 intense spir-
itual work, intended to clean the soul and body
of the essences feeding off them, which also
strengthens will power and the power of positive
thinking in the initial stage of evolution. Dry
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lution in terms of both mechanics and spirit us-
ing all the organs of the body. The reason is that
after at least 7 -10 days, negative energy essences,
sensing their death in the absence of food, start
to come out of you, since they can’t stand dry
fasting and positive vibrations radiating from
you. Especially if you support all this with posi-
tive actions. Dry fasting gives you a reserve of
energy.  It seems unbelievable: how can a person
not eat anything, spend their energy, but  still
have increased energy levels? But there’s no par-
adox. When the body is devoid of organic food,
it begins to intensely consume subtle energy
from space and the environment. With transi-
tion to normal nutrition, the hyper -restoration
effect comes into action — the body starts to
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fasting, luckily it has all the relevant capabilities
at that point. After all, thanks to fasting the chak-
ras are cleansed along with the energy channels,
which lots of abilitie s depend on. After the end
of a fast, the time of sleep decreases to 4 -5 hours,
a person literally gains strength, they’re boiling
over with energy. This remarkable state lasts for
a long time if a person eats healthy, exercises and
spends time outdoors.

Special effects
Here are the gifts which everybody receives
from dry fasting along with the cure from the ill-
nesses that had tormented them for a long time,
and which (not a single one of them!) are, of
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calming of the whole body.
• First of all, the general perception abilities are
greatly increased —  tactile, skin sensitivity
and the sense of smell are heightened, which
produces interesting effects. You’ll be able to
feel through the shop window, to sense the
taste of the foods there, to know that a certain
egg in fridge is already not fresh, to remotely
perceive that there’s something wrong with the
food, which can actually just turn out to be an
excess of preservatives. In pronounced cases of
perception incr ease you’ll have no problems
guessing the contents of a tin with no label on
it.
• During fasting, sweat secretion almost stops
— the skin turns from a secretor to an
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with a substance, not only does it start to be
absorbed, but you can also feel the taste of the
substance in your mouth. Thus, if you have
to cook food for others during your fast, you
can determine ‘by touch’, if there’s enough
salt in the soup. But I wouldn’t advise you to
knead dough, the oil will be  absorbed by your
hands, rather than by the food.
• A person’s intuition increases intensely dur-
ing dry fasting. Just like a cat, one may begin
feeling pathological or, on the contrary, heal-
ing energetic zones. Interestingly, they’re
different for every pers on
• Sometimes people develop telepathic abili-
ties, they begin to understand each other
without words.
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enhances willpower. Iron -strong determina-
tion is undoubtedly necessary for achieving
success in any difficult undertaking. A 24 -
hour abstinence from food makes a person
mentally stronger and prepares them for
making a prudent choice and then acting
with firm determination.
• Fasting awakens the (often lost) sense of how
much food and water a person really needs to
sustain their life. During abstinence from
food, a person experiences certain suffering.
On the one hand, it naturally develops com-
passion for others suffering from hunger,
with barely enough to sustain oneself. Only
after having the same experience yoursel f,
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of the poor and wretched.
• If you were sensitive to cold, often came
down with the flu, your feet were cold and,
consequently, you couldn’t fall asleep for a
long time — after dry fasting you will become
resist ant to cold.
• If you had grey hair and it was falling out, af-
ter fasting it will become thicker and regain
its color.
• If you had poor vision, it often improves after
a dry fast.
• If the whites of your eyes were yellow, they
will become clear white.
• If you snored during sleep, your breathing
will become even and silent, you will stop
grinding teeth in your sleep.
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breath will become clean and odorless.
• If you were bothered by morning bitterness
in the mouth, the taste  in the mouth will al-
ways be sweet and fresh.
• Yellow plaque on teeth disappears. They be-
come pearl -white.
• If your teeth were loose (paradontosis), they
will sit in the gums more firmly.
• If you had a persistently runny nose, fasting
completely cures this pr oblem.
• If you had hypertension (or hypotension),
your blood pressure comes back to normal.
• Insomnia vanishes and deep wholesome
sleep is restored.
• Sexual activity increases and grows stronger.
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working-efficiency- wise.
Of course, many health benefits listed here can
be achieved by any kind of fasting, but during
dry fasting they can be achieved more effectively
and within shorter timeframes.
9. How to properly prepare your body
for dry fasting?
NOTE:! Never conduct dry fasting without
trying water  fasting first!

9.1. Bowel cleansing. Introduction
You might believe that preliminary cleansing
was invented by all those boring theorists who
don’t understand that people who want to fast
have job s, and are therefore busy. Thus, you start
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which ends with the anus, in the pockets of the
colon hides a greenish, clay -like substance with
a very unpleasant smell, which is called fecal
stones. It is very hard to rinse out just with water
and over the years it can grow so bulky that it
blocks the passage in the colon, requiring painful
surgery in order to clean out these stones. In
some especially neglected cases, up to 25 kilo-
grams of these stones are taken  out of the pa-
tient’s colon. To be sure, such fasting, without
bowel cleansing, has few benefits. First of all, you
feel strong hunger during fasting all the time.
That’s because fecal masses, fecal stones, and the
juice produced by them, which is being ab sorbed
by the body from the bowels during fasting, poi-
son you once and for all. Furthermore, when
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cally endured the entire process until the end,
begin coming out of a fast, you once again per-
fect your fasting  technique and immediately eat
as much as you can hold.
Naturally, when a person stops eating, eventu-
ally they start having a cleansing crisis, which is
accompanied by unpleasant sensations, and the
fasting person believes they’re already dying
from not eating and succumb to panic, starting
to eat again.
When toxins leave the body, which always hap-
pens during


 see that the h igh end of this range is just about right. For most people, I
recommend 80% carbohydrates, or even higher. In fact, if we consume much le ss than 80% of our calories as carbohydrates, we
are destined to consume too much protein, fat, or both—but more likely it wi ll be fat.
Insufficient carbohydrate in the diet leads to an array of health conc erns, primary among which are eating disorders, severe
food cravings, lethargy, weakness, and all of the conditions associated wit h the overconsumption of fats. As we increase protein
intake above ten percent of daily calories, we start seeing low energy a nd increased acid toxemia, a precursor for osteoporosis,
kidney disease, arthritis, immune dysfunction, and cancer. Eating subs tantially more than ten percent of daily calories from fat can
lead to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and many other ma ladies. Any way you slice it—too few carbohydrates,
too much fat, or too much protein—you will suffer serious health consequ ences.

Sugar: The Fuel We Are Designed For
Before our cells can utilize any food for fuel, whether it contains prim arily carbohydrate, protein, or fat, it must first be
converted into simple sugars. Carbohydrates are by far the easiest to con vert to useful sugars. Glucose (a simple sugar) is the
primary, preferred source of fuel for every tissue and cell of our bodies. In f act, some of our cells (the brain, red blood cells, and
some nervous tissue, for example) depend almost exclusively on glucose a s their fuel source.

Fuel vs. Energy
A major misconception people have about food is that it is a source of energy. Th is fallacy is partly supported by the fact that
in the nutritional sciences, the words “fuel” and “energy” are use d synonymously. The lethargy that follows a holiday meal easily
demonstrates the fault in this line of thinking.
In health sciences however, the term “energy” is defined as a low-v oltage electrical current produced by your brain during
sleep, which runs through your body via your nervous system (also known as v ital nerve energy). When you are awake, you use
nerve energy more rapidly than the brain can produce it. Hence, you event ually run out of energy. After an appropriate period of
hours procuring sleep, you awaken, fully recharged and full of nerve ener gy again.
 On the other hand, food is referred to as “fuel.” W e need to consume fuel for three primary reasons— nutrition, hydration,
and pleasure. Through the process of digestion, we “burn” our fuel (f ood) to release its own energy potential and utilize it for
ourselves. During this complicated process, we receive a net gain in e nergy by using our own nerve energy to release the potential in
food.
To help explain the difference, we can apply the analogy of a car. We have n o difficulty understanding that the fuel in our gas
tank (food) is completely different than the energy supplied from the batt ery of our car (vital nerve energy). Either without the other
is completely useless, but in combination they work to create motion and act ivity.

Humans have little or no capacity for storing excess protein or excess  carbohydrate, but we can convert both to fat stores for
later use as fuel. When we do not eat sufficient carbohydrates to meet ou r fuel needs, our bodies break down stored fats into
glucose through a complex chemical process called gluconeogenesi s (literally, “the creation of new sugar”). While this can be a
lifesaving process in times of hardship, in the absence of sufficient  carbohydrates, gluconeogenesis results in the production of by-
products known as ketones.
Circulating in the bloodstream, ketones adversely affect our decision- making abilities, because they exert an influence upon
brain chemistry similar to that of alcohol. Effectively, a heavy ket otic state renders us “under the influence.” In such a state, we
should not make decisions important to our life and health, such as those made  when driving a car, doing sports, or performing any
work that requires precision of body or mind.

Types of Carbohydrates
The definitions of carbohydrate and its constituents are evolving. Am ong lay people, carbohydrates are thought to fall into two
broad categories, complex and simple. Science recognizes intricate diff erences between the various carbohydrate compounds, and
considerable confusion exists in the literature that describes the m. Here is a simplified summary of terms, which is by no means
definitive; you will find many variations on this list:
Simple sugars (mainly monosaccharides consisting of one sugar molecule and disacch arides made of two monosaccharides).
Primary among these are glucose, fructose, galactose, and dextrose (mon osaccharides), as well as lactose, maltose and
sucrose. They are found in most foods, including fruits, vegetables, milk, an d honey.
Oligosaccharides (short-chain sugars consisting of three to nine sugar molecules) : Oligosaccharides include raffinose,
stachyose, verbascose, fructo-oliogosaccharides, and maltodextrins. Most  renowned for causing the flatulence associated
with beans, some oligosaccharides are entirely indigestible, while ot hers are partially digestible.
Polysaccharides (“complex carbohydrates” that contain 10 or more—as many as several t housand—sugar molecules):
These include starches  (amylose and amylopectin) and dextrins  found in grains, rice, and legumes, as well as nonstarch
polysaccharides, also known as fiber (cellulose, pectin, gums, beta-glucans, and fructans ), found in grains, fruits, and
vegetables.

