day I do not lo ok for ways that life might serve me, but rather for
how I can serve life. I place mys elf in service to God’ s endless creativity,
praying to be th e pencil with w hich He writes and the paintbr ush with
which He paints.
May all that is the work of God  be furthered by my choices today. I
put aside my sea rch for little things and participate freely in the glory of
creation.
Dear God,
May my thoughts and actions
Help further today
A work that is gr eater than my own.
May all I am
And all I do
Be a channel for all things good.
Amen.DA Y 127
T o d a y  I  c h o o s e  t h e  l i g h t,  a n d  t u r n  a w a y  a l l
d a r k n e s s.
I  know there is a force within t hat lures me toward the light, and yet
there is a competing force that would keep me bound to darkn ess. May
the lov e of God cast out the fear that has lodged in side my
consciousness, for truly there is no contest when love has power and fear
does not.
My choice for God increases His power to dissolve my fea r and
suf fering. T oday I choose to live  in the light of for giveness and love, that
the darkness of fear shall fall away.
Dear God,
May my mind today be filled with light
So darkness cannot enter her e.
May love so saturate my every thought
That fear cannot r emain.
Amen.DA Y 128
I  w i l l  n o t  r e s i s t  m y  g r o w t h  t o d a y.
H ow often it see ms easier to re sist the call of a greater becoming,
remaining within the dark cocoon of a self that has settled for good
enough. I choose not to remain  at good today, but rather to an swer the
call to greatness.
Not eve ry lesson  feels fun whil e it’ s happening, and at times I have
resisted growth fiercely. But I remain open today to the miracle of
transformation, and know that as I for ge ahead into a new realm of being
that love  itself will aid my progress. Spirit will erase the patterns of fear
that have sabotaged my past.
Dear God,
Over come the fear that would keep me bound
And deliver me to the highest heights.
I am r eady and willing to for ge ahead.
I know that Y ou alone
Can unbind my feet.
Amen.DA Y 129
T o d a y  I  g i v e  b i r t h  t o  m y  h i g h e r  s e l f.
I t isn ’ t ea sy givin g birth to my spiritual potential. Spiritual labor  can be
very ard uous—one instant at a time when I give it up, surrend er, don’ t
care if I’m righ t, for go my im patience, detach from the opinions and
prizes of the world, and rest in the arms of God.
T oday I choose the way of the enlightened self, that enlightenment
might co me to me. I will try my best to walk the softer way, a nd allow
my heart to lead.
Dear God,
May Y our spirit
Be born into the world today
Thr ough who I am and what I do.
May Y our ener gy move thr ough me,
And may others feel it too.
Amen.DA Y 130
FOR REFLECTION
O n  M a k i n g  L o v e  t h e  B o t t o m  L i n e
T he p robability vectors for the  next twenty years are distu rbing.
Humanity is like the T itanic hea ded for the iceber g, whether the iceber g
is weather catastrophe brought a bout by global warming, nuclear disaster
brought about by our reckless use of nuclear ener gy, or shortage of food
or water supply. If looked at only through a rational lens, it could be
ar gued that in all probability, one way or the other, our goose is cooked.
But we have more than a ration al lens through which to look, for a
spiritual perspective broadens no t only the quality of our perspective but
also the quantity of our choices.
That is the invitation of this moment in history: to step out of the
confines of the limited, mechanistic, fear -based thinking that now
dominates our civilization. The  human race has reached a crossroads:
continue to think and act as we have been thinking and acting, thus
reaping the consequences of a l oveless, reckless way of being; or break
through to the highest calling for life on earth: to make love our new
bottom line, thus creating the miracles that will save us from our own
self-destructive ways.DA Y 131
M a y  I  n o t  l o s e  s i g h t  o f  l o v e  t o d a y.
W e inh abit the world we choose to see; may I not lose sight of love
today. If I read about war, may I also remember the possibilities for
peace. If  I see s omeone suf fer, may I not for get how many peo ple I can
help. M ay hope and faith in possible tomorrows inform my  view of
today. I will see the fear, but work for love. And fear will fall away.
May I r emembe r today the r ealm of love that lies beyond th e
worldly veil, and not be drawn into the illusions of suffering that
dominate the earth. My heart r e mains open to the suffering of the
world, b ut also to its joy. Thus shall I be a bringer of joy, in
knowing it is always ther e.DA Y 132
H o l i n e s s  i s  m y  r e f u g e  t o d a y.
I  gain power in a world that is  moving too fast by learning to slow
down. The life I want will not emer ge from electronic speed but rather
from a holiness  within me. The n, and only then, will I experience the
world as a place that reflects my soul.
I s eek the quiet of God’ s presence today, regardless of what wo rldly
turmoil surround s me. First in the closet of my inner self, and then as I
walk through my day, I will seek and remain within the holy space.
Dear God,
May Y our cloak of holiness
Surr ound me today
And warm me fr om within.
May the warmth of Y our pr esence
Deliver me fr om the coldness of the world.
Amen.DA Y 133
M a y  o n l y  t h e  l o v e  i n  m y  p a s t  r e m a i n.
M ay I not be at the ef fect of pa st hurts today. I for give myself  and
others, and open my heart to the miracle of new beginnings. May the
universe rewrite  the script of my life, as I allow God’ s love to purify my
mind.
May on ly the love in my past remain, and all else fall away.  May
others th ink of me with mercy, for giving my transgressions as I for give
them theirs. May we all be released from the chains of our former selves.
Dear God,
I place my past in Y our hands.
Please purify my thoughts about it.
May I only r emember the love I gave
And the love that I r eceived.
May all else burn away
In the alchemy of for giveness.
Amen.DA Y 134
T o d a y  I  b e l i e v e  i n  m i r a c l e s.
E ven in the midst of my darkest  night, I sense the presence of angel
wings. Confronted with the limits of what I can do, I realize the
limitlessness of what God can do. When the world is at its worst, the
miracle of God’ s love is still ablaze within my mind.
I w ill not be tem pted today to doubt God’ s power. No matter what
occurs today, I know a miracle is possible. I cleave to this kno wing and
to the power that it brings.
Dear God,
May I not for get Y our power,
In my life or in the world.
May Y our miracle
Be ever pr esent in my mind.
May I r emember that in Y ou
Ther e is always hope.
Amen.DA Y 135
FOR REFLECTION
O n  B e c o m i n g  W h o  W e  R e a l l y  A r e
P ractice kindness, and you start to become kind. Practice disciplin e, and
you star t to become disciplined. Practice for giveness, and you start to
become for giving. Practice char ity, and you start to become charitable.
Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle.
It doesn ’ t matte


inflamed and swollen. “Creeping paralysis.”
KALI SULPH – Coated yellow and slimy with a dull
taste in mouth.
MAG PHOS – Swollen clean tongue (a swollen
tongue usually has teeth marks on the edge).
NAT MUR – Frothy coating, bubbles on the sides.
Numbness and tingling. Peeled appearance onsides.
NAT PHOS – Yellow creamy coating on back of
tongue. Blisters on the tip with stinging; hairlikesensation on tongue.
NAT SULPH – Greenish-brown swelling or gray
coating on the back of tongue or slimy thickwhite mucus coating.
SILICEA – One-sided swelling of tongue. Brown
tongue, hardening and ulcered. Sensation as if ahair on tongue.DISCHARGES INDICATIVE OF CELL
SALTDEFICIENCIES
(compilation by David R. Card)
CALC FLUOR – Grass-green discharges or thick
yellow-greenish discharges, that smell offensive.
CALC PHOS – Thick clear discharges.
CALC SULPH – Yellow thick and lumpy discharges.
FERR PHOS – Hemorrhages of blood from inflam-
matory conditions anywhere in the body.
KALI MUR – Thick white discharges.
KALI PHOS – Profuse orange discharges from rec-
tum or vagina. Yellowish creamy discharges ingeneral.
KALI SULPH – General yellow to green slimy dis-
charges. Profuse and thin discharges.
MAG PHOS – White thin discharges of the nose and
dark stringy vaginal discharges.
NAT MUR – Clear thin watery discharges
NAT PHOS – Sour, creamy or honey colored thin
discharges.NAT SULPH – Watery yellowish to greenish dis-
charges.
SILICEA – Thick yellow offensive discharges from
boils and infections, and sweating. Infectedparts are often painful.
Note: These discharges can come from any part of
the body.
* * *
Discharges show us the condition of our
immune system. When the body produces mucus, it
is trying to clear the body of toxins.
White discharges are a sign of mucus congestion.
Black discharges indicate the worst condition,
which is indicative of dried blood. See a doctor.
Brown discharges are serious infected conditions.
Green discharges are signs of infection.
Yellow discharges are less serious if the color is get-
ting lighter, but can be worse if it gets darker.
Clear discharges show a clearing of the body or the
beginning of a cold, flu, allergy, or a hormonalcondition.
16 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIESThe inorganic salts are the workers, controlled and directed by
Infinite Intelligence, which perform the ceaseless miracle of creationor formation.*
It is quite as important for a student of biochemistry to understand the
process by which certain cell salts operate to supply a deficiency as it is toknow for what a particular symptom calls.
Elastic fiber, the chief organic substance in rubber, is formed by a chem-
ical union of Calc Fluor, also known as calcium fluoride, with protein, oil,etc. Therefore we find this salt dominant in the elastic fiber of the body, inthe enamel of teeth and connective tissue. A lack of this salt in properamount causes a relaxed condition of muscular tissue, falling of the womb,and varicose veins. Sometimes there is a nonfunctional combination of thissalt with oil and protein, which forms a solid deposit, causing swelling ofstony hardness. A combination of impure substances corrupts the chemistryof calcium fluoride to create a hardening of the tissues.
There is one particular symptom that is worthy of note in connection
with the pathology of this salt. When a deficiency exists in these makers ofelastic fiber in the connective tissue between the cerebellum and cerebrum,the lower and upper brain, it causes groundless fears of financial ruin. Itseems that the relaxed condition of connective tissue, causing a sagging ofthe structure of cerebellum, thereby breaks the flow of the electrical or mag-netic currents from the cerebrum.
