-
trigued by the approach proposed by dry fasting.
In 2018, this growing interest has encouraged
us to produce a lighter and cheaper text, which
was nevertheless full of informative content: 20
Domande sul digiuno secco  (Twenty questions
about dry fasting - 271 pages), a compendium of
Dr. Sergej Filonov’s monographs, which is also a
practical manual aimed at clarifying all the fun-
damental points related to the dry fasting
method in a question -and-answer form. The
positive response to this compendium further
conv inced us that the subject is attracting more
and more readers by the day. We therefore un-
derstood that the time has come to present it in
English for the benefit of the huge English -
speaking community.
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the gen eral audience and hope to succeed in our
intent to offer the first, essential and exhaustive
encounter of the dry therapeutic fasting method
here.

Vera Giovanna Bani  (vera.bani@gmail.com;
siberika.it)

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The good fate of therapeutic fasting in Russia
and the contribution of Prof. Yuri Nikolayev
(introductory article by Vera Giovanna Bani)

In Russia, therapeutic fasting has a history that
can be traced back to 1769, when Petr Vilyami-
nov, professor of medicine at the University of
Moscow, wrote the treaty Slovo or postakh kak
sredstve predochraneniya ot bolezney  (On fasting
as a means of dise ase prevention) after having
held a series of lessons on the benefit of fasting.
Vilyaminov's observations found a follower
fifty years later: in 1822 L. A. Struve, a professor
at the University of Jurev, wrote about fasting as
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eases.
In 1834, Professor I. G. Spassky from the Uni-
versity of Moscow used fasting in his medical
practice. In the article he wrote in the same year,
titled " Uspeshnoe deystvie goloda na prostudnye
zabolevaniya " (Successful application of fasting
in the treatment of cooling diseases) he ob-
served:
"By limiting and changing nutrition, fast-
ing ends up balancing many disturbances
in the body's vegetative process and in this
sense it appears to be an excellent remedy
in the treatment of different chronic dis-
eases".
Subsequently, between the late 1800s and the
early 1900s, Dr. Nikolay Lvovich Zeland (1833 -
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Born in Saarema, now Estonia, he completed his
studies in Petersburg and was appointed to work
in the outlying regions of the Russian Empire, in
Vladivostok, Alma -Ata, and Tashkent. Zeland
did a lot of research on dosed fasting, experi-
menting on himself and on animals. He came to
the conclusion that, thanks to the impact of the
fast:
"It is possible to notice not only radical
changes in the composition of the nervous
system and in the state of being, but at the
global level the processes of digestion and
hematopoiesis improve... A temporary ar-
rest of the vital processes becomes a source
of renewal and of great energy for these
same processes. Abstinence from habitual
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the elements of the tissues become stronger
and are enriched with proteins. (...) After
my experiments I came to the conclusion
that fasting is not only an effective thera-
peutic remedy, but also a practice that de-
serves attention as an educational
method".
Dr. Zeland explained his observations in the ar-
ticle " O posledovatelnom vliyanii lishenija pish-
chi na pitanie " (On the progressive impact of
food ab stinence on nutrition), published in the
"Russkaya medicina" journal (Russian medi-
cine), 1888, № 5-10, 12.
In 1902 it was prof. Vladimir Pashutin who
studied the physiological and patho -physiologi-
cal characteristics of w ater, dry and partial
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text. Practicing at the Medical -Military Acad-
emy of Tsarist Russia, he experimented on dif-
ferent animals for a long time and came to for-
mulate the essence of the physiological mecha-
nisms involved. Thanks to this, V. Pashutin is
considered the pioneer and founder of the the-
ory of fasting or endogenous feeding. To this
day, his experiments have not lost their signifi-
cance.
The figure of Aleksey Suvorin deserves a special
mention. Descending from a powerful family of
St. Petersburg publishers, he was interested in al-
ternative methods of treatment and oriental self -
healing practices since early age; he studied trea-
ties of Indian medicine, Tibetan, Chinese and
books of Western hygienists. In 1914, under the
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first experiments with fasting in a diary entitled
Novyj chelovek  (The New Man), published by
the homonymous publishing house that he
founded.
After the revolution and the civil war that en-
sued in Russia, Suvorin migrated to Yugoslavi a,
where, despite living on the edge of poverty, he
found the enthusiasm to found a publishing
house with a Yugoslav partner. The latter, how-
ever, ended up deceiving and denouncing him,
and Suvorin was imprisoned without trial. In
prison, as a protest agai nst the unjust sentence,
he began a hunger strike that invigorated him in-
stead of annihilating him. It is said that on the
35th day of his voluntary fasting he was given the
opportunity to defend himself in court. He won
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frthe trial and continued to fast for  up to 42 days,
with surprising results, which, as the story goes,
ended up gaining the interest of the director and
staff of the penalty facility, as well as many in-
mates.
After this experience, Suvorin became a very
active champion of the cause of therapeutic fast-
ing. In 1931, his works were released in Belgrade:
Ozdorovliyenye golodom i pishchej (Healing with
fasting and food),  Metoda Suvorina  (The Su-
vorin method), Lechenie golodaniyem  (Healing
through fasting). In a short time, his method be-
came very po pular in Yugoslavia and while Su-
vorin gained the esteem of tens of thousands of
patients (assisted at a distance, by postal corre-
spondence), he also made many enemies. In-
vited to Paris in 1937 to discuss a fasting clinic
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that remained mysterious.
Russia remembered this illustrious emigrant
and promoter of fasting in relatively recent
times: his writings were only published in Mos-
cow in 1998, collected in the monograph Metod
Suvorina. Lechenie golodaniyem  (Suvorin's
method. Healing through fasting). Today, every-
one in Russia recognizes the contribution of Ale-
ksey Suvorin to the Russian history of therapeu-
tic fasting, and he remains one of the most ap-
preciated authors among experts and enthusi-
asts of the method.
Belarusian M.P. Zyazulya stands out among
Suvorin's followers. He was able to heal severe
forms of tuberculosis


 diet.
Y ou are holding in your hands the book that will give you the dietary infor mation we all need to have. Y ou don’t have to be an
Ironman triathlete or even want to be one, but you owe it to yourself to read The 80/10/10  Diet!

Ruth E. Heidrich, PhD
Author, A Race For Life
www.ruthheidrich.com

Preface

This was not an easy book to write. I tried to create The 80/10/10  Diet  on several occasions in the past, but it has proven to
be a daunting project riddled with false starts. For some reason, nothing abou t this particular piece of work has been easy. I can
only assume that it must be like the old saying, “nothing worthwhile  is ever easy.” I believe that this is the most worthwhile book that
I have written to date.
In writing The 80/10/10  Diet,  I found myself constantly enmeshed in a deep inner debate, wondering how to m ost effectively
reach the largest number of people:

Will I reach more people through appeals to their heads or their hearts? W ill quoting numbers, current research, scientific
studies, and textbook facts bolster their willingness to make dietary cha nges?
Will such minutiae cause readers to lose interest, or can each bit of da ta build upon the previous ones until it forms a
convincing and solid information base?
How deep need I go in order to get my point across? Will it suffice to say that a ll the animals built like us eat fruits and
vegetables and very little fat, therefore we should too?
Will stories and testimonials about high levels of health, boundless en ergy, unexpected healing, effortless weight loss, spiritual
awakening, and newfound enthusiasm for life be viewed as hyperbole or trut hful inspiration?

And perhaps most worrisome …

If I leave something out, will I get a second chance?

The research for this book often left me studying for several days in order  to write just one or two sentences. The more I
learned, the more there was to learn, it seemed. I eventually had to choose  between writing a book and becoming a full-time reader
of other people’s work.
I gathered a tremendous amount of information, but a great deal of what I le arned proved simply not to be relevant to the
creation of this book. I can only hope it will be valuable material for future  works.