Together, monosaccharides and disaccharides comprise the “sugars” f ound on the Nutrition Facts portion of food labels.
Monosaccharides are the only carbohydrates that can be absorbed directly i nto the bloodstream, through the intestinal lining. Our
digestive system easily breaks down disaccharides into their monosacc haride constituents.
Simple carbohydrates come in two forms: refined sugars  (extracted from fruits, grains, tubers, and sugar cane) and whole-
food sugars (the sugars found in whole, fresh plant foods, primarily sweet fruits). B oth refined and whole-food simple sugars taste
sweet to the tip of the tongue. Unfortunately, widespread misinformation  and general ignorance about nutrition causes the great
majority of the population to equate simple carbohydrates with the nutrit ionally bankrupt refined sugars. Unaware that whole-fruit
sugar is profoundly different in nature than extracted sugar, these  misguided dieters lump all simple carbohydrates together and then
shun them as a category. Government guidelines and short-sighted nu tritionists perpetuate this misconception, admonishing us to
avoid simple sugars like the plague.
Complex carbohydrates, found in grains and other starchy foods, do not taste swe et, even though they are made from chains
of sugars. Complex carbohydrates are more difficult to digest than simple  carbohydrates. They require substantial amounts of energy
in the conversion to sugar, and eating them cooked generates toxic byproduct s.
Later in this chapter, I discuss each of these broad categories—com plex carbohydrates, whole-food simple carbohydrates,
and refined simple carbohydrates—in some detail.

Two Carbohydrate Camps
Although there are a tremendous number of variations on the theme, two ba sic schools of thought exist regarding what to eat.
There are the low-carbohydrate/high-fat proponents, and then there ar e the supporters of the high-carbohydrate/low-fat approach
to food.

The Low-Carb/High-Fat Faction
In recent decades, high-fat (disguised as low-carb) diets have taken t he country by storm. In response, grocery stores, restaurants,
fast-food chains, airlines, and even doughnut shops have begun marke ting their “low-carbohydrate” options with pride. If the trend
continues, I predict that fat consumption will show a concerted rise by th e next time national statistics are released.
Why? It’s a simple proposition: If your daily caloric “pie” is made  of only three slices (carbohydrate, protein, and fat), and you
decrease one of them, one or both of the other two must increase.
People generally believe that the decrease in carbohydrates i n their “low-carb” meals is offset by an increase in protein. Th is is
incorrect.
As I describe in the protein chapter, only exceedingly rarely does anyone  eat even a quarter of daily calories as protein. The
vast majority of Americans eat about 16% protein each day, and only a very s mall fraction of the population consumes 20% protein
or more.
The balance of our daily calories, at least 80%, must come from some combination of carbohydrates and fat. Essentially, any
decrease in carbohydrates must be accompanied by an increase in fat, ass uming we continue to consume the same number of
calories.
Unfortunately, each gram of fat contains more than twice the calori es of a gram of carbohydrate. So if you eat the same
general quantity of food on a “low-carb” program, you will increase not on ly your percentage of calories from fat but also your total
calories


 showed up in the group. Ittakes longer to repair the damage than it does to cause it and it takes generationsof unflagging persistence.
I think much the same process has happened to humans in this century. With
the invention of the roller mill and the consequent degradation of our daily breadto white flour; with the birth of industrial farming and the generalized lowering ofthe nutritional content of all of our crops; our overall ratio of nutrition to caloriesworsened. Then it worsened again because we began to have industrial foodmanufacturing and national brand prepared food marketing systems; we begansubsisting on devitalized, processed foods. The result has been an even greaterworsening of our ratio of nutrition to calories.
And just like Pottenger’s cats, we civilized humans in so-called advanced
countries are losing the ability to breed, our willingness (or the energy) to motherour young; we’re losing our good humor in the same way Pottenger’sdegenerated cats became bad tempered. As a group we feel so poorly that wedesperately need to feel better fast, and what better way to do that than withdrugs. Is it any wonder that the United States, the country furthest down the roadof industrial food degeneration, spends 14 percent of its gross domestic producton medical services. Any wonder that so many babies are born by Cesarean, anywonder that so many of our children have crooked teeth needing an orthodontist?The most depressing aspect of this comes into view when considering thatPottenger’s cats took four generations on perfect food to repair most of thenutritional damage.
In the specific case of my daughter, I know somethings about the nutritional
history of her maternal ancestors. My daughter’s grandmother grew up on a
Saskatchewan farm. Though they certainly grew their own rich wheat on virgin
semi-arid prairie soil, I’m sure the family bought white flour at the store for dailyuse. Still, there was a garden and a cow producing raw milk and free-range fertileeggs and chicken and other animals. There probably were lots of cannedvegetables in winter, canned but still highly nutritious because of the fertility of theirprairie garden. My mother consequently had perfect teeth until the GreatDepression forced her to live for too many years on lard and white bread.
During this time of severe malnutrition she had her three babies. The first one
got the best of her nutritional reserves. The second, born after the worst of themalnutrition, was very small and weak and had a hard time growing up.Fortunately for me, for a few years before I (the last child) was born, the worst ofthe economic times had past and the family had been living on a farm. There werevegetables and fresh raw milk and fruit. My mother had two good years to rebuildher nutritional reserves. But “Grannybell” did not managed to replace enough.Shortly after I was born my mother lost every one of her teeth all at once. Thebone just disappeared around them.
Thus, I was born deficient. And my childhood and adolescent nutrition was
poor too: soda crackers, pasteurized processed artificial cheese, evaporated milkfrom cans, hotdogs and canned beans, hotdogs and cabbage. It wasn’t until I waspregnant with my first baby that I started to straighten up my diet. I continuedeating very well after my first daughter, so my youngest daughter had anotherthree years of good diet to draw on. Thus both my own daughters got asomewhat better start than I had had.
My teeth were not as good as my mother’s had been before those years of
malnutrition took them all. Instead of perfect straight undecayed teeth like ahealthy farm girl should have, mine were somewhat crowded, with numerouscavities. My jaw bone had not received enough minerals to develop to its full size.My pelvic girdle also was smaller than my mother’s was. I had had a poor start.
My daughters did better. The older one (the first child typically gets the best of
the nutritional reserves) has such a wide jaw that there are small spaces between
her teeth. My second daughter has only one crooked tooth, she has wider, moresolid hips, stronger bones and a broader face than I do. If my younger daughterwill but from this point in her life, eat perfectly and choose her food wisely toresponsibly avoid empty calories and maximize her ratio of nutrition to calories,her daughter (if she gives us granddaughters as her older sister already has done)may exhibit the perfect physiology that her genes carry.
Along the lines of helping you avoid empty calories I will give you some
information about various common foods that most people don’t know and thatmost books about food and health don’t tell, or misunderstand.
Butter, Margarine and Fats in General.
Recently, enormous propaganda has been generated against eating butter. Its
been smeared in the health magazines as a saturated animal fat, one containingthat evil substance, cholesterol. Many people are now avoiding it and instead,using margarine.
Saturated Monosaturated Unsaturated
Butter 66% 30% 4%Coconut Oil 87% 6% 2%Cottonseed Oil 26% 18% 52%
Olive Oil 13% 74% 8%Palm Oil 49% 37% 9%Soybean Oil 14% 24% 58%Sunflower Oil 4% 8% 83%Safflower Oil 3% 5% 87%Sesame Oil 5% 9% 80%Peanut Oil 6% 12% 76%Corn Oil 3% 7% 84%
This is a major and serious misunderstanding. First of all, margarine is almost
indigestible, chemically very much like shortening—an artificially saturated orhydrogenated vegetable fat. Hydrogenated fats can’t be properly broken downby the body’s digestive enzymes, adding to the body’s toxic load. Margarine,being a chemically-treated vegetable oil with artificial yellow color and artificialflavorings to make it seem like butter, also releases free radicals in the body thataccelerate aging. So, to avoid the dangers of eating cholesterol-containing butter,people eat something far worse for them!
There are severe inconsistencies with the entire “cholesterol-is-evil” theory.
Ethnic groups like the Danes, who eat enormous quantities of cholesterol-containing foods, have little circulatory disease. Actually, the liver itself producescholesterol; it’s presence in the blood is an important part of the body chemistry.Cholesterol only becomes a problem because of deranged body chemistry due tothe kind of overall malnutrition Americans usually experience on their junk fooddiets. Avoiding cholesterol in foods does little good, but eating a low-fat, low-sugar, complex-carbohydrate (whole foods) diet high in minerals does lowerblood cholesterol enormously.
Actually, high quality fresh (not rancid) butter in moderate quantities is about
the finest fat a person could eat. But high quality butter is almost unobtainable.First of all, it has to be raw, made from unpasteurized cream. Second, butter cancontain very high levels of fat-soluble vitamins, but doesn’t have to. Vitamin-richbutter’s color is naturally bright yellow, almost orange. This color does not comefrom a test tube. Pale yellow butter as is found in the commercial trade wasprobably almost white before it was artificially tinted. Butter from grass-pasturedcows naturally changes from yellow-orange to white and back again through theyear as the seasons change. Spring grass, growing in the most intense sunlight ofthe year contains very high levels of chlorophyll and vitamins. Cows eating thisgrass put high levels of vitamins A and D into their cream, evidenced by theorange color of vitamin A. By July, natural butter has degraded to medium-yellow
in color. By August, it is pale yellow. Industrial dairy cows fed exclusively on hay
or artificial, processed feeds (lacking in these vitamins), produce butterfat that isalmost white.
I prefer to obtain my butter from a neighbor who has several dairy cows
grazing on fertile bottom land pasture. We always freeze a year’s supply in latespring when butter is at its best. Interestingly, that is also the time of year when myneighbor gets the most production from her cows and is most willing to part with25 pounds of extra butter.
In general, fats are poor foods that should be avoided. Their ratio of nutrition
to calories is absolutely the worst of all food types, except perhaps for pure whitesugar, which is all calories and absolutely no nutrition (this is also true for otherforms of sugar. Honey, too, contains almost no nutrition.). Gram for gram, fatscontain many more calories than do sugars or starches. Yet gram for gram, fatscontain virtually no nutrition except for small quantities of essential fatty acids.
The perverse reason people like to eat fats is that they are very hard to digest
and greatly slow the digestive action of the stomach. Another way of saying that isthat they have a very high satiety value. Fats make a person feel full for a longtime because their presence in the stomach makes it churn and churn and churn.Fats coat proteins and starches and delay their digestion, often causing them tobegin fermenting (starches) or putrefying (proteins) in the digestive tract.
The best fats contain high levels of monosaturated vegetable oils that have
never been exposed to heat or chemicals—like virgin olive oil. Use smallquantities of olive oil for salad dressing. Monosaturated fats also have far lesstendency to go rancid than any other type. Vegetable oils with high proportions ofunsaturated fats, the kind that all the authorities push because they contain nocholesterol, go r


