 dramatica lly, and it will become ever easier to continue increasing the
percentage of raw foods that you eat.
At some point, you may begin to question why you are still eating the cooked foods a t all. Sure, you love them; the question is,
do they love you back? Cooked foods eventually show themselves for what they tr uly are: health destroyers. Though you may find
that you have many emotional attachments to your cooked food, in due time you wi ll come to no longer look at cooked food as a
“treat.”

“Detox” Symptoms: Cause for Celebration
Many people experience temporary symptoms of detoxification when they beg in a raw diet, as the body is no longer being
overloaded each day with so much toxic residue. The symptoms arise as the body  cleanses and heals naturally, releasing toxins into
the bloodstream that may have been buried deep within tissues and organs f or many years. The body is wise, however, and it
always eliminates toxins in a way that requires the least effort  and does itself the least harm.  Detoxification symptoms are generally mild but can range from uncomf ortable to downright miserable. They are really a cause
for celebration, however, as any discomfort in the present is sure to be les s severe and of shorter duration than the dis-ease it would
have become in the future.
Such symptoms often include tiredness, runny nose, headaches, digestiv e challenges, weight loss, skin conditions, and drops in
blood pressure. Less common but not unusual are diarrhea, vomiting, and all ma nner of retracing phenomena (reexperiencing past
symptoms to complete a healing process that was interrupted by medical in tervention or other forms of treatment). All of these and
other symptoms are indications that the body is making healthy adjustme nts.
Initially, intestinal gas problems may arise in people who have damage d digestive tracts. The intestines can hold food in little
“outpockets,” out of the main flow. There, stagnant foods may ferment or pu trefy and cause gas. Over time, the gas will diminish as
the intestines heal. Long-term gas problems on the raw vegan diet are  generally corrected by being attentive to proper food
combining.
Most of what is called “detox” is actually just the reaction of a body t hat is no longer being irritated or stimulated—effectively
“forced” to function. The secondary effect of stimulation is sedation. Th us it is common to feel tired when a person first attempts the
raw diet. It is not that the raw diet is making them tired; it is that th ey are actually “coming down” off of the influence of coffee,
refined sugars, meats, and other stimulating foods.

The Law of Dual Effect
The Law of Dual Effect states that those substances, influences, f orces, and conditions to which the body is subjected result in
two responses by the body:

The primary effect is the more acute of the two, and the shorter lastin g.
The secondary effect is less intense, but it lasts longer.

When we drink coffee, for instance, the primary effect is one of stimula tion. The secondary effect is only visible after the
primary effect has worn off. In this instance, the secondary effect of  coffee is to leave us even more tired than we were before
drinking the coffee. With our fractured view of health, we tend to look only at  the primary effect or acute influence of such a
substance while ignoring the secondary effect or chronic influenc e.
Each person is unique; therefore, the duration and degree of detoxificati on will vary. Detox can be intense or mild, and can last
from a few days to several years, depending on the individual’s health, v itality, environment, and the degree to which one follows a
healthy lifestyle.
We must also remember that we live in a constant state of retoxifyin g and detoxifying. In the course of our day, we absorb
environmental toxins, and the body works to eliminate them. We ingest foods, e ven the best sort, and the body creates toxic waste
as a result of its cellular metabolism. This toxin production is not caus e for worry, however, because we are equipped with kidneys
and a liver—eliminative organs designed to rid ourselves of these toxi ns. Should these organs become overloaded, the skin, lungs,
bowels, mucous membranes, and other areas of the body are equipped to help handle th e toxic load.

Which Road Do You Choose to Travel?
Eating raw poses many challenges, of that there is no doubt. But the benef its of this way of eating so far outweigh the negatives
that little room exists for argument against eating raw.
If we are honest with ourselves, there is simply no room for cooked food if we desi re a vibrantly healthy existence. It is like
any other journey. If you are going down the road that is taking you where you  want to go, you will likely continue to follow it. If you
find yourself going down a road that will not bring you to your desired destinat ion, of course you will switch roads.
At your chosen speed, cooked food can increasingly become a thing of your past. The re is no hurry; you can cross that bridge
when you come to it. Even then, you are not making an irreversible decision. In any case, I guarantee that after a year of eating low-
fat raw vegan food, should you choose to revert to your old style of eating, the hi gh-fat cooked foods will still be available.
But don’t be surprised if you discover that the 80/10/10  raw vegan diet is the sweet road to well-rounded health and
happiness.

Our Natural Diet: A Summary
In this age of junk food, manufactured foods, and agrochemicals, the issue of f ood quality has become increasingly important
for those who seek long, productive, vital lives. The relationship of health  to diet is becoming ever more profoundly obvious, and
more and more people are looking to increase the quality of their food than ever  before. The market for organically grown foods is
growing rapidly, and farmer’s markets are proliferating like neve r before as more and more of us are waking up to the necessity of a high-produce lifestyle for health and longevity.
Many years ago, the great health educator T.C. Fry, organized his though ts on how to make the finest food choices and came
up with these four excellent guidelines. I have reproduced these time less words of wisdom here, as a fitting summary to this chapter.

Criteria for Selecting the Highest-Quality Foods
By T.C. Fry
First Criterion
Can the food be eaten in its natural state? Is the food palatable, that is, delectable or delicious? Can it be e aten with keen
relish in its natural state?
If a food cannot be eaten with joy and delight to individuals in normal good heal th who have an unperverted sense of taste,
then the food must be considered to be of low quality. Eating should be a gustatory  delight. If a whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic food
is a taste delight, it is perfect. Its quality is reduced commensurate  with the reduction in taste.
If the food cannot be ingested in its natural state—that is, uncooked, un processed and otherwise untampered with—it does
not belong in the human diet. We humans were for millions of years adapted t o a diet obtained directly from nature in its fresh raw
natural state. There have been no adaptations noted in human physiology t o the consumption of cooked, processed, or otherwise
devitalized foods. This determines the character of our diet and also the m anner in which we were accustomed to ingesting it.
Therefore, cooking and processing foods to make them palatable is unacceptable  to the health enthusiast. Cooking destroys
enzymes totally. While a healthy individual will synthesize some  1,000 enzymes required for digestion, assimilation, and utilization of
foods, the body is, nevertheless, dependent upon the enzymatic action of the foods  for the most perfect digestion. Consequently, it is
absolutely essential that our foods have their full complement of enzy mes intact.
Cooking is the worst “health” practice that humans have ever adop ted. It destroys not only the enzymes but deranges and
destroys almost all known food factors. Cooking disorganizes, oxidizes and makes n onusable a food’s mineral content. It
deaminates the food’s protein content, thus rendering it worthless i n human nutrition. Cooking reduces the value of a food from its
wholesome state all the way down to worthless ashes, depending on the degre e of cooking to which it has been subjected.
To the extent that a food has been cooked––reduced to inorganic minerals, c aramelized sugars and starches, coagulated and
deaminated proteins, poisonous acrolein-laden fats, devitalized vit amins, and the like––it is not only worthless, but the ash becomes
toxic debris in the body.
That cooked foods are poisonous in the body is easily demonstrable. White blood cells f unction as janitors in the blood. A
normal white count is around 3 million. If toxic substances enter the bloods tream, the white blood cell count will rise, rapidly and
dramatically, in order to clean up the blood. After eating a cooked meal, the wh ite count typically rises as high as 15 or even 18
million, and even higher. After eating