Who Should Read This Book?
I wrote this book for  anyone who believes that appropriate body weight and vibrant well-being ar e their birthright as well as
their responsibility—anyone willing to keep striving for the ph ysique and the health they desire.
The 80/10/10  plan is not an all-or-nothing proposition. It allows you to work toward a goal, rath er than simply follow a diet.
You do not have to eat primarily vegetarian or raw foods to benefit from the 80/10/10 program.
If you eat a relatively typical American diet, 80/10/10  is a program that allows you to continue eating the foods you are used
to, while beginning to introduce the new foods that will lead you toward your g oal. Direction, not speed, is the most important
aspect of learning to succeed with 80/10/10.
If you have already transitioned your diet to vegetarian, vegan, or raw f oods, you will still find the principles in this book to be
a step forward for you. In fact, this book represents the brass ring for raw fooder s. I feel ecstatic that I finally have succeeded in
writing about the program I have taught for years in the raw and veget arian communities.
Discouraged by their inability to succeed on raw food and confused by the opposing  information they hear from other
teachers, raw food enthusiasts have pleaded with me: “I bet I am eating high-fat raw, but I don’t know how to figure it out, and I
need more information on what to do about it.”
Now, with the sample calculations in hand, I stand before the raw food commun ity with clear evidence of the dangerously high
fat consumption common in our ranks—and with a clearly articulated p lan for those who wish to raise the bar a notch and reach for
the ultimate low-fat plan for raw health.
The Results Speak for Themselves
The principles I share in this book represent more than twenty-five ye ars of research and almost two decades of assisting
people with their health, nutrition, and athletic performance in priva te consultation. During that time, I have used the 80/10/10 program myself—and with thousands of clients who are consistently de lighted with their newfound health, vigor, and physical
appearance.
I have seen the sickest of the sick regain high levels of health and v itality, simply by making intelligent food and lifestyle
modifications. I have watched people pronounced “terminally ill”  by the medical establishment heal themselves using the prog ram
described in this book. I have watched former world-class athletes rejuve nate themselves to the degree that they are once again
achieving “personal best” performances. Truly, 80/10/10  is not only a “diet” but a success formula. And it just keeps gettin g better.
In Appendix C, I have compiled a collection of testimonials from healthy, h appy, and successful practitioners of the 80/10/10
way of life. Their inspiring stories speak for themselves.
Wherever you are on your journey to ever-greater well-being, I hope tha t you enjoy reading The 80/10/10  Diet  and find it
valuable, insightful, and motivating. It is my sincerest belief tha t you will find within these pages the nutritional guidance you need t o
attain, regain, and maintain the radiant, trim body of your dreams and an ev en a higher level of health than you have ever dared to
strive for.

Let All Find Their Own Path
While in my experience, consuming a 100% raw version of the 80/10/10  diet is optimal, other low(er)-fat plant-centered diet
programs also offer substantial health benefits … and many peop le find them to be the right choice for their lives. If you find yoursel f
judging others for not choosing all raw, all low-fat, or even all vegan foods, I implore you to take a BIG step backward and
recognize that all of us must make our own choices, and no one path is best for a ll people.
I have been saddened and dismayed by the number of people who tell me that an ent husiastic 80/10/10 supporter has
stopped talking to his or her family, or has taken on a holier-than-thou fu ndamentalist attitude with friends who do not “see the
light.”
Friends, if you stop connecting with your loved ones over the food you eat, you have missed the point!  Healthful living
includes healthy relationships and compassion for your fellow humans. I f you wish to contribute to your loved ones, accept them
where they are, and then lead by example, with an open heart … you wil l have far greater success if you do.

A Tribute to T.C. Fry

The late T.C. Fry (1926–1996), a world-renowned and much-loved health educator, wa s a mentor for me. He helped me
sort the trash from the treasures in the world of health and nutrition. He never told me what to think, but he often instructed me in
how to think … to refine the process of thinking so that I could come up with t ruth for myself. He loved to pursue a line of thought
through to its logical and often only valid conclusion.
T.C. (he told me on several occasions that T. was his full name, but that hi s friends often called him Terry) and I lectured in
hundreds of cities together, giving weekend seminars throughout much  of the 1980s and into the early ’90s. W e sold no products,
just education. The topics were almost always different, but always abou t some aspect of health.
I once asked Terry why we didn’t simply come up with a format of lecture t opics that we could stick to, one we could take to
all the different cities on our tour.
“I am training you,” he said, proffering his irresistible smile.
I like to think he did a good job.
Terry was not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination. He openly admit ted his flaws. He had minimal formal education. At
the age of 45, with his health failing terribly due to an intensely abus ive lifestyle characterized by its excessiveness, he turned his  life
around. The doctors had already told him that he didn’t have much longer to liv e. A change in diet coupled with attention to many of
the other necessities of healthful living gave Terry another tw enty-five years.
In the end, his intensity got the better of him. He simply worked himself t o death in an effort to spread the health message to as
many people as possible. His work was not in vain. His students have had a profoun d effect upon the current health movement, and
are continuing to do so. Most notable is the work of Harvey and Marilyn Diamond w ith their groundbreaking book, Fit for Life.
Many of Terry’s other students have authored books. I am proud to be among  them.
When he was alive, Terry often visited