 is God in three persons.
"The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by him." This speaks of the Son, for it says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not" (John 1:2-5). There was darkness upon the face of the deep, and the sun began to shine. There was a shadow, and there was light. But where Christ is there is no shadow.
"There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 24 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all
men through him might believe. He was not that light" (John the Bap-
tist was not that light) "but was sent to  bear witness of that Light. That
was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world," (this means Jesus, the Messiah) "and the
world was made by him." This bears out the fact given in the second chapter of Genesis-the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." This pinpoints for us that the Son of God, the Messiah, created or made everything for which the Father had made a blueprint.
How did He do it? Fifty years ago we thought that nothing was smaller than an atom.
Later we were to find that every atom was a little galaxy within itself.
To give an idea of how small an atom is: There are approximately
15 million atoms in one drop of water. An atom is a very, very small element, and is thought of as being mostly in elementary form. Once you leave an element then you have a compound which is composed of two or more elements, but a single atom must be in elementary form.
There are only 120 elements, and man has discovered approxi-
mately 110 of them. Some of the elements in their pure state would be: aluminum, carbon, gold, helium, hydrogen, iron, lithium, manga-nese, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potash, potassium, silver. It would take a book to expl ain the ionization, or the way one
of these elements came into existence.
If the atom isn't the smallest elemen t, what then is the smallest el-
ement that God created? The answer is: ION. We say ION but actually an ION can be either an ANION or a CATION (pronounced, cat-eye-on). There is nothing smaller that God the Messiah created. After you leave that there is absolute nothingness.
What is a single anion? It is the smallest amount of energy in ex-
istence. The discoverer of this wa s Mr. Milhouse, and he called it a
"Milhouse unit of energy." This term is no longer in use. It was a very common term fifty years ago. It means a millionth of a millionth of a 25 millionth of a particle of energy, un til there is no more. There is noth-
ing else to divide.
The next smallest substance that God created was the CATION.
The smallest cation contains 500% more energy than a single ANION. All anions were not singles but are combinations of anions. Therefore
we must conclude that a single anion has a Milhouse unit of energy of from one Milhouse unit to a maximum of 499 Milhouse units of ener-gy. If this then is the limit of the pow er of an anion, then a cation must
also have its limits.
The limits of a cation is from 500 Milhouse units of energy to 999
Milhouse units of energy. If it took on one more Milhouse units of en-ergy it would split into two and b ecome two cations, or 500 Milhouse
units each. We are now peeping into the mysteries of the creation of this entire universe. It was once said that "He who controls the atom can control the universe." That is true, but it is more accurate to say, HE WHO CONTROLS THE ANION AND THE CATION IS THE FOUNDER AND MAKER OF THE UNIVERSE.
Anions and cations form the elements into nine geometrical ener-
gy patterns. It is a mystery to us today how there are 120 elements and all of these elements and compounds are made with only nine differ-ent patterns of energy. In any element you can have a variable number of anions and a variable number of cations within the same element to make it form into one of these nine patterns, but the energy is a syn-chronized energy which equals the specific gravity.
When most people think of energy they only think of heat energy.
But heat is only one kind of energy. When we think of heat we must think of patterns of energy. Think of two kinds of patterns: anionic and cationic patterns. The cationic heat has various shapes, and the an-ionic heat energy has but one shape.
This is another mystery of God. All anionic energy is shaped ex-
actly alike whether it is one Milhouse unit of energy or 499 units of energy. Cations have nine patterns of energy.
The interior of an atom is called nucleus, and the outer is called
the shell. The entire nucleus of an atom we will call an ION, and it may be a cation or an anion, but never mixed. An electron may be a 26 cation or an anion, but an ion is always the interior of the shell. and
the electron is always the outer shell itself. This is the path that the
electrons travel that form the nine patterns of energy.
When you stand in front of a heater, you are being bombarded
with anions and cations of energy. They are so small, the anions can penetrate right through you without even touching you. It is like look-ing inside a box of grapefruit. You can drop marbles down between the grapefruit to the bottom of the box without even touching the grapefruit.
There are three kinds of energy. Heat energy (E
1= MC2). In this book E 1 is heat energy.
Electrical energy (E2 = E 1 + MC2), which we will call electrical
energy.
Matter (M = E 1 + E 2C2). This too is energy which is solidified, as
is found in rock, any vegetable or fruit. The greater the density, the harder and the heavier the weight of any matter whether biological or not.
This then lets us peek into the mysteries of the creation of this
universe. It is called the process of ionization.
The process of ionization is LIKE THINGS ATTRACTING
EACH OTHER. Nature follows a line of least resistance, and as it fol-lows the line of least resistance like things attract each other. We have a proverb: "Birds of a feather flock together." So it is with the ele-ments. Like elements attract each other. That is why gold is found in veins. Precious metals are found in deposits because these deposits at-tract from the entire earth the things that are like them.
Nearly 100 miles above the earth is the Van Allen (radiation) belt.
This belt is the shell that completely surrounds this earth, and if it were not for that shell around this earth this planet wouldn't turn be-cause the radiation of the sun strikes the Van Allen belt and creates a static field between the Van Allen belt which is anionic and the earth which is cationic and causes the earth to rotate, or any other planet to rotate. The moon doesn't rotate because it has no radiation belt. This is the law of physics that God has made. The same law which causes this earth to turn, causes an electric motor to run, or causes an engine to 27 turn a dynamo to make or convert metallic energy into electrical ener-
gy. The same principle, only it is one principle in reverse of  another
principle.
Most people were taught the principles of chemistry which are not
correct, and this is why so many answers are not found. They were taught incorrectly the basic rules by which God made this universe. For example, in the chemistry books we were taught that an atom has to have the same number of protons as neutrons, or, the same number of anions as cations. This is not true. If it were true then all iron would be exactly alike. All fruit would be  exactly alike. There would be only
one kind of grass. There would be only one variety of trees, and all human beings would look exactly alike. The truth is that all atoms un-der the same temperature and pressure are the same size but they do not weigh the same. (I realize that th is statement will create much con-
troversy and some will label this author a quack, but as they begin to prove these statements they will find that these statements are true.)
We have said that like things attract each other, and nature follows
the line of least resistance. Since nature follows the line of least re-sistance then any atom with the same number of protons' and neutrons or anion and cations, would be a hydrogen atom, with the ratio of one to one. Already we have conflict w ith the logic of God with what is
taught in the chemistry books. We have two statements that are just


