, who advised her to drink a liter of freshly made carrot and apple juice and eat
some green leaf every day, in addition to her Gerson maintenance routine. She added, “If those
guys tell you that osteoporosis is irreversible, don’t believe them.”
A.C.did as she was told. Six months later, at her request, her doctor arranged another X-ray
for her. This proved that not only had the condition not worsened, in fact it showed considerable
improvement. The woman doctor gave her the good news without expressing any surprise or
interest in this unusual development; all she had to say was to offer the patient a supply of —
painkillers. Some fifteen years have elapsed since this incident, and although A.C.is now in her
eighties, she isn’t showing any sign of osteoporosis.
Teeth
It is a sad fact that the concept of totality, or holism, is poorly understood and not applied
to dental health, although teeth are an integral part of the body and can powerfully influence its
general condition. Rarely do physicians consider checking the teeth of the patient who presents
with various problems, perhaps a tendency to infection, a weakness or some other malfunction of
the metabolism that is difficult to diagnose. The reason for this omission is that teeth belong to a
totally different area of medicine that a physician is not concerned with.
And yet it is a serious mistake to ignore teeth. Worse still, it can become a terrible mistake
to treat them incorrectly. Only a few years ago did the dental profession become aware of the
problems caused by root canal treatment. This came about because Dr. George Meinig, DDS,
F.A.C.D., former head of the Root Canal Society, was reading a book written some hundred years
ago by Dr. Weston Price, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.,7 and began to understand that it was a grave mistake
to drill into root canals, try to clear them, refill the now empty space—and assume that this has
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www.thegersonway.comtaken care of the problem.
In his book Dr. Price relates that he was asked to treat the tooth of a lady who was bedfast with
rheumatoid arthritis throughout her body. He removed the previously root canal filled offending
tooth, cleaned and sterilized it, and implanted it under the skin of a rabbit. In five days the rabbit
developed severe rheumatoid arthritis; in 10 days the disease killed it. Meantime the patient started
to feel better, was able to get up, lost much of her pain and swellings, and eventually recovered.
Dr. Price was impressed by this development and decided to research it further. Whenever he
removed a damaged tooth, he proceeded in the same way to sterilize and implant it under the skin
of a rabbit. To his amazement whatever disease the patient had suffered from, showed up in the
rabbit within five days, and killed it in ten. This happened dozens, even hundreds of times with
teeth removed from patients suffering from kidney disease, heart disease, and other problems.
Dr. Price then carried out two more experiment. In one, he implanted a tooth lost by accident
from a healthy person under the skin of a rabbit and noted that the rabbit remained healthy and
eventually survived for 15 years. Next he took a tooth from a diseased patient and autoclaved it
(exposed it to steam pressure at 250 0 F=121 0 C). It made no difference: the rabbit still died of
the patient’s disease.
Having understood the biochemical damage inflicted on the whole body by treating root
canals with fillings, Dr. George Meinig resigned from the Root Canal Society and wrote a book
titled The Root Canal Cover-Up,8 exposing the facts originally discovered and recorded by Dr.
Weston Price.
Dr. Meinig explains that there are two factors behind the actual damage caused by root canal
fillings. One is that removing the nerve of a tooth leaves that tooth dead. No nutrients can enter
it via the canules ( the equivalents of capillaries in other tissues), nor can metabolic residues
be released from it. However, the now empty canules fill with germs and viruses, which then
penetrate the jawbone and can in time cause severe infectious bone damage. Toxins from these
infections are released into the blood stream, causing an almost permanent poisoning.
Unfortunately even deep bone infections with resulting cavitations (hollowed out bone)  do
not cause pain, so that frequently the patient is not aware of having a problem. Even a standard
dental X-ray doesn’t show the bone damage; only the new ‘panoramic’ dental X-rays are able to
do that. The only solution is to remove the offending tooth and clear infectious material from the
cavitation, which allows the hollowed-out bone to heal.
If a dentist discovers an abscess at the tip of the root of a tooth, he or she will urge the patient
to have a root canal treatment done. DO NOT AGREE. The filling used in the canal eventually
shrinks a tiny bit, allowing germs and viruses to enter via the canules, which become conduits for
the invaders, causing much trouble. The dentist will assure you that the filling material currently
used in the root canal doesn’t shrink. However, even if this were true, there remains the problem
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www.thegersonway.comof the dead tooth, the germ-filled canules, and a constant focus of infection active within the
organism. So, rather than having the root canal treated, regretfully that tooth has to be extracted.
Beside root canals there are many other dental problems, such as receding gums, gum
infections, cavities, etc., that are easily detected and corrected. These should be cleared, so that no
oral infections can interfere with the healing process. Once we have understood the unbreakable
unity of the organism, it becomes clear how an unresolved and ignored dental problem can cause
serious damage in some other part of the body.
Mercury fillings should never be used. There is much information and research material
proving the damage caused by releasing small amounts of mercury into the system by chewing,
drinking, swallowing. These small but continuously released amounts of what is a potent nerve
toxin are also absorbed by the lungs and the linings of the digestive system into the bloodstream,
leading to severe harm. Despite the mass of scientific research material confirming this risk, some
dentists and the American Dental Association (ADA) vociferously claim that mercury is perfectly
safe once installed in the tooth. It is not. These days there are various minimally toxic inert filling
materials available to deal with cavities.
Crowns are another problem. A crown must never be fitted over a mercury filling, nor should
gold be used if there is any mercury—also known as silver amalgam—present in other parts of
the mouth. Between those two metals a tiny mild electric current is generated, which is capable
of interfering with the enzymes and other factors of pre-digestion that are active in the mouth. If
a crown is necessary, it should be made from other materials, such as plastic or porcelain.
Dental anesthesia needs to be handled with care. When the body is well detoxified, it becomes
more sensitive to any toxins, including anesthesia used by dentists to overcome the pain of dental
work. It is extremely important that a Gerson patient should tell his/her dentist the following,
prior to the use of anesthesia drugs:
  •  To use no more than one third to one half of the normal dose,
  •  To use no epinephrine in compounding the drug,
  •  To start the treatment immediately (the effect wears off quickly.)
Upon returning from the dentist’s office, the patient should take a coffee enema, whether or
not one is scheduled for that time. Any additional pain is likely to be cleared by another coffee
enema.
NOTE: If the dentist avises the patient to take a dose of antibiotics, this must not be refused.
A dental infection can be very serious and even become life-threatening.
Case Histories: We have several patient reports of dramatic improvements after the removal
of root canal treated teeth. One breast cancer patient using the Gerson Therapy was making slow
progress. When her husband began to suspect some dental problem slowing down the healing
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www.thegersonway.comprocess, he had her examined by a dentist. Indeed, a cavitation was found and cleared, and the
infected tooth removed. Subsequently the remaining breast tumor tissue was rapidly absorbed,
she recovered and remained well for many years.
In another case a young woman, married to an athlete and hoping for children, conceived
readily but suffered three miscarriages in a row. A full examination of her teeth disclosed a far
advanced cavitation in her jawbone. When the offending tooth was extracted and the infection in


 the factthat all animals depend on water, whereas food type is species speciﬁc. Our hypothesis; regulating drink-
ing behaviour through intermittent bulk drinking could increase oxytocin signalling, recover human trust
and increase health by down-regulation of stress axis activity and inﬂammatory activity of the immunesystem. Intermittent bulk drinking should be deﬁned as water (including tea and coffee) drinking up to afeeling of satiety and regulated by a mild feeling of thirst. This would mean that people would not drink
less quantity but less frequently and that’s how all animals, but also human newborns behave. It is the
latter group, which is probably the only group of humans with a normal ﬂuid homeostasis.
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1. Introduction
Stress, broadly deﬁned as a real or perceived threat to home-
ostasis, activates neural circuits that alter the body’s physiology
and behaviour to ensure survival and well-being. Physical stressors
are real threats that create signals within the internal environment
that communicate deviations from homeostasis to the brain. In
contrast, perceived threats or psychogenic stressors create signals
that arise within the brain itself as it interprets stimuli in the exter-
nal environment as potential insults [1]. Both type of stress factors
activate allostatic systems, including the sympathetic nervous sys-tem and hypothalamic circuits, leading to stressful and even
aggressive behaviour [2]. Starvation, infection, dehydration, vio-
lence and climate are ancient stressors producing severe danger
to the body and have therefore shaped ultimate survival function
producing proximate homeostatic feelings to induce behaviour at
service of the ultimate purpose [3]. Perhaps the best example ishumans crying. The ultimate explanation of crying is that it elicits
care and defence from mothers and other care-givers; if infants do
not cry when in need of assistance, it will be less likely to survive.
Proximate explanations include both the external triggers of cry-
ing, for example physical separation from the caregiver, cold, or a
lack of food, and also the internal mechanisms, such as the limbic
system and the endogenous opioids involved in the cessation of
crying. These are proximate explanations because they describe
the immediate causal triggers of crying [4]. In this context, the ulti-
mate explanation for hunger is to signal the body for possible star-
vation and death. The proximate value of hunger is that it leads toeating, although eating is also stimulated by looking at, smelling of
and thinking in food, which are therefore all proximate causes of
eating [5]. This so-called thought-shaped fusion can be so strong
that individuals can gain weight just looking at food [6]. Food deﬁ-
ciency as a stress factor activates a complex systemic response,
which should lead to gluconeogenesis, changes in energy distribu-
tion and spontaneous physical activity [7,8]. Starvation may induce
a certain level of aggressive behaviour, which should be considered
adaptive when hunting big game or when suffering from a lack of
high-energy nutrients [9,10], whereas food sharing behaviour is
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more beneﬁcious once the animal has been hunted (see [11] and
the references herein).
Overall, stress responses activate the sympathetic nervous sys-
tem, together with the HPA axis exerting a range of effects in ben-
eﬁt of solving the homeostatic disturbance as fast as possible. Of all
stress factors dehydration occupies a special place in animal evolu-
tion. It seems to be the only homeostatic disturbance leading to
attenuation of stress axis responses, decrease of fear feelings, anx-
iety and aggressive behaviour [12]. Drinking, caused by regulatory
thirst, could be considered proximate behaviour at service of pre-
venting dehydration, an ultimate purpose [13]. Nevertheless it is
regulatory or also physiological drinking, which is regulated by
oxytocin and therefore drinking could also stand at the service of
another ultimate purpose; bonding. These are the reasons which
made us formulate our hypothesis; Could bulk drinking recoverhuman health, trust and mental well being? In this hypothesis
‘‘bulk drinking” is deﬁned as non-frequent drinking up to satiety
and only when thirsty; like drinking visiting a waterhole.
2. Thirst, trust, oxytocin and bonding
Animals drink up to satiety every time they drink, just as infants
do. So infants and animals ‘‘suffer” real thirst (regulatory/physio-
logical thirst, 14) based on hypernatremia, hypovolemia and/or
hyperosmolality [15,16] and these conditions induce increased
oxytocin signalling (Olszewski, 2010). Oxytocin has numerous
effects on multiple physiological mechanisms and oxytocin inﬂu-
ences behaviour signiﬁcantly (see below). The mentioned up to
satiety-drinking behaviour of infants every time they are breast-
fed, is opposite to modern adults who drink small amounts of liq-
uid, often numerous times every day.
This latter way of drinking should be considered evolutionary
novel and might affect the water homeostasis and even health
[14]. We think that this constant drinking decreases oxytocin sig-
nalling through chronic low NaCl levels, leading to salt- and sugar
craving, whereas dehydration/hypernatremia increases oxytocin
induced water-craving and inhibition of hunger and carbohydrate
intake [17,18].
Recent research shows that in spite of the expected typical
stress response, mild hypernatremia as a state of dehydration
decreases the activity of the HPA axis (less cortisol production)
and increases the production of oxytocin and arginine-
vasopressin signiﬁcantly [12]. This study further showed that
hypernatremia as a psychogenic/physical stress factor attenuates
the heart limb of the stress response and increases social engage-
ment. Oxytocin and vasopressin are important hormones for devel-
opment of trust, love and bonding neuroanatomy ( [19] and the
references herein). Oxytocin further inﬂuences the immune
response through context-based interactions. It maintains periph-
eral homeostasis during acute inﬂammation [20], has anti-
inﬂammatory protective effects on the heart muscle [21], increases
the production of salivary IgA [22] and has overall anti-
inﬂammatory effects [23]. Breast-feeding is the most signiﬁcant
example of how a homeostatic need induces bonding, in this case
between mother and baby, through the massive release of oxytocin
[24] and affective-bonding mechanisms are responsible for neuro-
anatomical development and immune function later in life [25,26].
It is even so that long term breastfeeding prevents the develop-
ment of criminal and overall anti-social behaviour in later adults
[62].
Paediatricians agree that hydration in children may be optimal
only in breastfed infants. However, their hydration status is very
peculiar. Total water intake per unit of body weight is four times
higher in infants compared to adults. Breast milk has higher water
content per energy unit than the diet of adults. Nevertheless, urinevolume per unit energy is almost identical. Infants retain water for
growth and have higher non-renal water losses due to a higher
body surface area related to body mass. However, osmolar load
per unit of energy is four times lower which corresponds to a very
low urine osmolality of 130 mosm/kg and leaves only a small renal
dilution capacity to excrete an extra water load [27]. Breastfeeding
is normally a topic studied in relationship with eating behaviour,
although we and others [28] think that it much more reﬂects ﬂuid
needs, water and sodium homeostasis.
Water is an essential nutrient for all animals and plants across
lifespan and maintaining chronic hydration is recognised to pro-
vide multiple health beneﬁts and enhance quality of life [29]. Mod-
ern diseases are mostly caused by the cause of causes, low-grade
inﬂammation or metaﬂammation [30–32]. The actual environment
seems to be pro-inﬂammatory and the sum of novel anthropogenicfactors, including food and drinking behaviour, might give a plau-
sible explanation for the increase of people suffering from chronic
non-communicable disorders [30,33,34]. Optimal water-intake,
based on a certain rhythm might optimise oxytocin signalling,
recover human character and regulate immune activity [35].
Recent research on the relations of personality to well-being shows
that the people who are most healthy, happy and fulﬁlled are those
who are high in all three of the character traits of self-directedness,
cooperativeness, and self-trans


