 better than but ter, although they have little or
no cholesterol, for their fat molecules are very much larger than those of human milk fat, and result in the deposition of fats as hard as those of animal food in the tissues. The soft margarines, made
from partly hydrogenated vegetable fa ts, to which is added oils rich
in unsaturated fats, are suspect, in  view of the chemicals used in
their manufacture, and of the reports of serious disease following
their experimental use in animals. Vegetable  'butters' made from emulsified nuts should be excellent, provided no emulsifying or other chemical agents are used in their manufacture. If one likes some fat on one's bread, the ancient device of Mediterranean peasants of dripping a little olive oil on the bread, rubbed with a
little garlic, is a good one.
 Kephir, Yogourt, etc. Widely and anciently praised as a 'health'
food, the fatty constituents rema in much the same, although the
growth of bacteria and yeasts, producing an acid medium, is
favourable to anti-putrefactive cond itions which should be helpful.
But one should preferably not eat foods that putrefy. These preparations made with skimmed or defatted milk are preferable.
 Cheese. Hippocrates had noticed that cheese adversely affects a
significant number of people, an indication that it is not a natural
food. It has recently been incriminat ed in migraine. The hard, fullfat
cheeses are more suspect than the li ghter kinds made with whey. At
the most cheese should only be used occasionally, and in small amounts not so much as a food item but as a condiment.

Eggs are designed to meet the extremely rapid growth of
reptiles and birds, and as such, are the opposite of human needs. Their extremely high content of cholesterol makes them a dangerous food, perhaps the most dangerous. Furthermore, they are the vehicle of many viruses, known and unknown.

Coffee, tea, chocolate. The popularity of these items comes not
only from their stimulating properties, but from their very high content of purines and other extractiv es. On a'mixed' diet, the body
over-reacts against such extractives in the foods, thus engendering a drug-like demand for more, to mop up the body's over-production of
defensive substances, resulting in a vicious circle of ever-increasing
demand. If one must have hot drinks, many herbal teas are harmless. Weak tea seems less harmful than coffee.
 Vegetable oils. Although the unsaturated fatty acid content of
different vegetable oils varies, thus affecting their value for
eliminating saturated fats from the body, no vegetable oil contains
the saturated fats abundant in all animal oils. Therefore, on a vegetarian diet, it is a matter of taste what oil one prefers. Olive oil, for instance, has a low content of unsaturated fats, but is tasty and good. The only safe fats, however, are those that have been cold
pressed, out of contact with metal contamination; it is virtually
impossible to obtain such oils today. Commercial processes entail the use of dangerous solvents, and high temperature extraction responsible for undesirable changes in  the oil itself, quite apart from
anti-oxidant chemicals used to prevent rancidity.
One vegetable oil, rape seed oil,  is toxic, and is being phased
out of use. However, it is still the cheapest oil on the market. It is usually sold without a reference to its source, as just'salad' or
'frying' oil, and is widely used in  food processing and in restaurants.

Potatoes, cassavas and starchy roots. The toxicity of the
alkaloids of potato have already been mentioned. Cassava contains deadly prussic acid and will rapidl y kill when eaten raw. The real
menace of such items is that they tend to reduce the consumption of cereals, which should be the main source of calories in combination with fruits.

Bread, biscuits
Fresh cereal grains can be nibbled like nuts, but once dried,
something has to be done to them so  that they can be eaten. The best
way is to soak them and allow them to germinate. Germinating
grains are about the richest sources of a battery of indispensable
vitamins. Some should always be set to germinate in succession in some corner of the home, or office.
Soaked grains can be mashed, pounded and moulded into thin
wafers, which can then be dried in a low oven, or yeast can be
added, and the dough baked as bread. The damp conditions
prevailing, and the moderate temperatures necessary, are not critical. Lightly cooked groat or porridge, goes back to the Palaeolithic. Unfortunately, industrial production of bread and biscuits, even many classed as 'brown' or 'wholemeal', is highly suspect, so that the best answer is  to make one's own, from wheat of
known provenance. The bread should be made as coarse as possible,
for, as with all cooking, one of the aims of breadmaking is undoubtedly to make it easier to eat more than one could otherwise.
 Pastry, homemade with wholemeal flour and good vegetable
oil, thinly worked out and as light ly baked in the oven as possible,
avoiding overbrowning, has probably been over-maligned.
 Vegetarian'meats', whose basis is often cheap peanut meal, and
various industrialized food additiv es, can be better made at home,
with lentils or soya as a base and wholemeal flour and nuts as a
padding.
 Yeast. The yeasts are present everywhere, and play an active
and important role in the human alimentary tract, providing some of the B vitamin requirements when a fermentative flora prevails. But
different yeasts produce many thousands of different nitrogenous
substances, some of which are suspect. Moulds, close relatives of yeasts, are known to manufacture some of the most deadly chemicals, such as the cancer producing substances in mouldy peanut meal. While fresh fruit and bakers yeasts are probably excellent, care should be taken with brewers yeast, and only small
amounts consumed. As for the so called hydrolized yeast
preparations, made from disintegrating yeast cells usually in a strongly salted medium, they are definitely suspect. Their content of the B vitamins may be high, but they also contain nitrogenous extractives and other substances which have a dramatic effect on the
blood-forming system, too dramatic not to be harmful.
 The seeds of the leguminous plants
Green peas and beans when fresh  are close to other green
vegetables and are excellent, but pulses are in some cases suspect. A
few contain lethal amounts of hydrocyanic acid. Two which appear
to pass the test are lentils and so ya beans. Raw peanuts are barely
edible. Cooked when fresh they might pass, but a tropical crop, whose storage conditions are never known by the consumer, they are a very suspect food item in view of the extremely dangerous mould products they may harbour.
It is of great interest that a milk substitute for infants made
from soya beans is now available which appears to meet all the needs of the developing infant. Mothers who are not able to breast feed for a sufficient time, should ser iously think of such substitutes
rather than condemn their offspring to a start in life which entails a
permanent handicap to their arteries for which cow's milk is
probably responsible.
 Coconut. These can be obtained today in fairly fresh condition,
and are an excellent food. Human milk fats are closer to those
present in 'coconut milk' than to those of cow's milk. A host of
attractive preparations can be made from the dried meal.
 Sugar. The evil of sugar is that it fools the call of sweetness for
fruits. The common belief that brown sugar is preferable, indeed beneficial, is unfounded, for the br own is due to caramelization and
to metallic contamination in the course of manufacture. The content
of B vitamins, not derived from the plant juices but formed as molasses is stored before the sugar is separated from it, is not sufficient justification. It is curious  to observe that in the days when
hygiene was all the craze, white sugar, like white flour and white
rice were thought of as better than the brown products because they
were cleaner and purer, today there h as been a reversal into an equal
absurdity, when anything 'b rown' is necessarily good.
 Honey, another cult food, honey is designed for extremely
rapidly growing insects, not humans. Although 'natural', there is no
reason to suppose that it is preferable to sugar. There is, alas, no
way out; if humans want sweet things while remaining healthy, they should have fruits.
 Mushrooms, fungi. There he goes again, the reader will say,
belittling the one gourmet article of the vegetarian! But the aim is to
face the facts, point out the extrem ely thin line of normality; it is up
to the individual to decide how far he will swerve from the line, how much he is willing to pay for the deviant pleasures. The fact is that primates are as innately terrified by the sight of a mushroom, as by that of a spider or a snake! Although only a few fungi kill, most,
if not all, cause various subtle sens itivity reactions in a majority of
people. Commercially grown mushro oms are increasingly subjected
to a rain of chemicals. However, if one comes upon a lucky patch of bluits, chanter