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decision to deny a need for a particular
result. There is a vast difference.
Could you explain what You mean by the
statement, “Passion is the love of turning
being into action”?
Beingness is the highest state of existence.
It is the purest essence. It is the “now -not now,” the “all -not all,” the “always -never”
aspect of God. Pure being is pure God -ing.
Yet it has never been enough for us to
simply be. We have a lways yearned to
experience What We Are —and that
requires a whole other aspect of divinity,
called  doing.
Let us say that you are, at the core of your
wonderful Self, that aspect of divinity  called
love. (This is, by the way, the Truth of you.)
Now it is o ne thing to be love —and quite
another thing to do something loving. The
soul longs to do something  about what it is,
in order that it might know itself in its own
experience. So it will seek  to realize its
highest idea through action.  This urge to do this is called passion. Kill
passion and you kill God. Passion is God
wanting to say “hi.”
But, you see, once God (or God -in-you)
does that loving thing, God has realized
Itself, and needs nothing more.
Man, on the other hand, often feels he
needs a return  on his investment. If we’re
going to love somebody, fine —but we’d
better get some love back. That sort of
thing.
This is not passion. This is expectation.
This is the greatest source of man’s
unhappiness. It is what separates man
from God.
The renunciate seeks to end this
separation through the experience some
Eastern  mystics have called samadhi. That is, oneness and union with God; a melding
with and melting into divinity.
The renunciate therefore renounces
results —but never, ever renounces
passion.  Indeed, the Master knows
intuitively that passion is the path. It is the
way to Self -realization.
Even in earthly terms it can be fairly said
that if you have a passion for nothing, you
have no life at all.
You have said that “what you resist
persist s, and what you look at disappears.”
Can You explain that?
You cannot resist something to which you
grant no reality. The act of resisting a  thing
is the act of granting it life. When you resist
an energy, you place it there. The  more you resist, the more you make it real —whatever
it is you are resisting.
What you open your eyes and look at
disappears. That is, it ceases to hold its
illusory form.
If you look at something —truly look at it —
you will see right through it, and right
through any illusion it hold s for you, leaving
nothing but ultimate reality in your sight.
In the face of ultimate reality your puny
illusion has no power. It cannot long hold
you in its weakening grip. You see the truth
of it, and the truth sets you free.
But what if you don’t want the thing you are
looking at to disappear?
You should always want it to! There is
nothing in your reality to hold onto. Yet if
you do choose the illusion of your life over ultimate reality, you may simply recreate
it—just as you created it to begin with. I n
this way you may have in your life what you
choose to have and eliminate from your life
what you no longer wish to experience.
Yet never resist anything. If you think that
by your resistance you will eliminate it,
think again. You only plant it more firm ly in
place. Have I not told you all thought is
creative?
Even a thought that says I don’t want
something?
If you don’t want it, why think about it?
Don’t give it a second thought. Yet if you
must think about it —that is, if you cannot
not think about it —then do not resist.
Rather, look at whatever it is directly —accept the reality as your creation —then
choose to keep it or not, as you wish.
What would dictate that choice?
Who and What you think you Are. And Who
and What you choose to Be. This  dictates
all choice —every choice you have made in
your life. And ever will make.
And so the life of a renunciate is an
incorrect path?
That is not a truth. The word “renunciate”
holds such wrongful meaning. In truth, you
cannot renounce anything —because what
you resist persists. The true renunciate
does not renounce, but simply chooses
differently. This is an act of moving toward
something, not away from something.
You cannot move away from something,
because it will chase you all over hell and  back. Therefore resist not temptation —but
simply turn from it. Turn toward Me and
away from anything unlike Me.
Yet know this: there is no such thing as an
incorrect path —for on this journey you
cannot “not get” where you are going.
It is simply a matter of speed —merely a
question of when you will get there —yet
even that is an illusion, for there is no
“when,” neither is there a “before” or “after.”
There is only now; an eternal moment of
always in which you are experiencing
yourself.
Then what is the point? If there is no  way
not to “get there,” what is the point of life?
Why should we worry at all about anything
we do?  Well, of course, you shouldn’t. But you
would do well to be observant. Simply
notice  who and what you are being, doing,
and having, and see whether it serv es you.
The point of life is not to get anywhere —it
is to notice that you are, and have always
been, already there. You are, always and
forever, in the moment of pure creation.
The point of life is therefore to create —who
and what you are, and then to  expe rience
that.
  Chapter 6
And what of suffering? Is suffering the way
and the path to God? Some say it is the
only way.
I am not pleased by suffering, and whoever
says I am does not know Me.
Suffering is an unnecessary aspect of the
human experience. It is not only
unnecessary, it is unwise, uncomfortable,
and hazardous to your health.
Then why is there so much suffering? Why
don’t You, if You are God, put an end to it if
You dislike it so much?
I have put an end to it. You simply refuse to
use the tools I have given you with  which to
realize that.  You see, suffering has nothing to do with
events, but with one’s reaction to them.
What’s happening is merely what’s
happening. How you feel about it is another
matter.
I have given you the tools with which to
respond and react to events in a way which
reduces —in fact, eliminates —pain, but you
have not used them.
Excuse me, but why not eliminate the
events?
A very good suggestion. Unfortunately, I
have no control over them.
You have no contro l over events?
Of course not. Events are occurrences in
time and space which you produce out of
choice —and I will never interfere with choices. To do so would be to obviate the
very reason I created you. But I’ve
explained all this before. Some events you
produce  wilfully, and some events you draw
to you —more or less unconsciously. Some
events —major natural disasters are among
those you toss into this category —are
written off to “fate.” Yet even “fate” can be
an acronym for “from all thoughts
everywhere.” I n other words, the
consciousness of the planet.
The “collective consciousness.”
Precisely. Exactly.
There are those who say the world is going
to hell in a handbasket. Our ecology is
dying. Our planet is in for a major
geophysical disaster. Earthquakes.
Volcanoes. Maybe even a tilting of the Earth on its axis. And there are others who
say collective consciousness can change
all that; that we can save the Earth with our
thoughts.
Thoughts put into action. If enough people
everywhere believe something must be
done to help the environment, you will save
the Earth. But you must work fast. So  much
damage has already been done, for so
long. This will take a major attitudinal  shift.
You mean if we don’t, we will see the
Earth —and its inhabitants —destroyed?
I have m ade the laws of the physical
universe clear enough for anyone to
understand. There are laws of cause and
effect which have been sufficiently  outlined
to your scientists, physicists, and, through them, to your world leaders.  These laws
don’t need to be outl in


erotic plaque and their exact loca -
tion inside the plaque are, however, not completely understood. The key role played by platelets in atherothrombosis has led to the search of effective and safe antiplatelet agents that can block platelet aggregation.
Platelet-mediated thrombosis is dependent on three steps: (1) activation, (2) aggre -
gation, and (3) adhesion, and each of these steps is a potential therapeutic target for the development of antiplatelet agents. Only platelet adhesion antagonists have not been approved for clinical use.
Antiplatelet treatment is a clinically crucial mainstay in acute and long-term
secondary thromboembolic prevention. Antiplatelet drugs that work on different receptor sites of the platelet have been found to be extremely effective in preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events and their recurrence, especially in high-risk patients and patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention.
115,116
These antiplatelet drugs include platelet-activating inhibitors such as aspirin that
can irreversibly block cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and the formation of prostaglandin PGH
2, the precursor of the powerful platelet aggregant and vasoconstrictor, throm -
boxane A2.117 It has been reported that PGH2 and thromboxane A2 receptors are
found to be increased in patients with acute MI.118
The benefit of aspirin used alone or in combination with other antiplatelet drugs
has been extensively studied as a primary and secondary prevention of thrombotic events in patients at high risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular embolism.
119,120
The main problem with using aspirin to prevent the recurrence rate of ischemic
events, aside from its bleeding potential, is that it targets only the COX-1 pathway and therefore cannot take aim at other pivotal signaling pathways, which can also lead to coronary and cerebrovascular thrombosis.
A second group of platelet activation inhibitors currently approved for clinical
use are the thienopyridines such as ticlopidine, clopidogrel, and prasugrel, which target the blockade of the platelet ADP receptor P2Y
12.121 It is well known that P2Y12
receptor-mediated signaling processes play a central role in platelet activation and aggregation.
122 ADP is a potent platelet-aggregating agent that was originally shown
to induce myocardial ischemia and arrhythmias when injected experimentally into the coronary arteries of pigs.
12365 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
Clopidogrel is currently the PY212 receptor antagonist of choice, although its
broad interindividual variability in patients resistant to this antiplatelet drug and its
delayed onset of action that can take 4–5 days before reaching its maximum anti -
platelet effect has resulted in a considerable number of adverse cardiovascular and ischemic events.
124 These adverse events in patients treated with clopidogrel have
reduced its clinical expectations as a safe antiplatelet agent.124,125
Despite this concern, the antagonism of the P2Y12 receptor with clopidogrel has
been shown to be clinically effective in the prevention of MI, ischemic stroke, and vascular death.
126 Nevertheless, there is hope that a more clinically effective and
safer P2Y12 antagonist will be found to prevent the incidence of ischemic and cardio -
vascular events.126
To increase its efficacy, clopidogrel has been combined with aspirin and found
more effective than aspirin alone in acute coronary syndrome and stroke.127–129 It is
also reasonable to speculate that dual antiplatelet therapy such as the combination of clopidogrel–aspirin is more effective than either monotherapy because it targets two
antiplatelet pathways, for example, ADP-induced platelet aggregation (clopidogrel) and thromboxane A
2 platelet aggregation (aspirin).
However, there is a rising concern that dual therapy using clopidogrel–aspirin
increases the risk of bleeding due to the powerful anti thrombotic effect of using two anticoagulants than using aspirin monotherapy.
130 More importantly, the possible
synergy of this dual therapy has been reported to be no better than aspirin alone with respect to lowering the rate of MI, stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes.
122,130
Other antiplatelet agents used clinically include thrombin receptor antagonists
such as the phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors dipyridamole and cilostazol.131
Since thrombin is the most potent platelet activator known, there is hope that
thrombin antagonists represent a promising novel strategy to reduce ischemic events without increasing the risk of bleeding or cardiovascular events, as other antiplatelet agents are prone to do.
132,133
In this sense, a monotherapy that could antagonize platelet aggregation induced
by more than one signaling pathway might offer improved efficacy and better safety than dual antiplatelet therapy because it would avoid the powerful anti thrombotic effect that is typically seen from two strong anti thrombotic agents that can lead to life-threatening bleeding complications as shown by clopidogrel–aspirin.
134
DMSO has been shown to possess several unique pharmacological activities that
could identify it as an antiplatelet monotherapeutic drug for use against CAD and stroke.
DMSO combines four crucial properties that have been consistently sought in
a drug to help prevent primary and secondary thromboembolic events: (1) platelet
deaggregation, (2) tissue factor antagonism, (3) free radical scavenging, and (4)
anti-inflammation.
These properties resemble those observed with aspirin, which is also an effective
anti-inflammatory and antiplatelet agent that blocks the production of prostaglandins
by blocking the COX-1 pathway and consequently the synthesis of thromboxane A
2.
As will be seen later, DMSO, unlike aspirin, also blocks tissue factor, a precursor of
the powerful platelet aggregator thrombin, and additionally shows consistent activity as a free radical scavenger.66 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
These activities by DMSO target two different signaling pathways known to
induce platelet aggregation, namely, the prostaglandin cascade and thrombin activa -
tion. It remains to be seen in future clinical trials of DMSO whether targeting two
different signaling pathways involved in platelet aggregation enhances its pharma -
cotherapeutic potential to prevent or reverse coronary thrombosis and stroke events.
This section will examine how these activities reported by DMSO could serve to
provide patients at risk or at recurrence of CAD and stroke with significant short- or long-term prevention.
PLATELET DEAGGREGATION AND FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING
An early report by White135 in 1971 reported the antiaggregatory property by DMSO
for platelets incubated in platelet-rich plasma. This report was followed by an extended study from the same author and his colleagues,
136 that showed how DMSO
might exert its antiaggregation activity on platelets. An antibiotic ionophore A23187 was used to produce rapid, irreversible concentration-dependent platelet aggregation in vitro.
136
It was observed that the elevation of the cyclic 3 ′,5′-adenosine monophosphate
(cAMP) level in platelets inhibited the response to all aggregating substances used in that study, including the A23187 ionophore. It was found that 10  mM DMSO added to the platelet-rich plasma was able to deaggregate these platelets ostensibly by increasing the level of cAMP in platelets following A23187-induced aggregation.
136
Although it was not entirely clear in 1974 how DMSO was able to influence plate -
let cAMP in vivo, one suggestion was that DMSO altered platelet membrane fluidity
to indirectly increase intracellular cAMP.137
Görög and Kovács138 reported soon after the studies by White that topically
applied DMSO was effective against platelet thrombi induced by ADP, a power -
ful platelet aggregator, when placed in the microcirculation of the hamster’s cheek pouch.
138 These investigators also observed that 10% DMSO topically applied to a
platelet-occluded venule preparation isolated from rat mesentery was able to inhibit thrombus formation in those venules when flow was experimentally restored.
138
One of the more curious reports showing the antiaggregatory activity of DMSO
was shown by Pace et al.139 in 1983. This team, working for a major pharmaceuti -
cal, was investigating potential agents for the treatment of ischemic cardiac disease on a canine model when they made the mistake of using DMSO as a diluent for the experimental platelet deaggregators. Like good scientists, they observed the strange finding that most of the experimental agents tested had almost identical excellent antiaggregatory properties when dissolved in DMSO, at which point, when they tested DMSO by itself, they realized to their dismay that when 1 g/mL of DMSO was injected into a partially stenosed left circumflex branch of the left main coro -
nary artery, the low coronary blood flow stemming from the stenosis was reversed.
139
These findings were later confirmed by Levett and his team,140 who infused 50%
DMSO intravenously using a similar canine model of myocardial ischemia obtained by the ligation of the left descending coronary artery. They reported that cardiac output increased significantly, and both systemic and cerebrovascular resistance decreased in the