	kind	of	healing	did	he	need?	I	asked.
“I	don’t	want	to	give	you	any	background	just	yet,”	Gerald	said.	“I	flew
down	to	New	Mexico	and	found	myself	in	a	group	outside	Santa	Fe,	about
twenty	of	us.	I’d	never	met	a	shaman	before.	Ours	was	Hopi,	but	he	didn’t
wear	any	religious	symbols.	He	was	just	a	very
pleasant
	older	man	with
shoulder-length	hair.	He	greeted	each	of	us	as	we	entered	the	meeting	room	in
a	motel.”
The	shaman	began	by	asking	everyone	to	pick	a	partner.	“We	were	asked
to	pair	off	with	the	person	in	the	room	whom	we	felt	most	comfortable	with.	I
picked	a	guy	about	my	age	who	was	standing	next	to	me.	I	was	as
comfortable	with	him	as	anyone	else,	considering	how	bad	I	felt	anyway.”
Gerald	now	revealed	that	he	had	been	through	a	debilitating	course	of
treatment	for	prostate	cancer,	including	surgery	and	chemotherapy.	He	had
been	cancer	free	for	two	years	but	was	haunted	by	fears	that	the	doctors
hadn’t	gotten	everything.	His	anxiety	kept	on	growing	even	though	he	keptbeing	reassured	that	he	was	in	the	clear.	Finally,	on	the	advice	of	a	friend,
Gerald	reluctantly	sought	out	a	shaman.
“Once	we’d	picked	our	partners	we	formed	a	circle.	The	shaman	walked
into	the	middle	and	began	to	chant.	He	didn’t	ask	us	to	do	anything	but
observe.	After	fifteen	minutes	he	turned	to	the	first	pair,	a	man	and	a	woman.
The	shaman	looked	into	the	man’s	eyes	and	muttered	something.	Immediately
the	man’s	body	began	to	tremble,	then	he	fell	down	in	a	kind	of	mild	seizure.
“In	an	insistent	voice	the	shaman	said,
Speak	to	me!
	The	man’s	eyes	had
gone	blank.	He	began	to	mumble	about	being	freezing	cold,	lying	on	the
ground	in	winter.	He’d	passed	out	from	alcohol	and	was	dying.
“The	shaman	nodded.	He	turned	to	the	woman,	who	looked	pretty	shaken.
‘Are	you	an	alcoholic?’	he	asked.	‘Is	that	why	you’ve	come	here?’	Turning
red,	the	woman	nodded.	‘Well,	you	have	a	spirit	in	your	family	line,	someone
who	died	of	alcohol.	We	need	to	free	him.’	He	helped	the	woman’s	partner	to
his	feet	and	told	him	he’d	done	a	good	job.	And	that’s	how	it	went,	one	pair	at
a	time	going	around	the	circle.”
Gerald	watched	as	each	partner	was	used	to	invoke	a	departed	spirit.	In
each	case	the	spirit	would	talk	about	a	problem—depression,
cancer,
addiction—which	turned	out	to	be	a	perfect	match	for	the	problem	that	the
other	person	in	the	pair	had	come	about.	No	one	had	talked	to	the	shaman
before	meeting	in	the	motel.	Gerald	was	astonished	when	his	partner	brought
in	the	spirit	of	Gerald’s	grandfather,	who	had	died	of	lung	cancer	when	Gerald
was	a	small	child.
“Not	everybody	recognized	their	spirit,	and	it	wasn’t	always	a	close
relative.	In	my	case	I	had	heard	a	lot	about	my	grandfather,	who	had	been	a
prominent	citizen.	It	was	spooky	hearing	him	beg	to	be	released	from	his
pain,	very	spooky.”
For	some	of	the	people	in	the	room	clearing	the	departed	spirit,	which	the
shaman	proceeded	to	do,	marked	the	end	of	treatment.	Gerald	stayed	in	the
Southwest	and	underwent	a	series	of	medicinal	sweat	lodges,	accompanied	by
rituals	and	chanting.	After	several	weeks	the	shaman	told	him	that	his
grandfather’s	spirit	was	now	at	peace.
“When	I	got	back	home	I	almost	went	back	for	a	medical	checkup,	but	I
had	stopped	feeling	anxious.	I	quit	having	nightmares	or	waking	up	in	a
sweat.	It	was	over,	just	like	the	shaman	said.”
I’m	recounting	this	story	to	open	our	perspective.	Being	raised	in	a
Christian	culture	doesn’t	automatically	mean	that	a	dying	person	will	see
himself	arriving	at	the	pearly	gates	greeted	by	Saint	Peter.	(This	isn’t	one	of
the	common	scenarios	reported	by	near-death	patients,	either.)	One	might	find
oneself	in	the	spirit	world	of	Native	Americans	instead.	The	soul’s	passage
follows	links	that	we	don’t	foresee.
Gerald’s	story	has	a	curious	addendum.	A	month	after	returning	home	hewent	with	his	wife	on	vacation	to	the	upper	Midwest	where	his	family
originally	came	from.	“We	checked	into	a	renovated	Victorian	hotel.	Our
room	was	done	up	in	flowery	wallpaper	and	a	four-poster	bed.	But	what
caught	my	eye	was	a	framed	newspaper	hanging	on	the	wall.	It	was	from	the
turn	of	the	century	and	showed	a	picture	of	a	volunteer	fire	brigade.	Right	in
the	middle	staring	out	at	me	was	my	grandfather	as	a	young	man.”
“Did	that	shake	you?”	I	asked.
“No,	to	me	it	was	a	sign	that	the	shaman	was	right.	I’m	glad	my
grandfather	was	set	free,	wherever	he’s	gone.”
Akasha
In	all	the	tales	of	ghosts	who	want	to	be	set	free,	what	holds	them	back	is
memory.	They	continue	to	remember	what	physical	life	was	like,	and	the
unfinished	business	of	those	memories	has	a	grip.	The	unsettled	spirit	can’t
escape	into	the	next	stage	of	existence.	What	this	means,	strangely	enough,	is
that	when	the	afterlife	has	become	real,	the	physical	world	has	become	the
dream.	It’s	just	a	matter	of	perspective.	When	you	are	in	a	physical	body	your
perspective	makes	physicality	real.	When	you	are	dreaming	at	night,	the
dream	state	is	real.	When	you	are	“crossing	over,”	both	waking	and	dreaming
are	unreal,	and	Akasha—the	field	of	consciousness—is	real.	What	causes	this
change	of	reality?	Vedanta	holds	that	consciousness	is	convinced	by	its	own
creations.	Therefore,	nothing	we	can	see,	hear,	and	touch,	whether	in	waking,
dreaming,	or	beyond	both,	is	ultimately	real.	They	represent	shifting
perspectives.
To	be	completely	free	means	waking	up	from	all	dreamlike	states,	and
reclaiming	who	you	are:	the	maker	of	reality.	One	cannot	say	that	all	dying
people	will	achieve	this	kind	of	absolute	freedom.	They	may	glimpse	it	only
for	a	fleeting	second;	they	may	sense	the	possibility	of	breaking	away	from
one	dream	and	yet	be	seduced	into	the	next	one	that	comes	to	mind.
I	knew	a	woman	who	as	a	child	had	come	home	from	school,	and	as	she
entered	the	door	she	saw	her	young	cousin	from	Chicago	standing	in	the
corner	waiting	for	her.	Both	were	about	eight	at	the	time.	The	cousin	didn’t
speak,	and	the	girl	ran	to	tell	her	mother	that	they	had	a


