• Gain a lot of pity, attention and even approval from others,
which substitutes nicely for the risky business of getting involved
in a love relationship. Thus the pity and attention are your self-de-
feating rewards.
• Have many convenient scapegoats to blame for your own misery.
You can complain and thus you won’t have to do anything about it
yourself.
• Be able to use up your present moments with mini-depressions,
and avoid behavior that would help you to be different. Your self-
pity will serve as your escape route.
• Regress to being a good little boy or girl, calling upon theFIRST LOVE  / 43leftover responses of a child and therefore pleasing those “big-
people” that you learned to regard as superior to you. Your regres-
sion is safer than risk.
• Be able to reinforce your leaning-on-others behavior by making
them more significant than you make yourself. A leaning post is a
dividend even though you’re hurt by it.
• Be unable to take charge of your own life and live it the way
you choose, simply because you won’t feel that you are worth the
happiness you covet.
These are the components of your self-scorn maintenance system.
They are the reasons you choose to hang on to the old thinking and
behavior. It is just plain easier, that is, less risky, to put yourself
down than to try to get up. But remember, the only evidence for life
is growth, and so to refuse to grow into a self-loving person is a
deathlike choice. Armed with these insights into your own behavior,
you can begin to practice some mental and physical exercises to en-
courage the growth of your own self-love.
Some Easy-to-Master Self-Love Exercises
The practice of self-love begins with your mind. You must learn
to control your thinking. This requires a lot of present-moment
awareness at the times when you are behaving in self-condemnatory
kinds of ways. If you can catch yourself as you are doing it, you can
then begin to challenge the thought in back of your behavior.
You find that you have just said something like, “I’m really not
that smart, I guess I was just lucky to get an A on that paper.” The
bell should go off in your head. “I just did it. I behaved in a self-
loathing way. But I’m aware of it now, and the next time I’ll stop
myself from saying those things I’ve been saying all of my life.”
Your strategy is to correct yourself out44 / Your Erroneous Zonesloud with a statement such as, “I just said I was lucky, but luck really
had nothing to do with it. I got the grade because I deserved it.” One
small step toward self-love, the step being a recognition of your
present-moment put-down and a decision to act differently.


. With drinking of
urine for 15 days, her trouble disappeared. I am writing this account
seven months aftet the cure, yet till now, no trace of the disease has
recurred.
"Besides nephritis, I have also cured my other· chifdren of
influenza and malaria, by simply giving them two to three ounces of
urine to drink three times a day. I advised· urine treatment,
particularly to those who came in my contact. Many people have
cured themselves of trachoma, inflammation and redness of the
eyes, ear-trouble, pimples, boils and eruptions, palpitatior1 of the
heart, cold etc. by this marvellous treatment. One doctor Joshi is a
friend of mine. I persuaded two of his patients of T.B. to adopt urine
treatment and they cured themselves."
2. Obstruction in Urination : A strange case came to c!octor
Maganlal Salaria. The patient Natha Kesarji is 35 and belongs to
Pavaiya class. When 21 years old, excision was performed on his
penis. This resulted in obstruction in urination. There was great DISEASES OF THE KIDNEY : 131
inflammatibn in the passage of urine and he had to be admitted.to
the Civi 1 Hospital. Medical efforts made the patient al ~ost dead. w1th
pain. At last some person acquain~ed with doctor Sa~ana, sent htm to
the latter's clinic. On 5-12-59 he was adm1tted there. An
examination of the doctor revealed that the passage of urine w~s
totally blocked due to high inflammation. Anyho-._v doctor Salana
decided to have a trial with urine cure before operatton.
Doctor Salaria gave his own urine to the patient three times upto
11 p.m. in the night. At 2-30 a.m. in the n.ight he visi~ed. the patient
and was surprized at what he saw. The pat1ent was enJ.oymg a. so~nd
sleep and his bed was drenched with his o~n unne. Unnat1on
continued but the patient was not at all aware of tt. When he awoke,
he felt great comfort. After that, he was made to drink his own urine.
Such is the miraculous power of urine.
Natha Kesaraji was cured within a couple of days and with a
smilling face he returned home after thanking doctor Sal aria.
3. Urine Trouble & Other Disorders : Shri Dahyalal M. Zave:i
from Morvi, Saurashtra, has a business of jewellery at Bomaby. He ts
81. Being very old, he leads a retired life in his ~ungalow
'Kuber-Bhavan' at Nasik Road. He had greatly benefited h1mself by
urine therapy and has donated Rs. 1 000/-to Bharat Sevak Samaj for
the noble work of the publicity of urine treatment.
In his letter dated 2-4-su ile wr'tes : "Four years ago I severely
suffered from the trouble ir. the urinary system. My prostrate gland
was operated and 1 stayed in the hospital for nearly ~ monht. B.ut t~e
flOW of urine WaS irregular and there WaS pain and tnflammat10n In
the passage. Such a condition cbntinued for. four years. During this
period, whenever some urine accumulated m the bladder, I had to
get up from bed in order to pass it out. Thus my sleep was 1nuch
disturbed. Getting up three or four times occasionally, I had to :ace
cold breeze and so 1 caught cold. I did all that the doctors advtsed
with an unwilling heart. I got myself X-rayed sixteen times and
submitted the photographs to the doctors who treated me for 21 days 132 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
and also administered injection. On account of this treatment itches
app.eared on the whole body and I went on scracthing like a 'patient
of nngworm so vigorously that blood oozed out.at several places 1
was unable to sit comfortably day or night. There was pain in the
shoulders an.d the chest. The doctor suggested for an examination of
the heart. W1th the use of strong poisonous medicines, urination was
r~n?ered extremely difficult and caused unbearable pain. 1 used to
Sit m a tub half-filled with warm water and obtained some relief.
Doctor suspected the possibility of stone in the bladder and so 1 had
treatment of stone as well!
nMy nephew had suffered from heart-attack and blood-pressure
He ~ad gone through your book Manav Mutra and had
exper~mented accordingly. One day he informed me that he had
?e~ef1ted from urine treatment. 1 read your book though 1 was
md1sposed and I started the urine treatment.
• 111 stoppe.d all medicines and took urine thrice a day. With the
m~ake. of unne, I had clear motions and there was no difficulty in
unnat1on. I ~I so started massage with old urine, after which 1 used to
take bath w1th warm water. ~he experiment continued for a month
and the following benefits were obtained:
n1. My constipation had been removed to a great extent. Now the
stools are of natural colour.
2. Piles are eliminated altogether.
3. Appetite has been revived and I enjoy my meals.
4. A scar of dry ringworm was cleared by urine rubbing.
5. I have no trouble whatSO<!ver in the back.
6. Urination is easy but slight burning sensation is still there due
to the narrowing down of the passage.
. 7. Getting up for urination at night is not more than once or
tWICe.
8. Previously as soon as some urine was accumulated, 1 had to DISEASES OF THE KIDNEY : 133
urinate. Now the feeling of urination arises only when the bladder is
full.
9. There is no attack of cold or fever or pain in the chest.
1 0. Eruption near the left ear has gone.
11. Two small spots EXl the right-hand affected with white leprosy
have been almost cleared.
12. lching Sensation disappeared by urine massage in the very
beginning.
13. Now everything gets digested without any ill-effect."
Thus I have been benefited in a number of ways and there is no
exaggeration in what I have stated.11
4. Severe Pain in the Urinary System : I have been repeatedly
warned that one whose blood pressure is low should not fast for a
long period and allow his weakness to increase. I had been
following this instruction myself. I can experiment but cannot
endanger my life. So whenever there was some danger during the
course of treatment, in order to applicable at the moment. As long as
· we cannot device a scientific system of urine application, we shall
have to keep such an attiude towards diseases of serious nature. It is
. our duty on enrich our knowledge about this treatment. To fulfil that
we have established a urine research centre at Ahmedabad.
During the course of my treatment, I caught cold in September,
last year (1960). I could not take urine in the required quantity as the
passing of urine was not sufficier.t. So there was inflammation on the
legs which increased gradually. So I had to see a doctor to get that
treated. But instead of being cured, I lost 10-11 lb. of water in the
form of urine. My weight which was 100 lb. fell to mere 89 lb. and I
felt myself extremely weak. As a result there was an attack of
paralysis on 21st of September, for which doctors administered
injections. The reaction was contrary to the expectation and the
passing of urine ceased and there was acute pain. A doctor in
neighbourhood was called to ge the urine out but it was not 134 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
sufficient because there was again obtruction. Twenty~four hours
passed and the pain was unbearable. The doctor had to be called
again. There is every danager of urinary tube getting inflammed by
insertion of instrument again and again. I suggested urine as an
antiseptic liquid for this instrument to be used internally. The doctor
agreed and followed my sggestion. Then 19 ounces of urine was
taken out.· It was dense, dirty and red. However, 1 got some relief
and soon after I felt pressure for urination. Urine passed in drops and
there was acute buning sensation. For this, the doctor prescribed
four tablets of certain medicine. I expressed my doubt the reaction
of those tablets.
This set me athinking. Soon I was clear in my mind. What a fool
am I? I advise others to adopt urine treatment and am pleased to
hear them do so. Why should I not again experiment on myself?
The flow of urine increased gradually as I took more and more urine
repeatedly.. The burning sensation diminished proportionately