 perfection, the body chemistry could support healthy teeth andgums until death. By healthy here Page means free of cavities, no bone lossaround the teeth (no wobblers), no long-in-the-teeth mouths from receedinggums, no gum diseases at all. But when empty calories or devitalized foods ormisdigestion cuts our nutrient intake we begin experiencing tooth decay, gumdisease and bone loss in the jaw. How are your teeth?
I suppose you could say that I have a food religion, but mine is to eat so that
the equation Nutrition = Health / Calories is strongly in my favor.
Back to my daughter’s teeth. Yes, I innocently fed her less than ideally
nutritious food, but at that time I couldn’t buy ideal food even had I known what I
wanted, nor did I have any scientific idea of how to produce ideal food, noractually, could I have done so on the impoverished, leached-out clay soil at GreatOaks School even had I known how. The Organic doctrine says that you canbuild a Garden of ‘Eatin with large quantities of compost until any old clay pit orgravel heap produces highly nutritious food. This idea is not really true. Sadly,what is true about organic matter in soil is that when it is increased very muchabove the natural level one finds in untilled soil in the climate you’re working with,the nutritional content of the food begins to drop markedly. I know this assertionis shocking and perhaps threatening to those who believe in the Organic system; Iam sorry.
But there is another reason my daughter’s teeth were not perfect, probably
could not have been perfect no matter what we fed her, and why she willprobably have at least some health problems as she ages no matter how perfectlyshe may choose to eat from here on. My daughters had what Dr. G.T. Wrenchcalled “a poor start.” Not as poor as it could have been by any means, butcertainly less than ideal.
You see, the father has very little to do with the health of the child, unless he
happens to carry some particularly undesirable gene. It is the mother who has thejob of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body’snutritional reserves. The female body knows from trillenia of instinctual experiencethat adequate nutrition from the current food supply during pregnancy can notalways be assured, so the female body stores up very large quantities of mineralsand vitamins and enzymes against that very possibility. When forming a fetus thesereserves are drawn down and depleted. It is virtually impossible during thepregnancy itself for a mother to extract sufficient nutrition from current food tobuild a totally healthy fetus, no matter how nourishing the food she is eating maybe. Thus a mother-to-be needs to be spending her entire childhood and heradolescence (and have adequate time between babies), building and rebuilding
her reserves.
A mother-to-be also started out at her own birth with a vitally important stock
of nutritional reserves, reserves put there during her own fetal development. If that“start” was less than ideal, the mother-to-be (as fetus) got “pinched” andnutritionally shortchanged in certain, predictable ways. Even minor mineral fetaldeficiencies degrade the bone structure: the fetus knows it needs nutritionalreserves more than it needs to have a full-sized jaw bone or a wide pelvic girdle,and when deprived of maximum fetal nourishment, these non-vital bones becomesomewhat smaller. Permanently. If mineral deficiencies continue into infancy andchildhood, these same bones continue to be shortchanged, and the child ends upwith a very narrow face, a jaw bone far too small to hold all the teeth, and inwomen, a small oven that may have trouble baking babies. More importantly,those nutrient reserves earmarked especially for making babies are also deficient.So a deficient mother not only shows certain structural evidence of physiologicaldegeneration, but she makes deficient babies. A deficient female baby at birth isunlikely to completely overcome her bad start before she herself has children.
So with females, the quality of a whole lifetime’s nutrition, and the life-nutrition
of her mother (and of her mother’s mother as well) has a great deal to do with theoutcome of a pregnancy. The sins of the mother can really be visited unto the thirdand fourth generation.
This reality was powerfully demonstrated in the 1920s by a medical doctor,
Francis Pottenger. He was not gifted with a good bedside manner. Rather thanstruggling with an unsuccessful clinical practice, Dr. Pottenger decided to make hisliving running a medical testing laboratory. He earned his daily bread performing arather simple task, assaying the potency of adrenal hormone extracts. At thattime, adrenaline, a useful drug to temporarily rescue people close to death, wasextracted from the adrenal glands of animals. However, the potency of thesecrude extracts varied greatly. Being a very powerful drug, it was essential tomeasure exactly how strong your extract was so its dosage could be controlled.
Quantitative organic chemistry was rather crude in those days. Instead of
assaying in a test tube, Dr. Pottenger kept several big cages full of cats that he hadadrenalectomized. Without their own adrenals, the cats could not live more than ashort time By finding out how much extract was required to keep the cats fromfailing, he could measure the strength of the particular batch.
Dr. Pottenger’s cats were economically valuable so he made every effort to
keep them healthy, something that proved to be disappointingly difficult. He kepthis cats clean, in airy, bright quarters, fed them to the very best of his ability onpasteurized whole milk, slaughterhouse meat and organs (cats in the wild eatorgan meats first and there are valuable vitamins and other substances in organmeats that don’t exist in muscle tissue). The meat was carefully cooked toeliminate any parasites, and the diet was supplemented with cod liver oil.However, try as he might, Pottenger’s cats were sickly, lived short and had to befrequently replaced. Usually they bred poorly and died young of bacterialinfections, there being no antibiotics in the 1920s. I imagine Dr. Pottenger wasconstantly visiting the animal shelter and perhaps even paid quarters out the backdoor to a steady stream of young boys who brought him cats in burlap sacks fromwho knows where, no questions asked.
Dr. Pottenger’s assays must have been accurate, for his business grew and
grew. Eventually he needed more cats than he had cages to house, so he built abig, roofed, on-the-ground pen outdoors. Because he was overworked, he wasless careful about the feeding of these extra animals. They got the samepasteurized milk and cod-liver oil, but he did not bother to cook theirslaughterhouse meat. Then, a small miracle happened. This poorly cared for cageof cats fed on uncooked meat became much healthier than the others, suffering farfewer bacterial infections or other health problems. Then another miraclehappened. Dr. Pottenger began to meditate on the first miracle.
It occurred to him that cats in the wild did not cook their food; perhaps cats
had a digestive system that couldn’t process or assimilate much out of cooked
food. Perhaps the problem he had been having was not because the cats were
without adrenal glands but because they were without sustenance, suffering a sortof slow starvation in the midst of plenty. So Dr. Pottenger set up some cat feedingexperiments.
There were four possible combinations of his regimen: raw meat and
unpasteurized milk; raw meat and pasteurized milk; cooked meat and raw milk;cooked meat and pasteurized milk, this last one being what he had been feedingall along. So he divided his cats into four groups and fed each group differently.The first results of Pottenger’s experiments were revealed quickly though the mostvaluable results took longer to see. The cats on raw meat and raw milk did best.The ones on raw meat and pasteurized milk did okay but not as well. The ones oncooked meat and raw milk did even less well and those on all cooked foodcontinued to do as poorly as ever.
Clearly, cats can’t digest cooked food; all animals do better fed on what they
can digest. A lot of people have taken Pottenger’s data and mistakenly concludedthat humans also should eat only raw food. This idea is debatable. However, themost important result of the cat experiments took years to reveal itself and is notpaid much attention to, probably because its implications are very depressing. Dr.Pottenger continued his experiments for several generations. It was thetransgenerational changes that showed the most valuable lesson. Over severalgenerations, the cats on all raw foods began to alter their appearance. Their facesgot wider, their pelvic girdles broader, bones solider, teeth better. They began tobreed very successfully.
After quite a few generations, the healthiest group, the one on all raw foods,
seemed to have improved as much as it could. So Dr. Pottenger took some ofthese cats and began feeding them only cooked food to study the process ofnutritional degeneration. After three “de”generations on cooked fodder the grouphad deteriorated so much that the animals could barely breed. Their faces hadbecome narrow, their teeth crooked, their pelvic girdles narrow, their bones and
body structure very small, and their dispositions poor. Mothers wouldn’t nurse
their young and sometimes became cannibalistic. They no longer lived very long.
Before the degenerating group completely lost the ability to breed, Pottenger
began to again feed them all raw food. It took four generations on a perfect, rawfood diet before some perfect appearing individuals


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uids, gases, minerals, and vegetabl es. Chemistry could not exist with-
out mathematics. There would be no need of mathematics were it not for chemistry.
The joining together of chemistry and mathematics is called
PHYSICS. God is a God of PHYSICS. All things that are made by the laws of physics is (and there is nothing made that is made without) adherence to the laws.
IONIZATION is God's laws putting things together and taking
them apart ion by ion. An ion in its singular anionic form is the small-est amount of ENERGY in existence, in fact the smallest thing that
God ever created. All things that are made are formed from IONS.
Man has learned to measure the taking apart or the loss of ENER-
GY. which is any substance going back to its IONIC state.
Horsepower is the measure of harnessed lost energy from a com-
pound or element.
Man has just begun to peep through the keyhole of knowledge,
which God knew from the beginning (how things are put together, how a tree grows, how a seed sprouts, how a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk and yellow butter).
When man thoroughly understands how all things are put together
by following the line of least resistance 'tis then he will truly know
what LOVE is. To me love is following the line of least resistance. It is easier to love than to hate. Hate and revenge burns up much energy unnecessarily because it is following the line of FORCE, which is the line of greatest resistance.
Hate is like pushing a car up a steep hill. Love is like riding it
while it is coasting gently downhill. Pushing up hill causes a great loss
of energy. Riding quietly downhill observing the beauty of God's crea-tion brings about an increase of energy.
This entire book is about God's plan of the use of energy for more
perfect health as recorded in the Bible. 11 God manages the universe and controls all His creatures with
LOVE. Satan rules with force and hate. Force and hate always causes
a tremendously unnecessary loss of energy, and is the fruit that will cause anyone to experience a premature death and to be promoted to the PLACE OF HIS CHOICE.
After all is said and done, Heaven will consume all the ENERGY
of Hell, and God in His greatness will use it to make something beau-tiful from it. It may be a pansy or a violet. Only God knows. He can do no wrong because He is LOVE.
- C. R.
  12 CHAPTER 1
EQUATION NUMBERS