 be accomplished effi
ciently between the brain cells, immune cells and other cells in the body. Why are GAPS patients loosing AA and other fatty acids from their cell
membranes? The reason is not yet clear. However, a lot of research points
in the direction of an enzyme, called Phospholipase A2 or PLA2, whose
function is to release AA from the cell membranes. In GAPS patients this
enzyme is overactive, leaching AA from brain cells leaving them deficient
in this vital fatty acid. There are a number of things which can cause PIA2
overactivity. Bio-toxins coming from bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites
in the gut are usually the major cause. Chronic inflammation in the body
activates PLA2 and we know that GAPS patients have chronic inflamma
tion in their digestive systems. Exposure to heavy metals, pesticides and
other chemicals is known to cause PLA2 overactivity. High levels of insulin,
caused by the consumption of processed carbohydrates and sugars, is also
a strong stimulant for PLA2 activity. Cutting out grains, starch and sugar
will help to preserve a lot of essential fats in the brain of a GAPS patient.
Aspartame, heparin, snake and bee venom, brain injury and lack of oxygen
can induce PLA2 overactivity. Due to this enzyme GAPS patients actively
lose AA and other essential fatty acids from their brains and other tissues in
the body. That is why it is vital to supplement them in large amounts. We
have talked about LA, LNA, EPA, DHA, GLA and their dietary sources.
Where do we get AA from? Here is the surprise: AA comes from meat, eggs
and dairy products. You can not find it anywhere else! The GAPS diet is rich
in these foods and provides large amounts of AA, so vital for GAPS patients
to have. At the same time the GAPS diet cuts out the foods which cause the
loss of AA and other fatty acids from cell membranes-processed carbohy
drates and sugar.
We need both omega-3 and omega-6 oils. However, due to wide con
sumption of sunflower oil, which is quite rich in omega-6, people generally
get more omega-6 than omega-3 oils in their diets, which may predispose
them to various inflammatory diseases. Clinical experience shows that for
people with health problems it is important to have more omega-3 oils
than omega-6 in their diet. The ideal ratio is disputed as it is probably very
individual, but generally it is accepted that 2:1 of omega-3:omega-6 is the
correct ratio in oil blends. For GAPS people it is vital to have not only
parent essential oils (LNA and LA) but their derivatives as well (EPA, DHA
and GLA). That is why it is important to supply not only seed and nut oils,
but fish oils as well.
There are good blends of seed/nut oils available on the market, where
flax oil is the main source of parent omega-3 LNA and evening primrose oil
is the main source of omega-6 LA and GLA. Look for the brands with twice more of omega-3 fatty acids than omega-6. As long as the 2:1 ratio of
omega-3:omega-6 is adhered to, you normally cannot overdose on these
oils. In fact the higher the dose the more health benefits are seen in the
clinical practice. Look for high-quality blended oils which have not been
refined, deodorised or adulterated in any way. Heat, light and oxygen
destroy seed/nut oils very quickly, so theyhave to be supplied in dark glass
bottles and refrigerated at all times. Never use them for cooking. They can
be mixed with cold or warm food to give to the GAPS child or adult.
Apart from the seed/nut oil blends make sure that you supplement EPA
and DHA through good quality cod liver oil and fish oil. These oils are also
highly perishable and should be refrigerated and protected from light and
oxygen.
To summarise on supplementation of fats
GAPS children and adults should have a group of essential oils supple
mented:
1. A good seed/nut oil blend in the ratio of 2:1 of omega-3:omega-6 fatty
acids. It will supply the parent omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Make
sure that the oil is high quality, in dark glass and refrigerated.
Depending on the age of the child start from a very small amount (a
few drops added to the cold/warm food) and slowly build the dose up
to 1-3 tablespoons a day. For children under the age of 18 months 1-2
teaspoons a day are usually enough. For GAPS adults start from a tea
spoon a day and slowly increase to 4-5 tablespoons a day. I recom
mend introducing these oils gradually to avoid any reactions, which
are possible in individuals with severe fatty acids deficiency.
2. Cod  liver oil, which will supply EPA, DHA, vitamin A and vitamin D.
Depending on the age of the child give 1-2 teaspoons a day. For chil
dren under the age of 18 months half a teaspoon is usually enough. It is
sensible to start from a small amount and slowly build up the dose. I
consider cod liver oil an absolute must for GAPS patients, children in
particular, because it supplies them with vitamin A in the most appro
priate biochemical form. Look for detailed information about vitamin
A in the next chapter. An adult should have 2 teaspoons a day or an
equivalent in capsules.
3. Fish oil with higher ratio of EPA to DHA, as more EPA seems to be
beneficial for GAPS patients. There are no toxic levels for these oils. Start from a small amount added to your child's food (not hot) and
slowly build the dose to 1-3 teaspoons a day (up to 1 teaspoon for chil
dren under the age of 24 months). An adult should start from a small
amount and build the dose up to 3-4 teaspoons a day or an equivalent
in capsules.
Make sure that you supplement the oils after food or with food, not on
an empty stomach. If you supplement oils on an empty stomach the gall
bladder would empty its bile into an empty duodenum in order to deal
with the oil, which may cause cramps, belching and nausea.
There are two oils which patients ask about the most, as they contain
both omega-3 and omega-6 fats in considerable amounts. These are hemp
oil and flax seed oil.
Hemp oil is a fairly recent oil on the market. It contains both omega-3
and omega-6 fatty acids in the ratio of 1:3. It is too heavy on omega-6 fatty
acids to be supplemented on its own to GAPS children and adults.
Flax seed oil is too heavy on omega-3 LNA, it contains 4 times as much of
omega-3 as omega- 6 fatty acids and also should not be supplemented on
its own.
Olive oil is a time-proven health-giving food, used by Mediterranean
countries for centuries. The long list of benefits include lowered risk of
heart diseases, healing and anti-inflammatory effects, stimulation of bile
flow, activation of liver enzymes, antioxidant activity, stimulation of pan
creatic enzymes, anti-cancer effects, anti-bacterial and anti-viral activity,
membrane development, cell formation and cell differentiation. Virgin
olive oil has been shown to improve brain cell maturation and function.
And yet it has not got much in the way of essential fatty acids which shows
us that we need much more than just omega-3 and omega-6 oils. It con
tains some LA (omega-6) in a range from 3.5 to 20% and LNA (omega-3)
from 0.1 to 0.6%. It is an excellent source of oleic acid (omega-9), a
monounsaturated fatty acid, which has an ability to strengthen the Thi
arm of the immune system. But the most important elements in olive oil
are its minor components: beta carotene, vitamin E, chlorophyll, squalene,
phytosterols, triterpenic substances, polyphenols and hundreds of others.
Many health-giving properties of olive oil are probably due to these minor
components. However, heat, deodorization, refining, degumming and
other processing destroys and removes these vital substances. That is why
it is very important to buy unrefined extra virgin cold pressed olive oil.
"Virgin" means that the oil has been extracted from whole, undamaged olives without refining. If it does not say on the bottle "virgin" then it is
refined. There is no international standard for cold pressing of oils, so dif
ferent manufacturers mean different things when they say that their oil is
"cold pressed". However, there is a distinct difference intastebetweencold
pressed virgin olive oil and just virginolive oil, so I recommend buying cold
pressed as well as virgin and use it liberally on ready served meals and
salads. It is not a good idea to cook with it, as the heat will destroy the


