 an unnatural stale substance now known as oxy-
cholesterol, which is not found in fresh food or in the healthy human body. Similar mistakes have been made countless times by other scientists, using various unnatural
mixtures of stale processed foods in feeding trials for testing purposes, and then
assuming the choked artery results were typical of cholesterol foods. The cholesterol
theory for practical purposes is untrue, and its formulation was most unfortunate
because it deceived the world for fifty four years and indirectly caused untold deaths and misery by delaying discovery of th e true cause and cure. Many people have
needlessly been deprived of meat and eggs because of diets based on the deceptive Russian theory. 8. EFFECTS OF FRESH FOOD ON HUMANS
   It has been demonstrated that people adopting the fresh food diet have experienced
many benefits. Even though eating much meat, fat, eggs, and fresh raw milk every
day, blood cholesterol content has dropped  to levels usually found in young children. High blood pressure has dropped  to normal or below. Signs of arteriosclerosis in the
eyes, etc., have disappeared. Arthritis ha s been cured. Ear noises and high tone
deafness have been corrected. Enlarged pr ostate gland and fibrous enlarged womb
have returned to normal. Tooth decay and dental calculus or tartar have been stopped. Youthful vigor and appearance have been partially restored. Excess fat has been reduced and posture improved. Remarkable improvement in growth and health of
children has been obtained. For example:
   A fifty eight year old black man was prematurely aged, with a bent posture,
shuffling gait, irises of the eyes nearly c overed by the light gray atherosclerotic haze
called "arcus senilis," and skin the color of ashes. Given fresh food and fresh milk,
this man began to straighten up within ten days, and within a month was dramatically
improved. In two months his eyes had nearly cleared up so the natural brown color
was revealed, his skin was a smooth rich br own color, and he walked straight and
strong. Previously scorned as a worn out ol d man, he bought stylish new clothes, grew
a sharp mustache and sideburns, cut a swath among the ladies and had some fights. He told me they said "What is Mr. Ford doing to you? You are young  again!" A fourteen year old boy was put on good fresh food after a previous life on stale
food. Initially this boy was chalky pale, had poor thin hair, pimples, narrow shoulders and was a mouth breather with thick half closed eyelids. Receiving fresh food and
new raw milk, in a few months this boy was growing rapidly, had clear ruddy skin
and thick hair, alert eyes and kept his mouth closed. He soon developed a broad
shouldered herculean virility seldom seen in these times, with a muscular six foot two
hundred pound physique of awesome power. He attracted favorable comment wherever he went and was called the "jolly pink giant." But on going away to school
and eating stale food again, this young Hercules became pale and fat, his teeth decayed and he developed a hernia. A three year old child who was very th in and wretched, with a sad wizened face and
twisted jaw, was given an unlimited daily supply of new raw milk from a cow eating
green young oat and rye grass. On tasting the milk, this child refused all other food
and drink for several days and drank milk by the quart. Within a few weeks she grew so fast she had to have a whole new set of clothes, and became ruddy, happy and
robust. Upon sighting me even 100 yards away, she would shout "I love your milk, I
love your milk." Previously hardly leaving her mother's arms, this child turned into a
jumping jack. Her jaw straightened up to normal and she became an outstanding child in every way. 9. EXCESSIVE FATNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS
   Normal fat is a fluid oil stored in tiny living fat cells, is springy and well distributed
over the body producing an attractive appearance. But in modern people eating stale
foods, abnormal fat is developed in which many of the fat cells are dead and large
amounts of deteriorated fatty substances accumulate outside the cells as junk material. This is the type of flabby bloated fatness which people find repulsive and go on
starvation diets to avoid. This "stale food" type of fatness is hard to reduce, because
the fat is a semi-dead material which the body cannot utilize in the normal way even though almost starved. On the other hand, fat from fresh food is a "living" material,
and can be rapidly utilized and removed when the food intake is reduced. It has been demonstrated that the fresh food diet is an effective reducing diet, yet
maintains ample food intake to prevent hunger and permit full activity. The fat leaves first under the throat and in the abdomen, and within a few months lumpy dead fat is
removed throughout and a more attractive posture and figure obtained. 10. SEX AND STALE FOOD
   In experimental work it sometimes happens that unsought but useful results are
stumbled upon by good fortune. This occurred in my arteriosclerosis work and an
important relationship between stale food and sex was found. The accompanying picture shows the results of feeding pasteurized homogenized
milk to roosters, which caused severe stunting of the male sex glands or testicles. The
small deformed and diseased glands on the left came from roosters fed the store milk, whereas the large powerful gland on the right came from a rooster fed new raw milk. These results were typical of fifteen  roosters in each group, fed for a period of one
year starting with baby chicks. The store milk roosters did not develop big combs and
plumes, and some could hardly be distinguished from hens. They could not breed, and
were dejected spiritless birds. On the other hand, the male chicks receiving new raw milk grew rapidly into huge splendid roosters, fierce, powerful, and ready to fight or
breed on a second's notice. A few of the sex-inhibited roosters were  taken out of the experiment and given no
more milk. They recovered and became sexua lly active, but never reached the great
size and strength of the raw milk roosters. Similar testing was done with female ch ickens, and no sexual disturbances occurred. The only outward difference was that the raw milk hens were a little larger and better
looking. All chickens male and female which were fed store milk had greatly enlarged livers
of a light yellow color and fatty texture, whereas the raw milk chickens had normal
wine-red livers. No noticeable arteriosclerosis occurred on either milk. Other testing in later years revealed that male goats and rabbits also became
sexually deteriorated when fed mostly on stale food of any kind, not necessarily milk. Some of these male animals fed in confinement on commercial rabbit pellets or hay
and grain had infant sized sex glands even though full grown. Aside from actual deterioration of the sex glands, feeding of stale food was found to
depress sexual activity among even the normal goats of both sexes. Confined goats
fed hay and grain were dejected spiritless animals and very little breeding occurred. But within a few weeks after feeding fresh vegetation daily, these unhappy animals would cheer up and Cupid's arrows begin to fly. These findings are really not surprising, for Nature has evidently set controls upon
sex to discourage pregnancy during periods of poor food supply. An animal, or human, becoming pregnant when food was very scarce or poor would probably lose
her baby, and might well lose her life too. These results correspond very well to conditions among modern people. The young
women nowadays seem much the same as always, but many boys do not reach the age
of puberty until nearly twenty, and a large number remain sexually undeveloped or
perverted. Many doctors and marriage counselors have published articles telling of the
great numbers of wives who are finding their husbands inadequate. Our young men are adopting feminine hair styles and clothes, lacking pride of manhood. Female sex
is flaunted on every side, and skirts are going higher and higher, in an attempt to
awaken failing male interest. Any such display in earlier times when men were normal would have caused a stampede. The birth rate in the western industrialized
nations is dropping, but is holding up or rising in more primitive lands where people
eat fresher food. Sex among modern people is becoming more and more a neurotic
frustrated fixation, rather than the wholesome and dynamic physical relationship
designed by Nature. Large numbers of modern youths are unhappy and neurotic, protesting against a civilization with which they are somehow dissatisfied. They are constantly seeking something, but are not sure what it is. What they really lack is the fresh food to complete the structure of their physical bodies, so they can attain the
powers which are their natural birthright. If these unhappy youngsters could receive
high quality fresh food for a year or so, most of them would turn out to be as normal
as could be desired. 11. MICROBES AND MAN
   As Dr. René Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute has so well put it, all around us is
the "Unseen World" of microbes, or germs if you will, the tiny microscopic forms of
life which swarm in uncountable billions in the soil, water, air, or vegetation and in
the bodies of men and animals. The bacteria, viruses, protozoa, algae, fungi, plankton, and so on exist in many thousands of different kinds


 throat. Aching in the chest. Night sweats, especiallyaround the head (Silicea, Nat Mur). Hawking toclear throat. Cough in anemic persons or teethingchildren. Circulatory organs – Intercurrently in most
cases of heart trouble. Poor circulation, with coldextremities. Palpitation of the heart, followed byweakness. Leukemia (excess of white corpusclesin the blood). Back and extremities – Calc Phos, appropri-
ately named “the bone r emedy,” plays an impor-
tant role in disease located in the back andextremities. Curvature of the spine (used in con-junction with mechanical supports). Numbness
and coldness of the limbs. Pains and aching in
the joints. Cold sensations in the limbs, as if
cold water were being poured over them. Pains
in the bones, especially the shinbones. Painworse at night and in cold, damp weather. Rheumatism of the joints and in the backbetween the shoulders; very severe and worseat night or during rest. Lumbago (Ferrum
Phos). Hydroma patella (swelling of the kneecaps), cysts. Hydrops (swelling). Articular(joint) spinal irritation. Injuries of the coccyx. Infants are slow in learning to walk, and theirbones are soft and friable. Bowlegs (used in con-
junction with mechanical supports). In chil-dren, thin neck (Nat Mur). Broken bones; thissalt is essential to facilitate the deposit of extramaterial necessary for their mending. Rickets:“This disease appears to consist essentially inthe nondeposition of phosphate of lime in theosteoid (bone) tissues” (from Thomas’ Medical
Dictionary, as cited by Dr. Carey. In the case of
syphilis, inflammation of the periosteum (bonecovering). Ulcers and abscesses, when deep-seated on the bones or joints. Neuralgia, whendeep-seated as if on the bone, commencing atnight (Silicea). Pain in limbs, restlessness, limbsfall asleep; better when moving them. Nervous symptoms – Neuralgia, which is
worse at night, colic, cramps, spasms, convul-sions, etc. (take if Mag Phos fails to relieve thesesymptoms). Convulsions in teething children,young girls, and old people, when the lime saltsare deficient. Paralysis, when associated withrheumatism. Fatigue and weariness. Pains very
