rine
in the treatment  of wounds, etc., cannot be beaten. This healing power
is brought about among other  elements  contained  in urine, by
'Allontain'  (C4.H6,03.N4).
"As I put urine to further  use in the treatment  and  eradication  of
disease, I shall send  you full information.  It appears to me you are
furthering  a great truth which  should be broadcast  to suffering
humanity…  81
 CHAPTER  XIV.
SOME  MISCELLANEOUS  CASES.

Enuresis nocturna (bed‐wetting). Sometimes  this is merely  a bad  habit,
but more  generally it is a morbid symptom  in nervous and  anaemic
children.  Weakness  is the principal cause, although it may  also be due
to worms.  Children are supposed  to grow out of this  distressing
condition,  but this is not always the case.
Boy,  aged 9, had suffered  from enuresis  all his young life, and had been
treated by physicians  both of the orthodox and  unorthodox  schools.
Was very thin, and very unhappy about his affliction.  Fasted  on urine
for 11 days.  Result, complete  cure.
Menstruational  Trouble. The patient had  suffered for over two years
from too prolonged  and  too frequent menstruation,  for which she had
first  tried allopathy  without effect, and then herbalism,  from which  she
only obtained partial  relief. The complaint  was not only weakening  her
physically  but was also affecting her mental equilibrium.  During one of
her long periods which  had  already  lasted  a fortnight,  she decided to
try urinetherapy.  Although at first the urine was heavily overcharged
with menstrual  blood, she was nevertheless  heroic enough to take it.
During her fast  she also sipped from two or three  pints daily of plain
cold water. In three days the urine became  normal.  She continued  the
fast  for exactly 28 days, during which  she was rubbed  with a healthy
person's urine for some hours  each day. The case  was a complete  cure
not only of the  menstrual  trouble but  also of long standing nasal
catarrh, and an increasing  tendency  to deafness.  82
 Nephritis with other  distressing  symptoms.  Young woman.  Had  been in
the care of two doctors for some weeks, and had also  seen a specialist,
who‐told her mother that the case  was a hopeless one, and  that in all
probability  this particular  victim  would not live to see the approaching
Christmas.  The young woman  was then brought to me. To encourage
her and  induce her to take the offensive looking urine she passed, I
even went so far as to drink  a little of‐it myself. After a fast of 30 days
on urine and cold water only, and daily rubbings  with healthy urine, the
patient was cured of her grievous complaint.  Nor did any other malady
develop subsequently.  When I first saw her she had  weighed 106 lbs.;
four months later  on a regime  of two  well‐ balanced meals a day,  and
the continued  use  internally  and  externally  of her  own urine, she
weighed 136 lbs nude, which  is the normal  weight for a woman  of her
height  and build.
Mucus Colitis. Boy of 6, began to discharge  mucus frequently,  though
otherwise  there  were no apparent  symptoms  of ill‐health.  The doctor,
when sent for, said the trouble was prevalent,  and prescribed  castor  oil.
But the boy's father, who knew me and  my methods,  thinking a castor
oil purge too violent, sent for me as soon  as the doctor had gone. I put
the boy on a urine fast, and in 48 hours all the trouble had disappeared.
Nevertheless,  as it is foolish to start eating as soon  as symptoms  vanish,
the boy fasted  four days in all.
Two days later, the boy's mother developed  the same colitis symptoms,
likewise did her sister. I fasted them  both for eight days according  to
my method, though the actual  symptoms  vanished  in five days or
sooner.  It is worthy of note that all three patients  were strict 83
 vegetarians,  and  that the boy had  never tasted flesh in his young life. I
advised  them to include some flesh food in their dietary.
Eye Injury. In 1920 a lady came  to me with a splinter of chip‐wood in
one eye. The splinter  had  pierced the iris and was sticking out an inch
or more. I removed the splinter, fasted  the patient on urine and  water
for a few weeks, at the end of which  time the trouble was completely
cured and the patient had perfect sight.
Psoriasis. Gentleman,  aged 60. Fasted  on urine and water  for one week
in June, 1920, and  again for one week in September  of the same year.
During and between the fasts, had rubbings of his own urine in spells of
an hour three  times a day. Complete  cure. He continued  the intake of
urine as a daily habit, and ten years later, though three  score years and
ten, only looked about 56. I regard psoriasis and  eczema  as amongst
the easiest diseases to cure  by means of urine‐therapy; that is provided
they  are taken in time. Nor is lupus, a more serious skin  disease and
said to be caused  by the tubercle bacillus, by any means incur


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

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

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


 at the helm of t he most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever
conducted. His blockbuster book will leave you with no doubt that 5% protein, exclusively from plant foods, is more than enough.

Protein from Fruits and Vegetables Only
On a diet of fruits and vegetables only, it is likely that your total protei n intake will average about 5% of calories or slightly
lower. Adding a small quantity of nuts or seeds results in a slight inc rease in protein intake percentage. For example:

A meal of 10 peaches (420 calories) yields 7 grams of protein.
Another meal of 10 bananas (1,085 calories) supplies 12 grams of protein.
A bowl of soup made from 3 tomatoes blended with 2 cucumbers (150 calories) supplies mor e than 7 additional grams of
protein.
A pint of fresh-squeezed orange juice (225 calories) offers nearly 3.5 gram s of protein.
One medium head of lettuce (about 50 calories) provides about 5.5 grams of protein.
Though we have only eaten 1,930 calories so far, the total protein consumed is 35 g rams (over 6% of calories).

My recommendations for total calorie consumption are somewhat higher t han most official recommendations. I do this not
because I wish to see people gain fat, but because I know that an  increased calorie intake— when accompanied by a
commensurate increase in fitness activities—results in an ov erall higher level of fitness and health. It is this rise in calori e
consumption, from an increased intake of fruits and vegetables, that ass ures the consumer of nutritional sufficiency.
In nature, we would have to be fit in order to survive. We would also eat fruit s and vegetables, the most nutritious of all foods.
In order to be well nourished, we are designed by Nature to consume the signi ficant quantities of fruits and vegetables that would be
eaten by a fit, active person.

 Protein Deficiency Does Not Exist
On a whole-food diet that provides sufficient calories, there is no such c ondition as a protein deficiency. A brochure from the
V egetarian Society of Colorado says, “Studies in which humans have b een fed wheat bread alone, or potatoes alone, or corn alone,
or rice alone, have all  shown that these plant foods contain not only enough protein, but enough of all  of the essential amino acids,
to support growth and maintenance of healthy adults.” 48
A 1999 journal article entitled “Optimal Intakes of Protein in the Hum an Diet” confirms this fact, saying “… the true minimal
[protein] requirement is likely to be so much lower than the amounts provi ded by natural diets (which are providing sufficient energy
and other nutrients) that its magnitude becomes to some extent an i ssue of scientific curiosity only.” 49
In developing nations where insufficient food is available and people are  literally starving to death, protein/calorie malnutrition
conditions known as marasmus and kwashiorkor do exist, but these do not occur in  developed countries. The symptoms—extreme
emaciation, lassitude, and muscle wasting—resolve equally as well  by the introduction of high-carbohydrate or high-fat foods as they
do from the consumption of concentrated protein, and usually better. Protein de ficiency, it turns out, just is not the cause of these
problems. It is simply a shortage of food, a chronic severe deficiency of calor ies, that causes people to literally digest their own
muscle tissues for fuel.
It is much more likely however, that a person would run into a huge host of oth er social, health, and nutritional problems long
before developing the dreaded protein deficiency. Protein deficiency simpl y is not part of our reality. This is the main reason that this
book focuses on just two of the three caloronutrients: only our fat and carbohy drate consumption rates tend to vary appreciably. As
one goes up, the other, fairly reliably, goes down.

Chapter 7. Fat: 10% Maximum

Nutritionists have told us what to do in order to be healthier: increase ou r carbohydrate consumption and eat less fat. But
knowing what to do does not mean that we will do it, of course. A prime example is qu itting smoking. We have known for decades
that smoking is killing us, yet according to the World Health Organizat ion, more than a billion people continue to smoke. In order to
make successful long-term changes, we must not only anticipate hea lth as an outcome, we must also be happy about it.
Apparently we have not found a way to be happy while eating less fat. We cer tainly have not implemented this relatively
simple change into our diets. Even the recent threats of morbid obesity, epi demic diabetes, bovine leukemia, and mad cow disease
have not gotten us to reduce our intake of meat, dairy, poultry, fish, oils, or fat s in general.