 little or no responsibility for change.The least popular prescription I can write is a monodiet of water for severalweeks or a month. Yet this is my most powerful medicine.
It is possible to resolve many health complaints without fasting, simply by
cleansing the colon and regaining normal lower bowel function. Colonics take littlepersonal effort and are much easier to get people to accept than fasting. So I canfully understand how perfectly honest and ethical naturopaths have developedobsessions with colon cleansing. Some healers have loudly and repeatedly (andwrongly) proclaimed that constipation is the sole cause of disease, and thus, theonly real cure for any illness is colon cleansing.
Even though it is possible to have a lot of successes with the simple (though
unpleasant to administer) technique of colon cleansing, degenerated lower bowelsare not the only cause of disease. I prefer to use bowel cleansing as an adjunct tomore complete healing programs. However, old classics of hygiene and even afew new books strongly make the case for colonics. Some of these books areentirely one-sided, single-cause single-cure approaches, and sound convincing tothe layperson. For this reason, I think I should take a few paragraphs and explainwhy some otherwise well-intentioned health professionals have overly-advocatedcolonics (and other practices as well).
Most Diseases Cure Themselves
If you ask any honest medical doctor how they cure diseases, they will tell you
that most acute disease conditions and a smaller, though significant percentage
(probably a majority) of chronic disease conditions are self-limiting and will, given
time, get better all by themselves. So for most complaints, the honest allopathicdoctor sees their job as giving comfort and easing the severity of the symptomsuntil a cure happens.
This same scenario, when viewed from a hygienist’s perspective, is that almost
all acute and many chronic conditions are simply the body’s attempt to handle acrisis of toxemia. For two reasons the current crisis will probably go away byitself. The positive reason is that the toxic overload will be resolved: the personchanges their dietary habits or the stressor that temporarily lowered their vitalforce and produced enervation is removed, then digestion improves and the levelof self-generated toxins is reduced. The negative reason for a complaint to “cure”itself is that the suffering person’s vital force drops below the level that thesymptom can be manifested and the complaint goes away because a new, moreserious disease is developing.
I view this second possibility as highly undesirable because strong, healthy
bodies possessing a high degree of vital force are able to eliminate toxins ratherviolently, frequently producing very uncomfortable symptoms that are not life-threatening. However, as the vital force drops, the body changes its routes ofsecondary elimination and begins using more centrally located vital organs andsystems to dispose of toxemia. This degeneration producing less unpleasantsymptoms, but in the long run, damages essential organs and moves the personcloser to their final disease.
A young vigorous body possessing a large degree of vital force will almost
always route surplus toxins through skin tissues and skin-like mucus membranes,producing repeated bouts of sinusitis, or asthma, or colds, or a combination of allthese. Each acute manifestation will “cure” itself by itself eventually. But eventuallythe body’s vital force can no longer create these aggressive cleansing phenomenaand the toxemia begins to go deeper. When the allopathic doctor gets a patientcomplaining of sinusitis, they know they will eventually get a cure. The “cure”however, might well be a case of arthritis.
This unfortunate reality tends to make young, idealistic physicians become
rather disillusioned about treating degenerative conditions because the end resultof all their efforts is, in the end, death anyway. The best they can do is to alleviatesuffering and to a degree, prolong life. The worst they can do is to prolongsuffering.
Thus, the physicians main job is to get the patient to be patient, to wait until the
body corrects itself and stops manifesting the undesired symptom. Thus comesthe prime rule of all humane medicine: first of all, do no harm! If the doctor simplyrefrains from making the body worse, it will probably get better by itself. But thepatient, rarely resigned to quiet suffering, comes in demanding fast relief,demanding a cure. In fact, if the patient were resigned to quiet suffering theywould not consult a doctor. So if the doctor wants to keep this patient and makea living they must do something. If that something the doctor must do does little orno harm and better yet, can also alleviate the symptoms, the doctor is practicinggood medicine and will have a very high cure rate and be financially successful ifthey have a good bedside manner. This kind of doctor may be allopathic and/or“natural,” may use herbs or practice homeopathy.
The story of Dr. Jennings, a very successful and famous or infamous
(depending on your viewpoint) physician, who practiced in Connecticut in theearly 1800s exemplifies this type of approach.
Dr. Jennings had his own unique medicines. Their composition was of his own
devising, and were absolutely secret. He had pills and colored bitter drops ofvarious sorts that were compounded himself in his own pharmacy. Dr. Jennings’patients generally recovered and had few or no complications. This must beviewed in contrast to the practices of his fellow doctors of that era, whose blackbags were full of mercury and arsenic and strychnine, whose practices includedobligatory bleeding. These techniques and medicines “worked” by poisoning thebody or by reducing its blood supply and thus lowering its vital force, ending thebody’s ability to manifest the undesirable symptom. If the poor patient survived
being victimized by their own physician, they were tough enough to survive both
their disease and the doctor’s cure. Typically, the sick had many, lengthycomplications, long illnesses, and many “setbacks” requiring many visits, earningthe physician a great living.
Dr. Jennings operated differently. He would prescribe one or two secret
medicines from his black bag and instruct the patient to stay in bed, get lots ofrest, drink lots of water, eat little and lightly, and continue taking the medicine untilthey were well. His cure rate was phenomenal. Demand they might, but Dr.Jennings would never reveal what was in his pills and vials. Finally at the end ofhis career, to instruct his fellow man, Dr. Jennings confessed. His pills were madefrom flour dough, various bitter but harmless herbal substances, and a little sugar.His red and green and black tinctures, prescribed five or ten drips at a time mixedin a glass of water several times daily, were only water and alcohol, some colorantand something bitter tasting, but harmless. Placebos in other words.
Upon confessing, Dr. Jennings had to run for his life. I believe he ended up
retiring on the western frontier, in Indiana. Some of his former patients wereextremely angry because they had paid good money, top dollar for “real”medicines, but were given only flour and water. The fact that they got better didn’tseem to count.
 If the physicians curative procedure suppresses the symptom and/or lowers
the vital force with toxic drugs or surgery, (either result will often as not end thecomplaint) the allopathic doctor is practicing bad medicine. This doctor too willhave a high cure rate and a good business (if they have an effective bedsidemanner) because their drugs really do make the current symptoms vanish veryrapidly. Additionally, their practice harmonizes with a common but viciousdramatization of many people which goes: when a body is malfunctioning, it is abad body and needs to be punished. So lets punish it with poisons and if thatdon’t work, lets really punish it by cutting out the offending part.
However, if the physician can do something that will do no harm but raises the
vital force and/or lowers the level of toxemia, this doctor will have a genuine cure
rate higher than either of the two techniques. Why does raising the vital forcehelp? Because it reduces enervation, improves the digestion, lowers the creationof new toxins and improves the function of the organs of elimination, also reducingthe toxic overload that is causing the complaint.
Techniques that temporarily and quickly raise the vital force include
homeopathy, chiropractic, vitamin therapy, massage, acupuncture andacupressure and many more spiritually oriented practices. Healers who use theseapproaches and have a good bedside manner can have a very good business,they can have an especially-profitable practice if they do nothing to lower the levelof toxemia being currently generated. Their patients do experience prompt reliefbut must repeatedly take the remedy. This makes for satisfied customers and arepeat business.
The best approach of all focuses on reducing the self-generated level of
toxemia, cleansing to remove deposits of old toxemia, rebuilding the organs ofelimination and digestion to prevent the formation of new toxemia, and then, toalleviate the current symptoms and make it easier for the patient to be patientwhile their body heals, the healer raises artificially and temporarily the vital forcewith vitamins, massage, acupressure, etc. This wise and benevolent physician isgoing to have the highest cure rate among those wise patients who will accept theprescription, but will not make as much money because the patients permanentlyget better and no longer need a physician. There’s not nearly as much repeatbusiness.
Colonics are one of the best types of medicine. They clean up deposits of old
toxemia (though there are sure to be other deposits in the body’s tissues colonicsdo not touch). Colon cleansing reduces the formation of new toxemia from