severe at night, with sensation of creepingnumbness and coldness. Pains shoot all overthe body like electrical shocks and, at othertimes, like trickling cold water. Skin – Eruptions on the skin, when the dis-
charge is thick and clear. Pimples, acute orchronic, with itching. Itchy skin, without erup-tions. Eczema, with yellowish-white crust. Facefull of pimples. Scrofulous affections, intercur-rently. Dry skin. Skin itching and burning, asfrom nettles. Perspiration on hands from spinalweakness. Lupus, with characteristic symptoms. Pruritus (itching) of vagina, with or withoutthick, clear leucorrhea (Nat Mur). Freckles(apply a 10 percent solution of cell salt in waterto the face). Chafed skin (Nat Mur). Acnerosacea. T ubercles (nodules) on the skin. Scalyherpes on the shins. Tissues – Bones weak, easily broken; when
broken, bones will not unite or, when new bonematerial is needed. Rickets. Tabes, or atrophy ofany organ tissue. Poor nutrition through indi-
gestion. Ulceration of bone substance. Stuntedgrowth. Defective development, with pale,greenish-white complexion. Polyps. Disease ofthe pancreas. Emaciation, chlorosis, anemia. Intercurrently in all bone affections, constitu-tional weakness. As a tonic for delicate, anemicpersons (Ferrum Phos). All ailments caused bya deficiency or disturbance in the phosphate oflime (Calc Phos) molecules. Febrile conditions – Chilliness and shiver-
ing, when beginning of fever (Ferrum Phos). Excessive perspiration, night sweats in cases of
phthisis (tuberculosis). Phthisis. Cold, clammysweat on the face and body. After typhoid and
other fevers, as the disease recedes, to promotethe deposit of new material in place of thatdestroyed. Sleep – Restless sleep due to worms (Nat
Phos), drowsiness, sleepiness, difficulty wakingin the morning. Vivid dreams. Modalities – Symptoms are generally worse
at night in damp, cold weather (Nat Sulph), with
change of weather, upon getting wet, etc. Better
in warm weather and in warm room. FACIAL SIGNS OF CALCPHOS
DEFICIENCY
A waxy appearance is often seen on areas
with cartilage such as the nose, ears, etc. Themore facial surface having this waxy quality, thegreater the deficiency. Ears may appear waxy on the cartilage and
ear muscle. Look for a waxy intensity. Eyebrows Look for a waxy appearance to the
skin. There may also be waxy-looking stripescoming diagonally from the eyebrows. White spots on the teeth and nails show a
Calc Phos deficiency. We also see teeth withtranslucent tips (Calc Fluor). Stretched cheekbone musculature is another
sign. People with this symptom exhibit a biting orhard-bitten look or character, as though life hasdealt them a hard hand. Small lips also suggest a hard life. These sig-
nify poor mineral absorption. Yogurt appearance, a creamy-whitish look. This can occur in the case of Calc Sulph deficien-cy as well. THERAPEUTIC INDEX OF CALCPHOS
Adapted from: Therapeutic Index (1890) by Dr. W. H. Schuessler
Anemia, first remedy. Bone diseases, see also Rickets. 32 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIESCalc Phos
Summary
ORGAN AND TISSUE AFFINITIES
Nutrition, bones, tendons, teeth,
protein binder,muscles, cartilage, chest. MODALITIES
Symptoms worse < teething, loss of
fluids, exposure to cold, wet wind,thinking of symptoms, puberty, eatingfruit. Symptoms better > summer warmth,
dry weather, lying down, rest. DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS
Muscles are sensitive to cold. White
marks on fingernails and teeth. Tips ofteeth are translucent. DISEASE CONDITIONS
Bone problems, weak ankles,
teething problems, osteoporosis, spinabifida, stiff neck, rickets. CHAPTER 4: C ALCPHOS 33Calc Phos (a)
The tips of the teeth clearly show the translucent quality of a Calc Phos deficiency. A Calc Fluor deficiency
can also show up as translucence of the teeth. The chin is red and thus shows a Nat Phos deficiency. Thereare brownish spots on the skin that show a Kali Sulph deficiency. Calc Phos (b)
This picture shows a Calc Phos deficiency with a waxy appearance around the eyes, root of the nose and
into the eyebrows. The redness of the cheeks shows a Kali Mur deficiency. 34 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIES
CHAPTER 4: C ALCPHOS 35Calc Phos (c)
This woman shows a Calc Phos deficiency by the waxy appearance around her eyes, nose and forehead. She also has a Nat Phos deficiency because of the appearance of the red acne blemishes. The brownish-black of the inner eye area is a Calc Fluor deficiency sign. The middle of her forehead has a greenish tinge,suggestive of a Nat Sulph deficiency. Calc Phos (d)
This woman has the Calc Phos deficiency symptoms of a waxy appearance of the root of the nose, eyes
and into the eyebrows. She has the reddish overlay indicative of a Mag Phos deficiency, and a Calc Fluordeficiency can be noted in the raised pattern in the corner of the eyes. The bags under her eyes denote aNat Sulph deficiency. Her squinting appearance, horizontal lines on the root of the nose, and short eye-brows also show a hypothyroid condition. Such conditions accompany a weak liver. Another sign of livermalfunction is seen in the greenish appearance, a Nat Sulph deficiency. 36 FACIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CELLSALTDEFICIENCIES
CHAPTER 4: C ALCPHOS 37Cancer, in scrofulous (swelling of the lymph
nodes) constitutions. Catarrh (mucus congestion), in chronic or ane-
mic persons. Chlorosis (greenish tint to skin) type of anemia. Convalescence, during and after acute diseases. Convulsions, from teething, without fever, if Mag
Phos fails. Cough, in consumption (tuberculosis). Delicacy, in growing girls and children. Diabetes mellitus. Diptheria, first remedy, to reduce the fever and
limit inflammation of throat. Dropsy (swelling), from non-assimilation or ane-
mia. Eczema, with anemia. E


,  but with equal justice you could
call it a syste m for curing delusions, for stripping away the
convincing quality of disease and letting a healthier reality
take its place. (The name itself suggest s that Ayurveda ismeant to be medicine in the broadest sense. It comes from
two Sanskrit roots, Ayus, or “life,” and Veda, which means
either “knowledge” or “science. ” The literal meaning, then,
is “science of life. ”)
Patients are curious to know what kinds of treatments are
speciﬁcally Ayurvedic—are there new pills to try, exercises,
diets, or more arcane Eastern therapies. I say yes to all of
these, but then with some embarrassment I have to add
that I spend much of my time just talking, trying to get
people not to be so convinced by their disease. In Ayurveda,
this is the ﬁrst and most important step in healing. As long
as the patien t is convinced by his symptoms, he is caught
up in a reality where “being sick” is the dominant input. The reason why meditati on is so important in Ayurveda is
that it leads the mind to a “free zone” that is not touched
by disease. Until you know that such a place exists, your
disease will seem to be taking over completely. This is the
principal delusion that needs to be shattered. It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then
become convinced by them, down to our very cells. A young
girl from Boston who went to college in Vermont was
brought in to see me recently by her parents. They had
become quite  distraught when she showed up in the middle
of spring term with sharp chest pains. These had set in
while she was recovering  from a cold and over a period of a
week became alarmingly severe. One night the girl had a
bad attack—she began to experience shortness of breath,
palpitations, and dizziness, eventually grow ing so
frightened that her parents rushed her to the nearest
emergency room. By the time they got there, the whole family was in a
state of near panic. The ER doctor listened to the girl’s
heart, detect ed that she had a slight heart murmur, and
decided to run an EKG, or electrocardiogram. The EKG
read-out showed occasio nal ectopic beats, mean ing extrabeats that were outside the heart rhythm. He then used
ultrasound to perform a more sophisticated test, called an
echo-cardiogram, from which he discerned an actual heart
defect. “She has mitral valve prolapse,” he informed the family. This meant that when one of her heart valves closed, it
ballooned inward, toward the chamber of the heart. “I want
her to spend the night here in the intensive care unit,” he
continued, and within an hour the girl was taken upstairs,
hooked to an intravenous drip of morphine for her pain,
and supplied with extra oxygen through small tubes taped
to her nose. Around her were heart -attack and stroke
victims, some  of them obviously dying. She found the whole
experience highly distressing and began to hallucinate
from the morphine as she drifted oﬀ to sleep. The next morning, a careful examination of her tests led
the doctors to diagnose that her pain was probably due not
only to the mitral valve prolapse but to pericarditis, an
inﬂammation of the peric ardium, the covering around the
heart. She was released on strong anti-inﬂammatory agents
for this, as well as beta blockers to slow her heart rate. The
pain in her chest subsided; however, she found it
impossible to tolerate the beta blockers—besides aﬀecting
the heart, these drugs attach to receptors in the brain,
causing drowsiness and mental disorientation. Her medications were changed, only to bring on new side
eﬀects and expand her constellation of symptoms. The new
prescriptions were meant to dilate her blood vessels, but
this lowered her blood pressure too much, causing her to
feel dizzy and nauseated; at times she would faint without
warning. She managed to tolera te these side eﬀects,
largely becau se she wanted to stay in school at any cost. Every time she tried to cut back on her medication, even
slightly, the original chest pain returned in full force,
accompanied by her other symptoms. She came home forsummer vacation and horriﬁed her parents by clutching her
chest one evening at dinner. She started to hypervent ilate
so severely that her mother went scurrying to ﬁnd a paper
bag for her to breathe into. Within a few minutes, she felt
violent heart palpitations, began to vomit, and eventually
passed out. Her parents sat up with her all that night and
many nights to come. Since there was nothing more that her doctors could do,
the family cast about for other approaches. They hit upon a
news story about Ayurveda, and one July day all three,
mother, father, and daughter, came to the Lancaster clinic. I took a very detailed medical history from the girl, looked
at her EKGs, and found myself quite surprised. “Your pain isn’t from your heart,” I told her, and to prove
it I pressed ﬁrmly on her sternum, the bone in the middle of
the chest that covers the heart. She ﬂinched. “You’re still
tender because what you originally had was an
inﬂammation there, where the rib cartilage and the
sternum meet. It is a condition called costo-chondritis,
which can sometimes set in after a cold or other viral
infection. ”
She and her parents looked startled, but I went on, taking
apart the puzzle piece by piece. On the night they had
rushed her to the ER, her high anxiety caused her to
exhibit the occasional ectopic, or extra, heartbeats. Her
main diagnosis, mitral valve prolapse, may occur in as
many as 10 percent of young women with slender builds
like hers. The reason for this is not known, nor is there
conclusive evidence for why it should cause any pain,
although in some patients it does. Similarly, the heart