How Much Fat Do We Need?
In its 2002 Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs, which replaced the 1989 Recomm ended Dietary Allowances, or RDAs) the
U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends that 20 to 35% of our calories be con sumed as fat. 50  This advice is significantly
skewed to the high side by the financial and lobbying influence of the U.S. da iry and meat lobbies.
In his book The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell sheds some light on this longstanding problem. In 1982, while  serving
on a National Academies of Science expert panel, Campbell coauthored a re port entitled Diet, Nutrition and Cancer. This was
the first public scientific panel to openly question the wisdom of certai n widely accepted nutritional standards. In particular, the panel
recommended a substantial reduction in fat intake.
Campbell writes, “The first guideline in the report explicitly s tated that high fat consumption is linked to cancer, and
recommended reducing our fat intake from 40% to 30% of calories.” The report ackn owledged that the 30% goal was an arbitrary
cutoff point that represented a “moderate and practical target,”  but the data could easily have justified a greater reduction in
recommended fat intake.
A more healthful “greater reduction,” however, was not to be. As Camp bell describes, “The director of the USDA Nutrition
Laboratory told us that if we went below 30%, consumers would be required to reduce  animal food intake and that would be the
death of the report.” 51
In spite of such continuous industry pressure, some public agencies hav e succeeded in publishing lower guidelines. For
example, a 2003 report on diet and chronic disease, commissioned by the World Health Organi zation and the Food and Agriculture
Organization recommends a diet consisting of 15 to 30% fat.
Private sources offer an even more conservative perspective on heal thful levels of fat consumption:

Udo Erasmus, author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, has extensively researched the topic of fat consumption and
health. What’s more, he sells fat for a living. Y et in his book he recom mends we eat just 15–20% of our calories as fat. 52
The Pritikin Longevity Center, a facility that holds the finest heart disease reversal record of an y such organization in the
U.S., recommends a dietary fat consumption of 10%. 53
Dr. Dean Ornish, a renowned cardiologist and author, also guides his heart patients to grea ter health and disease reversal
through his near-vegetarian dietary program that includes not more  than 10% fat. 54
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, surgeon at the famed Cleveland Clinic and author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, also
recommends a low-fat cooked vegan diet where approximately 10% of calories com e from fat. 55
Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and aut hor of several books on vegan
nutrition, is another proponent of approximately 10% fat for health. 56

Many other doctors and PhDs famous for their work in nutrition have writt en extensively on the health benefits that predictably
accompany a drastic reduction in dietary fat consumption. These include  John McDougall, Michael Klaper, Alan Goldhamer,
William Harris, Ruth Heidrich, Michael Greger, and Matthew Lederm an and Alona Pulde, among others. All of these professionals,
as well as many dietitians, nutritionists, sports scientists, and oth er health experts agree that the magic percentage could be as high a s
the teens, but not much higher. Only industry-influenced governmen t bodies recommend that we should limit fat consumption to 30%
of our total calories. I would steer clear of any health “professional” or  diet plan that claims that consuming 20% or more of our
calories from fat is healthful (or even acceptable).
Several years ago, I read an interview in an airline magazine wit h the then-current director of nutrition for the U.S. Olympic
Team. In it, she stated that the relative percentages of fat, prot ein, and carbohydrates in an athlete’s diet should not vary, regardlessof whether the athlete runs the mile or the marathon, lifts weight s or plays table tennis, shoots skeet or puts the shot. She stated that
without a doubt, the only nutritional change she would recommend from athl ete to athlete would be


. The idea of working for another, at regular hours,without personal liberty, ignoring or suppressing one’s own agenda andinclinations over an entire lifetime is quite new and not at all healthy. It takescontinual subconscious applications of mental and psychic energies to protectourselves against the stresses of modern life, energies that we don’t know we’reexpending. This is also highly enervating. Thus to remain healthy we may neednutrition at levels far higher than might be possible through eating food; even idealfood might not contain enough vitamins to sustain us against the strains andstresses of this century.
And think about Dr. Pottenger’s cats. Our bodies are at the poorer end of a
century-long process of mass degeneration that started with white flour from theroller mill. Compared to my older clients I have noticed that my younger patientsseem to possess less vital force on the average, show evidence of poorer skeletaldevelopment, have poorer teeth, less energy, have far more difficulty breeding andcoping with their family life, and are far more likely to develop degenerativeconditions early. Most of my younger patients had a poor start because they wereraised on highly refined, devitalized, deficient foods, and grew up without muchexercise. Their parents had somewhat better food. Some of their grandparentsmay have even grown up on raw milk and a vegetable garden, and actually had towalk, not owning cars when they were young. Their great grandparents had a highlikelihood of enjoying decent nutrition and a healthful life-style.
Unfortunately, most of my patients like the idea of taking vitamins too much for
their own good. The AMA medical model has conditioned people to swallowsomething for every little discomfort, and taking a pill is also by far the easiest
thing to do because a pill requires no life-style changes, nor self-discipline, nor
personal responsibility. But vitamins are much more frugal than drugs. Comparedto prescriptions, even the most exotic life extension supplements are much lessexpensive. I am saddened when my clients tell me they can’t afford supplements.When their MD prescribes a medicine that costs many times more they neverhave trouble finding the money.
I am also saddened that people are so willing to take supplements, because I
can usually do a lot more to genuinely help their bodies heal with dietarymodification and detoxification. Of all the tools at my disposal that help peopleheal, last in the race comes supplements.
One of the best aspects of using vitamins as though they were healing agents is
that food supplements almost never have harmful side effects, even when they aretaken in what might seem enormous overdoses. If someone with a healthcondition reads or hears about some vitamin being curative, goes out and buyssome and takes it, they will at very least have followed the basic principle of goodmedicine: first of all do no harm. At worst, if the supplements did nothing for themat all, they are practicing the same kind of benevolent medicine that Dr. Jenningsdid almost two centuries ago. Not only that, but having done something to treattheir symptoms, they have become patients facilitating their own patience, givingtheir body a chance to correct its problem. They well may get better, but notbecause of the action of the particular vitamin they took. Or, luckily, the vitamin orvitamins they take may have been just what was needed, raising their body’s vitalforce and accelerating the body’s ability to solve its problem.
One reason vitamin therapies frequently do not work as well as they might is
that, having been intimidated by AMA propaganda that has created largely falsefears in the public mind about harmful effects of vitamin overdoses, the personmay not take enough of the right vitamin. The minimum daily requirements ofvitamins and minerals as outlined in nutrition texts are only sufficient to prevent themost obvious forms of deficiency diseases. If a person takes supplements at or
near the minimum daily requirement (the dose recommended by the FDA as being
‘generally recognized as safe’) they should not expect to see any therapeuticeffect unless they have scurvy, beri beri, rickets, goiter, or pellagra.
In these days of vitamin-fortified bread and iodized salt, and even vitamin C
fortified soft drinks, you almost never see the kind of life-threatening deficiencystates people first learned to recognize, such as scurvy. Sailors on long seavoyages used to develop a debilitating form of vitamin C deficiency that could kill.Scurvy could be quickly cured by as little as one lime a day. For this reason theBritish Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today thatis why British sailors are still called limeys. A lime has less than 30 milligrams ofvitamin C. But to make a cold clear up faster with vitamin C a mere 30 mg doesabsolutely nothing! To begin to dent an infection with vitamin C takes 10,000milligrams a day, and to make a life threatening infection like pneumonia go awayfaster might require 25,000 to 150,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily, administeredintravenously. In terms of supplying that much C with limes, that’s 300 to 750 ofthem daily—clearly impossible.
Similarly, pellagra can be cured with a few milligrams of vitamin B
3, but
schizophrenia can sometimes be cured with 3,000 milligrams, roughly a thousandtimes as much as the MDR.
There are many many common diseases that the medical profession does not
see as being caused by vitamin deficiencies. Senility and many mental disordersfall in this category. Many old people live on extremely deficient diets comprisedlargely of devitalized starches, sugars, and fats, partly because many do not havegood enough teeth to chew vegetables and other high roughage foods, and theydo not have the energy it takes to prepare more nourishing foods. Virtually all oldpeople have deficiency diseases. As vital force inevitably declines with age, thequantity and quality of digestive enzymes decreases, then the ability to breakdownand extract soluble nutrients from food is diminished, frequently leading to seriousdeficiencies. These deficiencies are inevitably misdiagnosed as disease or aging.
Suppose a body needs 30 milligrams a day of niacin to not develop pellagra,
but to be fully healthy, needs 500 milligrams daily. If that body receives 50milligrams per day from a vitamin pill, to the medical doctor it could not possiblybe deficient in this vitamin. However, over time, the insidious subclinical deficiencymay degrade some other system and produce a different disease, such as colitis.But the medical doctor sees no relationship. Let me give you an actual example.Medical researchers studying vitamin B
5 or pantothenic acid noticed that it could,
in what seemed to be megadoses (compared to the minimum daily requirement)largely reverse certain degenerative effects of aging. These researchers weremeasuring endurance in rats as it decreased through the aging process. How theymade this measurement may appear to some readers to be heartless, but the bestway to gauge the endurance of a rat is to toss it into a five gallon bucket of coldwater and see how long it swims before it drowns. Under these conditions, theresearcher can be absolutely confident that the rat does its very best to stay alive.
Young healthy rats can swim for 45 minutes in 50° Fahrenheit water before
drowning. Old rats can only last about 15 minutes. And old rats swim differently,less efficiently, with their lower bodies more or less vertical, sort of dog paddling.But when old rats were fed pantothenic acid at a very high dose for a few weeksbefore the test, they swam 45 minutes too. And swam more efficiently, like theyoung rats did. More interestingly, their coats changed color (the gray went away)and improved in texture; they began to appear like young rats. And the rats onmegadoses of B 5 lived lot longer—25 to 33 percent longer than rats not on largedoses of B
5. Does that mean “megadoses” of B 5 have an unknown drug-like
effect? Or does that mean the real nutritional requirement for B 5 is a lot higher
than most people think? I believe the second choice is correct. To give you anidea of how much B
5 the old rats were given in human terms, the FDA says the
minimum daily requirement for B 5 is about 10 milligrams but if humans took as
much B 5 as the rats, they would take about 750 milligrams per day. Incidentally, I
figure I am as worthy as any lab rat and take over 500 milligrams daily.
My point is that there is a big difference between preventing a gross vitamin
deficiency disease, and using vitamins to create optimum functioning. Any sickperson or anyone with a health complaint needs to improve their overallfunctioning in any way that won’t be harmful over the long term. Vitamin therapycan be an amazingly effective adjunct to dietary reform and detoxification.
Some of the earlier natural hygienists were opposed to using vitamins.
However, these doctors lived in an era when the food supply was better, whenmass human degeneration had not proceeded as far as it has today. From theirperspective, it was possible to obtain all the nutrition one needed from food. Inour time this is unlikely unless a person knowingly and intelligently producesvirtually all their own food on a highly fertile soil body whose fertility is maintainedand adjusted with a conscious intent to maximize the nutritive content of the food.Unfortunately, ignorance of the degraded nature of industrial food seems toextend to otherwise admirable natural healing methods such as Macrobiotics andhomeopathy because these disciplines also downplay any need for foodsupplementation.
Vitamins For Young Persons And Children
Young healthy people from weaning through their