 effect is so overwhelm ing it’s like a conspiracy again st you. The
outside world has a major influence on your thoughts, and your thoughts
and emotions will generally line up. It’s very rare that your mind will be
saying, “I don’t like this,” and your heart will be feeling treme ndous love.
Let’s say Fred passes by and your mind says, “I don’t want to see Fred. I’m
not comfortable seeing him after the argument we had last time.” You will
start to feel fear. You were doing fine until an event came in from the
outside, took over your thoughts, and generated difficult emotions. You get
sucked into that overwhelming experience. Now if you’re asked, “What’ s it
like living in there?” you would probably say, “It’s pretty intense. I get lost a
lot and struggle to be okay.” It’s not all that much fun, is it?
Buddha said all of life is suffering. He wasn’ t being negative. All of
life is suffering. If you’re rich, poor, sick, healthy, young, or old—it doesn’ t
matter. There certainly are times when you’re not suffering, but the vast
majority of what’ s going on is you’re just trying to be okay. That’s what it
boils down to. You will at some point realize that’s all you’v e done yourentire life—try to be okay. That’ s why you cried when you were little; you
weren’ t okay in there. That’ s why you wanted a certain toy; you thought it
would make you okay. That’ s why you wanted to marry this special person.
That’ s why you wanted to go to Europe or Hawaii for a vacation. You get to
the point where you realize all you’re ever doing in there is trying to be
okay. First you think about what will make you okay, then you go out and
try to make it happen.
What does it even mean to try to be okay? For one thing, it means
trying to make your thoughts and emotions easier to live with. There are
nice ones, and there are not-so-nice ones. You like the nice ones. That’ s
what you’re struggling with. You want your thoughts to be positive,
uplifting, and beautiful. The problem is there’ s an outside world of reality
that can come in and cause your thoughts and emotions to be very difficult.
This is why life can be overwhelming.
This interaction with the world, your thoughts, and your emotions
raises some very interesting questions. What are these three things, and
where do they come from? How  much control do you have over them? Why
do they sometimes make you feel good and other times make you feel bad?
We’re going to explore these questions in great detail. When we’re through,
you’ll realize that what really matters is not the thoughts, the emotions, nor
the outside world. What really matters is You in there, who is experiencing
these things. How are you doing? What we’ll see is that you in there are
higher than any experience you’ve ever had. The one who is seeing all this
is the most beautiful thing in the whole universe. If you ever find your way
back to the seat of Self, that’s what you’re going to discover. This is what
Christ taught you, what Buddha taught you, what all the great spiritual
masters of every tradition have taught: The Kingdom is within you. You in
there are a very great being made in the image of God, but to know that, you
have to free yourself from all the inner commotion.Chapter 5.
Exploring the Nature of Things
Your entire life is composed of consciously experiencing the three objects of
consciousness (the outer world,  the thoughts, and the emotions). Now we
are ready to explore the origin and nature of these expe riences. By
understanding where they come from, they will lose some of the distractive
power they have  over you. You will then better understand your tendency to
accept or reject them. We study these objects of consciousness not solely for
the knowledge we gain, but also for the freedom we attain.
Let’s discuss the nature of the world passing before you. Every
moment that passes before you comes and goes like the frames of a motion
picture. The moments never stop; they just keep flowing through time and
space. Where did all these mom ents come from? Why do you experience
them the way that you do? What is your true relationship to what passes
before you?
Perhaps even more interesting than the outer world, we’re going to
explore the nature of the mind and the emotions, including how and why
they keep changing the way they do. Though all three of these objects of
consciousness are constantly changing, you are the persistent being that is
always there experiencing them. What is your nature? What is it like to sit
back and be conscious of being conscious? That is what all spirituality is
about. When you are no longer distracted by any of the three great
distractors, your consciousness will no longer be pulled into those objects.
The focus of consciousness will very naturally remain in the source of
consciousness. It’s like a flashlight shining on various objects. Instead of
looking at the objects being illum ined, if you look at the light itself, you will
realize it is the same light shining on all the different objects. Likewise, it is
the same consci ousness that is aware of all the objects passing before it,both outside and in. You are that consciousness. When you pull back to that
source of awareness, it is the most beautiful thing you will ever experience.
That is the journ ey before us—to free ourselves from the distractions
that keep  drawin g us away from  our greatness and leave us struggling with
life. As you come to understand the nature of these objects you are
struggling with, you will very naturally be able to release the hold they have
on you. This act of letting go is what is meant by “acceptance” and
“surrender.” There is a state of great peace within you that cannot be
disturbed by the world, your thoughts, or even your emotions. These objects
can continue to freely exist, but they will no longer dominate your life. You
will be free to fully interact in life, but you will do so out of a sense of love
and service, rather than fear or desire.
Now you understand the underlying purpose of this book: for you to
learn how to let go of the three great distractors and return to the source of
your being. As you will see, this is the only way you can fully enjoy your
time here on Earth. This is what  it means to be Living Untether ed. It doesn’ t
take forceful practices to return to your core. The highest path is learning
through your daily life to gradually let go of what is distracting your
consciousness. By accepting instead of resisting, you will eventually attain a
permanent seat of clarity—it’ s called becoming established in the seat of
Self. You will be living in the most beautiful energy you’ve ever
experienced, and it will never stop. During every moment of your life, there
will be a beautiful flow of ener gy that keeps rising within you.
We are going to approach this process of freeing yourself in a very
scientific, analy tical manner. By doing so, you will become so comfortable
with the three objects of consciousness passing before you that you will no
longer have to devote your life to controlling the experience. You will see
that these passing objects repre sent the lower aspect of your being: body,
mind, and emot ions. In drastic contrast, you can learn to establish yourself
in the higher aspect of your being: the seat of conscious awaren ess. You can
live your life in a state of complete freedom and happiness. Are you ready?
Let’s embark on our journey into the exploration of our outer world, inner
world of mind and emotions, and the consciousness that exper iences it all.
Let’s learn more about this path of acceptance of what passes before us.PART II:
The Outside WorldChapter 6.
The Moment in Front of You
Keeping perspe ctive is essential  at every stage on our path toward inner
freedom. The solid ground we keep coming back to is that you are in there;
you know you’re in there; and you’ve always known you are in there. But
you don’t focus on the fact that you are in there because you are too
absorbed in what is going on both inside and outside you. You get lost in the
objects of consciousness, instead of focusing on the source of
consciousness. Spiritual awaken ing is about untangling consciousness from
the objects of consciousness. To do this, it will help tremendously to
understand the nature of the objects of consciousness you deal with each
day.
We begin our exploration with the outside world. What you receive in
through your five senses is a significant part of your daily expe rience. You
are inundated each day with an unending stream of sights, sounds, tastes,
smells, and touches. If we are going to explore what it is like to be You, the
conscious being living within,  we need to take the time to thoroughly
understand the outside world since it makes up such a major part of your
life. What is actually out there, where did it come from, and what is your
relationship to it?
Let’s begin by exploring your relationship to the world around you.
We’ll start by making a


radical than the mass awakening of our remote ancestors. In the
next reality shift, we will define ourselves as beings endowed with
infinite possib ilities. Metare ality becomes home when everyone
agrees that we belong there.F4

M E T A R E A L I T Y  O F F E R S
A B S O L U T E  F R E E D O M
reedom is the opposite of feeling trapped. We’ve created
virtual reality on such a huge scale that people can go abo ut their
lives no t feelin g trapped. But, in truth, the whole setup is a trap.
Hamlet was trapped in a dil emma over murdering the man who
murdered his father. Indecis ion would lead him either to murder
or t o suicide—eventually it l eads him to both—and at on e point
Hamlet speaks to his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with
all the symptoms of clinical depression:
I have…lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of
exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my
disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the
air—look you, this brave o’e r-hanging firmament, this
majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears
no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapors.No actual person burdened by depression speaks so beautifully,
no doubt, but Hamlet still harbors the great optimism about
human potential that fueled  the Renaissance. Immedi ately he
adds:
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason,
how infinite in faculty! In for m and moving how express
and admirable! In action how like an angel, in
apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world!
The paragon of animals!
Four hundred  years later, we are the same species, but
optimism has become a struggle. Looking around, would you
agree with Shakespeare’s praise of human beings as “The beauty of
the wor ld! The paragon of an imals!”? I’ve been arguing that Homo
sapiens  i s the o nly spe cies on Earth that is multidimensional. This
seems l ike the greatest possib le gift any life form could receive. It
gave our minds an open tick et to imagine anything we want. It
saved us from the evolution ary dead end that befell th e giant
anteater, the panda, and every other creature that is trapped by
physical evolut ion. It is easy to become intoxicated by the prospect
of our own boundless potential.
So it is strange but true that human beings don’t accept this gift
of unlim ited potential. We are starkly divided—one side of human
nature craving  freedom, the other side deeply fearing it. By
freedom  I mean much more than not being in prison or under the
thumb of the powerful. Freedom is boundless awareness, the very
definition of metahuman. When anythin g is possible, we are most
ourselves. Wh en only some things are possible, we are all too
human.
Freedom has no fixed rules. It is without walls, and any tho ught
is pe rmissible.  No matter how  good your life is, you are n ot living
in fr eedom, unfortunately. Y ou were born into a reality hemmed
in b y ru les, wa lls, and thoughts you are not supposed to t hink. In
these p ages we have been de aling in forbidden thoughts, the kind
that undermine virtual reality and expose its illusions. Why? To
build a new r eality based on freedom. The ultimate fo rbiddenthought is “None of this is real.” It wipes the slate clean of all
illusions. What makes such  a thought forbidden isn’t that the
police w ill knock on your door and punish you for breaking the
law. No one will even know it if you opt out of virtual reality.
What m akes it forbidden to think “None of this is real” is
something personal: the fear of what comes next. Absolute
freedom is terrifying. It expands the unknown as far as the eye can
see. Th at’s th e main reason that human history isn’t about
absolute freedo m; it is about testing the next boundary, a nd then
moving beyond  it to test a new boundary. From the perspective of
metareality, Homo sapiens  has  never needed to respect  so many
boundaries. A history of “th ou shalt not” has unfolded with so
much fear behind it, and suc h powerful enforcement of the rules,
that our evolution has had to struggle every step of the way.
The root cause of living inside boundaries is the divided self.
We have defined human nature simultaneously as something to
celebrate and something to fear. Getting beyond the divided self is
crucial, becaus e, like every part of virtual reality, the divi ded self
has no validity other than what we give it. The war between good
and evi l, light and darkness, creation and destruction, is a mental
construct. It was born out of our deep confusion over who we are.
When a species has an open ticket in terms of its future evolution,
the destination printed on the ticket is Everywhere. Homo sapiens
still holds this open ticket in hand, but we plot the co urse of
history by ups and downs, progress and setbacks, tyrants and
liberators, war and peace. Every day we force reality to  fit the
model of the divided self.
Testing bound aries is a stage of development. Every child tests
the rules laid down by his parents and grows up with an inner map
of d os a nd don’ts that, for the most part, lasts for life. But it would
be far better if our inner map  showed us how to use our ticket to
Everywhere. Fortunately, metareality gets closer the more we
realize w ho we  are. It has been getting closer for tens of th ousands
of y ears. To see the invisible  evolution of consciousness requires
us to look at our species with new eyes.T h e  I c e m a n ’ s  T a l e
Although we have no exact d ate for it, human beings cou ldn’t
explore multiple dimensions until they became aware that this was
possible. Prehistoric humans made that breakthrough a nd, like
the othe r invisi ble things in our past, we can read the minds of our
remote ancestors by investigating a handful of physical clues.
What these clues reveal is fas cinating. While warring between the
darkness and the light insid e us, we were also expand ing into
freedom. Limi tation pulled us one way, freedom the oth er. This
tug-of-war will take some explaining.
In 1 991 some h ikers chanced upon a natural mummy pres erved
in glacial ice a t an altitude o f approximately 10,000 fee t on the
side of an Alp  on the Austrian-Italian border. Named Ötzi by
anthropologists (after the mountains he was discovered in) and
“the Ice man” i n the popular press, this male from 3500 BCE is a
frozen snapsho t of life in Europe during the Chalcolithic Period,
also known as the Copper A ge— chalcolithic  is derived from the
Greek word for copper. By this time prehistoric humans had
discovered how  to smelt copper ore, but had yet to mix it with tin
to form bronze, a harder metal.
If y ou were h iking the South Tyrol Mountains and met the
Iceman two hours before his death, you’d have seen a thin, almost
malnourished male about five feet, two inches in height, perhaps
on a  hunting t rip, sitting on a rock and having a meal. He was
carrying bread made of wheat and barley; there were also fruits
and roots in his supplies, and the dried meat of chamois, red deer,
and ibex. If he smiled at you, Ötzi would have shown teeth riddled
with cavities, probably because his diet was high in carbohydrates.
The mu mmified Ötzi’s expose d skin displays numerous tattoos,
sixty-one in all, mostly horizontal lines and crosses, primarily
running up and down the sp ine and behind the knees. According
to the anthrop ologists who studied his remains, he had been sick
three times in the previous six months before he died. For a forty-
five-year-old, Ötzi was in bad shape by modern standards, already
showing wear and tear in the  knees and ankles, and osteoporosis
of the spine. (T he tattoos, made from powdered black soot, mighthave been some form of ancient medical treatment. There’s an
ancestral tradit ion in every culture of tattooing to relieve p ain, and
the Iceman’s tattoos are clu stered around the joints and lower
back, where he would certain ly have suffered from chronic pain.)
Unlike others who settled in agricultural communities, this man
took lon g walk s all his life, which adds to the speculation  that he
was perhaps a shepherd or a hunter.
No o ther early European has  been studied as thoroughly a s the