One of the first things most people demand to know of a Reams
tester is, "What is wrong with me?" This is a point that makes it possi-ble for any of the Reams testers to be falsely accused of practicing medicine without a license.
There are biological laws in the Bible pertaining to health which
teach us what is right and what is wrong. Unless the Reams Biological Theory of Ionization tests indicated what was wrong, we would not know what was right. It is absolutely impossible to separate religion and good health; or religion and poor health because we are all created by God.
Man's mind is in two divisions, one is the spiritual mind, or the
subconscious mind, and the other is the conscious mind.
With the conscious mind we think, we learn, we are taught princi-
ples of life, we are taught professional and non-professional duties. But back in the brain there is a subconscious mind, which is the spirit mind. This mind controls and maintains life. This is the involuntary part of the brain that keeps our organs functioning without any thought on our part of how and whether or not they function.
The Bible tells us that upon death the spirit shall return to God
which made it and that the soul shall go down to the grave and return to dust from which it came. In this soul are contained the frequencies, the micronage, the milli- micronage  and the millimilli-micronage, and
these contain our numbers. Here is one of the very important factors
taught by science: pictures of the spirit leaving the body have been taken of people as they passed into eternity and it is recognizable. A camera can pick up the spirit as it leaves the body, ascending like a vapor or like a cloud upward into eternity, but the soul then goes back to dust, waiting the judgment day.
An undertaker who took the RBTI course said to me one day, after
I had told him, "It's my duty to keep people out of your office and place of business as long as I can": 13 "That's why I'm here because I want them to stay out and live to a
ripe old age." Then he added, "I was looking at bodies of adults in the
morgue one day and this thought came to me:
They are here because they wanted to be... a freedom of choice." "What do you mean?" I asked. "They broke every rule of health. They abused their bodies. They
went to physicians instead of going to God for healing. They took drugs instead of minerals to get well. They did not seek to clean the temple of God. What other conclusion could I draw other than they were here because they wanted to be, he answered.
I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with his statement. I'm only
saying that it lies within us to live  to a ripe old age and to be healthy,
or to be sick and die young.
I was in the South Pacific during the war and one of the things I
learned about the natives there was th at they never grow old. They all
die young because their living standards are so low, their food is so poor and the quality of their life is  thinking there is nothing really to
live for. When you see one of these natives 30 years old, they look like 70 or 80. The conditions under which they live burns out their system too quickly.
This is what happens when the wrong foods are used. It releases
too many calories of heat energy, or electrical energy at the wrong time and the body cannot assimilate it. The very fact that it does this, will show in the numbers, and disease will strike in the weakest place. Naturally the excessive heat energy will burn out the weakest place first, so the numbers m the test then  come forth and we can zero in on
the organ, or organs, that are affected.
All diseases start with one or more of the vital organs which are
controlled by the central nervous system, chiefly the liver, but then spreads to other organs because the liver is the one organ that manu-factures the skeleton of the amino acid for all the other organs, and the amino acid is the building block that we live on. The numbers help us to zero in on the location of the loss of energy.
A mineral deficiency is the cause of all diseases. The higher the
specific gravity the less energy you may get out of your food. The 14 lower the specific gravity, below the range A of the Reams Biological
Theory of Ionization test (RBTI), the faster the food passes through
the system and it does not have time to take the energy properly from the food. The numbers show what organs are losing the energy.
Collagen disease is nothing more than old-fashioned scurvy,
caused by a lack of vitamin C, and affects the entire body chemistry from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. The cells are com-ing apart, and the energy is being lost throughout the system. The be-ginning of this disease is the lack of calciums, which in turn causes a decrease in vitamin C, which in turn permits a weakening of the tis-sues, and a weakening of the gastric juices, which again affects the numbers.
The numbers indicate the state of health and how much reserve
energy you have. The higher the reserve energy the greater liberty you
have in breaking the rules. The lower your reserve energy, the less lib-erty you have in breaking the rules. You would not think of feeding an infant meat or nuts. Many people who are very ill, with a reserve en-ergy rating below 15, their gastric juices are as diluted as an infant, and, therefore, they should live on baby food until their energy is re-stored, or increases.
There are two reasons why body chemistry will not respond to di-
et. One is a brain tumor in the left quadrant of the brain, and the other is unrepairable damage to the main vagus nerve (the vital nerve which
carries the message from the brain) to the vital organs which supply the total daily nutrient (TDN) needed to maintain the maximum
amount of reserve energy.
Suppose you were male, age 25, six feet tall, weight 180, and your
numbers would read:

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The person with these numbers would be in a critical condition,
and the body chemistry in range C. All of the above facts are neces-
sary in order to interpret this equation because a baby six months old 15 could also have these numbers, and therefore the diet would be differ-
ent, or if a female had these numbers the diet would be entirely differ-
ent.
The numbers indicate there are problems in certain areas of the
body regardless of the age of an adult, but in a child under 12 years of age or under age of puberty, it would· have an entirely different mean-ing because there is a change in body chemistry after