 underweight. The salt number indicates that the cholesterol is just beginning to form and that she's much more tired than she should be, and has a weakness mixed with the tiredness which is upsetting her entire digestive sys-tem.
The pH readings 6.80 / 6.20 would seem almost correct. However,
the liver is slightly too acid, and th e body chemistry is slightly too al-
kaline which would be creating some gas after eating, with minor burping, but not serious.
Because of the borderline diabetic condition, the carbohydrate
would rise higher at times and drop back down to 5.5, and if it dropped below 5.5 she would have to have something sweet or the en-ergy would run out completely.
The last numbers indicate the proteins are just high enough that
the person would be quite tired all of the time, but also indicate that she is in the menopause with hot and cold flashes, and at times, cold feet. This person is in need of a tune-up. 128 The numbers indicate that there is a vitamin C deficiency and the
longer this condition lasts the greater the deficiency. Also there is an
anemic condition. Most anemic people are much whiter than usual be-cause the liver is not getting enough iodine, iron or calciums.
The reading indicates emphysema. This person is not getting
enough oxygen. One of the finest things to do for emphysema is to walk a mile a day, but don't just start off and walk a mile the first day.
Keep on until you walk slowly, one mile a day, with nothing in your hands.
This person's numbers indicate the beginning of collagen disease,
or a vitamin C deficiency, which begins to affect all of the vital organs and muscles. Many times there is soreness in the muscles, but it is generally travelling. It's in a joint for a day or two and then another joint and oftentimes for a day in th e big toe, indicating that it's gout,
which it isn't really, it's just very annoying, and not a very serious problem unless this has continued for a long period of time. The long-er this condition exists the more apt it is to cause irregular menstrual cycles, and many times extremely heavy flows, or times in which the cycle lasts much longer. A hysterectomy will not solve the nervous problem and tiredness, but the deficiency can be corrected by correct-ing the diet.
The reason for the mineral deficiency, the body is not assimilating
enough variety of calciums because there is not the resistance between the acids and the alkalines. The body chemistry is out of ratio of one element to another.
All foods that we eat are cationi c, with the exception of lemon.
This is one reason why we recommend fresh lemon juice water or lemonade: it is nature's form of natural dilute hydrochloric acid, and the liver can take lemon juice when it is taken systematically, and in not too large amounts, and convert it into enzymes with less chemical change than any other natural substance known to man. Then the body begins to take on more calciums and corrects these conditions. The next best substance to use woul d be a man-made substance: hydro-
chloric acid tablets. 129 If the mineral deficiency condition has existed a long time, a per-
son will need both the lemonade and the tablets.
Some people are allergic to lemon juice. Those allergic cannot
urinate, it stops the kidneys from letting the water pass out into the urinary tract. Also, if one has ulcers it bums the stomach so badly the person cannot stand the burning, then they must be taken off of the lemon and given freshly squeezed cabbage juice three or four times a day (this must be used within 20 mi nutes from the time it is squeezed),
the amounts regulated by the tester, and this will heal any ulcer. I have never seen anyone allergic to cabbage juice that had ulcers. After the ulcers are under control, six weeks to three months, then the person can start on the lemonade and it will rebuild the liver and almost make them look like they have had a bath in the fountain of youth.
The D range is a more serious range than the B range because the
body is extremely too acid, causing extreme nervousness, abnormal fear, and except for the grace of God, almost a maniac. One would have the same problems as in the other ranges but more exaggerated than in the A and B range.
An example in the D range could read:
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This condition is one that extremely upsets the nerves. The num-
bers indicate a potassium deficiency. The message is not going
through from the brain to the vital organs, and it's almost impossible to work. Such a person has an idea that everyone is against them-there's a chip on their shoulder, and they are sick, and yet they don't look sick. They can also be anemic, and if this were a woman, from puberty to age 60, could be very deep in menopause with this number combination. The suffering is extreme because the nerves exaggerate the condition. THE LOWER THE CALCIUMS, THE GREATER THE FEAR.
The numbers show: 130 • advanced delta cells in the vagina, uterus, ovary area, and in both
breasts
• a high emphysema in both lungs • a cystitic condition • the kidneys are not functioning normally because the liver is not
manufacturing enough enzymes to maintain the energy needed to re-store the energy used each day.
• have to drive themselves to do everything that they do. It would be unsafe for this person to drive a car because the blood
sugar is so low, and this can cause as many accidents as people who are intoxicated by alcohol while driving. It slows down their emotions. They may temporarily black out, and don't know it until it's too late.
ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS IN OUR DRIVER'S LICENSE
TESTS SHOULD INCLUDE WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON HAS LOW BLOOD SUGAR.
Urinary tests are more accurate th an the blood test on low blood
sugar because the urinary carbohydrate reading equals the blood chemistry readings over any 24-hour period.
These RBTI test numbers are not easily interpreted. This book is
written to educate the public to the place that they will go to someone who has trained at the seminars in the Reams Biological Theory of Ionization.
Some of the testers are so steeped in fads until it takes two or three
years to de-fad them, but don't hold that against them. I would rather trust my life to the poorest tester in th e field than to trust my life to the
use of chemotherapy cobalt or radiation.   131 CHAPTER 18
RBTI AND PASTORAL COUNSELING