  had been for years.
Most  people are now familiar with the orthodox methods  of dealing
with venereal disease. Sufferers are i nvited  to attend  clinics  where
they  are treated with injections.  The treatment  may last over a period
of either weeks or months. But although members  of the poorer classes
may  attend  these clinics, notabilities;  particularly  in the smaller  towns,
prefer to be treated by their own doctors, as they feel a certain
embarrassment  'at showing themselves  in a place where  they may  be
recognised.  In any event, the grave question  one asks  oneself i s: What
will be the after‐effects of there  injections?  It i s one thing to treat tLe
disease, but that is not the same as permanently  curing the patient.
Wrote  Dr. W. H. White,  M.D., of Orthodoxy:  " Medicine  ignores the i
ndividual `wholeness  and  treats the disease as a separate entity." Thus
there  are remedies  tabulated  for practically  any ailment from
rheumatism  to syphilis: but as the homoeopath  points out, what the
allopath calls  rheumatism  may  come from twenty different  causes
(were he to say from twenty different secondary  causes, this  would
more  approximate  to the truth) hence the name of the disease is of
really no importance.  Regarded  from  my particular ‐ point of view,  I
would even add  "nor how it has been contracted"  for the method of
cure,  as I have shown, is the same.  75
 To revert to the case of venereal disease I have cited.  If the young main
in question  had employed  urine‐therapy  from the first  instead of trying
to treat it with what are termed nature‐ cure methods,  I am convinced
that it would have been cured  far sooner.  From what I have been able
to gather frcm others who have tried  urine‐therapy  on their own, I have
good reason to believe that where venereal disease has been taken in
its initial stage,  or di'ring the Prst week, cures have been effected
anywhere  from between 48 to 96 hours; that is provided it has not
been complicated  by the usual treatment.  But of course as it is illegal
for me to treat this  age‐old affliction I am i n no position to furnish
case‐ histories. Still, to exclude from  these pages mention of such
diseases as the Medical Profession  reserve the right to treat by their
own methods  would be to leave my task only half fulfilled. Considering
that "a proportion  of all the blind, the deaf,  the mentally deficient  and
the crippled owe their disabilities  to venereal diseases"  (see Britain's
Health) it becomes the duty of any one, be he doctor  or layman, who
has found a means of curing it, to make his discovery  known so that
doctors can make use of it if they  wish. What we have to remember  is
that measures  employed  for treating venereal diseases, as most  others
also, have their day, are found perhaps to be unsatisfactory,  and  then
are superceded  by other  methods.  Although it is doubtful whether the
clinics  will be prepared to try urine‐therapy,  there  may  be some private
doctors who may be willing to give it a trial. Time alone can show.  I may
add, by the way, that although  doctors  do not realise the full value of
urine, there  are those who have pointed  out that if only men would
micturate  immediately  after coitus, the risk of contracting  venereal
disease would be minimised.  The late Mr. Baxter,  J.P., was right when 76
 he published  the fact that among other  things  urine possessed  strong
antiseptic  properties.

 77
 CHAPTER  XIII.
THE CURE OF WOUNDS  WHICH WOULD NOT  HEAL:
THE TREATMENT  OF BURNS.

I was destined  to prove  the value of urine‐therapy  in the treatment  of
wounds, when some years ago  through an accident  I suffered a grave
laceration  and injury to my toes, ankle and foot.  The toe‐nails were torn
off and  the toes forced back into the fleshy part of the foot.  Naturally
the shock and pain were very severe. All the same I rejected the help of
a medical friend, as I was resolved once  again  to prove  the effects of
urine‐treatment  on wounds.
After having the damaged  portions of my foot put into place by some
Physical Culture practitioners  who had  witnessed  the accident, I fasted
four days for the  shock (an approved  method) and  applied  cloths
saturated  in old urine to the affected parts. These bandages  were kept
moist  by repeated soakings; but were not unwound  until the fifth day.
When finally removed,  the results were astonishing;  all trace of the
injury had disappeared,  and the foot was healthy and supple as it had
been in early  youth. Incidentally  a corn  which  had troubled  me was
dissolved  by the treatment.
I have frequently  observed  similar effects even un wounds which  had
refused to heal, whether under  the  treatment  of common  medical,
herbal or other  remedi°s,  and  even where  amputation  had been
seriously discussed  as the only remaining  course to pursue.
 78
 From among the large  number of cases I have treated. I will now give
the history of a particularly


anchi@hotmail.frand gradually began conducting fasts. I felt bet-
ter after a ten -day fast, my joints were hurting
less, my capacity for movement increased. After
that I star ted walking more. Once after a walk I
had bad swelling in my left knee and horrible
pain. I thought that if I tried fasting without wa-
ter, then my swelling would come down faster.
To my surprise, the pain and the swelling went
away on the third day, which had never hap-
pened during water  fasting. The first time I dry
fasted for five days. Of course, it was harder than
a water  fast, but the results and the effect of dry
fasting impressed me. I realized that you can
achieve better results in a shorter period of time.
After that, I only fasted dry. Every week I dry
fasted for a day, and two times a year – for seven.
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knowledge I had received from other people’s
experience, I achieved a full cure from coxar-
throsis of the hip joints.
Last year I celebrated my 80th birthday as a
practically healthy man.
Reaching this age, which seemed improbable
and inaccessible 30 years ago, not only became a
reality, but a reality full of joy and happiness.
The tests that I conducted and my test results
show that I’m not only healthy, but also that for
me the age of 80 isn’t the time of decrepit old age
and suffering from ailments, on the contrary, it’s
the time of a normal life of a person looking for-
ward to the future. (... ).
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foremost take care of my moral health, and mon-
itor my nutrition regime, which rich in cereals,
vegetables, fruit, without salt or solid fats, and
maintain a high level of physical activity, but the
most important thing is systemic dry fasting.”
Subsequently, this unique example influenced
me greatly, affecting my decision to introduce
dry fasting into my practice.
One of the striking examples of the miracle of
fasting is the author of the homonymous book
Paul Bragg20. He tragically died surfing the ocean

20 Paul Chappuis Bragg  (1895 – 1976) was an American  alterna-
tive health  food advocate and fitness enthusiast.  He wrote on sub-
jects such as  detoxification, dieting, fasting, longevity, natural hy-
giene  and physical culture. His books are very popular in Russia.
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his very death.
Perhaps, one day doctors will accept fasting as
a powerful natural method of body rejuvenation,
which is in many ways superior to manipula-
tions with stem cells or expensive plastic surgery.
It’s important to understand that any effective
rejuvenation of the body is the result of internal
strength and processes working under favorable
conditions, and not of forcible states induced by
exotic actions. Health restoration, in other
words, termination of the pathological state and
rejuvenation are the same process.
If we could see fasting as a method that gives
the body an opportunity to not only free itself of
the load of accumulated toxins, but also  from the
burden of accumulated anomalous changes in its
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for the purposes of rejuvenation with enormous
success.

8.7. Preventive mechanism: protection
against radiation, adverse environmental fac-
tors, preve ntion of oncological diseases
Why does fasting protect from radiation and
why are fasts held on designated days?  In order
to answer this question comprehensively, we
are going to begin with what seems an entirely
different topic — how does radiation damag e
our organism? Radiation is a powerful flow of
energy which, when penetrating the organs,
cannot be assimilated by the cells because of its
power and causes a phenomenon of ionization
in them. Ionization is the tearing off of atoms
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ticles. As a result, a mass of radicals is formed in
the cells. A radical is an extremely biologically
active fragment of a molecule which combines
with DNA molecules and blocks their biological
properties, which start to damage its genetic ap-
paratus. Then a breakdown of the DNA and
RNA double helix takes place. As soon as that
happens, and it usually happens in the quickly
dividing cells of the gastrointestinal tract, the
cells stop dividing and start being destroyed as
foreign by the  organism’s own immune system.
A destructive process develops in the tissues.
Such micro -holes created by the aforemen-
tioned process are easily penetrated by infec-
tions (which are numerous in the gastrointesti-
nal tract) and then sepsis begins, leading to t he
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of interesting experiments on rats. One group
of rats was exposed to radiation or fed food con-
taining radionucleotides, and then starved. For
comparison purposes, a group of absolutely
healthy animals was starved, too. A physiologi-
cal period of starvation for rats is 12 days. All
animals in the healthy control group died after
this period, but the irradiated rats lived for 24
days, started to look even better than before,
and had no intention of dying. The researchers
had to kill the rats and thoroughly analyzed
their tissues, as a result of which they found out
that the rats looked excellent, as young, healthy
animals, and had no radioactive damage! Why
does this happen? It turns out, when fasting
during ad vanced biosynthesis, the body needs
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before, now is fully expended on this. The bad
turns into good! A number of other mecha-
nisms that protect the organism from radiation
during hunger were discovered at the same
time. Here they are:
1. The body restores the cells’ membranes by
increasing alcohol production. Restoration of
the cells’ membranes is nothing but a rein-
forcement of cellular barriers. As a result,
subsequent exposure to radiation will have a
less pronounced damaging effect on the cells.
2. Increased carbon dioxide content in the cells
decreases the ionization caused by exposure
to radiation.
3. The quickly dividing cells of the gastrointes-
tinal tract, which suffer the most from
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After all, they’re forced to divide quickly be-
cause they’re affected by their own digestive
enzymes, get damaged and desquamate. The
organism, owing to high speed of division of
these cells, restores the stomach and intesti-
nal walls. This do esn’t happen during fasting.
The gastrointestinal tract cells rest, and the
energy previously spent on accelerated divi-
sion is now used for restoring internal struc-
tures, repairing torn DNA and RNA helices.
This is also facilitated by enhanced biosyn-
thesis  inside the cell because of the fixation of
carbon dioxide in it, which doesn’t happen
during regular food intake. Owing to that,
they don’t die, don’t get rejected by their own
organism, and when the body switches to
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had happened and perform their former
functions to the full extent. But during regu-
lar food intake, these two processes of divi-
sion and restoration of the inner structures of
the cell can’t be carried out fully, and radia-
tion further exacerbates i t.
4. According to practical research, radiation
and radionucleotides are removed from the
human body in just 12 -14 days of water  fast-
ing or 5 -7 days of dry fasting


us, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue, and depression.
Excitotoxins are used heavily in both sweet and salty snack foods, and no law s restrict the use of these substances. Fast-food
chains hire food chemists to load our pizzas, tacos, fried chicken, bento boxes, an d the like with as much of these deadly additives
as possible, which keep us feeling “high” and coming back for more. A ll of the salty soy products, as well, (whether or not they
purport to contain MSG) are laden with highly excitotoxic free glutam ates. This is of special concern for the raw food community,
which tends to consume a tremendous amount of soy sauce, shoyu, liquid aminos, miso, and tamari.
In his personal film documentary, “Supersize Me,”  Morgan Spurlock created a vivid description of his experience living
exclusively on McDonalds’ food for 30 consecutive days. Although he did not sp ecifically use the term “excitotoxins,” he clearly
described the symptoms of addiction and withdrawal he experienced during th at month. News of the widespread use of excitotoxic
additives in junk foods is getting enough press that people are com ing to perceive a whole new level of reality in the 1960s Lay’s
potato chip jingle “nobody can eat just one.” Can you forget the tast e of Planter’s dry-roasted peanuts? (“Monosodium glutamate”
sits unabashedly on the label). Other junk foods, like Frito Lay’s “pla yfully mischievous” Cheetos snacks, boast multiple sources of
excitotoxic free glutamate. (Flamin’ Hot Cheese Flavored snacks, for  example, list monosodium glutamate, autolyzed yeast extract,
hydrolyzed soy protein, and sodium caseinate on the ingredient label.)

Fiber
Our commonly consumed cooked foods—meats and refined grain products—are ex tremely low in fiber. In fact, animal foods
contain no fiber.
Many health-minded people, thinking they are doing their bodies a favor, ende avor to eat whole-grain complex carbohydrates
to get fiber in their diets. They are on the right track, as fiber is wh at we remove from whole grains in order to make refined grains—
and dietary fiber is absolutely essential for digestive and overall he alth.
Unfortunately, these health seekers have been misled to believe tha t the fiber in grains is good for us. This is not true. There
are two broad categories of fiber, referred to as soluble and insoluble. Soluble f iber is an essential nutrient (one we cannot make
within our bodies and must therefore eat), found primarily in fruits and t o some degree in vegetables. It absorbs water and helps to
keep the stool bulky and soft. It functions as a sticky gel-like absorptive medi um to keep all substances moving through the intestines. Insoluble fiber is found primarily in grains.
Pectin and guar are the two most common soluble fibers. They are used in re cipes as thickeners because of their ability to hold
water. They also slow sugar absorption from the intestines, functionin g as built-in protection that prevent the sugars in fruits from
being absorbed into the bloodstream too rapidly. Ironically, in their isolated for m, pectin and guar are being used by the medical
establishment in the treatment of diabetics, while doctors insist th at diabetics should not consume fruit.
Before doctors truly understood the function of fiber, it used to be describ ed as a “scrub brush” for the intestines. The
insoluble fibers in grains (raw, sprouted, or cooked), however, are harsh on our de licate digestive tracts. Since they do not absorb
water, their edges and points remain sharp. These fibers literally sc rape at the delicate walls of our intestines, irritating them and
causing a thickening of the intestinal wall. This makes the fiber  less irritating but also reduces the body’s ability to absorb nut rients.
This irritation of the intestines and colon is what gives bran its re putation for encouraging bowel function. The body senses an
irritant and attempts to expel it as rapidly as possible, along with whate ver else is in the colon at the time. Anyone who uses bran
fiber for this purpose has noticed that after a short time they must inc rease the quantity of bran that they use in order to get the same
effect. The more the body increases the thickness of its mucous membran e to protect itself from irritation, the more bran must be
ingested. It is an endless cycle, similar to that of all substance abus e.
Reduced absorption, impeded assimilation, adhesion development, scar-tissue  formation, leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel
syndrome, spastic colon, colon blockages, diverticulitis, ulcerative c olitis, Crohn’s disease, and other digestive maladies are often the
outcome of consuming insufficient fiber or fiber that is too harsh. The s oft, soluble fibers found in fruits and vegetables are necessary
for optimum digestive and colon function.

Refined Simple Carbohydrates: Junk Food
The second category of carbohydrates is the refined simple carbohydrates  found in cookies, cakes, candies, and other
confections. Refined sugars are also added to drinks, cereals, complex carbohy drate foods of all types, and anywhere else that you
see the word “sweetener” or “sweetened.” If the ingredient list inc ludes corn syrup, fructose, galactose, sucrose, dextrose,
maltodextrin, dextrin, maltose, levulose, lactose, or almost any word ending  in “ose,” refined sugars have been added.
If people don’t eat lots of fruit, they typically eat something swe et at almost every meal anyway. Orange juice, sweetened
cereals, jellies, jams, sweet rolls, and sugar in coffee ensure that  the day starts off with sweets. Lunches and dinners usually are not
complete unless some type of sweet dessert follows. Be it coffee and cake, mi lk and cookies, or any of dozens of other typical
combinations, we have found a way to replace the healthy “sweet and j uicy” provided by fruit with unhealthy, refined sweet and
(well … wet, or at least gooey) choices.
Refined simple sugars, a category that includes table sugar, are t he classic all-time-best examples of “empty calories,” that is,
calories without their full complement of original nutrients inta ct. In all forms of refined foods, some part or parts of the original
nutrient package have been removed. Regardless of method, the refining of  a food reduces its nutritional value and creates nutrient
imbalances. In my opinion, refined foods have no place in the diet of anyone wis hing to improve their nutrition or any aspect of their
health.
Foods can contain partially empty or completely empty calories, depending upon  the amount of refinement the food has
undergone. When people add such empty calories to other ingredients t o create a dish, I refer to the finished product as “junk
food.”
Consumers have come to mentally lump all sugars—in fact all carb ohydrates—into one group, to which they attribute mostly
negative connotations. Along with complex carbohydrates, refined sw eets and fruits are commonly considered nothing but “another
source of sugar.”
The meat and dairy industries like to point fingers at sugars, declarin g them synonymous with empty calories. They have done
such a good job of marketing that to this day most people do not understand the differ ences between refined simple sugars (empty-
calorie junk foods) and the simple sugars in fruit (health food), thinki ng that “sugar is sugar.”
The empty calories in refined simple carbohydrates are so devoid of food value  as to bankrupt you nutritionally while they also
function as stimulants. Both the stimulation and the nutritional de ficit accelerate aging.

