 fasting, you may experience un-
pleasant sensations, weakness and pain in some
parts of the body. That’s why a person who’s ig-
norant about fasting may f eel that their body is
being irreparably destroyed during fasting.
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essentially an upgraded intestinal canal. And, to
be fair, they aren’t really exaggerating the im-
portance of this organ. After all, it is in the intes-
tinal canal that all the vital digestive processes
take place.
The majority of the substances necessary for
the body is absorbed through the intestinal walls.
It turns out that a person’s health directly de-
pends on the state of their bowels. But a n irreg-
ular, unbalanced diet leads to waste accumulat-
ing on the intestinal walls. These dense deposits
impede the absorption of nutrients, produce
toxins, disturb intestinal peristalsis. As a result,
a person often experiences weakness, irritability,
const ipation, skin breakouts, weight problems.
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with serious ailments.
Out of all bowel segments, the large intestine is
especially susceptible to toxin accumulation.
Since the gastrointestinal tract is rich in its own
endocrine ‘taps’, which change their activity un-
der the influence of changes, related to metabo-
lism in the bowels, this system in our body pri-
marily provides normal regulation of metabolic
processes, their correspondence with metabolic
and adaptive cha nges. And, of course, all these
systems are dominated by the nervous system,
which controls the overall coordination of all the
systems’ activities.
That’s why it’s quite appropriate that diseases
of organs and systems that, at first sight, are un-
related to the bowels, during their course are
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ticular, a decrease in its barrier function. In this
case, the ejection of intestinal toxins into the
blood and lymph of the sick organism increases,
which substantially in creases the accumulation
of endotoxins in the organism and leads to the
development of endotoxicosis — accumulation
of toxic substances in tissue and intracellular
fluid. These substances can affect the flow of
metabolic processes in the cell, disturb the regu-
lation of bioprocesses. Digestive tract diseases
can create more than 100 different complica-
tions: food allergy, eczema, arthritis, spondylitis,
schizophrenia… The list goes on.
According to scientists, in cases of chronic in-
testinal diseases one of th e causes of internal or-
gans and systems pathology may be linked to the
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components. This can be caused by loss of nutri-
ents due to diarrhea, excessive bacterial growth
or change in intestinal wall permeability.
People affected by similar bowel dysfunction
develop all kinds of different diseases quickly
and easily. Under these circumstances, the prob-
ability of fatal outcome increases, and the
chances for the organism to conquer the disease
and for the person to get well decrease. In other
words, if functional and pathological changes
arise in the digestive tract, the body stops receiv-
ing enough nutrients. The state of the micro-
scopic flora fluctuations, resulting in the im-
mune system weakening and the organism be-
coming defenseless against even the smallest
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trophic diseases arises.

Enterosorption - an effective means of intes-
tinal rejuvenation and cleansing
Currently enterosorption is one of the best
means of life prolongation (organism rejuvena-
tion). Enterosorption is effective, simple and
safe. We definitely have to take advantage of it!
Medicine widely employs a method of blood
purification called hemosorption. This method
entails a person’s blood being run through a
sorbent, which extracts a number of harmful
substances from it. Usually, synthetic charcoal is
used as a sorbent. However, these procedures
can turn out to be unsafe for the body. A well -
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kis23 effectively used enterosorption to increase
lifespan. The important point is that a person se-
cretes up to 10 -12 liters of digestive juices per
day. The liquid part of these juices is filtered out
from the blood. It’s absorbed back into the blood
in the lower parts of the intest inal canal. There-
fore, when we conduct the sorption of digestive
juices, we can harmlessly purify blood, lymph,
and consequently, intracellular and cellular

23 V. V. Frolkis (1924 -1999), Ukrainian physiologist and geron-
tologist. In Kiev he headed the Department of Aging and the  Labor-
atory of Physiology. His research interests covered all major fields
of experimental gerontology with particular emphasis on neuroh or-
monal mechanisms of aging and longevity. He developed the adap-
tive-regulatory theory of aging. He was the author of more than 700
works, including 25 monographs and 15 handbooks. His fundamen-
tal work is: Starenie i uvelichenie prodolzhitelnosti zhizni   (Aging
and Lifespan Prolongation)  (1991).
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its entirety. It’s crucial that the enterosorbent
also absorbs cholesterol, which is ejected into the
bowels by the gallbladder. This is, perhaps, the
best way to prevent atherosclerosis, which is the
cause of one in two deaths.
28-month -old rats were used in the experi-
ment. The rats were subjected to en terosorption
cycles: for 10 days, a sorbent (synthetic charcoal)
was added to their food, then there was a 30 -day
break. This experiment has led to a 35 % increase
in the rats’ lifespan. The effect of enterosorption
on the cells is so substantial that it affects the rate
of protein synthesis in the organs.
The effect of the enterosorbent on lipid metab-
olism in the body is of huge importance. The
content of total lipids (triglycerides, cholesterol),
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ment of atherosclerosis, in the liver decreases by
about 30%. Similar shifts may be observed in the
brain and heart tissues. The influence of enter-
osorption on lipid metabolism has turned out to
be so substantial that its use restores the struc-
ture of cellular walls! T hat is, something that has
already been destroyed is restored, which means
that the body is rejuvenated! As a result of long
enterosorption, cell damage, connective tissue
growth in the organs and nerve centers begin
significantly later, atrophy is less pr onounced,
there is less vascular sclerosis and more.
Which enterosorbents are best?
Even ordinary dietary fibers (cellulose, which is
the plant cell membrane, etc.) have a minimal ef-
fect.  That’s why you can often hear a
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so-called microcrystalline cellulose is also pro-
duced from plant fiber. But, of course, specially
developed preparations produce the greatest ef-
fect. It can be either ordinary activated charcoal
sold at the drug store, or ‘advanced’ enter-
osorbents  based on apple and citrus pectin with
addition of different plant extracts and healthy
bacteria, which have a cholagogic and general
health -improving effect on both the digestive
tract and the whole organism. Such sorbents in-
clude Toxfighter, Polyphepanum  and others.
The main indicator of an enterosorbent’s effi-


 for the day.
So how do people lose weight on low-carbohydrate diets? In brief, research shows  that these people invariably consume
fewer total calories. Dr. Michael Greger’s superbly comprehensi ve and condemning eBook, Atkins Facts, sums it up well:
In 2001, the medical journal Obesity Research published “Popular D iets: A Scientific Review.” Claiming to have reviewed
every study ever done on low carb diets, they concluded, “In all cases, indiv iduals on high-fat, low carbohydrate diets lose weight because they consume fewer calories.” (Obesity Research 9(2001):1S.)
 I urge anyone who is considering destroying their health with any low -carbohydrate diet to read this riveting 47-page
document in its entirety. 29  The following information is excerpted with Dr. Greger’s permiss ion from that publication.

The Deadly Low-Carb Craze
When one is eating enough carbohydrates, fat can be completely br oken down as well. But when one’s body runs out of carb fuel
to burn, its only choice is to burn fat inefficiently using a pathway th at produces toxic byproducts like acetone and other so-called
“ketones.”
The kidney uses minerals such as potassium and calcium to help rid on e’s body of toxins like ketones. People on the Atkins
Diet are urinating these minerals away. And critically low lev els in the blood of these electrolytes can lead to fatal cardiac
arrhythmias—lethal heart rhythms.

The current director of nutrition at Harvard advises that all physic ians should produce a handout warning about all of the
adverse effects of the Atkins Diet. The symptoms of ketosis [a metabol ic state where the body “switches” from primarily using
glucose for energy to primarily using fat for energy] include gener al tiredness, abrupt or gradually increasing weakness, dizziness,
headaches, confusion, abdominal pain, irritability, nausea and vomiting, s leep problems, and bad breath.
After running through the adverse effects associated with ketosis, the American institute for Cancer Research wrote, “Those
are the short-term effects. The long-term effects are even more di re.”

Dr. Greger’s full document details literally dozens of additional disea ses and problems brought on by this deadly diet,
including:

Malnutrition (compromised vitamin and mineral intake).
Cancer, stroke, gout, osteoporosis, and diabetes.
Potential kidney, bone, liver, and cholesterol abnormalities.
Cardiac disease, arrhythmias, contractile function impairment.
Impairment of physical activity.
A rise in blood pressure with age.
Rapid falling blood pressure upon standing (orthostatic hypotension).
Sudden death.

Dr. James W. Anderson, professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at th e University of Kentucky School of Medicine, said of
the Atkins plan, “This is absolutely the worst diet you could imagin e for long-term obesity, heart disease, and some forms of cancer.
If you wanted to ruin your health, you couldn’t find one worse than Atkins’.”
Having bought into the health-destroying mythology of low-carbohydrate  plans, some dieters avoid all  forms of carbohydrate,
including grains, starchy vegetables, and fruit, attempting to deriv e their fuel instead from dangerously high proportions of fat and
protein. Although we were designed with survival/backup mechanisms  that allow us to transform noncarbohydrate foods into sugar
in case of starvation or other extreme conditions, this capability was i ntended to be invoked only on rare occasion.
We pay a huge price in terms of health and optimum functioning wheneve r we force our bodies to resort to fat (or worse, to
protein) to fuel our cells, as these conversions are chemically inef ficient compared with using carbohydrate for fuel. The body can
only do so by expending substantial amounts of vital energy and producing toxi c waste products along the way.
Proper body weight is an effortless, natural outcome of optimum health, but opt imum health is unlikely to result from a diet
designed solely for weight loss. The followers of low-carbohydrate diets ma y achieve their weight-loss goals, but they imperil their
long-term health in doing so. The admonition to consume tremendous amounts  of animal fat and protein is creating millions of cases
of deadly disease that will become ever more apparent in the years to come.