 a boy comes into
young manhood, or a girl young womanhood, because of the different ratio of the calciums used by the female. Also, it's important to know if this is a Caucasian, because the darker the color the more vitamin D the skin picks up from the sunlight and rays. The lighter the skin the less vitamin D the body picks up from the sun's rays.
The numbers indicate this male is a borderline diabetic. A man at
25 being a borderline diabetic means that the energy rating is going to drop down because if his pancreas ma nufactured too much insulin, or
not enough insulin, then the body will  not assimilate vitamin C. In tak-
ing insulin, the artificial insulin taken by tablets, or shots, will not make vitamin C available to the body, but the insulin that's manufac-tured by the pancreas will make vitamin C available. This condition might have just started a month or two before, or it might have started
a few years before, but we have reason to believe by the process of deduction, that because of this carbohydrate condition the pancreas is not manufacturing enough insulin, and is of a rather short duration. The reason we know that is his weight is still 180 pounds. If he stays in this low insulin condition very long his weight will begin to de-crease. Why would it decrease? The more sugar you have in the blood and in the system, the more nature will demand it and will begin to draw sugar from the body fats and carbohydrates from the muscles. It will leave a person hungry all the time. Their food is not satisfying them.
The second number 7.7 / 7.8 (the urine reading is at the top, the
saliva reading at the bottom) is the pH reading, which is a measure of
resistance indicating that the food is digesting too slowly and that it lies in the stomach. Since the food digests too slowly, it is gradually creating pockets in the colon because the elimination is too slow. This 16 number also indicates that the body contains too much calcium oxide
and not enough calcium lactate and phosphated calcium, and also do-
lomite calcium, calcium carbonate or tri-calcium phosphate. There is too much of one kind of calcium and not enough of five other kinds of calciums, which is creating a digestion problem because the liver has to have some of all six of the calciums every day in order to manufac-ture 5 to 6 billion enzymes necessary to keep the body in perfect health.
7.7 / 7.8 indicates that the liver is not manufacturing enough bile
to properly digest the food, and practically no gelatin at all, which could prevent an easy elimination.
The pH reading is not a measure of the amount of acids or alka-
lines it's a measure of resistance between acids and alkalines. By the resistance we can tell whether we ha ve too much or too little calciums,
or which calciums are enough and of which ones the man has too much. It is not a quantitative measure, it’s a measure of resistance. By a differential calculus by deduction we can tell what is happening in the man's system.
The next number 45C shows the body is retaining too much salt
and that the person is in the zone for a major angina heart attack, how-
ever, with his age it is probably 10 years away If this pattern contin-ues.
Since the body is retaining too much salt It shows us how this
reading is helping to exaggerate the conditions that we found in the pH 7.7 / 7.8 reading because the food is too long in the colon, and now the salt is very high and is causing th e intestines to lose their elasticity
and stretch bigger and bigger, and as they do this forms pockets. If the ability to expand and contract continues in the colon it will get very much out of shape. The transverse colon will begin to sag, giving the man a "beer-bottle stomach" appearance, whether he drinks beer or not. (Drinking beer will only aggravate the condition.)
This high salt content indicates that cholesterols beginning to form
in the veins and arteries. If this person were to go to a doctor and have a blood test it may show that his cholesterol is normal because the blood changes every few minutes, and at the particular time that he 17 was tested the cholesterol could have been low or it could have been
medium or high. The RBTI test give s an overall picture of what is
happening in the walls of the blood vessels, and in this person's case they are losing their ability to expand and contract.
The veins work differently from the arteries (I’ll not go into that
because it is rather technical), and unless nature puts oil in the veins and arteries to take the blood from the veins, from the capillaries back to the heart, the person will die much quicker because the vein would be so dilated until the blood cannot be pushed back to the heart. It is perfectly possible that his cholesterol, within a ten-year-period, would accumulate in such an amount that a piece of it could turn loose in the veins, go to the heart and block the heart and cause a very serious heart attack, or even death. However, this cholesterol would have to get above a saline reading of 47 total before it would be a fatal heart attack. Below 47 it would not be a fatal cholesterol heart attack. (i.e. there is no such thing as a minor angina heart attack. It is either Wham! you are dead, or you got lucky and lived.)
Now let's consider the last two numbers: 14 / 15. Add these two
numbers and you have the total amount of undigested proteins, which we call urea.
With the high urinary sugar, a high pH, and high salt, it indicates
that this man is in a fatal heart att ack zone and could have a fatal heart
attack at any time. Anyone with this set of numbers should be very careful not to over exercise, to get too tired, too excited, lose his/her temper and "blow his/her top," or even get in a hurry because any of these things could bring about instant death.
Now let's look at the overall picture. The numbers indicate that nature is trying to throw out the delta
cells, but the man's diet is so narrow he is not getting the mineral con-tent to maintain good health. He is not drinking enough distilled wa-
ter. (He should divide his weight by two, which would be 90, and call it ounces-drink 84-90 ounces of water a day.) He should drink 4 ounc-es of distilled water every half hour for approximately 10½ or 11 hours a day, and then this will be the first step in bringing his numbers
back to perfect. However, he could become discouraged. Anyone with 18 this set of numbers trying to do this at home could cause the body to
go into a withdrawal and cause a h eart attack. Bringing these numbers
from range C to range A in the RBTI test should be done under super-vision where every number could be watched very closely. If the uri-nary sugar, the first number, drops below 5.5 the first day or the first hour, then the man could go into a violent withdrawal and go into a heart attack.
In the retreat we do not put the person on lemon juice and water
immediately, but on water alone. until the urea (that's the last num-bers) is within a safe zone. After those numbers come down to a safe
zone, and probably the urea down below 20 total, and the salt below 35, then it would be safe to put the man on lemonade (lemon with sweetener) and water to bring him quickly to between 2 and 5.5 on the urinary sugar.
In the meantime the salt would continue to drop and many times
when the body chemistry starts to react it over-reacts and the sugar level would have dropped too low, too quickly and cause a seizure, or it could cause the person to go into a temporary coma, which is very easy to correct. The sugar level has dropped too low and there is not enough oxygen going to the brain. By pu tting a little sugar, or a little
honey, on the tongue, in one minute he would come back to reality again, with no serious damage done. This is an ordinary occurrence in every retreat.
This man would only need to be in the retreat two weeks, but he
still has serious problems. Whenever there's not enough insulin being manufactured to control the carbohydrates, there's not enough vitamin C for cuts, bruises or bums to heal. It's the beginning of serious prob-lems ahead. Yet, if the average medical doctor examined this man with all the modem tests we have today, he would probably not find a thing in the world wrong with him, simply because the medical pro-fession do not have tests that would indicate this problem. I'm not casting reflection upon anyone, I'm only stating a fact.
For example: Diabetes by the medical profession is determined
strictly by the glucose in the blood. If there is more than 120 milli-grams of glucose per gram of blood, the person is said to be a diabetic, 19 and is generally put on orinase or  diabinese until these numbers reach
145. After there is 145 milligrams of glucose per gram in the blood the
person is generally put on insulin.
The medical colleges do not teach to compare a ratio between the
glucose and the total carbohydrates, which is very, very important. It is the missing link in the treatme nt ·of the malfunctioning pancreas


 to be
helpful. “But you know, no one really knows
what God look s like.”
“Well,” chirped the little girl, “if you’ll just let
me finish....”
That’s a beautiful little joke. Do you know
what’s most beautiful? The little girl never  doubted that she knew exactly how to draw
Me!
Yes.
Now I’ll tell you a story, and with tha t we can
end this chapter.
Alright.
There once was a man who suddenly found
himself spending hours each week  writing
a book. Day after day he would race to pad
and pen —sometimes in the  middle of the
night —to capture each new inspiration.
Finally, someone a sked him  what he was
up to.
“Oh,” he replied, “I’m writing down a very
long conversation I’m having with God.”  “That’s very sweet,” his friend indulged him,
“but you know, no one really knows for  sure
what God would say.”
“Well,” the man grinned, “if you’l l just let me
finish.”
  Chapter 9
You may think this is easy, this “be Who
You Really Are” business, but it’s the most
challenging thing you’ll ever do in your life.
In fact, you may never get there. Few
people do. Not in one lifetime. Not in many.
So why try? Why enter the fray? Who
needs it? Why not simply play life as if it
were what it apparently is anyway —a
simple exercise in meaninglessness
leading to nowhere in particular, a game
you can’t lose no matter how you play; a
process that leads to the same result,
ultimately, for everyone? You say there is
no hell, there is no punishment, there is no
way to lose, so why bother trying to win?
What is the incentive, given how difficult it
is to get where You say we’re trying to go?
Why not take our good -natured time and just relax about all this God -stuff, and
“being Who You Really Are.”
My, we are frustrated aren’t we...
Well, I get tired of trying, trying, trying, only
to have You come here and tell me how
hard it’s all going to be, and how only one
in a million makes it anyway.
Yes, I see that you do. Let Me see if I can
help. First, I would like to point out that  you
already have taken your “good -natured
time” about it. Do you think this is your  first
attempt at this?
I have no idea.
It doesn’t seem as  if you’ve been here
before?
Sometimes.
Well, you have. Many times.  How many times?
Many times.
That’s supposed to encourage me?
It’s supposed to inspire you.
How so?
First, it takes the worry out of it. It brings in
the “can’t fail” element you just talke d
about. It assures you that the intention is for
you not to fail. That you’ll get as many
chances as you want and need. You can
come back again and again and again. If
you do get to the next step, if you evolve to
the next level, it’s because you want to,  not
because you have to.
You don’t have to do anything! If you enjoy
life at this level, if you feel this is the
ultimate for you, you can have this experience over and over and over again!
In fact,  you have had it over and over
again —for exactly that rea son! You love
the drama.  You love the pain. You love the
“not knowing,” the mystery, the suspense!
You love  it all! That’s why you’re here!
Are You kidding me?
Would I kid you about a thing like that?
I don’t know. I don’t know what God kids
about.
Not abo ut this. This is too close to the
Truth; too close to Ultimate Knowing. I
never  kid about “how it is.” Too many
people have played with your mind about
that I’m not  here to get you more mixed up.
I’m here to help you get things clarified.
So clarify. You’r e telling me I’m here
because I want to be?  Of course. Yes.
I chose to be?
Yes.
And I’ve made that choice many times?
Many.
How many?
Here we go again. You want an exact
count?
Just give me a ballpark estimate. I mean
are we talking about handfuls here, or
dozens?
Hundreds.
Hundreds? I’ve lived hundreds of lives?
Yes.
And this is as far as I’ve gotten?  This is quite some distance, actually.
Oh, it is, is it?
Absolutely. Why, in past lives you’ve
actually killed people.
What’s wrong with that? You said yourself
that sometimes war is necessary to end
evil.
We’re going to have to elaborate on that,
because I can see that statement being
used and misused —just as you’re doing
now—to try to make all sorts of points, or
rationalize all sorts of insanity.
By the highest standards I have observed
humans devise, killing can never be
justified as a means of expressing anger,
releasing hostility, “righting a wrong,” or
punishing an offender. The statement that
war is sometimes necessary to end evil  stands true —for you have made it so. You
have determined, in the creation of Self,
that respect for all human life is, and must
be, a high prime value. I am pleased with
your decision, because I did not create life
that it may be destroyed.
It is respect for life whic h sometimes makes
war necessary, for it is through war  against
immediate impending evil, it is through
defense against immediate threat to
another life, that you make a statement of
Who You Are in relationship to that.
You have a right under highest moral law—
indeed, you have an obligation under  that
law—to stop aggression on the person of
another, or yourself.
This does not mean that killing as a
punishment is appropriate, nor as retribution,  nor as a means of settling petty
differences. In your past, you have killed in
personal  duels over the affection of a
woman, for heaven’s sake, and called this
protecting  your honor, when it was all honor
you were losing. It is absurd to use deadly
force as  an argument solver. Many humans
are still using force —killing force —to solve
ridiculous arguments even today.
Reaching to the height of hypocrisy, some
humans even kill in the name of God —and
that is the highest blasphemy, for it does
not speak of Who You Are.
Oh, then there is something wrong with
killing?
Let’s bac k up. There’s nothing “wrong” with
anything. “Wrong” is a relative term,
indicating the opposite of that which you call “right.” Yet, what is “right”? Can you be
truly objective in these matters? Or are
“right” and “wrong” simply descriptions
overlaid on e vents and circumstances by
you, out of your decision about them?
And what, pray tell, forms the basis of your
decision? Your own experience! No. In
most cases, you’ve chosen to accept
someone else’s decision. Someone who
came  before you and, presumably, kn ows
better. Very few of your daily decisions
about  what is “right” and “wrong” are being
made by you, based on your
understanding.
This is especially true on important matters.
In fact, the more important the matter,  the
less likely are you to listen to yo ur own
experience, and the more ready you  seem to be to make someone else’s ideas your
own.
This explains why you’ve given up virtually
total control over certain areas of your  life,
and certain questions that arise within the
human experience.
These areas  and questions very often
include the subjects most vital to your soul:
the nature of God; the nature of true
morality; the question of ultimate reality; the
issues of life and death surrounding war,
medicine, abortion, euthanasia, the whole
sum and substa nce of personal values,
structures, judgments. These most of you
have abrogated, assigned to others. You
don’t want to make your own decisions
about them.  “Someone else decide! I’ll go along, I’ll go
along!” you shout. “Someone else just tell
me what’s rig ht and wrong!”
This is why, by the way, human religions
are so popular. It almost doesn’t matter
what the belief system is, as long as it’s
firm, consistent, clear in its expectation of
the follower, and rigid. Given those
characteristics, you can find peo ple who
believe  in almost anything. The strangest
behavior and belief can be —has been —
attributed  to God. It’s God’s way, they say.
God’s word.
And there are those who