Fruits: Whole-Food Simple Carbohydrates
Whole, fresh fruit is the third and most overlooked source of carbohydrates. Fr uit comes in an intricate, highly nutritious
package that matches our nutritional needs better than any other cat egory of food. I recommend that virtually our entire
carbohydrate intake—80% of calories or more—come from the simple sugars  in whole, fresh fruit. These sugars are the optimal fuel
source for humans. The soft, water-soluble fiber in whole fruits allows  their sugars to absorb slowly and gradually, so high blood
sugar is not an issue (as long as your diet is low in fat … see Chapter 2.)
Fruits are the obvious choice for obtaining our carbohydrates, as they provi de the only substantial and healthful whole-food
source of simple sugar. Many classically trained nutritionists, an d most doctors, still erroneously refer to fruits as complex
carbohydrates, because some of their fiber (such as the skins, pith, etc.) i s composed of complex carbohydrates. Though these indigestible fibers are complex carbohydrate in nature, virtually al l of the carbohydrate calories in ripe fruit are simple mono- and
disaccharides. This misunderstanding has long been pointed out by sports phy siologists, who rely on the fact that the sugars in fruit
are simple in design and hence work extremely well before, during, and aft er all physical exertions.
Fruits never require cooking in order to be delicious and nutritious, and our bodi es digest them quickly and easily. (Some
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A genuinely healthy person almost never becomes acutely ill, and does not
have any disturbing or distracting symptoms; nothing interferes with or handicapstheir daily life or work. A healthy person has good energy most of the time, apositive state of mind, restful sleep, good digestion and elimination.
Healthy people do not have to live simon-pure lives to remain that way.
Healthy people can afford 10% dietary indiscretions by calorie count—eating ordrinking those things that they know are not good for them but that are fun to eator are “recreational foods or beverages.” Such “sinning” could mean a restaurantbash twice a month, having a pizza, French bread, beer or wine in moderation, icecream, cookies, cake, turkey for festive occasions, etc. The key concept ofresponsible sinning is keeping within that ten percent limit.
A diet for a healthy person that wants to remain healthy should not exceed the
digestive capacity of the individual, either in terms of quantity or quality. All foodsthat can not be efficiently digested should be removed from the regular diet andrelegated to the “sin” category, including those you are allergic to and those for
which you have inadequate digestive enzymes. I have encountered very few
people that can efficiently digest cooked meat, chicken, or fish, but some can, andsome can with the assistance of digestive enzyme supplements. In order to digestmeats, the stomach must be sufficiently acid, there must be enough pepsin,pancreatin, and bile, etc., and the meat should be eaten on the extremely rare side(not pork), in small quantities (not more than five or six ounces), and notcombined with anything except nonstarchy vegetables. If you must include meat inyour dietary, it should represent a very small percentage of your total caloricintake, be eaten infrequently, with the bulk of the calories coming from complexcarbohydrates such grains, legumes and nuts, as well as large quantities ofvegetables and fruits.
The healthy person that wants to stay that way for many, years is advised to
fast one day a week, to give the organs of elimination a chance to catch up ontheir internal housecleaning. If water fasting seems impossible, try a day of juicingit; if that is too rigorous, try a day on raw foods. A similar technique, though lessbeneficial than even a one day each week on raw foods, is delaying breaking yourovernight fast for as long as possible each day. Try giving up breakfast altogetheror postponing breaking your overnight fast, because from the time you stop eatingat the end of one day to the time you start eating the next is actually a brief,detoxifying fast.
Eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt can be assimilated by some healthy people with
or without digestive aids. It is possible to take lactase to break down the milksugars for example; sometimes aids such as hydrochloric acid, pepsin, andpancreatin help. If you can buy it or are willing to make it raw milk yogurtcontaining lactobacillus bulgaris or acidophilus may be digested more readily,especially if it prepared from healthy cows or goats fed on unsprayed food, andserved very fresh. Eggs should come from chickens that run around outside,eating weeds, and scratching bugs. The yolks of those eggs will be intense orange,not yellow. Few people these days have ever eaten a real egg. Surprisingly, for
those of you who fear cholesterol, the healthy way to eat eggs is use just the raw
yolk from fertile eggs. It is enjoyed by many people in a smoothie–fresh fruitblended up with water or milk. Eggs contain lecithin, a nutrient that naturallyprevents the body from forming harmful fatty deposits in the arteries.
Sea weeds are a wonderful source of minerals and should be eaten in soups
and salads. Other invaluable fortifying foods are algae of all kinds (such aschlorella and spirulina), lecithin, brewers yeast, and fresh bakers yeast. Manypeople have had very unpleasant experiences trying to eat living bakers yeast andso use brewers yeast instead. But brewers yeast is cooked and the proteins itcontains are not nearly as assimilable as those in raw yeast. Raw yeast is sopowerful, it feels like pep pills!
It takes a special technique to eat raw yeast because in the stomach and
intestines the yeast does the job it is supposed to do: convert sugars into alcoholand carbon dioxide gas. The entire digestive tract then bloats with gas and theperson will feel very uncomfortable for some time. However, raw yeast is amarvelous source of B vitamins and proteins and can make someone feel veryenergetic—if they know how to use it. The secret is to eat live yeast very firstthing in the morning on an empty stomach and then, not eat anything at all forabout two hours, giving the stomach acids and enzymes time to kill the yeasts anddigest them before adding sugars from another meal. Some like to eat yeast infresh cake form, buying it from a bakery. Others prefer dry granular baker’s yeastblended with water into a sort of “shake.” This is not a bad place to put your rawegg yolk either. If you need it sweetened to drink it, use an artificial or herbalsweetener like nutrisweet or stevia. Live yeast cannot consume milk sugars verywell. So if you can handle dairy, try one or two tablespoons of granulated liveyeast, an egg yolk and a little raw milk or yogurt, well whizzed.
Wheat germ is also a great, rich food, but is usually rancid unless it is taken out
of the refrigerated display; unless it is refrigerated, in a dated package and fresh,don’t eat it. Herb teas and roasted grain beverages are healthy beverages, along
with mineral and distilled water avoiding where possible chlorinated and
fluoridated water.
Diet Is Not Enough
Those isolated, long-lived peoples discovered by Weston A. Price had to do
hard physical labor to eat, had to walk briskly up and down steep terrain to getanywhere. But today, few North Americans output very much physical energy inprocess of daily life or work. Not only cars, but all of our modern conveniencesmake it possible to live without ever breaking into a sweat. We pay for this ease;it costs us a significant degree of health.
Exercise has many benefits when combined with excellent nutrition. It creates
an overall feeling of well-being that can not be created by diet alone. Exercisingtemporarily makes the heart beat faster, increasing blood circulation throughoutthe body right out to the tips of your fingers and toes. This short-term elevatedflow of blood flow brings increased supplies of oxygen and nutrients to all parts ofthe body, facilitating healing and repair. Without revving up your engine every daymany of the body’s systems never get the sludge burned out of them and neverperform optimally.
Exercise also changes the metabolic rate so your body burns more calories–
not only while you are exercising, but also for a 24 hour period following exercise.This maintains a healthful body weight into old age, or helps to lose weight. Mostpeople find that exercise in moderation does not increase appetite, so that it ispossible to consistently burn more calories in a day, and gradually reduce weight ifthat is desirable. It is necessary to burn 3,500 calories to lose a pound of weight.Most forms of exercise allow you to burn 300 to 600 calories per hour at amoderate pace which would be achieved by doubling the resting pulse. Withouteven considering the weight-loss benefit of achieving a raised metabolism, an hourof daily exercise continued for a week or two dependent upon the type ofexercise and pace should lead to one pound of weight loss if the caloric intake is
held constant.
The flip side of having a higher metabolism is rarely appreciated but is
extremely important. Recall the basic equation of health: Health = Nutrition /Calories. Exercise permits a person to eat somewhat more while not gainingweight. If the food is nutrient rich, the body has a chance to extract more vitamins,more minerals, more amino acids. The person who remains slender by rigidlyreducing their food intake to near starvation levels may lack vital, health-buildingnutrition.
And only exercise moves lymphatic fluid. The blood is pumped through the
body by the heart, but the lymphatic system, lacking a heart, requires muscularcontractions to move from the extremities of the body to the central cavity. Thelymphatic system picks up cellular waste products and conducts these toxins todisposal. Frequently, people with rheumatic aches and pains or other generalizedmuscular discomforts physicians like to give Latin diagnostic names to can give uptaking pain pills if they will but begin exercising regularly. Only when they beginmoving their lymph can they begin to detoxify properly.
There is another benefit from exercise which is not to be ignored, and that is
that it gives the person a chemical sense of well being. It actually will help toemotionally boost up people who are chronically depressed and make them smile.After a good workout, especially one done outside, everything seems brighter,more positive; whatever was bothering you somehow just doesn’t seem like thatbig of a deal now. I am not making pro-exercise propaganda. This is not a figmentof the imagination. An exercising body really does make antidepressantneurochemicals called endorphins, but only after about 45 minutes to an hour ofaerobic workout.
Endorphins are powerful, with painkilling and euphoric effects equal to or
greater than heroin, but without any undesirable side effects. If chemists couldlearn to cheaply synthesize endorphins I’m sure


 It has been said that "a coward dies many deaths but a brave man only dies once." There has never been a time in the history of American foods that they are as safe as now. These additives make our foods safer and have a more lasting result than all the vaccines that some doctors give.
There are foods that do have too much additives in them. One is
ice cream. It has many additives, it won't even melt. It's a smooth, vel-vety, sweet flavor, but it has very little food value. It will rot instead of turning to a whey. Any ice cream th at will not melt, or will not turn
to a whey, is unsafe to use for food, as it does not have much nutrient in it. Good ice cream will melt into a milkshake, and there are some of these now on the market.
Some orange juices are diluted with water and have a preservative
that makes it dangerous to drink for people with a high cholesterol or a high urea. It is always safer to drink fresh orange juice.
I have a very high respect and highly recommend Ocean Spray
Cranberry Juice and Welch's Unsweetened Grape Juice. If these com-panies keep their products in the future as well as now they will be
great products in years to come. The unsweetened grape juice has the natural grape sugars in it. I also have great respect for Dole and Del Monte Pineapple Juice. Pineapple, unsweetened, whether in slices or crushed, is very rich in minerals.
Most everyone should eat a little pineapple once or more a week
(unless they are allergic to it). Always use the fresh fruit whenever possible. When buying, always buy the fruit that feels solid and is the heaviest. 118 Be temperate in all things and use a great variety of foods.
It's much easier to maintain a higher reserve energy rating by fol-
lowing these principles.   119 CHAPTER 16
MIN-COL