Serves 2
1 large ( or 2 small) sweet potatoes
few cooked small beets, sliced
arugula (or lettuce) leaves
Dressing:
yogurt
lemon juice
flaxseed oil
dill weed, dried or fresh
Cook the sweet potatoes gently in their skins until cooked.  Allow to cool. Cut into slices and
place the sweet potato and beet slices overlapping on a plate o f arugula  (or lettuce) leaves.
Drizzle on the dressing and serve immediately.
Corn
Corn may be baked in the husk wrapped in foil. Bake in low oven at 300°  F (149 ° C) for 1 hour
or place in boiling water for approximately 7 minutes.
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Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
1 or 2 corn cobs
flaxseed oil
parsley, chopped
Leave the corn in its outer leaves and wrap in baking foil.  Bake at 350 ° F (180° C) for about 1
hour.  When cooked, peel back the leaves and allow to cool slightly. Pour on some flaxseed oil  to
which some chopped parsley has been added.  Serve as an appetizer or a side dish.
Corn with Mixed Vegetables
2 ears of corn
3 stalks of celery, sliced
2 carrots, sliced
2 zucchini squash, sliced
Husk the corn and cut the kernels off. Slice the other vegetables into small pieces. Put the corn
in a baking dish and add the vegetables. Bake at 200° F (93 ° C) for 1 hour.
Corn with Orange Juice
2 ears of corn
1 glass of orange juice
Husk the corn, cut off the kernels and put it in a baking dish with a lid. Bake at 250° F (121 °
C) until soft. Pour the corn juice off and add the orange juice. Let set 5 to 10 minutes before
serving.
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Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves 2
10 oz. whole green beans
yogurt
2 oz. onion, finely chopped
Cook the beans gently. Just before the beans are ready, gently heat the yogurt with the chopped
onion.  Put the beans into a warm serving dish and pour on the yogurt dressing.
Creamed Corn
3 ears of corn
1 green bell pepper, sliced
Husk corn and cut off the kernels. Put kernels from 2 ears in a blender and blend. Add the
kernels from the third ear to the blended corn. Place in a baking dish and put the sliced green
pepper on top and bake in the oven at 200-250° F (93-121° C) for 1-1/2 hours.
Creamy Cabbage
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serves 2
white cabbage, shredded
1 small onion, chopped
2 tbsp. thick yogurt
1 tsp. dried dill  tops, chopped (or crushed dill seeds)
Shred the cabbage and chop the onion. Add a little water to cook.  When cooked and tender, add
the thick yogurt mixed with the dill  tops (or seeds).
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soup stock
1 onion, chopped
1 eggplant, sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced and skinned
Put some soup stock (see “‘Special Soup’ or ‘Hippocrates Soup’” in Chapter 12, “Preparing
Food and Juices—The Basic Rules,” p. X) in bottom of large covered baking dish. Add onion,
eggplant and tomatoes in layers. Cover and bake in low oven at 300°  F (149 ° C) for 2 hours.
Eggplant  Fan
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves 2
1 large onion, sliced
1 large eggplant, sliced
1 large firm, ripe tomato, sliced
thyme and marjoram
1 small clove garlic, chopped
Slice the onion into rings and cook gently in a thick-bottomed saucepan  while preparing the
other ingredients.  Cut eggplant  into 4 or 5 lengthwise slices, stopping 3/4 in ch from either end.
Slice the tomato into twice as many slices as there are cuts in the eggplant. Arrange the eggplant
on top of the onions in a fan shape, and fill the cuts with the tomato slices.  Sprinkle with herbs
and chopped garlic.  Cover and cook gently, on top of the stove,  or bake gently in a low oven at
300° F (149° C) until the eggplant  is soft.
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Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Serves 2
1 eggplant
1 small onion, chopped
parsley, chopped
2 tomatoes, sliced
1-1/2 tbsp. vinegar
little flaxseed oil
Bake the eggplant  for about an hour at 350 ° F (180° C). Chop the onion and parsley and slice
the tomatoes.  Combine with the cooked eggplant. Add the vinegar and flaxseed oil.
Eggplant,  Stewed
1 eggplant, cut into cubes
2 onions, chopped
3 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
Combine all ingredients in a stew pot. Stew approximately 30 minutes (until tender). Do not add
water.
Fancy Garlic Potatoes
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 1-1/2 to 2 hours
potatoes, sliced
flaxseed oil
garlic, crushed
Cut the potatoes into slices, almost through to the base, but not quite.  Put into a casserole dish
with only enough water to cover the bottom.  Cook in the top of oven at 325 ° F (170° C) for 1-
1/2 to 2 hours  or at 350° F ( 180° C) for 1 hour.  Mix together the flaxseed oil and crushed garlic.
Put the potatoes onto a serving dish and, when slightly cooled, pour on the dressing.  Serve
immediately.
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www.thegersonway.comFennel Treat
1 fennel bulb
1 large tomato, cut into 1/4-inch  slices
2-3 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced thinly
Cut off stalks and leaves from fennel. Slice bulb in half lengthwise to give two flat halves. Rinse
them under running water to remove sand and put them in a baking dish with cut side up. Cover
halves with tomato slices and place garlic slices on top of tomatoes. Cover dish and bake at
250° F (121 ° C) for 1 to 2 hours. Serve with a baked potato and a salad of grated carrots on a
bed of pretty greens.
Festive Broccoli (or Festive Green Beans)
1 large head broccoli (or 3-1/2 cups sliced green beans)
1 small onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 medium sweet red (or yellow) bell pepper, cut in strips
2 tsp. lemon juice (optional)
1/4 tsp. dried (or 1 tsp. fresh) dill weed
Select dark green head of broccoli with no yellowing. Cut into spears, peeling tougher stalks at
base. Place onion and garlic in pot. Cover and stew on low flame for 45 minutes or until tender.
Add pepper strips for the last 20 to 25 minutes of cooking. Add lemon juice just before serving
(lemon will discolor broccoli if added during cooking). Sprinkle vegetables with dill and serve.
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Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves 2
French beans