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 Hensley’s
supervisor at the Division of Scientific Investigations, Bureau of Drugs, FDA.
Lisook flew to Portland, Oregon, from Washington, D.C., to grab what reports on
eye toxicity he could out of Jacob’s files. You’ll recall that Lisook wasn’t allowed
access to the files.
Meantime, the Inspector General, in consultation with the Baltimore United
States attorney, investigated possible malfeasance on the part of some employeesof the agency. “The allegations have to do with the question of whether the
sponsor and the investigators were investigated promptly enough and in a proper
fashion,” explained Nancy L. Buc, Chief Counsel of the FDA, “and also may have
to do with questions that pertain to the sponsor and to the investigators.”
Dr. Pani, the medical officer with the primary responsibility for DMSO, who
was assigned to the drug in 1968, was transferred from the DMSO project. And
then he was forced to retire from the FDA under threat of outright dismissal. The
policy management staff at the FDA conducted an investigation of Dr. Pani and his
relationship with the sponsors, the clinical researchers, and the physician-monitor.
This physician-monitor was responsible for making sure the protocols of
investigations were being followed, the product being employed was pure, and the
records being kept were accurate. The FDA staff’s findings have not been made
public, but I have found out that the physician-monitor was Stanley Jacob. Dr.
Pani and Dr. Jacob were indicted by the Justice Department on criminal charges
rising from the FDA investigations.
A BUSINESSMAN PROTECTS HIS INVESTMENT
Henry Moyle and Louis Haynie created Research Industries Corporation (RIC) in
1968 out of an amalgamation of a land development firm and the Deseret Drug
Company. Early in the 1970s they expanded by purchasing three DMSO clinics in
Juarez, Tecate, and Nogales, Mexico, where patients were treated under the
direction of Mexican doctors. Not quite satisfied that DMSO was safe, the
businessmen called in Dr. Jacob to tour the clinics and coach them on suggested
changes in their therapeutic procedures.
After persuading Americans, for a time, to cross the border for DMSO
treatment, the partners decided to manufacture, market, and legitimize DMSO in
the United States. First they had to work with the FDA in trying to get approval of
the drug. This became Moyle’s almost full-time responsibility. Dr. Jacob became
associated with the company and put Moyle in touch with Dr. K.C. Pani for
discussions about INDs for DMSO.
The two indications that seemed most promising for INDs were scleroderma
and interstitial cystitis. American physicians treating these conditions with DMSO
were Dr. Scherbel and Bruce H. Stewart, M.D., respectively, both of the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Later, Dr. Stewart brought in Sheridan Shirley, M.D.,
of the University of Alabama, and these two doctors administered DMSO to
patients suffering from interstitial cystitis. Their patient experimentation was doneunder an IND initiated in 1974.
RIC acquired a wholly owned subsidiary known as Terra Pharmaceuticals,
Buena Park, California, to manufacture DMSO. It had once been owned by Nutri-
Lite, a subsidiary of the Amway Corporation. Twenty to thirty workers now
manufacture DMSO at the Terra Pharmaceuticals plant.
Data submitted by Dr. Shirley was a fifty-one-patient study; the data submitted
by Dr. Stewart was a fifteen-patient study. The research had gone on for more than
a year. Research Industries Corporation was the sponsor who submitted the
clinical trial reports to the FDA. The Shirley and Stewart studies sent along for
approval of DMSO in the treatment of interstitial cystitis were accepted, and the
drug came into legal use for this condition. About a year later, RIC was inspected
by the FDA to see what kind of monitoring the company was doing at the time.
Then the FDA checked with the two clinical investigators, randomly chosen, to see
how the monitoring that had been conducted actually stood up.
Their visit to Dr. Shirley’s research facilities was disturbing to the FDA
inspectors. Although the researcher had been given ten days’ notice, he had
difficulty producing the background information and other raw data that would
support the safety claims he had made. This led to another inspection the FDA
labeled “for cause.” The “for cause” inspection was designed to compare case
report forms—fifteen were chosen at random—to the patient records. The
inspectors wanted to learn if the underlying data that had previously been missing
were still missing. Dr. Hensley said, “The intent was also to pursue beyond that; to
go, in fact, to the laboratories that had allegedly done that data and, if necessary, to
the patients.”
The FDA uncovered virtually every possible deficiency in the Shirley studies,
according to Dr. Hensley. For example, there were no records of informed consent
by the patients. There was no institutional review board approval where it was
appropriate and necessary. The University of Alabama seemed not to have been
consulted at all about this patient experimentation under its jurisdiction.
More important from the FDA’s viewpoint were problems with the safety and
efficacy data, which tended to invalidate all prior approval of DMSO for the
treatment of interstitial cystitis. In the safety data, the eye examinations that were
supposed to have been done before the study began and every three months during
its course and after its completion appeared not to have been done at all. The
laboratory work, a battery of patient tests to be accomplished before the study,
then on a monthly basis during its course and after its conclusion, could not be
verified because the underlying records were not to be found.The FDA inspectors diligently pursued these failings and were unable to
confirm that the testing had been performed. They interviewed patients and learned
that neither the laboratory work nor the eye examinations had taken place. The
reports of such laboratory and eye tests were allegedly false, even though the case
report forms held in house by the FDA showed that all of this work had been done
and that the results were normal.
Hensley told Senator Kennedy that the efficacy data were also disturbing. The
agency had received two sets of case reports from RIC on Shirley’s study—one
near the end of 1975. It showed generally good to excellent results with treating
interstitial cystitis. The second arrived in early 1976 on a resubmission of the
NDA, which showed some of these patients deteriorating.
When the FDA did its “for cause” inspection, the review of Shirley’s records
looked a good deal worse; people treated had more than just minor deterioration.
The patients, although they might initially have had a very good response,
generally did seriously deteriorate and often required other medication or bladder
surgery.
The Division of Scientific Investigations then declared that the Shirley data
simply could not be used. It was unsatisfactory, to say the least, said Dr. Goyan.
Dr. Shirley came under FDA investigation; as a consequence his certification as an
FDA inspector was rescinded.
The FDA also turned its attention to the study done by Dr. Stewart and, after
completing its review, a decision was made as to whether or not a hearing would
be held and further action taken. Furthermore, at
least three other interstitial
cystitis studies came into question. Withdrawing approval of interstitial cystitis as
the only legal human use of DMSO was considered. A general pattern of
disinclination on the part of the investigating physicians to do the drug safety work
—the eye examinations and the laboratory tests—seemed to be developing.
Dr. Scherbel explained the reasons for not burdening patients, institutions, and
researchers with this drug safety work. He told the House Select Committee on
Aging: “For those patients who could indeed profit from the use of a very simple
drug, we cannot use it unless we carry out a very strict protocol. If I wanted to
give this drug to a patient today, I must obtain sophisticated eye examinations
every six months. This patient must have blood studies every three months. If this
patient lives 150 miles from Cleveland, he or she must come back at a determined
time and the studies must be carried out according to FDA regulations.
“Long ago we realized that toxicity was not a problem but we do not dare to
give this drug without carrying out a battery of very sophisticated laboratorystudies. Who pays for this?” asked Dr. Scherbel. “The patient might not have
funds to pay. Will the Cleveland Clinic? They will if I ask them to, but it is not
fair to the Cleveland Clinic to do this because it is the FDA request.
“If we obtain funds from a pharmaceutical firm and eventually they sense this
drug is not going to be approved, where do the funds come from to continue
treatment for this group of patients?”
These are valid questions; they require answers if drug safety is to be assured.
Unfortunately, Dr. Hensley disclosed another reason for the FDA’s
disinclination to accept DMSO studies strictly on the face value of researchers’
opinions. The investigating doctors tended to overlook, maybe not see, or perhaps
deliberately ignore possible adverse effects. For example, Dr. Hensley described
difficulties with accepting additions to the Stewart study. He said, “The original
NDA was twice submitted to the agency; the last time in 1976, and finally it was
approved in 1978. In September