 Puccio told the Senate
Subcommittee. “I finally found Dr. Jacob through a lady in Pennsylvania. I called
him and went to Portland. Dr. Jacob examined me, and he verified the diagnosis.
At that time, I was becoming Oriental-looking; my skin was being pulled back. I
was having difficulty breathing and walking and eating. He put me on topical
DMSO, but it burned my skin, since scleroderma has a tendency to make your
skin tissue thin.”
Senator Edward Kennedy, Subcommittee Chairman, asked about the woman’s
troubles with opening her mouth and her problem with eating, which she had told
him of before the beginning of the hearing.
“Because it constricts your tissue, it thickens the tissue, and it makes your skin
so tight you cannot move. It was difficult for me to drive; it was difficult for me to
turn the ignition in my car or turn my body. It was just very difficult....  I have a
letter here from my dentist. He could not do any dental work on me for a while.
Now, I can open my mouth like anybody else does....  I went to Dr. Jacob, and
he gave me the medication, which I brought back to Virginia. I painted it topically,
but it burned my skin. I called him back, and he said, ‘Let us try taking it orally,’
so I started taking it orally. Within about six months my condition reversed almost
immediately....  I can do anything anybody else can now. Unfortunately, I have
to be on that drug for the rest of my life.”
Mrs. Puccio also paints on a form of DMSO called 87-2, which was developed
by Robert Herschler (see
Chapter 5
). This is mixed with different chemical
complexes, including urea. It is almost odor-free. She paints it on her skin at night,
and by morning the odor is gone. She is extremely conscious of the odor. When
she drinks it, she said, she does not go out. “I drink it on Saturday, and I am not
out of the house until Monday evening, because I am conscious of it.”
Her eyes were examined every year for the seven years she used DMSO. “I
have not had problems with my eyes,” said Mrs. Puccio. Her statement about
experiencing no eye problems is significant, as we shall see.
On April 9, 1980, writing to United States Representative Claude Pepper whohad chaired the House Select Committee on Aging to investigate “DMSO: New
Hope for Arthritis?” Lillie Forister of Artesia, New Mexico, told of her particular
form of arthritis—scleroderma. Mrs. Forister wrote:
I was twenty-five years old with a five-year-old daughter when I was told I
have scleroderma and that there is no cure and very little help for it.
About the first thirteen years, it wasn’t too bad. I had ulcers on my
fingertips. I only had pain while the ulcers were healing, and being cold
during the winter months.
But the last six years have been something else. In 1974, I had an
amputation of my first toe. And then in 1979, I lost two more. I am
enclosing some pictures so you can get an idea of what has happened to
me.
The last five years, during the winter months, the only way to get by is
to live on pain pills and then it doesn’t do the job, just takes the edge off.
You lose weight and walk the floor at night, because you can’t sleep for
the pain. The pain is with you day after day ’til you don’t think you can
take it any more.
Then the first part of 1979, I started having chest pains and trouble
with my lungs. I couldn’t even clean up one room without sitting down and
resting. I’ve always been able to take care of myself. And it’s very hard
for me to have to accept help from others. Another thing about this
disease, if you can’t get health insurance or [even] if they will [give you
insurance], it’s so high you can’t afford it.
That’s the bad side of scleroderma. Now for the good part, the only
ray of hope I’ve had in nineteen years. I went to Portland, Oregon, to see
Dr. Jacob last July. He started me on a treatment with DMSO. After the
first week, I felt better than I had in nineteen years. I could button my own
clothes, reach behind my head. The pain was almost nothing. Four months
later I no longer had chest pains.
I have just come through one more winter and it’s the best winter I’ve
had in six years. I had a few bad points where the
pain was pretty rough,
but they didn’t last long. Now when I get ulcers I use DMSO and it clears
them up. Also, I didn’t have any more amputations. I feel that now I might
have a chance to see my children grown and to be able to enjoy my
grandchildren.
Please help us, we need you to help us fight for a better, pain-free life.THE NEW TREATMENT FOR SCLERODERMA
Lillie Forister was begging for help not only for her own problem but also for the
approximately 150,000 other Americans suffering from scleroderma. While the
disease itself may not immediately kill them, death in adults follows severe and
progressive muscle weakness, difficulty in swallowing, malnutrition, and failure of
the respiratory system with superimposed lung infection, such as pneumonia. And
as they linger, discomfort in general and pain in particular pervade their lives.
The victims of scleroderma experience gradual thickening of the skin of the
fingers, aching in most joints, upset of the gut, extreme fatigue, and muscle
wasting. The facial features turn masklike. The skin becomes taut, shiny, and
inflexible on the fingertips, which develop ulcers. The sclerodermatous patient gets
calcification on bony eminences, friction rubs over the knees and tendon sheaths,
and the formation of large bursae. Contractures of the fingers, wrists, and elbows
resulting from skin hardening prevent fine movements, sometimes even gross
movements, such as Jean Puccio’s inability to drive her car.
Internally, there is gastric acidity due to an incompetent functioning of the
lower food tube sphincter. Poor absorption from the small intestine occurs from an
overgrowth of anaerobic bacteria. Large pockets or sacs develop in the large
intestine and biliary cirrhosis develops. The lungs don’t work right and defective
gas diffusion results. Heart failure can hit any time and tends to be chronic and to
respond poorly to medication. Kidney disease is a major cause of death in PSS,
usually signaled by sudden high blood pressure that drugs won’t bring down.
And for all these symptoms of scleroderma there is no specific treatment. No
drug has proved valuable—nothing was even somewhat effective—until DMSO.
“There is no doubt in my mind, the drug relieves certain types of pain. It is not
a curative agent and all the reports we have read about ‘miraculous and
outstanding’ should be completely disregarded. There
is nothing miraculous about
this compound at all, but it does relieve pain in a temporary manner. It is not a
cure. None of our anti-rheumative drugs are curative. DMSO applied topically is
indeed a safe, therapeutic agent to use,” said Arthur L. Scherbel, M.D., founder of
the Department of Rheumatic Disease at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in
Cleveland, Ohio, and formerly the department’s senior consultant.
In his practice, Dr. Scherbel dealt with patients who have very serious diseases
that are challenges to any form of therapy. He is expert in the pathology of PSS.
There are no good, highly effective therapeutic agents for the rheumatic connective
tissue diseases of which scleroderma is one. No drug exists today that iscompletely effective and without toxicity for providing the victims with relief, and
certainly there’s no cure.
Dr. Scherbel began using DMSO twenty years ago and found that it blocked
pain for sufferers of scleroderma. This pain relief comes about because the
solvent blocks conduction in the small nerve fibers—C&A delta, the fibers
important in the recognition of pain. If 75 percent DMSO is used directly on the
nerve fibers (in laboratory experiments) and not removed, within two days all
nerve conduction will cease. If 100 percent DMSO is put on these nerves, the
conduction block will occur more rapidly and usually will not be reversible. The
conclusion is that the smaller peripheral nerve fibers, when preferentially blocked
by DMSO, become diminished in their central response to a stimulus that
ordinarily would cause pain.
1
The healing of ulcers occurs, as well, and this is more difficult to explain.
Marvin F. Engel, M.D., of Brunswick, Georgia, delivered a paper before the
Section on Dermatology of the Southern Medical Association, at its sixty-fourth
annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, November 18, 1970, where he described how the
skin’s blood vessels look after DMSO