murmur that comes with it does not seem to be dangerous. Her pericarditis was a misreading of her EKG—the violence
of her attack had probabl y made the ER doctor overanxious
to ﬁnd something wrong. The remaining symptoms—
nausea, vomiting, heart palpitations, dizziness, fainting,shortness of breath, and hyperventilation—were brought on
either by the medications or directly by her. “I have tried to go back to the moment when your
condition was born,” I said, “to show you how it built itself
up, step by step. In its present form, your disease is a
reﬂex. It is being kept alive by your own expectations. ”
At this point the girl’s parents looked quite oﬀended. I
knew the anxiety they felt sitting up all night, worr ying that
she might be in real dang er. To make the parents see that I
wasn’t blaming anybody, I told them about my experience
on the airplane when the No Smoking sign set my heart
going. Add a little more fear to the situation, and my
pounding heart could have been the start of a “heart
condition” just as convincing as their daughter’s. They were still uneasy. When their daughter suﬀered
stabbing chest pains, they thought of her as a victim of
illness; now I seemed to say that she was doing it to
herself. The era of mind-body medicine has made this an
extremely sore point. Life was simpler when a disease
without a germ was considered “all in your head. ” The
germs have largely been pushed back, but instead of
leaving us free of disease, this has made disease far more
enigmatic. Am I waiting  for cancer to strike me, or is my
personality giving it to me. This girl’s case is a perfect
example; A cardiologist might point to her heart defect as
the cause of her pain; a psychiatrist could say that the
defect didn’t do anythin g—the girl simply panic ked. The
drugs she took induced vomiting, but she still vomits when
they are removed. Her low blood pressure  can cause
fainting, but so can anxiety. Modern medicine has swung
back and forth debating these points endlessly. The result, according to patient surveys, is a huge
increase in guilt. There is such a ﬁne line between probing
a patient’s fears and fueling them. I have sat for hours
counseling people with cancer. They listen attentivelybecause “the doctor is talking. ” I tell them they can beat
the cancer, and they quickly, anxiously agree. But when I
am alone again, I am haunted by a terrible thought I see
lurking in their eyes: “You say I’m sick, but really I did it to
myself. ”
The girl had not spoke n for quite a while. “So I’m
creating this thing. ” she ﬁnally said. “No,” I replied,


/feet pose
Bring your right foot forward even with your left as you raise your
buttocks, keeping both hands on the floor beside your feet. Bend your
knees as you need to while exhaling. 11. Sky-r eaching pose
Slowly raise your body, leading with your hands until you are stretching
toward the sky; inhale as you straighten your spine. 12. Salutation pose
Once again return to this resting pose with your palms together in front
of your chest, breathing easily. These twelve postures constitut e one cycle. Do between four and twelve
rounds a t a time. Done vigorously, they can raise your heart rate  and provide
a ca rdiovascular  workout. Performed in a slow, relaxed manner, they will
have a calming ef fect on your b ody and mind. T ry using the Ujayi breath as
you are inhaling and exhaling during the poses. Keep your attention in your
body, re leasing a ny tension or re sistance you may feel. Listen to  your body’ s
signals while performing the poses for the optimal age-reversing mind/body
integration. Sitting Sun Salutes
Y ou can perform a sitting variation of the twelve Sun Salu tations with
almost the same benefit as doing them on the floor. They can be done atwork in your of fice chair or in an airplane seat. They will stre tch and tone
you while increasing your circulation. Sit comfortably on a firm chair with your feet resting solidly on the
floor. W ith your palms together in front of your chest, center your
awareness in your body, breathing easily. Reach your arms upward, stretching your shoulders and upper back
while you inhale. Bend forward, relaxing your spine until your palms are on the floor
next to your feet. Rest your chest on your thighs as you relax your neck,
exhaling. Raise your body up and grasp your right knee with interlaced fingers. Straighten and arch your back as you extend your arms, inhaling. Flex your hip, bringing your knee up to your chest, while you roll your
shoulders, upper back, and neck forward. Partially exhale. Releasing your leg, return both feet to the floor and again bend forward
with your palms on the floor and your chest resting on your knees. Fully exhale. W ith your fingertips dangling on or near the floor, raise your head and
arch your neck and upper back, partially inhaling. Again raise your body, this time grasping your left knee with your
interlaced fingers. Arch your back as you apply downward pressure
with your knee, stretching your arms. Inhale. Again, flex your hip as you bring your knee to your chest, partially
exhaling. For the third time, bend fully forward, placing your palms on the floor
next to your feet. Exhale fully. Raise your chest fully upward, leading with your arms, until you are
stretching toward the sky. Fully inhale. Return to the original pose with your hands at your chest; feel the
sensations in your body with your full attention, breathing easily. REVERSAL-OF-AGING T AI CHI AND QIGONG
The min d/body techniques of tai chi and qigong are centurie s old. Their
graceful slow movements im prove balance, flexibility, a nd strength,
enhancing both mental and phys ical well-being. Qi (chi) is the Chinese word
for life force. T ai chi is the proce ss of connecting with the supreme universal
force. Qigong is translated as “ener gy cultivation. ” Both tec hniques are
closely related meditations in m otion, designed to awaken awareness in the
body with their fluid, centered movements. Millions of people perform tai
chi and qigong  in China whe re they are considered premier mind/body
fitness programs that cultivate relaxation in the midst of action. They
integrate inten tion, breath, and movement to enhance mind/body
coordination. Scientific studie s on these practices have documented many benefits on
several aspects of health. Peopl e practicing tai chi show impro ved balance
and coordination  as well as enhanced heart and lung fitness. W e encourage
you to find a loc al tai chi or qigong class and use these beautifu l movements
to awaken mind/body integration. T o get a sense of the calming vitality these techniques provid e, try this
simple basic movement. Moving Y our Ener gy
Perform this beginning movem ent with your full attention in your body. All the moves are continuous, fluid, and in slow motion. Stand with your feet a little more than shoulder -width apart, parallel to
each other. Slowly raise your arms forward and upward, while at the same time
slightly bending your knees. Continue until your hands are about
shoulder height, with your fingertips pointing toward each other about
six inches apart, your palms facing toward you. Continue moving slowly as you rotate your shoulder inward, lowering
your hands so your palms face the floor at about waist height. At the
same time, bend your knees a little more. Again, gradually raise your arms and hands until your fingertips are
again facing each other; at the same time, rise up slightly, partially
straightening your knees. Repeat this sequence several times, imagining that you are moving in
water. After a few cycles, slowly lower your hands to your side and
resume a normal relaxed stance. CONSCIOUSNESS IN MOTION
Each of these m ind/body practices encourages the body to expre ss its natural
vitality t hrough movement. As the ener gy of your body is allowed to flow,
the chattering of your mind su bsides and a state of innocen t witnessing
emer ges. This experience of being fully present in your body cultivates
mind/body integration, enhancing the sensitivity of your thou ghts to your
molecules. Just as we know that our though ts and feelings can influence our body, we
know that our bodies influence our psychology and emotions. Changing
your pos ture, po se, or position h as a direct and immediate influ ence on howyou feel  and think. If you are feeling depleted and exhausted, try changing
the w ay you are sitting or standing to reflect a more ener gized position and
notice how your mental state is transformed. Developing enhanced
mind/body integration through yoga, tai chi, and qigong allows imbalances
to be identified  and corrected more readily, before they create more
established conditions. W e encourage you to find y our program of conscious movement. Practicing these procedures w ith your full attention will enable you to
maintain a clear and healthy line of communication between yo ur mind and
body at all stages of your life. MIND/BODY COMMUNICA TION
Not liste ning to your body’ s healthy signals accelerates aging an d is the root
cause of  many illnesses. When your body is expressing a healthy need but
your mind refuses to listen, imbalances begin, and the seeds of mind/body
disintegration are sown. Here are several common examples of mind/body
communication breakdown:
Y our body is tired and needs to sleep; your mind overrides this need in
order to watch a late-night television show. Y our body is full at the end of a meal; your mind insists on returning to
the buf fet for another helping of dessert. Y our body needs to eat; your mind insists that you have to work
through lunch. Y our body is calling you to empty your bladder; your mind refuses to
leave your seat in the middle of a movie. Y our body is asking to stretch; your mind refuses to disturb the other
passengers in your airplane row. Start list ening to  the signals fro m your body and honoring tho se that are
health-promoting. Y ou know w hich signals are good for you and which
come from unhealthy habits. Whenever there is a conflict between your
physical needs and your mental or emotional ones, ask yourself a simple
question: W ill fulfilling this nee d help me grow younger and live longer. If
the answ er is yes, fulfill the need. If the answer is no, because y ou recognize
that the behavio r is potentially harmful, pass. If due to a habit or addiction,
the impulse is so strong that it overrides your better judgment, perform the
action with full awareness and attention in your body. Consciously witness
your choice without harshly judg ing yourself. If you are meditat ing regularly
and are witnessi ng your choices, you will soon find that fewer im pulses arise
to create conflict between your mind and body. Every day in every way,
I am incr easing my mental and physical capacity.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the recommended daily dose of vitamin E for immune system improvement?,
A: 200 IU
Q: What is the recommended daily dose of DHEA, and what are some of its potential benefits?,
A: There is no recommended daily dose of DHEA, and its benefits are still unclear due to conflicting results and potential risks.
Q: What are some ways to enhance mind-body integration?,
A: The text recommends practicing yoga, tai chi, or qigong, as well as conscious breathing exercises like Pranayama, Ujayi, and Nadi Shodhana.
Q: What is the recommended exercise routine for a complete fitness program?,
A: The text does not provide a specific exercise routine, but it emphasizes the importance of regular exercise, including aerobic activity, strength training, and flexibility exercises.