	which	to	understand	health	or
how	to	help	patients	achieve	it,	like	being	lost	in	a	vast	jungle	without	a	map	or
compass.	Narrowly	trained,	our	physicians	are	taught	the	art	of	surgery	and	the
administration	of	drugs	as	tools	to	manage	symptoms.	If	the	only	tool	you	have
is	a	hammer,	so	the	saying	goes,	then	every	problem	looks	like	a	nail.	If	you	go
to	a	conventionally	trained	physician,	then	medicine’s	“hammers”—surgery	and
drugs—are	what	you	receive.	Unfortunately,	these	tools	are	designed	to	manage
and	suppress	symptoms,	not	to	cure	disease.
For	a	more	meaningful	understanding	of	disease	(cellular	malfunction),	we
must	consider	the	health	of	our	cells.	Remember	that	noticeable	health	problems
begin	when	a	large	number	of	cells	malfunction.	As	this	happens,	important
cellular	chemicals	are	not	produced,	cell-to-cell	communications	becomegarbled	and	the	body	ceases	to	regulate	itself	properly.	Our	tissues	suffer	and
noticeable	symptoms	appear,	e.g.,	allergies,	fatigue,	aches	and	pains,	colds,	flu,
depression,	anxiety,	cancer	or	any	of	thousands	of	other	complaints.
Categorizing	and	suppressing	the	symptoms	of	malfunctioning	cells	does	not
fix	the	problem.	This	approach	cannot	explain	why	the	problem	occurred	in	the
first	place,	cannot	prevent	the	problem	from	happening	again	and	cannot	prevent
it	from	appearing	elsewhere	in	the	body.	The	only	“cure”	is	to	restore	our	cells
and	tissues	to	health.
What	Is	Health?
Everybody	thinks	they	know	what	health	is,	but	people	asked	to	define	it	give
you	many	different	answers.	In	order	to	define	health,	perhaps	we	first	should
provide	the	definition	of	health	used	in	modern	medicine:	“Health	is	the	absence
of	disease.”	This	medical	school	lesson	is	not	a	very	good	definition.	For
medicine	to	recognize	disease,	it	must	be	diagnosable.	You	are	not	sick	until	the
day	the	physician	can	diagnose	something.	The	absence	of	diagnosable	disease	is
not	a	good	working	definition	of	health.
Modern	medicine	has	no	way	of
recognizing	or	diagnosing	disease	when	your	health	is	in	its	initial	decline.
When	I	was	sick	and	already	experiencing	disturbing	symptoms,	my	physician
pronounced	me	in	excellent	health.	He	had	never	been	taught	how	to	notice	and
measure	my	already	extensive	decline	in	health.	We	are	considered	sick	only
after	the	problem	has	become	serious	enough	to	produce	symptoms	that	fit
neatly	into	one	of	medicine’s	disease	categories.	This	way	of	looking	at	health	is
not	helpful,	productive	or	self-empowering.	Health	is	much	more	than	the
absence	of	a	diagnosable	disease.
When	your	cells	are	functioning	as	they	should,	you	have	ample	adaptive
capacity	to	thrive	in	our	constantly	changing	environment	without	ill	effects.
With	properly	functioning	cells,	you	have	strong	resilience	to	various	kinds	of
stress—	physical,	chemical,	biological	and	emotional.	You	have	the	ability	to
make	daily	repairs	to	your	cells,	the	ability	to	build	healthy	new	ones,	and	the
ability	to	efficiently	remove	pathogenic	microorganisms	and	toxins	from	your
body.	You	become	an	optimally	balanced	organism,	with	integrated	mental	and
physical	equilibrium.	Perhaps	most	important	is	that	achieving	good	cellular
health	gives	our	society	the	ability	to	produce	healthy	offspring.
While	the	above	descriptions	explain	the	practical	effects	of	health,	they	still
do	not	offer	a	single,	concrete	definition	of	health.	In	order	to	clearly	define
health,	as	a	concept	concrete	enough	to	be	understood	and	discussed,	let	us	work
with	the	following	definition:Health	is	the	state	wherein	all	cells
are	functioning	optimally.
Never	are	all	of	our	cells	functioning	perfectly,	so	the	challenge	is	to	keep
cellular	malfunction	to	a	minimum.	Even	in	healthy	people,	cells	are	constantly
being	damaged,	dying	and	being	replaced.	Our	bodies	produce	more	than	10
million	new	cells	every	second,	as	we	constantly	rebuild	our	tissues.	How
healthy	are	each	of	these	new	cells?	If	we	replace	sick	cells	with	sick	cells,	we
will	never	recover.	As	cells	die	off	are	we	replacing	them	with	healthy	cells	or
sick	cells?
Who	Succumbs	to	Disease?
Only	sick	people	become	sick.	Once	you	start	to	compromise	health,	a
cascade	of	events	follow.	Once	a	critical	number	of	cells	begin	to	malfunction,
internal	communications	and	self-regulation	systems	become	debilitated	and
destabilized.	As	the	number	of	compromised	cells	increases,	the	effects	are
compounded.	Before	anyone	can	exhibit	noticeable	signs	of	disease,	normal	cell
function	has	to	be	compromised	significantly	throughout	the	body.	Vulnerability
to	infections,	for	example,	is	created	by	widespread	cellular	malfunction.	An
infection	indicates	that	cellular	malfunction	already	has	weakened	the	immune
system.	Having	a	cold	or	the	flu	is	an	alarm	screaming	at	you	that	all	is	not	well,
because	healthy	people	resist	infections	in	the	first	place.	Few	of	us	pay	attention
to	these	alarms.	We	think	that	having	a	cold	or	the	flu	is	normal,	and	that	once
the	symptoms	are	gone	we	are	well	again.	Not	so.
The	level	of	your	health	and	immunity	determines	whether	or	not	the	presence
of	a	microorganism	results	in	an	infection.
You	are	already	sick	before	you	come
down	with	an	infection.
Otherwise	everybody	who	is	exposed	to	a	given	“bug”
would	become	sick,	which	is	not	the	case.	Contrary	to	the	common	notion	that
we	“catch”	diseases,	people	become	sick	only	after	their	cellular	health	is
already	compromised.	Disease	(cellular	malfunction)	comes	first;	active
infections	and	chronic	problems	follow.
The	skeptic	says,	“But	he	was	born	with	asthma	and	suffered	from	it	as	an
infant.”	“She	was	in	the	best	of	health,	took	great	care	of	herself,	and	then
suddenly	got	breast	cancer.”	Although	we	hear	these	kinds	of	statements
frequently,	the	notion	is	flawed	that	a	person	is	a	powerless	victim	of	disease.
This	way	of	looking	at	events	comes	from	living	in	a	society	that	does	not	have
an	accurate	understanding	of	disease,	or	of	what	is	required	to	create	and
maintain	health.Think	of	the	historically	healthy	societies,	such	as	the	Hunzas.	These	people
implicitly	understood	what	they	needed	to	maintain	their	health.	They	lived	far
longer	than	we	do,	without	the	chronic	degenerative	diseases	from	which	we
suffer.	The	principles	of	good	health	were	built	into	their	beliefs	and	lifestyles.
The	key	lesson	to	be	learned	from	these	people	is	this:
Healthy	people	do	not	get	sick.
Most	of	us	have	not	learned	to	think	this	way.	We	grow	up	in	a	society	where
almost	everyone	has	a	chronic	disease.	We	have	been