 to eat.
Next week going to the Altai. I certainly was not in the Altai,
but on television saw what beautiful scenery there. I am Sergey
Ivanovic said - if a dry hunger will take place normally,
arrive on the third day of LFG. Weeks go by unnoticed, no
fear of the passage of dry fasting, I was not, so
more in such a beautiful place like the Altai, and the mood I was
going to win. Late at night my husband at the airport,
hugged and said: - You're my fellow and you will succeed. Flight
I had a good, unique - irritated by the smell of food and chewing
neighbors. But then we landed in the city of Barnaul.
We met Sergei, with its on-Siberian Health
nephew, Andrew. When we boarded the minibus "UAZ", I
thought, but on such a machine are going to trudge a long time. But
only in the Altai Mountains, when we went to the most beautiful places
I realized the true value of this car. Drive us to our
wellness center 320 km, Andrew said that about
five hours. All the way asleep, woke up only in aggregates, the Motherland
Shukshin. Vavilov, Andrei and Valentin (wife SI)
went to drink tea. What a funky splices market - such
the number and types of honey, I have never seen
and how many there were any yummy. Even in the stomach, something
327
327Home rumble. After Srostki appeared small mountain
and beautiful river of Altai - Katun ride was much more interesting.
Here we are at last arrived. Of course, I knew that the beautiful Altai,
but this has surpassed my expectations. Cozy clearing in the woods, mountains,
wooden houses, near a small lake (a mountain creek
blocked by the dam) and, most importantly, close - five hundred meters
- Beauty Katun. And what is the divine air - immediately
dry mouth dropped. I settled on the second floor, I like this
room immediately liked, is the balcony, and most importantly fresh
and cool. The only drawback, a toilet on the street, but we all
still on hunger, so I is not much worried. When we
all were seated, I went to bed rest. In the evening we have with a neighbor Irina
she had the same problems as me (polycystic ovaries), and went
walk. What good has a place that is ideal for a walk. By
forest is a road, about five miles. It ends where it is still
Sema one river flows into the Katun. On the third day of dry starvation
we quietly went back and forth for three hours. Time has passed on
surprisingly fast, yet important during the passage of hunger -
it will switch and do something.
That's how flying is my third day of dry fasting, the only
that bothered me - it's a small nausea during the trip
and dry mouth. When we came to walk, our entire team
sitting by the fire and talked with Sergei Ivanovich. I sat
a little bit and went to bed - you should sleep until sleep. Sergei Ivanovich
said that tomorrow we go on an excursion to Chemalsky GES, on the island
Patmos, where the small female monastery. I woke up hours
at six, slept well, failed again. Friend did not sleep,
went with her for a walk. Still, as beautiful in the Altai, - white mist
over the mountains, the air just nadyshatsya can not, you feel like
charging your whole body and every cell. They walked slowly,
quietly, enjoying nature, about thirty minutes sat on the
Katun meditate. When they came to the base, they were all ready
on the tour. Sergei Ivanovich we measured the pressure and we went
weighed.
So, Day 4 SH. Pressure 110/70, pulse - 75 bpm. min., weight 80 kg.
with an increase in 168 cm My weight loss with diet, cleansing
and starvation was 9 kg. (Was 89). This is certainly good news. Today
looked at his tongue, he is a very strong white-yellow
bloom, and, basically, until everything is tolerated. Excursion to me very
Bad, especially a good idea at the HES, where the river Chemal noise
water and dust falls from the dam. There, all was well, we
Sergei Ivanovich was asked to stay longer at the dam,
feel the body through the skin saturate with moisture. Very
beautiful place - the river flows into the Katun Chemal. Chemal such
black, brown and white Katun and she would not want to tolerate
in the river itself. two hours went to the base. Yes, Sergei Ivanovich
well thought out, sight-seeing time has flown by.
328
328at four o'clock on my massage to Andrew. After the trip again
felt sick and was sick the waist. A massage to Andrew to go
scary - a machine of the weight of about 120, rising by 190, will break
FIG. To my surprise I really liked the massage. Andrei is very
strong, but at the same time soft and gentle hands. When he bent down
and went through my spine, I have it all began to crackle.
Really liked the massage mayonnaise jar banks, first
It was painful, but after that the full relaxation and a pleasant warmth
around the spine. Nausea and pain after a massage
passed immediately. In the evening, again walking with his girlfriend, were probably
Six kilometers, tried to keep quiet and breathe only through his nose, as
said Sergei Ivanovich, all the same it helps fight dryness
in the mouth. After a walk ill right side, pain tolerance, but
I remember the words of Sergei Ivanovich - anything that hurts the famine, the
treated, let him. In the evening, once again sitting near the fire, noticed how-
then I began to breathe better.
The fifth day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 72 beats. min., weight 78.8,
lost a kilo of two hundred, is very pleased with my feminine pride.
Sleep was no longer mattered, sleep well, probably two hours.
Dreamed a wonderful dream, as I have come to our clean mountain
rivulet, got his big mug, I want to get water, but
River recedes, then remembered after I did the famine. During
walk all of a sudden I went phlegm green-gray
with a very unpleasant smell. Think to myself: that's bronhitik
my hunger hooked immediately on the soul was somehow easier. Talk
harder, his voice goes down, ligaments dehydrated. Start
appear weak. Today went to the lake Manzherok is about
He sings Edita. Lake, of course, so-so, but there
grows a unique endemic nut "Chilim, Sergey Ivanovich
said that he grows still somewhere in Canada. Thought, of course,
already confused. Stopped for one of the coolest rapids on the river
Katun threshold "Manzheroksky. The spectacle of course, super. Such
power, Katun rages, I'd probably could not go rafting here.
Energy, of course powerful here, the body is very good
feels. Pobyli on the threshold of two hours, the water and attracts both want
bend down and drink. But still, as well on tour -
half a day has passed, and the body is treated, let my dear,
We must all go through. Today, massage is Andrew doing softer, so
as after yesterday's all sore. Still massage - it's good
and distracting, relaxing, and the spine is treated. In the evening went
walk alone, once everyone starts little by little annoying. Found
Katun on a quiet place, still good in our place
- No tourists, no music, silence and solitude. Pobyla on
Katun two hours, a little charged, still some strong
Energy river! Do not want to eat but to drink - drank
would probably have a bucket or two. Sergei Ivanovich said - this is an illusion
Look at the output. Sit by the fire already feel like, I'll go,
329
329Try reading. Little esteemed, very reluctant, but at
dry hunger and feel like reading and watching television.
Sixth day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 60, weight 77.7 kg.
In the morning a long time lay a walk for some reason did not want. Overnight
conducted with an open balcony, fresh, cool mountain
air - is high. in the body began to appear some internal
fever, it was good - went to present the treatment process. Mouth full
related, general reluctance to talk. Today, Sergei Ivanovich
promised we got a very narrow space on the Katun River, said
try to come back later. It is very good - the
important that the time passed quickly. Place really
beautiful, and quite another nature than ours, although we passed
all from our site 80 km away. Of course, nature is not so
perceived as a normal well-fed condition. Necessarily
come here with her husband in a car as tourists. We arrived an hour
four, for a massage - in six hours. Took a camping mat,
went to the place where our little creek flows into the Katun. There
cool, this natural refrigerator, would lay the whole
day. Problem one - when you go