The student will now see that it is exceedingly easy to diagnose disease
from the viewpoint of biochemic pathology. No guesswork here. Go totwenty or one hundred biochemic physicians and give the same symptomsto each, and you will get the same prescriptions in every case.
It does not matter under what name a disease a disturbance in elastic
fiber appears, a study of the chemistry of life has made clear the fact that a
CHAPTER 1: U SINGCELLSALTS 17Calc FluorCHAPTER 3
*This complete introductory section is adapted from:
The Chemistry and Wonders of the Human Body by Dr. George Carey.break in the molecular chain of Calc Fluor salt is
always the cau se of the phenomenon.
The proportion of fluorine in the human
organism is less than that of iron. From analyticalfacts is found that fluorine in milk is only presentin micrograms, and yet we are confronted by thefact that this infinitesimal amount is sufficient tosustain all the elastic fiber of muscular tissue,enamel of teeth, and connective tissue.
Why should we search Latin and Greek lexi-
cons to find a name for the result of a deficiencyin some of the mineral constituents of blood?When we know that deficiency in the cell salts ofthe blood causes the symptoms which medicalignorance dignified and personified with namesof which nobody knows the meaning, we willknow how to scientifically heal by the unalter-able law of the chemistry of life. When we learnthe cause of disease, then and not before, will weprevent disease.
MATERIA MEDICA FOR CALCFLUOR
Adapted from: The Biochemic System of Medicine,
Materia Medica, by Dr. George Carey
This salt occurs in nature as the mineral
fluorspar, beautifully crystallized, of various col-ors, in lead veins, the crystals having commonlythe cubic but sometimes the octahedral form, par-allel to the faces of which latter figure they alwayscleave. Some varieties, when heated, emit a green-ish and some a purple phosphorescent light. Thefluoride is quite insoluble in water but is decom-posed by sulphuric acid, generating hydrofluoricacid.
Calc Fluor (calcium fluoride) is found in the
surface of the bones, the enamel of the teeth, theelastic fibers, and the cells of the skin. Whereverelastic fiber is found, be it in the epidermis, theconnective tissue, or the walls of the blood ves-sels, there calcium fluoride may always be found.Loss of its ability to unite with organic mattercauses a continued dilation or relaxed conditionof the fibers. This is seen in such conditions as
varicose veins, hemorrhoidal tumors, and relax-ation of the abdominal walls, with consequentsagging of the abdominal viscera, uterine hemor-rhages, after-pains, etc.
This state of relaxation, occurring in the elas-
tic fibers of the blood vessels, connective tissue, orlymphatic system causes an inability to absorbdischarges. This results in hardened glands,lumpy discharges on the surface of bone, encyst-ed tumors, hard swellings, etc. By supplying thelacking Calc Fluor, the elastic fibers are againrestored to their integrity, resuming their power ofcontractility and functioning properly. Dischargesare thrown off and absorbed by the lymphatics.
In general, then, the administration of Calc
Fluor is indicated in all diseases which can betraced, directly or indirectly, to relaxed conditionsof the elastic fibers or those ailments having theirseat in either the substance forming the surface ofbone, enamel of the teeth, and walls of the bloodvessels or the cells of the epidermis.
Characteristic Indications
(Note: Remedies in parentheses provide
therapeutic support to Calc Fluor.)
Head – Troubles with head when traced to a
relaxed condition of the elastic fibers. T umors onthe heads of newborn infants, blood tumors.Bruises on the bones of the head, when they havehard, rough, uneven lumps. Ulcerations of thebone surface.
Eyes – Cataracts. Blurred vision after strain-
ing the eyes, with pain in the eyeball; better whenresting the eyes, as relaxation of the walls of theblood vessels allows for an engorgement of blood.
Ears – Diseases of the ear, when the bone or
periosteum (bone covering) is affected, or withgeneral symptoms characteristic of this salt.
Nose – Stuffy cold in the head, with thick,
yellow, lumpy, greenish, foul-smelling nasal dis-charge, also known as ozena (Kali Phos, Silicea).
18 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIESDiseases of the nose, when affecting the bones
(Calc Phos).
Face – Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain
or toothache. Bony lumps or growths on the jawor cheekbones.
Mouth – Cracked lips (Nat Mur); very hard
swellings on the jawbones, traceable to therelaxed condition of the muscular fibers.
Teeth – Teeth become loose in their sockets,
not during dentition, with or without pain. Theenamel of the teeth is largely composed of thissalt. Enamel rough and thin or very brittle. Rapidtooth decay when the enamel is deficient (CalcPhos). Teeth tender due to looseness.
Tongue – Cracked appearance, becomes hard
after


 it is clear that the
accumulated dose of paracetamol that may trigger AD can be expected to vary widely between individuals.
Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that paracetamol may be the only drug or environmental chemical that can cause AD-type
brain damage. Not only individual drugs and chemicals but their combinations may cause or contribute to AD. We do not know
anything about this, so far no one has investigated.
One telling example is the 'accident al' ﬁnding that small amounts of the common herbicide paraquat and the fungicide maneb are
apparently harmless when fed to animals individually but when given together to rats and mice, even at very low rates, they produced
the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. These chemicals are widely used in farming and may remain present as crop residues. The
leader of the research team said: "No one has looked at the effects of studying together some of these compounds that, taken by
themselves, have little effect. This has enormous implications," and "it's a huge problem to start thinking about a nearly inﬁnite array
of mixtures of chemicals, instead of the risk that a single chemical might pose". (7)
Perhaps residues of paraquat and maneb also cause or contribute to the development of AD? Who is responsible for ﬁnding out and
allowing only safe combinations of drugs and chemicals into our food chain? Obviously the safe way to minimise our chances of
developing AD is to minimise our exposure to all drugs and questionable chemicals! Even occasionally taking relatively harmless
drugs to treat insomnia and anxiety has recently been shown to increase mortality risk by 36%, and widely used NSAIDs increase the
risk of a stroke by up to 86% while also increasing the overall death rate (8).
We have government health agencies that are supposed to ensure the safety of drugs. So far, after over one hundred years of
medical use, no proper safety checks have been made for phenacetin or paracetamol, especially in regard to the possibility of
causing or contributing to AD.
For that matter no proper safety checks have been done for other drugs either. Drug companies are just required to do some short-
term studies with single drugs and often on healthy individuals. From this the medical system deduces in an act of magical thinking
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chemicals. In a few cases drugs may be curtailed or withdrawn after a few decades when a sufﬁcient number of patients have
needlessly died, but overall no one knows how much morbidity or mortality is caused by long-term drug use in varying combinations
for dif ferent conditions.
One class of drugs that does frequently cause deterioration or loss of memory are the statin drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol
levels. Dr Graveline, a NASA  astronaut, ﬂight surgeon and family doctor wrote that he suddenly had a temporary complete loss of
memory after six weeks of using Lipitor. He collected statements from others who had been similarly affected. It has been proposed
that high or elevated cholesterol levels protect the brain from deterioration. (9)
Other frequently claimed causes or contributors to the development of AD are lack of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, speciﬁcally
DHA; mercury from dental amalgam, seafood and vaccinations, and aluminium from cookware, baking foil, processed foods, baked
goods, baking powder, brewed drinks, drinking water, some antacids, and anti-perspirants. Other factors are mentioned as being
lead, mobile/cell phones, solvents, fungi and parasites, sugar, chlorinated water, inhalant anaesthetics, and excitotoxins (e.g. MSG).
A good overview of these factors with some references is at Alzheimer's Disease: On Suggested Causes and Cures. (10)
Bernard Windham (Biostatistician) collected hundreds of scientiﬁc refere nces on the toxic effects of mercury and also aluminium as a
cause of AD and other neurological and autoimmune conditions. Acco rdingly, a major factor in the neurotoxicity of mercury are
decreased levels of glutathione peroxidase and superoxide dismustase which lead to increased lipid peroxidation in the brain. Even a
few micrograms of mercury can severely disturb cellular functions. Mercury also accumulates in the mitochondria and interferes with
their vital functions, especially by inhibiting cytochrome C enzymes and reducing energy supply to the brain. (1 1)
In regard to mercury and aluminium  in vaccines we can read: "A study of people who received ﬂu shots regularly found that if an
individual  had ﬁve consecutive ﬂu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied) his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease
is ten times higher than if they had one or no shots". (12)
The Niacinamide Cure
A study of mice with induced AD restored their full memory after treatment for four months with the human dose equivalent of 2000 to
3000 milligrams of niacinamide, also called nicotinamide or vitamin B3. Niacin or nicotinic acid belongs to this group as well but it
tends to induce ﬂushing, and some may be reluctant to take it, although it is the recommended form to lower cholesterol and
triglycerides in the blood.
"Cognitively, they (the mice) were cured," commented the leading researcher. "The vitamin completely prevented cognitive decline
associated with the disease, bringing them back to the level they’d be at if they didn’t have the pathology." In addition, niacinamide
also improved the memory of mice without AD. Presently there are several human trials with niacinamide in progress. (13)
It is no real surprise that vitamin B3 is beneﬁcial because it works also in many other conditions, such as improving or normalising
schizophrenia, senile conditions, arthritis, hyperactivity or behavioural and learning difﬁculties of children, cholesterol problems,
cancer, dermatitis, juvenile diabetes, fatigue and lack of energy (14). The reason why a single vitamin can help with all of these
problems is its key role as a coenzyme in oxidative cellular energy production.
If certain areas of the brain or the body are congested with metabolic waste products or for other reasons have reduced blood supply,
then energy production in that part of the body is reduced. The brain needs 20% of our total energy to function properly and therefore
is especially sensitive to lack of energy.
An indication of the degree of biological aging is the amount of lactic acid accumulating in the brain. This is especially pronounced
with degenerative brain diseases such as AD and Parkinson's disease (15). Lactic acid is formed when the oxidative energy
production in the mitochondria, the powerhouses inside cells, declines. In AD niacinamide-dependent enzymes have been shown to
be deﬁcient (16).  Getting more niacin amide into congested brain cells helps to rev up energy production and lets these cells function
more normally.