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"Jordan" and you can not control their behavior, in no
If not do long-term fasting.
Thus, the main complications:
Overeating in the first days after fasting. If, however, is
happened after fasting and you're stuffed stomach, you must call
vomiting and stomach wash. After that resume out of the ordinary
scheme. If you have overeaten at a later date, starve a
day and then continue to yield the desired product.
Edema, urinary retention. Fairly common complication. Due to the fact
that during starvation the body uses potassium and salt welcome
food in early recovery contributes to the accumulation
cells, sodium and, consequently, of water. Although there may be a
and at the correct exit from starvation after a long time
and beginners. Usually, it manifests a rapid weight gain.
This decreases the amount of urine may appear swollen
face and swelling of the legs. in case of occurrence of such symptoms should
eliminate salty foods and foods containing salt. Try
to this day does not have to take sorbents to 3 table. spoon into one
glass of water, 4 times a day every three hours, then take 40
Mr. magnesium, diluted in a glass of water, and then starve to
water for two days. Preferably in the days of fasting to take bath, sauna or
hot tub - and then allocated to the excess sodium and water. Very
well help preparations of potassium - or Panangin Asparkam that
should take 1 tablet 2-3 times daily in Tech. 2-5 days. Data
preparations contain magnesium and potassium, which are absolutely safe.
Constipation. Quite common, especially among beginners. When
the absence of an independent chair more than 2-3 days should be
enema. For beginners it is recommended in any case, do an enema
the second and third day out from fasting to get rid of
undigested food residues and to improve health. Can
take a laxative collection. Ingredients: dried apricots, figs, prunes, raisins -
all at 100 grams. All this is to wash out, scroll, add 100 grams
honey, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil. Take 2 tablespoons
spoon at bedtime for 4 - days. Also good to help the bran.
Bloating, flatulence. The main reason - early start
use of heavy meals, lack of chewing on it,
large amount eaten, the lack of purgation in
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321fasting and to starvation. Recommended moderate yield
from fasting, enemas, early use of garlic, enough
locomotor activity at the output. In addition, these symptoms
very often observed during starvation in the winter and spring.
Restoring only plant food during this period
corresponds to the season and "cool" the body. To avoid this,
should increase the proportion of cereal, use spices, vegetable
and butter (no earlier than the third day). Remember - winter body
need a more dense, warm food, and in the summer and autumn, it is quite possible
long time to live on vegetables.
Weakness, dizziness, fainting. Occur in
time of departure from starvation during the first 3-5 days. They are associated with early
increasing physical regime. With a seeming surge of forces
You can not calculate their physical abilities, which leads
to bouts of weakness, dizziness, even fainting
states. For the prevention of exit from fasting to
comply with more stringent regime than under the most starvation. More
relax, not to take long walks, do not perform
heavy physical work, not overwork. and just hungry
experienced, well versed in the peculiarities of the organism,
can lead a fairly active lifestyle. Because the motor
load at the output of help quick changeover
organism to conventional food.
Exacerbation of underlying disease. If during the fasting you have
started worsening of a disease, it is desirable to continue
fasting until symptoms disappear. If this is impossible,
symptoms may persist and exit. In this case it is necessary
carry out the usual way and not rush to early
using a heavy meal. For the treatment can be used
homeopathic medicines. After a week of release, while maintaining
symptoms may careful application
medicines. It describes the main trouble with that
You can meet at the exit from starvation. The more you have
will own experience in the conduct of starvation, the less you
will be unpleasant symptoms. Each person should be well
themselves felt, and then everything will be just as you so wish. Important - not
hurry, but to constantly increase their own experience.
Now I'll give you an ideal scheme, how to carry out SFG
at home.
REMEMBER:
- Never start cleansing the intestines and liver, without altering
mode and power quality.
- Do not start any starvation, not cleaning the intestines and liver.
- Do not dry fasting, without trying wet.
- In order to obtain maximum benefit from starvation, it is necessary
to starvation were regular periods of fasting and increased
gradually.
322
322- Never spend at home, dry starvation
more than five days.
- Exit from starvation - it is 70% of therapeutic outcome, it must be
hold perfectly.
The scheme is designed for three months.
1-st month: 14 days, the natural nutrition;
7 days purgation and liver;
7 days starvation on buckwheat porridge, or who can not, one day
Wet starvation.
2 nd month: Week 1 - Day 1 wet fasting or 2 days for
those who are not starved for
buckwheat porridge;
2 - week - 2 or 3 days moist starvation
3rd week - 3 or 4 days of SH;
4 - week - 5-7 days for all the SH.
Third month: Week 1 - Day 1 SU;
Week 2 - 2 days SG;
3rd Week - 3 days SG;
Week 4 - 4-5 days in SG.
For those who have endured all kinds of fasting, you can do so - it
It is more efficient:
1 day hunger - 2 days of eating;
2 days starvation - 3 days of eating;
3 days starvation - 4 days food;
4 days hunger - 5 days of eating;
5 days of hunger - the output of the SG.
To fix the effect of fasting is recommended
The following schemes of maintenance therapy:
- Undertake cleansing the liver and intestines every quarter before
changing seasons.
In late February, early May (most efficient), at the end of August,
in late November.
- Held once a week 24-36-hour dry starvation.
In this preliminary purgation is not required. But
days before and after fasting should be "half-starved, with
decrease in total calories.
- Held once a month 3-day starvation, the training was not
needed.
- Once a quarter - a five-day dry hunger, preferably after
bowel cleansing and liver.
BOTTOM attention of CI and O TZYVY patients LLC
Altai - the dry hunger in Filonov 7 +5 + (2 on the water)
She feels great - the restoration was still in the Altai
- On a dry hunger happens amazingly quickly. I was
short story, which I address to all comers.
Thus, the detailed story.
323
323Hungry, my mother and a total of 14 days - 7 to dry,
then a break in 7 days and 5 days on dry + 2 on the water. I do not thin
much, probably only 5 kilos in the first hunger and the second
only 1 kg 200 g. The people that were with us - with serious
problems such as fibroids, arthritis, hepatitis C and other nasty things in
second time otgolodal already 9 days to dry! True, some 9
Day already had an unusual gleam in his eyes... but it passed all.
We began to starve at home, and came to Altai on the 3rd day
fasting - the whole group (14 people) gathered in Barnaul with all
the former Soviet Union - Ufa, Riga, Ekaterinburg, Russia, Khakassia, St. Petersburg, Tyumen,
Vladivostok, etc. Arrived with serious problems - no match for our
- Hepatitis C. a businessman from St. Petersburg, almost all women - fibroids,
fibroids, cysts, in one - arthritis. Some clients come to
their cars, which drove the same way and during fasting.
We were taken to the base - so the 100 kilometers from Gorno-Altaisk.
Cute little wooden houses, baths, amenities, unfortunately, in
yard + colorful "caretaker" basis - a young man from the story
Evdokimova: "I'm at one end of the village not bothering anyone, and his father
- On the other, with the temperament of a hippopotamus and a very strong nervous
system - I think if he was approached by a bear, he would invite
him to drink tea and smoke a cigarette.
We have settled, have spent two nights and we were taken to chelushmanskuyu
valley about 400 miles from our base - ochchchen beautiful place, but
and down there, I assure you, scary - the length of the saddle 3,5 km
and at an angle of 30-40 degrees. We stood there day, then we
taken to the lake, not far from the valley - three lakes, one