Q: What is the recommended daily routine to support


 I miss some of the “bad” things. No, I don’t. Tastes change. New tastes can be acquired in a few weeks, and old ones can be lost. I used to love
filet mignon, but after not eating it for ten years, I lost my taste for it. I had a
fantastic filet mignon a couple of years ago, and I didn’t like it. People also often ask me whether this healthy lifestyle costs more than some may
be able to afford. I have found, actually, that eating a healthy diet costs less than
eating a poor diet. It costs a lot more to make yourself sick. People regularly tell me
that they cut their food budgets in half by improving their diets. Organic fruits,
vegetables, beans, grains and unprocessed oils may be more expensive than their
nonorganic counterparts, but in the end a diet made up of healthful foods is cheaper. Consider what you pay for organic whole grains per pound versus what you pay forpackaged breakfast cereal per pound, and you will realize quickly that unhealthful
processed foods are much more expensive. Deadly, make-believe foods like ice
cream, cola drinks and potato chips are expensive, provide little nutrition and
damage your cells. Not purchasing them saves your money and your health. Even
when a healthful choice does cost more, the purchase is well worth the investment
because being sick is
very
expensive. The same holds true for supplements. The
most expensive supplement of all is one that doesn’t work, no matter how little you
pay for it. High-quality supplements cost more, but they deliver the most nutrients to
your cells. Most cheap vitamins do nothing, or almost nothing, and many contain
toxins; many vitamin products cause both deficiency and toxicity. Another important investment in health is to spend a little more on personal care
and home-care products that do not harm your body. In making selections of
toothpaste, shampoo, deodorants, skin creams and cosmetics, the most important
criterion is that your body not be harmed. Selecting organic foods is not good
enough; you must also select safe products. If a product cannot be ingested without poisoning you, then it is not safe enough
to put on your skin or your hair or your teeth. Look at the swallowing warnings on a
typical tube of toothpaste. (Consult appendix C for safe brands of toothpaste and
other products.) The sad truth is that most personal-care products are toxic; those
toxins bioaccumulate in your body and cause disease. Look at Your Health in a New Way
The perspective we have to change is the way we look at and evaluate our own
health. If you are going to solve your own health problems, you must first
acknowledge they exist. We all grow up thinking that health is a given, until we “get
sick.”
Rather than being static, however, health is a sliding scale, and our position and
direction on that scale can change on a daily basis. This is why we need to learn how
to evaluate our own health, in a meaningful and ongoing way, so as to avoid letting
ourselves deteriorate to the point where we become sick. As I was gradually losing my health, no one told me I was sick. In fact, I was told
the opposite. At my periodic physical exams my physicians pronounced me in
perfect health, even though I had required many fillings in my teeth and I suffered
from a serious immune deficiency disease, namely from a seasonal allergy called
“hay fever.” Each year I suffered from one or more colds and every several years
from a bout of flu. I was led to believe, however, that tooth decay, colds, flu and
allergies are all normal and that I was healthy. The fact is no one should have tooth decay, colds, flu, allergies or any other
disease. If you do have any of these problems, you are experiencing substantialamounts of cellular malfunction and you are sick. Living with even that amount of
cellular malfunction shortens your life and makes you susceptible to a host of other
disease problems. Unless you do something different, your health will only get
worse with time, not better. Health cannot be improved by continuing to do the same
things that made you sick. Now is the time to make health your responsibility. How to Read the Warning Signs
We all need to learn how to read the body’s signals so that we can evaluate our
own health and health decline. Our body tells us when it is having trouble; our
problem is that we don’t listen. Subtle signals are ignored until the problem becomes
serious enough to demand attention. How healthy are you? Often the warning signs are evident in your appearance;
simply put, you don’t look well. In addition, you should ask yourself whether you
are experiencing
• Fatigue
• Aches and pains
• Skin problems
• Allergies
• Digestion troubles
• Sleep difficulties
• Susceptibility to infections
• Weight issues
• Mood, thought or behavior problems
These warning signs appear in ways that are usually easily recognized. Consider
individually the signs listed. Appearance
The body gives off visual signals, and we can learn to recognize them. I remember
once seeing a friend and thinking,
He doesn’t look well. Not long thereafter, he was
diagnosed with brain cancer. How many times have we looked at others and realized
that they didn’t look well? Before I took sick, my family thought I looked pale. Are
you pale? Are there dark circles under your eyes? Are there wrinkles on your face? Is your hair graying? How well do you move? Are you well-coordinated? Are your
eyes dull? Appearance matters, it is easy to check, and it should be checked on a
regular basis. Energy Level
Fatigue is probably the most common complaint made to doctors in our societybecause energy production at the cellular level is one of the first things affected as
our cells malfunction and become diseased. If you do not have the energy you used
to have, aging is not the problem. You are getting sicker. Remember the boundless energy that healthy people like the Hunzas had? They
performed physical feats such as traveling sixty miles in one day on foot, in
mountainous terrain, and returning looking as though they had gone for a casual
walk. Contrast this to the fatigue so many of us feel during the day, perhaps needing
several cups of coffee just to keep going. Even many of our teenagers struggle with
fatigue. Skin Problems
Our skin is a barometer of overall health, but we are taught to think of a skin
problem as just that, a skin problem. This is outmoded. Like any disease, skin
problems are the result of systemic cellular malfunction. We may notice it in the
skin, but the problem is likely affecting every cell in the body. The proper solution is
not to use products like a cortisone ointment, but to restore the cells to good health. If your skin is dry, flaky, irritated, itchy, thin, has lost its elasticity, or if you
develop skin lesions of any kind, you are not healthy. Allergies
Allergies are not normal, and they do long-lasting damage to the body. Enhancing
the health of your cells can eliminate allergies. Millions of Americans suffer from
runny noses, sneezing, itching of the eyes, sinus problems, headaches, abdominal
pain, diarrhea, skin rashes and numerous other problems as a result of allergies and
sensitivities to foods, pollens, chemicals and other substances in our environment. We tend to look upon these reactions as “benign” inconveniences rather than the
symptoms of a body out of balance. Allergies should be looked upon as a serious
acquired immune dysfunction syndrome and treated by improving cellular health
and strengthening the immune system. Do you sneeze, develop a runny nose or have itchy eyes after eating a meal? Are
your fingers sometimes swollen so that it is difficult to take off or put on a ring? Do
you get loose stools after eating certain foods? All of these and more can be
symptoms of allergic reactions. A body with allergies is not crying out for over-the-
counter or prescription antihistamines, but for solving the problems of cellular
malfunction. Like any other “disease,” allergies can be both prevented and reversed
by restoring normal function to the cells in your immune system. By working to
minimize the deficiency and toxicity of my cells, I went from being allergic to
virtually everything— called a “universal reactor”—to living a normal life. Digestion TroublesDo you have problems such as indigestion, inability to eat a wide variety of foods,
intestinal cramps, abdominal bloating, excess gas, diarrhea, constipation, acid
reflux, low energy, slow wound healing, or difficulty concentrating and thinking
quickly and clearly? Good digestion is a foundation for achieving peak performance
and optimal health. Yet digestive problems are epidemic in our society and they
prevent millions of people from living the healthy, productive lives they would like. Most of our digestive problems are the direct result of poor diets, toxic exposure,
lack of exercise, unresolved stress, and over-the-counter and prescription drugs. Digestive problems are more serious than people imagine, for
if you are not properly
digesting your food and assimilating its nutrients, you will get sick, guaranteed. Poor digestion is a perfect prescription for deficiency and toxicity, the two causes of
disease. Heartburn, bloating, gas and other digestive problems should not just be treated by
ant


ans, A yurvedic texts re late
certain parts of the head  to other body parts and /or
symptoms or diseases. Therefore, a  champi  or head
massage does not only af fect the immediate areas massaged:
it can be a healing, rejuvenating and thoroughly stimulating
experience as well. The moment a b aby is born, th e fontanel on the top of its head is
covered immediately with cloth soaked in oil with a  bala  root
decoction to strengthen the head, sight and intelligence. Mothers
massage their babies’ heads to facilitate strong skull and brain
development, and later, give their daughters head massages to
stimulate the scalp and infuse c onditioning oils into the hair. Men
are used to rec eiving a sharp rubdown at the barber ’ s shop and
another place you are likely to r eceive an Indian head massage is in
a salon or spa. The massage normally takes 30 to 60 minutes and is given
seated in a chair. It may be dry or oils may be used to both condition
hair and calm t he nervous system, as hair roots are connected to
nerve fi bers. T echniques vary, but the therapist usually start by
gently kneading  upper back, shoulder and neck muscles, then worksup to  the  head. Here, the scalp is squeezed, rubbed and tapped  and
hair may be combed or pulled. The therapist locates the  marma
points a long the head and spends time tugging and pres sing
earlobes, before  moving on to the face. Facial massage is usually a
mixture of acupressure and gentle manipulation, ending with soft
stroking. People who suf fer from vertigo, headaches, migraines,