Many calls have come from pastors begging, "Please do some-
thing to help me. I do not know enough about the health message to teach my people how to be healthy. I ha ve just lost with a heart attack
one of the finest members of the church, and a very heavy financial supporter, in his thirties. He is a great loss to the church and to God's work."
A Baptist pastor in Florida said, "Please, do something to help us.
I have just lost one of the fine supporters of our church, only 45 years old with cancer. He had cancer for two years and the cobalt seemed to hasten his death. It breaks my heart to see that. When he was told he had cancer he asked me as his pastor what I thought about it, and I agreed that he should do what the doctors said. Now since we have been enlightened on the dangers of chemotherapy, radiation and cobalt and know it has hastened his death, his wife has left the church. She pointed her finger at my nose and said, 'If you would have counselled
us correctly, my husband would be living today.' Reams, you've got to help us." We are establishing in the very near future seminars to teach pastors how to counsel their congregations on health. We are not go-ing to tell them not to have cobalt, radiation or chemotherapy, but we are going to teach them God's way to being healthy. The use of drugs is something for the doctor to convince the people, and not the pastor. Ministers need to be taught in the seminaries the Bible health mes-sage.
Pastors are demanding us to feed them the health message in the
Bible. We are not going to give them the same teaching we teach the doctors, chiropractors and other testers and counselors. We will teach them to counsel their people, of all ages, in regard to their health, as
given in the Word of God.
Many ministers today are deeply concerned because of the many
divorces among the young, and even senior citizens. Many times di-vorces are brought about because the calciums are too low in the sys-132 tem and the individuals are a nervous wreck. Husbands and wives are
at each other's throat from morning to night. They love each other and
each one is fighting for his or her life, but they have no one to tell them what to do to correct these calciums deficiencies. Ministers are not to tell the people which calciums to use but they will be informed on doctors trained in this field to which they can send their parishion-ers for help. And this will prevent many, many divorces.
In 1972 at 11 o'clock one Sunday night my doorbell rang. It was
the pastor of our church in a


 drill cannot remove the bacteria and the bacterial growth progresses,
6
.
the tooth root can become infected. This requires a root canal to attempt to clean out the bacteria
from within the tooth.
7
.
Finally, when all those procedures fail to keep your tooth alive from the supposed onslaught of
bacterial invaders, the tooth must be removed and a fake tooth or no tooth is what remains.By the time the sixth stage is reached, even after spending thousands of dollars on dental care, the war
is lost. No matter how much money you spend, or how much a dentist drills your teeth, the cure for
cavities remains elusive. Modern treatments do limit some pain and suffering, but if the basic cause of
tooth decay (your diet) is not addressed, your teeth continue to decay.
Dental Alert: Bacteria are Not the Primary Cause of Cavities
The foundational theory of modern dentistry was synthesized in 1883 by dentist W. D. Miller. He
found that extracted teeth immersed in fermenting mixtures of bread and saliva produced what
appeared to be tooth decay. He thought that acids in the mouth that were formed by microorganisms
dissolved teeth. Yet Dr. Miller himself never believed that tooth decay was caused by bacteria.
Rather he believed that bacteria and their acid where a part of the process of decay. Most importantly
he believed that a strong tooth would not decay.
Dr. Miller wrote this:
The extent to which any tooth suffers from the action of the acid depends upon its density
and structure, but more particularly upon the perfection of the enamel and the
protection of the neck of the tooth by healthy gums. What we might call the perfect tooth
would resist indefinitely the same acid to which a tooth of opposite character would
succumb in a few weeks.
11
In simple terms, Dr. Miller believed a dense strong tooth would “resist indefinitely” an attack from
acid, whether it be from bacteria or from food. Meanwhile, a non-dense tooth would succumb quickly
to any sort of acid, from bacteria or otherwise. Dr. Miller also wrote that, "The invasion of the
micro-organisms is
always preceded
 by the extraction of lime salts."
12
 In plain terms, the tooth loses
its mineral density first (lime salts), and then microorganisms can cause trouble.
Over one hundred and twenty years later dentistry and the American Dental Association (ADA) sticks
with Dr. Miller’s theory while leaving out vital information. They write,
Tooth decay occurs when foods containing carbohydrates (sugars and starches) such as
milk, pop, raisins, cakes or candy are frequently left on the teeth. Bacteria that live in
the mouth thrive on these foods, producing acids as a result. Over a period of time, these
acids destroy tooth enamel, resulting in tooth decay.
13
The difference from Dr. Miller’s 1883 theory and dentistry’s 2009 theory is that Dr. Miller knew that
the tooth’s density and structure are what protected it against tooth decay, whereas today, dentists are
taught that it is the bacteria by themselves that cause tooth decay.
Other than in how food sticks to
teeth, dentists believe that diet has little to do with tooth cavities
.
The modern theory of tooth decay further dissolves because white sugar actually has the ability to
incapacitate microorganisms since it attracts water.
14
 In a 20% sugar solution, bacteria will perish.
15
Yes, bacteria are present as a result of the process of tooth decay, but a lot of sugar at once will
destroy them. If dentistry is correct about bacteria, then a high sugar diet should eliminate them.Bacteria exist everywhere and are nearly impossible to get rid of completely. More than 400 different
bacteria are now associated with dental disease, and many more have yet to be discovered.
16
 Since
bacteria are a part of life, with some good ones and some bad ones and trillions of them everywhere,
dentistry’s approach to eliminate bacteria seems hopeless.
In 1922 dentist Percy Howe read before the ADA that his research team tried and failed to reproduce
dental decay by feeding and inoculating guinea pigs with various bacteria associated with gum
disease and tooth decay. He said, "In no case did we succeed in establishing dental disease by these
means."
17
 However Dr. Howe had no problems in creating tooth decay in guinea pigs by removing
vitamin C from their diet.
That bacteria are the cause of tooth cavities was adopted from Dr. Miller’s research but was never
proven. In the 1940s at an International Association of Dental Research meeting the debate about the
cause of cavities was put to an end. By the power of vote Dr. Miller’s acid / bacterial theory was
adopted as fact despite contradictory evidence and theories.
18
The competing theory of the time was called the proteolysis-chelation theory and was proposed by
Dr. Albert Schatz. This theory suggested that enzymes (not bacteria) and chelating agents which are
common in plants and animals (not acid) were the cause of tooth decay. In Dr. Schatz’s proteolysis-
chelation theory, it is diet, trace elements, and hormonal balance that are key factors in triggering
enzymes and tooth mineral chelation which results in tooth decay.
19
From 1954 to today, the life work of dentist Ralph Steinman and his colleague Dr. John Leonora give
proof that tooth decay is triggered by our bodies’ physiology as a result of our diet. The hypothalamus
in our brain regulates the relationship between our nervous system and our glandular system through
the pituitary gland. Drs. Leonora and Steinman found that the hypothalamus communicates with glands
in our jaw called the parotid glands via parotid hormone releasing factor. When the parotid gland is
stimulated by the hypothalamus it releases parotid hormone which triggers a movement of mineral
rich dental lymph through microscopic channels in our teeth.
20
 This mineral-rich fluid cleans teeth and
remineralizes them. When a cavity-causing diet is ingested, the hypothalamus stops telling the parotid
gland to release the hormone that circulates the dental remineralizing fluid. Over time, this
interruption of mineral-rich fluid results in tooth destruction, what we know as tooth decay. That the
parotid gland is in charge of tooth remineralization explains to me why a small portion of the
population is immune to tooth decay, even with a relatively poor diet. They were born with a strong
parotid gland. Dr. Steinman’s rat studies showed that while bacteria produce acid,
there is no
correlation between acid produced by bacteria and the presence of tooth decay
.
21
Even in Dr. Miller’s often cited 1883 bacterial / acid theory of tooth decay, the strength of the tooth is
what makes it immune to cavities. In 1922, bacteria were then proven by Dr. Howe not to cause
cavities. In the 1940s the theory of tooth decay was voted upon, but could not be proven by dentists.
This vote discarded Dr. Schatz’s proteolysis-chelation theory which described an alternative
biological method of tooth decay from enzymes and chelating agents. Most recently Dr. Steinman has
shown that tooth decay is regulated by our glandular system through hormones which are controlled
by diet. From 1883 to today, there is a chain of evidence that supports the premise that it is diet, and
not bacteria, which causes cavities. On the essential level of responsibility, if germs cause cavities,then humanity will continue to be the victim to the dreaded plague of tooth decay. Yet when diet is
understood as the cause of cavities, we have full control to heal and prevent tooth decay.The Failure of Conventional Dentistry
As we age, tooth decay becomes more and more prevalent as seen in the “tooth decay over lifespan”
chart. As we age we also lose more teeth. Not including wisdom teeth the average 20 to 39-year-old
is missing 1 tooth, the average 40 to 59-year-old 3.5 teeth, and those aged 60 and over are missing 8
teeth.
Further tooth decay statistics for people over the age of 40 are dismal. On average, 45.89 per cent of
all teeth in this age group have been affected by decay. That average represents nearly half the teeth in
each person’s mouth having been affected by decay. This situation only gets worse. By the time you
reach the age of 60, 62.36 per cent of all teeth have been affected by decay.
22
Tooth Decay over Lifespan
National Center for Health Statistics.
23
While one can argue that the increase of tooth decay with age is due to the inherent break down of the
body over time, it doesn’t explain why tooth decay is now on the rise among young children. Tooth
decay in primary (baby) teeth of children aged 2 to 5 years increased from 24 percent to 28 percent
between 1988-1994 and 1999-2004.24 Along with this increase in decay came an increase in dental
treatments. If tooth decay is caused by the aging process, why are more young children suffering from
it? And why hasn’t the increase in dental treatments in these young children stopped the tooth decay?
If dental drilling, root canals, tooth pulling, mass water fluoridation, tooth brushing and toothpastes
were the proper treatments for cavities, then we would not see this increase in tooth decay over time.Are we