 Following the discovery that it contains cardiac glycosides, wahoo bark
has been given for heart conditions.
 QCautions Wahoo bark is toxic. Use only
under professional supervision. Do not take during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.Medicinal Actions & Uses Hemp agrimony
has been employed chiefly as a detoxifying herb  for fever, colds, flu, and other acute viral conditions. The root is laxative and diuretic, and the whole herb is considered to be tonic. Recently, hemp agrimony has found use as an immunostimulant, helping to maintain resistance to acute viral and other infections.
Related Species See also boneset
(E. perfoliatum, following entry) and gravel root
(E. purpureum, subsequent entry).
 QCaution In view of hemp agrimony’s
pyrrolizidine alkaloid content, take only under professional supervision.
Hemp agrimony was
formerly taken as a spring tonic in Holland.Eupatorium cannabinum
(Asteraceae)
Hemp Agrimony
Description Perennial growing to a height of
5 ft (1.5 m). Has a red stem, downy leaves, and
dense bunches of pink to mauve florets.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe,
hemp agrimony is now also found in western Asia and North Africa. It grows in damp woods, ditches, marshes, and in open areas, and is gathered when in flower in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Hemp agrimony contains a volatile
oil (with alpha-terpinene, p-cymene, thymol and
an azulene), sesquiterpene lactones (especially eupatoriopicrin), flavonoids, pyrrolizidine alkaloids, and polysaccharides. P-cymene is antiviral, while eupatoriopicrin has anti-cancer properties and inhibits cellular growth. The polysaccharides stimulate the immune system. In isolation, the pyrrolizidine alkaloids are toxic to the liver.
History & Folklore Hemp agrimony was
known to Avicenna (980–1037 ce) and other practitioners of Arabian medicine in the early Middle Ages. Eupatorium perfoliatum
(Asteraceae)
Boneset
Description Erect perennial growing to
5 ft (1.5 m). Has tapering lance-shaped leaves
and many white or purple florets.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to eastern
North America, boneset is found in meadows  and marshland. It is gathered when in flower  in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Boneset contains sesquiterpene
lactones (including eupafolin), polysaccharides, flavonoids, diterpenes, sterols, and volatile oil. The sesquiterpene lactones and polysaccharides are significant immunostimulants.
History & Folklore Native American people
used boneset to make an infusion for treating  colds, fever, and arthritic and rheumatic pain. European settlers learned of the plant’s benefits, and by the 18th and 19th centuries it was regarded as a virtual cure-all. Boneset’s common name derives from its ability to treat “break-bone fever.” Commonly used to treat malaria, constituents within boneset are now known to have antiprotozoal activity.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A hot infusion
of boneset will bring relief to symptoms of the common cold. The plant stimulates resistance to viral and bacterial infections, and reduces fever by encouraging sweating. Boneset also loosens phlegm and promotes its removal through coughing, and it has a tonic and laxative effect. It has been taken for rheumatic illness, skin conditions, and worms.
Related Species Wild horehound (E.
teucrifolium) was used as a substitute for bone set.
E. occidentale was used by the Zuni of the south -
western U.S. to treat rheumatism. See also  hemp agrimony (E. cannabinum, preceding entry) and gravel root (E. purpureum, following entry).
Self-help Uses  Allergic rhinitis with mucus,
p. 300; Colds, flu & fevers, p. 311; High fever, p. 311.
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   208 26/02/16   12:47 pm209 other medicinal plantsEuphrasia spp.
Euphorbia hirta syn. E. pilulifera
(Euphorbiaceae)
Pill-bearing Spurge,
Asthma Plant
Description Erect annual or perennial plant
growing to 20 in (50 cm), with pointed oval leaves
and clusters of small flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to India and
Australia, pill-bearing spurge is now widespread
throughout the tropics. The aerial parts of the
plant are gathered when it is in flower.
Parts Used Aerial parts.Euphorbia pekinensis
(Euphorbiaceae)
Da Ji
Description Erect annual or perennial
plant with oblong leaves and dense clusters
of small flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to China,
da ji is cultivated mainly in the eastern and
central provinces. The root is unearthed in
early spring.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Da ji contains euphorbon.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Da ji is classified
as a toxic herb in Chinese herbal medicine, and
therefore it is prescribed only for relatively serious
illnesses. It is taken as a cathartic to purge excess
fluid in conditions such as pleurisy and ascites
(excess fluid in the abdomen), and for the
treatment of kidney problems, especially nephritis.
Da ji is applied externally to inflamed sores to
reduce swelling.
Research Research in China indicates that da ji
is therapeutically useful in the treatment of ascites
and nephritis; however, it produces significant
side effects.
Related Species E. kansui  is similar to da ji
but has a stronger cathartic action. In Chinese
herbal medicine it is only given to people with
strong constitutions.
 QCaution Da ji is a toxic plant. T ake only under
professional supervision.Pill-bearing spurge is recommended as a treatment
for asthma.Eupatorium purpureum
(Asteraceae)
Gravel Root,
Joe Pye Weed
Description Erect perennial growing to 5 ft
(1.5 m). Has whorls of pointed oblong leaves and
clusters of purple-pink florets.
Habitat & Cultivation Gravel root is native
to eastern North America. The root is unearthed
in autumn.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Gravel root contains a volatile oil,
flavonoids, and resin.
History & Folklore The plant’s alternative
name, Joe Pye weed, is in honor of the Native
American said to have used it to cure New
Englanders of typhus. Native Americans used
the herb as a diuretic and as a
remedy for genitourinary
conditions. The root was
listed in the Pharmacopoeia
of the United States  from
1820 to 1842.
Medicinal Actions & Uses As its common
name indicates, gravel root is a valuable herb for
urinary tract problems. It helps to prevent the
formation of kidney and bladder stones and may
diminish existing stones. Gravel root is also useful
for cystitis, urethritis, prostate enlargement (and
other forms of obstruction), and for rheumatism
and gout. The root is thought to help the latter
two conditions by increasing the removal of waste
by the kidneys.
Related Species E. maculatum, native to
eastern North America, is used to treat kidney and
urinary problems. See also E. cannabinum, p. 208,
and E. perfoliatum, preceding entry.Gravel root is
especially helpful for
urinary tract problems.Constituents Pill-bearing spurge contains
flavonoids, terpenoids, alkanes, phenolic acids,
shikimic acid, and choline. The latter two
constituents may be partly responsible for
the antispasmodic action of this plant.
History & Folklore As its name suggests, this
plant was traditionally used in Asia to treat asthma.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A specific
treatment for bronchial asthma, pill-bearing spurge
relaxes the bronchial tubes and eases breathing.
Mildly sedative and expectorant, it is also taken for
bronchitis and other respiratory tract conditions. It is
most often used along with other anti-asthmatic
herbs, notably gumplant ( Grindelia camporum,
p. 218) and lobelia ( Lobelia inflata, p. 110). In the
Anglo-American tradition, pill-bearing spurge is
taken to treat intestinal amebiasis.
Related Species The Cherokee used E. maculata
to treat sore nipples and skin disorders. Many
other North American Euphorbia  species were
used for constipation. A decoction of E. lancifolia,
native to the West Indies, is used to stimulate
breast-milk production. E. atoto  is used in Malaysia
and Indochina to induce a delayed period and as
an abortifacient. Many species of Euphorbia  are
used as arrow poisons.
 QCaution T ake pill-bearing spurge only under


 often is swift—preventing an evolution of serious sickness.
When we observe the eyes become brighter, the skin fairer, and the breath sweeter while fasting,
80or when we see a poor complexion clear up, or other symptoms fade and vigor return—we can be
certain that the fast has enabled the body to carry out a preventive housecleaning.
It is a mistake to expect one fast, even a long one, to be sufficient to
enable the body to free
itself of the whole of its accumulated debris. A lifetime of piling up toxins cannot be corrected in
the span of a few weeks. In such diseases as paralysis agitans, arthritis, a large tumor, and other
conditions that require so much time to build, three or more fasts are often needed to obtain all the
improvement possible in a particular case.
Sinusitis is inflammation of the nasal sinuses. It would have been called a catarrhal condition by
our fathers and mothers, but the tendency today is to discontinue the use of a general term like
catarrh and to use so-called specific terms. Sinusitis may be either acute or chronic. Most people
have some inflammation in one of more parts of the mucous membranes of the body—that is to say,
they have one or more “catarrhs.”
Names of
catarrhal inflammations
 vary with the different locations, but it is all the same
disease with the same general cause. The practice of classifying each local inflammation by a
different name and giving each an individuality, confuses both the patient and the physician. This
keeps alive the delusion that there are many
diseases.
Replying to the charge that fasting lowers resistance to disease, Dr. Weger says: “I have seen
many cases of infection of different kinds recover completely on a fast. Take for example an
advanced case of sinusitis after five or six painful operations—frontal, ethmoidal, and antrum—
with surgical drainage and irrigations two or three times a week, continued over a period of two to
five years, with no relief or amelioration of symptoms. After almost unendurable suffering, such
patients are as a rule, thin, and physically and mentally depressed. When they make complete
recoveries after a prolonged fast, as the great majority of them do, is this not sufficient proof that
fasting somehow or other raises the power of the organism to overcome infection, rather than
fasting renders them more susceptible? What is true of sinusitis is equally true of other infections
—even those so situated anatomically that they cannot be surgically drained, and must therefore be
absorbed.”
What is here said of recovery from sinusitis is equally true of recovery from other
inflammations in the respiratory, digestive, genitourinary tracts and other regions of the body that
are lined with mucous membrane.
Thus otitis, conjunctivitis, gastritis, duodenitis, ileitis, colitis, metritis—all have been known to
clear up during the course of a lengthy fast. Only in comparatively rare instances are two fasts
required. Hay fever and asthma, both belonging to this same group of “diseases,” are remedied by
the forces of the organism during a fast.
Extensive experience with fasting in a wide variety of diseases, running over a period of more
than a hundred and thirty years and involving the work of hundreds of men and women caring for
many thousands of patients, has demonstrated that when the load is lifted from the digestive organs
by fasting, all of the energy of the body is transferred to the organs
of excretion, permitting full use
of these organs in freeing the body of an accumulated load of toxin.
What the body can do for itself in the way of restoring normal function and full vigor when the
toxic load is lifted has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
Speaking of pernicious anemia, Tilden says: “A fast of two weeks, without anything at all
except water, will improve anemia condition by increasing the blood-corpuscles sometimes by
five hundred thousand in that length of time.” There is poisoning from the digestive tract in all of
these cases and it seems most likely that this befoulment of the blood with sepsis from this source
81is the cause of the failure of the blood-making organs.
A similar septic befoulment seems to exist in cancer, causing anemia in this condition. It should
be emphasized strongly that no person suffering with anemia should undertake a fast, except under
competent supervision.
There is an equal need for experienced supervision of the diabetic who fasts. The diabetic may
safely and profitably fast, particularly if he carries considerable weight. If insulin has been taken
over an extended period of time, fasting is rarely recommended.
The sufferer with Bright’s disease may also fast with great benefit. In both these conditions and
all similar “diseases,” more important than the fast is the correction of the total way of life. It is
imperative that these patients be taught how to eat and that they learn their individual limitations
and to respect these. They may evolve into good health—continually improved health—if all
enervating habits are discontinued and the patient learns the laws of proper eating.
8219
The Case of the Common Cold
Millions of dollars have been spent in trying to discover what germ or set of germs produces the
common cold. All the efforts so far have led on to greater confusion, greater claims and greater
expenditures on remedies and the quest for vaccines to prevent colds.
Harold Deihs, M.D., at the University of Minnesota, tested, on many thousands of students,
virtually every cold remedy ever devised and kept exact records. None of them proved to be a
genuine remedy.
Some authorities insist that the cold is caused by a whole panoply of cold microbes—a sort of
“germ cocktail.” Other common cold experts propound the concept that the cold is produced by a
virus or a whole series of viruses. Nearly a hundred viruses have been identified which may play
some role in the causation of the cold. As all work now seems to be concentrated on finding a
vaccine that will
immunize
 one against these viruses, it is obvious that a number of vaccines will
have to be perfected. It would be so much better to learn to live in a manner to avoid colds. The
normal body produces its own protection. It needs no outside crutch.
It has been said that the cold is common, not because it is simple, but because it is so complex.
This may have reference to the confusion in which the etiology of the cold has been enshrouded.
Dr. Tilden said that a cold is the proximal symptom of a complex whose distal symptom is cancer
or tuberculosis or some other fatal
degenerative disease.
Between the first cold of infancy and death from cancer in middle life, there are intermediate
complexes and symptoms galore—colds, coughs, sore throats, constipation, diarrhea, headaches,
fatigue, grouchiness, apprehension, restlessness, sleeplessness, bad breath, coated tongue, and
many other symptoms and so-called acute diseases, all of which are but crises in toxemia. The
non-toxemic individual cannot be made to develop symptoms of a cold.
In humorous verse, but with underlying truth, the
rationale
 of the causes of cold was presented
in these stanzas in a poem published in the
American Journal of Clinical Medicine
 in 1928:
A cold is not a cold to me—
It’s Nature’s way to tell
That I’ve been dining recently
Not wisely, but too well.
A snuffy nose has come to mean
That I’ve enjoyed erstwhile
Some breaded porkchops, nested deep
In sweet spuds, southern style….
Or else, perchance, a wondrous steak,
With onions crisp and brown,
Has made my liver make of me
A menace to the town.
83Or, it might be a chunk of cheese,
Or mince pie hot and sweet,
So, a cold is not a cold to me—
It’s just too much to eat.
Hygienists
 can fully endorse the thoughts expressed in these lines. Not only may one avoid
colds by learning to eat within limitations and by conserving energy in every way, but one may
hasten the termination of the cold by fasting. Stuffing the patient who has a cold is a sure way of
prolonging it and of causing it to “run into pneumonia” or something else. Few people realize the
importance of stopping all food until all symptoms have subsided.
In an article on the common cold, published in American newspapers on Dec. 20, 1962, Dr.
Walter C. Alvarez, professor of medicine and editor of
American Medicine,
 and newspaper
columnist, declared: “In the great British cold research laboratory at Salisbury, it was found that
sitting or standing in wet clothes in a draft does not produce a cold.”
Such experiments are but wasteful repetitions of experiments that were conducted in this country
in the last century by
Hygienists,
 and, while they confirm the conclusions arrived at by the
Hygienists,
 they add nothing new to our knowledge of the cause of colds. Alvarez says that he
himself has no fear of getting chilled in winter.
Alvarez thinks that colds are “contagious.” He says that what he does fear is to get into a taxi
cab with a man who has a sniffy cold. He thinks that he “catches cold” or what it catches him under
such circumstances.