There may be an additional reason related speciﬁcally to paracetamo l in its function as an antipyretic. This means paracetamol
lowers the body temperature, and it may do this by lowering the temperature in a speciﬁc part of the brain by reducing the energy
metabolism in that area. Niacinamide has the opposite effect - someone  who does not produce enough body heat, and easily feels
cold with cold hands and feet, can often improve or overcome this problem by taking high-dose niacinamide supplements.
However, even if niacinamide works as well in humans as it does in mice, it is not likely to be a permanent solution. In most of the
mentioned conditions high doses need to be continued indeﬁnitely or until the primary blockage in energy production has been
removed. This is similar to supplying medium chain triglycerides (MCT) as from coconut oil. Dr Mary Newport
(http://www.coconutketones.com / and http://www.coconutketones.com/WhatIfCure.pdf ) demonstrated that ketoacids formed from
MCT  can be used by the brain as an alternative fuel in AD.
Other Useful Measures
Niacinamide works best when also supplying other vitamins of the B group at lower doses, such as taking a B complex with most
meals. In addition, vitamin B12 is especially useful. In AD studies B12 has commonly been tested together with folic acid and vitamin
B6.
These B vitamins control levels of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood. Homocysteine is formed during the conversion of the
amino acid methionine into the functional amino acid cysteine. When these vitamins are deﬁcient high levels of homocysteine
accumulate which are associated with an increased risk of AD. Suppleme nting these vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in
elderly people with mild memory problems. Those with the slowest rate of shrinkage had better cognitive test scores. (17)10/30/24, 3:30 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Alzheimer's Disease & Paracetamol
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Manufacturers Association. Of course, this wording is not used in drug
advertisements aimed at the public.
A hospital patient receives, on average, twelve different drugs. Yet, often when as
few as three are prescribed, absolutely no one understands all the dangerous
interactions between the drugs. Bad enough taken one at a time, combinations of
drugs can be particularly toxic. Prescription drugs are notorious for causing many
adverse effects in the elderly, including memory loss, depression, confusion,
constipation, Parkinson’s disease, falls and urinary incontinence. All too often, a
second drug is prescribed to suppress the symptoms caused by the first, then another
to suppress the symptoms of the first two, and so forth. Many illnesses of the elderly
really are manifestations of adverse drug reactions. A 1991 study in the
Journal ofthe American Medical Association
showed that 14 percent of in-hospital cardiac
arrests followed a complication, usually because of a medication. Well-known
combinations of commonly prescribed drugs can kill, and alert pharmacists have
saved many lives.
Up to 29 percent of all hospital admissions are caused by adverse reactions to
drugs, according to a 1995 study in the
Archives of Internal Medicine.
Many
reactions result in liver damage, long hospital stays, permanent disability and even
death. In 1990, an estimated 659,000 Americans aged sixty years and older were
hospitalized due to adverse drug reactions. In addition to toxicity, drugs also can
cause deficiency by depleting the body of essential nutrients. Diuretics cause
excessive loss of potassium and other essential minerals. Anticonvulsants cause loss
of vitamin D. Antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and steroid
hormones can indirectly cause numerous vitamin and mineral deficiencies by
causing digestive damage. Because of the complexity of the human organism,
predicting the effects of drugs in each individual, especially with combinations of
drugs, is impossible. Other facts:
• A January 1997 study in the
Journal of the American Medical Association
stated that drug-related morbidity and mortality costs more than $136 billion a
year—more than the cost of cardiovascular disease, our leading cause of death.
• In 1995, Duke University researchers showed that drugs commonly prescribed
for stroke patients actually hampered their recovery. Even after a single dose,
the negative effects could be long-lasting.
• A 1994 study in the
Journal of the American Medical Association
concluded
that inappropriate and potentially dangerous drugs are prescribed for one in
four older Americans every year.
• A 1994 study published in the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
and
The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
warned that antihistamine and antidepressant drugs (including Prozac) contain
chemicals known to accelerate tumor growth. While these drugs do not cause
cancer directly, they can speed its growth.
Three Classes of Common Drugs Are of Special Concern
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs):
NSAIDs include over-the-
counter drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen, and prescription drugs
such as Indocin, Feldene, Naprosyn and others. Use of NSAIDs is a significant
national health problem, causing long-term damage to large numbers of people,
particularly the elderly, who are the largest users of these drugs. According to data
published in
Hospital Practice
in December 1996, up to two hundred thousand
Americans are hospitalized every year for problems caused by NSAIDs, and as many
as twenty thousand people a year die from the damage.NSAIDs usually are prescribed for a noble purpose, to relieve pain, and they are
among the most commonly pres-cribed pharmaceuticals in the world. About 60
million NSAID prescriptions are written every year in America, and an estimated 14
million people take these drugs for symptomatic relief of arthritis alone. These
drugs relieve pain, but at a cost. About one third of chronic NSAID users experience
noticeable gastrointestinal discomfort, which is only the tip of the iceberg,
indicating that digestive damage is occurring. In most people, NSAID-inflicted
damage to the digestive system is asymptomatic (no obvious symptoms to warn of
the damage being done). By the time the stomach or gut is in pain from NSAIDs,
massive damage has already occurred.
Most physicians think it is acceptable for people to take NSAIDs, believing that
they cause minimal and acceptable damage. Virtually everyone who takes these
dangerous drugs has their health damaged, and the longer they are taken, the worse it
becomes. People who take NSAIDs for arthritis for years suffer worse joint damage
than those who take nothing. NSAIDs have been linked to kidney failure, cognitive
dysfunction, hearing loss, ringing in the ears, macular degeneration and hormone
disruption. Examples include:
• In a 1992 study published in the
Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology,
long-
term NSAID users were hospitalized six times more often than nonusers.
Deaths from gastrointestinal causes occurred twice as often, and half of all
patients who died of ulcer-related complications had reported recent use of
NSAIDs.
• A 1996 study in the
Archives of Internal Medicine
found that patients taking
NSAIDs were four to seventeen times more likely to suffer acute kidney failure.
• A 1996 study in
Physiological Behavior
showed NSAIDs interfere with
melatonin production, with a 75 percent nighttime reduction. Decreased
melatonin production has been associated with sleep disorders as well as
promotion of cancer.
• A 1996 study in
Lancet
showed that aspirin, in any form, such as buffered or
coated, causes gastrointestinal bleeding. As few as one aspirin can cause
bleeding.
NSAIDs cause intestinal bleeding by blocking action of messenger molecules
called prostaglandins. Some prosta-glandins cause inflammation and pain, and
others stimulate healing and repair. NSAIDs block both types. Because the intestinal
lining is renewed very rapidly (about every three days), blocking the repair process
results in a gut that is weak, inflamed and leaky.
What should you do for a headache? Simple acupressure techniques and
homeopathic remedies work quite well. What should you do for pain or
inflammation? Eat a whole-foods diet, at least 75 percent raw. Avoid sugar, white
flour, hydrogenated oils, junk foods and colas, and drink plenty of pure water. Avoidmeat and dairy, but choose oily fish such as salmon (ocean harvested, rather than
farmed). Take vitamin C up to bowel tolerance, 2 to 4 grams of quercitin per day, 30
to 60 mg of zinc daily, 100,000 units of beta-carotene for several days, and then
25,000 for several weeks, plus vitamin A and vitamin E. Essential fatty acid
supplements also are critical. Digestive enzymes help, and especially take 1 to 3
grams of bromelain or papain per day. A number of herbs as well as homeopathic
remedies are anti-inflammatory. These are excellent alternatives to NSAIDs.
Antibiotics:
Most of us have been given an antibiotic at one time or another, and
this contributes to one of our largest sources of toxins—those generated within our
own digestive systems. Antibiotics are designed to kill disease-causing bacteria, but
they also kill the friendly bacteria in our digestive systems. If these bacteria are
absent or out of balance, a chain of unhealthy events is initiated, including
undigested or mal-absorbed food. Beneficial intestinal bacteria produce needed
vitamins, such as B-complex vitamins, vitamin B
12
and vitamin K. These essential
nutrients are no longer produced when the friendly bacteria are displaced, and
vitamin deficiency can result.
In addition, friendly bacteria prevent undesirable yeasts from proliferating by
competing for food and producing biotin to inhibit yeast growth. When antibiotics
kill beneficial bacterial, undesirable yeasts and bacteria thrive and take over,
establishing their own ecosystem. This inhibits the beneficial bacteria from
reestablishing themselves. Yeasts also produce numerous immune-reactive
substances that force the immune system to form antibodies constantly. This stress
may lead to impaired functioning of the immune system to the point of immune
suppression or even breakdown. Also, yeasts inhibit magnesium absorption (which
can lead to numerous neurological problems), damage gut tissue and cause leaking
gut syndrome. A variety of health problems can result, ranging from chronic fatigue
to allergies, arthritis and other immune dysfunction diseases.
A January 1996 article in
Internal Medicine World Report
stated that in 1991,
more than 40 million prescriptions were written in America for antibiotics to treat
people for the common cold. This use is inappropriate; antibiotics have no effect on
the common cold. Vast overprescribing of this type fosters the development of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
In May 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report warning that
“incurable” strains of bacteria are being discovered. Many infectious diseases,
formerly controllable with antibiotics, are reappearing in forms difficult or even
impossible to treat. “We are standing on the brink of a global crisis in infectious
diseases,” said Hiroshi Nakajima, M.D., WHO’s director general. The report warns
that the spread of untreatable infections is threatening to undermine modern
advances in health care. In many hospitals, antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus
in


 the instinct  to do deep breathing  exercises or adopt
other  measures  which  have proved conducive  to health, they  are
therefore  invalid or reprehensible.  Take,  for instance, the yogis of India.