insomnia, tinnitus and depression are all reported to find  champi
helpful. As the therapist works on the three higher  chakras, the
vissuddha  (the base of the throat),  ajna  (the forehead) and
sahasrara  (the crown), mental and emotion al stress is immediately
released. In addition, the localiz ed massage improves the supply of
glucose and blood to the brain, improves the circulation of
cerebrospinal flu id, dissipates accumulated toxins and opens pr anic
channels. Results include improved memory, clarity of mind, better
eyesight and concentration, and clearing of the sinuses. The thera pist at the Ayurvedic Penthouse at Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok, first
prepares for a 60-minute Indian head massage session by creating an
atmosphere of calm with candlelight and aromatic oil burners. Then, she starts the
therapy with pressure point massage to stimulate the vital energy points in the
skull, thereby increasing the flow of subtle energies in the body. The result  is a
client comforted, nurtured and relaxed. udwarthanam  Dry Massage with
Herbal Powder
A stimulating massage that uses dry powders not oil,
udwarthanam  is vigorous, ener gizing and not for the faint
hearted. Dry herbal powders, chosen according to on e’ s
dosha, are rubbed into the skin in the opposite direction to
hair growth with strong repeated movements. The friction of
the powder during the massage creates body heat that
increases circu lation, breaks  down cellulite, firms muscle
tone and reduces fat by im proving the metabolism of the
muscles. It is recommende d for those who want to lose
weight, as it reduces cholesterol levels and adipose tissue
and promotes better digestion and. It also removes toxins
and exfoliates the skin, leaving skin tingling, soothed and
soft. Most A y urvedic massages tend to use long, flowing strokes that go
away from the heart and from bottom to top, but  udwarthanam
employs short, sharp superfic ial rubs that go in the opposite
direction, away from the heart to wards the extremities and from the
top of the body downwards. This is the opposite of the  dosha  flow. According to A yurvedic physician, Dr Ajitha of Soukya, the pow der
helps to open up the micro-channels in the body, so reduces fat
accumulation, tautens up muscles, reduces bad body odor and
exfoliates dead surface skin cells. In a clinical setting,
udwarthanam  is usually prescribed for 10 to 14 days for those withama twan  or sl owness of f low in the channels, and as a means to
reduce fat. However, the massage type is increasingly finding its
way into spas a nd retreats, where its invigorating style is gain ing
popularity. At t he s pa at Udaivilas, a beautiful resort on the shore of Lake
Pichola in Udaipur, one of three A yurvedic powders or  choornam
are used : the popular  triphala choornam  or three fruit powder, a
powder composed from  Terminalia chebula  or  Terminalia
bellaruca, or  kola kula thadhi choornam, made from a variety of
pulses and herbs. The massage i s quite rough and the powder enters
the s uperficial bloodstream, but  also enters nasally as it flies ab out
in th e air. This cleanses the internal system too. Afterwards, the
client is encouraged to spend 1 0 minutes in the steam room and
further massage any residual powder into the skin. As sweating
occurs, t oxins ar e released through the skin’ s pores, and the skin is
left feeling soft, extremely smooth and rejuvenated. Another place that of fers  udwarthanam  is Soukya International
Holistic Health Center. Here it is prescribed for guests who are
obese and the powders are prepared on site. They dif fer from patient
to patient, but may contain  vacha  (Acorus calamus ) to alleviate
swelling, the A yurvedic all-rou nd wonder fruit  amalaki  or Indian
Gooseberry (Emblica officinalis ), green gram powder and/or basil. All the herbs are  washed, cut into small pieces, dried and pulver ized
on s ite t o make either a fine or coarse powder, which is then str ewn
on to the body and massaged in by two therapists simultaneously. Some of the powde rs used at Udaivilas; they contain what doctors call  madagna
properties that reduce fat and help clear blockages. Two therapists at Soukya massage a client with powder made on site. Udwarthanam  is also useful as a depilatory because the short, sharp rubs tend to
pluck hairs from the roots. sirodhara  Oiling the Third Eye
Surprisingly,  sirodhara  is the most widespread A yurvedic
therapy of fered  at spas outside India. Why this is the case is
unclear, as it is not prescribed for many ailments in a clinical
environment. It invariably comes top of the A yurve dic
menu, and even spas without an A yurvedic department of fer
bastardized ve rsions. Many people have tried it, and even if
they haven’ t, they will almost certainly have heard of it. Coming from  siro  (“head”) and  dhara  (“pouring of herbal liquids
on s pecific body parts”),  sirodhara  denotes the continuous pouring
of herbal oils, milk, buttermilk or ghee over the head and scalp. The
patient lies on his or her ba ck on a wooden treatment table,
cocooned in warm towels, while a therapist trains a steady rhythmic
stream o f warm liquid from a perforated vessel made of clay, w ood
or metal on to the forehead. The table is made from one of seven
therapeutic woods and is designed to catch the oil for recycling on
the same client. Oil strok ing the “third eye” has a balancing ef fect on the deepes t
recesses of the b rain and is profoundly relaxing. In A yurveda, it is
seen as a stimu lating procedu re for the nervous system and is
prescribed for bringing down aggravated  vata  conditions such as
insomnia, headache, insecurity, fear and nervous strain. Irritable
pitta  predominant people with overactive minds can experience a
cooling, calming benefit from a session or two and  kaphas  often
fall aslee p. Used in conjunction with other therapies,  sirodhara  has
been practiced for thousands of years to treat many and variedconditions such as ear, nose and throat disturbances, glandular
problems, psychiatric disorders, hypertension, skin diseases, facial
paralysis and more. During a session, the nervous system unwi nds,
busy brains become clear, and tired bodies are refreshed. In a clinical environment, the choice of liquid and duration of
treatment varies  according to the individual. Vata  patients are
generally prescribed medicated herbal oil,  pitta  types receive herbal
milk, gh ee or coconut oil, and buttermilk is often recommended  for
kapha  patients. Ancien t texts denote 53 minutes for  vatas, 43
minutes for  pitas  and 31 minutes for  kaphas. It is suggested the
best tim e to receive  sirod


 urinate. Sexologists  assure  wome n that if the
pressure  is continued  there  will be a transition  to sexual arous al. One  of my  students  reported : “When I w orked in a w omen -
controlled  clinic, w e always talked  rather  glow ingly of the  virtues  of
the diaphragm. Ever y once  in a while a woman  would tell us that
she didn’t like the diaphragm becaus e it interfer ed with her sexual
enjoyment,  that it covered  up something. That was before  the G-
Spot became w ell known, and I think no w that that was probabl y
what these  women  were talking  about.”
    Som e women  find that stim ulation  of the  G-Spot can  trigger  an
- 47 -Women’ s Sexu al Anatomy
Pelvic Bone
Urethral Spo ngeBladder
Ova
   riesG-Spot
Penis
Uterus
Vagina(a) Shallow  thrust ma ssages the
area of the G-Spot
Pelvic Bone
Bladder
Ova
   riesUrethra l
Spon geG-Spot
Uterus
Penis
Vagina(b) Deep  thrust ma ssages the
deeper areas of the vagina by
passing  the G-Spot
Fig. 2.4 Shallow  and Deep  Thrust
- 48 -Chapter  II
orgasm, wh ile many women  enjoy G-Spot stimulation  as part of
the whole pano ply of sexual stim ulation. F. Fem ale Ejaculation
    An ancient  Taoist  Maste r discovere d that a woman,  when
reaching  a higher  point  of orgasm, had  differe nt respo nses  which
ejaculated  different  “waters.” Three  waters, or types  of fluid,  involved
in fem ale orgas ms w ere found  to exist. The lubrication  experience d
during  arous al is consider ed the first water: the fluids em itted during
a normal orgasm are  the second  water: and the third  water of a
female ejaculation,  never  experience d by many women, is release d
from the  G-Spot. How ever with or without G-Spot stim ulation,  there
are wome n who ejaculate  when they have  an orgasm. This
ejaculation,  which can be quite  copious,  produc es fluid  that is m uch
like sem inal fluid. It is definitel y not urine. How ever many women
who have  experie nced  ejaculation  report  that they were dism ayed
and embarrassed, feeling  certain  that they  had urinated. They  then
learned  to w ithhold this reaction. Now  that the fact of  women’s
ejaculations  is know n, there  will probabl y be much relief,  relaxation,
and increased  pleasure  by the women  who have  this capacity. As
yet, no researc h has discovered  where this fluid is ma de or stored. G. First Lubricative  Fluid of  the Va gina
    Inside  the vagina  the walls rest against  each  other:  but the
potential  for space  exists. With a plastic  speculum, flashlight  and
mirror you can look  inside  the vagina  yourself. You will prob ably
first see  the pink,  ridged  walls of the vagina. The ma ny folds  account
for its tre mendous  elasticity  During  sexual arous al, lubricative  fluid
oozes  out of the  walls in a kind of sweating action. At the  back  of
the vagina  is the  cervix, the  only portion  of the  uterus  visible  in the
vagina. The cervix  is round  with a hole  or slit in it. This is the  openin g
of the  cervical  canal  which goes  into the  uterus. Most  sexologists
agree  that w omen  have  little sensation  beyond the outer  third  section
of the  vagina. However many wome n strongl y disagree,  saying
that they  experience  terrific  pleasure  with deep  penet ration either
by penis  or finger  at the back of  the vagina,  and many women  feel
pleasura ble contracti ons of the  uterus  during  orgasm. There  may be mucous dispersing  from the  cervix. The source
and purpose  of the  mucous  will be discussed  in the  next section. - 49 -Women’s Sexual Anatomy
H. PC Muscle  and Chi Muscle
  Feeling  around  the peripher y of the  vagina  at about  the depth  of
one knuckle,  you may be able  to discern  the edges  of the
Pubococcy geal Muscle  (PC, also  sometimes referred  to as the
Love  Muscle. (Fig. 2.5)
Pubococcy geus  Fiber to Vagina
       Pubovaginal is
(Anter ior Part of Levator  Ani)
Urethra l Orific e
Puborectal is
HymenSphincter Urethr ae
Vaginal Orifice and
  Vagi nal W all
Levator  Ani
Tuber Ischii
Anus
Fig. 2.5 Love Mu scle includes  the Pubococcygeus  (PC Mu scle),
               Pubovaginalis  and Pubo- Rectalis
   A contraction  of the vagina  is a contractio n of the PC Muscl e.