 while
the native Aborigines had relatively perfect teeth, this man who was a trained dietitian for the
whites had lost nearly all his teeth from tooth decay and pyorrhea.
    In the group of Aborigines so far reported, there were many who had come from the interior
districts of Australia and many who had always lived near the coast. These two types of districts
provided quite different types of foods. Those near the coast were able to obtain animal life from
the sea, including fish, dugong or sea cow, a great variety of shell fish, and some sea plants. Those
from the interior districts could not obtain animal life of the sea, but did obtain animal life of the
land which was eaten with their plant foods in each case. It was quite important to reach a group
of Aborigines who had always lived inland and who were on a reservation inland. This contact was
made with the group at a government reservation called Cherbourg. A typical group of individuals
was examined. Of forty-five individuals with 1,236 teeth, 42.5 per cent of the teeth had been
attacked by tooth decay. For the women, this constituted 43.7 per cent; for the men, 64.6 per
cent; and for the children, 5.6 per cent. Of all of the individuals here examined 64.5 per cent had
dental caries. It is of interest that many of these men had worked on white men's cattle ranches.
While the adults showed 11.7 per cent to have deformed dental arches, this rose to 50 per cent
for the children of the group. We were informed that in all of these groups tuberculosis was taking
a very heavy toll. In Fig. 58, upper left, will be seen a boy with a superating tubercular gland of the
axilla; at the right, a girl with a fistula draining pus onto the outside of the face from an abscessed7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 112/250tooth; below, deformed legs and a girl with tubercular glands of the neck.
    A reservation situated on the coast where sea foods were available might be expected to make
available a particular type of nutrition through sea foods. The individuals in a reservation for the
Aborigines at Tweed Heads, which is so situated, were studied. Of the twenty-seven individuals
examined, 89 per cent had dental caries. Of their 774 teeth, 39.7 per cent had been attacked by
dental caries. For the women, this amounted to 62.5 per cent; for the men, 70.9 per cent; and for
the children, 20.8 per cent. Most of these children had been born in this environment while their
parents were being fed, largely, the foods provided by the government and mission. In this group,
83.4 per cent of the children had deformed dental arches, and 33.3 per cent of the adults.
    An interesting incident was brought to my attention in one of the Australian reservations where
the food was practically all supplied by the government. I was told by the director in charge, and in
further detail by the other officials, that a number of native babies had become ill while nursing from
their mothers. Some had died. By changing the nutrition to a condensed whole milk product, the
babies recovered. When placed back on their mother's breast food they again became ill. The
problem was: Why was not their mothers' milk adequate? I was later told by the director of a
condition that had developed in the pen of the reservation's hogs which were kept to use up the
scraps and garbage from the reservation's kitchens. He reported that one after another the hogs
went down with a type of paralysis and could not get up. The symptoms were suggestively like
vitamin A deficiency in both the babies and the hogs, and indicated the treatment.
    The rapid degeneration of the Australian Aborigines after the adoption of the government's
modern foods provides a demonstration that should be infinitely more convincing than animal
experimentation. It should be a matter not only of concern but deep alarm that human beings can
degenerate physically so rapidly by the use of a certain type of nutrition, particularly the dietary
products used so generally by modern civilization.
    The child life among the Aborigines of Australia proved to be exceedingly interesting. Children
develop independence very young and learn very early to take care of themselves. Mothers are
very affectionate and show great concern when their children are not thriving. Two typical mothers
with their children are shown in Fig. 59. These children, as suggested in the picture, were keenly
interested in everything that I did, but were not alarmed or frightened.
FIG. 59. Typical Aborigine mothers with their children.
    The wonderful wisdom of these primitive people was attested by the principal of the public7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 113/250school at Palm Island. A mother died and her nursing infant was taken care of by its maternal
grandmother, who had not recently given birth to a child. She proceeded to carry out the primitive
formula for providing breast food by artificial means. Her method was to make an ointment of the
fresh bodies of an insect which made its nest in the leaves of a certain tree. This she rubbed on her
breast and in a short time produced milk liberally for this foster child. I was shown the type of
insect, photographed its nest and the colony inside when the nest was opened. The people who
vouched for this circumstance declared that they had seen the entire procedure and knew the facts
to be as stated. They further stated that this was common knowledge among the Aborigines.
    Another important source of information regarding the Aborigines of Australia was provided by
a study of the skeletal material and skulls in the museums at Sydney and Canberra, particularly the
former. I do not know the number of skulls that are available there for study, but it is very large. I
examined many and found them remarkably uniform in design and quality. The dental arches were
splendidly formed. The teeth were in excellent condition with exceedingly little dental caries. A
characteristic of these skulls was the evidence of a shortage of material for those that had been
transferred to a museum from the interior arid plains country. Those skulls, however, that had
come from coastal areas where sea foods were available, show much more massive dimensions of
the general pattern. In Fig. 60 will be seen typical skulls showing the normal dental arches and
general design of the head. It is of interest to note the very heavy orbital ridges which characterize
this race.
FIG. 60. The buried skulls throughout Australia provide a
dependable record of their physical excellence and splendid
facial and dental arch forms. In the lower pictures are shown
the skull dome of a typical Australian Aborigine for
comparison with that of the recently discovered Peking man
who possibly lived a million years ago.
    I have previously referred to a report by Professor Weidenreich regarding the resemblance of
the Australian native's skulls to those of the recently discovered Peking man in the caves of China.
In Fig. 60 are two views for comparison. The skull at the left is that of an Australian primitive
photographed in a museum in Sydney, and an outline of the Peking skull is shown at the right.
Professor Weidenreich has emphasized the observations that when three skulls are put in series,
namely, the Australian primitive, the Peking skull and a chimpanzee skull, the Peking skull appears
to be about half way between the two in design and developmental order. The Australian
primitive's skull is higher in the crown, showing much greater brain capacity. The supra-orbital
depressions are less deep in the Peking than in the chimpanzee, and still less deep in the Australian
primitive. The supra-orbital ridges which produce the prominent eyebrows are less pronounced in7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 114/250the Australian primitive than in the Peking man, and still more prominent in the chimpanzee. The
prominent supra-orbital ridges of the chimpanzee face are shown in Fig. 48.
    The age of the Peking skulls has been variously placed from several hundred thousand to a
million years. A distinguished anthropologist has stated that the Australian primitives are the only
people living on the earth today that could be part of the first race of mankind. It is a matter of
concern that if a scale were extended a mile long and the decades represented by inches, there
would apparently be more degeneration in the last few inches than in the preceding mile. This gives
some idea of the virulence of the blight contributed by our modern civilization.
    The foods available for these people are exceedingly limited in variety and quantity, due to the
absence of rains, and unfertility of the soil. For plant foods they used roots, stems, leaves, berries
and seeds of grasses and a native pea eaten with tissues of large and small animals. The large
animals available are the kangaroo and wallaby. Among the small animals they have a variety of
rodents, insects, beetles and grubs, and wherever available various forms of animal life from the
rivers and oceans. Birds and birds' eggs are used where available. They are able to balance their
rations to provide


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because Vata and Kapha tend to be opposites (not to mention the Vata
tendency to be indecisive). Usua lly the giveaway is that a thin Vata frame is
strikingly combined with Kapha’ s relaxed, easygoing manner, something no
pure Vata ever displays. To view it another way, these are Kapha
personalities who somehow did not acquire physical bulk. In fact, since
Vata’s irregularity dominates the physique, they can even be quite small.
Unlike Vatas, who are always in motion, Vata-Kaphas project a sense of
inner stability; they tend to be even-tempered but can show Vata’s alarmed
reactions under stress. This type tends to be quick and efficient when action
is called for, but they are aware of their Kapha tendency to procrastinate.
The desire to store and save may also be present. Since both doshas are
cold, they tend to strongly dislike cold weather. Their cold doshas can also
give them irregular or slow digestion.
KAPHA-V ATA
This type is close to Vata-Kapha but often more solidly built and slower
moving. Kapha makes them even-tempered and probably more relaxed than
Vata-Kaphas, without the strong Vata streak of enthusiasm. They also tendto be more athle tic and to have greater stamina. As with Vata-Kaphas, they
may complain of digestive irregularities and be intolerant of cold.
UNDERST ANDING A THREE-DOSHA  TYPE
A three- dosha type is sometimes said to start off with the best chance for
remaining in balance, because the ratio of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha is nearly
even. There isn’t one strong horse pulling the whole team. A true Sama
dosha prakruti (balanced dosha body type) will tend to have lifelong good
health, ideal immunity, and longevity. On the other hand, it is also held that
once imbalances start to occur, three-dosha types have a disadvantage,
because they have to pay attentio n to getting all three back into line (there is
no lead horse to stop the team when it runs away).
The doshas like to shift, and there are so many thousands of ways for
them to relate to one another that to be in equal ratio at birth is extremely
improbable—it is like throwing three pennies on the ground and finding
that they line up in a perfectly straight line. So you may be a two-dosha
type after all. The important thing is not to fit a category but to learn about
yourself, and this is possible even when your body type at first seems a little
vague, as the three-dosha type tends to be.
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THE THREE DOSHAS— MAKERS OF REALITY
When an Ayurvedic doctor looks at you, he sees signs of the three doshas
everywhere, but he cannot literally see the doshas themselves. Doshas are
invisible. They govern the physical processes in your body without being
quite physical themselves. We have called them “metabolic principles,” a
term that is quite abstract. Yet the doshas are concrete enough to be moved
around, increased, and decrea sed; they can get “stuck” in tissues and
displaced to parts of the body where they don’t belong—so they are on the
borderline of being physical. Lying as they do in the gap betwe en mind and
body, they resemble nothing that exists in our Western scientific framework.
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha only come into clear focus once you begin to view
yourself from an Ayurvedic perspective.
LEARNING TO “SEE” THE DOSHAS
Imagine that you are watching a color television picture. The screen
appears to be filled with people, trees, animals, sky, and clouds, but on closer
examination one is actually seeing just three kinds of dots, or phosphors—
red, green, and blue—constantly  shifting to form new images. Depending on
how closely you look, you can see either the images or the dots. Both
perspectives are valid, but the three dots are more fundamental. When the
picture goes bad, they are what you need to adjust. Vata, Pitta, and Kapha are
the three kinds of “dots” an Ayurvedic doctor sees in you. Your liver,
kidneys, heartbe at, insulin level, and so on are patterns formed by the
shifting interplay of the three doshas. And adjusting the body, like adjusting
the TV picture, comes down to realigning the doshas in their ever-changing
relationship to one another.The way you approach any problem depends a lot on how you see it in the
first place. Righ t now, you may not see your compulsive worry ing in terms
of unbal anced Vata or your uncontrollable temper in terms of excess Pitta.
But given a slight shift of empha sis, you could, and then by adjusting Vata or
Pitta, these problems could be more easily handled. Even as physical a thing
as gaini ng weight depends on the invisible, all-pervasive influence of the
doshas.
When you eat a large bowl of chocolate ice cream, you may think that the
fat in it is what causes you to gain weight. In a strictly literal sense this is
true, but the deeper cause lies within your doshas. To begin with, they
determine whether you are hungry. They determine whethe r ice cream
appeals to you rather than carrots or celery. And to a great extent they even
determine wheth er the calories put on fat. Vata-type people convert more
calories into energy and will therefore gain less weight from ice cream than
Kapha types, who convert a higher percentage of their calories into body fat.
Without the doshas’  input, the ice cream would not even get to your lips,
much less to your cells. So the calories in chocolate ice cream play only a
partial role in what happens to that food. The real director of your diet is
your own inner  intelligence, operating out of sight at a deeper level than
calories. The same holds for every other part of your life. It isn’t cigarettes
that cause lung cancer but the people who smoke them, motivated by habits
(or addictions) that have been trained into their doshas over time. In a very
real sense it is not you that craves nicotine but your Vata, in its role as
supervisor of the nervous system. When the decision is made to stop
smoking, howev er, it is you that makes it, using the freedom of choice that
goes beyond your doshas.
Ayurvedic physicians are trained  to hone in on the doshas in order to “see”
imbalances at the earliest possib le stage. One of the classical ways to assess
the state of someone’ s doshas is through pulse diagnosis. Doctors who have
studied and practiced this technique for many years are often able to
perceive imbalances that are not obvious to the more casual observer.
Recently, a vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor) on our Chopra Center faculty was
evaluating a man who had come for a wellness evaluation. During theinterview, the man denied problems in any aspect of his health. His sleep
was sound, his digestion was strong, and his elimination was regular. Other
than the usual stresses of a busy life, he considered himsel f completely
healthy.
As part of a complete physical examination, the Ayurvedic docto r took the
man’ s pulse. Within seconds of palpating his wrist, the doctor asked, “How
long have you been having canker sores?” The man almost fainted with
surprise, exclaim ing, “I forgot to mention that I had problems with canker
sores. It’ s the one health concern that I haven’ t been able to eliminate.”
The vaidya then went on to describe the state of the man’ s doshas,
explaining that the Pitta imbalances he was perceiving in the pulse made it
very likely his canker sores would be a recurrent problem if he did not
change his diet. He encouraged the man to reduce his intake of sour and
fermented foods, including yogurt and alcohol. Yogurt is not a good food for
Pitta types, because it aggravates that dosha, as do all sour or fermented
foods. Such dietary mistakes, combined with alcohol consumption and other
Pitta-provoking influences, had led to this man’ s intermittent imbalance. By
Western standards he had been healthy except for the occasional annoying
mouth sores. By Ayurvedic standards, he had been courting imbalances that
sooner or later had to be expressed.
Advising the man to reduce his intake of sour foods such as yogurt, aged
cheese, vinegar, and tomatoes could help to reduce the imbalances that gave
rise to his canker sores. Seeing yourself in terms of your doshas can provide
a quick, accurate assessment of your health.
Besides being located in every cell, the three doshas are situated at major
sites around the body. Each dosha has a primary location, known as its seat,
which serves as a focal point for treatment.
If a dosha is starting to go out of balance, the first symptom will often
occur at its seat. Intestinal gas, pain, or constipation is a typical symptom of
aggravated Vata