Starch-Based Diets: The Other Camp
The vast majority of diet/nutrition experts whose patients and clien ts consistently experience reversal of degenerative disease,
however—including renowned medical doctors like Dean Ornish, John McDou gall, Michael Klaper, Caldwell Esselstyn, Neal
Barnard, Joel Fuhrman, Matthew Lederman and his wife Alona Pulde, and M ichael Greger, as well as professionals at the world-
renowned Pritikin Longevity center—recommend that we base our diet s instead around starchy complex carbohydrates. These
experts emphasize the importance of consuming starches (beans, legu mes, tubers, roots, starchy vegetables, whole grains, and
whole-grain products). This advice could be seen as a step in the right direction, because, as I dis cussed in the introduction to this book, whole foods
are always more nutritious than fractional foods. Yet due to the nutri ent losses incurred during the cooking process, no cooked food
can be viewed as a true whole food. In fact, the cooking process itself actual ly removes the water from food (with the exception of
certain dehydrated foods that are actually rehydrated as they are cooked i n water). No food whose water has been removed can
realistically be viewed as a whole food.
Agreeing that we are designed to run on simple sugars from carbohydrate, these highly respected professionals perceive that
there is no other substantial whole-food source than complex carbohydrate s. Coming from a cooked food perspective, although
they often acknowledge the nutritional superiority of raw fruits and v egetables, they do not consider basing the human diet on the
sugars in fruit to be a feasible option, primarily for three reasons.

First, when most people talk about eating fruits and vegetables, they ten d to think of the vegetables being predominant. Yet
nutritionists are very familiar with the studies that have conc luded that a diet predominated by vegetables simply cannot supply
sufficient caloric density to support human health. On a diet of just ve getables, I agree, it is highly unlikely that any human
beings could maintain their health. They would lose weight at a steady  rate that would eventually become unsustainable, and
they would suffer unyielding health decline.
Second, in all likelihood, they simply don’t conceive of consuming fruit in  sufficient quantity to meet our caloric needs, even
though doing so is quite pleasant and not difficult. They dismiss this possi bility wholesale, as it is entirely outside of their
framework of reference. After all, who knows anyone who lives primarily  (but not  entirely) on fruit? I must admit that in
today’s world, it is a rare individual who lives this way. Y et almost eve ry person I have ever met who eats great quantities of
fruit has written a book extolling its virtues. There must be a reason t hese fruit eaters are so excited about the excellent health
benefits that result from such a foodstyle.
Finally, their misguided notions about the glycemic index and their un necessary worries about elevated triglyceride levels
literally prevent them from considering fruit as a primary source of  calories. And so, in spite of the fact that fruit is universally
promoted as the ultimate health food, and in spite of their own conclusions th at carbohydrates must predominate the diet in
order for health to be possible, the majority of the world’s health pr ofessionals fail to see the obvious: A fruit-based diet is the
finest possibility we have for developing optimum health.

No one can deny that the low-fat vegetarian diets recommended by Pritiki n, McDougall, and their colleagues produce
phenomenal results in terms of health, vitality, and body weight. When t hey substitute cooked starches for meat in their diets,
program adherents show a marked reduction in cardiovascular disease and a n initial improvement in overall health and well-being.
Yet starch-and-grain-based diet proponents still broadly miss the mark w here optimum nutrition and health are concerned.
These complex carbohydrate foods lack in areas such as vitamin C, soluble f iber, and several hundred thousand phytonutrients. The
experience of eating them can’t compare to the ease, simplicity, c leanliness, and natural satiation of eating sweet fruit.

Grains: Pritikin’s Downfall
In 1988, a gentleman named Ross Horne wrote a book entitled Improving on Pritikin—Y ou Can Do Better.30  His story is
fascinating. In the 1970s, Horne was the “best disciple and staunchest supporter ” of Nathan Pritikin and his renowned
grain-based diet. But after experiencing himself and observing in others some serious delete rious effects of the Pritikin plan
(including arthritis and cancer), Horne wrote this book. In more than 150 pages, Horne details the health peri ls that
accompany a grain-based diet and precisely where Pritikin’ s logic fails.  With utmost respect for the superb results of
Pritikin’ s low-fat plan in reversing heart disease, Horne points out the f ollowing:
Although Pritikin’


 fear they need more calcium to avoidosteoporosis and to give their children good teeth. What pasteurized milk actuallydoes to their children is make them calcium deficient and makes the children toxic,provoking many colds, ear infections, sinusitis, inflammations of the tonsils andlung infections, and, induces an allergy to milk in the children.
The Development Of Allergies
There are three ways a body can become allergic. (1) It can have a genetic
predisposition for a specific allergy to start with. (2) It can be repeatedly exposedto an irritating substance such as pollen when, at the same time, the body’smechanism for dealing with irritations is weakened. Generally weak adrenalscauses this because the adrenal’s job is to produce hormones that reduceinflammation. Once the irritating substance succeeds at producing a significantinflammation, a secondary reaction may be set up, called an allergy. Onceestablished, an allergy is very hard to get rid of.
(3) An allergy can develop in a way very similar to the second case, but
instead of being irritated by an external substance, it is irritated by repeatedlyfailing to properly, fully digest something. Pasteurized milk for example, basicallyimpossible to completely digest even in its low-fat form, often sets up an allergythat applies to other forms of cows milk, even raw, unpasteurized cows milk or
yogurt. Eating too much white flour can eventually set off a wheat allergy. My
husband developed a severe allergy to barley after drinking too much home-brewed beer; he also became highly intolerant to alcohol. Now he has allergicreactions to both alcohol and barley. And gets far sicker from drinking beer (twoseparate allergies) than from wheat beer, hard liquor or wine (only one allergy).
Eating too much of any single food, or repeatedly eating too much of an
otherwise very good food at one time, can eventually overwhelm the body’sability to digest it fully. Then, the finest whole food products may set up an allergicreaction. Worse, this allergic reaction itself subsequently prevents proper digestioneven when only moderate quantities are eaten.
An allergy may not be recognized as an allergy because it may not manifest as
the instant skin rash or stuffy nose or swollen glands or sticky eyes. that peopleusually think of when they think “allergic reaction.” Food allergies can cause manykinds of symptoms, from sinusitis to psychosis, from asthma to arthritis, fromhyperactivity to depression, insomnia to narcolepsy—and commonly thesymptoms don’t manifest immediately after eating. Frequently, allergic reactions
are so low grade as to be unnoticeable and may not produce an observablecondition until many years of their grinding down the vital force has passed. Whenthe condition finally appears it is hard to associate it with some food that has beenconsumed for years, apparently with impunity.
Thus it is that many North Americans have developed allergies to wheat, dairy,
soy products (because many soy foods are very hard to digest), corn and eggs.These are such common, widespread, frequently found allergies that anyoneconsidering a dietary cause of their complaints might just cut all these foods out ofthe diet for a few weeks just to see what happens. And individuals may be allergicto anything from broccoli to bacon, strawberries to bean sprouts. Unraveling foodallergies sometimes requires the deductions of a Sherlock Holmes.
However, food allergies are very easy to cure if you can get the suffererer to
take the medicine. Inevitably, allergic reactions vanish in about five days of
abstinence. Anyone with sufficient self-discipline to water fast for five days can
cure themselves of all food allergies at one step. Then, by a controlled, gradualreintroduction of foods, they can discover which individual items cause trouble.See Coca’s Pulse Test in the Appendix where you’ll find step-by-step instructionsfor allergy testing that are less rigorous, not requiring a preliminary fast.
Flour, And Other Matters Relating To Seeds
One of the largest degradations to human health was caused by the roller mill.
This apparently profitable machine permitted the miller to efficiently separatewheat flour into three components: bran, germ and endosperm. Since bread madewithout bran and germ is lighter and appears more “upper class” it becameinstantly popular. Flour without germ and bran also had an industrial application—it could be stored virtually forever without being infested by insects because whiteflour does not contain enough nutrition to support life. Most health consciouspeople are aware that white flour products won’t support healthful human lifeeither.
Essentially, white flour’s effect on humans is another demonstration of Health =
Nutrition / Calories. When the bran and germ are discarded, remaining are thecalories and much of the protein, lacking are many vitamins and minerals andother vital nutritional substances.
Whole wheat bread has been called the staff of life. In ages past, healthy
cultures have made bread the predominant staple in their diet. Does that meanyou can just go to the bakery and buy whole grain bread, or go to the healthfoodstore and buy organically grown whole wheat flour, bake your own, and be ashealthy as the ancients? Sorry, the answer is almost certainly no. There are pitfalls,many of them, waiting for the unwary.
White flour has one other advantage over whole wheat flour. It not only
remains free of insect infestation, it doesn’t become stale (meaning rancid). In thewheat germ (where the embryo resides) there is considerable oil, containing
among other things, about the best natural source of vitamin E. This oil is highly
unsaturated and once the seed is ground the oil goes rancid in a matter of days.Whole wheat flour kept on the unrefrigerated shelf of the store is almost certainlyrancid. A lot of its other vitamin content has been oxidized too. If the wheat flourhad flowed directly from the grinder into an airtight sack and from there directly tothe freezer, if it had been flash frozen and kept extremely cold, it might have astorage life of some months. Of course that was not the case. Maybe you’relucky and your healthfood store is one of the very few that has its own small-scaleflour mill and grinds daily. Probably not.
How about your baker’s whole wheat bread? Where does the baker get
flour? From the wholesaler’s or distributor’s warehouse! In fifty pound kraftpapersacks! How much time had elapsed from milling to wholesaler to baker tobaking? The answer has to be in the order of magnitude of weeks. And it mightbe months. Was the flour stored frozen? Or airtight? Of course not.
If you want bread made from freshly ground flour you are almost certainly
have to grind and bake it yourself. Is it worth the trouble? You bet. Once you’vetasted real bread you’ll instantly see by comparison what stale, rancid wholewheat flour tastes like. Freshly ground flour makes bread that can be the staff oflife and can enormously upgrade your health— if the wheat you use is any good.
But before we talk about wheat quality, a more few words of warning. If you
think wheat goes rancid rapidly, rye is even worse. Rye flour goes bad so fast thatwhen you buy it in the store it usually is the rye equivalent of white wheat flour.The germ has been removed. The bag may not say so. But it probably has. If youare going to make rye breads, even more reason to grind your own. Corn mealfrom the grocery store has usually been degerminated too. If it hasn’t been, the oilin the seed’s germ has probably gone rancid.
Grinding flour at home is easy these days. There is an abundance of at-home
milling products and no shortage of hype about them. You’ll find staunchadvocates of stone mills. These produce the finest-textured flour, but are costly.
The sales pitch is that stones grind at low temperature and do not damage the oils
(remember the development of rancidity is a function of temperature) or thevitamins, which are also destroyed at high temperature. This assertion is half true.If you are going to store your flour it is far better to grind it cool. However, if youare, as we do, going to immediately bake your flour, what difference does it makeif it gets a little warm before baking. That only accelerates the action of the yeast.
On the negative side, stone mills grind slowly and are very fussy about which
grains they will grind. If the cereal is a bit moist or if the seed being ground is alittle bit oily, the mill becomes instantly blocked.
Steel burr mills grind fast and coarsely and are inexpensivebut coarse flour
makes heavy bread. The metal grinding faces tend to wear out and have to bereplaced occasionally—if they can be replaced. Breads on the heavy side are stilldelicious; for many years I made bread with an inexpensive steel burr millattachment that came with my juicer.
Some steel burr mills will also grind oily seed like sesame and sunflower.
However, oily seeds can be ground far more easily half-a-cup at a time in a littleinexpensive electric spice/coffee mill, the sort with a single fast-spinning propeller.
I currently think the best compromise are hammermills. The grain dribbles into
a chamber full of fast-spinning teeth that literally pound the grain into powder.Since air flows through with the grain the flour is not heated very much. This typeof mill is small, very fast, intermediate in price between steel mills and stone mill,lasts a long time, but when grinding, sounds like a Boeing 747 about to take off. Itis essential to wear hearing protectors when using it.
Awareness of