 his first voyage. Native American people used the bark to ease the pain  of childbirth, and by the 19th century it was used as an inducer of menstruation and abortion.
 RQ Cautions Cotton root bark and seed
oil are potentially toxic and should only be used under professional supervision. Do not use  during pregnancy.Guaiacum officinale
(Zygophyllaceae)
Lignum Vitae,
Guayacan (Spanish)
Description Evergreen tree growing to 10 m
(33 ft). Has compound oval leaves, small, deep blue
star-shaped flowers, and heart-shaped seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation Lignum vitae is native
to South America and the Caribbean islands. It grows in tropical rainforests. The tree is felled for its timber, and resin is extracted from the heartwood.
Parts Used Wood, resin.
Constituents Lignum vitae contains lignans
(furoguaiacidin, guaiacin, and others), triterpene saponins, 18–25% resin, and volatile oil.friction rub on rheumatic areas. Absorbent cotton moistened with the resin may be applied to aching teeth. A decoction of the woodchips acts as a local anesthetic, and is used to treat rheumatic joints and herpes blisters.
Related Species G. sanctum, which grows
in Central America and parts of Florida, and  G. coulteri, native to Mexico, are used in the  same manner as lignum vitae.
Caution Lignum vitae is subject to legal
restrictions in some countries and is endangered.
Guarea rusbyi syn. G. guidonia
(Meliaceae)
Cocillana,
Guapi Bark
Description Evergreen tree growing to 150 ft
(45 m) with pale grey bark, compound lance-shaped leaves, and green-white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Cocillana is native
to the eastern Andes. The bark is gathered throughout the year.
Part Used Bark.
Constituents Cocillana contains anthraquinones,
proanthocyanids, and a volatile oil.
History & Folklore Cocillana has been used
as an emetic in traditional South American and Caribbean medicine, probably for many centuries. The plant was first introduced to Western medicine by H. H. Rusby, who collected samples in Bolivia  in 1886.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Cocillana is used
in cough mixtures, being an even more powerful expectorant than ipecac (Cephaelis ipecacuanha,  p. 186). Cocillana is taken as a treatment for coughs, excessive mucus production in the throat and chest, and bronchitis. At a high dosage, the plant induces vomiting.
Related Species A gum resin derived from
the Caribbean G. guara is used as a clotting agent, and a decoction of the leaves is taken as a treatment for internal bleeding.
 QCaution Use cocillana only under
professional supervision.Lignum vitae was once in high demand in Europe as
a purported cure for syphilis.Grindelia camporum syn.
G. robusta var. rigida (Asteraceae)
Gumplant
Description Perennial herb growing to 3 ft
(1 m). Has triangular leaves and yellow-orange
daisy-type flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
southwestern U.S. and Mexico, gumplant grows in arid and saline soil. It is harvested in late summer when in flower.
Parts Used Leaves, flowering tops.
Constituents Gumplant contains diterpenes
(including grindelic acid), resins, and flavonoids.
History & Folklore Gumplant was used by
Native Americans to treat bronchial problems and skin afflictions. Gumplant was officially recognized in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States from 1882 to 1926.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Gumplant is
a valuable remedy for bronchial asthma, and for states where phlegm in the airways impedes respiration. Both antispasmodic and expectorant, gumplant helps to relax the muscles of the smaller bronchial passages and to clear congested mucus. Additionally, it is thought to desensitize the nerve endings in the bronchial tree and to slow the heart rate, both leading to easier breathing. Gumplant is also taken for bronchitis and emphysema, and to clear mucus buildup in the throat and nose. It has been employed in the treatment of whooping cough, hay fever, and cystitis, and externally to help speed the healing of skin irritation and burns.
Related Species G. squarrosa, a North American
species used interchangeably with G. camporum, was taken by Native Americans to treat respiratory problems such as colds, coughs, and tuberculosis.
 RQ Cautions Toxic in excessive doses. Only
take under professional supervision. Do not take if suffering from kidney or heart problems.History & Folklore In 1519, Ulrich von Hutten,
a German satirist, was said to have cured himself  of syphilis after a 40-day regimen involving fasting, profuse sweating, and drinking decoctions of lignum vitae. Furthermore, in 1526, Oviedo, one of the earliest chroniclers of American natural history, wrote that “Caribbean Indians cure themselves very easily” of venereal disease with this plant. For some years, lignum vitae was in great demand in Europe but it slowly fell into disrepute, its use as a cure for syphilis being seen as a long-lasting hoax. However, it is possible that the herb might have some effect if combined with an intensive naturopathic regimen.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Used in Europe,
especially in Britain, as a remedy for arthritic and rheumatic conditions, lignum vitae has anti-inflammatory properties that help to reduce joint pain and swelling. It is also diuretic, laxative, and sweat-inducing and speeds the elimination of toxins, which makes it valuable for treating gout. Tincture of lignum vitae is commonly used as a Gymnema sylvestre
(Asclepiadaceae)
Gymnema,
Gurmar (Hindi)
Description Large, evergreen, twining plant,
climbing up through forest trees, sometimes to a
considerable height. Has dull green leaves about  2 in (5 cm) long, and umbels of small yellow flowers.
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   218 26/02/16   12:47 pm219Hibiscus sabdariffaother medicinal plantsHabitat & Cultivation Gymnema is native
to forests of central and southern India, Southeast
Asia, and as far south as northern Australia. It
prefers loamy soil.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Gymnema contains saponins
(gymnemic acids) and a polypeptide (gurmarin).
History & Folklore Gymnema has long been
used in Indian domestic medicine as a remedy for
sugar cravings and diabetes. Its Hindi name means
“sugar destroyer.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Gymnema has
real value in treating diabetes, especially in the
early stages of type 2 diabetes, which develops
in middle to old age. If taken consistently for a
year or more, it will help to prevent the condition
deteriorating. Gymnema may help to regenerate
cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, so
it may be possible to control or reverse mild
diabetes with diet and gymnema. The plant’s
remarkable ability to block sweet tastes means
that it can reduce sugar cravings and contribute
to weight-loss programs.
Research In recent research in India and
Japan, gymnema has shown promise as a safe
and effective natural treatment for diabetes. In
two clinical trials in India, patients with diabetes
needed less insulin or other treatments to lower
blood-sugar levels. There is an indication that
gymnema may encourage repair of the islet cells
of the pancreas, responsible for insulin secretion.
The leaves have been shown to anesthetize the
sweet taste buds of the tongue, and temporarily
reduce appetite. Medicinal Actions & Uses Thought to
stimulate bile secretion, haronga is used in European
herbal medicine to treat indigestion and poor
pancreatic function. In African herbal medicine,
haronga is chiefly employed as an astringent and
mild laxative, and is also given for digestive system
ailments such as diarrhea and dysentery.
Hedera helix (Araliaceae)
Ivy,
English Ivy
Description A woody climber up to 100 ft
(30 m) with leathery, dark green leaves, clusters of
greenish-yellow flowers and black or orange berries.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
northern and central Asia, ivy has been introduced,
often as a garden climber, in many parts of the world.
In the wild, it typically grows on trees and in hedges.
Parts Used Leaves, berries.
Constituents Ivy contains saponins, sterols,
polyacetylenes, a volatile oil, and flavonoids.
The saponins are expectorant, amebicidal, and
antifungal, and kill liver flukes.
History & Folklore In the classical world,
common ivy was dedicated to Dionysus, the god
of wine making and intoxication. Ivy was thought
to be