ixture
of
a
large
amount
of
pus
and
also
from
the
excretion
of
various
dyes
and
preservatives
added
to
food,
e.g.
some
cheeses
or
wafers.
Most
of
the
time,
these
substances
are
in
the
first
third
of
the
stream
of
urine,
which
can
be
milky
in
color.
Next,
the
urine
is
normally
colored,
but
cloudy.
Urine
can
have
a
green
or
blue
color
when
there
is
significant
rotting
of
proteins
in
the
intestine.
Here
it
is
necessary
to
remember
the
warning
of
the
Tibetan
healers
that
if
the
urine
smells
like
food
or
product,
then
the
body
was
unable
to
digest
it.
This
kind
of
food
must
be
given
up.
If
you
want
to
continue
to
enjoy
it,
you
must
programmatically
increase
the
capabilities
of
your
digestive
tract,
e.g.
enemas.
Urine
has
a
red
or
pink
color
due
to
homoglobinuria
or
after
taking
certain
drugs:
amidopyrine,
antipyrine,
santonin,
etc.
The
brown
or
red-brown
color
of
urine
is
determined
by
high
concentration
of
urobilin
and
bilirubin.
An
increased
amount
of
bile
pigments
colors
the
urine
in
shades
of
saffron
yellow,
brown,
greenish-brown
or
almost
green.
Based
on
the
color
of
urine,
you
can
very
accurately
determine
which
foods
are
well
absorbed
and
do
not
contain
waste
substances,
concentrates
and
harmful
substances,
and
on
the
contrary,
those
which
are
saturated
with
them.
E.g.
artificial
polyvitamin
preparations
are
excreted
from
the
body
and
color
the
urine
in
a
deep
yellow
color.
Clarity
of
urine
Freshly
excreted
urine
of
a
healthy
person
is
transparent
and
phosphorescent.
After
standing,
it
becomes
semi-transparent
and
after
a
long
time
it
can
become
cloudy
due
to
deposits.
Smell
or
odor
of
urine
Fresh
urine
of
a
healthy
person
has
a
characteristic
smell.
Various
substances
introduced
into
the
body
with
food
can
add
a
certain
smell
to
it,
e.g.
garlic,
onions,
multivitamins.
Saffron
or
menthol
also
give
urine
a
specific
smell.
You
can
smell
acetone
from
your
urine
when
you
are
fasting.
In
case
of
alkaline
fermentation,
when
the
urine
is
allowed
to
stand
for
a
long
time,
the
urine
acquires
a
sharp
smell
of
ammonia.
Healthy
urine
foams
slightly.
The
taste
of
urine
Normal
urine
has
a
bitter
taste.
With
a
moderate
use
of
slightly
salty
salt,
with
mixed
food,
e.g.
meat
with
dumplings
or
bread,
it
tastes
like
mead.
If
you
take
synthetic
polyvitamins,
your
urine
takes
on
their
taste.
Urine
tastes
best
when
eating
a
natural
separated
diet.
With
a
plant-based
diet,
combined
with
short
fasts
and
cleansing
procedures,
the
urine
has
the
taste
offreshly
milked
milk,
as
well
as
its
nutrition.
Reaction
Fresh
urine
has
an
acidic
reaction
between
5
and
7
pH.
He
has
the
greatest
acidity
in
the
morning
on
an
empty
stomach.
After
eating,
acidity
decreases,
which
is
associated
with
the
secretion
of
gastric
juices.
Acidity
is
also
reduced
with
profuse
sweating.
A
large
consumption
of
fresh
fruit
juices
can
increase
the
alkalinity
of
urine,
and
on
the
contrary,
the
consumption
of
cereals
increases
its
acidity.
Urine
with
an
ammonia
odor
has
an
alkaline
reaction.
Individual
components
of
urine
and
their
properties
The
composition
of
human
urine
is
quite
complex,
as
it
is
made
up
of
about
200
components.
It
contains
such
substances
as
urea,
uric
acid,
purine
components,
nucleic
acids,
guanidine
derivatives,
histidine,
hippuric
acid,
etheric
acids,
sulfur,
rhodahides,
pigments.
Furthermore,
residues
of
proteins,
amino
acids,
glucose,
acetone,
bile
acids,
lactic
acid,
pyruvic
acid,
cholesterol,
inositol,
higher
fatty
acids,
etheric
fatty
acids,
oxalic
acid,
succinic
acid
and
others.
Urine
also
contains
pepsin,
trypsin,
amylase,
phosphatase
and
other
enzymes,
steroid
hormones,
vitamins.
Of
the
mineral
substances,
all
those
present
in
the
body,
of
the
gases
nitrogen,
carbon
dioxide
and
oxygen.
In
addition,
in
various
pathological
conditions,
the
content
of
some
components
that
are
present
in
normal
urine
in
minute
concentrations
increases.
These
are
primarily
protein
substances,
glucose,
fructose
and
other
sugars,
as
well
as
acetone,
acetoacetic
acid,
amino
acids,
fats,
cholesterol,
lactic
acid,
etc.
Other
substances
such
as
peptides,
nucleic
acids,
fibrin,
hemoglobin,
bile
acid
also
appear
in
the
urine
and
other
dyes
(pigments),
hormones,
enzymes
and
many
other
substances
that
the
sick
organism
produces
in
order
to
manage
or
adjust
the
given
Health
Problems
.
Many
drugs
and
compounds
that
have
accidentally
entered
the
body,
mostly
as
food
additives
and
preservatives,
appear
in
the
urine
either
unchanged
or
are
processed
in
such
a
way
that
the
toxicity
or
harmfulness
of
the
ingested
substances
is
greatly
reduced.
We
will
analyze
the
individual
components
of
urine
and
their
properties
with
regard
to
urinotherapy.
The
main
component
of
urine
is
water.
Water
in
the
human
body
and
fresh
urine
are
found
in
the
state
liquid
crystals
with
an
ice
structure.
Natural
water
does
not
have
this
liquid
crystal
structure
and
its
molecules
are
distributed
in
a
disorderly
manner.
In
order
for
the
water
that
has
entered
the
body
to
start
"working",
it
is
necessary
to
imprint
the
above-mentioned
structure
on
it.
It
is
assumed
that
our
organism
expends
for
the
structuring
of
1
liter
of
water,
25
kcal
of
energy.
That's
why
we
save
our
own
energy