 think? The  way
I think about something is the way I think
about something. My thoughts, my
attitudes, my ideas were not created in a
minute. I have to guess they are the result
of years of experience, a lifetime of
encounters. You are right about the way I
think abo ut money, but how do I change
that?  This could be the most interesting question
in the book. The usual method of  creation
for most human being is a three -step
process involving thought, word, and  deed,
or action.
First comes thought; the formative idea; th e
initial concept. Then comes the word.  Most
thoughts ultimately form themselves into
words, which are often then written or
spoken. This gives added energy to the
thought, pushing it out into the world, where
it can be noticed by others.
Finally, in some cases words are put into
action, and you have what you call a  result;
a physical world manifestation of what all
started with a thought. Everything  around
you in your man -made world came into
being in this way —or some variation  of it.
All three creati on centers were used. But now comes the question: how to  change a
Sponsoring Thought? Yes, that is a very
good question. And a very  important one.
For if humans do not change some of their
Sponsoring Thoughts,  humankind could
doom itself to extinction.
The most rapid way to change a root
thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse
the thought -word -deed process.
Explain that.
Do the deed that you want to have the new
thought about. Then say the words that  you
want to have your new thought about. Do
this often  enough and you’ll train the  mind
to think a new way.
Train the mind? Isn’t that like mind control?
Isn’t that just mental manipulation?  Do you have any idea how your mind came
up with the thoughts it now has? Do you  not
know that your world has manipulated your
mind to think as you do? Wouldn’t it  be
better for you to manipulate your mind than
for the world to?
Would you not be better off to think the
thoughts you want to think, than those of
others? Are you not better armed with
creative thought s than with reactive
thoughts?
Yet your mind is filled with reactive
thought —thought that springs from the
experience of others. Very few of your
thoughts spring from self -produced data,
much less self -produced preferences.
Your own root thought about mone y is a
prime example. Your thought about money  (it is bad) runs directly counter to your
experience (it’s great to have money!). So
you have to run around and lie to yourself
about your experience in order to justify
your root thought.
You are so rooted in  this thought, it never
occurs to you that your idea about money
may be inaccurate.
So now what we are up to is coming up with
some self -produced data. And that is  how
we change a root thought, and cause it to
be your root thought, not another’s.
You have one more root thought about
money, by the way, which I’ve yet to
mention.
What’s that?
That there’s not enough. In fact, you have
this root thought about just about  everything. There’s not enough money,
there’s not enough time, there’s not enough
love, there’s not enough food, water,
compassion in the world...Whatever there
is that’s good, there’s just not enough.
This race consciousness of “not -enough -
ness” creates and recreates the world as
you see it.
Okay, so I have two root thoughts —
Sponsoring Tho ughts —to change about
money.
Oh, at least two. Probably many more.
Let’s see. Money is bad...money is
scarce...money may not be received for
doing God’s work (that’s a big one with
you)...money is never given freely...money
doesn’t grow on trees (when, in fact, it
does)...money corrupts.  I see I’ve got a lot of work to do.
Yes, you do, if you’re not happy with your
present money situation. On the other
hand, it’s important to understand that
you’re unhappy with your present money
situation because you’re un happy with your
present money situation.
Sometimes You’re hard to follow.
Sometimes you’re hard to lead.
Say, listen, You’re the God here. Why don’t
You make it easy to understand?
I have made it easy to understand.
Then why don’t You just cause me to
unde rstand, if that’s what You truly want?
I truly want what you truly want —nothing
different and nothing more. Don’t you see
that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you
want for you, and then went so far as to
cause you to have it, where is your free
choice? How can you be a creative being if
I am dictating what you shall be, do, and
have? My joy is in your freedom, not your
compliance.
Okay, what did You mean, I’m unhappy
with my money situation because I’m
unhappy with my money situation?
You are what you think you are. It’s a
vicious circle when the thought is a
negative  one. You’ve got to find a way to
break out of the circle. So much of your
present  experience is based on your
previous thought. Thought leads to
experi ence, which  leads to thought, which
leads to experience. This can produce
constant joy when the  Sponsoring Thought is joyous. It can, and does, produce
continual hell when the  Sponsoring
Thought is hellatious.
The trick is to change Sponsoring Thought.
I was about to illustrate how to do that.
Go.
Thank you.
The first thing to do is reverse the thought -
word -deed paradigm. Do you remember
the old adage, “Think before you act”?
Yes.
Well, forget it. If you want to change a root
thought, you have to act before  you think.
Example: you’re walking down the street
and come across an old lady begging for
quarters. You realize she’s a bag lady and
is living day -to-day. You instantly know  that as little money as you have, you surely
have enough to share with her. Your first
impulse is to give her some change.
There’s even a part of you that’s ready to
reach  in your pocket for a little folding
money —a one, or even a five. What the
heck,  make it a grand moment for her. Light
her up.
Then, thought comes in. What, are you
crazy? We’ve only got seven dollars to get
us through the day! You want to give her a
five? So you start fumbling around for  that
one.
Thought again: Hey, hey, c’mon. You don’t
have that many of these that you can  just
give them away! Give her some  coins, for
heaven’s sake, and let’s get out of  here.  Quickly you reach into the other pocket to
try to come up with some quarters. Your
fingers feel only nickels and dimes. You’re
embarrassed. Here you are, fully clothed,
fully fed, and you’re going to ni ckel-and-
dime this poor woman who has nothing.
You try in vain to find a quarter or two. Oh,
there’s one, deep in the fold of your  pocket.
But by now you’ve walked past her, smiling
wanly, and it’s too late to go  back. She gets
nothing. You get nothing, ei ther. Instead of
the joy of knowing your  abundance and
sharing, you now feel as poor as the
woman.
Why didn’t you just give her the paper
money! It was your first impute, but your
thought got in the way.  Next time, decide to act before you think.
Give the money. Go ahead! You’ve got it,
and there’s more where that came from.
That’s the only thought which separates
you from the bag lady. You’re clear there’s
more where that came from, and she
doesn’t know that.
When you want to change a root thought,
act in accordance with the new idea you
have. But you must act quickly, or your
mind will kill the idea before you know it. I
mean that literally. The idea, the new truth,
will be dead in you before you’ve had a
chance to know it.
So act quickly when the opportun ity arises,
and, if you do this often enough, your  mind
will soon get the idea. It will be your new
thought.  Oh, I just got something! Is that what’s
meant by the New Thought Movement?
If not, it should be. New thought is your only
chance. It’s your only r eal opportunity to
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 a solubilizer that could dissolve the
intrahepatic bilirubinate calcium stones proved to be a tremendous boon for the
patients. The surgeons accomplished this step by injecting DMSO through a
postoperative catheter or PTCD catheter. Up to that time a chelating agent, so-
called hexametaphosphate (HMP) had been used for removing
the calcium from
calcium bilirubinate. But this chelating agent, in itself, could not dissolve thebilirubin.
Then the three Japanese surgeons found a direct solubilizer for bilirubin,
dimethyl sulfoxide, which they knew to be a bi-polar, non-protonic solvent, and
used it as an accelerator for bilirubin determination. After purifying the DMSO to
99.98 percent, they examined its toxicity by oral administration, intravenous
administration, and infusion into biliary tracts of animals. No toxicity or side
effects were detected on biochemical and pathological examinations. Next they
used their solution on humans in the amount of 90 percent DMSO together with 5
percent HMP and achieved a satisfactory effect by attaining the solubilizing of
their patients’ bilirubinate calcium stones.
10
CLINICAL STUDIES SHOWING RESPONSE TO DMSO IN
MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
Successful treatment of lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease of
connective tissue, affecting the skin and various internal organs, including the
bladder, was carried out using dimethyl sulfoxide. Typically, lupus exhibits a red
scaly rash on the face, affecting the nose and cheeks; arthritis; and progressive
damage to the kidneys. Often the heart, lungs, and brain are also affected by
progressive attacks of inflammation followed by the formation of scar tissue
(fibrosis). In a milder form of the disease only the skin is affected.
Lupus erythematosus is regarded as an autoimmune disease and can be
diagnosed by the presence of abnormal antibodies in the blood stream, most easily
detected by a test that reveals characteristic white blood cells (LE cells). In 1984,
four physicians joined together in reporting on two female patients who were
victims of systemic lupus erythematosus with pathologically confirmed lupus
interstitial cystitis. Their urinary bladders were highly symptomatic. Treatment
with prednisone had been tried but without success. Then the two patients
responded very well to instillations of DMSO intravesically (into the bladder) and
had their conditions disappear.
11
DMSO works well to alleviate an unhealed wound at the site of a tooth
extraction, the well-known “dry socket” that defeats the surgical skills of many
dentists. Characterized by intense pain, discharge of pus, and sequestra (residual
symptoms, signs, and other ill effects), dry socket is most often associated with a
difficult extraction. Dripping DMSO directly into the extraction site tends to
prevent this problem from arising.
12Lastly, dimethyl sulfoxide has been used to offset inflammations associated
with sunburn. Phytophotodermatitis arising in the summer months in temperate
climates varies from mild to severe erythematous reactions (inflammation of the
skin due to widening or clogging of capillaries near the skin surface) with or
without vesicles or bullae (blisters) on the exposed parts of the body. By treating
the skin with a membrane labilizing agent (an agent that causes chemical change)
such as DMSO and a membrane stabilizing agent such as the steroid
desoximethasone, comfort for the patient is achieved.
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DMSO ANTI-ARTHRITIS THERAPY
DMSO is not a cure for arthritis. It is one part of a five-part treatment program that
consists of:
1
.
Nutrition
2
.
Microendocrinology
3
.
Immunotherapy
4
.
Food allergy elimination
5
.
DMSO
Powerful chemical agents such as cortisone, phenoprophins, phenylbutazones,
and gold have no place in this arthritis treatment program.
Nutrition writer Adelle Davis, the idol of health food enthusiasts who has been
wrongly, in my opinion, sneered at by numerous medical traditionalists, was way
ahead of her time. Many of her nutritional suggestions have been confirmed by
good scientific research. The ultimate traditionalist in nutrition, the United States
Department of Agriculture, has, in fact, adapted much of her wisdom in its
“Dietary Goals” for Americans. The National Research Council of the National
Academy of Science proved Adelle Davis correct when it issued its 1982 report—
two years in the making—on
Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer.
 The Council was
chaired by Dr. Clifford Grobstein of the University of California, and made up of
fourteen highly respected medical scientists.
As we know from high school biology, and were reminded in college and
medical school, the anterior pituitary gland is the so-called “master gland.”
Through the action of ACTH, it directly controls the adrenals.
But something we were not taught, and which is of great clinical significance, is
that the highest concentration of certain nutrients is in the adrenals and pituitarygland. The highest concentration of vitamin
E in the body is stored in the pituitary;
the highest concentration of vitamin C is held by the adrenals. Also, the pituitary
gland needs sufficient protein for efficient function, and the greatest concentration
of pantothenic acid lies in the adrenal glands.
Adelle Davis reasoned that if the adrenals were excreting enough natural
cortisone, exogenous cortisone would not be needed in the treatment of arthritis.
She knew from the work of Dugal (
Endocrinology
 44: 420, 1949) that animals
under stress need
seventy times
 the normal requirement of vitamin C to protect the
adrenals and that people in the “arthritis years” require twice as much vitamin C as
the young.
As we can see from my simple little diagram (see
Figure A-1
), vitamin E
deficiency will lead to pituitary insufficiency and, from hyposecretion of ACTH,
adrenal insufficiency follows.
Therefore, a
deficiency
 of vitamin C, vitamin E, pantothenic acid, and protein,
or perhaps certain combinations of these deficiencies, will, over a period of years,
lead to arthritis. Because of the high intake of sugar and junk food in this country,
subclinical deficiencies of these nutrients (and others) are common.
Vitamin C deficiency is the easiest to measure. Studies of the night nursing
personnel of the Emergency Department at Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida,
were revealing. These women were under extreme stress (which decreases vitamin
C levels) due to the abnormal hours they worked and the nature of the cases they
saw—such as gunshot wounds—with the concomitant responsibility. All of the
nurses smoked cigarettes, which drastically depresses vitamin C levels. Most of
them were on the birth control pill, which depresses vitamin C. They ate large
amounts of sugar-filled foods and drank copious amounts of cola drinks, which
drive down vitamin C levels. And they took frequent doses of aspirin (C-
depressing) for the headaches induced by their usual hypoglycemic swings brought
on by the colas and other junk food they ate.
Figure A-1
 Diagram showing that adrenal insufficiency follows vitamin E deficiency.
Eighty percent of these young women, who appeared to be in good health, were
vitamin C deficient. Over a period of years they have had chronic adrenalexhaustion, and arthritis is likely to follow. Yet, these workers were registered
nurses who should have known how to take care of themselves.
I have barely scratched the surface on the importance of nutrition and arthritis.
But, contrary to the pronouncements of the Arthritis Foundation, nutritional
deficiencies play a major role in the etiology of arthritis, something the writings on
orthomolecular nutrition by Adelle Davis and other authors will teach you.
MICROENDOCRINOLOGY
Dr. Melvin Page’s extensive work with the calcium-phosphorus ratio,
anthropometric measurements, and microendocrinology is a major advance in the
treatment of arthritis in particular and degenerative disease in general.
ALLERGY TESTING
For good results in the treatment of arthritis, food allergies must be investigated.
The method I like best is cytotoxic testing of the blood. But, unfortunately,
cytotoxic labs are available in only a few cities. Sublingual testing or the
cumbersome elimination diet technique might possibly be used as a substitute.
For excellent assistance with the various sophisticated allergy tests, including
the paper radioimmunosorbent (PRIST) test, the cytotoxic (or leukocytotoxic) test,
the radioallergosorbent (RAST) test, the fluoroallergosorbent (FAST) test, the
autoradiographic (MAST) test, the immunoperoxidase (IP) test, and the enzyme-
linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test, you might use the services of several
laboratories that I am listing here. Note: of all the tests, the RAST and the ELISA
have proven most popular among those physicians specializing in environmental
medicine, because these two diagnostic procedures seem to