 believed, by some, that emotional stresses may be the cause of this
chemistry change. Once the
 membrane collapses, so the theory runs, the stomach juice certainly
acts on the tissues and extends the ulcer, often eating through the wall of the stomach or duodenum
(perforation) with fatal results.
It is significant in this connection that this digestion that is assumed to be certain is an
exceedingly slow process, often requiring years for its climax.
Yet this self-digestion does not occur in the healthy stomach, no matter how much acid may be
secreted. Hydrochloric acid is a normal secretion of the glands of the stomach, a necessity in the
digestion of protein foods. To believe that it is disease-building is not rational. An excess of acid
secretion due to some evanescent cause may give rise to discomfort and distress, but there will be
no digestion of the lining membrane of the stomach. There may be a flow of the contents of the
stomach back into the gullet, resulting in the symptom commonly called “heart burn,” but this will
not result in any damage to the membrane.
Long-continued suffering with heart burn (most often seen in those who overeat on sugars and
syrups and those who wrongly combine their foods, and who drink liquids with meals) may result
in sufficient irritation of the lining of the esophagus and stomach to cause inflammation, but up to
this point, at least, there will be no digestion of the walls of the gullet and stomach. The acids of
decomposition, resulting from overeating and imprudent eating, are the acids that complicate
gastric and duodenal ulcer.
Experimentally, fresh tissue from other parts of the body, when sutured to the gastric wall, is not
digested and this suggests that the walls of the digestive tube are not digested by the gastric juice.
But I think that an even stronger reason to doubt the role of the digestive juice in producing peptic
ulcer is the fact that ulcers develop in many other part of the body—the nose, sinuses, mouth,
tongue, throat, colon, bladder, womb, cervix, vagina, gall bladder and upon the surface of the
body, as in varicose ulcer— without the digestive action of the gastric secretion.
There is in ulcers, in each of these other locations, a preliminary and persistent inflammation
with hardening and a subsequent breakdown of tissue. The evaluation of ulcer of the esophagus,
stomach and duodenum out of chronic irritation and inflammation and hardening seems to be as
certain as its evolution out of these pre-ulcer states in other locations.
The history of cases of gastric and duodenal ulcer reveals that very early in life, the patient had
developed gastro-intestinal irritation and inflammation. The mode of living and eating that resulted
in the irritation continued, added to, intensified, and the recurring discomforts were palliated with
drugs, until the patient passes through the already indicated stages of pathological evolution—
irritation, inflammation, a gradual thickening of the mucous and sub-mucous tissues (hardening),
and, then, ulceration.
The increasing hardening chokes arterial circulation, cutting off oxygen and the food supply, so
that the tissues break down, giving rise to an open sore or ulcer.
Cancer may be the final ending in this evolution. It is one of the endings of a chain of symptoms
starting with irritation, and passing through inflammation, thickening and swelling (hardening or
induration), ulceration (ulcer formation), and fungation (cancer).
98The same chain of causes and effects may precede both endings or cancer may evolve out of the
ulcer. It should be understood that both of these diseases—ulcer and cancer—represent end-points
in a process of pathological evolution that had simple beginnings and became more complex as it
developed. This is the reason why the search for a specific cause for cancer has been so
disappointing.
All of the cancer-producing (carcinogenic) agents so far discovered are causative in only a
certain percentage of cases—in those in whom the ground has already been prepared for cancer
development.
Ulcer, like cancer, is an ending in a chain of symptoms that begins far back of the evolution of
the ulcer itself. Repeated stomach crises (gastritis) end in ulcer. The ulcer develops after scores of
gastric crises that have occurred frequently in infancy, childhood, youth, and maturity. Ulcer is
classed as an organic disease, which means that abnormal changes have taken place in the structure
of the wall of the organ affected.
Organic changes follow in the wake of vascular (artery and vein) degeneration and hardening.
Indurations (hardenings) wait upon circulatory changes, particularly asphyxiation of the tissues.
Ulceration may be said to be an active degeneration from cell apoplexy; cancer is passive
degeneration from cell asphyxiation. The beginning of both these forms of disease is irritation. All
chronic forms of inflammation begin as irritation and are followed by ulceration and, if the
location favors stasis (stoppage of the blood flow), induration and cancer will follow.
The major links in this chain of pathological evolution are enervation, intoxication, irritation,
inflammation, induration, ulceration and fungation. That last is cancer. Should cancer be the only
unknown element in this pathological composite?
Concomitant with the gastric ulcer is a chronic state of excessive acidity of the stomach, a
condition known as
gastric hyperacidity.
 The common belief is that the excess stomach acid is a
purely local condition.
It is not recognized that this hyperacidity is symptomatic of the systemic condition of the
sufferer. This is the reason that treatment is only local; whereas, if it were recognized that the local
state is but a phase of a constitutional state, a more rational and more successful plan of care could
be instituted.
If the gastric irritation and inflammation continue, and they will if toxemia is not eliminated and
its causes removed, the inflammation will extend to the gall duct and gall bladder and even into the
liver itself. Or it may extend up the pancreatic duct into the pancreas. As the patient’s mode of
living is not corrected and the systemic condition back of the irritation
and inflammation is
increased and intensified, the disease spreads from membrane to membrane and new diseases
develop.
Feeding the ulcer patient is a difficult problem. Not only is there a greatly impaired ability to
digest food, but there is the irritation of the ulcerated surface that is occasioned by so many
different foods.
What a life one leads when reduced to the necessity of conforming to the requirements of a
capricious stomach! In peptic ulcer, due to the secretion of too much acid, it is customary to feed
small, frequent meals of bland foods. These are intended to use up the acid and to reduce, as much
as possible, the mechanical irritation of the ulcer.
But feeding the patient every three to four hours, sometimes oftener, and even at night, means
that the patient is continually overeating. The very feeding program causes the excess secretion to
be continued and helps to perpetuate the same condition it is intended to palliate. Using food as a
99palliative is certainly not a correct dietary procedure.
There are many different diets that are prescribed for ulcer patients and there are various plans
of treatment. Each has its own advocates, but the results of each plan of care and feeding are far
from satisfactory, for the reason that they ignore cause. Milk diets, cream diets, sippy diets, bland
diets, frequent small meals, and similar feeding programs are all intended to palliate symptoms.
These diets cause less immediate irritation of the ulcerated surface, but they remove no cause,
hence health is not restored. This is not a valid plan of feeding and it defeats its own purpose by
adding to the systematic impairment that is back to the ulcer.
Drugs are also used to palliate symptoms—drugs to relieve pain, tranquilizers for depression,
drugs to “coat the stomach.” antacids to counteract the acidity. Other drugs employed in ulcer
cases are intended only to provide short periods of relief from symptoms. They remove no cause,
hence they restore no health. Even the latest method of freezing the glands of the stomach is but a
palliative measure. It makes a digestive cripple out of the patient, but removes none of the causes
of peptic ulcer.
Operations for peptic ulcer continue to be performed. And they are still very unsatisfactory. The
wall of the stomach in gastric ulcer is pretty generally irritated and inflamed. In this broad field of
inflammation the ulcer develops at the most inflamed point. This means that the part in which the
greatest pathological change has occurred must ulcerate. Removing the ulcer does not remove the
field of inflammation. Another point of the inflamed surface breaks down and another ulcer results.
This simply means that removal of an ulcer leaves the field open for the evolution of another
ulcer and recurrence is the rule. Recurrence is due to the fact that the cause of the ulcer is
untouched by the operation. Indeed, if the stomach is removed, and the cause untouched, trouble
will evolve elsewhere out of the same causes. Surgery does not and cannot restore
health. It is a
means of palliating symptoms and rarely anything more. Anemia is a frequent aftermath of removal
of large sections of the stomach.
Gastroenterostomy (formation of a connection or communication between the stomach and the
small intestine, thus by-passing the pylorus) is


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