 the opposite.
This process can be more easily understood in considering com-
pounds, such as H
2O. H 2O means 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of
oxygen combined to form one molecule of water.
H has 1 anion and 1 cation O has 1 anion and 16 cations If anions can be from 1 to 499, and we choose to assign the small-
est amount of power (i.e. 1 Milhouse unit of energy) for the anions; and if the cations can be 500 to 599 Milhouse units of energy and we choose to assign the smallest amount of power (i.e. 500 Milhouse units) for the cations, the total amount of energy is just 1 molecule of very dry, light water =9003 Milhouse units of energy:
 28 Anions  Cations
  H = 1 +  500 =   501
  H = 1 +  500 =   501   O = 1 + 16 x 500 = 8001
           9003 water (H 2O).
 H
2O is two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen. Hydrogen
has one anion and one cation in its joining to another molecule of two of the hydrogen atoms-which would be two anions and two cations as joining to another molecule of oxygen that does not have 8 electrons (or anions) and 8 protons (or cations), but does have one anion and 16 cations as oxygen. So we have water: H
2O. There is no way that ener-
gy can be calculated or figured by mathematics with the old theory of equal number of anions and cations in an element, unless you figure the cationic energy versus the anionic resistance. There is no way to figure energy, because the total number of Milhouse units determines the total amount of energy. It is not possible for anything to give up this total amount of energy instanta neously without creating an explo-
sion.
In other words, the anions and cations would fly apart like a covey
of quails that all flew away at once. In the natural decay anions are given up rather slowly, and the cations are given up very slowly.
This isn't the realization of how things are put together, but how
things are taken apart. This is done by noting the structure of the num-ber of anions and cations that make up the compound, element, or metal. For instance, there are ma ny different kinds of pure iron be-
cause of the different number of cations and anions that compose the pure iron.
There are many different kinds of water, which is a compound,
whereas iron is an element. There is heavy water. There is light water. There is just ordinary water, and th en there is dry water. The less the
number of Milhouse units in the water (I'm not speaking of impurities in the water), the lighter the water.
The greater the number of anion units in the Milhouse units in the
nuclear atom and the higher the Milhouse units in the cation or elec-29 tron in both the hydrogen and oxygen, the heavier the water. The
greater the gravity, hence the difference in pure water. In this calcula-
tion of energy, we use 250 Milhouse units of anionic energy and 750 Milhouse units for cationic energy averages in working out the com-ponents of energy in the component total amount of energy in any given substance. So, then we have now found our basic foundation for organic and inorganic chemistry:
ORGANIC chemistry is any substance containing carbon. INORGANIC chemistry is any substance not containing carbon. Another field of chemistry that is seldom mentioned, is the field of
COLLOIDAL chemistry. There are two meanings or definitions of colloids. One is a measurement of size-ohms. In this field you may
have colloidal elements like colloidal gold, colloidal Iron, colloidal silver, etc., which is strictly measure-mental size, only very, very small particles (like dust or fuller earth). In the other field the colloids are compounds.'
In the field of colloidal compounds each atom is a complete little
solar system within itself. It has its sun and its moons and planets ro-tating around it. There are many different numbers of moons and stars rotating around the ION CORE of a colloidal compound molecule. This is very important in the formation of matter.
Colloids are small, very much like the atoms except a colloid is
the smallest amount of an element that can exist and the colloidal part of that matter is the smallest amount of- matter that can exist in either
elementary or compound form. The compound colloids are so fine un-til one cubic inch of it would cover 7½ acres with a solid sheet of col-
loids. They are also a very fine, sticky, glue-like substance when they come in contact with moisture. But where there is no moisture, col-loids will stand in the air as in a vacuum because they are so small un-til even gravity does not attract th em, until they collect enough mois-
ture to weight them down to the earth. Did you ever notice a beam of
sunlight shining down through a dark room, and the solid particles (very fine round particles) floating through the air? Those are a group
of colloids because you cannot see one single colloid. 30 Colloids are very important in nature. The colloid in a tree makes
it possible for that tree to stand erect, to go upward or perpendicular to
the earth. But a vine does not have enough colloids in it for it to stand up, so it has to find something to climb on, and it climbs on something that has enough colloids to hold itself up.
Without colloids we wouldn't have any fingernails toenails, hair,
bones, or any substance to our system. Our bones and our teeth con-tain more colloids than any other part of our body because they are
harder. Our fingernails and toenails contain the second greatest, hard-est amount of colloids.
Did you ever walk out in the morning and see the "diamond" in
the dew drops? This "diamond" was a carbon colloid.
Without colloids there would be no life upon this earth. We have mentioned that above the earth is the Van Allen belt, and
in order to understand why trees grow perpendicular to the earth (and not lying on the ground like a vine), we must understand that the earth is cationic and the anions that are given off from the cationic structure of the wood or bark of the tree is greater than the cations which attract it to the earth, or hold it in the earth, and this causes the tree to reach outward toward the Van Allen belt.
In a man's brain there is more potassium than there is in the feet.
Potassium is an anionic element and therefore the brain is in the head, and we walk on our feet instead of our head. If our feet contained more potassium than our head then we would walk on our head with our feet in the air.
Animals have a greater cationic stru cture in their system than ani-
onic and therefore they walk on all four. The animal that has to de-pend on smell more than eyesight ha s to turn his nose nearest the earth
because his sensation of smell leads him to the environment that he desires. When he is erect he hold s high his head to see and smell bet-
ter.
Soft iron contains a very high carbon content. By heating the iron
and cooling it, it becomes harder as the carbon content decreases. This is taking the carbons out of iron and the iron becomes more pure. But the impurity of iron softens it. Practic ally in all substances-the more 31 impurities that are in that substance generally the softer it becomes.
I'm speaking of most of the carbons.
The more carbon that is in the substance the softer the substance
becomes, with the exception of the diamond. However, this is only true in organic chemistry, and may be true in some cases of inorganic chemistry.
All animal matter and plant matter contains carbon, and therefore
is organic. It does not necessarily have to be decaying leaves or ma-nure.
Many people think that organic mean s that it comes from plant or
animal matter. As far as the chemistry books, and as far as labels on goods in the store being organic or inorganic it means that it has car-bon in it. Honey has carbon and therefor; is organic. One time I saw in a health food store a sign: "Organic Honey." I told the clerk I didn't care for the "organic" honey, and ordered five pounds of inorganic honey.
"Sir," she said, "I don't think the owner will buy that kind, we only
sell pure products!" You cannot have sugars without carbons, it is im-possible (C
6H22O11 is one carbohydrate). The C stands for carbon, and
you cannot have a carbohydrate without carbon. I was telling my wife about this and she said, "I'll be your inorganic honey!"   32 CHAPTER 3
CREATION

It is rather amusing when we begin to study nature. When we real-
ly begin to know nature we see not only trees, plants and people, but we see a frequency. Physicists, who are trained in this field, have to see many things. Like a field of orange trees,