allbladder,	the	body’s	60	to	100trillion	cells	will	be	able	to	“breathe”	more	oxygen,	receive	sufficient	amounts	of
nutrients,	efficiently	eliminate	their	metabolic	waste	products,	and	maintain	perfect
communication	links	with	the	nervous	system,	endocrine	system,	and	all	other	parts	of	the
body.

Almost	every	patient	suffering	a	chronic	illness	has	excessive	amounts	of	gallstones	in
the	liver.	A	doctor	can	easily	confirm	this	by	having	her	chronically	ill	patient	do	a	liver
cleanse.	It	is	apparent	that	unless	a	specific	liver	disease	is	found,	this	vital	organ	is	rarely
considered	a	“culprit”	for	other	diseases.	The	majority	of	gallstones	in	the	liver	consist	of
the	same	“harmless”	constituents	as	are	found	in	liquid	bile
,
	with	cholesterol	being	the
main	ingredient.	A	number	of	stones	consist	of	fatty	acids	and	other	organic	material	that
has	ended	up	in	the	bile	ducts.	The	fact	that	the	majority	of	these	stones	are	just	congealed
clumps	of	bile	or	organic	matter	makes	them	practically	“invisible”	to	x-rays,	ultrasonic
technologies,	and
computerized	tomography
	(CT).

The	situation	is	different	with	regard	to	the	gallbladder,	where	up	to	about	20	percent	of
all	stones	can	be	made	up	entirely	of	minerals,	predominantly	calcium	salts	and	bile
pigments.	Whereas	diagnostic	tests	can	easily	detect	these	hardened,	relatively	large
stones	in	the	gallbladder,	they	tend	to	miss	the	softer,	noncalcified	stones	in	the	liver.	Only
when	excessive	amounts	of	cholesterol-based	stones	(85-95	percent	cholesterol),	or	other
clumps	of	fat,	block	the	bile	ducts	of	the	liver	may	an	ultrasound	test	reveal	what	is
generally	referred	to	as	“fatty	liver.”	In	such	a	case,	the	ultrasound	pictures	reveal	a	liver
that	is	almost	completely	white	(instead	of	black).	A	fatty	liver	can	gather	up	to	20,000
stones	before	it	succumbs	to	suffocation	and	ceases	to	function.

If	you	had	a	fatty	liver	and	went	to	the	doctor,	she	would	tell	you	that	you	had	excessive
fatty	tissue	in	your	liver.	It	is	less	likely,	though,	that	she	would	tell	you	that	you	had
intrahepatic	gallstones
	(stones	obstructing	the	liver’s	bile	ducts).	As	mentioned	before,
most	of	the	smaller	stones	in	the	liver	are	not	detectable	through	ultrasound	or	CT	scans.
Nevertheless,	careful	analysis	of	diagnostic	images	by	specialists	would	show	whether
some	of	the	smaller	bile	ducts	in	the	liver	were	dilated	because	of	obstruction.	A	dilation
of	bile	ducts	caused	by	larger	and	denser	stones	or	by	clusters	of	stones	may	be	detected
more	readily	through
magnetic	resonance	imaging
	(MRI).	However,	unless	there	is	an
indication	of	major	liver	trouble,	doctors	rarely	check	for	such	intrahepatic	stones.
Unfortunately,	although	the	liver	is	one	of	the	most	important	organs	in	the	body,	its
disorders	are	also	underdiagnosed	all	too	often.

Even	if	the	early	stages	of	a	fatty	liver	or	gallstone	formation	in	the	bile	ducts	were
easily	recognized	and	diagnosed,	today’s	medical	facilities	offer	no	treatments	to	relieve
this	vital	organ	of	the	heavy	burden	it	has	to	carry.