While in college I became aware of  the great mineral deficiencies
in our foods.
In 1934 I discovered the best of the minerals that is still on the
market today, Min-Col. This is a derivative from bone meal which is very effective in rebuilding bone structure, etc.
Min-Col is the essence of bone meal. There is approximately 60
pounds of this substance in a ton of bone meal, but man has never learned to get over three or four pounds out of a ton. It is a bit expen-sive. There are 100 capsules in a bottle, so 3½ bottles would be
enough for a person for a year. Therefore you have spent approximate-ly $50 (unless during pregnancy), besides no cavities, no dental bills and strong teeth and strong bones. What you spend for these capsules decreases what you would have to spend with orthopedic surgeons and dentists.
There is no other product on the market today that I know of that
even remotely equals the high quality  and standard of Min-Col. There
are some counterfeit substances on the market of very low quality (have not been proven over a period of 45 years). I raised six children with Min-Col with no cavities in their teeth and no receding gums, (plus a good diet) and no days missed from school because of illness.
Six-month-old babies should take ½ of one Min-Col capsule daily.
Let the mother break it open and put it on the foods. This will cause the child to have strong teeth. They will not have cavities or lose their teeth too early. At four years of age they should take one capsule a day for 96 years, and if they live to be older than that, repeat the dose.
Females should take two capsules twice a day during pregnancy,
assuming they have been taking one capsule a day previously. After the baby is weaned, then go back to one capsule a day.
When fingernails tear easily, are rigid, thin, have rough edges or
have white spots, this is a sign of a need of Min-Col. 120 When the calciums drop too low people become irritable and
nervous. If you take the wrong calciums, or you are not taking enough
of the right kind of calciums, then problems will result.
We need to keep in mind to be sure to use the right calciums in the
right amount at the right time. By right amounts you have to consider age, height, weight and diet.
Healthy people's diet should be 30 to 35% roughage, or cellulose
(even in animal feed this should be the same amount). If you will use 35% cellulose fiber in your diet, then you will not have any digestive problems such as constipation. After you have become ill and you have problems in the colon you will find that the liver bile is too dilute to break down the cellulose enough for it to be effective, and the lower the reserve energy, the weaker the di gestive juices and the less miner-
als you get out of the food.
You are caught in a cycle of a chain reaction when everything you
do is wrong as far as correcting your diet. Until you get your body back into range A of the RBTI test everything you eat is against you. So you need help in getting your body chemistry back into range A.
This can be done under supervision in less than a week, generally in three or four days. It does not mean that you are well the first day the body chemistry is moved back into range A. It indicates that nature is repairing the damage as rapidly as possible.
One thing to remember about the numbers is that a change in one
number indicates a change in all numbers. Something Iike the Ten Commandments, if you break one, you break all. It is almost impossi-ble to fool these numbers because of cause and effect. "Well, my numbers change quite often," you say.
The lower your reserve energy the more effect your diet has on
your numbers, but if you have a high reserve energy you can eat most anything and it won't change the numbers. The very fact that your numbers are jumping around means that you have a low reserve ener-gy.
Avocados and mangos are very high in minerals. Avocados are as
rich in proteins and minerals as is a beef steak. Mangos are a very good fmit and rich in minerals, but if it is very ripe you need to get in-121 to a bathtub to eat it because it gets all over you. Some people are al-
lergic to mangos or avocados. People having this problem should not
use them. Remember, there is hardly any food that somebody is not allergic to. Where can you find mangos? You will find that mangos (man goes) wherever woman goes.
People with ulcers of the stomach, high delta cells in the stomach,
colitis, colon pockets, hemorrhoid condition, and inflamed pancreas, and inflamed appendix, should not eat nuts or popcorn at all. It doesn't
matter how well you chew these foods, little particles collect in the decayed spots or in the ulcerated area, or in the colitis where irritated in the intestinal tract, and can cause soreness, protrusion, swelling, and a lot more suffering than is necessary.
Refrain from the use of nuts, with the exception of coconut. People with digestive problems such as just mentioned can use
Aloe Vera Gel (one tablespoon twice a day, between meals, taken in carbonated drinks such as Collins Mixer, 7-Up, etc.).
Aloe Vera Gel helps shrink hemorr hoids. It is one of the finest
healing agents for digestive problems.
It is good to learn to tell your tongue what you are going to eat,
whether it considers it good for you or not. Evil spirits can get in the body of even saints at times if they do not eat the proper diet. The evil spirit knows that the weaker the saint becomes physically the less faith he will have, and the less capable he is of making up his mind and the less works he will have. So it is the evil spirit's job to decrease the strength so the works won't increase.
The demon is sent into your body for the sole purpose of killing
you, and when he kills you he does not die, he goes into someone else and does the same thing. Evil spirits in people does not mean that they
are lost by any means. It is something like the rat being in a hole in a happy home. He is an undesirable visitor. Evil spirits demand the foods that they like, and they will demand it until the person is dead, eating the very foods that are killing the person and making them hate the foods that the person needs to recover his health. It says in the Bi-ble that Jesus cast out evil spirits and the people became well immedi-ately. This is a miracle. However, if you refuse to eat the foods that 122 the evil spirit demands, you are resisting him as is written in James
4:7, and he will leave your body because unless you obey him, he will
not stay. For it is in essence whether or not we control our taste buds (or tongue), or they control us.   123 CHAPTER 17
CASE HISTORIES

There are three classes of people: Those not sick who want to be. Those very sick and they know it. Those very sick and don't know it. This last group is a sad group, and this is particularly true of ath-
letes. At the retreats when moving the body chemistry of young men from range C to range A, they will go through severe withdrawal, probably vomiting like an alcoholic would go through when he is so-
bering