ed once more here.
Getting back to suffering —where did we
ever get the idea that suffering was good?
That the saintly “suffer in silence”?
The saintly do “suffer in silence,” but that
does not mean suffering is good. The
students in the school of Mastery  suffer in
silence because they understand that
suffering is not the way of God, but rather a
sure sign that there is still something to
learn of the way of God, still something to
remember.
The true Master does not suffer in silence
at all, but only appea rs to be suffering
without complaint. The reason that the true
Master does not complain is that the true
Master is not suffering, but simply experiencing a set of circumstances that
you would call insufferable.
A practicing Master does not speak of
sufferi ng simply because a Master
practicing  clearly understands the power of
the Word —and so chooses to simply not
say a  word about it.
We make real that to which we pay
attention. The Master knows this. The
Master  places himself at choice with regard
to that wh ich she chooses to make real.
You have all done this from time to time.
There is not a one among you who has not
made a headache disappear, or a visit to
the dentist less painful, through your
decision about it.
A Master simply makes the same decision
abou t larger things.  But why have suffering at all? Why have
even the possibility of suffering?
You cannot know, and become, that which
you are, in the absence of that which you
are not, as I have already explained to you.
I still don’t understand how we ever got the
idea that suffering was good.
You are wise to be insistent in questioning
that. The original wisdom surrounding
suffering in silence has become so
perverted that now many believe (and
several  religions actually teach) that
suffering is good, a nd joy is bad. Therefore,
you have  decided that if someone has
cancer, but keeps it to himself, he is a saint,
whereas if  someone has (to pick a
dynamite topic) robust sexuality, and
celebrates it openly,  she is a sinner.  Boy, You did pick a dynamite topic. And
You cleverly changed the pronoun, too,
from male to female. Was that to make a
point?
It was to show you your prejudices. You
don’t like to think of women having robust
sexuality, much less celebrating it openly.
You would rather see a man dying with out
a whimper on the battlefield than a woman
making love with a whimper in the street.
Wouldn’t You?
I have no judgment one way or the other.
But you have all sorts of them —and I
suggest that it is your judgments which
keep you from joy, and your expectat ions
which make you unhappy.
All of this put together is what causes you
disease, and therein begins your  suffering.  How do I know that what You are saying is
true? How do I know this is even God
speaking, and not my overactive
imagination?
You’ve asked th at before. My answer is the
same. What difference does it make?  Even
if everything I’ve said is “wrong,” can you
think of a better way to live?
No.
Then “wrong” is right, and “right” is wrong!
Yet I’ll tell you this, to help you out of your
dilemma: believ e nothing I say. Simply  live
it. Experience it. Then live whatever other
paradigm you want to construct.  Afterward,
look to your experience to find your truth.
One day, if you have a great deal of
courage, you will experience a world where  making love is c onsidered better than
making war. On that day will you rejoice.
  Chapter 7
Life is so scary. And so confusing. I wish
things could be more clear.
There is nothing scary about life, if you are
not attached to results.
You mean if you don’t want anything.
That’s right. Choose, but don’t want.
That’s easy for people who don’t have
anybody depending on them. What if you
have a wife  and children?
The path of the householder has always
been a most challenging path. Perhaps the
most challenging. As you  point out, it is
easy to “want nothing” when you are only
dealing with yourself. It is natural, when you
have others you love, to want only the  best
for them.  It hurts when you can’t give them all that
you want them to have. A nice home, some
decent  cloth es, enough food. I feel as
though I’ve been struggling for 20 years
just to make ends  meet. And I still have
nothing to show for it.
You mean in terms of material wealth?
I mean in terms of just some of the basics
that a man would like to pass on to his
children. I  mean in terms of some of the
very simple things a man would like to
provide for his wife.
I see. You see it as your job in life to provide
all these things. Is that what you  imagine
your life to be about?
I’m not sure I’d state it that way. This is not
what my life is about, but it sure would be
nice if  this could be a by -product, at least.  Well, let’s go back, then. What do you see
your life being about?
That’s a good question. I’ve had a lot of
different answers to that through the years.
What is your answer now?
It feels as though I have two answers to
that question; the answer I’d like to see,
and the  answer I’m seeing.
What’s the answer you’d like to see?
I’d like to see my life being about the
evolution of my soul. I’d like to see my lif e
being about  expressing and experiencing
the part of me I love most. The part of me
that is compassion  and patience and giving
and helping. The part of me that is knowing
and wise, forgiving  and...love.
Sounds like you’ve been reading this book!  Yes, well it’s a beautiful book, on an
esoteric level, but I’m trying to figure out
how to  “practicalize” that. The answer to
your question that I see being real in my life
is that it’s  about day -to-day survival.
Oh. And you think one thing precludes the
other?
Well...
You think esoterics preclude survival?
The truth is, I’d like to do more than just
survive. I’ve been surviving all these years.
I notice  I’m still here. But I’d like the
struggle for survival to end. I see that just
getting by from day to  day is still a struggle.
I’d like to do more than just survive. I’d like
to prosper.
And what would you call prospering?  Having enough that I don’t have to worry
where my next dollar is coming from; not
having to  stress and strain just to make the
rent, or handle  the phone bill. I mean, I hate
to get so  mundane, but we’re talking real
life here, not the airy -fairy, spiritually
romanticized picture of  life you draw
throughout this book.
Do I hear a little anger there?
Not anger so much as frustration. I’ve been
at the spiritual game for over 20 years now
and look where it’s gotten me. One
paycheck away from the poorhouse! And
now I’ve just lost  my job, and it looks like
the cash flow has stopped again. I’m
getting really tired of the  struggle. I’m 49
years old, and I’d like to have some security
in life so that I could devote  more time to
“God stuff,” to soul “evoluting,” etc. That’s where my heart is, but it’s not where  my life
allows me to go...
Well, you’ve said a mouthful there, and I
suspect you’re speaking for a whole lot of
people when you share that experience.
I’m going to respond to your truth one
sentence at a time, so that we can easily
track, and dissect, the answer.
You have not been “at this spiritual game”
for 20 years, you have been barely skirting
the edges of it (This is not a “spanking,” by
the way, this is just a statement of the truth.)
I’ll concede that for two decades you’ve
been looking at it; flirting with it;
experimenting now and then...but I haven’t
felt your true —your truest —commitment to
the game until just recently.  Let’s be clear that “being at the spiritual
game” means dedicating your whole mind,
your whole body, your whole soul to the
process of creating Self in the image and
likeness of God.
This is the process of Self -realization abo ut
which Eastern mystics


 DMSO-treated animals as compared to controls.
14067 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
On the question of how DMSO may deaggregate platelets, it has been shown
that DMSO can increase cAMP accumulation in platelets by inhibiting its break -
down enzyme, the cyclic nucleotide PDE, a reaction that was observed in human
peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro.137 This action on PDEs by DMSO could be
similar to that of cilostazol, a promising therapeutic drug for patients at risk of isch-emic stroke and major adverse cardiac events.
141 Cilostazol exerts its antiaggregation
activity by selectively inhibiting PDE type 3.142
It should be noted that, at the present time, platelets are known to possess three
PDEs, PDE2, PDE3, and PDE5, of the 60 different platelet isoforms described in mammalian species.
143,144 It is not yet known which of these PDEs DMSO targets for
the inhibition of platelet aggregation.
PDEs are fundamental for platelet function, and their inhibition can dampen
platelet aggregation by increasing cAMP and cyclic guanosine 3 ′–5′-monophosphate
(cGMP), an action that limits the levels of intracellular nucleotides.145
Increasing cAMP by DMSO also implies that DMSO may serve an important
function in manipulating signal transduction mediated by second messenger mol -
ecules such as cAMP. Inhibition of platelet signal transduction may suppress platelet activation regardless of the initial stimulus.
143 As mentioned before, DMSO could
achieve this not only by directly inhibiting platelet-activating second messengers like cAMP and cGMP but also by amplifying the action of the endothelium-derived PGI
2, which can indirectly increase intracellular platelet cAMP.143
The ability to inhibit PDE enzymes has great clinical significance because it can
prolong or enhance the effects of physiological processes mediated by cAMP, espe -
cially where cAMP plays a role in coronary heart disease. For example, it is gen -
erally recognized that prostacyclin (PGI2) is the most potent inhibitor of platelet
aggregation and that this action involves the production of cAMP.146,147
PGI2-induced inhibition of platelet aggregation is mediated by the increase in cel -
lular cAMP level through the activation of membrane adenylate cyclase, a process that starts as PGI
2 binds to its receptors on the platelet surface.148
It is known from the early studies of LaHann and Horita149 that DMSO is able to
stimulate the antiplatelet prostanoid PGE1 and that at low doses in some in vitro  sys-
tems, it also blocks prostaglandin biosynthesis and platelet aggregation induced by arachidonic acid.
22 These findings imply that low or high doses of DMSO can have
a stimulating effect on specific prostaglandins like PGE1 or totally block prostaglan -
din biosynthesis, including PGI2 and thromboxane A2.22 Blocking thromboxane A2
myocardial receptors could prevent MI and sudden cardiac death.150
By contrast, one in vitro  study that examined the effect of DMSO on PGI2 synthe -
sis concluded that DMSO suppressed PGI2 production in cultured aortic endothelial
cells by interfering with the release of arachidonic acid in the prostaglandin cascade. This study did not investigate what action, if any, DMSO might have exerted on thromboxane A
2 production since a high dose of DMSO, like aspirin, would inhibit
not only PGI2 but also thromboxane synthesis by blocking the COX-1 arachidonic
acid pathway.
In a recent study by Asmis et al.,151 this is precisely what DMSO appears to do.
The incubation of platelet-rich plasma with DMSO 0.5% (6.3 Mm) for 30 min sig -
nificantly decreased total COX-1 activity by 36% compared to control. When DMSO 68 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
was compared to the COX-1-specific inhibitor SC-560, a similar inhibition of 33%
of total COX activity was observed with SC-560 as compared to control.151 When
DMSO and SC-560 were combined, no further reduction in COX-1 activity was seen,
an indication that the residual COX-2 activity was not inhibited by either agent and that DMSO acted as a selective inhibitor of COX-1.
151 This is an important find -
ing because the inhibition of COX-2 by some NSAIDs has been associated with an increased risk of renal failure, heart attack, thrombosis, and stroke through an increase in thromboxane A
2, which reduces the synthesis of PGI2.152,153
In the study by Asmis et al.,151 when the exogenous thromboxane A2 analogue
U46619 was combined with DMSO, the inhibitory effect of DMSO on platelet aggre -
gation was prevented, implying that DMSO has the ability to block the prothrom -
botic release of thromboxane A2.
The collective evidence from all these studies is that DMSO, like aspirin, is an
antiplatelet agent with unique activities in blocking prostaglandin biosynthesis and the production of the powerful platelet aggregator thromboxane A
2, a cornerstone of
acute coronary syndrome and stroke prevention. Like aspirin, whose optimal oral dose is recommended to be not greater than 75–81 mg/day, DMSO is in need of a clinical study that establishes its optimal dose and route of administration so it can best serve as a long-term antiplatelet agent in the control and prevention of acute coronary syndromes and stroke.
The data presented here on the effects of DMSO as a treatment for coronary
stenosis and cardiac ischemia strongly suggest that this drug could be an effective anticlot-forming, cardioprotective, and stroke-preventing agent with similar actions as aspirin but void of the potential side effects such as hemorrhage, gastric pain, nausea, and skin rashes often seen with aspirin.
TISSUE FACTOR AND INFLAMMATION
The third and fourth properties expressed by DMSO as a potential antithrombotic agent are its inhibition of tissue factor expression and its anti-inflammatory activity.
Atherothrombotic vascular disorders often underlie CAD, stroke, and peripheral
arterial disease and involve coagulation-induced thrombogenic molecules that can generate inflammatory reactions.
In the coagulation cascade, thrombin promotes platelet adhesion and aggregation
by activating protease-activated receptors on the cell membrane of the platelet.
154
Because thrombin plays a central role in arterial thrombogenesis, the goal of most
treatment regimens is to block thrombin generation or inhibit its activity.
Direct thrombin inhibitors are a new class of anticoagulants that are used to pre -
vent arterial or venous thrombosis. By reducing the bound thrombin activation of platelets, direct thrombin inhibitors can also be used as antiplatelet agents for such conditions as acute coronary syndromes and stroke.
155 They act by inactivating free
thrombin or the thrombin that is bound to fibrin.155
Inactivation of fibrin-bound thrombin can be achieved by blocking upstream mol -
ecules in the coagulation cascade such as tissue factor. This approach is as effective as direct thrombin inhibition in preventing thrombin-induced platelet aggregation.
15469 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
Tissue factor is a cell surface glycoprotein that interacts with plasma factor VIIa
to activate the coagulation cascade and generate thrombin in a stepwise activation of
a series of proenzymes.156
The best known function of tissue factor is its role in blood coagulation where
together with factor VIIa it forms a common pathway that leads to the formation of thrombin.
157
Thrombin plays a dual action role where it normally contributes to signaling
platelets for hemostasis and, abnormally, where it triggers platelet activation and arterial thrombosis that can result in heart attacks and stroke.
158 Thrombin has a
large array of functions, but its primary role is the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the primary building block of a hemostatic plug.
159,160 Although tissue factor is essen -
tial for hemostasis, its aberrant upregulation can also lead to atherothrombosis via the formation of thrombin.
The exact role of tissue factor in thrombosis remains unclear, but it has been
found present in atherosclerotic plaques, and recent studies suggest that tissue
 factor–positive microparticles are the most abundant source in plaques.161
Rupture of high-risk vulnerable plaques with the subsequent tissue factor expo -
sure is responsible for coronary thrombosis, acute MI, and sudden cardiac death.162,163
Moreover, plaque thrombogenicity is directly correlated to the presence of elevated tissue factor content.
164 When a plaque ruptures, tissue factor on the plaque surface
triggers thrombus formation, leading to downstream arterial occlusion.165
Thrombosis and inflammation are two major consequences of blood coagulation,
and both can promote each other. Tissue factor can induce both thrombosis and inflammation through coagulant mediators factor VII