Most	people	in	the	developed	world	have	accumulated	hundreds	and,	in	many	cases,thousands	of	hardened	bile	and	fat	deposits	in	the	liver.	These	stones	continuously	block
the	liver’s	bile	ducts,	which	greatly	stresses	this	vital	organ	and	the	rest	of	the	body.	In
view	of	the	adverse	effect	these	stones	have	on	liver	performance	as	a	whole,	their
composition	is	quite	irrelevant.	Whether	your	doctor	or	you	consider	them	conventional
mineral-based	gallstones,	fat	deposits,	or	clots	of	hardened	bile,	the	net	result	is	that	they
prevent	the	necessary	amounts	of	bile	from	reaching	the	intestines.	The	important	question
is	how	such	a	simple	thing	as	obstructed	bile	flow	can	cause	such	complex	diseases	as
congestive	heart	failure,	diabetes,	and	cancer.

Liver	bile	is	a	bitter,	alkaline	fluid	of	a	yellow,	brown,	or	green	color.	It	has	multiple
functions.	Each	one	of	these	profoundly	influences	the	health	of	every	organ	and	system	in
the	body.	Apart	from	assisting	with	the	digestion	of	fat,	calcium,	and	protein	foods,	bile	is
needed	to	maintain	normal	fat	levels	in	the	blood,	remove	toxins	from	the	liver,	help
maintain	proper	acid/alkaline	balance	in	the	intestinal	tract,	and	keep	the	colon	from
breeding	harmful	microbes.	To	maintain	a	strong	and	healthy	digestive	system	and	feed
body	cells	the	right	amount	of	nutrients,	the	liver	has	to	produce	1-1.5	quarts	of	bile	per
day.	Anything	less	than	that	is	bound	to	cause	problems	with	the	digestion	of	food,
elimination	of	waste,	and	the	body’s	continual	detoxification	of	the	blood.	Many	people
produce	just	about	a	cupful	of	bile	or	less	per	day.	As	will	be	shown	in	this	book,	almost
all	health	problems	are	a	direct	or	indirect	consequence	of	reduced	bile	availability.

People	with	chronic	illnesses	often	have	several	thousand	gallstones	congesting	the	bile
ducts	of	the	liver.	Some	stones	may	have	also	grown	in	the	gallbladder.	By	removing	these
stones	from	these	organs	through	a	series	of	liver	cleanses	and	maintaining	a	balanced	diet
and	lifestyle,	the	liver	and	gallbladder	can	restore	their	original	efficiency,	and	most
symptoms	of	discomfort	or	disease	in	the	body	can	start	subsiding.	You	may	find	that	any
persistent	allergies	will	lessen	or	disappear.	Back	pain	will	dissipate,	while	energy	and
well-being	will	improve.	Ridding	the	liver	bile	ducts	of	gallstones	is	one	of	the	most
important	and	powerful	procedures	you	can	apply	to	improve	and	regain	your	health.

In	this	book,	you	will	learn	how	to	remove	painlessly	up	to	several	hundred	gallstones
at	a	time.	The	size	of	the	stones	ranges	from	that	of	a	pinhead	to	a	small	walnut,	and	in
some	rare	cases	a	golf	ball.	The	actual	liver	cleanse	takes	place	within	a	period	of	less	than
fourteen	hours	and	can	be	taken	conveniently	over	a	weekend	at	home.	Chapter	1	explains
in	detail	why	the	presence	of	gallstones	in	the	bile	ducts,	both	inside	and	outside	the	liver,
can	be	considered	the	greatest	health	risk	and	cause	of	almost	every	major	or	minor
illness.	In	Chapter	2,	you	will	be	able	to	identify	the	signs,	marks,	and	symptoms	that
indicate	the	presence	of	stones	in	your	liver	or	gallbladder.	Other	chapters	deal	with	the
possible	causes	of	gallstones	and	what	you	can	do	to	prevent	new	ones	from	occurring.	In
Chapter	4,