By dint  of practising  breathing  exercises,  strange postures,  etc., they
not only arrive at a perfect state of health, but contrive to extend  life
far beyond the usual  three  score  years and  ten. At 150 years of age a
proficient  Hatha Yogi has not even a grey hair.  (See  Rajah Yoga, by
Swami Vivikananda.)  It is true that the science  of Yoga can only be
safely learnt at the hands  of a competent  teacher; but that is another
argument  against the instinct  theory. (See  Heaven Lies' Within Us by
Theos Bernard.)  One notices, by the way,  that man  does not trouble
about his instincts when it is a question  of imbibing strong liquors, or
smoking hundreds  of cigarettes:  in short, when it is a matter of doing
things  which  are bad for him even though the first time he experienced
their "delights"  his instinct rebelled.
And now to answer another  objection.  How can it be right to take back
into the body something  which  the body is apparently  discarding?  And
yet if we turn to Nature,  what do we find? We find that where  instead
of "scientific  " manures,  the dead leaves are put back into the soil, the 16
 resultant flowers are the most  fragrant, the fruits  the sweeter, and  the
trees the healthier.  On the other hand, where  the soil is for some
reason deprived of those chemical substances  produced  by the dead
leaves,  etc., then the trees which  grow in that soil are disfigured  by
excrescences,  which  I think, quite aptly have been called  tree‐cancers.
What we are accustomed  to regard as useless dead leaves are the very
opposite of useless and  should be dug back into the soil instead of
being swept away  by the gardener.  Let those who challenge  this
statement  taste  the Iceni Produce,  grown  from soil treated on the
principle that all that comes from the soil should be put back into the
soil, and they  will soon  be convinced  that the principle is a correct one.
The idea that Nature  is wasteful is erroneous.  She only appears
wasteful  to us because we do not understand  her. The rotting dead
leaves provide the most  valuable mineral  salts  for the soil‐one of the
most  essential  being potash.  Even the ashes of burnt dead leaves and
burnt  wood (charcoal)  are of great value. Therefore  why should a
principle which  applies  throughout  Nature not apply (with  certain
reservations)  to the human  body? This question  is the more readily
answered  if we consider the constituents  of urine.
Yet before doing so, something  should be said about the unreliability  of
urine analysis as a means of diagnosis.  Though urine‐analysis  is still a
practice among orthodox doctors, it has been found that the elements
in and  general condition  of urine depend  far more  on the character  of
the food and  drink taken by the,  patient than on any fancied  or real
disease condition.  Even the presence of sugar  can no longer be
regarded as an infallible sign of diabetes. This I have proved to my own
satisfaction  by taking for a day nothing but drinks made of chemical 17
 sweet powders,  and nothing in the way of  food except a quantity of
heavily sweetened  ices. On such a diet, after twelve to fourteen hours
the urine of an otherwise  healthy person became  charged with sugar
and  suggested  to the doctor that he had  diabetes!  Similar mistakes
have been made with regard to albumen  found in the urine as the
result of an ill‐balanced diet. Some years ago a friend of the writer's
connected  with a Life Insurance  Company  had a number  of "prospects"
turned down owing to heavy deposits of albumen in their urine. Finally
he brought three  of these men along for By dint  of altering their diet, all
the investigation  supposed ‐to‐be indications  of Bright's disease,
nephritis or albuminuria  from which  they  were alleged  to be suffering
very soon vanished,  and at. a subsequent  examination  by the Insurance
doctor they  were  told they  must  have had  "local inflammations"  when
previously  examined  ! Further  comment  seems superfluous.

Urea N. (nitrogen)
Urea
Creatinine  N.
Creatinine
Uric acid  N.
Uric acid
Amino N.
Ammonia  N.  18
 Sodium
Potassium
Calcium
Magnesium
Chloride
Total  sulphate
Inorganic  sulphate
682 1459 36 97.2 12.3  36.9 9.7 57 212 1 37 19.5  11.3  314 91 83
Inorganic  phosphate
pH
Total  acidity as C.C.
N/10  acid
127   6.4   27.8
Dr. G. S. Cotton, of Temple, Texas, writes me that urine also  contains "
Allontain " (c4H6.03.N.4).  No mention of the valuable hormones  to
which  Prof. Jean Rostand refers is made in the above.
This is significant  as showing the amount of valuable mineral salts
contained  in healthy urine; to appreciate  which, one needs to have
studied The


 Male Sexual
Energy.  These practices  will give  you both  a great  deal  of ener gy to
share.  This energ y can be transfe rred back  and forth  between you
and your partne r throug h your tongu es or genitals- -each  organ  acting
as a switch to transfe r energ y between the two channels  that
complete  each  one’s  Microcosmic Orbit.  In fact, w ith practice  you
will be able  to exchange  energy  in a variet y of ways, including  over
physical distance.  Som e people  will actuall y feel the energ y circulate
in their  own Microcosmic Orbit  and will feel that energy  transfe r
into their partner.  Some couples  have  describe d the feeling  of the
energy  as a cocoon  surroun ding them, and  som e feel  the energ y
betw een them or above  them.
5. Valley Orgasm an d Hhw to get there.
    Difficult to  explain  in words, a person  must reach  a certain  level
in lovem aking  to understa nd what is me ant by Valle y Orgasm
(Beyond Orgasm). The ma jor sensation  is the atmosphere  between
you and your lover.  lf yo u are both  in a low mood, or  one of you is
in a low energy  cycle, it beco mes difficult to reach  this point.
Medit ating  to mo ve the  energ y in the  Micr ocosmic Orbit  will help
bring  each  of you to the same energ y level and  is mo st im portant
to the  initiation  of sexual  pleasure.  The m ore y ou and your partn er
can meditate and  practice  the Orgas mic and  Big Dra w togethe r
the more both  of you will harmonically  tune  in to each  other.
    Practicing  such  techniques  as Tongue  Kung Fu,  as described
in the  book  Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy,
will greatl y contribute  to foreplay  and sexual  arousal.  When yo u
feel you are read y to engag e in love making,  and have  built  up sexual
arousal  substanti ally you can begin  to use  the Orgasm ic Draw,
while your partn er uses  the Big Dra w. After each  Orgasmic or  Big
Draw, the energ y starts  to mo ve betw een you, fusing  you into an
energetic  or meditative state  that can make you both  feel connected
and simultaneo usly experienc e a cosmic tranquility. You can
understa nd how  difficult  it is to describe  this state;  it is si milar to
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describing  what meditation  feels like.  You must experienc e it
yourself. In order  for you and your partn er to experienc e the energ y,
you must begin  with the basic training  describe d in this chapter
initially  using  som e external  help  (i.e.,  breathin g techniqu es, muscle
locks, placing  of hands,  etc.)  to guide  you into the internal  practice
(mind control).  We will elaborat e on a few love making  and hand
positions  to help  you and your partner  open  the channels  faster  so
that the exchange  of Valley  Orgasms wi ll be easier.
6. Sexual Organs’  Exercise  Positi ons
    There  are a few basic positions  that we use in lovem aking,  and
from these  basic  few com e hund reds of others.  Man y simply alter
the positions  of the  legs:  one leg up and one leg do wn, or both  legs
up, etc. This slight  differential  accounts  for many positions,  but as
we have  emphasized,  although  certain  positions  help  you to reach
a certain  area  of the sexual  organs  to stim ulate  certain  reflexes,  it
is the  channeling  of the  sexual  healing  energy  that is mo st im portant.
If you cannot  channel  the energy ; these  positions  and hands
gestures  are meaningless.  The nine  basic  positions  are as follow s:
A. Face to Face
   (1) The w oman  lies on her  back  with the man on top. (Fig.  8.1(a ))
   (2) The w oman  lies on her side w ith her hips t wisted so that  her
pelvis is facing  upward. (Fig.  8.1(b ))
   (3) The ma n lies  on his  back with the woman  on top. (Fig.  8.1(c))
   (4) The ma n is in  a sitting  position  and the woman  sits on his
lap. (Fig. 8.1(d))
   (5) The ma n and  woman  lies on  their  sides  facing  each  other
(Fig. 8.1(e) )
B. Back Facing
   (1) The w oman  bends  over:  supportin g herself  with her hands
and knees,  and the man kneels  behind  her: (Fig.  8.2(a) )
   (2) The ma n lies  on his  back,  while the woma n is on  her knees
facing  his feet.  (Fig.  8.2 (b))
   (3) The ma n sits up, and  the woman  sits on his  lap facing  his
feet. (Fig.  8.2(c))
   (4) The ma n and  woman  lies on  their  sides  with the man facing
the woman’s  back.  (Fig.  8.2(d))
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Fig. 8.1 Face-to- Face Positions
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Fig. 8.2 Back-Facing
- 210  -Chapter  VIII
   The basic  principle  is that  the one who moves is the  one who
brings  healing  to the  other  while the one who does  not mo ve
receives  the healing.  The inactive  person  can easil y concentra te.
When the mi nd is quiet,  this partne r will be able  to feel  his or  her
partner’s  sexual  healing  energ y.
7. Hand Ge stures  link the Meridians of the Fingers and Toes
with their  Corresp onding Organs.
    The hands  and feet are the outer  extrem ities of the  body and
they are linked  to the  organs,  glands  and nervous  system through
a system of  meridians,  or ener gy routes,  through  which the energ y
of the  organs  and glands  flows. Finger  gestur es have  been  used
frequentl y in the  ritual  Taoist practices  and are most useful  to jo in
the circuit and  chann el the energ y through  the meridians.
    In love making  we stimulate and  increas e the sexual  healing
energy  to flo w throu gh the subtle  meridian  chann els. If we do not
direct  the energy  back  from  the extremities, the  energ y can leak
out through  the hands  and feet.  Knowing the fingers’  and toes’
correspo nding meridians  can help  to develop  the ability  to channel
the outw ard flow of energ y back through  the meridians to the  area
you choose  to direct  it.
    There  are hundr eds of hand  gestur es used  in various  other
systems. If y ou are not trained  and familiar with their  usage,  you
will not be able  to discern  their  pow er, althoug h many people  claim
to have  such  abilit y. Some people  spend  a lot  of tim e learning  many
gestures  which in actualit y have  similar uses or  only one use.  When
careful  stud y is ma de, there  are only a few basic hand  positions
that are effective.  The sim plest ones  are the mo st useful;  however
the most important  factor  is the  energ y flow, not the simplicity.