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Kirbyville
John L. Sessions, D.O.
(DIPL)
1609 South Margaret
Kirbyville, TX 75956
(409) 423-2166
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La Porte
Ronald M. Davis, M.D.
(P)
10414 West Main Street
La Porte, TX 77571
(713) 470-2930
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Laredo
Ruben Berlanga, M.D.
649-B Dogwood
Laredo, TX 78041
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Pecos
Ricardo Tan, M.D.
(P)
423 South PalmPecos, TX 79772
(915) 445-9090
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Plano
Linda Martin, D.O.
(P)
Suite C
1524 Independence
Plano, TX 75075
(214) 985-1377
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San Antonio
Jim P. Archer, D.O.
(P)
8434 Fredericksburg Road
San Antonio, TX 78229
(512) 615-8445
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(P)
Suite 100
7334 Blanco Road
San Antonio, TX 78216
(512) 366-3637
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Thomas R. Humphrey, M.D.
(P)
2400 Rushing
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
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Dennis Harper, D.O.
(D/C)
Suite 11E
1675 North Freedom Boulevard
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(801) 373-8500
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Annandale
Sohini Patei, M.D.
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Suite 207
7023 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003
(703) 941-3606
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Harold Huffman, M.D.
(D/C)
PO Box 197
Hinton, VA 22831
(703) 867-5242
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Peter C. Gent, D.O.
(D/C)
11900 Hull Street
Midlothian, VA 23112
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Norfolk
Vincent Speckhart, M.D.
(DIPL)
902 Graydon Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23507
(804) 622-0014
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Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., F.A.C.A.M.
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Bellevue
David Buscher, M.D.
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Suite 102
1370 - 116th NE
Bellevue, WA 98004-3825
(206) 453-0288
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5011 133rd Place SE
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Robert Kimmel, M.D.
(D/C)
Suite 104
4204 Meridian
Bellingham, WA 98226(206) 734-3250
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James P. De Santis, D.O.
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Jonathan Wright, M.D.
(P)
24030 - 132nd, SE
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(206) 631-8920
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Jonathan Collin, M.D.
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Suite A-50
12911 120th Avenue NE
PO Box 8099
Kirkland, WA 98034
(206) 820-0547
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Port Townsend


 ideas. His philosophy ordained that the intangible vital
force that maintains life and governs good health was the
province of religion rather than of the newly self-aware
“science” of medicine. To the new medical establishment,
inching its way forward toward scientifically sound medical
practices, “supernatural” concepts such as the vital force
were a reminder of the ignorance and superstition that were
part and parcel of older healing practices.
 Even before Descartes’ theories, the rational approach
to scientific and medical exploration was beginning to reap
rewards. Slowly, medical understanding of bodily functions
was gaining ground. William Harvey (1578–1657) made a
detailed study of the heart and circulation, proving for the
first time that, contrary to Galenic thought, the heart
pumped blood around the body. Published in 1628,
his study is a classic example of the revolution in
medical science.
 Since Harvey’s time, science has had astounding
success in revealing how the body works on a
biochemical level and in distinguishing different
disease processes. However, by comparison it has
been altogether less successful in developing
effective medical treatments for the relief and
cure of diseases.
The Gap in the Scientific Approach
In hindsight, it seems as if the new science
of medicine could only be born in separation
from the traditional arts of healing, with which it
had always been intertwined. As a result, even though
traditional medicine has generally lacked scientific explanation,
it has frequently been far ahead of medical science in the
way it has been applied therapeutically. In American Indian
Medicine  (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970), Virgil Vogel provides a good example of “ignorant” folk medicine
outstripping scientific understanding in therapeutic application:
 “During the bitter cold winter of 1535–6, the three ships
of Jacques Cartier were frozen fast in the fathom-deep ice of
the St Lawrence River near the site of Montreal. Isolated by
four feet of snow, the company of 110 men subsisted on
the fare stored in the holds of their ships. Soon scurvy was
so rampant among them that by mid-March, 25 men had
died and the others, ‘only three or foure excepted,’ were
so ill that hope for their recovery was abandoned. As the
crisis deepened Cartier had the good fortune to encounter
once again the local Indian chief, Domagaia, who had cured
himself of the same disease with ‘the juice and sappe of a
certain tree’. The Indian women gathered branches of the
magical tree, ‘boiling the bark and leaves for a decoction,
and placing the dregs upon the legs.’ All those so treated
rapidly recovered their health, and the Frenchmen
marvelled at the curative skill of the natives.”
 Naturally, the Native Americans had not heard of vitamin C
deficiency, which causes scurvy, nor would they have been able
to explain in rational terms why the treatment worked. Indeed,
it was not until 1753 that James Lind (1716–1794), a British
naval surgeon, inspired partly by Cartier’s account, published
A Treatise of the Scurvy, which showed conclusively that the
disease could be prevented by eating fresh greens, vegetables,
and fruit, and was caused by their lack in the diet. James Lind’s
work is a marvellous example of what can be achieved by
combining a systematic and scientific approach with traditional
herbal knowledge.The symbol for “om” —
life force—is used by
followers of the Indian
practice of Ayurveda
as a focus for meditation.
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The developmen T of herbal medicineIsolating Chemicals
The discovery of the medicinal value of foxglove (Digitalis
purpurea, p. 202) is another case where traditional herbal knowledge led to a major advance in medicine. Dr. William
Withering (1741–1799), a conventionally trained
doctor with a long interest in medicinal plants,
started to investigate foxglove after encountering
a family recipe for curing dropsy (water
retention). He found that in some regions of
England, foxglove was traditionally used to
treat this condition, which is often one of
the indications of a failing heart. In 1785,
he published Account of the Foxglove,
documenting dozens of carefully
recorded case histories, and showing
how foxglove’s powerful (and
potentially dangerous) active
constituents, now known as cardiac
glycosides, made it a valuable plant
medicine for dropsy. Cardiac
glycosides remain in common
use to the present day. Y et
despite this clearcut example
of the possibilities inherent
in a marriage of herbal
medicine and scientific
method, conventional
medicine was to take
another path in the
19th century.
Laboratory versus
Nature
From the early 19th
century, the chemical
laboratory began to
regularly supplant Mother
Nature as the source
of medicines. In 1803,
narcotic alkaloids were
isolated from the opium
poppy (Papaver somniferum,
p. 244). A year later, inulin was
extracted from elecampane
(Inula helenium, p. 107). In 1838,
salicylic acid, a chemical forerunner
of aspirin, was isolated from white
willow bark (Salix alba, p. 129), and
was first synthesized in the laboratory
in 1860. From this point on, herbal medicine and biomedicine were to take separate paths. Aspirin, an entirely new chemical formulation, was  first developed in Germany in 1899. But this was still an  early step. For the time being, the influence of the universities, medical schools, and laboratories of Europe would remain limited, and herbal medicine would prevail  as the predominant form of treatment for most people around the world.
New Frontiers, New Herbal Medicines
Wherever Europeans settled during the great migrations of the 18th and 19th centuries—North America, South America, southern Africa, or Australia—much of the European medicine familiar from home was either unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Settlers came to learn that native peoples were a wellspring of information about the medicinal virtues of indigenous plants. For example, European settlers in southern Africa learned about the diuretic properties of buchu (Barosma betulina, p. 71) from native peoples; and Australian settlers came to understand the remarkable antiseptic properties of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia, p. 112) from observing the medicinal practices of the Aborigines. Mexican herbal medicine as it exists today is a blend of Aztec, Mayan, and Spanish herbs and practices.
 In North America, native herbalists were particularly
adept at healing external wounds and bites—being superior in many respects to their European counterparts in this area of medicine. This is not surprising, given the range of highly Opium poppy, native to Asia, yields a resin that has long been smoked for its narcotic
effect. The main active constituent, morphine, was first isolated in the laboratory in  1803 and is used to relieve pain.
In the 18th century, the physician William Withering documented foxglove’s ability to restore a failing heart.
US_018-027_Early_Origins_To_The_19_Century.indd   26 26/02/16   4:42 pm27 Early Origins t O th E 19th C Enturyeffective medicinal plants Native Americans had
discovered—including well-known herbs such as echinacea
(Echinacea spp., p. 92), goldenseal ( Hydrastis canadensis,
p. 105), and lobelia ( Lobelia inflata, p. 110).
 European settlers learned much from observing native
practices. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries,
as pioneers moved west across the frontier territory, new
plants were constantly being added to the official record
of healing herbs. In addition to the three species mentioned
above, about 170 native plants were listed in The Pharmacopeia
of the United States.
Samuel Thomson & his Followers
Lobelia was one of the key herbs, along with cayenne
(Capsicum frutescens, p. 74), advocated by Samuel Thomson
(1769–1843), an unorthodox herbal practitioner who believed
that all illness resulted from cold. His simple approach was
entirely at odds with the conventional practices of his time
(see North America, p. 50). Thomson’s methods were often
very effective and were well suited to the needs of people
living in frontier territory. His system of medicine—in many
ways an early form of naturopathy, in which ill health is
treated with naturally grown food, sunlight, fresh air, and
natural medicines—became extraordinarily popular, with
millions of people across North America following his
methods. Thomson’s success waned as other
more sophisticated herbal approaches were
developed—those of the Eclectics and
Physiomedicalists, for example—in the
fertile medical world of 19th-century
America, which also saw the