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and extraordinary purity - water directly turquoise - my mother talked
I swim there - something she was bathing in all the lakes and rivers that we
come across, despite the envious looks hungry (remark:
dry starvation in its pure form - no contact with the water - even
can not wash their hands and brush their teeth, but since we have no problems with
health, we had a few indulgences such as brushing teeth
with water and permission to swim).
We spent 2 days - the second was particularly noteworthy,
because both were marked by the release of starvation. The technique
This doctor went compote of dried fruit - my God, in life
seen such a fuss over cooking compote! at the end
ends of all took into his hands the businessman from St. Petersburg. a result, instead of
6 am people crept up to compote at midnight. Then returned
to the base, and began a vegetarian gluttony - we have 7-day,
the people - 5. It was just an incredible amount eaten watermelons
and melons - especially watermelons. At the exit we were again taken to the trip,
for rafting - I really did not go, because well, I do not like the cold
in any form.
And then began the second stage. It the weather is slightly marred
- 3 days have been rainy and cold - mostly house stoked
stove and all the people going there - a small one and half
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324sofa housed 5 people - 3 povdol and 2 feet. Sex
distinctions blurred - we held hands. So it was easier
to spend time - on hunger as it would slow down as well - so far
waiting for their turn to massage until it is done - that evening
pass, and in the morning somewhere drove... in reserve, for example, where
bred guinea fowl, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks - it's nice
was to feed livestock warm bread (from the smell of which
just giddy), and just chat with brazen goats
Lisa and Masha, but still there was a red deer - deer, quite simply, a
still a huge owl - an impressive birdie two feet in height,
girth with a decent wood yardstick claws and completely
zingy yellow-orange, his enormous eyes - feed the bird
live pigeons and rats. And there lives a wild goose, which
1964! Very family-style by the way - it there a separate
"Premises", where he lives only with his family.
When the weather is established, we were taken to the camp next to Teletsk
Lake: something about 80 km from thereof. The base was called "the devil
Lake and apparently was organized by former military - big
double-layer canvas tents with wooden beds,
wooden floor in a tent, wooden sidewalks - all very clearly
thought out down to the mat at the entrance and urns with trash bags.
Lake there is a small, pretty murky with silt bottoms (that
did not stop the mother from swimming). But there were pedal boats
and the people enjoyed this, even though very remote, contact
with water. We sunbathed, but since there was no sweat at all, I am personally
long lacked.
Stayed there for 2 nights, went to second on Teletskoe lake - it
very large, 80 km in length, in the form of a comma - the widest
position in width - 5 km, the deepest place - 365 meters Madly
beautiful water - is black, but transparent. it flows into rivers in 1975
and rivulets, and follows only one - Biya. We take a walk
katerke on the lake to the waterfall (carbonate, in my opinion) 2,5 hours the road
at one end - a waterfall is very beautiful and powerful energy there.
In the evening the same day my mother came out of dry fasting - we
given herbal tea with honey - it was a thrill (compote in the first
time for some reason has not made such an impression on me), mom
me a laugh, because after the first cup
I was kind of like an alcoholic - a red nose, face osolovevshee
and ears are almost on their shoulders.
Returned to base, where our people have suffered a further 2 days. at one
women in their second fasting resorbed tumor in his chest. someone
then bled from the nose at someone - from the gums, the heat was almost everyone,
but in general people are caught stable and almost no one is whining.
The main problem - the almost complete lack of sleep, 2 hours
a day, and some do not sleep. And then there was a second output,
and again vegetarian gluttony.
My personal feeling - a feeling of lightness, energy, purity,
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325force. All the troubles during the famine were as strong
heart rate during a sharp rise in the mountain, feeling weak and very
the slow passage of time. Did not want to drink, although water dreaming
severe dry mouth appeared only when I started
rinse your mouth with water. The dream was nice.
During the exit - the feeling of fullness in the stomach, a headache for 1-e
day - that's all trouble. Chair recovering from their own
and very fast, at the very first day out. Mama younger,
prettier, has blossomed. In general, the unpleasant memories of the famine,
how about something terrible there - apparently, after all, for an organism is
natural process of purification. More subjective impressions: not
was "a marble grid" after a bath, and the famine was breathing for some reason
breast, although usually breathe stomach.
Filonov Sergey - a doctor with a very rich clinical
experience, a true professional, I think some did not survive
to starvation, if not for him and his support.
For those who want to talk, my e-mail: mailto: mariam-g@list.ru
Mariya Zhukova
My dry starvation in the Altai.
Of course, I wanted to write a diary for myself, but when after two
month has passed inspection, I have not found a cyst and I am now
pregnant. I sent my diary Sergei Ivanovich - let
he publishes it online. in our town a lot of young, yes
and in general women with similar diagnoses, they have absolutely no
know what to do and so many are afraid of starvation, not to mention
of dry. I took it all herself, has achieved its goal. Yes were
moments when he wanted to quit, but I knew that no way back.
Operation, of course, is not so terrible they make thousands, but most
the main reason remains. Just change something in your life
and attaching the will and patience we can achieve success
in his recovery.
Here is my story.
From his childhood as I can remember, I was constantly treated. Colds,
colitis, stomach, liver, spine, etc. After another cold
and treatment with antibiotics, earned more, and chronic bronchitis
with asthmatic component. Autumn in cold weather
begin to worry asthma. A year ago, I began
pain in the right abdomen, irregular menstruation. Asked
in a local clinic, it became clear that I still have a cyst and the right
ovary. The doctor prescribed me medication. I'm pierced, but the pain
disappeared for a while and resumed again.
The doctor said that it makes no sense to treat further, you need to do
laparoscopy. I am 27 years old, married five years, no children, then
age remain without hope of becoming a mother.
Decided, all sufficient, it is necessary to do thorough with their health.
I read many books and articles. Talking with people who have achieved
improve their health without drugs. Went on different courses,
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326seminars. Accidentally found on the Internet site of Sergei Ivanovich
Intuition prompted - it's mine. Called Sergei Ivanovich
In April, he told me that you can help me and the chances I have,
but to go dry starvation and get good results
need to prepare well and come in June. He explained to me
that with my sores I had better go and dry fractional
starvation. Its meaning is that at first I'm going through the first dry
hunger as much as I can, the first hunger like soap
coaching. Then we make a good quality output,
and the second a hunger for the maximum, it is already healing. Here is how to hunger
overrides hunger and obtained performance as if
if we were just eleven days, but go directly to a
term for an untrained person is very, very difficult, so
physiological and easier to pass SFG. I sat on a vegetarian
diet, cleaned intestines, liver. It is very hard for me dalas cleaning
Liver: me nauseous, and vomiting was good although my husband supported.
But after cleaning I was the first time in his short life
felt that such health. Began to try dry starvation.
The first day of the SG passed unnoticed, I was starving on a Sunday and we
My husband and I all day went to the cottage to his parents. We have a good
Nature. After cleansing the liver, I somehow lost my appetite, and
hunger it did not exist. The first sip of water was very tasty -
how can we, in our boring life not paying attention to simple
things! After the first week of fasting, the weekend did
two days of the LFG as the parents at the dacha. Hunger was relatively
easily, the only reason for the second day very much like