. Yet the glass of my limited beliefs was
shattered the day my spouse and I observed that our one-year-old daughter had a small, light-brown
spot on the top of her front tooth. I wasn’t sure if this spot was a cavity or not.
Days, weeks, and then months went by. To our horror, the spot continued to grow and other teeth also
began discoloring. As a natural-healthcare-oriented parent, who protects my daughter from chemical
exposure in the forms of processed junk foods and western drugs, I was extremely concerned at the
thought of taking my precious little girl to a dentist for drilling and filling. Can you imagine what a
dental treatment would be like for a toddler? A one-and-a-half-year-old child cannot sit still for a
dentist and would not be able to understand the ordeal she was being put through. The typical dental
treatment prescribed for young children with many cavities involves surgery under general anesthesia.
Since I wished to avoid traumatic anesthesia and surgery for my daughter as well as the option of
having her teeth pulled, I was left with a grave dilemma. I had to decide whether to subject her to a
dental treatment—which to me was inappropriately forceful for a small child who was not
experiencing any pain or suffering—or I had to find the real cause of her cavities and stop them. At
the peak of my daughter’s tooth decay her teeth disintegrated so rapidly that the first decayed tooth
crumbled apart within a period of a few weeks. This caused me and my spouse Michelle much
distress, along with feelings of helplessness.
I know what it feels like to have tooth cavities. While my daughter’s teeth were decaying, I was
diagnosed with four new cavities. I was not prepared to have more synthetic materials added to my
already overburdened body. At the same time as the new cavities had been discovered, I was also
feeling a great deal of sensitivity on the sides of many of my molars, near the gum lines which
wouldn’t even be addressed by drilling and filling my four cavities.
Five years after the original decay, my teeth, once sensitive and loose in my mouth feel tight, firm and
strong like diamonds without sensitivity. Five years later, my daughter has four new, healthy, cavity-
free adult teeth, and her baby teeth have ceased to be a problem. Her decayed teeth have protected
themselves. Success is not just my own, it comes to people who follow the principles you will learn
in this book. It brings me joy every time a parent writes to inform me that their young child, who had
been suffering from tooth decay, has just been spared costly and painful dental surgery, or when I
learn of an adult who has saved a tooth from the dentist’s drill.
These results were not accomplished by luck, nor by some special product, chemical, or dental
treatment, but by food alone. And you will learn here everything you need to know to enjoy the same
results.
Important Considerations before We Begin
Please note there are now two versions of
Cure Tooth Decay
 available with identical content. New
copies of
Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition
 (ISBN 9780982021309)
will have the same content as
Cure Tooth Decay: Remineralize and Repair Cavities Naturally(ISBN 9780982021323). I have done this due to logistical and marketing hurdles related to online
book retail sales.
Anyone can remineralize their tooth cavities. However for some of us with severe health challenges, I
estimate between 1-3% of the readership, there will be added steps necessary that are beyond the
scope of this book or my knowledge. For these individuals good food alone cannot create optimal
health. If you have a serious or debilitating health problem, some of the advice in this book may not
benefit you. I also do not advocate avoiding dentists, but rather advocate that you make choices that
feel good to you.* * *Chapter 1
Dentistry's Inability to Cure Cavities
Your teeth are not designed to decay!
They were designed to remain strong, resilient and cavity
free for your entire life. Why would Nature plan for the failure and pain of disintegrating teeth?
Without healthy teeth and gums, we cannot digest food properly and we eventually will not thrive. In
this book you will learn that tooth decay is not a result of Nature’s failure or a “fact” of aging, but due
to the human error of poor food selection.
Decaying teeth can be a scary and painful process. When in a state of fear and panic, we tend to
disregard the most sensible decision we could make: to search for the real cause, rather than succumb
to the easy and passive response of allowing a dentist to “fix” the problem for us. Yet when searching
for the real cause of tooth decay, many people get lost in a maze of misleading information. Your
search is over; herein you will find real and natural solutions to tooth decay.
We have been taught, for the most part, that tooth decay is as inevitable as death and taxes, and that
we have no choice in the matter. In this chapter you will learn how the power to cure cavities is in
your hands. We will examine the history of dentistry so that you can become aware of how false and
misleading beliefs about tooth decay can turn you into a dentistry victim.Reaffirm Your Choice to Cure Your Cavities
Change begins with a decision. By picking up this book you have either made the decision already, or
are considering an important decision in your life: the decision to be responsible for your teeth in a
new way. For those who have decided “I want to cure my own cavities,” I want to affirm to you that
this is an enlivening decision to make. For those of you who have yet to decide, I urge you to look
deeply within for a moment and see if you are willing to commit to do what it takes to change the fate
of your teeth.
The essential keys to remineralizing teeth are found not only in this book. The answers are within
your biology but they simply have been lost or misplaced. This is a guidebook designed to help you
establish and implement your own tooth or gum healing diet and to restore a connection with your
body through food.
You are not a passive victim to tooth decay. Rather by mistake, you have likely contributed to your
teeth’s own demise. This principle of responsibility brings us self-respect, integrity, and a sense of
hope that what seems to be outside of our realm is actually under our personal control. I have found
that healing cavities is not just about the physical process of substituting nutrient-devoid foods for
their nutrient-rich alternatives. It is an opening up to life itself. It is reaching out and growing. It is a
small death of the old ways of being. Those who have successfully conquered their tooth decay have
embraced the principles of this book and have
taken it upon themselves to heal
. They looked within,
trusted themselves, and in some ways acted out of the involuntary consciousness that instructs and
guides us. Many people are faced with difficult choices about their teeth in shades of gray. I have
found that the answer to these dilemmas, whether concerning your teeth or other matters, bubble forth
from within you. I encourage you to take everything I have written in this book as a pointer to your
inner knowing and not as a replacement for it. You are the ultimate authority when it comes to your
dental health.
The Real Cause of Cavities
The essential causes of tooth decay have been known to the modern world for approximately eighty
years. Harvard Professor Earnest Hooton clearly and succinctly summarized the problem: “It is store
food that has given us store teeth.”
Remembering Your Connection
Healing cavities is about being connected to life. Our modern society generally exists in a fragmented
state of disconnection. When we are out of touch with life, or out of touch with ourselves, the
connection between the cause of disease and its effects is lost and we can feel like powerless victims
of disease, without any real recourse. Since modern society is based upon supporting our
disconnection from ourselves and others, it has not been able to support a real cure for cavities.
Healing cavities is about reconnecting with yourself, and Nature, through correct food choices.Fear of the Dentist
Many people are afraid of the dentist and there is a good reason why. Their bodies are giving them a
strong message, through the feelings of fear and avoidance. “Do not drill another hole in my teeth!”
How Conventional Dentistry Works
When you go to the dentist for a checkup he (or she) will use x-rays, a dental examiner, and visual
inspection to see if there are any cavities present. When a cavity is found, the dentist gives you the
bad news. As they are taught in dental school and legally required to do, dentists offer their patients a
surgical treatment for the disease of dental caries in the form of removing the diseased part of the
tooth by drilling and replacing it with a synthetic material.
Tooth Drilling
In the drilling procedure conventional dentists will use a high speed drill, because it saves time,
which drills as fast as 350,000 rotations per minute. High speed drilling creates high friction and
raises the temperature of the tooth nerve causing irreversible nerve damage in 60% of cases. In
addition, a negative vacuum pressure from the high speed shatters a portion of the fragile microscopic