 and “the
disease of being in a hurry” is a sign of the times. The
hectic pace of work, and life in general, has accustomed us
to turmoil. By now, peop le are thoroughly indoctrinated by
the idea that a certain degree of internal conﬂict is normal.
The war, it seems, was started by us, and it is taking its toll
in a frighteningly ordinary way.
—All of this is what I wish I could have expressed to Chitra,
the young woman with breast cancer whose story opened
this book. She was fortunate enough to receive a cure that
seemed miraculous, but as I was writing these chapters,
her case became very diﬀerent. The cancer cells had been
defeated but not their memory. Because Chitra remained
extremely anxious about having her cancer recur, she and I
agreed that conventiona l therapy should continu e. At the
same time, she promised to keep up her meditatio n and the
bliss techniq ue I had taught her. I heard nothing for a
month, then she called with bad news: her doctors had
detected a dozen small shadows in her CAT scan that they
interpreted as brain cancer. In a state of extreme fear, she
began an intensive course of radiation, this time
accompanied by experimental chemotherapy.
Weakened by the earlier bout with breast cancer, Chitra
endured severe side eﬀects, including depression. She
stopped meditating and no longer returned for Ayurvedic
treatment. Her platelet count dropped severely—platelets
are blood cells critical in the clotting process—which meant
that it was too dangerous to continue the chemotherapy.
Chitra’s doctors determined that her bone marrow was
producing antibodies that attacked her own platelets
(probably in reaction to the many transfusions she had
received). They considered a bone marrow transplant, but
tried ﬁrst to exchange the blood plasma. During the
procedure, she had a seizure and soon developed severe
anemia and various infections.
At this point Chitra’s case was turning into a mounting
disaster. She refused a blood trans fusion, being horriﬁed at
the thought of getting AIDS. Because of her agitation, she
had to be placed on an intravenous drip of morp hine and
Valium. Her awareness became duller and duller, and she
slipped into a coma, probably induced by shock, followed
by the onset of pneum onia. The doctors informed herhusband that she would probably not recover, and a day
later, without regaining consciousness, Chitra died. She
was the victim not of her cancer but of her treatm ent, and I
cannot help but think death from cancer would perhaps
have been more humane.
The passing of this beautifully innocent and devoted
young woman came as a great blow. Although I had no
consolation to oﬀer, I immediately called Raman, her
husband, who was completely shattered. For months we
had both watched Chitra pass into the light of life and back
into the shadow of death, sharing extremes of joy and
despair. Sincere eﬀorts had been made to save her, yet I
cannot expel the bitter taste that comes from knowing, as
all doctors know, the barbarity of our current approach to
cancer.
Every day, a physician in practice sees patients who have
undergone some devast ating cancer treatment that has
been declare d a success because the cancer cells are now
gone, disregarding the weakening of the entire body, the
looming danger of recurrent cancer caused  by the
treatment itself, and the state of lasting fear and
depression that so often comes with the cure. To live in
constant fear, even without cancer in your body, is not a
good state of health. The war is not over; it has merely
moved from open skirmishes to underground terrorism.
The underlying philosophy in cancer treatment is that the
mind will just have to stand by while the body endures
devastation. In other words, an open clash is actually
encouraged in the mind-body system. How can this be
called healing? In a clash between mind and body, the
patient is ﬁghting on both sides—there is only his body and
his mind. Isn’t it obvio us that when a loser emerges, it will
be he?
The vital issue is not how to win the war but how to keep
peace in the ﬁrst place. The West has not arrived at thisinsight, or comprehended  that the physical manifestation of
a disease is a phantom. The cancer cells that patients dread
and physicians battle against are just such phantoms—they
will come and go, raising hopes and despair, while the real
culprit, the persistent memory that creates the cancer cell,
goes undetected. Ayurveda gives us the means to go
directly to the level of consciousness that exorcises this
memory. Thinking of Chitra, I wonder how long it will be
before we broaden our outlook. We ask for heroism from
patients at a time when they have little of it to give, or else
we treat them as statistics, turning survival into a game of
numbers. Ayurveda tells us to place the responsibility for
disease at a deeper level of consciousness, where a
potential cure could also be found.
To say that a patient’s awareness is responsible for his
cancer is very troublesome to many people—and so it
should be. Ayurveda as I view it does not agree that there is
a so-called cancer personality, nor does it accept that
superﬁcial emotions, styles of behavior, and attitud es cause
cancer. Some resear chers are convinced that patients who
react with helplessness and depression to their cancer are
more likely to die from the disease than those patients who
have a strong component in their personalities called “the
will to live.” This seems unarguable, but is it any help?
A person aﬄicted with cancer naturally goes through
cycles of emotion; his will to live is susceptible to wild
swings from one extrem e to the other; and there is no
reason to expect that any “typical cancer personality”
proﬁle should emerge. (Some of the original research that
supposedly veriﬁed the “typical cancer personality” was
based on insigniﬁcantly small patient groups, as few as
twenty-ﬁve subjects, all of whom had only one type of
cancer—typically breas t cancer.) Why should the
psychologically healthy, who already have such a great
advantage, be the only hopeful cases?This is not an empty question. Recently I was on a plane
and happened to sit beside a very lively woman in her
sixties. She struck me immediately as a Yankee of the
classic type— very vigorous, no-nonsense, and full of strong
opinions. Her family had lived in Maine for generations and
had become quite prosperous. Since my head was full of all
the issues involved in cancer treatment, we bega n to talk
about them.
The old lady lifted her chin. “I don’t believe any of these
doctors know what they’re talking about,” she declared.
“My mother was diagnose d with breast cancer in 1947. She
went and had the lump removed and then came  home to
look after her four children. My father begged her to return
to Boston for a mastectom y, but she said she was too busy
for it, and she was too busy to be sick, too. She went on
perfectly normally like that. After a while my father won
out, and she did go back for the mastectomy, but there
wasn’t any radiation or chemotherapy back then.”
“What happened to her?” I asked.
“Nothing happened,” the woman answered. “She lived
twelve more years, until she was over seventy, when she
contracted pneumonia. The whole family gathered around
her bed, she told us goodbye, and three days later she
died.”
Listening to this story, I suddenly saw, with a comb ination
of wonder and sadness, what it was about—the paradox of
being normal. It is absolutely normal to be too busy to be
sick, for that is exactly the kind of awareness that the
immune system thrives on. When you are just yourse lf and
not a “cancer patient,” then the complicated chain of the
immune response, with its hundreds of precise ly timed
operations, goes to work with a vengeance.
But once you give in to helplessness and fear, this chain
breaks apart. You start sending out the neuropeptides
associated with negative emotions, these latch onto theimmune cells, and the immune response loses its eﬀiciency.
(Exactly how this happens is not known, but the decreased
immune status of depressed patients is well docu mented.)
Here is where the paradox comes in: if you reacted to
cancer as no great threat, the way you react to the ﬂu, you
would have the best chance of recovering, yet a diagnosis
of cancer makes every patient feel totally abnormal. The
diagnosis itself sets up the vicious circle, like a snake biting
its tail until there is no more snake.
The reason I felt sadness and wonder at the same  time is
that it sudde nly dawned on me how inﬁnitely beautiful the
immune system is and how terribly vulnerable at the same
time.