 use in scleroderma. Dr. Engel said, “One
sees dilatation of vessels in the upper dermis and perhaps the increase in blood
flow plays a role. DMSO is known to protect cells and tissue from freezing,
thawing, necrotic cutaneous changes, inflammatory and hemorrhagic processes.”
2
This protection may be related to cellular physiological enlargement.
In a two-year study of twenty sclerodermatous patients, Dr. Engel found
beneficial results using DMSO as the exclusive treatment. He said, “They had
increased mobility, rapid relief of pain and healing of persistent ulcers, arrest of
the spread of cutaneous disease, regrowth of hair, and return of sensation and
sweating. There was absolutely no sign of arrest of systemic disease, as shown by
the death of three
patients while on therapy and two in the immediate posttreatment
period, despite evidence of improvement of the cutaneous manifestations of their
disorder.”
Dr. Engel also noted that “the maximal activity of DMSO, after it is
swallowed, is in the organs and the parts of organs primarily involved in the
pathologic changes of progressive systemic sclerosis....  DMSO might halt or
reverse the process of systemic sclerosis.”
As it relates to the following section, what Dr. Engel added is quite significant:
“No evidence of ocular damage was found by funduscopic or slit lamp
examination in any of our patients.”ALLEGED MISREPORTING OF THE SCHERBEL STUDIES
Dr. Scherbel did similar, more extensive studies on patients having scleroderma,
and he performed them under the FDA supervisory investigational new drug (IND)
application number 10-778. This means the investigator and the sponsoring
pharmaceutical company, Research Industries Corporation, were liable to FDA
regulations. Violations of them would be a federal crime.
A statement by Jere E. Goyan, Ph.D., former Commissioner of the FDA, made
before the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, included the
following information:
“We are requiring that eye examinations be conducted as part of any study
involving chronic administration of DMSO in order to obtain additional data to
determine whether the drug causes ocular toxicity. The labeling for the approved
human drug product suggests that patients should receive thorough eye
evaluations, including slit lamp examinations, prior to and periodically during
treatment....  We have issued inspection assignments to audit the data of the
scleroderma studies. In all of these investigations our staff is being asked to pay
particular attention to whether or not these studies included eye examinations.”
Dr. Scherbel did his IND 10-778 studies on eleven patients with severe
progressive systemic sclerosis, using DMSO by oral administration. He had them
undergo eye examinations before, during, and after DMSO treatment, in
accordance with FDA rules, for this IND. The patients received a total daily dose
of DMSO ranging from 21 grams to 84 grams in four divided doses diluted in
concentrated juice and crushed ice. The duration of the treatment ranged from 1
month to 22 months with a mean average of 9.4 months. Its results were reported
to Henry Moyle, President of the Research Industries Corporation, Salt
Lake City,
Utah. In his letter, dated May 4, 1977, Dr. Scherbel advised Mr. Moyle that “in
four of eleven patients reported at this time, nuclear sclerosis or progressive
myopia have appeared during the study.”
This report of lens changes with the development of nearsightedness was
alarming news. It might have caused cessation of the investigation if the FDA had
been aware of the reported eye changes in these patients. Agency officials say that
no one at the FDA knew about them until the information was uncovered, almost
by accident, nearly three years later.
Michael J. Hensley, M.D., of the Division of Scientific Investigations, Bureau
of Drugs, FDA, told Senator Kennedy how this came about: “It was not officially
reported, as far as we can tell. We picked up on this during a routine inspection ofDr. Scherbel....  On April 22, 1980, I was standing there with an inspection
report in my hand of an oral DMSO study—a study of the use of DMSO orally in
scleroderma—a study wherein patients had been given doses very nearly
approaching the animal studies that had showed ocular toxicity, and it appeared
from the material that we had discovered during this very first, initial tipoff
inspection that the eye changes that were being reported in these patients were
identical to those seen in the animal studies back in the 1960s....  It turns out
that the initial report of the oral scleroderma patients had been noted by Dr.
Scherbel to Research Industries on May 4, 1977....  It appeared that Research
Industries had reported to them a possible adverse effect in 1977, and yet had
never reported it to the agency because, in our files, we found none of these
reports.”
From the testimony, Senator Kennedy learned that two inspections of the firm
uncovered correspondence that indicated the Scherbel report was received. A
letter from Moyle was sent in reply to Dr. Scherbel’s report indicating that Dr.
Jacob verbally informed K.C. Pani, M.D., an officer of the Division of Anti-
Infective Drug Products of the Bureau of Drugs, FDA, of this finding. Another
letter dated May 17, 1977, from Moyle to Scherbel implied that the Scherbel
report may have been provided to Dr. Pani. At least it said that “Dr. Jacob and I
showed him your letter of May 4, 1977, and Dr. Pani suggested lowering the
DMSO dosage for these patients affected with eye changes.”
Dr. Pani was interviewed, and denied he had ever been told any of this. He
said he was given no letter for the FDA files. Dr. Hensley said, “We therefore had
the possibility of a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and
also, perhaps, of title 18, section 1001—the making of false reports to the
Government.”
Compounding this alleged misreporting, on September 7, 1978,
Moyle wrote
Merle L. Gibson, M.D., Director, Division of Anti-Infective Drug Products,
Bureau of Drugs, a summarized progress report of IND 10-778 saying: “Our
investigations under this IND are still ongoing but to date our investigators have
reported no abnormalities relating to toxicity of the drug, nor have they reported
any ocular abnormalities. All updated patient reports throughout the year have
previously been forwarded to the FDA under separate cover.”
Commissioner Goyan considered this alleged misreporting extremely serious in
view of the fact that it was the eye toxicity that the FDA was most concerned
about. Under the IND regulations that govern this human experimental work, it is
mandatory that the sponsor shall promptly investigate and report to the FDA and toall investigators any findings associated with the use of the drug that may suggest
significant hazards, contraindications, side effects, and precautions pertinent to the
safety of DMSO. Eye changes in the scleroderma patients clearly fall within this
definition.
It is possible that lens changes are a complication of the disease, but there is
nothing reported in the medical literature indicating that eye symptoms are present
in scleroderma.
From the correspondence found three years later in the Research Industries
corporate files, it appears that Scherbel’s letter is the first DMSO report of human
eye toxicity ever, and that the pharmaceutical company had furnished the report to
Dr. Pani at the FDA. Commissioner Goyan said that if Pani had possessed this
information and not provided it to the FDA, it would be grounds for his dismissal
from the agency.
It looked like the FDA had a real health problem with DMSO—specifically,
eye toxicity in humans. Also, the agency learned that the odor-free DMSO, 87-2,
and another DMSO derivative called Satori, had no IND and no animal testing, but
were being distributed in interstate commerce and being used by the general
public. We saw at the start of this chapter that Jean Puccio almost daily paints on
87-2, which she acquired from Dr. Jacob. Use of this unapproved drug is illegal.
Dispensing it is a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Dr. Hensley brought all this information to the Inspector General of the United
States. “The Office of Inspector General went to the United States attorney in
Baltimore, because it is the judicial district, and briefed them on what they knew
of it,” said Dr. Hensley. “They interviewed a great many people during that week
[May 12, 1980] and had some very definite impressions as to what they ought to
do.”
The incident with which we opened
Chapter 2
, where FDA officials
holding a
Federal warrant entered Dr. Jacob’s office on November 10, 1980, looking for
documents on eye toxicity, is a direct outgrowth of this discovery and its eventual
public disclosure in the Congressional Record. In fact, one of the investigators
visiting Dr. Jacob’s office was Dr. Alan B. Lisook, who is Dr.