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Ash
Description Deciduous tree growing to 130 ft
(40 m). Has pale grey bark, black conical leaf buds,
and bright green leaves with 7–13 oval leaflets.
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214Gale Ga officinalisother medicinal plantsPart Used Bark.
Constituents Angostura bark contains bitter
principles, quinoline alkaloids including cusparine,
and 1–2% volatile oil. The alkaloids have antimicrobial activity against the tuberculosis bacillus.
History & Folklore Angostura is a traditional
tonic and fever remedy in South America, used chiefly for digestive infections. Native Amazonians also use the plant as a fish poison. Angostura has been used as a source of “bitters,” although it is unknown whether it is an ingredient of the cocktail flavoring bearing its name as the drink’s composition is a trade secret.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A strong bitter
with tonic properties, angostura stimulates  the stomach and digestive tract as a whole. It is antispasmodic and is reported to act on the spinal nerves, helping in paralytic conditions. Angostura is typically given for weak digestion, and is considered valuable as a remedy for diarrhea and dysentery.  In South America, it is sometimes used as a substitute for cinchona (Cinchona spp., p. 80)
to control fevers.
 QCaution Use under professional guidance only.Medicinal Actions & Uses A valuable
diuretic, cleavers is often taken for skin diseases such as seborrhea, eczema, and psoriasis; for swollen lymph glands; and as a general detoxifying agent in serious illnesses such as cancer. The plant is commonly prepared in the form of an infusion, but for conditions such as cancer, it is best taken as a juice, which is strongly diuretic. The juice and the infusion are also taken for kidney stones and other urinary problems.
Research According to French research (1947), an
extract of the plant appears to lower blood pressure.
Related Species The Mexican G. orizabense is
used by the Mazatecs to treat intestinal parasites  and to relieve fever. G. umbrosum from New Zealand has been used to treat gonorrhea. See also lady’s bedstraw (G. verum, following entry).
Galium verum (Rubiaceae)
Lady’s Bedstraw
Description Short, sprawling perennial growing
to 32 in (80 cm). Has whorls of narrow dark green leaves and tufts of very small bright yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Found throughout
Europe and western Asia, and naturalized in North America, lady’s bedstraw thrives in dry meadows, along roadsides, and in wayside places. It is gathered when in flower in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Lady’s bedstraw contains iridoids
(including asperuloside), flavonoids, anthraquinones, alkanes, and rennin.
History & Folklore The name of this
pleasant-scented herb derives from its traditional use as a stuffing for mattresses. In medieval times, it was used as a “strewing” herb on floors. Lady’s bedstraw curdles milk and gives a yellow color to cheese produced from the curd. In his Irish Herbal (1735), K’Eogh states, “when applied to burns, the crushed flowers alleviate inflammation, and when applied to wounds, they can heal them.”Galega officinalis (Fabaceae)
Goat’s Rue
Description Bushy perennial growing to about
3 ft (1 m) in height. Goat’s rue has compound leaves with lance-shaped leaflets and delicate pink pea-type flowers on terminal spikes, and produces red-brown seed pods in autumn.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Asia and
continental Europe, and naturalized in Britain, goat’s rue grows in damp and low-lying areas. It is harvested in summer.
Goat’s rue was once taken to treat the plague.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Goat’s rue contains alkaloids
(including galegine), lectins, flavonoids, and tannins. Galegine strongly reduces blood-sugar levels.
History & Folklore Formerly used as a
treatment for the plague, goat’s rue has been widely cultivated as a cattle feed.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Today, goat’s rue
is chiefly used as an anti-diabetic herb, having the ability to reduce blood-sugar levels. It is not a substitute for conventional drugs, but can be valuable in the early stages of type 2 diabetes and is best used as an infusion. The herb has the effect of increasing breast-milk production. It is also a useful diuretic.
Caution Use as part of the treatment of
diabetes only under professional supervision.Galium aparine (Rubiaceae)
Cleavers,
Goose Grass
Description Straggling, square-stemmed
annual growing to a height of 4 ft (1.2 m) with whorls of lance-shaped leaves, clusters of small white flowers, and small, round, green fruit with hooked prickles.
Habitat & Cultivation Common throughout
Europe and North America, cleavers is found  in many other temperate regions, including in Australia. It grows prolifically in gardens and along roadsides, and is gathered when just about to flower in late spring.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Cleavers contains iridoids
(including asperuloside), polyphenolic acids, anthraquinones (only in the root), alkanes, flavonoids, and tannins. Asperuloside is a  mild laxative.
History & Folklore The name cleavers
refers to the plant’s ability to cling (or cleave)  to fur or clothing. Dioscorides,  a Greek physician of  the 1st century ce,  considered it useful for countering weariness,  and described how shepherds used the  stems to make sieves  for straining milk.
Dried aerial partsGalipea officinalis
syn. G. cusparia (Rutaceae)
Angostura
Description Evergreen tree growing to
49 ft (15 m) with grey bark, shiny bright green
leaflets, and foul-smelling flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Angostura is native
to some Caribbean islands and to tropical South America. The bark is gathered throughout the year.
Lady’s bedstraw is used as a diuretic.
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   214 26/02/16   12:47 pm215 other medicinal plantsGelidium amansii
cold” herb used mostly to relieve symptoms
associated with heat. These include fever, irritability,
restlessness, insomnia, cystitis, painful urination, and
jaundice. The fruit staunches bleeding and
is taken for nosebleeds, and urinary and rectal
bleeding. The essential oil is an antiseptic and has
a reputation for being an aphrodisiac.
Related Species The fruit of the northern
Indian G. campanulata  is cathartic and used to
expel worms. G. gummifera, from eastern India,
is antiseptic and digestive. The Pacific region
G. taitensis  relieves headaches. The African
G. thunbergia  is used to relieve constipation.
Cautions Avoid in diarrhea. Do not take if taking
prescribed medication for high blood pressure.nor applied (even well diluted) to the skin of
children under the age of 12 unless with
professional supervision.
Gardenia plays a
significant role in
Chinese herbalism. Wintergreen makes an
effective liniment for
sore muscles and joints.Medicinal Actions & Uses A slightly bitter-
tasting remedy, lady’s bedstraw is used mainly as a
diuretic and for skin problems. Like its close relative,
cleavers ( G. aparine, preceding entry ), the herb is
given for kidney stones, bladder stones, and other
urinary conditions, including cystitis. It is occasionally
used as a means to relieve chronic skin problems
such as psoriasis, but, in general, cleavers is preferred
as a treatment for this condition. Lady’s bedstraw
has had a longstanding reputation, especially in
France, of being a valuable remedy for epilepsy,
though it is rarely used for this purpose today.
Related Species G. elatum  has also been
considered a remedy for epilepsy in France.
(See also G. aparine, preceding entry.)
Gardenia jasminoides syn.
G. augusta, G. florida (Rubiaceae)
Gardenia,
Zhi Zi (Chinese)
Description Evergreen shrub growing to 61⁄2 ft
(2 m). Has green leaves, scented double flowers,
and orange-red fruit.Gelidium amansii (Rhodophyceae)
Agar
Description Seaweed with red-brown,
translucent, multi-branched ribbons and fronds
growing to about 3 ft (1 m) in length. It has spherical
fruit that appears in late autumn and winter.
Habitat & Cultivation Agar is native to the
Pacific coasts of China and Japan and the coast of
South Africa. It grows to a