A. Fingers and their Corresponding Organs
   The fingers  correspon d to certain  organs  as describ ed belo w
and this connectio n influences  bodil y functions.
   (1) The thumbs correspo nd to the  lungs  meridian  (Fig.  8-3(a));
   (2) The index  fingers  correspon d to the large  intestine  meridian
(Fig. 8-3(b)):
   (3) The mi ddle fingers  corresp ond to the  pericar dium m


ICAL HORMONES  ligent readers—and I know there are many of you out there,
far more than when I first started practicing—who take pridein being conscientious, informed medical consumers.
Patients have often told me that what I say is different
from anything they’ve heard prior to coming to me. They haveoften encouraged: “Doc, you should write a book.”
Well, this is that book. I cannot prove any of the opinions
I’m putting forth here in a way that would satisfy the demandsof objective science, such as double-blind studies—but I knowthey are sound enough to consistently create results for mypatients. Perhaps in time they’ll be shown to have the scientificbacking I can’t claim for them today. Drs. Semmelweiss andLister were ridiculed in their day for suggesting that doctorswash their hands and wear gloves prior to operating onpatients. They were telling doctors that they were infectingtheir patients, but very few believed this. Doctors, like mostpeople, resist change.
AMAZING HORMONES
Many people are amazed to find that balancing hormones has
such wide-ranging effects on patients’ health. But why not?Hormones regulate every aspect of our physical being. For thevarious hormones our bodies produce there are thousands ofreceptor sites distributed all over the body. Each kind ofreceptor site has the power to alter the body’s behavior inprofound ways.
I believe the benefits of natural bio-identical hormone
therapy should be available to everyone, and this book isdesigned to teach the reading public about those benefits. I amnot writing this book for doctors, although I would welcometheir readership. I am speaking to the public directly because9 WHY THIS BOOK? I’ve observed again and again how people committed to their
own health can change the system. In the past 35 years I’veseen dozens of “unconventional” medical solutions broughtinto the mainstream by patients who insisted that doctors(and insurance companies) should give them what they want.Acupuncture, herbal remedies, meditation, and other “fringe”ideas have bubbled up into popular consciousness and earnedcredibility. I would like to see natural hormones come into themainstream in the same way. By writing this book, I hopeto join the chorus of voices focusing attention on naturalbio-identical hormone therapy.
PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS
I have placed the weight loss chapter toward the end of this book
for a very good reason. I don’t think the world needs anotherdiet book. I don’t want this book to be confused in any way witha diet book. Delaying my weight management theory until latein the book is a way of asking that the reader develop an under-standing of hormones before embarking on my weight lossapproach.
The reader who skips the information in the early chapters
of this book, intent only on finding out how to lose weight, maybe disappointed. There is nothing in chapter 20 that can helpthe reader lose weight until he or she understands the role ofhormones in regulating metabolic health.
As you will see when you get to that chapter, I have a very
different approach to permanent weight loss. Simply cutting out“carbs” is not the answer. I have observed that for many patients,no matter what they do to lose weight, sooner or later it comesback on again. Why? Because no one has helped them deal withthe underlying reasons for weight gain in the first place.10 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  Ninety-nine percent of the time there is a hormonal prob-
lem. Keep in mind that hormones control every system of thebody—including metabolism, which factors into weight. Themajority of people with weight problems produce too muchinsulin. In these cases, reducing carbohydrates is mandatory.This is not a new concept—as of this writing, it is 157 years old.It is the basic approach utilized by the Atkins Diet, SugarBusters, the South Beach Diet, the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet,Protein Power, and others. What makes my approach differentis that I address the underlying reason why the body is produc-ing excess insulin. Without this, the fat comes right back afterthe person discontinues the low-carb meal plan. This book’sapproach to weight, then, is actually a step beyond the Atkins orthe South Beach diet.
FINDING MY AUDIENCE
I find it impossible to fit my ideas into pat formulas. This book
is not a diet book or a self-help book, although it does containelements that should be useful to people seeking both kinds ofbooks. What you will find here is a strong point of view aboutthe role of natural hormones in restoring and maintainingwellness, along with some thoughts about the state of the healthcare industry at this time.
My hope is that serendipity will bring this book to the
people who need it most. I offer some guidelines on how to usehormones with the help of your doctor. A prescription canbe obtained and filled at a compounding pharmacy. I don’tpublish food lists, menus, tables (such as the glycemic index),and so on. These aids to the daily process of planning healthymeals can be found in other books. My goal here is to set forthbasic principles.11 WHY THIS BOOK? “IT CAN’T BE THAT EASY”
Often after I’ve talked to a patient about their lifelong medical
problem and outlined a course of treatment, the patientresponds—sometimes teary-eyed—“Doc, it can’t be that easy.”They’ve gone from doctor to doctor; they’ve read book afterbook. Many find me in the second half of their life—theirquest has gone on that long.
The tragedy is that it
isthat easy. T oday’s medical model
has turned health care into a complex, expensive enterprise.Specialists treat symptoms with great technical wizardry andpharmacological sophistication—while ignoring causes.Behind all the sound and fury lies a simple, overlooked truth:bodies in hormonal balance can reach a level of optimumhealth in a natural manner.
PLEASE NOTE
In this book, whenever I use the term “natural” for hormones, I
am referring only to bio-identical hormones. Any hormonedescribed as “natural” may not always be bio-identical; forexample, Premarin is technically natural, since it is made from anatural substance (pregnant mares’ urine), but it is not bio-identical. “Bio-identical” means the hormone supplement hasthe same biochemical structure as the hormone made by thehuman body.12 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  ESTROGEN DOMINANCE
AND BRENDA J.
chapter TWO
Brenda J., 57, visited my office primarily to discuss a weight
problem. As we talked, it became clear that her “bloat,” as shecalled it, was actually a minor factor in a constellation ofsymptoms whose roots were hormonal. Far more serious thanher weight were complaints that had begun surfacing when shewas in her late 20s and thereafter accelerated rapidly: an inabil-ity to focus, constant headaches, chronic fatigue, aching bonesand joints, and disorientation.
I am going to let Brenda tell her story, after which I’ll
answer the questions you might ask if we were at a workshoptogether and you wanted to understand how I treated Brenda.I’ll explain how unbalanced hormones hurt her and howbalancing her hormones healed her. I believe her situation isnot uncommon. Readers with similar afflictions may see some-thing of themselves in the way Brenda experienced a 30-yearbout with estrogen dominance.
I’ve had a lot of female problems since I was very, very young.
My first child was born when I was 17 years old. Paul was borna severe quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. When I was 18, mysecond child was born and died after three months. At 22, my
13daughter, Sandra, was born. She was normal but very, very tiny:
three pounds. All of my children were born prematurely.
When I was 23 I had to have a complete hysterectomy. I had
fibroid tumors, and one night I went into a very severe hemor-rhage and was taken to the emergency room where doctorsperformed the hysterectomy.
Estrogen replacement was recommended by my gynecologist
after the hysterectomy. I was told I would need to take estrogen forthe rest of my life, since my body no longer produced it.
As soon as I began taking Premarin I felt that something was
wrong. I just didn’t feel right. I told my gynecologist about thisfeeling and I suggested it might be the estrogen. But he told methat wasn’t the problem and that I had to be on estrogen. That waswhen I began gaining weight.
For the first five years after my hysterectomy my only symptom
was this gradual weight gain. But then other symptoms beganappearing. I began feeling fuzzy in the head. My vision started toblur, I wasn’t sleeping well and my joints started hurting.
When my first gynecologist retired, another doctor took over
his practice. I tried talking to this doctor too, telling him how Ifelt. But he had the same response to my complaints as the firstdoctor. In fact, he thought my symptoms indicated that I mightnot be getting enough estrogen and he increased my dosage. Thisdoctor put me on Synthroid, a thyroid drug, and kept increasingthe amount of Premarin I was taking, so that by the time I was inmy 40s I’d been taking 2.5 mg, the maximum dosage of Premarin,for 10 or 12 years. The gynecologist would explain away mydepression by saying, “Of course you’re depressed


 d more than
ten cigarettes per day). Half of the men were placed on an intensive five-
year program of controlled diet, regular checkups, and detailed information
about their poten tial risks. The other group was left free to live as they liked
but with regular checkups.
At the end of the five years, researchers were extremely surpris ed to find
that death rates were much higher for the group told to cut down on
cholesterol, calories, sugar, and alcohol— including twice as many deaths
from heart attacks.  This despite the fact that the heavily monitored grouphad been advised to eat more polyunsaturated fat (mainly margarine),
replace red meat with fish, chicken, and vegetables, quit smoking, and
reduce alcohol consumption. After fifteen years, the statistics were still
skewed: The closely monitored group had suffered thirty-four cardiac
deaths, the control group only fourteen.
By any measure, the group left to continue their smoking, drinking, and
overeating should have been at much higher risk. What happened? The
perverse results may or may not imply that controlling the cholesterol you
eat is significant to your health.  But they are certainly an indictment of the
stressful nature of present-day prevention techniques.
A leading cardiologist in Britain makes the point briskly: “These results
don’t mean that you can stuff yourself silly with impunity. But my own
feeling is that if a patient exhausted by effort and distress has his life
invaded by doctors and other do-gooders wanting to constrain his eating
and other behaviors, the hassle factor and loss of autonomy could prove the
last straw.”
The significant phrase here is loss of autonomy. As we have seen, a
strong sense of personal freed om, coupled with personal happiness, is
critical to surviving in good health to a ripe old age. Fear is not a good
motivator because it creates its own stress. Yet millions of people have been
indoctrinated about cholesterol, on the assumption that the price of fear is
small compared to the price of high cholesterol. This is an extremely short-
sighted strategy. Cholesterol has been promoted as an enemy of the body
for forty years, despite the fact that every cell needs cholesterol to survive
(it forms a critical part of cell membranes, among other functions), and two-
thirds of the cholesterol inside us is manufactured by the liver, not absorbed
through food.