have shown that phyllanthus works effectively in
treating hepatitis B, but overall the evidence
is positive, with some trials showing significant
improvement in measures of infection. In
laboratory experiments, phyllanthus inhibits
RNA replication of the hepatitis B virus.
 QCaution Use on professional advice only.
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248
other medicinal plantsPicrasma excelsa
as a poultice for skin diseases, sores, ulcers, and
tumors. It was also given internally to relieve  pain and to induce vomiting.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Pokeweed is
taken internally as a tincture in small amounts  to treat rheumatic and arthritic conditions.
The root has also been used to treat respiratory  tract infections, such as sore throats and tonsillitis, as well as swollen glands and chronic infections. The herb is sometimes prescribed for pain and infection of the ovaries or testes, and as a lymphatic “decongestant,” stimulating the clearance of waste products. As a poultice or ointment, it is applied  to sore and infected nipples and breasts, acne, folliculitis, fungal infections, and scabies.
 RQ Cautions The plant is highly toxic in
overdose. Use only under professional supervision. Do not take during pregnancy.Constituents Allspice contains volatile oil
(about 4%, mostly eugenol—up to 80%),  lignins, and terpenoids.
History & Folklore Used as a spice in the
Caribbean before the arrival of Europeans, allspice is now an ingredient in many well-known sauces, chutneys, and condiments.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A digestive
stimulant, allspice is taken to relieve flatulence and indigestion. It may also be used to treat diarrhea. Allspice is often combined with herbs that have a tonic or laxative effect. The herb has an action that is similar to that of cloves (Eugenia caryophyllata,  p. 97); both are stimulant, stomach-settling, and antiseptic. Allspice essential oil is markedly antiseptic and analgesic.
Research T aking a lead from allspice’s use in
Costa Rica as a menopause remedy, scientists found that the berries have a strong estrogenic activity. A 2009 paper suggested that allspice  may well help with menopausal symptoms.  Studies also indicate that allspice lowers high  blood pressure.
Cautions Do not take essential oil internally
without professional guidance. Do not take allspice as a medicine during pregnancy.Picrorrhiza kurroa
(Scrophulariaceae)
Picrorrhiza
Description Hairy perennial with serrated
elliptical leaves and white or lilac flowers growing
in spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation Picrorrhiza is native
to the mountains of India, Nepal, and Tibet. The rhizome is gathered in autumn.
Part Used Rhizome.
Constituents Picrorrhiza contains the bitter
glycoside kutkin (composed of picrosides I to III  and kutkoside), iridoids, cucurbitacins, and apocynin. Apocynin is powerfully anti-inflammatory and reduces platelet aggregation.
History & Folklore Picrorrhiza has been used
in Ayurvedic medicine as a laxative and bitter tonic since the earliest times.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In India,
picrorrhiza is used as a bitter tonic, equivalent in many respects to gentian (Gentiana lutea, p. 99), and given for a wide range of digestive and liver troubles, such as indigestion, constipation, jaundice, and hepatitis. In China, it is chiefly employed to treat chronic diarrhea and dysentery. Picrorrhiza also helps treat asthma, acute and chronic
infections, conditions where the immune system
is compromised, and autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis and vitiligo. The herb’s
traditional use for liver disorders is well founded,
and picrorrhiza may play an important role in treating liver disease.
Research In 1992 Indian trials, extracts of
picrorrhiza were shown to boost immunity, and to have a specific action against Leishmania donovani, which causes the tropical parasitic disease known as leishmaniasis. Indian research also indicates that picrorrhiza is of therapeutic value in the treatment of autoimmune disease.
 QCaution T ake picrorrhiza only under
professional supervision.Picrasma excelsa syn. Picraenia
excelsa (Simaroubaceae)
Quassia
Description Deciduous tree growing to
100 ft (30 m). Has smooth gray bark, compound
leaves, small yellow flowers, and pea-sized
black fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to tropical
America and the Caribbean, quassia grows in forests and near water. It is cultivated mainly for medicinal use. The bark is harvested throughout the year.
Part Used Bark.
Constituents Quassia contains quassinoid
bitter principles (including quassin), alkaloids, a coumarin (scopoletin), and vitamin B
1. Some of
the quassinoids have been shown to have cytotoxic (cell-killing) and anti-leukemic actions.
History & Folklore Quassia bark was first
introduced into Europe from Surinam, then a Dutch colony, in 1756. The herb is named after Quassi, a native healer, who told Europeans of
its therapeutic value.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The strongly
bitter quassia supports and strengthens weak digestive systems. It increases bile flow and the secretion of salivary juices and stomach acid,  and improves the digestive process as a whole. Quassia is commonly used to stimulate the appetite, especially in the treatment of anorexia.  Its bitterness has led to it being used for malaria and other fevers, and it is given in the Caribbean for dysentery. The bark has been used in the  form of an enema to expel threadworms and other parasites. A decoction of the bark may  be used as an insect repellent and to treat headlice.
Cautions Excessive doses may, in some cases,
cause digestive irritation and vomiting. Do not  take during pregnancy.Pimpinella anisum (Apiaceae)
Anise
Description Erect annual growing to 2 ft
(60 cm), with feathery leaves, umbels of yellow flowers, and ridged, gray-green seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation Anise is native to
the eastern Mediterranean, western Asia, and North Africa. It is widely cultivated for its seeds, which are used for medicinal purposes and as a flavoring in cooking.
Parts Used Seeds, essential oil.
Constituents Anise contains a volatile oil
(comprising 70–90% anethole, together with methylchavicol and other terpenes), furanocoumarins, flavonoids, fatty acids, phenylpropanoids, sterols, and proteins. Anethole has an observed estrogenic effect, and the seeds as a whole are mildly estrogenic. This effect may substantiate the herb’s use as a stimulant of sexual drive and of breast-milk production.
History & Folklore After examining the
records of Cyprus hospital monastery, historians discovered that anise was used to treat plague  and cholera during the Ottoman Period  (1571–1878 ce).
Medicinal Actions & Uses Anise seeds are
known for their ability to reduce gas and bloating, and to settle digestion. They are commonly given to infants and children to relieve colic, and to
people of all ages to ease nausea and indigestion. Pimenta officinalis
(Myrtaceae)
Allspice
Description Aromatic evergreen tree growing
to 39 ft (12 m). Has leathery oblong leaves, clusters
of small white flowers, and tiny green berries that turn brown as they become ripe.
Habitat & Cultivation Allspice is native to the
Caribbean and to Central and South America.
The berries are gathered before they are fully  ripe because the volatile oil content reduces as they mature.
Parts Used Berries, leaves, essential oil.
US_246-265_Pergularia_Extensa_Salvia_Sclarea.indd   248 26/02/16   12:47 pm249 other medicinal plantsPiPer angustifoli a
Pinguicula vulgaris
(Lentibulariaceae)
Butterwort
Description Insectivorous perennial growing
to 4 in (10 cm). Has fleshy leaves in a basal rosette
and double-lipped, purple-blue flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to northern
and western Europe, butterwort grows in moorland
and on mountains. The leaves are gathered
in midsummer.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Butterwort contains mucilage,
tannins, benzoic acid, cinnamic acid, and valeric
acid. Cinnamic acid has antispasmodic properties.
History & Folklore Butterwort was much
used in Welsh herbal medicine as a purgative.
In Norway, the plant has been used to curdle
reindeer milk, and medicinally, to treat wounds
and ringworm.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Butterwort is
little