You can tell for  sure  that that is what you are feeling  if you can
squeeze  your fingers  with it. The  PC Muscl e is one  part of a grou p
of mu scles w e refer  to as the  Chi Muscle. The Chi Muscle  surro unds
the anus,  vagina,  and ureth ra and provides  support  for the
reprod uctive  organs. (Fig. 2.6) This is the  muscle of  Perineum
Power and is associated  by the Taoists  with many organs  of the
body, as w ill be described  in Chapter  5. - 50 -Chapter  II
Suspensory  Ligament
Round Li gament
Glans
Ischiocavernosus Muscle
Urogenital Di aphra gm
Vulvocavernosus  Muscle
Transverse Perin eal Muscle
Anus
Puboc occcygeus  Muscle
Anal Sph incter Muscle
Pelvic Diaphragm
Fig. 2.6 Chi Mu scle includes the Urogenital  Diaphragm,  the Pelvic
Diaphragm, the An al Sphincter  Muscle and Pubococcy geus (PC M uscle). A we ll-exercised  PC Muscle  is conside red by som e sexologists
to be  the key to healthy  sexual  functionin g for both  men and  women. Poor  muscle tone  leads  to sexual  difficulties  as well as other
physiologic problems, such  as difficulty  in childbirth  and urinar y
incontinenc e. In fact, the  first profession al to publicize  the
importance  of good  PC tone  taught  exercises  to w omen  in
prepar ation  for childbirth. His name, Kegel,  is still associated  with
these  exercises. The PC Muscle  is crucial  to Ovarian  Kung  Fu
exercises. You can test  the tone  of the  PC Muscle  by interr uptin g a strea m
of urine. This abilit y is due  solel y to the  PC Muscle. Man y wome n
have  beco me dexterous  at squeezin g this muscle because  they
- 51 -Women’ s Sexu al Anatomy
found  it enha nced  their  sexual  pleasure. Sexologist  Bryce Britton,  in her book  The Love Muscle:  Every
woman’s Guide t o Intensifying Sexual Pleasure,  includes  detailed
descriptions  of ho w to use  the PC Muscle  as w ell as outlining  an
exercise  program for  sexual  fitness. I. Perineal  Sponge
    Inside  the back  part of the  entra nce to the vagina  is anothe r
area of blood  vessels  called  the perin eal spong e. (Fig. 2.7) During
sexual  arousal  the perine al sponge  thickens,  narro wing the entranc e
to the  vagina. Ovar y
Egg Tube
Ureter
UterusCervix
Os
Bladder
Urethral Spo nge
Shaft
GlansVagina
Rectum
Pelvic Diaphra gm
Anal Sph incter Muscle
Anus
Legs   Urog enital D iaphragm
Perineal Spon ge
Outer Li p
Inner Li p
Clitora l Opening to the Vag ina


 you have to deal with theirs also. Don’ t get scared. This doesn’ t mean you don’t have meaningful
relationships. There are beautiful relationships, and they can last forever. In
fact, they can get more and more beautiful all the time. But they are not
samskara relationships—they are not based on the world outside matching
your inner patterns. They are based on unconditional love. Once love is
always flowing freely inside of you, you will be pleased to share it with
another person. Such love is not based on needs or expectations—it’ s based
on pure love wishing to express itself, unconditionally. How do you reach such a state of unconditional love and well-being? Instead of trying to get the world to match your blockages, you work on
letting go of the blockages. That’ s the secret of real spiritual growth. That is
the real paradig m shift. If you don’t have the samskaras, nothing will be
blocking your inner energy flow. You will feel love, joy, and inspiration all
the time. If you are willing to experience the moment unfolding in front of
you, you will have the opportunity to be inspired by everything. The simple
fact that things exist will be suf ficient to move you. You only have two choices: either you devot e your life to getting the
world to match your samskaras,  or you devote your life to letting go of your
samskaras. If you choose the latter, you don’t end up with both a worldly
life and a spiritual life—you end up with one life. Work, meditation retreats,
taking out the garbage, sweeping the floor, driving, showering, they’re all
the same. The same thing is going on in all your activities—you are letting
go of your blockages. It’s equally beneficial to be letting go of your
blockages at work, when you’re  driving the kids to soccer, picking up the
groceries, or doing whatever you’re doing. Every single moment of your
life, you are either naturally enjoying what is or letting go of what’ s keeping
you from  enjoying what is. If you let go of the wants and fears that are
limiting you, you’ll always be okay. Letting go of yourself, instead of
serving yourself, is the real paradigm shift.Chapter 28. Working with the Heart
We interact with life every wakin g moment of our time on Earth. If we are
committed to growing spiritually, we must learn to use that interaction to
clear out our blockages. This inevitably returns us to the heart since we store
blockages there. As we’ve discussed, your heart experiences myriad
different emotions and feelin gs based on the sam skaras you have
accumulated. Your inability to handle the breadth of these emotions keeps
you locked in the human predicament of controlling life in order to be okay. If you wish to break free and live unconditionally, you must learn to clear
out your heart. The purification  of your heart begins with being grateful that you have
one. Your heart is like an orches tra. Have you ever watched a movie without
the score? It’ s dead. It doesn’ t have any juice to it. When something happens
in your life, the orchestra of your heart begins to play. It adds richness to
your life by playing high notes and low notes that are generally  appropriate
to the events unfolding before you. Your heart is not an obstacle or a
punishment. Your heart is a beautiful gift. Would you rather not have one
and live your life without feelings? Just as the human mind is something extraordinary that can take you
beyond the limit of your senses, so the human heart is even more
extraordinary. It can play notes  from one end of the spectrum to another. Your heart can go from absolute  ecstasy to deep pain and sorrow in a matter
of secon ds. It can raise you to heights where you feel like angel wings are
carrying you to heaven, and it can bring you down to your darkest hour. Your heart is capable of doing all of that, without any effort of your own. What an amazin g instrument you carry inside of you. The trouble is you’re
not okay with the full range of your heart. You want to control your heart so
it only plays the notes you can handle.Spirituality is about learning to thank your heart for the beautiful
expressions it is creating within you. Unfortunately, you’re going to find out
that you can’t do that all the time. There are vibrations your heart is capable
of making that you’re not willin g to experience. It’s as though you are not
evolved enough to handle the fullness of your heart, so you resist it. Just like
you resist the world when it is not how you want, you resist your heart when
you’re not comfortable with its expressions. As you expand and grow spirit ually, your range of comfort with the
outside world will become wider and wider, allowing you to handle more of
the moments passing before you. The same is true with your heart. As you
grow spiritually, through honoring your day-to-day experiences, you will
learn to become more comfortab le with your heart. As a child, the first time
you experienced fear or jealousy you might have been overwhelmed and
had difficulty holding yourself together. Over time, you became more
accustomed to these emotions and at least tried to deal with them. Perhaps
the best you could do at first was control your emotions and put on the
outward appeara nce of being okay. Though that’s not necessarily so healthy,
it is better than losing yourself completely and letting emotions overcome
you. If you let an unbridled emotion act out externally, it has the power to
change the course of your life—not usually for the better. Little by little, as you learn to accept that emotions are a reality  of life,
they will come and go if you let them. This is spiritual evolution. Just as our
bodies have evolved through eons of challenging outer experiences, so our
souls evolve through the fires of inner experiences. It is not that a great
being does not have emotions; it is that they are at peace  with their
emotions. They can handle the various changes their heart goes through. If
somebody you know dies, it’s natural to feel a sense of loss. You’re going to
feel a certain amount of sadness if you cared about the person. That is your
heart expressing itself in harmony with what’ s happenin g. Like an
instrument playing something beautiful, your heart is composing a song of
sadness for you. The trouble is you’re not okay with that. Eventually you
will realize that the emotion itself is not the problem—the problem is you’re
not able to hand le the emotion. We come back to the same place again and
again: Do you want to devote your life to controlling the world so your heart
never feels emotions you can’t handle? Or do you want to devote yourself to
the evolutionary work of becoming comfortable with your heart?Just as we found  with the mind, if you want to work with your heart,
understand why it is the way it is. You may have noticed it can be sensitive,
volatile, and difficult to live with. The heart is this way because you didn’ t
handle the natur al emotions it created, you resisted them, which stored their
energy inside you. Now you’re in trouble. It’s bad enough that you pushed
away thought patterns, but you’ve also pushed away the vibrat ions of your
heart. These blocked energy patterns are making a complete mess of your
heart. The heart has become out of balance, and it has stopped opening
when it needs to express healthy emotions. Let’s say someone does
something that makes you feel fear. There are times when fear is a normal,
healthy reaction to outer events. But you aren’ t able to handle the emotion,
so you suppress it to get it out of your consciousness. Later, you hear
something bad happened to that person. Instead of feeling comp assion, you
feel relieved. Your emotions are no longer in harmony with outer situations,
instead they are releasing the blocked ener gies from your past experiences. Spiritual growth is about fixing the heart and returning it to a state of
well-being. It should be clear by now that the problem is not outside in the
world; the probl em is your inabi lity to handle your heart’ s full expression of
the world. Learning to handle these expressions is the solution, and it is the
essence of spiritual growth. Feelings of loss or fear or anger in your heart
are just objects of consciousness that Self is experiencing. They cannot
harm you, unless you resist them. They actually make you richer because
you experienced them. Every experien ce makes you a greater person if you
don’t resist it. Come to peace with the expressions of your heart. It may seem
impossible to be comfortable with emotions that are uncomfortable, but the
truth is you already have experience doing that. Take Shakespeare’ s play
Romeo and Juliet. As a tragedy, it certainly is not fun. Let’s say a
Shakespeare troupe comes through town and performs Romeo and Juliet. They do such a good job that you cry with a level of relief you’ve hardly
ever felt before. The performance was completely heart-wrenching. What do
you do? You tell all your friends to go see it. You say, “I cried for three days
afterwards. It was unbelievable. It touched my heart so deeply. I’ve never
felt such pure sadness. I want to


 these girls go from low levels of progesterone tonone. Keep in mind in this regard that progesterone is one ofthe most important hormones in the female body. Giving the patient a natural, bio-identical progesterone
cream obtainable from a compounding pharmacy (not anover-the-counter cream because it is too weak) will eliminatethe cramps; it will help clear up acne and improve PCOS. Itwill also help with other problems if they are present, such asPMS, migraine headaches, and asthma, as well as lowering ahigh insulin level and helping to eliminate fat, ADD, andADHD. The dosage I would probably recommend isprogesterone cream 100 mg/
¼tsp applied twice a day to the
forearm and wrist on days 7 thru 28 of the cycle. FINAL THOUGHTS
Again, I am very aware that I am touching on controversial
areas by making recommendations on treating conditions inchildren with natural hormones when there have been nodirect studies. The major funding for medical studies comesfrom drug companies, and since drug companies cannotpatent natural products, it is unlikely that we will see studiespertaining to natural hormones in children for a long time. Used correctly, however, natural progesterone is non-toxic. T o put the safety of natural, bio-identical progesterone
into perspective, consider this: During a woman’s monthlycycle, progesterone peaks at 28 ng/dl. When a woman ispregnant, this level goes up to 450 ng/dl—a significantly highlevel that the fetus is exposed to for about 5
½ months and145 HORMONAL IMBAL ANCES IN CHILDREN obviously has no trouble tolerating. In fact, the high levels of
progesterone aid in brain development, among other things. When progesterone is applied transdermally to an adult orchild, the blood level rises about 2 ng/dl—a mere fraction ofwhat the fetus is exposed to. I have recommended natural progesterone for a nine-year-