 back, we have to climb
uphill, pulse surpasses, one must relax. Well,
that in the mountains there is no heat and stuffiness, as in the city, clearly - I
would be in the city to pass such a hunger for what could not. Most
difficult period, certainly the day.
On the massage was just unconscious. No pain,
just relaxing. In the evening, she persuaded her friend to walk a little
- Also has to pass. Come to our place. Interestingly, at
Famine was called intuition, you start to feel the best
energy space, namely for the benefit of the organism. Goest
and you pull it to this place. Sit down to sleep - and immediately
becomes easier. Again otharknula piece of viscous, gray-green
sputum, breathing was easy, free. Probably my bronchitis
and incipient asthma came to an end. It certainly pleases and gives
stimulus. Phoned my husband, very my support, and encourages.
True, says, his voice has changed a lot and it was slow.
Of course, it is nice that it supports, after his talk was sorry
themselves, even the tears came. We must endure and suffer again, I must
come home healthy.
Seventh day of LFG. Pressure 100/70, pulse 55, weight 76.5 kg. Morning
they were all some slack, some have refused excursions
said that they would simply lie near the river, and read. At this time
we decided to go far from our base in the Botanical Gardens.
What I liked about this garden because it is the smell of herbs and a variety of
Altai herbal teas. We were invited for tours, but we
abandoned all together. Employees of the garden, of course, were amazed
our mind and thus the tourists. After the tour went to his
"Refrigerator", there has been a lot of our own. All just lie
talk to no one wants. My mouth unimaginably
330
330disgusting, viscous, foul. The most interesting thing that drinking has become
want less hunting just swim. But as they say
Sergei Ivanovich, the tougher the conditions the better the result. If
swim, then dry and thirsty several times increase. One
she bathed, yes, said first rush, but then much
worse. I wish I did not. I suffer. In principle, nothing
do not worry, though dry and there is, there is a thirst, weakness there, but
when you lay in a good cool place, then everything is tolerated. This
still better than to be patient and do the operation. Evening
Sergei Ivanovich said, probably the most joyful news ever
my life - "out in the morning!!! Of course, I tuned days
nine, but then we came on a double hunger, so that all
normal. Polpyatogo morning swim and we must start
drink V odicka, specially brought to us from St.
Silver source. Throughout the night, of course, none of us slept.
Gathered all of us, somewhere about four o'clock. But what does this buzz -
swim in our pond! Refrigeration does not feel the body
like thousands of needles pierced. After bathing, we started to drink
hot silver waters. At first it seemed to me bitter,
with bread taste (due to drug Linex), and bitterness, as he said
Sergei Ivanovich, due to plaque in the mouth. But then we have cleaned
teeth, rinse your mouth, the water became sweet. But what a delicious
a compote of dried apricots, who cooked us a Valentine's Day. All of us
the eyes have become transformed, eyes lit up, sparkled,
appeared pink blush on the cheeks. We drank slowly, savoring
every sip. in the evening we all already drunk, slept, slept
as children. On Valentine's dinner we cooked a delicious vegetable
broth. In the evening, just went to bed - and immediately fell asleep. Morning
We waited for sparse, in the form of soup, buckwheat. All day
went nowhere, just relax and enjoy the well-fed life.
In the evening Andrew cooked us a fish broth - I like that in life
ate. Output, of course, flying overnight. All we have prepared
Valentine was a very, very tasty. I liked it very,
as we went to Lake Teletskoe - is a mini-Baikal. Honestly
to say, I was afraid the second hunger - if I can again go through
such tests. But surprisingly, the second hunger was twice as
easier to dryness and thirst only appeared on the sixth day, the weakness
generally been tolerant. The second hunger I had for eight days.
The only thing on the night of the seventh to the eighth day I was
very high fever all night, had to sleep on the street. If, after
first hunger in the toilet normally, I went on the third day,
after the second hunger - on the second day, and intestines began to work
as a clock. My weight at the time of departure - 70 kg, the A / D - 120/80. Tomorrow
already home to a lot of energy, hunting all turn. Of course, not
want to leave after such a wonderful nature in the stuffy,
dirty city, but at home waiting for beloved husband and work.
331
331CONCLUSION
My dear reader, this book is written with the sole purpose of:
help people regain their lost health. and although the book
devoted to the seemingly dry subject of a relatively narrow therapeutic
starvation, the reader, I hope, could make sure that when it
talking about the human body, the conversation naturally grows narrow
framework of the chosen topic. I would like you to also thoroughly
wondered why a man overcomes illness. By and large, your
disease - a result of your wrong actions. Desire to get rid
from the disease - your battle with unreasonable habits which lead to
wrong actions, deeds, queries. Indeed, the purchase
disease is much easier than its cure. But if treated reasonably, it forces
and means (and this is important in these difficult times) will be allocated to
less. The main thing: not to panic after a doctor put you
diagnosis, and as soon as possible to act. Because the disease is better
treated until it is smarter and hid deeper. Any treatment
will be successful, including the method of dry fasting, when it is applied
time, and people set up to fight for his health to complete victory.
Even if the results of treatment are not visible at first, in no case
Do not give up, do not give up. Without faith in the healing you can not
will help neither the doctor nor the healer or sorcerer - none. Only
full confidence that you are cured, can bring you health.
And most importantly - that you believe in the best of their ability. in fact
that from any state of the disease, showing the will and perseverance of
any state of mind can go, at worst to get out
or crawl, turn 180 degrees and go in the opposite
side. This is - never too late. Weak and sick people to become
only when he agrees to be named. Installing "I am strong",
backed efforts to promote health, able to turn
the patient in a healthy and weak - a strong one. You can become much
stronger, younger and healthier than they were twenty years old, and to make this transition,
The transition is easy. And then you will want to preserve the newfound status. Thousands
people cope with it. You are not worse than them. they are now more
quality of life. Minor work to maintain their standards are not a burden - it
bears no comparison with the costs of illness. On this, perhaps,
possible and finish the book. I must admit, very much hope that you will find in it
something useful that will help you not only recover, but not sick
and maybe even write me or call on his comments
and proposals.
Thank you in advance.
With love and respect, Filonov Sergei Ivanovich.
Wellness Center Sinegorye "
Tel: 8 (3852) 424278, honeycomb. 8-903 911 2659
E-mail: sergey@filonov.net
Internet site: www. filonov.net.
Prior to the meeting and be healthy!
332
332CONTENTS
From the author................................................................................................ 3
Preface.......................................................................................... 7
Dry starvation in nature.................................................................. 12
- Why in the nature of many animal and plant
organisms fall into a different state of suspended animation...................... 12
- Hibernation amphibians............................................................ 15
- Do birds running into hibernation?............................... 20
- What are mammals fall into hibernation?....................... 22
- Is there a estivation in the animal world?............................ 27
- Uniqueness of the body camel.................................................. 30
- Natural and artificial hypobiosis man..................... 34
- Can yoga fall into suspended animation?.................................................... 43
- On the phenomenon of somatic.......................................................................... 56
Historical information about dry limotherapy......................... 60
- Secrets of the Japanese monks................................................................. 66
- Fasting and spiritual practices of the New Age................................ 69
- Interesting facts about dry fasting........................................ 82
- A woman who does not eat.................................................................. 86