The very premise that low cholesterol is beneficial has come under
increasing suspi cion. In a massive review of eighteen studies from around
the world, covering 650,000 people in the United States, Japan, Europe, and
Israel, the benefits of having low serum cholesterol were refuted. The
125,000 women studied had the same life expectancy whether they had
high, low, or average cholesterol readings. Furthermore, no specific cause
of death, such as heart attack or cancer, was related to choles terol levels,either high or low (these findings are doubly important given that almost all
the classic studies warning against cholesterol were based on males).
Among the 520,000 men studied, findings were somewhat more
complex. Men with average to borderline cholesterol readings (200 to 240)
had the same survival rates as men with low readings (160 to 200), while
those with either  very high or very low readings were worse off. Men with
a cholesterol level below 160 were 17 percent more likely to die of all
causes, as were men with very high readings (over 240).
This research, published in the September 1992 issue of the prestigious
journal Circulation,  represe nts by far the largest pool of data ever
assembled. It strikes deep at our conventional notion that fat and cholesterol
are “bad,” but the result is still not clear. The evidence against high-fat diets
remains strong, especially when one considers the additional risks posed by
obesity, a common condition in countries with rich diets. Keeping fat at
around 30 percent of total calories continues to be a prudent guideline.
What all this means is that a healthy diet must have two components: (1)
It has to be psychologically satisfying; (2) It has to provide a balanced
supply of nutrients several times a day. These are very basic requirements,
but in a society that is fixated on “good” and “bad” foods, that eats half of
its meals at fast-food stands and runs record-high rates of obesity,
alcoholism, eating disorders, and crash dieting, it is hard to meet them.
Evolutionarily, our bodies were designed to eat a wide variety of foods, but
we have compromised this great range of adaptability by nutritional
overload.
In The Paleolithic Prescription,  S. Boyd Eaton and his coauthors point
out that so-called primitive diets were much more concentrated in all
vitamins and minerals than are modern diets while being much less
concentrated in fats, proteins, salt, sugar, and calories. Stone Age man, like
most tribal peoples today, ate a low-fat diet consisting largely of plant-
derived foods, with only an occasional bit of meat or fish. Because all foods
were fresh and had low fat content, our ancestors avoided one of the chief
hazards of modern diets—high concentrations of useless calories. The
human body was designed to eat all kinds of foods, but Nature provides few
foods with concentrated calories.Nuts, seeds, and meats are the most concentrated foods in the wild, and
they form a comparatively minor part of the average diet of most tribal
societies. Almos t all native peoples must consume large amounts of fruits,
grains, and vegetables—up to five or six pounds a day—in order to get the
same calories that we get from one-third as much intake. (This also
accounts for the faster speed of digestion on native diets and the increased
bulk of elimination—up to four pounds of feces a day.)
Fruits, vegetabl es, and grains contain large amounts of water and
indigestible fiber; therefore, one has to eat a lot of them to extract any
calories to fuel the body. Besides ensuring that the intestines receive enough
fiber, a native diet has the bene fit of concentrated vitamins: A handful of
wild greens can contain a day’s requirement of vitamin C (50 to 60 mg.)
with fewer than 10 calories, while a slice of toast, a doughnut, a bowl of
oatmeal, coffee, and a glass of milk satisfies only 4 percent of the day’s
requirement of vitamin C with 500 calories. As a source of vitamin C, wild
greens are 1,250 times more effective per calorie. By contrast, most
processed foods  contain large doses of salt and sugar, along  with their
extremely high ratios of fat.
Although diet was not a distinguishing feature of centenarians, improper
diet is clearly linked with disease and premature aging. The most recent
statistics indicate that the typical American diet contains about 40 percent
fat, 130 pounds  of white sugar per year, and three to five times more salt
than the body actually needs. It cannot be coincidental that 86 percent of
Americans over age 65 are afflicted with one or more degenerative
disorders, such as heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
Although these have been long considered diseases of old age, we now
view these conditions more accurately as lifestyle diseases ; there are
alarming signs of these same disorders in people under 50 and even in
young children.
If primitive and tribal peoples survive childhood illnesses and escape
accidents (the two leading causes of early death in the wild), they exhibit
strong, healthy constitutions throughout life. By contrast, our modern
lifestyle creates the basis for cancer and heart disease in all age groups. A
hundred years ago, when Ameri cans ate much less fat and processed food,
much more fiber, and only a fraction of our intake of white  sugar, theincidence of chronic disease was also proportionally lower. Returning to a
more natural diet is worthwhile, given all the evidence.
Associated with diet is the question of alcohol, which has its own
ambiguities. For several decades population studies in Europe have
indicated that people who drink a moderate amount of wine (one or two
glasses a day) enjoy lower heart-attack rates than either heavy drinkers or
teetotalers. The precise mechan ism is debatable, but alcohol is known to
raise levels of HDLs (high-dens ity lipoproteins, the “good” cholesterol) and
dilate blood vessels, which reduces blood pressure. It also removes
emotional inhibition, which may counter the tendency to bottle up
emotional stress.
Weighed against this are some very negative effects, however:
Alcoholism is an enormous social problem, and, as a chemical, alcohol is
toxic to brain cells; it dehydrates the intestines and can reverse the
assimilation of vital nutrients, particularly in the elderly. Various cancers
and birth defects have been associated with even moderate drinking, not to
mention the wide variety of disorders that afflict alcoholics. If we refer to
Jewett’ s study of people who age successfully into their eighties and
nineties, the fact that drinking habits varied widely suggests that alcohol
alone is not a definitive factor. The only clear implication is that there are
few if any 100-year -old alcoho lics; they died off at a much younger age.
Despite the lower incidence of heart disease that is alcohol’ s greatest claim
to health, there is no proof that drinking significantly increases life span.
Setting Longevity as a Goal


,whenanxiousthoughtspreventherfrom
gettingbacktosleep.Mayfallintoadeepsleepjust
beforethealarmgoesoff,andsowaketiredandworn
out.Nausea
SymptomsNauseaconstant.
Worseaftereating;morninginbed;forsweating;for
tobacco.
Causespregnancy;travelling.
Thenauseamaymakethepersonfeelfaint.Itmay
occurwithapainfulperiod.
Periodproblems
SymptomsPeriods:heavy;painful.Pains:aching;
cramping;inlowerback.
Betterfordoublingup.
Worseduringtheperiod.
Piles
Causespregnancy.
Sorethroat
SymptomsPains:spreadinguptoears,raw;stitching.
Withlumpsensationinthroat.
Worseforcoldair;forswallowing;foruncovering
throat.
Swallowing isdifficult;thethroatfeelsroughandthe
painsradiatetotheearsonswallowing.Therawness
mayhavebeencausedbycoughingandtheair
passagesmayfeelirritated.
Toothache
Betterforexternalwarmth;forwrappinguphead;for
heat;winter.
Causesafterafilling/extraction.
Thetoothacheisbetterforlyingonahotwaterbottle
wrappedinatowel.
Travelsickness
SymptomsWithfaint-likefeeling;nausea.
Betterforlyingdown.
Worsefortobacco.
Vomiting
SymptomsVomit:bile;mucus;bitter;sour;smelly.
Worseforexpectorating(hawkingupmucus).
Causesalcohol;anger;pregnancy.
Thisbiliousness(withorwithoutvomiting)occurs
afterover-eatingorindulginginrichorunusualfoods.
Itcanfeellikefoodpoisoningandiscommonwhen
travelling.
OPIUM(Op.)
Familyname:Papaveraceae
Othernames:whitepoppy;Papaversomniferum;maw-
seed
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Opium(Op.)•127
Theopiumpoppyisaherbaceousannualnativeto
AsiaMinor.Itsdelicateflowersvaryincolourfrom
whitetoreddishpurple,andinthewildtheyarepale
lilac.Theyareeasilybentandbrokenbywindand
rain,andquicktodroptheirpetals.
TheplantisextensivelycultivatedintheEast-in
Turkey,IranandIndia-foritsnarcoticproperties(the
redpoppymorefamiliarintheWestdoesnotpossess
theseproperties).Opiumisinfactthedriedjuice
extractedfromthegreenunripeseedcapsules,hence
theword'opium'whichderivesfromtheGreekoposor
'juice'.Thejuicecontainstwoacidsandtwenty-one
differentalkaloids,ofwhichmorphine,opium's'ac-
tiveingredient', isthemostimportant.Morphine is
namedafterMorpheus,thegodofsleep,whoissaid
tohavediscoveredthesleep-bringingandpain-
reducingpowerofthepoppy.
ThepoppywassacredtoCeres,thegoddessof
harvestandfertility,becauseoftheabundanceof
seedscontainedinthecapsules.Theseedscontainno
morphia,onlypaleyellowoilwhichartistsuseasa
dryingoil.Theyarealsousedinthekitcheninpastry
andbreadmaking.
Theplantandpreparationsfromitwereemployed
inmedicineasearlyasthedaysofHippocrates,
thoughitwasrecognisedaspoisonousandgreatcare
wastakeninitsadministration. Itwasusedasa
sedativeandapainreliever,externallyforgoutand
earacheandheadaches,internallyfordysenteryand
certaintypesofcough.Insmalldosesopiumactsasastimulant;ideasflow,exhilaration isexperienced,as
wellasacapabilityofgreaterexertionandagreat
abilitytoendure,butthisisfollowedbyalossof
mentalandphysicalpower,anirresistibledesireto
sleep,anddependency.
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadebydissolving
opiuminalcoholandsuccussing.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Eyesglassy.Facedarkredorblue.Faintness:after
excitement;afterfright.Painsabsent.Pupils
contracted.Shockfrominjury.Sweat:profuse;hot;
onsinglepartofthebody;fromfright.
Worseforalcohol;duringsleep;ongettingup;for
warmthofbed.