old girl who was having monthly migraine headaches. She hadalready started developing breasts and was evidently estrogendominant, like her mother. After she started taking proges-terone, her migraine headaches disappeared. /Iswashn my view, children with undiagnosed hormonal problems
are likely to face a multitude of lifelong difficulties. In my view, children with undiagnosed hormonal
problems are likely to face a multitude of lifelong difficulties. Children with ADD can wind up with diabetes, weightproblems, and experience difficulty holding jobs. Childrenwith ADHD often become adults with type A personalities—workaholics—and are at risk for developing bi-polar disorder. They frequently develop chemical dependencies on alcohol,cigarettes, methamphetamine, and other substances. Veryoften hormonal problems lead to depression in children. Children are also prone to thyroid conditions. Girls with lowprogesterone and high estrogen are more likely to have difficultygetting pregnant later on and are also possible candidates formiscarriages, morning sickness, postpartum depression,fibroids, endometriosis, asthma, migraine headaches, breastcancer, weight problems, and other difficulties. The fact is that children are being exposed to toxic drugs
such as anti-depressants, birth control pills, and stimulants forhyper-activity. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to treat the146 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  actual cause of their problems by replacing the hormone that
is missing. A PREVENTABLE TRAGEDY
On December 13, 2006, four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of
an overdose of drugs given to her for treatment of ADHD/bi-polar disorder. Her parents were arrested on murdercharges, accused of over-medicating their daughter to “keepher quiet. ” Her teachers, the school nurse, the principal, hersocial workers, even her pharmacist, all knew she was over-medicated. She was described as being like a floppy doll,unable to sit up, and she was shaking so badly she needed helpto get off the bus every day. T o me, this girl’s death represents a microcosm of the
tragedy of ADHD. Do you blame the parents who hadADHD themselves, the doctor who prescribed these toxicmedications, the pharmacist who knowingly dispensed toomany drugs, her school, or the social workers. Her deathmight easily have been prevented if the medical professionwas aware of how hormones contribute to this condition. Istrongly feel that her ADHD/bi-polar disorder might havebeen eliminated with proper nutrition and utilizing naturalbio-identical progesterone. In 2002, there were about 2. 5 million children in the United
States on anti-psychotic medication alone, and millions of otherson stimulants and anti-depressants. T oday there are probablymore. How many have wound up like Rebecca Riley or will doso in the future. 147 HORMONAL IMBAL ANCES IN CHILDREN THOUGHTS ON CHOLESTEROL
chapter SEVENTEEN
Elevated cholesterol is often a barometer pointing to some
underlying problem in the body’s metabolic system. It’s anextremely complex issue that goes way beyond what I intendto cover in this book. However, I would like to addresscertain factors. The liver is the main source of cholesterol, and the raw
material for making cholesterol is the fat that is stored there. The primary source of this fat is excess carbohydrates that areingested, rather than fat that is ingested. A study was done atJohns Hopkins University to determine the effect on choles-terol of eating white meat (fish and chicken) versus red meat(all other meats). The results showed that white meat and redmeat
lowered cholesterol by the same amount. T o a large extent the thyroid gland controls cholesterol
metabolism. In fact, when I went to medical school they oftenreferred to the cholesterol level as “the poor man’s thyroid test. ”Unfortunately, many doctors fail to assess thyroid functionwhen dealing with elevated cholesterol because the emphasis inmedicine is on treating the symptom and not the cause. Givingthyroid hormone can very often lower the cholesterol level. Most people are aware of HDL and LDL as two types of
cholesterol. These are actually lipoproteins that transport
149cholesterol throughout the body. Both are necessary for
proper health. LDL has a reputation for being “bad” because itcan oxidize and cause damage to the coronary arteries. HDL isconsidered “good” because it prevents LDL from oxidizing: thehigher the HDL level, the better. There are studies indicatingthat more people with low total cholesterol levels have heartattacks than those with high levels. If this is the case, then pre-sumably the issue is not the level of cholesterol but whether ornot it is being oxidized. It is estimated that 20 percent of the American population
has Syndrome X, a disease of hyperinsulinemia, or highinsulin. Insulin puts sugar not only into fat cells, where it getsconverted into fat, but also into the liver—where it also isconverted into fat. This is the primary fuel used to manufac-ture cholesterol. If someone has high LDL cholesterol and alsohas a low HDL cholesterol and an elevated triglyceride level(the hallmarks of Syndrome X), lowering their insulin leveloften helps bring the total cholesterol level down. As people get older, hormone levels go down, and most
hormones are made with cholesterol. One theory says that therise in cholesterol levels as we get older is partially a responseby the body to the lowering of our hormones, that is, it istrying to provide more substrate to raise our hormones. Alongthese lines, one might anticipate that bio-identical hormonereplacement would lead to a lowering of cholesterol. STATIN DRUGS AND COENZYME Q- 10
The largest-selling drugs in the world are Lipitor and Zocor. Other statin-type drugs that lower cholesterol by preventingcholesterol production include Pravachol, Mevacor, Lescol,Crestor, and Vytorin. All these drugs have the same side effects,150 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  which include brain damage and memory loss. Perhaps this is
not surprising, given that most brain tissue is made up ofcholesterol and there are special cells in the brain that producecholesterol. I suspect that years from now, statin drugs may beimplicated in an epidemic of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’sdisease. They can also cause damage to the liver, nerves,muscles, and the heart. The most serious side effects areirreversible kidney failure and sudden death. One of the most powerful antioxidants for the heart is
coenzyme Q-10. As people get older, the body producesdecreasing amounts of this element. Because of this, there areprobably no benefits to taking a statin drug after the age of 60. Statin drugs lower coenzyme Q-10 levels, which is what
produces the majority of the side effects of these medications. Obviously, if you are taking one of these drugs, I wouldrecommend also taking coenzyme Q-10. It is available in drugstores and health food stores. My recommended dosage is atleast 200 mg a day. One wonders if the utilization of antioxidants by
themselves might be of more benefit in preventing coronaryartery disease than lowering cholesterol. A FRIENDLY WARNING
Many people have heard of Vioxx, a pain medication removed
from the market because of cardiac concerns. Recently a juryawarded 253 million dollars to the wife of a patient who diedof a heart attack while on Vioxx. This sum was primarilypunitive damages, because evidence


quantum mecha nical body, which operates according to its own unseen
physiology. Your quantum mech anical body is awareness in motion and is
part of the eternal field of awareness that exists at the source of creation. The intelligence  inside us radiates like light, crossing the border between
the quantum world and the physical world, unifying the two in a constant
subatomic dialogue. Your physical body and your quantum mechanical
body can both be called home —they are like parallel universes that you
travel between without even thinking about it. PHYSICAL BODY :
A FROZEN ANA TOMICAL SCULPTURE
“I” sees itself as:
—made of cells, tissues, and or gans
—confined in time and space
—driven by biochemical processes (eating, breathing, digestion, etc.) QUANTUM MECHANICAL BODY :
A RIVER OF INTELLIGENCE CONST ANTL Y RENEWING ITSELF“I” sees itself as:
—made of invisible impulses of intelligence
—unbounded in time and space
—driven by thoughts, feelings, wishes, memories, etc. To all appearances, the physical  body occupies a few cubic feet of space;
it serves as a fragile life-support  system for seven or eight decades before it
must be discarded. The quant um mechanical body, on the other hand,
occupies no well-defined space and never wears out. How big a container
would you need for the dream you had last night, or for your desire to be
loved? Even though a person’ s total genetic material could easily fit into a
teaspoon, what is most important about genes—their intelligence—occupies
no physical space. At the level of the quantum mechanical body every aspect of an
experience is wrapped into one point that is beyond the three-dimensional
world. A photograph of a new bride gives us a literal record of how she
looked, and a tape recording can capture her voice, but these are the crudest
fragments of experience; unless she saves them as mementos, the texture of
her bridal gown and the taste of her wedding cake appear to be lost forever. But in quantum space everything is there at once, and through the simple
act of remembe ring, the bride can recapture a complete world. By some
further miracle, every other experience the bride ever has will be tinged
with this new addition to her memory. Being a married woman becomes a
part of her brain’ s view of her whole life from that moment on.The images imprinted on your quantum mechanical body are as complex
as you are. In short, these images are you. You live out your stored images,
manufacturing your own version of time, and in the process you program
the kind of body required by your version of time. Let me give a concrete
example of how this works. In his fascinating book of psychiatric case studies, Love’ s Executioner,
Irvin Yalom recounts the story of Betty, a 27-year -old unmarried woman
who came to him for therapy. Betty was a very difficult case from the start. Hard in manner, aloof and complaining, she kept up a litany of grievances
about the fact that no one liked or accepted her. She worke d in public
relations for a large department store, and every slight she suffered from
customers, co-workers, and bosses was dragged into her diatribe. As Yalom listened, he was struck by the odd fact that througho ut Betty’ s
tireless description of her miseries, she never mentioned something very
obvious—her weight. Although barely five feet two inches  tall, Betty
weighed 250 pounds. She and everyone else knew that her appearance was
disturbing, yet she had turned her entire existence into an elaborate game to
disguise this fact. Not mentioning her weight was a shield  of silence,
covering up the deeper pain she could not confront. Yalom realized that it would be too difficult for Betty to tackle her
obesity without first coming to terms with her psychological distress. He
spent months trying to penetrate  her defenses, and eventually they started to
dissolve. One day Betty announced dramatically to Yalom that she was
going to lose weight. She outlined a plan of attack that was remarkably
disciplined and well organized. With great seriousness she launched into a
diet, joining a support group and religiously avoiding any temptation to
binge. She signed up for weekly square-dancing and set up a stationary
bicycle in front of her TV. As the pounds quickly began to come  off, Yalom
noticed a remarkable thing. As Betty lost weight, she began to have vivid dreams and flash backs of
painful incidents in her past. The underlying traumas that Yalom could
hardly budge in therapy were now melting away with the fat. Betty began
having wild mood swings, which at first seemed random. Then Yalom
noticed that they followed a coherent pattern: She was reliving varioustraumas that had occurred when she was at certain weights. It turned out
that Betty had grown steadily fatter since she was 15. The last time Betty had weighed 210 pounds, for example, was when she
decided, at age 21, to move to New York. She had grown up on a small,
poor ranch in Texas, an only child trapped with a depresse d, widowed
mother. On the day that her diet took her back down to 210 pounds, Betty
had a vivid flashback of how difficult leaving home had been. Quite
literally, time was locked up inside her, blended into her cells. “Thus her descent from 250 pounds set her spinning backward in time
through the emotionally charged events of her life: leaving Texas for New
York (210 pounds), her college graduation (190 pounds), her decision to
drop the pre-me d curriculum (and to give up the dream of discovering the
cure for the cancer that had killed her father) (180 pounds), her loneliness at
her high school graduation—he r envy of the other daughters and fathers,
her inability to get a date to the senior prom (170 pounds), her junior high
graduation and how much she had missed her father at that graduation (155
pounds).”