nutrient tubules within each tooth.


 clarified.
HL-60 HUMAN CELL LINE
The HL-60 human cell line was developed from peripheral blood leukocytes in a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia, which are generally promyelocytes.
15
This HL-60 cell line has been used as a unique in vitro  model to study various 125 DMSO in Malignancy
important aspects of human myeloid cell differentiation. When these promyelocyte
cells underwent incubation for 5–7 days with appropriate concentrations of DMSO, they were able to differentiate into normal, peripheral blood granulocytes, despite their karyotypic abnormalities and leukemic origin.
18 These peripheral blood granu -
locytes were capable of phagocytizing bacteria and develop complement receptors.18
Treatment of human promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells with DMSO is known
to cause differentiation of these cells along granulocytic/neutrophilic differentiation lineage.
19 After DMSO treatment, cultured granulocytic HL-60 cells eventually die
via apoptosis. This process of apoptotic death induced by DMSO involves enhancing the effector proteins Bak and Bad while downregulating the apoptosis suppressor protein Bcl-2.
19 The ectopic expression of Bcl-2 protein is able to prevent apoptosis
of granulocytes and monocyte/macrophage by a number of differentiating agents, but not when DMSO is used. Induction of apoptosis in macrophages by DMSO is of pathological significance because macrophages produce free radicals and inflamma -
tory cytokines that can damage normal cells.
20
METASTATIC LIVER DISEASE
Metastasis is the principal cause of death in cancer patients, and once it occurs, the most fundamental aspect of these cancer cells is their ability to sustain chronic growth. This growth differs from normal cell proliferation because the latter takes care to control the production and release of growth-promoting signals that ensure a homeostatic cell growth and cell number. Cancer cells have the unique ability to deregulate or block these signals and, essentially, do what they please.
21
Metastatic liver disease is a malignant tumor in the liver that has spread from
another organ affected by cancer. Metastatic liver disease is frequently associated with primary colorectal carcinoma. More than half of the patients with metastatic liver disease will die from metastatic complications. This disease is the sixth lead -
ing cancer worldwide and the second in cancer-related deaths in the United States.
22
The reason the liver is a common site for cancer metastasis is due to its abundant
blood supply, and since both lobes of the liver are usually involved, surgical removal is not possible unless a liver transplant is performed. Chemotherapy and a partial hepatectomy, especially in young people, is a possible treatment when only one lobe becomes cancerous. However, due to the rich blood supply of the liver, bleeding after surgery is a concern.
One procedure by Salim
23 using electrocoagulation + DMSO (500 mg by mouth)
attempted to destroy liver metastases spread from advanced colonic cancer and reduce bleeding complications. A significant 5-year survival rate was obtained with -
out major adverse effects in 78 patients with liver malignancy randomized to be treated with electrocoagulation + DMSO as compared to electrocoagulation only consisting of 77 patients.
23 The possible free radical–scavenging ability by DMSO
was considered as a major factor in the long-term efficacy of this procedure.23
Tumor cells in culture generally grow in disarray unlike normal nontumorigenic
cells. When these tumor cells are exposed to 1%–2% DMSO in culture, the random piling is drastically abolished within 3 days and instead, monolayers of cells in regular parallel orientation are seen to form, a pattern typical of nonmalignant fibroblasts.
24 126 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
These morphological changes from malignant to nonmalignant cells in culture could
be maintained indefinitely as long as DMSO was kept present.24
When DMSO was removed from the medium, reversal of these cells to the
malignant state occurred after 3 days. It is possible that some of the properties that characterize DMSO, such as its stability, highly polar nature, and dielectric con-stant greater than that of water, which can enhance cell permeability, may explain, at least in part, the influence of this solvent on the hydration and solvation shells that surround the membrane components of the malignant cells and their ultimate transformation to benign cells.
24 These findings suggest that cancer is a disease of
differentiation.25
However, the precise identification of the defect involved in the transformation
of normal cells to malignant cells as well as the induction of cell differentiation by DMSO to normal cells is not easy to explain. Cancer cells seem to lose important control systems due to damage or loss of the genes inside the cells, a process known as mutation. Damage to the cell can be caused by a variety of factors. These factors, or carcinogens, can make the cell multiply abnormally to create cancer.
DMSO COMBINED WITH ANTICANCER AGENTS
A strain of spontaneous rat lymphatic leukemia inbred rats exposed continually to low, oral concentrations of DMSO produces physiological changes in these animals that increases the therapeutic effects of the antineoplastic agent cyclophosphamide while also lowering its threshold toxicity.
26 This positive finding in a rat leukemic
model suggests that combining DMSO with antitumor compounds in the treatment of human cancer is both feasible and attarctive.
26 It also implies that the toxicity
seen with many of the anticancer agents may be lowered when DMSO is used as an adjuvant.
This suggestion was supported by a sequential study from the same authors who
reported that 12 anticancer agents administered to tumor-bearing rodents in the pres -
ence of 0.25% DMSO in the drinking water for over 1 year increased antineoplastic potency in 8 of these agents.
27 Several of the parenterally administered antineo -
plastic agents given with oral DMSO also inhibited the tumor growth rate in these animals.
27
Several trials of DMSO on human cancer were attempted using cyclophospha -
mide and large doses of DMSO. It was reported that when 5%–10% DMSO was given orally or intravenously to 10 patients with a brain tumor, no enhancing effects of cyclophosphamide in the cerebrospinal fluid or plasma was seen.
28 In another
study, 15 renal carcinoma patients were given thioTEPA combined with 2% DMSO by mouth, but no beneficial effects on the tumors were noted.
29
Basal cell carcinoma is a malignant epithelial neoplasm of the skin, which
remains the most common cutaneous malignancy in Caucasians, with as many as 2 million new cases expected to occur yearly in the United States.
30 Although basal
cell carcinoma is not usually life threatening, it has become a medical problem of growing concern. Surgical excision remains the standard treatment for this tumor, but nonsurgical modalities also have achieved acceptable cure rates, particularly photodynamic therapy.
31127 DMSO in Malignancy
The basis of photodynamic therapy depends on a photoactivating light, a photo -
sensitizer such as 5-delta-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA), tissue oxygen, and a target
cell. Photosensitizers can be given systemically or locally on the skin. Topical pho -
todynamic therapy is generally well tolerated, and the usual side effects following 5-ALA include erythema and pain at the site of application.
32
Recent studies have shown that topical photodynamic therapy with 5-ALA
and DMSO in 60 patients with basal cell carcinoma resulted in 81% of the patients becoming symptom-free 72 months after treatment with good cosmetic outcome.
33
A similar study evaluated the long-term follow-up for 19 cases of Bowen’s disease,
a neoplastic skin disease also called squamous cell carcinoma, in which patients were given topical 5-ALA plus DMSO with a single exposure to 630 nm diode laser at differing energy dosages. At 60 months, 57% of the patients treated with 5-ALA and DMSO showed no histologic signs of squamous cell carcinoma.
34
DMSO IN EXTRAVASATION
DMSO has been used to reduce extravasation of cytotoxic agents given to cancer patients intravenously. Extravasation or leakage of these agents from the blood into the surrounding tissue is a true medical emergency that requires immediate action to prevent ulceration or tissue necrosis. The only licensed drug that is used in the United States to reverse extravasation of anthracycline, a class of drugs used in
 cancer chemotherapy, is dexrazoxane,35 a derivative of ethylene diamine tetraacetic
acid (EDTA), which chelates iron ions bound to anthracycline to lower the formation of superoxide radicals.
36
However, cooling and topical DMSO over the area of extravasation has been
shown effective in reducing small anthracycline extravasations.37 The advantages of
DMSO and cooling are the rapidity of preventing anthracycline tissue damage fol -
lowing extravasation and substantial cost-effective savings due to the high cost of a hospital maintaining dexrazoxane in its inventory.
Although brief reports and anecdotal accounts have often appeared attesting the
usefulness of DMSO in the treatment of lymphomas