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recuperative power of the human body from illness to health can only be described as little short of amazing. The cure for
cancer must ultimately lie with the patient himself, and the reward of recovering is only for those who are prepared to
undergo with fortitude some degree of self-denial.
 “It is one of the most remarkable attributes of the human body that it can adapt itself to changes in habits of eating and
living with extreme flexibility. My Single Meal Routine, initially employed as a desperate measure to check a fatal disease,
has now become to me an established habit, inasmuch as I have come to look upon the three-meal-a-day routine as
something bothersome and tedious. I still adhere – though it is no longer necessary to do so with rigidity – to the raw food
diet, as I consider it a natural preventative against cancer recurrence.
 “My daily solo running has lost its initial boredom and become a pleasing habit. It has helped me build up a satisfactory
level of health; it has helped me, in my late forties, to maintain my blood pressure at around 120 mm (systolic) and to regain
and relive a youth long lost to ill health and disease.
“To those cancer sufferers whose prospects of recovery seem dim, I would say ‘as long as there is still breath in the body
and the will to live, there is always hope... there will always be hope’.”
The recuperative power of the human body from illness to health can only be
described as little short of amazing.
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What problems can people run into during natural healing?
When sick people begin to heal and detoxify they often seem to get even sicker. They may get new disease symptoms, like
headaches, colds, skin breakouts, fevers. This can cause some to panic and seek help from medical doctors, who will
prescribe drugs. Not a good idea, since drugs have an immediate effect of stopping the ongoing detox.
So using drugs is a serious mistake. By avoiding necessary inner cleansing, people only prolong their disease, or even
make it worse. By allowing the detox, they will get well maximally fast.
Is it possible to avoid detoxification symptoms?
Orthopathic doctors can either design the natural recovery to be short and efficient with strong symptoms, if they think the
patient can handle it. Or design a really slow detox with very few, if any, symptoms.
An example: As a young doctor I had a woman in her 60's who consulted me for high blood pressure. I noticed her fingers
seemed crooked from rheumatism, but didn't ask about it. I gave her an easy-to-follow diet of 3 meals per day - two raw and
one mixed cooked/raw. No water fasting.  I adjusted the diet every month or 2 weeks when she came to visit. This was such
a slow detox that she didn't get detoxification symptoms. Her blood pressure improved steadily. When she came to visit the
8th month I noticed that her fingers looked straight, and asked her about it. Yes, she said, my fingers have straightened out
- and by the way, the diabetes I was suffering from is gone as well.
I was elated, this was the first time I had seen an example of how our bodies heal all our diseases if given a chance.
Can you give an example of detox symptoms?
Currently I have a patient who has been using a walker for many years. His legs used to be normal, but were so severely
damaged by poisonous salves that he lost his ability to walk. The salves were prescribed by doctors for a parasitic infection.
A very difficult case to solve.
After going on a strict diet, his body started breaking out in severe blisters allover, which is a sign of detoxification via the
skin. Since this was very uncomfortable he was on the verge of giving up. It took three 21-day water fasts and a strict diet
during 9 months before the blisters disappeared. By now he has recovered most of his walking ability, and is well on his
way to full recovery.
For more examples of detox symptoms, read "What Symptoms to Expect When You Improve Your Diet."
Does it often take months to recover?
It depends on the patient, and on what method is used, what combination of strict diet and fasting. This summer I have had
a patient in his 30's who was in terrible shape. When he came to me he feared he would die soon. He had many tumors
and a chronic backache, and had been to multiple doctors but only gotten worse. I asked him 2 questions: Are you willing to
go on a strict diet? Are you willing to have a short water fast? He was, and the result was a real miracle, in his own words.
In less than 2 months his back ache is gone, his blood pressure is down, his tumors have almost disappeared, and he has
lost 40 lb of weight.
What other methods or therapies do you use?
I only use the most efficient methods available, which also are as close to nature as possible, in essence a combination of
high-quality diets and fasting. Together with general advice about improved lifestyle, e.g. sleep, rest, meditation, exercise,
breathing, sunshine, etc. E.g. to get rid of pain in shortest possible time, fasting is the best choice. Drugs, herbs and similar,
even products that claim to be detoxification-enhancing, only delay healing and must be avoided.
Have you had any remarkable recoveries?
Of the over 30,000 patients I have taken care of I would call almost all remarkable, and many miraculous. Especially since
people usually come to me in very serious condition, often as a last resort after having tried everything else for years, but
only getting worse. The more toxic people are due to dangerous drugs taken during many years, the more necessary
correct detoxification is.
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Dr. Stanley S. Bass in 2002
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SCIENTIFIC FASTING
The Ancient and Modern Key to Health

BY
LINDA BURFIELD HAZZARD, D.O.

(Fifth, revised and amplified edition of Fasting for the Cure of Disease)
GRANT PUBLICATIONS, INC.
33 WEST 60TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y.  1927
Copyright, under the title of "Fasting For the Cure of Disease,"
by Linda Burfield Hazzard, 1908, 1910, 1915
COPYRIGHT, 1927
BY LINDA BURFIELD HAZZARD
All Rights Reserved,
Including all rights of Translation
into Foreign Languages

PREFACE

NINETEEN years have elapsed since the author issued her first volume dealin g with the prevention and relief of disease through
fasting and its accessories. In each of the three succeeding editions details were added, new discoveries recorded, and all f acts
tending to throw clearer light upon the practical application of what Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey termed the "New Gospel of
Health" were fully exploited. In this, the fifth revised and amplified edition of the work, it is hoped that, with greater de tail and
greater knowledge, still greater lucidity has been given in exposition of th e truths that underlie the therapeutic worth and
possibilities of the fast.

The book is written primarily for the lay reader. Hence, whenever a surmise is made or an unproved theory advanced, the attit ude
of the mind of the author regarding it is plainly  displayed. Likewise, whenever absolute harmony has been accomplished between
theory and fact, no doubt is permitted the reader in statements of truth discovered.

If science is to be defined as knowledge gained and verified by exact observation and corre ct thinking, the work in hand is purely a
scientific record. The human subjects presented to the author for guidance and care have in all instances been those for whom
medicine had done its best, or, if you will, its worst. Each case has been carefully obs erved; its organic condition and capabilities
determined as best they might, the patient was fasted, if this procedure were indicated; or his diet was suited to his needs and the
limitations of his organs. Therefore the results obtained are offered no misg ivings or apologies. In accomplishing her work the
author has been handicapped almost at every step by opposition that at times developed into persecution, and this by those wh o
should have been first to welcome the physiological truths which the text prom ulgates. The research made, especially that which
involved post mortem examination, was achieved only through sheer personal determination, assisted by a few broad minds in
authority And it is believed that these autopsies are unique in the history of the healing art, for the author knows of no other
investigator who has had opportunity thus to connect the organic consequence of disease directly with its origin. Moreover, e ach


4 - 6.7, while 30 - 60 minutes after
the meal it should be above 6.8. If the level is below 6.4 before the meal
the body may be too acid, and if it remains below 6.8 after the mea l then
the stomach may not produce enough acid. Be aware that allergic
reactions make the saliva too acid.
With advanced cancer pH tests are not reliable as large tumours produce
much lactic acid and make body fluids very acidic, but they may also lose
much potassium which can make the urine very alkaline. Therefore,  with
large and growing tumours just use up to 3 spaced -out rounded
teaspoons of bicarbonate for up to  one week before reducing again to 2
tsp of bicarbon ate.
Periodically strongly alkalizing i s also beneficial for other health problems
such as intestinal Candida overgrowth, inflammatory bowel conditions,
allergies, and autoimmune diseases.  Take alkalizers at least ½ hour
before meals. Also see Chapter 5.
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 Chapter Four
INTESTINAL SANITATION
Clean Out & Sanitize Your Gastro -Intestinal Tract

Diseases tend to start in the bowels and that is where holistic healing
should start as well. It is not possible to become healthy when we are
constipated,  and our intestines are full of putrefying wastes and
overgrown with harmful microbes. This environmen t allows toxins to be
re-absorbed into the blood, and pathogenic microbes to demolish our
immune system and invade various parts of the body.
To sanitize our digestive tract,  we need first to clean out the bowels and
remove years of accumulated wastes sta gnating in bowel pockets and
covering the intestinal walls with hard crusts. Such cleansing kills most
of the harmful microbes and allows the gastro -intestinal tract to be
repopulated with probiotic bacteria. Finally,  we avoid being constipated
ever again.
BOWEL CLEANSING
Commonly used methods to clean out accumulated wastes are colonics,
flushes and laxative foods. To remove hard crusts that may coat the
bowel walls and clean out bowel pockets, the bowels should repeatedly
be flushed out with water.  You may start experimenting with flushes
before trying colonics, and for maintenance use suitable laxative food.
With colonics, short for "colonic irrigations", the bowels or large intestines
are filled with a larger amount of water, commonly introduced furth er
inside, while with enemas only a small amount of water is inserted near
the entrance. Enemas are used to induce bowel movements but do not
clean the bowel.
Flushes: A large glass of water with a tablespoon of Epsom salts
(magnesium sulphate), magnesium chloride, or Glaubers  salts (sodium  50
 sulphate) on an empty stomach is usually sufficient to flush out the
intestinal tract. Drink more water afterwards. If underweight, use
somewhat less and if overweight, somewhat more. To make it taste not
so bitter you may keep it refrigerated overnight.
Less strong, and only suitable if one is not constipated, is an isotonic
flush : dissolve 9 grams or a heaped teaspoon of salt in one litre of warm
water. Drink within 5 - 10 minutes on an empty stomach. Use no
additional liquid afterwards. As alternatives to a saline flush,  you may
also use castor oil, aloe vera or senna. Flushes may also be alternated
with colonics.
Colonics
Colonics are most helpful for individuals who are or have been
constipated or overweight or with a chronic disease. Here is how it wo rks.
Start with having a bowel movement. To administer a colonic, add
1 heaped teaspoon of salt and 1 level teaspoon of baking soda to 2 -3
litres of moderately warm water. Use a bucket enema or enema bag. To
avoid mess,  you may do this in a shower recess or bathtub. Hang the
enema bucket about two to three feet above the bod y on a hook or
convenient place on the wall. A good position is to kneel on the floor with
the head down and rectum elevated. Or if bedridden you may lie in bed
in a similar position or on the right side; use a plastic sheet underneath.
Lubricate the recta l tube and insert it slowly up to a depth of about 20 –
30 cm. If there is any pain or discomfort, do not insert any further. Expel
the first lot of water when increasing pressure is felt. After that, you
should be able to hold much more water. When renewe d pressure is felt,
stop the inflow of water and assume different positions, especially lying
on the right side for a while to fill the ascending colon. Repeat the
expulsion and intake of water until all of it has been used.
The addition of baking soda neu tralizes over -acid bowel conditions while the
salt acts as a drawing agent and prevents demineralization of the blood.
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 This is important for people with low blood pressure and a poor
circulation. With high blood pressure or weak kidneys add very diluted
lemon juice instead. If unable to do this at home, you may have a series
of colonics at a hydrotherapy centre.
Laxative Food: Aim to have three easy bowel movements daily. Use
laxative food as required, such as fresh fruit and raw vegetables,
fermented food, ground linseed, prunes, aloe vera gel, psyllium hulls, or
drink a larger amount of water within a short period. Our bowel b acteria
need the right amount of food, mainly soluble fibre from legumes,
fresh vegetables and fruit, to  produce low -level fermentation. Too little
is constipating, too much causes diarrhoea.
Highly recommended are ground linseed or chia seeds added to me als,
and also psyllium hulls : stir a teaspoonful in a large glass of water and
drink immediately about 30 minutes before a meal, one to three times
daily. Drink more water afterwards. Use linseed freshly ground in a
blender or coffee grinder, and store frozen or refrigerated.
Squattin g: Ordinary toilets encourage a sitting rather than a squatting
position. This is not conducive to complete emptying of the lower bowels
and a cause of various health problems. A squatting position is preferable
to keep your bowels healthy. To imitate this  at home support your feet
with a footstool and bend forward to exert more pressure on the bowels.
Hydrochloric Acid
As a result of Candida overgrowth,  the body may lose its ability to produce
an adequate amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This i s especially
noticeable in the elderly, with chronic degenerative diseases, and even
young asthmatics. This leads to incomplete digestion of proteins, and
poor absorption of vitamins B1 and B12 as well as minerals. Another
frequent outcome is gastric reflu x and possibly hiatus hernia.
The resulting mineral deficiency usually causes fingernails to be soft;
also,  the hair may be unhealthy. Hydrochloric acid is also needed to
activate pepsin and kill microbes in food. A lack of hydrochloric acid is
associated with overgrowth of the digestive tract with harmful parasites 52
 and microbes, malabsorption, intestinal distress, allergies, and a weak
immune system. Related symptoms are b elching, bloating, anaemia,
discomfort after eating, or food lying heavily in the stomach.
As a digestive aid you may drink diluted lemon juice or diluted cider
vinegar with up to half a level teaspoon of magnesium chloride during
cooked meals, especially  protein meals. Magnesium chloride reacts with
organic acids to form magnesium citrate or acetate and hydrochloric
acid.
You may also use with protein meals hydrochloric acid -pepsin tablets or
betaine -hydrochloric acid. Take these items mid-meal, as they may leave
the stomach undissolved if taken before or at the beginning of the meal.
More cheaply, diluted hydrochloric aci d may be used. To make a safe
2% solution mix 1 part of 20% acid with 9 parts, or 1 part of concentrated
35% acid ( e.g., from a hardware store) with 16 parts of water. You may
then dilute 1 -2 (plastic) teaspoons of 2% acid with ½ cup of liquid and
drink it mid-meal. You may protect your teeth by drinking through a straw
and rinsing thoroughly afterwards.
However, habitually taking hydrochloric acid makes the body overacid,
and not enough sodium bicarbonate is available to neutralize the acid in
the duodenum.  While the stomach content needs to be acid, the small
intestine needs to be alkaline otherwise nutrients are not properly
absorbed. Therefore, when using hydrochloric acid with a meal, take also
half a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in liquid 2 to 3 hours  after a small
meal, and 3 to 4 hours after a large meal with flesh food or other proteins.
Bitter herb tea before or after meals can