Yalom was quite excited to see how tangible and alive a past memory
could be: “What a wonderful proof of the unconscious realm! Betty’ s body
had remembered what her mind had long forgotten.” I would go even
further and say that her body was a kind of mind in itself, a storehouse of
memories that had taken physic al form in fat cells. Betty’ s experience had
become Betty; instead of just metabolizing hambur gers, pizza s, and milk
shakes, she had metabolized every emotion—sad longings, frustrated hopes,
bitter disappointments—associated with each bite of food. Shedding weight was her deliverance from the past, and as the old body
went, a new Betty was created. She rapidly gained insight into herself; she
rediscovered deeply buried desires and shed tears over hurts she had
concealed from herself for many years. Her body contours began to emer ge:
first a waist, then breasts, then a chin and cheekbones. With her new shape,
Betty found the courage to venture into a social life. Her weight had made
her an outcast since her early teens; now she went on her first date, and men
in her office were attracted to her, no longer put off by her armor of
defensiveness.In the end, the metamorphosis did not fully succeed. The most traumatic
event in Betty’ s life had occur red just before her adolescence, when her
father suffered a long, protracte d death from cancer; she had weighed 150
pounds then and had never managed to get that thin again. Now, as she got
down to 155 pounds, her diet became a grim struggle—her body refused to
let go of even one more ounce, no matter what, and her flashbacks became
harder to face. “Soon we spent entire sessions talking about her father. The time had
come to unearth everything. I plunged her into reminiscence and
encouraged her to express everything she could remember about his illness,
his dying, his appearance in the hospital the last time she saw him, the
details of his funeral, the clothes she wore, the minister ’s speech, the people
who attended.…She felt her loss as never before and, over a two-week
period, wept almost continuously.” This time was very difficult for both
doctor and patient. Racked by nightmares of her father ’s death, Betty said
that she died three times a night; Yalom felt intensely guilty for dragging
her back to a time when she had lost not just her father but her dream of
happiness. Betty balked at uncovering any more buried feelings. It became clear that
her mind could not cross this last, too-threatening threshold. Neither could
her body. Too many griefs and unrealized hopes had turned into Betty. At
about that time she quit both her diet and her therapy. The 150-pound
barrier held, embodying the loss of a father who would never return to her. Yalom regretted that she was only a partial cure, yet he also had to admit his
relief—the ordeal had deeply shaken both of them. Like Betty, everyone becomes their past, but we also have the power to
reverse that process, to free up frozen time and release pent-up memories
that no longer serve us and prevent our happiness. You are constantly
making and unmaking your body at the quantum level


xercise. Causesstingingnettles;insects. Thisrashwillappearasred,raisedblotches. Itmay
accompanyarheumaticflare-up,oritmaybeare-
actiontoeatingshellfish.Thereisaconstantdesireto
rubtheskin. Pricklyheat
SymptomsWithsymptomsofhives(seeabove). Feelsasthoughstungbystingingnettles. VERATRUMALBUM(Ver-a.) Familyname:Liliaceae
Commonnames:white-flowered Veratrum;white
hellebore;Europeanhellebore
Veratrumalbumisahardyperennialplantfoundin
moist,grassyspotsinmountainouspartsofEurope,
thoughnotintheBritishIsles.Itgrowsuptofivefeet
high,hashairybranchesandproduceslargegreenish-
whiteflowerheadsfromJunetoAugust. Itisoneoftheoldestknownpoisons,apparently
usedbytheGaulsandothersonarrowsanddaggersin
theirfightagainsttheRomans.Thepoisoningscause
terriblesufferingtoallanimals:thewholegastrictract
becomesirritated,causingviolentvomiting,painful
(oftenbloody)diarrhoea,abdominal,gnpingpains,
burningsensationsinthemouth,throat,stomachand
bowels,smallpulse,faintness,coldsweats,trem-
bling,dizziness,dilatedpupils,andfinallylossofvoice,lossofsight,convulsions,unconsciousnessand
death. Ithasoccasionallybeenadministeredexternallyfor
stubborncasesofscabiesorlicebutthispracticeis
fraughtwithdangerandrarelyused.Ithasbeenused
traditionallyfromHippocrates'timeasacurefor
cholera;morerecentlyhomeopathshaveprescribed it
successfullyforcertaintypesofcholera,especiallythe
thirdstagewherethereisterrible,continualvomiting,
anunquenchable thirstandcollapse. Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadefromtheroot
whichiscollectedinJune,powderedcoarselyand
lefttostandinalcoholbeforebeingstrainedand
succussed. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Breathcold.Collapseafterdian-hoea.Expression:
anxious.Faceblue;pale.Likes:colddrinks;fruit-
ice-cream;refreshingthings;sourfoods.Saliva
increased.Sweat:cold;clammy;profuse;sour. Thirstyforlargequantities.Tonguecold. Worseaftereatingfruit. Veratrumalbumisindicatedforthetypeofexhaustion
withfaintnessthatmayaccompanyanacuteillness,
usuallya'tummybug',forexamplegastro-enteritis,
dysentery,foodpoisoning.Acuteillnessesthatcanbe
helpedbyVeratrumalbumwillbeaccompaniedbya
generalcoldness-ofthebreath,thetongueandthe
skin(whichiscoldtotouch. )Icv-coldsweatisanother
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Zincummetallicum(Zinc. )•163
generalsymptom,andthesetypesfeelworsewhile
sweating.Therewillalsobeanincreaseofsalivainthe
mouthandaferociousthirstforlargequantitiesofcold
oricv-colddrinks.Thesemaybevomitedimmediately
ingastrictroubles.Eatingfruitcausesageneral
worsening. EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Broody.Forgetful.Tearful.Uncommunicative. Veratrumalbumtypesmayappearverydistressed,and
restless(theyhavetobeupanddoingsomething),and
maybepronetoweepingandwailingandincessant
talking.Alternatively,theymaybetotallywithdrawn,
silentandinactive.thesweatingwillbeworse(duringandafterpassing
stools),andthepatientwillfeelgenerallyworsewhile
sweating. Vomiting
SymptomsBei.i.y/stomach feelscold.Pains:cramp-
ing/griping.Vomit:ofbile;ofmucus;sour,watery;
yellow.Vomitingviolent.Withdiarrhoea(see
above);dizziness;hiccupingaftervomiting. Worseaftereating;afterdrinking. ThisoftenaccompaniesVeratrumalbumdiarrhoeaand
isoneofthemostsevereformsofdiarrhoeaand
vomiting.Thepersonmayvomitandpassdiarrhoea
simultaneously. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Cough
SymptomsCough:deep;hollow. Breathingisdifficultandmaybelouderthanusual. Thereisafeelingoftightnessinthechest,andthe
coughisaccompaniedbythecharacteristicVeratrum
coldsweat. Diarrhoea
SymptomsDiarrhoea:exhausting;involuntary;
violent.Pains:burning;cutting;dull/aching. Stools:copious;frequent;green;watery.Withicy-
coldhandsandfeet;sweating(seeGeneralSymp-
toms)duringandafterpassingastool;vomiting(see
below). Worseafterdrinking;duringamenstrualperiod;for
movement. Causesfruit;gettingchilled. Thisdiarrhoeamaybeaccompaniedbyaravenous
appetite,withafeelingofemptinesswhichisnot
relievedbyeating.Thepersonhastroublepassing
wind,andwhenisabletodosomaypassaninvolun-
tarystool.Stoolsshootout,andthepersonhastopass
themfrequently.Handsandfeetareicycold. Exhaustion
SymptomsExhaustion:paralytic;sudden.Withcold
extremities. Worseafterpassingastool. Causesdiarrhoea. Fever
SymptomsWithsweating(seeGeneralSymptoms). Worseforsweating. Theskinispaleandicycoldtotouch,eitheroverthe
wholebodyorinspotsorpatches.IfthereisdiarrhoeaZincummetallicum (Zinc.) Othername:zinc
Zincisasoft,blue-whitemetalofmoderatehardness. Itdoesn'trustandisthereforeusedto'galvanise'
metalsorprotectthemfromcorrosion,aswellasto
makealloyssuchasbrass(zincpluscopper).Ithas
manyuses,forexampleindrybatteries,radios,zips,
carparts,electricalfuses,roofingandguttering,cable
wrappingsandorganpipes. Zincasatraceelementisessentialforbothplants
andanimalsandisfoundinmostfoods.Zincde-
ficiencyinhumanscauseslossofappetiteandsenseof
taste,andslowhealing.Zincointmentstopromote
healinghavelongbeenknowninmedicine. Itismildly
astringentandprotectivetotheskinandisusedin
dustingpowdersandlotionssuchascalamine,where
itiscombinedwithiron. Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadebyheating
purezincandthengrinding ittoafinepowder.Itis
thentrituratedanddilutedbysuccussion. GENERALSYMPTOMS
Facepale.Whitespotsonfingernails.Twitchy. Trembling. Worseaftereating;duringtheevening;atnight;for
Zincactswellinpeopleofanyagewhoareweary
andrundownfromstressandoverwork.Theymay
tremble,twitchandjerk.Theirsymptomstendtobe
worseatnight,fromdrinkingwineandaftereating,
althoughtheymayfeelbetterwhileactuallyeating. LikeSulphurtypestheyhaveanemptyfeelinginthe
stomacharound11a.m. Thoughthereisageneraltwitchinesswiththese
164•Zincummetallicum(Zinc.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA
types,akeynotesymptomisrestless,twitchylegs;
Zincumtypeswillfeelexhaustedbutfidgety,andthey
willfeelthattheymustkeeptheirlegsconstantlyon
themove.Thisisworseintheeveningsinbed,andthe
legswillcarryontwitchinginthesleep. Inachildhoodillnesslikemeasleswheretherash
doesnotappearproperlythechildmaybeleftfeeling
weakandlowandtwitchy,andpossiblychesty. Zincumwillbeofhelp,ifthisisthecase. EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Depressed.Irritable.Moody.Sensitivetonoise. Sluggish.Uncommunicative. PeopleneedingZinchavedifficultythinkingbecause
ofnervousexhaustion.Theirthoughtswanderand
theymaybeslowtoanswer,perhapsrepeatingyour
questionbeforeanswering,orforgettingwhattheyare
sayinghalfwaythroughtheirconversationwithyou. Theyaredepressed,irritableandgenerallywornout. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Backache
SymptomsPainsincoccyx;inneck;inspine;aching;
sore,bruised.Withweakness.Worseforsitting,forwriting. Thewholebackfeelssoreandweakfromto