’s volatile
oil, like that of garlic, has components that leave
the body via the respiratory system and aid the
coughing up of congested mucus. Asafoetida
is taken (usually in tablet form) for bronchitis,
bronchial asthma, whooping cough, and other
chest problems. Asafoetida also lowers blood
pressure and thins the blood. The herb has a
reputation for helping in neurotic states.
Related Species F. silphion  was used in ancient
Rome as a contraceptive. It was overharvested and
died out in about 300 ce. F. persica  is used in the
Middle East for rheumatic problems and backache.
The central Asian F. sumbul  is used as a nerve tonic.
F. jaeschkeana  has recently been investigated as a
potential contraceptive. See also F. gummosa
(following entry).
Caution While safe in adults, asafoetida may be
harmful to young babies.Constituents Galbanum exudate contains
a volatile oil, resins, gums, as well as a
coumarin (umbelliferone).
History & Folklore Galbanum has been used
medicinally for centuries.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Galbanum is a
digestive stimulant and antispasmodic, reducing
flatulence, cramps, and colic. It is also
expectorant. Applied as an ointment, the gum
may help heal wounds.
Related Species See asafoetida ( F. assa-foetida,
preceding entry).
Self-help Use Acidity & indigestion, p. 307.
Ficus benghalensis (Moraceae)
Banyan Tree
Description Tree growing to 65 ft (20 m) with
oval leaves, fig-type fruit, and roots that grow into
the ground from branches.
Habitat & Cultivation Growing wild in India
and Pakistan, the banyan tree is also cultivated
across the Indian subcontinent.
Parts Used Fruit, bark, leaves, latex,
aerial roots.
Constituents Banyan tree contains
ketones, sterols, ficusin, and bergaptin.
History & Folklore The banyan tree is
sacred to Hindus and is frequently found in
the proximity of Hindu temples. The god Shiva
is often shown sitting peacefully in the shade of
a banyan tree. The banyan tree is the national
tree of India.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The astringent
leaves and bark of the tree are employed to relieve
diarrhea and dysentery and to reduce bleeding. As
with other Ficus species, the latex is applied to hemorrhoids, warts, and aching joints. The fruit is
laxative and the roots are chewed to prevent gum
disease. The bark is used in Ayurvedic medicine
for diabetes.
Research In laboratory studies an extract of the
leaves was shown to counter diarrhea. Glycosides
in banyan have been shown to have an antidiabetic
activity, lowering blood-sugar levels.
Related Species See fig ( F. carica, following entry).
Caution The latex is toxic and should not be
taken internally.
Ficus carica (Moraceae)
Fig
Description  Deciduous tree growing to 13 ft
(4 m). Has large leaves and fleshy receptacles that
ripen into purple-brown, pear-shaped fruit.
Banyan tree leaves are astringent and are used to tighten
mucous membranes.Ferula gummosa syn. F. galbaniflua
(Apiaceae)
Galbanum
Description Perennial with a smooth, hollow
stem, finely toothed compound leaves, and umbels
of small white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to central
Asia, galbanum produces a gum that is obtained
when stems are cut off and successive slices are
made through the roots. Gum wells to the surface
and is collected after it has hardened.
Part Used Oleo-gum-resin.Fig’s pulpy flesh is
emollient and soothing
to inflamed skin.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to western
Asia, fig now grows wild and is cultivated in many
temperate and subtropical regions. Fruit is
harvested in summer.
Parts Used Fruit, latex.
Constituents Figs contain around 50% fruit
sugars (mainly glucose), flavonoids, vitamins,
and enzymes.
History & Folklore The fig leaf was used
by Adam and Eve to hide their nakedness in the
Garden of Eden. There are many other references
to the plant in the Old Testament, mainly to the
sweetness of the fruit and to its use as a medicine.
Spartan athletes in Ancient Greece were said to
eat figs in order to improve their performance.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The fruit sugars
within the fig (especially the dried fruit) have a
pronounced but gentle laxative effect; syrup of figs
is still a remedy for mild constipation. The fruit’s
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other medicinal plantsFicus religiosa
emollient pulp helps relieve pain and inflammation,
and it has been used to treat tumors, swellings, and gum abscesses—the fruit often being roasted before application. Figs are also mildly expectorant and, when used with herbs such as elecampane (Inula helenium, p. 107), are helpful in treating dry and irritable coughs and bronchitis. The milky latex from leaves and stems is reputed to be analgesic, and has long been used to treat warts, insect bites, and stings.
Related Species Research published in 1999
showed that an extract of leaves of F. racemosa,  a native of northern India, had a marked protective activity on the liver in rats. The juice  and powdered bark of the Central American  F. cotinifolia are applied to wounds and bruises.  F. indica is used in Ayurvedic medicine as a tonic, diuretic, and treatment for gonorrhea. F. lacor  is used in Chinese herbal medicine to induce sweating, while F. retusa, which is native to China, Indonesia, and Australia, is used in the Chinese tradition to treat toothache and tooth decay. See also banyan tree (F. benghalensis, preceding entry) and peepal (F. religiosa, following entry).
Cautions The latex is toxic and should not be
used internally. Applied to the skin, it may cause  an allergic reaction to sunlight.Foeniculum vulgare (Apiaceae)
Fennel
Description Aromatic perennial growing to
about 5 ft (1.5 m). Has dark green, feathery leaves, umbels of yellow flowers, and small, ridged, oval-shaped seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
Mediterranean region, fennel is now cultivated in temperate regions around the world. The seeds are gathered in autumn.
Parts Used Seeds, essential oil.
Constituents “Sweet” fennel seeds contain
about 8% volatile oil (about 80% anethole, plus fenchone and methylchavicol), flavonoids, coumarins (including bergapten), and sterols.  The volatile oil relieves gas and is antispasmodic. “Bitter” fennel seeds contain significantly higher levels of fenchone.
History & Folklore Dioscorides, in the 1st
century ce, states that “the juice, when put into the eye, aids vision, and into the ear, kills the worms (i.e. bacteria) that develop there.”eyewash for sore eyes and conjunctivitis. The  seeds have a longstanding reputation as an  aid to weight loss and to longevity. Essential oil from the sweet variety is used for its digestive  and relaxing properties. It also has estrogenic activity and may prove helpful in relieving menopausal symptoms.
Cautions Fennel seeds are potentially toxic; do
not exceed the recommended dose. Do not take the essential oil internally.
Self-help Uses Acidity & indigestion, p. 307;
Morning sickness & nausea, p. 317; Stomach spasm, p. 305; Gas & bloating, p. 306.
Forsythia suspensa (Oleaceae)
Weeping Forsythia,
Lian Qiao (Chinese)
Description Deciduous shrub growing to
16 ft (5 m). Has toothed leaves, bright yellow flowers, and woody fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to China
and Japan, weeping forsythia is grown for its bright yellow blossoms in temperate gardens all over the world. The fruit is harvested in autumn, just before it is fully ripe.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents The fruit contains flavonoids,
including rutin, lignans, glycosides, and forsythin. Research suggests that forsythin is antimicrobial, anti-emetic, and anti-inflammatory.
History & Folklore Weeping forsythia was
first listed in the Divine Husbandman’s Classic (Shen’nong Bencaojing), written in the 1st century ce. Weeping forsythia features in a remedy for


 As such an experience never causes me to have a cold, I wonder why he so
readily develops a cold when thus “exposed.” He discounts the idea that being in good condition
will enable one to avoid colds, but his reasons for objecting to this idea are rather shaky.
In his youth he used to have four severe colds a year—at a time when he was an athlete, a track
man, a swimmer and an instructor in a gymnasium—although he would take a cold bath every
morning and run three or four miles every evening.
Unfortunately for his position, his activities do not necessarily prove that he was in genuinely
good condition. Athletes are notorious for their frequent colds. Alvarez has accepted the common
faulty conception of what constitutes good condition. A plethoric and toxemic individual may pass
for being in good condition. He says: “We are told to eat well and get plenty of sleep.” He neither
approves nor disapproves of this advice. I would point out that what is commonly meant by “eating
well” is overeating and eating plentifully of staple foods. This is a sure way to build colds, not to
prevent them.
I do not dismiss exposure to cold, however, as a contributing factor in the production of a cold
any more than I am willing to dismiss becoming overheated as a contributing factor in the same
complex of factors that collectively constitute cause. Prolonged exposure to cold enervates and
this checks elimination.
Those who are already enervated and toxemic, when exposed to cold, have their elimination
further checked and this is frequently enough to
precipitate a crisis, in this case a cold. It should be
realized that when one is already enervated and toxemic any added enervating influence will place
enough additional check upon elimination that a crisis is sure to develop.
What happens is that the added check upon elimination causes the toxic accumulation to rise
above the point of established toleration and the body rebels. A channel of supplementary
elimination is established through which to get rid of the excess.
Copavin,
 the drug considered the best by Alvarez, was the only one that Diehs thought “worked
84well." This drug, which contains codeine, was said to “block out” about 85% of colds, but it was
“effective” only if taken early. It does not
cure
 the cold later. The fact is that the many “block outs”
attributed to this drug would have occurred had the drug not been given. Colds last anywhere from
a few hours to two or three weeks. Almost anything can be made to appear to
cure
 the cold for the
reason that recovery is spontaneous and occurs if nothing is done.
Copavin
 results in constipation
and troubles many nervous patients. It does not remove the cause of the cold.
What should we do when the first symptom of a cold arises? All food should be discontinued at
once. Instead of large quantities of water, as commonly advised, only as much water as thirst
demands should be taken. Indeed, it seems that the less water taken the more rapid the recovery.
The fast should not be less than twenty-four hours, it may be three or four days in duration,
depending on the severity of the symptoms.
Following the fast, eating should be light for the first few days: orange or a grapefruit—no sugar
—for breakfast, a vegetable salad at noon, and fresh fruit in season in the evening, for the first one
to two days, after which the eating should be sparse until all symptoms have subsided.
While fasting, the best place for the patient is in bed. He should be warm and comfortable and
should have fresh air in the room both day and night. A daily lukewarm bath may be taken, but no
heroic bathing is advisable. If it is not possible to quit work and go to bed, one should obtain as
much rest as circumstances permit and get to bed early at night.
If these simple suggestions are carried out, no cold will evolve into pneumonia. Prolonging a
cold by eating and by suppressing its symptoms with drugs, may end in death.
Fasting does not
cure
 a cold. One may get well of a cold if one eats heartily, drinks heavily, gets
little sleep, works hard and is chilled by day. People have been doing this throughout history. All
that we claim for the foregoing fasting program is that it greatly lessens the discomforts of the cold,
shortens its duration and leaves the patient in much better condition when the cold has ended.
8520
Multiple Sclerosis
Widespread fund-raising campaigns to fight the crippling effects of this disease, and to perform
research into its cause and treatment, have made multiple sclerosis familiar to the public. Yet there
may be some basic causes already known in terms of diet and activities of the individual and even
possible avenues of recovery in the fast.
I recall a case of an optometrist whose condition became so bad that he had to give up his work
and turn his office over to someone else. For a few years he had been under the care of several of
the best neurologists of the East and, as they had warned him at the outset, had grown
progressively worse. They had frankly told him that they had no
cure
 for multiple sclerosis.
They were telling him the truth, yet after seven weeks in a
Hygienic
 institution, he walked out
under his own power, returned home and resumed his professional activities.
He was not a well man at the end of seven weeks. It is too much to expect a full recovery in such
a short time. But he had made such great improvement that he felt justified in returning home and
getting back to work. This is often a wrong position to take, especially with a condition like
multiple sclerosis, but it is a mistake that the sick frequently make.
Many patients seem to be satisfied to stop their efforts in recovering health when they have been
freed of their most annoying symptoms. They are often unwilling to go on to full health, and are
convinced they can take care of themselves. After having made a certain amount of initial
improvement they expect to take charge and they feel they can carry on, from that point, as well as
their professional adviser. In a few cases it works out; generally they fail. In cases watched and
controlled, results of fasting can be established.
Sclerosis means induration or hardening. It has special reference to hardening of a part due to
inflammation. In the nervous system the term denotes an overgrowth of connective tissue
(hyperplasia of connective tissue) in the nerve tissue.
Multiple sclerosis—also called disseminated sclerosis and sometimes
known as Charcot’s
disease—is characterized by hardening (sclerosis) occurring in sporadic patches through the brain
and spinal cord or both. These hardened patches range from the size of a pin head to that of a pea
and are scattered irregularly through the brain and cord.
At autopsy, it is found that the insulating sheath of the nerves is broken down and the nerve cells
and fibers have fused together. I have emphasized that this is what is found at autopsy for the
reason that the trouble does not start as a sclerosis (hardening), but as an inflammation.
A man dies after suffering with multiple sclerosis for fifteen or twenty years and an autopsy is
performed. His brain and nervous system are subjected to the closest scrutiny and certain
pathological changes are found. But this is the end-point. What was the condition of his nerves five
years, ten years or fifteen years prior to death? It is reasonable to think that if the condition of the
nerves was the same five years or ten years prior to death that they are found to be in at death, he
would have died five to ten years earlier.
The disease is said to be “incurable.” It may last for years before the patient dies. The end-
point, as found at death, is certainly irreversible, but can we be sure that the earlier stages of the
disease are irreversible? The very progress of the disease would seem to negate such an
assumption. In the inflammatory stage of the disease it would certainly seem to be remediable.
86Indeed, spontaneous remissions are known that may last for weeks or even years. Once the
hardening has occurred, there would seem to be no possibility that the disease could intermit, or
that recovery could be effected.
A fatty insulating material called the myelin sheath, which surrounds the nerves, is lost and this
is said to cause abnormal nerve behavior. Some of the nerves work energetically, some work very
weakly and others fail to work at all.
No two cases are alike because in no two cases are the same parts of the brain and nervous
system affected. The development of the hardening does not progress at the same rate in each case,
and does not take place at the same rate at all points in the body of the same patient. For the reason
that no two cases are identical, no description of the disease will fit any particular case.
Among the leading symptoms of the disease are weakness, strong jerky movements,
incoordination of the extremities that is often more marked in the arms than in the legs, and
amemomania, which is a form of insanity with agreeable hallucinations. Also other abnormal
mental exaltations, scanning speech and an involuntary rapid movement of the eyes, called
nyastagmus are evident. The tremor is jerky, is increased by voluntary efforts to restrain it, and is
entirely absent during complete rest and sleep, returning when movements are resumed.