emed	to	be	everywhere,	and	yet	they	were	so	faint
it	could	have	been	a	mirage.
“How	did	you	do	that?”	I	whispered.	It	was	like	somebody	was	shining	a	light
from	behind	all	the	familiar	things—grass,	trees,	sky—that	I	knew	so	well.	A
gray	veil	was	gone,	and	yet	I	never	knew	it	existed.
“I	didn’t	do	anything,”	Baba	said.	I	felt	his	finger	tap	lightly	near	my	heart.
“The	only	beauty	in	the	world	is	the	beauty	inside	you.	You	can	cloud	over
your	soul;	then	the	beauty	disappears.	But	like	the	sun,	it	never	goes	away.”
I	tried	to	look	inside	the	place	he	had	touched.	For	a	second	I	did	see
something.	A	small,	flickering	flame	near	my	heart.	The	next	instant	it	was
gone.	I	sat	up,	and	the	meadow	was	just	a	meadow	again.
“Was	that	real?”	I	asked	shakily.
“You	just	got	the	faintest	glimpse	of	what	is	real,”	said	Baba.	“The	soul’s	light
is	as	ever-present	as	the	sun.	Once	you	finish	your	training,	you’ll	see	what	I
mean,	and	much	more.	There	is	really	only	one	soul,	which	each	person	has	a
piece	of,	and	yet	it	is	enough	to	light	up	the	world.”
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
That	was	the	first	time	Baba	let	me	catch	a	glimpse	of	my	soul.	From	then	on
I	wanted	to	see	it	as	clearly	as	he	did.	Even	though	I	never	again	experienced
a	green	meadow	rippling	with	waves	of	light,	I	kept	a	memory	of	how
	sweetthat	moment	was.	The	soul	doesn’t	wink	in	and	out.	It	is	our	essence,	the
purest	part	of	us.	All	the	beautiful	things	in	this	world	merely	reflect	it.
I	have	come	to	know	other	ways	to	catch	a	glimpse	of	the	soul.	Whenever	the
world	around	me	tingles	with	life,	I	am	really	seeing	a	bit	of	my	soul.	When	a
stranger	catches	my	eye	and	I	see	a	glimmer	of	joy,	I	am	really	seeing	a	bit	of
my	soul.	When	the	light	sparkles	off	the	ocean	like	jewels	or	the	air	brushes
over	my	skin	like	a	caress,	I	am	seeing	a	bit	of	my	soul.
More	than	90	percent	of	people	believe	they	have	a	soul,	according	to	opinion
polls.	So	why	do	so	many	feel	anxious,	depressed,	and	generally	out	of	tune?
Countless	answers	have	been	given,	but	the	spiritual	answer	is	that	the	soul
connection	has	been	lost.	By	“lost”	I	mean	“misplaced,”	since	you	can’t	really
lose	your	soul.	When	it	comes	down	to	it,	Baba	taught	me	that	there	are	three
ways	I	could	choose	to	live:
I	could	put	my	hands	over	my	eyes	and	never	see	my	soul.	This	would
be	like	a	permanently	cloudy	day,	when	you	never	see	the	sun.
I	could	see	my	soul	by	glimpses.	This	would	be	like	lying	under	a	tree
and	seeing	the	sun	dart	in	and	out	between	the	leaves.
I	could	see	my	soul	all	the	time.	This	is	like	looking	at	the	sun	with
nothing	to	block	your	view.
Which	way	of	life	I	chose	would	make	a	huge	difference.	When	the	soul	isn’t
in	sight,	people	have	to	struggle	to	find	meaning.	They	feel	anxious	and	lost.
They	wonder	if	there	really	is	anything	worth	believing	in.	When	the	soul
darts	in	and	out	of	view,	life	improves.	People	feel	less	depressed,	more	in
tune	with	everything.	But	the	situation	remains	shaky	because	dark	times	will
come,	and	then	life	seems	unsafe	and	unfair.	I	came	to	Baba	knowing	that
terrible	things	happen	in	the	world.	On	the	happiest	day	of	spring	you	can	turn
on	the	news	and	find	scenes	of	terrible	warfare.	So	I	naturally	thought	I	had	a
good	idea	of	how	things	were.
Today	I	can	still	turn	on	the	TV	and	find	scenes	of	terrible	warfare.	But	Baba
took	my	hands	away	from	my	soul,	and	I	see	something	else,	too.	Something
that	no	amount	of	darkness	can	blot	out.
Spirit	never	goes	away
.	Clouds	may
hide	it	from	sight,	but	they	can’t	destroy	it.	They	can’t	even	alter	it	by	one
little	bit.	That’s	the	third,	and	best,	way	to	be—secure	in	your	soul.	If	you	still
have	doubts,	follow	me	on	the	next	step	of	Baba’s	soul	training.The	Way	of	the	Heart
T
he	best	way	to	live	is	the	way	your	soul	wants	you	to,”	Baba	said.
We	were	still	in	the	meadow,	me	lying	lazily	in	the	tall	sweetgrass,	Baba
sitting	cross-legged	on	a	large	rock	watching	me.	“I	don’t	divide	people	into
those	who	believe	and	those	who	don’t,”	he	said.	“I	divide	them	into	those
who	know	how	to	live	and	those	who	don’t.”
I	sat	up	and	faced	him.	“So	if	I	asked	my	soul	what	I	should	do	today,	it
would	tell	me?”
“Maybe,”	Baba	said.	“But	your	soul	isn’t	an	answer	box.	It	wants	you	to	walk
your	own	path	and	still	have	the	best	life.	There	are	four	ways	of	doing	that.
The	first	is	known	as	the	way	of	the	heart.	If	you	listen,	your	ears	will	tell	you
how	it	works.”
My	ears?
	But	Baba	didn’t	want	any	more	questions.	He	put	his	finger	to	his
lips.	I	lay	back	down.	I	almost	fell	asleep	in	the	sweetness	of	the	meadow,	but
then	I	heard	two	voices	in	the	distance.	They	were	having	a	loud	argument.
“Thief!	You	stole	my	money,”	the	first	one	shouted.
“Idiot!	I	charged	you	a	fair	price,”	the	second	voice	yelled	back.	“Leave	me
alone!”
I	raised	my	head	just	enough	to	see	who	it	was.	Two	men	from	the	village
were	arguing	in	the	road.	Their	faces	were	red,	and	they	were	close	to
fighting.
“Why	are	we	listening	to	them?”	I	said	in	a	low	whisper.	But	Baba	just	put	his
fingers	to	his	lips	again,	so	I	waited.
Still	shouting,	the	two	men	went	by	without	seeing	us.	Just	then	I	heard	more
voices.	They	sounded	like	kids	from	my	school	going	home	for	lunch	(which
was	much	more	common	in	India	back	then).
“I	still	don’t	get	it.	They’re	just	chatting	and	talking	about	stuff,”	I	said,
ducking	my	head	so	that	no	one	could	see	me.	Baba	nodded	without	a	word.When	the	kids	were	gone,	I	waited	some	more,	but	there	was	nothing	else	to
hear.
“On	the	contrary,”	said	Baba,	who	was	reading	my	mind	so	often	that	it	was
becoming	normal.	“Now	is	the	time	you	must	really	listen.”
He	pointed	toward	the	road.