 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.


ERISM
Let Nature Choose the Meals—How many Meals a Day?
—Housewives—Fletcherism—The Financial Economy ofFletcherism—Business People and Fletcherism—The True Epicure.
WHAT do I eat?
When do I eat?How much do I eat?My answer to all these questions is very
simple. I eat anything that my appetite calls for;
I eat it only when it does call for it; and I eat until
my appetite is satisfied and cries " Enough! "
With my New England food preferences, my
range of selection circulates among a verysimple and inexpensive variety, namely,potatoes, corn-bread, beans, occasionally eggs,milk, cream, toast-and-butter, etc. ; andcombinations of these, such as hashed-brownedpotatoes, potatoes in cream, potatoes au gratin,
baked potatoes, potato pats, fish-balls — mainlycomposed of potato; occasionally tomato stewedwith plenty of powdered sugar; oyster stew withthe flavour of celery ; escalloped oysters, etc.The taste for fruits is always suitable to the
season, and is intermittent, strong leaningstowards some particular fruit persisting for atime and then waning to give place to someother preference.
But with all my fifteen or twenty years of
unremitting study of the subject, I cannot nowtell what my body is going to want to-morrow.But Nature knows, and she alone knows.
LET NATURE  CHOOSE  THE MEAL.
Once in Venice a group of experimenters, of
which I was one, subsisted on milk alone.During seventeen days nothing but milk,always from the same cow, and fresh from themilking, passed my lips in the way of food ordrink. I sipped the milk, and tasted it for all thetaste there was in it, and I learned to be so fondof it that it was with some difficulty that I wentback to a varied diet when the experimentcalled for a change. Good, fresh milk is anexception to Nature's dislike for monotony infood. Milk is the one perfectly-balanced foodmaterial; and while it may not be always thebest food for grown persons, it is the mostacceptable as a monotonous diet, and always is
good, sufficient and safe nutriment, if sipped,tasted, and naturally swallowed. I haveforgotten just what the exact quantity was thatI consumed daily during those seventeen days—I believe it was about two quarts. I get away asfar as possible from quantitative amounts,which may influence other persons. Theappetite is the only true guide to bodily need;and if the milk is.tasted
and swallowed only by
involuntary compulsion as required by rightfeeding, the appetite will gauge the bodily needexactly, and cut off short when enough for themoment has been taken.
So I say to all who ask me these questions as
applied to themselves: I cannot advise youappropriately what to eat, when to eat, nor howmuch to eat; neither can anybody else. Trust toNature absolutely, and accept her guidance.
If she calls for pie, eat pie. If she calls for it at
midnight eat it then, but eat it right.Understand the food filter at the back of themouth as I have described it in a previousarticle, and use it in connection with the pie. Ifit is used properly, and all the taste is extractedfrom the pie, and it is swallowed only in
response to the natural opening of the gate, andif the ingredients of the pie that are notswallowed naturally are removed from themouth, nothing will happen to disturb profoundsleep.
Few persons will crave mince pie or Welsh
rarebit late at night. The worker on a morningpaper may do so, and often does. He has earnedhis appetite, and sometimes it is so robust as tocall for mince pie or Welsh rarebit; but if theseare eaten properly they will then be utilised bythe body, eagerly and easily.
I dwell purposely upon this extravagance of
eating. It is to accentuate the fact that we wantto get as far away as possible, when cultivatingvital economies, from the idea of extraneousadvice in the matter of food.
The ordinary person will probably find his
appetite leaning towards the simplest of foods,and away from frequency of indulgence. If thebreakfast is postponed until a real, earnedappetite has been secured, the mid-day or laterbreakfast (remember always that breakfastmeans the first meal of the day, no matter whentaken) will be so enjoyable a meal, and the
appetite will be so entirely satisfied that therewill be no more demand for food until evening,and possibly not even then.
HOW MANY  MEALS  A DAY?
I am often asked if it is true that I eat only
two meals a day; that I never eat breakfast, andwhy I have dropped that meal.
I have two meals a day more habitually than
any other number, but not with any prescribedregularity, for the reason that my activities aremost irregular at times, and my appetiteaccommodates itself to my needs.
When I am doing work under the most
favourable of conditions, one meal a day is therhythm best appreciated by my body. But thequestion of  " How many meals a day? " istantamount to the inquiry as to the amount ofsleep needed : it is a matter of satisfaction of thenatural requirements. The harder one works,the faster one runs, etc., the more air he needs.The same applies to the need for food accordingto the amount of heat eliminated, and the repairmaterial consumed. The really hardest workthat anybody does is done within the body.
Muscular effort in normal conditions is not sowaste-provoking and exacting as getting rid ofexcess of food and the counteraction of worry oranger. Likewise, idleness begets uneasiness,uneasiness begets desire for something (nobodyknows just what), and groping around for" Don't know what " causes the temptation toeat and drink something which the body doesnot need ; and then the really hard work of thebody begins in the attempt of Nature to get ridof the excess. Excess of water can be thrown offin perspiration with comparative ease, but withexcess of food it is different. The kidneys,bacteria and fuel furnaces of the body are allover-worked to get rid of it.
When I am so busy that I have only time to
replenish the real exhausted need of the body,say half an hour at most, I find one meal a dayall that my appetite demands of me. This istaken after I have done my day's work of, say,eight hours of writing, or twelve or thirteenhours of bicycle riding or mountain climbing,and then I do not have appetite for more untilthe next day, after the work is done.When I mention two meals as being the more
habitual, it is because I am not fully,constructively active all the time now, althoughI am usually " snowed under " with things that Imight  do to advantage; and hence I conform to
the social custom and sit down to table sometime in the evening to be social.
The reason I have dropped the habit-hunger
morning meal is because I find that it isunnatural in my case. My experience showedme that omission of the early morning meal ledto desire for a lighter but more satisfactory mid-day meal, and took away the craving for theevening supper. I first came to this realisationduring excessive hot weather and monotonouslytrying environment. The only time I could writecomfortably was before sun-up in the morning.Absorbed in my writing I did not realise thegrowing heat of the day until I actually began torain perspiration, by which time it was nearlynoon. Then came the mid-day meal of breakfastselection with salad and fruit preponderating.The best of feelings followed, the waist-lineshrank, and one meal satisfied.
In order to try the urgency of any habitappetite—the early morning meal, for
instance—take a drink of water instead, andnote if that does not suffice as well as food toallay the craving for " something." A cup of hotwater, with sugar and milk to suit the taste, isamply sufficient. Water will not satisfy a real,earned appetite; but it often will effectuallyallay a purely habit-hunger such as that forearly breakfast.
HOUSEWIVES  AND FLETCHERISM.
A great many women ask: " But how is it
possible to follow such a haphazard way ofeating in a home without upsetting the wholeroutine of the household, disturbing the work ofthe servants? You can't just have your familyeating whenever they like."
My answer is this : The possible disturbance
to domestic regularity and convenience, becauseof the difficulty of supplying different membersof the family only when appetite in each case is"just good and ready," is purely imaginary.Persons of regular occupations willaccommodate themselves to the ordinaryrhythm of meal schedule easily and naturally,with the difference that they may occasionally
skip a meal or two when the ordinary activityhas been lessened.
The general experience has been that
concentration on one particular meal, either atnoon or in the evening, will suit everybody, andother feedings will be "snoopings" from thelarder, or taken at a restaurant in thoseinstances where one's occupation is remote fromhome. The " Fletcherite " at business frequentlyfollows the method of having nuts or plainbiscuits in his desk in case he feels like takingthem ; and the business woman would do well toprofit by his example.
The adoption of Fletcheristic simplicity leads
to the solving of the eternal household problem,and