ashes
Urticacreamorlotioncanrelievetheitchingofeczema
oranyrash,especially ifititchesandstingsandthen
burns.Itisessentialtoseekprofessionalhelpforthis
condition.
Sunburn
Applylotionorcreamtosunburnedareas,repeating
accordingtotheseverity.UseamixtureofHypericum
andUrticatincturesinthelotioniftherearesevere
shootingpains(20dropsofeachtinctureinV*pintof
water)andtaketheappropriateinternalremedy.
VERBASCUMOIL(Verb.)
Earache
Dropthewarmedoilintotheeartorelievepain
andpromotehealing.Followtheinstructionsunder
Plantago(page34).
EXTERNALREPERTORY
TheExternalRepertoryisanindexofthesymptoms
listedintheExternalMateriaMedica.
BedsoresAm.
BeestingsseeStings
BoilsHyp.
Bruises
onunbrokenskinAm.,RR
onbrokenskinHam.
onbonesRuta
Bunions/corns Ruta
Burns/scalds
minorUrt-u.
seconddegree(withblistering)Calen.,Hyp.
ChilblainsTamus
ChildbirthCalen.,Hypercal*
ColdSoresHypercal®,RR
Conjunctivitis seeEyeinfections
CornsAm.
CrackednipplesCalen.,Phyt.,RR
Cuts/wounds Calen.,Hyp.,Hypercal®,RR,Symph.
EarachePlant.,Verb.
Eczema/rashes Calen.,RR,Urt-u.
Eyeinfections/inflammations/injuries Euphr.,
Hypercal®
EyestrainRuta
GargleseeSorethroatHandcreamCalen.
HerpesseeColdsores
InsectbitesHyp.,Led.,RR
InsectrepellentPyr.
JointpainRhus-t.
MouthulcersHypercal9
Mouthwash Calen.,Hypercal9
NappyrashCalen.,RR,Symph.
PilesAesc./Ham.,Ham.,Hyp.
PinkeyeseeEyeinfections
ScarsThios.
SoremusclesAm.
SorethroatHypercal9
,Phyt.
Sprains
firststage(withswelling)Am.
secondstageRhus-t.,Ruta,Symph.
Stings
beeLed.,RR,Urt-u.
waspAm.,Led.,RR
StrainsAm.,Rhus-t.
SunburnCalen.,Hyp.,RR,Urt-u.
TenniselbowRuta
ThrushCalen.
ToothachePlant.
UlcersseeMouthulcers
VaricoseveinsHam.
Warts/verrucas Thu.
WaspstingsseeStings
INTERNALMATERIA
MEDICA
ACONITUMNAPELLUS(Aco.)
Familyname:Ranunculaceae
Othernames:monk's-hood;wolf's-bane;common
aconite
Thisplantgrowsinmoistpasturesandwastelands
inthemountainous districtsofEurope,Russiaand
CentralAsia.Itgrowstoaheightofbetweentwoand
sixfeetandhasbluish-violethoodedflowers.
Aconitecontainsadeadlypoison(therootpos-
sesses90percentmorethantheleaf),whichissaidto
bemorepotenteventhanprussicacidandisthepoisonthatwasusedbytheancientGreeks-infact
throughouthistoryithasbeenrenownedmoreforits
powertokillthantoheal.Itissaidthatthehuntsmen
oftheAlpsdippedtheirarrowsinitwhenhunting
wolves-hencethenamewolf's-bane.
AccordingtoMrsGrieve(AModernHerbal),Aconite
andBelladonnaweretheingredientsofwitches''flying
ointments',withtheircombinedactions(palpitations
anddelirium)producingasensationofflying!
HahnemannpublishedhisprovingsofAconitein
1805,anditsoonbecameawidelyusedremedy,
especiallyforfeversandinflammations,whichuntil
thenhadbeenlargely'cured'bybloodletting.Andso
itbecameknownasthe'homeopathic lancet'.
Thehomeopathicremedyispreparedfromthe
wholeplant(excepttheroot),whichistakenatflower-
ingtimeinJune/Julyandchopped,poundedtoapulp
andthejuiceexpressed,mixedwithalcohol,andthen
succussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Complaintsfrom:colddrywind;fear;gettingchilled;
shock.Facered.Onsetofcomplaintsudden.Likes
colddrinks.Painsunbearable.Palpitations.Sweat:
hot;oncoveredpartsofthebody.Thirsty.Taste:
mouthtastesbitter.
Betterforfreshair.
Worseatnight;fortouch.
Thisremedywillworkonlyattheverybeginningofan
illness-withinthefirsttwenty-fourtoforty-eight
hours.Thesymptomsareoftenaresultoffright,shock
orbeingchilled.Someonewhohasbeenveryangry
canalsobringonanAconitestate.Exposuretoa
draught,oracold,drywind,cancauseawiderangeof
symptoms(colds,coughs,cystitis,etc.).Ifinpain,the
pains-inthehead,throat,teeth,orwherever-are
INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Aeoniturnnapellus(Aco.)•39
intolerable,andwilldrivethesepeopletodespair.
Generally,peoplewhoneedAconitewillbeworseat
night;thoughtheyareusuallyOKongoingtobed,
theywakeuparoundmidnight(usuallybeforemid-
night)withthecough,croup,earache,etc.Theywill
notwanttobetouched(examinedorinterferedwith)
andwillbebetterforsomefreshair.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Anxious:whenchilled;generally;duringafever.
Expression:anxious;frightened.Fearful:inacrowd;
ofdeathduringpregnancy/labour.Screamingwith
pain.Sensitivetonoise.Tearfulduringafever.
SomeonewhoneedsAconitelooksanxious,andhas
shocked,staring,glassyeyes(thepupilsmaybedi-
lated).'Aconiteshock'istheoppositeof'Arnicashock'
inthatapersonneedingAconitewillbeextremely
distressed(anxiousandfearful).Theymaywellbe
inconsolable.Theyarescaredofgoingoutintoa
situationwheretherewillbelotsofpeople.Their
painsmaybesevere,especiallyinchildbirth,for
example,andpatientsmaysay,'Iwanttodie'.Aconite
typesmayalsoscreamwiththepain.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Chickenpox
SymptomsWith Aconitegeneralandemotionalmental
symptoms,andfever.
Commoncold
SymptomsWithheadache(seebelow).
Causesshock;gettingchilled;cold,drywind.
GiveAconiteatthefirstsignofacoldifthestressisas
above.
Cough
SymptomsCough:barking;dry;hoarse;irritating;
short;tickling.Breathing fast.
Worseatnight;duringfever;dry,coldair.
Causescold,drywind.
Alltheairpassagesareirritated. Itisoftenworseat
nightafterbeingoutinacold,drywind(especiallya
northoraneastwind).
Croup
SymptomsSymptomsofCough(above).
Unlessyouhavestrongindicationsforanotherrem-
edy,thisisthefirstremedytothinkofgivingfor
croup.Cystitis
SymptomsPainspressing.
Causesgettingchilled.
Earache
SymptomsPainsunbearable.
Causesgettingchilled;cold,drywind.
Eyeinflammation
SymptomsEyessensitivetolight;whitesofeyesred.
Pains:aching;burning.Withacommoncold.
Causesgettingchilled;foreignbodyineye.
Worseforcold,drvwind.
Fever
SymptomsHeat:alternatingwithchillsatnight;
burning;dryatnight.Pulse:fast;strong.With
ANXIETY.
Betterforuncovering.
Worseatnight;intheevening.
Causesgettingchilled.
Thepersonfeelshotinsideandchillyexternally.The
cheeksmayalternatebetweenhotandredandpale
andghostly(thecolourmaydrainfromthefaceon
gettingup);oronecheekwillbehotandredandthe
otherpaleandcold,especiallyinteethingchildren.
Thosepartsofthebodythatarecoveredwithclothing
becomesweaty;thepersonmaykickoffthecovers.
Thereisaburning,unquenchable thirst;everything
tastesbitterexceptwater,andeventhattastesbad.
Headache
SymptomsPains:burning;bursting;throbbing.
Causesfright;shock;gettingchilled.
Injuries
SymptomsCuts/woundsbleedfreely.Withshock
(se