 bolus "for convenient swallowing. Now it is recognisedthat there is some mouth digestion. In themeantime Pawlow * has demonstrated that thepsychic influence has much to do with digestion.Cannon, also, has shown by the evidence of theRöntgen rays that mental states retard andeven stop entirely the digestive processes thatare going on in the stomach, and has asserted,as has also Pawlow, that the stomach digestivejuices flow in response to the reports andstimulation of taste, pouring out into the cavityof the stomach juices appropriate for thedigestion of the particular food being tasted, inadvance of its arrival in the stomach.
This evidence, confirming my own secured by
concentrated and unremitting study of the effectof head digestion on health and recuperativereconstruction, is proof enough that there is animportant department of nutrition that can beproperly called head digestion.
* Dr. Prof. J. P. Pawlow, Director of the Department of
Experimental Physiology in the Russian Imperial Military
School of Medicine, &c.MY STUDY  OF THE SUBJECT
began with the tip from Mother Logic—that
the full extent of the personal responsibility innutrition is located in the head before the foodis swallowed. That is what led me toconcentrate on the mouth as the field of ourresponsibility which had been neglected byScience. Even the Dental Profession as a wholehad not at that time " tumbled " to the fact thatthey were occupied professionally andconstantly in a field of " Preventive Medicine "as important as now they find it.
Everybody had supposed that the digestion of
food was effected only in the stomach and smallintestines. This may be true, in a narrow sense,but it can be arrested and completely stopped,by the head. Furthermore, digestion can be asmuch assisted by favourable head influence asit can be obstructed by unfavourable headtreatment.
This being so, as everybody knows, or can
easily learn, what follows as a logical sequence?
Here is a physiological eye-opener, as it
dawns upon the business physiologist. Theobvious inference is that if the head can makedigestion easy or stop it altogether, the stomach
being a subservient, mechanical, and chemicalservant of the head in the matter, we mayproperly declare that the master-key ofdigestion is held by the head, and we may safelysay that there is Head Digestion.
THE MOUTH  AS A DIGESTIVE  ORGAN.
The logical continuation of the search for the
location of responsibility for good or poordigestion leads us to consider the question of" Division of Labour " as apportioned by theLaws of Normality. All the laboratory evidence Ihave seen confirms my own observations of thepast fifteen years that Nature assures goodresults if we are thoroughly faithful to our headresponsibility during the treatment of food up tothe point of swallowing. From that timedigestion has been rendered so easy bythorough mouth preparation that it mayproceed smoothly even if the mental states arenot pleasant. Here, too, we discover that easydigestion reacts favourably on the mentalityand exerts a calming influence.
Some observers declare that idiots digesttheir food quite easily. The less mental clarity
they possess the better for their metabolism.This does not argue in favour of the absence ofmental influence, for the idiot is a sensualist,and in the relief from mental excitement findsenjoyment of taste and the satisfaction ofappetite as agreeable as do the animals undersimilar favourable conditions.
Quite recently, when I was personally under
observation by Dr. Professor Zuntz in Berlin, totest the ease of my digestion of food ascompared with others who paid less attention tomouth treatment of it, the good professorinstructed me to " be as nearly like a littleanimal as possible, thinking nothing ofanything." This isn't as easy for a "live-wirethinking outfit " as for an idiot, or as for aningenuous little animal having no thought forthe morrow, but the business physiologist doesnot scorn to go anywhere for light on Nature'srequirements. One thing is sure, the personwho has been faithful to his personalresponsibility by starting the process ofdigestion as Nature demands can relax andenjoy metabolic and mental calm in delightfulharmony more easily than one who has gluttonyon his conscience and the wages of sinning on
his stomach. These wages look big to theswollen greed of cultivated gluttony, but theyare as bad as they are big, and the best way tobe convinced of this fundamentally importantfact is to realize the potency of head digestionfor well or ill, and give it a practical trial.
The key to good digestion is in the head, and
the sooner mankind comes to realize thisimportant truth the quicker will come themillennium of nutrition normality.
DR. CANNON 'S RESEARCHES.
I have just been reading Professor Walter B.
Cannon's book in the Arnold MedicalMonograph Series, entitled " The MechanicalFactors of Digestion." I have learned manyvaluable lessons from the intestinalobservations of Dr. Cannon, and have seen theshadows he describes on his fluorescent screenunder his practised guidance, and, with hisgenerous permission, quoted him extensively inmy book, The A.B.—Z. of Our Own Nutrition.
It seems that we began our quest for light on
the mechanics and mentality of digestion byobjective observation about the same year, 1898.He took a hop, skip and jump over the three
inches of the alimentary canal that is ourpersonal responsibility and, with the aid ofbismuth blackened food and a Röntgen-rayapparatus, began to study the movementsincident to digestion by the shadows cast on thescreen. For this purpose he principally usedfemale cats, because they were more amenablethan male cats to the torture of being tied flat toa cloth with the possible fear that they werecondemned to death as well as to inactivity.Even the use of pink or blue ribbons as bands ofbondage under the circumstances does not luretheir cat-ladyships into the quietude demandedfor normal movements of digestion, and malecats will not " stand for it " at all.
For ten years or more Professor Cannon and
his assistants were devoted to these DarkChamber X-ray observations, and in themeantime wading through hundreds of volumesof Physiological Archives for reports of other
intestinal investigations. The fruit of thisthoroughness of research is more than 400references to reported data and conclusionsextending back to the dawn of Physiology.To one who has followed the accounts of the
" Diddings " in the " Old Man Greenlaw's LiquorSaloon in Arkansas City," as given weekly inthe New York Sunday Sun, these researches
seem to be governed by the strict rules of" Draw Poker." Eventually all of the cards (orevidence) go into the " discard," confirming SirMichael Foster's dictum, to the effect that" the more we learn of Physiology the more weknow how little we really know."
I recommend everybody to get Dr. Cannon's
book and turn at once to page 74, and readabout the importance of mastication in securingeasy digestion free from fermentation. Thenturn to page 217 and read his conclusionsrelative to the influence of the emotions ondigestion. Put these two statements together,and then judge for yourself if it is claiming toomuch to say that there is really Head Digestion,and that it is in the field of personalresponsibility, in the mouth and in the brain,that good or bad digestion—right or mal-nutrition—are inaugurated. You will find theliterary quality of Dr. Cannon's book sofascinating, no matter whether you know themeaning of the terms used or not, that you will
enjoy it like a novel. It has the charm of thediction of Sir Michael Foster and SherlockHolmes combined, with enough of the solving ofthe secrets of the alimentary canal to satisfy themost exacting imagination.
If a taste for the inner mysteries has been
acquired by the reading of Professor Cannon'sbook, further desires in that direction may besatisfied by reading the physiological prosepoem by Professor Chittenden, in praise of headdigestion as the acme of sensual pleasure, It is agem, and is quoted in Chapter VII. following, insupport of the contention of this chapter. Thispoem appears in the book The Nutrition of Man
(as studied mainly in starving dogs), and onewonders why such a pearl of practical, every-day, Kindergarten, domestic usefulness shouldbe "thrown to the dogs," so to speak.CHAPTER VII
CHITTENDEN ON CAREFUL CHEWING
A Physiological Prose Poem.
IT is difficult to imagine a more pleasurable
Epicurean felicity than that described byProfessor Russell H. Chittenden, of theSheffield Scientific School, of Yale University,in America, as the result of careful masticatingand thorough tasting of the commonest of foods.
Professor Henry Pickering Bowditch, of
Harvard University Medical School, like SirMichael Foster and all the most eminentphysiologists, were quick to appreciate therevelations of the Cambridge investigation ofFletcherizing as indicating the discovery of themissing link in the chain of processes necessaryfor securing good digestion and healthynutrition, but they looked on it as a question ofprofitable economy rather than material forpoetic enthusiasm.
It was given to Professor Chittenden to
discover the rarest merit of decent eating; thepoliteness of it, as well as the poetry; thatelement of respectability which will eventually
recommend it to the socially-refined as one ofthe civilised fine arts ; that expression ofappreciation which is due to Mother Nature