 use of antibiotics has created new varieties of the
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis resistant to all existing antibiotics.
• Antibiotics have a direct damaging effect on the immune system,
making us more vulnerable to infections, which leads to a vicious
cycle of more antibiotics and more infections.
Let us have a look at what different groups of antibiotics do to the gut flora.
Penicillins
In this group we have very widely used Amoxicillin, Ampicillin,
Flucloxacillin and all other antibiotics with "-cillin" at the end of their
name. These drugs have a damaging effect on two major groups of our
beneficial resident bacteria: Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria, while promot
ing growth of pathogenic Proteus family, Streptococci and Staphylococci
This particular group of antibiotics allow bacteria normally found only in
the bowel to move up to the intestines, which predisposes the person to
development of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and other digestive
disorders.
Tetracyclines (Tetracycline, Doxycycline and other "-cyclines")
This group of drugs is routinely prescribed to teenagers for acne as a long
course, lasting from three months to two years. Tetracyclines have a partic
ular toxic effect on the gut wall by altering protein structure in the mucous
membranes. This in turn does two things. First, it makes the gut wall
anatomically vulnerable to invasion by pathogenic microbes; second, it
alerts the immune system to attack these changed proteins, starting an
auto-immune reaction in the body against its own gut. In parallel tetracy
clines stimulate growth of disease causing Candida fungus, Staphylococci
and Clostridia in the digestive tract.
Aminoglycosides (Gentamycin, Kanamycin), Macrolides (Erythromycin)
and other "-mycins"
These drugs have a particular devastating effect on colonies of such bene
ficial bacteria in the gut as physiological E.coli and Enterococci. A pro
longed course of treatment can completely eliminate these bacteria from
the digestive system, leaving it open to invasion by pathogenic species of
E.coli and other microbes. Antifungal antibiotics (Nystatin, Amphotericin, etc.)
These drugs lead to selective stimulation of growth of the Proteus family
and lactose-negative Exoli species, capable of causing serious disease.
Combinations of antibiotics have stronger damaging effects on the gut
flora than single drugs. The damage is worse when antibiotics are adminis
tered orally and when the course of antibiotic is a lengthy one on a low
dose, like the one prescribed for acne, chronic cystitis, chronic ear infec
tion and other chronic infections. Medical personnel and workers in phar
maceutical industry are at a particular risk of chronic exposure to low
doses of antibiotics and indeed gut dysbiosis is very common among these
people.
When an antibiotic is prescribed in a high dose, it leaves the gut with a
lot of empty niches to be populated by whatever bacteria, viruses or fungi
would get there first. This is a crucial time to administer a good probiotic to
make sure that these niches get populated by friendly bacteria instead of
pathogenic ones. Even when the course of antibiotic is short and the dose
is low, it takes different beneficial bacteria in the gut a long time to recover:
physiological Exoli takes one to two weeks, Bifidobacteria and Veillonelli
take two to three weeks, Bacteroids, Peptostreptococci take a month. If in
this period the gut flora is subjected to another damaging factor(s), then
gut dysbiosis may well start in earnest.
The majority of GAPS patients I have seen have been exposed to numer
ous courses of antibiotics during their life. The most common reasons in
children are repeated ear infections, chest infections, impetigoand masti
tis in the breast-feeding mother, when the baby would get antibiotics
through the breast milk. Considering that many of these children had little
chance to develop a healthy gut flora from the beginning, these courses of
antibiotics would have a devastating effect on their fragile gut ecology.
Other drugs
Most drugs, particularly prescribed for long periods of time or perma
nently, have a detrimental effect on gut flora.
Pain killers or analgesics (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc.) are often prescribed
for long periods of time to people with chronic pain. These drugs stimulate
growth of haemolytic forms of bacteria and Campylobacterin the gut, all of
which are capable of causing disease.
Steroid drugs, like Prednisolone, Hydrocortisone, Betamethasone,
Dexamethasone, etc. damage gut flora. In addition, they have a strong immunosuppressing ability, which makes the body vulnerable to all sorts
of infection. For example, it is known that a course of steroids is almost
invariably associated with fungal overgrowth in the body, particularly of
Candida species.
Contraceptive pills or The Pill is something many women take for many
years, often from a very young age. This group of drugs has a devastating
effect on the gut flora. By the time a woman is ready to have children, she
has been on these drugs for a long period of time and has an abnormal gut
flora. A human baby is born with a sterile gut and acquires most of its gut
flora from the mother. So if the mother has an abnormal gut flora, that is
what she will pass to her child, predisposing this child to eczema, asthma,
other allergies and in severe cases to learning disabilities.
Many other groups of drugs, including sleeping pills, "heartburn" pills,
neuroleptics, cholinolytic drugs, cytotoxic drugs, etc., etc. cause different
damage to the gut flora, digestive system and immune system.
Drug-induced gut dysbiosis is usually the most severe and the most
resistant to treatment. In the last 50 years we have seen a tremendous
increase in drug use by western population. It almost became a normal
part of life to take some sort of prescription or over-the-counter drug,
something to talk about with your neighbours. Yet not many people think
what these drugs are doing to their bodies, let alone to their gut flora.
What other factors can have an effect on gut flora?
Diet
What we eat has a direct effect on the composition of the gut flora, A
modern diet of convenience rather than nutrition, full of processed foods,
has a serious detrimental effect on the gut flora.
Too much sugary foods and processed carbohydrates increase numbers
of different fungi, Candida species in particular, Streptococci,
Staphylococci, some Clostridia species, Bacteroids and some aerobic
opportunistic bacteria. Processed and sugary carbohydrates (white bread,
cakes, biscuits, pastries and pasta) also promote population of the gut with
worms and other parasites.
A diet low on fibre from fresh fruit and vegetables has a profound nega
tive effect on gut flora and general body metabolism, predisposing the
person to bowel cancer, atherosclerosis, abnormalities in hormonal
metabolism and many other problems. Bottle-fed babies develop completely different gut flora to the breast-fed
babies.
Breast-feeding is essential for appropriate population of baby's gut with
balanced healthy gut flora. Babies are born with a sterile gut. Breast-feed
ing is the one and only opportunity we have in our lives to populate the
entire surface of our gut with a healthy mixture of bacteria to lay the veiy
basis of our future health. Bottled~fed babies have their gut populated by a
combination of different bacteria, which predisposes them later to many
health problems. We have a whole generation of people, mainly born in the
1960s and 1970s who were not breast fed because it was not fashionable. A
whole host of medical problems that arose from that fashion have made it
obvious to the medical profession and the rest of us how important breast
feeding is. Thankfully, now, a majority of mothers do their best to breast
feed their newborn babies.
Prolonged fasting and starvation, overeating and parenteral feeding can
seriously alter the composition of gut flora and start a chain of health prob
lems, so supplementing beneficial bacteria in a form of probiotic would be
a good idea in these situations.
Generally, when gut dysbiosis is caused exclusively by poor diet it is
usually fairly mild and can be corrected by better eating habits.
Unfortunately, in our modern world it is rare not to be exposed to other
factors which would also damage your gut flora, antibiotics for example.
Disease
Different infectious diseases, like typhoid, cholera, dysentery, salmonella
and some viral infections can cause lasting damage to the gut flora.
Repopulating the gut with beneficial bacteria has to he an important part
of the treatment of patients with these serious infections.
Different chronic illnesses are accompanied by serious defects in gut
flora, like diabetes, autoimmune disease, endocrine disease, obesity and
neurological conditions. It is a common after-effect of surgery, chemo
therapy, hormone therapy and radiotherapy.
Stress