 inner thighs, the outer hips, the lower back, theupper back, and the back of the neck. It helps with digestion and
facilitates exhalation by gently compressing the diaphragm up.
Energetically, Head to Knee pose releases the unconscious
patterning that gets locked in the backs of the legs. It stimulates
the ﬁrst chakra, creating a ﬁrm and solid connection to the Earth,
facilitating a sense of freedom to release and let go with the
exhalation. This pose helps us to detoxify ourselves, both
physically and energetically, of what is no longer serving us.
Opening the passage of tamas also calms and quiets the mind,
encouraging a deep connection inward.
Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha. Engage
ashvini mudra to lengthen the front of the body. Stimulates apana
vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Head to Knee pose relieves scoliosis,
lower back pain, menstrual discomfort, and symptoms of
menopause. This pose can also alleviate headaches, anxiety, and
fatigue, and improve digestion.
Helpful tips: If your hamstrings or lower back muscles are tight,
place a blanket or a cushion underneath your seat. If your hands
don’t reach your foot, place a strap or a belt around the sole of the
extended foot and continue to lengthen through the spine as you
fold over the extended leg.
OceanofPDF.comWIDE-ANGLE SEAT POSE: UPAVISTA KONASANA
Overview:  This pose can either be deeply releasing or deeply
challenging, depending on your unique anatomy and constitution.
Wide-Angle Seat pose can sometimes force us to confront our
limitations, triggering frustration and discouragement. By
surrendering our expectations and accepting our own personal
range of motion, we can open to the grace of contentment and
self-acceptance in this pose.
How-to:  From Staff pose, open the legs wide in a “V” shape.
Adjust the lower part of your thighs so you tilt at the pelvis and not
at the waist. Place your hands either behind you or in front of you
on the ﬂoor. As you inhale, lengthen your spine by ﬁrming your
belly and lifting your chest. As you exhale, fold forward, lowering
your torso toward the ﬂoor.
Benefits:  Physically, Wide-Angle Seat pose stretches the calves,
the hamstrings, the inner thighs, and the lower back. It strengthensthe muscles along the spine and stimulates the abdominal organs.
Energetically, it activates the ﬁrst and second chakras, creating
strength and ﬂexibility simultaneously. Opening the passage of
tamas also calms and quiets the mind, encouraging a deep
connection inward.
Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha. Engage
ashvini mudra to lengthen the front of the body. Stimulates apana
vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Relieves arthritis, sciatica, and lower
back pain, and helps to detoxify the kidneys. It can relieve
headaches, anxiety, and fatigue. Further, this pose helps address
issues of menopause and menstrual discomfort, and prenatal
discomfort.
Helpful tips: If your hamstrings or lower back muscles are tight,
place a blanket or a cushion underneath your sit bones.
Alternatively, bend the knees and place a small blanket roll or a
block underneath each knee. If you have intense lower back pain,
try this pose resting on your back with your sit bones up against
the wall and your head away from the wall, taking your legs into a
wide “V” shape.
OceanofPDF.comSTRETCH OF THE WEST POSE: PASCHIMOTTANASANA
Overview:  Like the peace and serenity that emerges from the
setting sun, Stretch of the West pose cultivates a state of tranquility
from within. Opening the back of the body and drawing our senses
inward, we effortlessly transition from a state of doing to a state
of being. This pose moves us from the more active, solar portion of
the practice to the receptive, subtle-energetic space of
contemplation.
How-to:  From Staff pose, inhale and lengthen your spine. As
you exhale, hinge at your hips, keeping your lower belly engaged,
your spine long, and your shoulders away from your ears. Inhale
and lengthen your spine, lifting your chest slightly and, as you
exhale, release more deeply into the pose. Continue to breathe
your way into the pose. If it is accessible to you, rest your belly on
your thighs, your forehead on your shins, and your hands around
the soles of the feet.
Benefits:  Physically, Stretch of the West pose stretches the
calves, the hamstrings, and the entire back of the body, including
the upper back and the back of the neck. It stimulates the liver, the
kidneys, and the ovaries, and improves digestion.Energetically, this pose moves us into pratyahara, the ﬁrst stage
of Raja Yoga, which is the royal path that ultimately leads us to a
state of transcendence, or samadhi. Stretch of the West activates
the ﬁrst and sixth chakras, deepening our connection to the Earth
and facilitating a profound sense of surrender. By opening the
passage of tamas, this pose activates the back gates of all the
chakras, drawing us into the shadow side of our being. This
enables us to face and integrate this shadow side into our
consciousness and helps us achieve insight and awareness.
Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha. Engage
ashvini mudra to lengthen the front of the body. Stimulates apana
vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Stretch of the West pose relieves
lower back pain and helps detoxify the kidneys. This pose
alleviates stress and anxiety as well as symptoms of menopause
and menstrual discomfort. It also offers relief for headaches and
fatigue.
Helpful tips: If your hamstrings or lower back muscles are tight,
place a blanket or a cushion underneath your seat. Loop a strap or
a belt around the sole of the feet if you need a longer stretch.
OceanofPDF.comRESTFUL/RESTORATIVE POSTURES
Our modern-day culture disproportionately
emphasizes the heat-building, activating qualities of this
practice, but there is another integral piece to the state of
yoga: surrender. As a society, many of us are not taught
how to relax. We are taught to be productive and goal-
oriented, and to achieve goals at all costs. The authentic
practice of yoga is an undoing of that belief system. It is
a peeling away of the layers of attachments, desires, and
limiting beliefs that accumulate over time so that we can
ultimately rest in our true essence. Restorative poses teach
us not only how to let go but also how to let be.
OceanofPDF.comCONSTRUCTIVE REST POSE
Overview:  It might be hard to think of lying on your back as a
constructive practice, but studies show that our ability to rest and
replenish directly affects our productivity. This pose was given its
name by the Alexander Technique and has been adapted by yogis
as an integral part of the practice. It is a good place to begin, end,
or support your practice from a conscious and intentional space.
How-to:  Lie on your back and bend your legs, taking your feet
wide and your knees touching. Rest your arms either alongside
your body or on your torso, with one hand on your chest and the
other hand on your belly. Allow the weight of your body to release
down into the support of the ﬂoor. Relax your belly, chest,
shoulders, and facial muscles. Allow your breath to rise and fall
underneath your hands naturally.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose aligns the spine, calms the
nervous system, and facilities a complete breath. It activates the
parasympathetic nervous response, which leads to lower bloodpressure, slower brain waves, better digestion, and slower heart
rate.
Energetically, this pose is grounding and calming. When we lie
on our back, the abdominal muscles can relax, encouraging a
deeper breath into the lower belly, which helps to soothe the
mind. This is a valuable pose to experience a full, complete breath,
balancing the mind and the qualities of rajas and tamas, bringing
us into satva guna.
No bandhas engaged. Stimulates prana and apana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Reduces anxiety, headache, fatigue,
lower back pain, and menstrual and menopausal discomfort.
Helpful tip:  Place a folded blanket underneath your head if your
chin is higher than your forehead.
OceanofPDF.comLEGS UP THE WALL POSE: VIPARITA KARANI
Overview:  The literal translation of this pose is the “reversal”
(Viparita) of “doing” (Karani). This profoundly replenishing pose
gives us the beneﬁts not only of inverting without putting any
pressure on the neck or head but also of being passive. It can be a
generous gift we give ourselves at the end of the day or after
travel,


Enervation is the reduction or loss of energy occasioned  by the lack of rest or sleep, or the excessive use of emotion,
negative thoughts, worry, stress, or the overdoing of physical actions, overeating etc. Enervation leads to a reduction
of the body's ability to digest, absorb, assimilate and excrete body was tes - thus leading to a retention of wastes in the
cells and tissues and thereby causing disease.
Disease, in turn, causes a depletion of the body's energies, requiring more energy to maintain the normal state of
homeostasis than ordinarily needed. This ex cess expenditure of power leads to a slowdown in bodily function, which
is followed by an increased retention of bodily toxins in a cycle as follows:

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This ingenious cycle of enervation and toxemia as being the cause of all diseases (barring accidents or trauma) may
be regarded as absolutely true if you add the additional factor of defici encies (which is omitted in the theory).

FUNCTION OF THE BLOOD AND LYMPH
The next important thing to be understood is this - the function of the blood and its circulation. Related to this is the
understanding of the lymph circulation, the collateral circu latory system.
All food and beverages which are consumed finally enter the bloodstream and are circulated in an endless flow to all
bodily parts. All the food nutrients are supplied to every cell and all cellular wastes are removed in this unceasing dual
function.