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 by  evil spirits. If a member of the tribe falls ill, the shaman (the “medicine” man or woman) is expected to intercede with the spirit world to bring about a cure. Shamans often enter the spiritual realm with the aid of hallucinogenic plants or fungi, such as ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi, p. 176), taken  by Amazonian shamans, or fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), taken by traditional healers of the Siberian steppes.  At the same time, the shaman provides medical treatment
for the physical needs of the patient—putting salves and compresses on wounds, boiling up decoctions and barks
for internal treatment, stimulating sweating for fevers, and so
Mistletoe, which the Druids called “golden bough,” had a central place in their
shamanistic religious and healing ceremonies. The Druids had a well-developed knowledge of medicinal plants.
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on. Such treatment is based on a wealth of acutely observed
plant lore and knowledge, handed down in an oral tradition
from generation to generation.
The Development of Medicinal Lore
It is generally recognized that our ancestors had a wide range
of medicinal plants at their disposal, and that they likewise
possessed a profound understanding of plants’ healing powers.
In fact, up until the 20th century, every village and rural
community had a wealth of herbal folklore. Tried and tested
local plants were picked for a range of common health
problems and taken as teas, applied as lotions, or even mixed
with lard and rubbed in as an ointment.
 But what were the origins of this herbal expertise? There
are no definitive answers. Clearly, acute observation coupled
with trial and error has played a predominant role. Human
societies have had many thousands of years to observe the
effects—both good and bad—of eating a particular root,
leaf, or berry. Watching the behavior of animals after they
have eaten or rubbed against certain plants has also added
to medicinal lore. If one watches sheep or cattle, they almost
unerringly steer a path past poisonous plants such as ragwort (Senecio jacobaea ) or oleander ( Nerium oleander ). Over and
above such close observation, some people have speculated
that human beings, like grazing animals, have an instinct that
recognizes poisonous as opposed to medicinal plants.
Ancient Civilizations
As civilizations grew from 3000 bce
onward in Egypt, the Middle East,
India, and China, so the use of
herbs became more sophisticated,
and the first written accounts of
medicinal plants were made. The
Egyptian Ebers papyrus of c. 1500
bce is the earliest surviving
example. It lists dozens of
medicinal plants, their uses, and
related spells and incantations. The
herbs include myrrh ( Commiphora molmol, p. 85), castor oil
(Ricinus communis, p. 262), and garlic ( Allium sativum, p. 59).
 In India, the Vedas, epic poems written c. 1500 bce, also
contain rich material on the herbal lore of that time. The
Vedas  were followed in about 400 bce by the Charaka Samhita,
written by the physician Charaka. This medical treatise
includes details of around 350 herbal medicines. Among
them are visnaga ( Ammi visnaga, p. 62), an herb of Middle
Eastern origin that has recently proven effective in the
treatment of asthma, and gotu kola ( Centella asiatica, p. 76),
which has long been used to treat leprosy.
Medicine Breaks from its
Mystical Origins
By about 500 bce in developed
cultures, medicine began to separate
from the magical and spiritual
world. Hippocrates (460–377 bce),
the Greek “father of medicine,”
considered illness to be a natural
rather than a supernatural
phenomenon, and he felt that
medicine should be given without
ritual ceremonies or magic.
 In the earliest Chinese medical
text, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of
Internal Medicine  written in the 1st
century bce, the emphasis on rational
medicine is equally clear: “In treating
illness, it is necessary to examine
the entire context, scrutinize the Shiva, the Hindu god who oversees health, is traditionally thought to live under the bael tree,
an important medicinal plant in India.
The bump  in the right cheek of this
Peruvian figurine may represent
coca, taken in that country to
increase endurance.Castor oil plant
has been used
medicinally for
about 4000 years.
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The developmen T of herbal medicinesymptoms, observe the emotions and attitudes. If one
insists on the presence of ghosts and spirits one cannot  speak of therapeutics.”
Foundation of Major Herbal Traditions
300 bce–600 ce
Trade between Europe, the Middle East, India, and Asia was
already well under way by the 2nd century bce, and trade routes became established for many medicinal and culinary herbs. Cloves (Eugenia caryophyllata, p. 97), for example, which are native to the Philippines and the Molucca Islands near New Guinea, were imported into China in the 3rd century bce, and first arrived in Egypt around 176 ce. As the centuries passed, the popularity of cloves grew, and by the 8th century ce, their strong aromatic flavor and powerfully antiseptic and analgesic properties were familiar throughout most of Europe.
 As trade and interest in
herbal medicines and spices flourished, various writers tried to make systematic records of plants with a known medicinal action and record their properties. In China, the Divine
Husbandman’s Classic
(Shen’nong Bencaojing), written in the 1st century ce, has 364 entries, of which 252 are herbal medicines, including bupleurum ( Bupleurum
chinense, p. 72), coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara,
p. 278), and gan cao ( Glycyrrhiza uralensis). This Daoist text
laid the foundations for the continuous development
and refinement of Chinese herbal medicine up to the
present day. In Europe, a 1st-century ce Greek physician named Dioscorides wrote the first European herbal, De Materia Medica. His intention was to produce an accurate and authoritative work on herbal medicines, and in this he was dramatically successful. Among the many plants mentioned are juniper (Juniperus communis, p. 224), elm (Ulmus carpinifolia), peony (Paeonia officinalis, p. 243), and burdock (Arctium lappa, p. 65). The text, listing about 600 herbs in all, was to have
an astonishing influence on Western medicine, being the principal reference used in Europe until the 17th century.
It was translated into languages as varied as Anglo-Saxon, Persian, and Hebrew. In 512 ce, De Materia Medica became the first herbal to feature pictures of the plants discussed. Made for Juliana Arnicia, the daughter of the Roman emperor Flavius Avicius Olybrius, it contained nearly 400 full-page color illustrations. Galen (131–200 ce), physician to the Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius, had an equally profound influence on the development of herbal medicine. Galen drew inspiration from Hippocrates and based his theories on the “theory  of the four humors” (see p. 32). His ideas shaped and, some would say, distorted medical practice for the next 1,400 years. In India and in China, elaborate medical systems somewhat resembling the theory of the four humors developed (see
pp. 36–38 and pp. 40–41 respectively) that have endured to the present day. Though European, Indian, and Chinese systems differ
widely, they all consider that imbalance within the constituent elements of the body is the cause of illness, and that the aim of the healer is to restore balance, often with the aid of herbal remedies.
Folk Healing in the Middle Ages
The theories of Galenic, Ayurvedic (Indian), and Chinese traditional medicine, however, would have meant practically nothing to most of the world’s population. As is still the case today for some indigenous peoples who have little access
to conventional medicines, in the past most villages and communities relied on the services of local “wise” men and women for medical treatment. These healers were almost certainly ignorant of the conventions of scholastic medicine, yet through apprenticeship and practice in treating illness, attending childbirth, and making use of locally growing herbs as a natural pharmacy, they developed a high level of practical medical knowledge. Galen’s “four humors,” which he believed
made up the human constitution.Frontispiece decoration for the first illustrated herbal, Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica, produced in Constantinople in 512 ce.
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 peoples to reduce
fevers, as a stimulant, and as a post-malarial treatment.
Caution  Do not take guarana if suffering
from cardiovascular disease or from high blood
pressure. It should also not be taken during
pregnancy or while breastfeeding.Peganum harmala
(Zygophyllaceae)
Harmala,
African Rue
Description  Multi-branched shrubby perennial
growing to 20 in (50 cm). Has deeply cleft linear
leaves, white 5-petaled flowers, and rounded
3-celled seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to the Middle
East, North Africa, and southern Europe, harmala
is naturalized in other subtropical regions, including
Australia. It thrives in saline soil in semidesert areas.
The seeds are gathered in summer.
Parts Used  Seeds, root.
Constituents  Harmala contains up to 4%
indole alkaloids (including harmine, harmaline,
and harmalol). Harmine has been used to help
alleviate the tremors of Parkinsonism.
Harmala,  which thrives in dry conditions, has been used
as an intoxicant in the Middle East.
SeedsHistory & Folklore  Since the earliest times,
harmala has been used in the Middle East as
a means to induce intoxication. Known to the
Greek physicians Dioscorides (40–90 ce) and
Galen (131–200 ce), as well as to their Arabic
counterpart Avicenna (980–1037 ce), harmala
was also used to expel intestinal worms and to
promote the onset of menstrual flow.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Despite its long
history as a euphoric and purportedly aphrodisiac
herb, harmala is little used in contemporary
Western herbal medicine because of its potential
toxicity. The seeds have been taken, especially
in the Middle East, to treat a very wide range
of conditions, including high blood pressure, eye
problems, psychiatric disorders, depression,
Parkinson’s disease, and cancer. In central Asia, the
root is a popular medicinal remedy that is used to
treat rheumatism and nervous conditions.
 RCaution  This plant is toxic and should not be
used under any circumstances.Paullinia cupana syn. P. sorbilis
(Sapindaceae)
Guarana
Description  Woody vine growing to a height
of 33 ft (10 m). Has divided compound leaves,
clusters of inconspicuous yellow flowers, and pear-
shaped fruit that contains small shiny brown seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation  Guarana is native
to tropical forests of the Brazilian Amazon, and
is also cultivated in Brazil. The seeds are gathered
when ripe.
Parts Used  Seeds.
Constituents  Guarana contains xanthine
derivatives (including up to 7% caffeine, together
with theobromine and theophylline), tannins, and
saponins. The xanthines are stimulant and diuretic,
and reduce fatigue over the short term.
History & Folklore  In Brazil,
guarana is traditionally prepared
by roasting, crushing, and drying
the seeds. The resulting “cakes”
are made into a tea, which is taken
to counter fatigue or to treat
diarrhea. Guarana has recently
become a popular alternative to coffee.Pausinystalia yohimbe
syn. Corynanthe yohimbe
(Rubiaceae)
Y ohimbe
Description  Evergreen tree growing to
100 ft (30 m). Has reddish-brown bark,
oblong or elliptical leaves, and clusters of small
yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Y ohimbe is native to
the forests of western Africa, especially Cameroon,
Zaïre, and Gabon. The bark is gathered at any time
of year.
Part Used  Bark.
Constituents  Y ohimbe contains approximately
6% indole alkaloids (including yohimbine), pigments,
and tannins. The alkaloids have a cerebral stimulant
action at moderate doses, but are highly toxic in
large doses.
History & Folklore  Y ohimbe has an ancient
reputation in western Africa, especially among
the Bantu people, as a male aphrodisiac and
mild hallucinogen.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Y ohimbe is little
used in herbal medicine owing to its potential
toxicity. In western Africa, it is often employed
as a stimulant and as a means to counter erectile
dysfunction. Y ohimbine has been used in
conventional medicine in the treatment of
erectile dysfunction.
 QCautions  T ake yohimbe only under
professional supervision. The herb is subject to
legal restrictions in many countries.
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other medicinal plantsPergularia extensa
Pergularia extensa
(Asclepiadaceae)
Pergularia
Description Perennial climber with broad oval
leaves and small greenish-white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Pergularia is native
to India. Its aerial parts are gathered throughout
the year.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Pergularia contains a resin, bitter
principles, and plant sterols.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Pergularia is
thought to have bitter, expectorant, diuretic, and laxative properties, and is employed in several
ways in Indian herbal medicine. It is prescribed as  a treatment for bronchitis and asthma. Pergularia  is also used as a means to curtail heavy menstrual or non-menstrual uterine bleeding. Juice from the leaves may be applied to relieve the pain and swelling of cysts and rheumatic joints. Habitat & Cultivation Suma is native to
rainforests of South America, from Venezuela  to southern Brazil.
Parts Used  Root.
Constituents Suma contains triterpene
saponins (pfaffosides), sterols (including beta-ecdysone), and minerals (including significant  levels of germanium).
History & Folklore Suma has been used by
the people of the Amazon rainforest from the earliest times for conditions as varied as wound healing, diabetes, and cancer. Also taken for its aphrodisiac qualities, suma has become a popular herbal medicine in Brazil, where it is known as
para todo (“for all”), or Brazilian ginseng.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Suma has many
medicinal applications, most centred around three areas of activity: as a hormonal and glandular tonic, as an immune stimulant and detoxifying agent,  and in cancer prevention and treatment. Suma is perhaps best known as a male sexual tonic, but  it is equally effective for women and has value in treating menstrual and menopausal problems. Suma root enhances nonspecific immunity and has a role to play in treating chronic infection and lowered immune resistance.
Research Research  into suma suggests that it can
be useful in cancer prevention and treatment;  several of the pfaffosides have been shown to prevent tumor growth in laboratory conditions. The pfaffosides are chemically similar to the ginsenosides found in ginseng (Panax ginseng, p. 118), and, like ginseng, suma’s acclaimed value as an aphrodisiac appears to have a scientific basis. Male rats with depressed sexual function were observed to become more sexually active on being given a suma extract.
Cautions Avoid taking suma during pregnancy
and while breastfeeding.treatment of gout, rheumatism, and arthritis. Both plants act by encouraging the flushing out of waste products from the inflamed joints, and the waste’s subsequent elimination via the kidneys. Parsley root is taken as a treatment for flatulence, cystitis, and rheumatic conditions. Parsley is also valued as a promoter of menstruation, being helpful both
in stimulating a delayed period and in relieving menstrual pain.
Cautions Parsley is a safe herb at normal dosage
and consumption levels, but excessive quantities of the seeds are toxic. Do not take the seeds during pregnancy or if suffering from kidney disease.
Peumus boldus (Apiaceae)
Boldo
Description Strongly aromatic multibranched
evergreen shrub or tree growing to 20 ft (6 m). Has egg-shaped leathery leaves with a lemony scent, clusters of white or yellow bell-shaped flowers, and small yellow berries.
Habitat & Cultivation
Boldo is native to Chile and Peru, and has become naturalized in the Mediterranean region and the West Coast of North America. It grows on dry  sunny slopes and in mountain pastures in the Andes, where it is widely cultivated. The leaves  are gathered throughout the year.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Boldo contains 0.7% isoquinoline
alkaloids (including boldine), as well as a volatile oil and flavonoids.
History & Folklore Boldo is a valued remedy
in Latin American herbal medicine and is used by the Araucanian people in Chile as a tonic.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Boldo stimulates
liver activity and bile flow and is chiefly valued as a remedy for gallstones and liver or gallbladder pain. It is normally taken for a few weeks at a time, either as a tincture or infusion. Boldo