satisfy a ravenous appetite if all conditions ofingestion and preparation are favourable.
(15) Both quantitive and qualitive supply of
saliva are important factors; but attention tothese fundamental requirements of right eatingsoon regulates the supply of all of the digestivejuices, and in connection with the carerecommended above, ensures economy ofnutrition and, probably, immunity from disease.CHAPTER V
WHAT IS PROPER MASTICATION?
Not Excessive Chewing—Gladstone's Advice—Salival Action on Starch
Foods.
NOTWITHSTANDING  the fact that Fletcherizing
stands for tasting as the important thing toaccomplish before food is swallowed, and thatbiting, chewing, or masticating is merely ameans to secure the end of thorough tasting,nine-tenths of all who know anything about theclaims for Fletcherizing insist on thinking thatit merely means " excessive mastication." TheNational Food Reform Association of England,in a bulletin giving advice concerning thefeeding of school children, intended to be postedin schoolrooms and private dining rooms,speaks of Fletcherizing in its ideal practice as" Excessive Mastication."
This is just what Fletcherizing is not. The
very essence of the method of performing thepersonal responsibility is avoiding excess ofanything, excessive or laboured chewing amongthe rest.There is little if any harm in keeping food in
the mouth as long as possible, and I believe thatit is impossible to have too much saliva mixedwith it when it is swallowed, because when it isproperly tasted and insalivated it is almostimpossible to hold it back from the food gate atthe back of the mouth. There is always suctionthere ready to draw welcome nourishment inwhen it is ready, and readiness touches abutton, electrically relieving the muscularsprings that close the gate tightly duringtasting, and, literally a " team of horses couldnot hold it."
What the mystics of the stomach-diseases
profession called bradefagy, or, in plain English,
excessive chewing, can only be performed withpainful tediousness. It makes work—hardwork—of the act, and that is just as muchopposed to Fletcherizing as it is to common
sense, horse sense, and all of the natural senses.
Now just for one moment please pay
attention to one who is telling you somethingMother Nature wants you to know more thananything else in the whole category ofintelligence. Fletcherizing isNOT EXCESSIVE  CHEWING,
or tedious chewing, or long chewing. The things
that require to be chewed long are not goodfood, and by that sign you may find out theirunprofitableness better than in any other way.Good taste from good food is not long lasting.When the mouth is " watering " for the food insight, or even in thought of it, the coupons oftaste they carry with them are short, butrepresent large figures of satisfaction andnourishment.
MR. GLADSTONE 'S ADVICE.
Now listen to some figures regarding the
number of bites or chews that some foodsrequire under varying circumstances. Mr.Gladstone's advice to his children which hasbecome classic, viz.: " Chew your food thirty-twotimes at least, so as to give each of your thirty-two teeth a chance at it," was a generalrecommendation. Mr. Gladstone was observedonce when he was a guest at " high table " atTrinity College, Cambridge, and the averagenumber of his " bites " (masticatory movements)as far as they could be counted, was aboutseventy-five. That did not speak very well for
Trinity fare, unless Mr. Gladstone happened tochoose food that required that amount ofchewing.
Even if Mr. Gladstone did devote seventy-five
masticatory movements to each morsel, as anaverage, such thoroughness would not haveinvolved an unusual length of time for a heartymeal. If you will try the experiment when youare " good and hungry," having a " working-man's appetite," and disposing of good breadand butter the while, which should have nearly,or quite, seventy bites to the ordinary mouthful,you will find that thirty mouthfuls will prettynearly, or completely, satisfy your working-man's appetite. Mixed foods take much lesstime, usually about half, and still the seventy-five-rhythm act will consume only about twentyminutes to perform with physiologicthoroughness.
SALIVAL  ACTION  ON STARCH  FOODS.
Here are some statements easy to prove or
disprove by anyone, with real compensation inthe way of new revelations relative to thepossibilities of gustatory enjoyment.Starchy foods, such as bread, potatoes, etc.,
require from thirty to seventy masticatorymovements to assist saliva to turn the starchinto " grape sugar," which is the form in whichit can be used as nourishment. *
You will at once think, no doubt, that a range
of numbers extending from thirty to seventy ispretty wide. So it is; but conditions regardingthe qualities of not only breads, but potatoes,and also conditions relative to the strength orsupply of saliva, differ greatly. When theappetite is keen, the mouth watering, as theyare at the beginning of a meal, bread or potatoesmay be negotiated into nutriment ready for the
* Although I have been a close student of the subject for
more than fifteen years in the best physiological-chemicallaboratories for long periods of time—and always emulating the
man from Missouri in demanding of the wise ones in the science
of the laboratories to " Show me! "—I make the statementsrelative to what happens below the guillotine line in Mother
Nature's exclusive territory of responsibility on the authority of
the laboratory experts; but only, mind you, when my personalobservations and business logic approve the conclusion.
Therefore, when I tell you that starch turned into dextrose, or
" grape sugar," is assimilable as nourishment, and that starchwhich is not thus chemically transformed by saliva is not
capable of becoming nourishment, I am not " speaking by the
book," which Mother Nature has opened for me to read—unlessbiological-chemists can be considered to be extra-enlightened
forms of nature.THE AUTHOR  FEELING  HIMSELF  TO BE THE MOST  FORTUNATE
PERSON  ALIVE.
stomach in much less time than later on.
Appetite " peters put," as miners say, gradually,and does not stop with a bang and shut off likean electric light when connection is broken. Itchecks up, slows down, and tapers off gradually,and that is where the canny intelligence of afaithful Fletcherizer stands him in goodusefulness. When Appetite gently says: " Now,really, you are still rather good to my assistant
Taste, and he would not object to a few bitesmore ; but if you stop now and change off tosomething else which I have in mind, and forwhich I have a use in our organism, I will notobject." In plain words: " I have enough for thepresent; switch off on to ——."
The difference between putting on fat in the
case of the person who is disposed or permittedto put on more fat than is comfortable, andlosing some of the surplus carried on theabdomen or elsewhere, is the discriminationexercised in regard to the final satisfaction ofappetite. Those last two, three, or a few mouth-fuls after Appetite has said gently " Enough,"and before the same Appetite says, loudly, "Stop! " are the difference between obesity; anddecency of form.
I really believe, from the results of my
experiences for the past fifteen years in gettingtips from Mother Nature, and trying to inducemankind in general and my friends inparticular to accept them as " straight " fromMother Nature, that persons who have enoughrespect for themselves to be interested inphysical culture must come to the rescue of the
pseudo-scientists who are dulled by their owndope, and who are suffering from the malariawhich collects in the dark ruts they arefollowing in the tortuous complications of thealimentary canal. The physical culturists mustbuild models of normality for the scientists tostudy.
When giving information as to what happens
in the mouth, and as to what happens as aresult of proper head digestion, I feel as if I amsitting on the upper lip of Mother Natureherself, and entrusting her messages to thecurrent of her own sweet breath for distributionamong her human children.CHAPTER VI
WHAT IS HEAD DIGESTION?
My Study of the Subject—The Mouth as a Digestive Organ—Dr.
Cannon's Researches—Pawlow's Proofs
IN the latest comprehensive treatise on
human nutrition, under the title of " Food andthe Principles of Dietetics," by Dr. RobertHutchinson, of London, more than six hundredpages are devoted to the subject. Of these, justfifty lines are given to " Mouth Digestion." In afootnote of sixty-four words Dr. Hutchinson hasstated the case of the importance of carefuleating, with admission of a fact that wouldmean emancipation from most of the humandisabilities if it were repeated in nurseries andprimary schools as religiously as are theordinary rules of " polite conduct," and held bySociety to be the basis of respectability, which itreally is.
When I first took up the study of dietetics in
academic circles, nearly fifteen years ago,physiologists did not concede that there was anymouth digestion at all. Putting food in themouth was for the purpose of mixing it with
saliva so that it could be formed into a "