Opiumischaracterisedbyanabnormallackofpain,as
ifthesenseshavebeenblunted.Afterashock,people
needingOpiumappearglassyeyedandstupefied,and
sufferfromgreatinertia.Theyfeelfaint,numband/
ortrembly.Theirfacesgoredandbecomedrawn,
sunkenandoldlooking,possiblywithabluishtinge.
Childrenwhohavejustexperiencedafrightorshock
willbeunabletourinate.
Generally,thereisprofusesweatingwithscanty
urinationandinafeverOpiumtypeswillbecome
heatedinbedandfeelworsefortheheatandthe
sweatingandwillkickoffthecovers.
Theshockthatfollowsalcoholpoisoningwiththese
symptomsmaywellcallforOpium-thisisonlyuseful
inanunusual,mistakenaccidentandnotforhabitual
drinkers.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Apatheticduringfever.Complaintsfrom:anger;
reprimands;shock.Confused.Dreamy.Drowsy.
Exhilarated.Expressionsleepy.Indifferentduringa
fever.Lively.Senses:dull;acute.Sensitivetonoise.
Stupor.
Inanacuteillnesslikeafever,Opiumpatientsaredull
andapathetic,dullerthananyotherremedy-tothe
pointofstupor.Theydon'tcomplainorevenaskfor
anythingandmaybeoverwhelmingly sleepy.Before
reachingthisstateofstupor,however,theymaybe-
comeexhilaratedanddeliriousandimaginetheysee
things,especiallyonclosingtheireyes.
Peoplewhohavebecomestuckintoastateoffear
afterabadfrightorshockmaybenefitfromOpium.
TheylooksimilartoAconite(thatis,enormously
shocked)buttheyarealsoinadream-likestatethat
theycannotsnapoutof.Thisiscommonafteran
operationandOpiumwillhelppeopleafterageneral
anaestheticwheretheyfeel'spacedout'anddrowsyto
128•Petroleum(Petr.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
getbacktotheirnormalstates.TheOpiumpersonwill
recreatetheimageorsituationthatcausedtheshock,
butduringwakinghours;hewillnothavebad
dreams.Arnicatypes,ontheotherhand,willbefine
duringthedaybutwillhavebaddreamsrelatingtothe
fright.
Childrenwhohavebeenseverelytoldoffsome-
timesdevelopanOpium'acute'.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Constipation
SymptomsDesiretopassstoolabsent.Stools:
black;hard;smallballs;likesheep'sdung/droppings;
'shy'(recede).Withunfinishedfeeling.
Thestoolwilllieinthebowelandthepersonhasno
desiretopassit.Noristhereanypainthatwould
normallybeassociatedwithsuchconstipation.The
constipationmaybeacuteafteranoperation. Itmay
alternatewithdiarrhoea,whichmaycomeonafter
suddenjoyorafterfright.
Cough
SymptomsBreathingdifficult;slow;snoring.
Worseduringsleep;onfallingasleep;onwaking.
Thebreathingslowsdownduringsleepandwhenthe
feverisstrong;itbecomesirregularandlaboured,like
awakingsnoring.Thisaspectisverymarkedinthis
remedypictureandneedstobepresentforittowork
successfully.
Fever
SymptomsHeat:burning;intense.Withdeepsleep;
sweating(seeGeneralSymptoms).
Betterforuncovering.
Worseduringsleep;forsweating.
Apersonwiththisfeverwillexperienceoverpowering
sleepinessandyawning,willfallasleepandthen
breatheslowlyandloudlyasifsnoring.Heatcomeson
duringsleep,andsweatingwhichdoesnotrelievethe
symptoms. Ifwoken,thepersonwillbedazedand
confused,willwanttouncover,andiseitherdelirious
andexcitableorstupefiedandsemi-consciousduring
thefever.
Insomnia
SymptomsWithsleepiness.
Sleepslightlyandrestlesslyandhearseverysound.Is
sleepybutcannotfallasleep,andthebedmayfeelhot.
Retentionofurine
Causesshock.
Afterashockorfrightthepersonisunabletopass
urine.Petroleum (Petr.)
Othernames:petra-rock;ole


hour before my talk. The mantra I repeat during my meditation is
“How may I serve?” Over and over I say these words to myself until
they blend into a peaceful inner countenance. When I go on stage to
speak, my attention is focused on serving and is not caught by my
ego. In this state of mind I enjoy a loving guidance that supports me
in serving those who are in the audience.
Service does not require that you become a Mother Teresa. You
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serve by suspending your ego and extending the love that now fills
that space. It can take a million different forms, but when practiced
with authenticity, from the heart, it makes all that has manifested
into your life appear worthwhile.
The only problem that you will encounter with a service approach
to your life is in attempting to give or serve without love. The
moment that you put a condition on your service, or ask something
in return, or expect your extension of the offer to serve to be
returned with the appropriate thank-you response, you introduce |
conditional rather than unconditional love. The imposition of the
condition makes service empty.
If you are going to serve, ask yourself if you can love the human
being you are serving. If you cannot, then do not give lovelessly but
simply pass and send them a silent blessing. If you feel someone is
panhandling simply out of laziness and work avoidance, and this is
your heartfelt feeling, then do not give. Service without love is obli-
gation, and it carries guilt and anger and resentment along with it.
Work at being in a state of unconditional love with your service
efforts, and when love is not authentically present, acknowledge that
as well.
This concludes the ninth principle of spiritual manifesting. Be willing
to take all that is attracted to you as a result of your practicing the
manifesting principles, and then turn right around and in a spirit of
gratitude and generosity devote yourself to an act of service. The more
you practice in this light, the more you will see the objects of your
desire coming to fruition regularly. There need be no conflict between
your spiritual awareness of wanting to serve and the presence of
desires within you. As Rumi observed almost a millennium ago,
“People who renounce desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites!”
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Manifest Your Destiny
You do have desires, both on a material level and in terms of
becoming more spiritually loving and generous in the service of oth-
ers. There need be no conflict.
I want to close this final principle with another observation by
Rumi titled “The Servant Who Loved His Prayers.” It sums up all
that I have written, not only here in this final principle on gratitude,
generosity and service, but in this entire book. Read the words care-
fully, and as you close the book and go to work on your own spiritual
manifestation program, reread this passage by Jalaluddin Rumi, who
was born in the year 1207 in the Persian Empire in what is now
called Afghanistan. It will remind you of your role in all of this, a role
that is only limited by the restrictions you place on your spiritual
awareness.
The Servant Who Loved His Prayers
At dawn a certain rich man
wanted to go to the steambaths.
He woke his servant, Sunqur,
“Ho! Get Moving! Get the basin
and the towels and the clay for washing
and let’s go to the baths.”
Sunqur immediately collected what was needed,
and they set out side by side along the road.
As they passed the mosque, the call to prayer sounded.
Sunqur loved his five-times prayer.
“Please, master,
rest on this bench for a while that I may recite sura 98,
which begins,
“You who treat your slave with kindness.’”
The master sat on the bench outside while Sunqur went in.
When prayers were over, and the priest and all the worshipers
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had left, still Sungqur remained inside. The master waited
and waited. Finally he yelled into the mosque,
“Sunqur,,
why don’t you come out?”
“T can’t. This clever one
won’t let me. Have a little more patience.
I hear you out there.”
Seven times the master waited,
and then shouted. Sunqur’s reply was always the same,
“Not yet. He won’t let me come out yet.”
“But there’s no one
in there but you. Everyone else has left.
Who makes you sit still so long?”
“The one who keeps me in here is the one
who keeps you out there.
The same who will not let you in will not let me out.”
The ocean will not allow its fish out of itself.
Nor does it let land animals in
where the subtle and delicate fish move.
The land creatures lumber along on the ground.
No cleverness can change this. There’s only one
opener for the lock of these matters.
Forget your figuring. Forget your self. Listen to your Friend.
When you become totally obedient to that one,
you'll be free.
May you always swim in the ocean of abundance while manifesting
your own divine destiny. Listen to your friend.
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A Summary of the Nine Principles
I would like you to see all nine principles in the same place so that you
can refer to them often as well as see how they comprise a step-by-
step program for implementing a spiritual manifestation awareness
for yourself. Each principle flows to the next, and if you apply them in
this sequential manner, I can guarantee that you will begin to view
yourself as an absolute miracle, an individual who is connected to the
universal all-pervading spirit in such a firm manner that you know
you are a co-creator of your own life and all that is attracted into it.
THE NINE PRINCIPLES
ONE
Becoming Aware of Your Highest Self
This awareness helps you to view yourself as more than merely a
physical creation, which leads to....
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Two
Trusting Yourself Is Trusting the Wisdom, That Created You
This principle establishes you as one and the same with the universal
God force, which leads to...
THREE
You Are Not an Organism in an Environment: You Are an
Environorganism
This principle establishes that there is no separation between you
and anything else outside you in the material world, which leads
On ies
Four
You Can Attract to Yourself What You Desire
This principle establishes your power to attract that which you are
already connected to, which leads to...
FIVE
Honoring Your Worthiness to Recéive
This principle affirms that you are worthy of all that is attracted to
your life, which leads to...
SIx
Connecting to the Divine Source with Unconditional Love
This principle creates an awareness of the significance of accepting
your manifestations with absolute love, which leads to...
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Manifest Your Destiny
SEVEN
Meditating to the Sound of Creation
This principle gives you the tools for vibrating yourself to the very
sounds that are in the world of creation. These are the tools for
attracting and manifesting, which lead to...
EIGHT
Patiently Detach from the Outcome
This principle emphasizes the need for removing demands and
becoming infinitely patient, which leads to...
NINE
Reacting to Your Manifestations with Gratitude and Generosity
This principle teaches the value of taming the ego and being thankful
and in service to others with your manifestations.
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Dr. WAYNE W. DYER is the author of eleven books
| and has a doctorate in counseling psychology. He
lectures across the country to groups numbering in
the thousands and appears regularly on radio and
television. He lives with his family in southern Florida.