gluttonous, promiscuous Primal Horde is only held down by social
censure, by the primitive law of an eye for an eye, and today, law and censure in themselves are being dismantled in a rising, officially backed opportunism. We have all become petty criminals,
and no longer much troubled by the fact.
This turn of events is not only disastrous in its inhuman
consequences, but is irrational, for the most elementary lesson that biology should have to teach is th at nature not only favours the fit
and eliminates the unfit, but rewards only the fit, mercilessly punishing the unfit. This does not depend on any ulterior meaning or morality in the working of nature. It is a purely practical,
indispensable provision in the functioning of things. If reward and punishment are not a built-in provision, as fundamental as the
particular ways in which atoms combine with one another to form
the myriad substances of nature and of living things, the whirling
clouds of hydrogen gas, which appeared at the beginning of the universe some fifteen billion years ago, would still be whirling around, having accomplished nothing.
Modern existentialism has been the work of thinkers with no
scientific training. Scientists, biol ogists in particular, could easily
dismantle their systems; their guilt should be that so few of them have had the courage to speak out against the falsities of so many of the widely advertised and accepted conclusions of the age. Accepting that nature works on the principles of rewards and
punishments, it should be evident that the modern opportunist,
existentialistic attitudes cannot possi bly bring genuine gratification.
If there are apparent pleasures in the purely random ways in which people live, then they can but amount to illusions, certain to carry a backwash of retribution. The impartial examination of any aspect of
modern living shows this to be true, whether it be politics or sex,
medicine or feeding. The apparent rewards of power invariably bring with them the attendants of insensitivity, and the joys of so
called freedom in sex disappointments and painfulness. The trouble is that so hollow has life become, that people will not face the emptiness of the only rewards to livi ng which they believe exist, the
pleasures of the palate, of the bed, of money, of material gadgetry
and power, of the bogus communalism of urban living, of the mechanically expressed restlessness of the disturbed modern soul.
So it is that most people would probably contend that the
satisfactions of the ordinary life, admitting that they involve many
departures from normality, are worth the while, the price worth
paying, if indeed there is a price at all. Almost everyone believes that it is not all that important what one eats, as long as one has variety and amount enough. There has to be something very wrong with a meal for one to be punished with a stomach ache. Uncomplainingly, the body accepts the legions of daily
transgressions of a lesser kind without protest. When catastrophe
eventually occurs—and many a ppear to escape altogether—in a
burst blood vessel, in a seizing arthritic joint, the long abuse of natural law seems quite inappare nt. Bad luck, accident, nature's
inherent imperfections seem the more likely causes.
But if the majority are the victims of such confusion, it seems
hardly believable that science, and medicine in particular, do not more frequently protest against the common waywardness. Over the past two or three decades, the ev idence has been mounting, enough
to leave no doubt that man's misfortunes are largely self-inflicted, by carelessness, by greed, by stupidity, and that the price paid in
suffering is astronomical. Science clearly serves the particular
culture in which it exists; it is no independent impartial overseer.
The common assumption that disease is 'natural' and naturally
inevitable, the consequences of a wayward and imperfect nature, to
be remedied only by human interference, is at the heart of much of
the confusion. One must admit that nature is not perfect, but nature
does quite often achieve perfection, even if to appreciate the refinements of this perfection, one has to go beyond the realm of appearances, as science has discovered. As insisted upon in the
course of this book, humanization must have occurred initially under ideal conditions, even if things went wrong subsequently.
Health and happiness should therefore be natural possibilities,
provided the original humanizing conditions can be restored.
For transgressions which have recurrently occurred in the
history of life, the cataclysms of climate and food change, of earth movements, of floodings and dessi cations, living things have an
inexhaustible reservoir of experience to call upon. Given time,
readaptation to change follows, a nd the animal survives. But if the
transgression is unnatural, as in the case of laboratory or industrial products, there is not only a complete absence of past experience to be drawn upon, but no symptom of distress following the ingestion of such substances, for symptoms  to some offending agent take
millions of years to evolve. So it is that the causes of the most
terrible, life-destroying diseases remain ignored, and syptomless, calling for no readjustments, until the body is literally overwhelmed, as is the case in many cancers.
Today, every contact with the environment is contaminated
with such unnatural substances. A re cent attempt to draw up a list of
such substances ran into tens of thousands. Every year, hundreds are
being added. The official attitude  to such a dangerous situation—
that a substance cannot be conde mned until it is proved harmful—
shows a complete disdain of biological principles. Those relying on this test are mostly guilty men, often aware of the harm ultimately
likely, but more concerned with  expediency than with human
wholeness.
It is often contended that the situation cannot be as bad as the
pessimists claim, for has not the human life span been extensively
increased, and are not many, once crippling diseases conquered?
Medical and scientific journalists, often not scientists themselves,
are in the habit of hinting that such achievements are thanks to science's conquest over nature's natural infirmities, implying that the 'natural' life-span has been extended,  that a naturally sick nature has
been corrected. This is biological nonsense. Every species of animal
has a genetically set life-span, a setti ng closely related to its rate of
growth. If this correlation is applied to man, the most slowly
developing of all creatures, then the human life-span should be well over a hundred years. All that science has in fact achieved is the removal of unsanitary conditions and the control of diseases inherent in such conditions. The unhealthiness of Ice Age
Palaeolithic humans can be seen in the pathological torturings of
their bones, but the worst ravag es of unhealthiness probably only
came with the urbanization of livi ng, in the earliest civilizations.
There are hints that when the Ice Ages ended, and before the rise of
the first civilizations, human beings lived long, whole lives, a length which has not been fully recovered. There are still isolated
peasantries in which many indivi duals live well over the century.
Quite recently, as the functional collapse intensifies in soaringly degenerative diseases, the cancers and heart diseases in particular, there has been a dip in the life- span. Far from confidence in the
apparent successes of science and medicine, there should be alarm,
for while the diseases that have b een corrected, due to pathogenic
organisms, only affect individuals, the degenerative diseases entail a
definite genetic impoverishment. Here again, one is faced with a barrage of propaganda,
optimistic and pontifical, that some  success has been achieved, that
cancers can be cured. But for one case surviving a number of years
after operation and treatment, dozens die, for all the vast agitations
of worldwide research. Some cancers undoubtedly begin quite locally, as in the case of radiation damage, and if removed in time, survival is assured. But in most cases, the localized appearance of a
cancer is only a stage in what is a general underlying pathology, involving the entire body, so evident in the leukaemias. Medicine
has yet to admit that most diseases of such a nature are not
localized, but entail a failure of the entire organism, an admission which would entail a revolution in medical philosophy, away from its present mechanical concepts, to more holistic ones. There are at the moment indications that something in this direction is
happening, in the admission that exercise and diet are the best ways
of preventing heart attacks, that years of over-eating are likely to
end in diabetes, and that possibly the best if not the only way of combating many kinds of cancer is through the body's own abilities to react. But evidently, before ther e can be a real change of heart,
there has to be a fundamental change  in ideology, in the world-view
of science, in its attitudes to man and nature, and judging the slowness of progress in this dir ection, one can be excused for
doubting that there is sufficient survival time.

14. Food Fit for Humans

Basing oneself on the humanizing aesthetic criteria, and making use
of the scientific evidence that co mplies with them, one can define
the ideal human diet as one beautiful and refreshing, consisting of
fruits in abundance, of seeds a nd nuts, of cereals and tender shoots
and leaves, of flowers, eaten in