Jacket design by Suzanne Noli
Jacket photograph © by Tina West/Graphistock
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MANIFEST YOUR OWN DESTINY TO GET
EVERYTHING YOU WANT. BING WAYNE W. DYER’S |
ASTONISHING NINE SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES. ; > bm
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Are the decisions and actions in your life controlled by your ego? Do you have an
ever-present need to defend yourself? See The First Principle..
Do you inherently trust yourself and your decisions? Are you weighed down with
troubles or unresolved issues in your life? See The Second Principle.
Do you feel out of touch with your environment? Are your days more often out of
* synch than in? See The Third Principle. =~
Do you have limits in your life that prevent you from making changes or achieving
your highest goals? See The Fourth Principle.
Do you love what you do, and do what you love in life? Are you constrained by
feelings of unworthiness? See The Fifth Principle.
Is your day filled with high energy and the feeling that “everything is going my way”?
Or do you experience frustration or anger? See The Sixth Principle.
How would your life change after learning to attract


arriage in women who are weak or suffering
from back pain.
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   207 26/02/16   12:47 pm
208
other medicinal plantsEuonymus atropurpurE us
Research Much interest has been aroused
by eucommia bark’s ability to reduce high blood
pressure, which it is thought to do by increasing nitrous oxide levels within the arteries. In a clinical trial in China involving 119 people, 46% of those treated with the herb showed a significant blood pressure reduction. However, eucommia bark appears to have little effect in cases of severe hypertension. Recent studies indicate that eucommia bark is an antioxidant and may help to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. A small clinical trial in Japan published in 1996 concluded that an infusion of eucommia bark reduced the body’s exposure to mutagen-forming compounds naturally present within the diet.
Euonymus atropurpureus
(Celastraceae)
Wahoo Bark
Description Deciduous tree growing to
26 ft (8 m). Has smooth branches, serrated
elliptical leaves, clusters of purple flowers,
and 4-lobed scarlet fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to eastern
North America, wahoo bark thrives in damp woods and close to water. The bark is gathered in autumn.
Parts Used Stem bark, root bark.
Constituents Wahoo bark contains
cardenolides (cardiac glycosides) similar
to digitoxin, asparagine, sterols, and tannins.
History & Folklore The Sioux, Cree, and
other Native American peoples used wahoo  bark in various ways, for example as an eye lotion, as a poultice for facial sores, and  for gynecological conditions. Native Americans introduced the plant to early European settlers, and it became very popular in North America as well as in  Britain in the 19th century.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wahoo
bark is considered a gallbladder remedy with laxative and diuretic properties. It is prescribed for biliousness and liver problems, as well as for skin conditions such as eczema (which may result from poor liver and gallbladder function) and for constipation. In the past, it was often used in combination with herbs such as gentian (Gentiana lutea, p. 99) as a fever remedy, especially if the liver was under stress. 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


 life in
evolution from nebula to man, I can make but a passing and
meaningless reference here. That man is one with the cosmos, a
microcosm within a macrocosm, has been taught by the seers through
immemorial ages and notably by Edward Carpenter and D. H. Lawrence
among poet-philosophers of recent times. It has remained for Professor
Szekely to give scientific formulation to that "eternal ocean of cosmic
radiations" whereby solar systems and atoms are reciprocally related
and the cells of man's body and the thoughts of his brain vibrate in tune
with   the   farthest   stars.
"The most elementary dynamic formations are those of matter
(matter being merely an aggregate of the movement of atoms), while the
highest dynamic formations are those of currents of thought." So the
long history of this vertiginous dynamism of thought itself is reviewed
by Professor Szekely in terse summaries of nearly a hundred
philosophers from Thales down to date. For as part of his omnilateral
system is included "the entirely new and original application for
therapeutic purposes of the masterpieces of universal literature,
philosophy and the arts based on psychotechnical diagnosis of individual natures." To Professor Szekely's own philosophic formula of
"dialectical correlativism," in which is woven really the whole fabric of
his thesis, I cannot do justice in this outline.

MAN AND TREES
There remains still to be noted the ethnological and ethnographical
backbone of the book. This—if more than the others—has been
Professor Szekely's especial line of research, in which he has made
some original and significant discoveries. As a pragmatic consequence
he is able to correlate all that is be st in the most recent scientific and
cultural developments with a modernistic renaissance of the heliolithic
culture of homo sapiens sylvanus, the original fructivorous man of the
forests and trees. It was from this dominant species, characterised by
maximal longevity and endowed with a cerebral capacity for unlimited
intelligence, that subsequent culture and civilization took its sources.
Identifiable with the Cro-Magnon family, with the pre-diluvian
patriarchs of the Old Testament, and with other legendary figures of the
earliest folklore, this great race received its first severe set-back from
that planetary and climatic disaster recorded as "the Flood." This
destroyed its first optimally favourable natural milieu and caused its
scattered survivors to   become   more    pyrolithic   (fire-using   and
food-cooking) and omnivorous (flesh-eating) in their habits—and much
shorter-lived. It might almost be said that, dating from that event, a
progressive series of enforced adaptations, complicated by human
follies, has brought us down to "the present pessimal milieu of homo
sapiens faber" —the office and factory age of treeless cities and towns
we exist in to-day.
Trees and forests, declares Professor Szekely, "are accumulators
of the cosmic forces and radiations and are the generative source of
cerebral energies." (Italics mine.) Reflecting that it was the forest sages
of India who wrote the profound and unsurpassable Vedas and
Upanishads, one can well believe that this is so. Forests, moreover,
afford the best protection against storms, floods, droughts, extremes of
heat and cold, by acting as natural regulators and distributors of the
moisture and temperature of the air. Modern man, in his commercial,
money-maniac blindness, has devastated and laid waste the green earth.
It is a ruin compared with what it used to be, and man himself—''is a
veritable bundle of rags and bones compared with the perfect, statue-
like forms of his paleolithic sylvan ancestors." The more human beings
have destroyed the forests and cut down the giant trees, the more
frequent and terrible have been the calamities, storms, hurricanes and
cyclones that have descended upon them, raging in recent years with
unparalleled violence. It is cause and effect. Yet still must walnut trees
be felled to make rifle butts, and miles of forests be sacrificed to provide
paper for the Daily Mail!
Those of us who have always loved trees will be wholeheartedly
with Professor Szekely in his campaign to combat every plan for
destroying and cutting them down, to promote re-afforestation over the
whole earth and restore "the Holy Alliance between Men and Trees."
Our "mere sentiments" on the matter are, after all, radically justified,
just as they are when along with Professor Szekely we deplore the
"senseless stupid men who relentlessly hunt down little birds, slaying
them without pity and without remorse"—with the result that crops are
ravaged by vermin and men themselves are plagued by mosquitos and
flies. (News now comes to hand of a modified death-ray soon to be
commercialised for the destruction of vermin and insects and, doubtless,
of more little birds. The pious hope is expressed that it may never be
amplified and turned, on the human insect himself!)
 WORLD CHAOS AND CALAMITY
Yet it would be futile to denounce the world's evils—alas! as so
many still do —with no clear recognition of their root causes in the
world-wide economic crisis and crashing chaos of which they are all
merely symptoms. It would be equally pointless to evolve grandiose and
Utopian conceptions of "omnilateral aristology," "paneubiotics" and
optimal well-being without facing the fact of a corrupt financial system
that can only spell their frustration. Professor Szekely is undoubtedly a
man of great Vision, but he is much too penetrating and
uncompromising a realist—and much too good a natural therapist—to
be guilty of either defect. His is no idealistic flight into phantasy. He
sees through to pauses. His analysis of the present world situation is
among the most masterly I have read. Multiplying unemployment,
poverty amidst plenty, the unprecedented crisis of "over-production,"
the impending fearful collapse of finance, the false foundations and
futility of the League of Nations, the pell-mell preparations for war
(which is only held off for the moment by the very complexity of
interlaced imperialist antagonisms), slave-mentality everywhere,
confusion, jobbery, and antagonism among the ruling classes
(themselves but slaves who lord it over slaves), the desperate attempts
through dictatorships to bolster the bourgeoisie, the whole piled up
impossible impasse—all this is but "the prelude to the frightful disaster
which is soon going to overwhelm humanity in all its intensity." Only, it
would seem, after terrible catastrophe, can come the "Great
Renaissance," for which, however, in the name of humanity we must
even now prepare.

THE GREAT RENAISSANCE
We must, in the words of Romain Rolland, "unite all the spiritual
forces of Life against the forces of Death." In that spirit, too, we must
utter "an unqualified 'No' to war." We must vow our devotion to "the
Optimal and Omnilateral Restoration of All Things." By extending into
Society and social behaviour the paneubiotic law of the healthy body,
whereby every organ functions for the wellbeing of every other organ as
bound up with its own, we must combine to build the kingdom of active
love upon earth. Professor Szekely's remedy is, again, no regress into
"back to nature" primitivism. For him "naturism" and individualism are
necessarily correlated with all that is truly valuable in community and
technological achievement. He believes in the future, yet his motto is
"always and everywhere, Here and Now."
And so when, in conclusion, Professor Szekely outlines his plan
for the new order of self-supporting, co-operative, paneubiotic garden-
communes (one at least having already been successfully established) it
is an eminently realistic and practical plan, and, as far as I can see,
about the only way out. None the less, on that account, will these
communes be devoted to realisation of optimal individual and social
wellbeing through the practise of active  love, the omnilateral pursuit of
knowledge, unison and harmony with the eternal currents of cosmic life.
Professor Szekely has followed his cosmotherapeutie premises to their
logical conclusion, not even faltering before the menace of a world-
disease, imbecility; and impending disaster which may soon reduce all
personal aches and pains to pitiful insignificance. Because of that alone
his book would tower like a giant above all the smug little panderings to
hypochondria which are too often described as "health" literature!
The colossal task of translation has been nobly accomplished by
Mr. L. Purcell Weaver, but for whom, declares the author, this book
would still be lying in manuscript form in French among the records of
his various scientific expeditions. The decorations in black and white by
Arthur Wragg aptly interpret the theme. No more massive, profound or
far-reaching work on Health and Life has ever been published. <|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>THE UL TIMA TE CLEANSE
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