WEAKEST ORGAN BREAKS DOWN FIRST
Now, if disease occurs in one bodily organ or part from the presence of toxins or food excesses or uneliminated
cellular wastes and excretions, you may be certain that these same wastes are being carried to all bod ily organs and
cells by this same bloodstream.
The weakest organ breaks down first manifesting disease. In time, the next weakest or overworked organ indicates
malfunction, and is given a name of disease. The important thing to remember is that all bodily parts and cells are
affected at the same time, with the weakest part manifesting first, followed by the next weakest.

DETOXIFICATION
Likewise, in the reverse manner, when you detoxicate the body by reducing the amount of food ingested, either
partially (by a restricted diet or juice program), or totally, (by fasting or abstaining from all food except for the use of
water), the blood removes all excessive wastes from all bodily parts and cells at the same time, a certain amount
each day.

NAMES OF DISEASE S CREATE ILLUSION
Diseases are named according to the organ or part that they manifest in, creating the illusion that one disease is
different from an other. For example, if an inflammation, called "itis," affects the bronchial tubes, the disease is called
"bronchitis". If a nerve is inflamed, it is called "neuritis" etc., yet the same cause, the irritating toxins manifesting in
different parts are given different names. If you were to give the same putrified food to many different peopIe, some
would vomit;  some would have diarrhea; others would get headaches or fever or rashes or colds, each symptom
depending upon which parts of each person were most sensitive. The point here is that the same cause would
produce different and individualized symptoms in each  person.

REMOVING CAUSE OF DISEASE
The important thing to understand here is that whenever you remove all causes of disease, beginning with what a
person eats and drinks, which is usually the most important and basic cause of all diseases, the body begins  to heal
itself, no matter where the disease is located.

EXAMPLE OF PATIENT
When I began a study of disease for about 20 years at the age of 16, after which I practiced for an additional 40 years
as a chiropractor and nutritionist, when taking a case hist ory of all the problems a patient has ever had up to the
present, I would write all this down at the first visit.
For example, a patient would say, "I have arthritis in my fingers with deformity, and I also have hardening of the
arteries, high blood pressure and frequent headaches." After evaluating the lifestyle and diet, I would remove the
undesirable foods from the diet and give a much higher quality diet, with proper food -combining, sequence of feeding,
and amounts. In periodic visits, I would con tinue upgrading the quality of the diet progressively.

ARTHRITIS EXAMPLE
In the case of a 55 -year-old woman who had arthritis with deformed and crooked fingers, after 8 months I noticed that
the fingers were straight and all knots were gone. I was puzzled  and asked her, "Weren't your fingers crooked when I
first saw you 8 months ago?" She replied, "Yes, and I just had an examination by our family doctor, and I forgot to tell
you, my colitis and hemorrhoids a also cured along with the arthritis." She had fo rgotten to mention these to me any of
the visits. While healing the arthritis and reversing the crooked fingers, the body equally healed all other problems
present at the same time, using the same bloodstream and lymph circulation.
This was called "The Uni ty of All Disease" by the early Hygienic medical practitioners of the 19th century, who
formulated the basic principles of what is today called "Natural Hygiene."

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RARE DISEASES HEAL AUTOMATICALLY
Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, who gathered together the best teachings of the early practitioners of Natural Hygiene and
brilliantly formulated it into a cohesive, practical system, once said that diagnosis is really the least im portant part of
getting well.
What is really important is to know the basic principles and laws of life, to know what the body needs to get well and
stay well food -wise, and to provide these needs, and magically, the body takes care of all the rest. All yo u have to
know is what foods and amounts are best for the body, and to provide the proper conditions of rest, and the body
heals itself.
Even if a person has a baffling, rare disease and the diagnosis is unknown, if he or she eats properly, or fasts if
necessary in addition, the body will surely heal itself, as long as sufficient vitality is present.
Diagnosis is a man -made art which the body intelligence is not concerned with. All the body needs is the right
materials (foods) and conditions (rest, proper s tate of mind, such as absence of fear, etc.) and it knows what to do to
get well, unfailingly.

NATURE'S HEALING INTELLIGENCE
Given that your father and mother contributed the sperm cell and ovum, or egg -cell, and they united together and in 9
months produ ced the miracle which is you, all done by Nature without the conscious direction of your parents or
yourself, you can trust absolutely that Nature has the amazing healing intelligence to make you well again. The Power
that made you has the Power to heal yo u.
The best doctor is the one who understands this and assists Nature in this miraculous process by recommending the
best foods your body needs, as well as the proper conditions of rest and non -interference, and to get out of the way -
to step aside and al low Nature to proceed with her work, undisturbed by pills or potions.
Many times in my practice patients have forgotten to tell me about other health problems than the one they came in
for, and with the elimination of that one, all the others improved or d isappeared too.

ALL BODIES HAVE SAME REQUIREMENTS
There is one bloodstream which both nourishes the body and removes all diseases. There is one Nature, one life -
force and all bodies have the same requirements - good food, proper rest and sleep, some sunlight, a moderate
amount of exercise, and proper thought. If you provide these requirements, Nature (which is God manifesting on the
material plane) will unfailingly heal you. "All the rest is jazz," as the expression goes - all the rest is secondary in
importance.
All living creatures know this intuitively, and it's time that we, as intelligent humans, become aware of it consciously.

INACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS
There are so many systems of diagnosis - medical, Oriental (ayurvedic), Chinese (meridians),zone  therapy,
iridiagnosis, sclerotic diagnosis, reflexes, Naturopathy, x -ray, applied kinesiology, pulse and tongue diagnosis, germ
theory, virus theory, genetics, etc., etc.
The Mayo Clinic, one of the most prestigious in the world, admits that their diagnos is is 50% accurate at best, and
50% inaccurate in the rest. This is followed by their prognosis or prediction of the possible outcome, which is equally
inaccurate. They are completely unable to state the healing possibilities of non -medical or natural appr oaches to
disease since they have never studied or used them and find them completely unknown.
What is there to be said about lesser institutions than the Mayo Clinic, where the diagnosis is even less accurate


	in	court
records.	The	FDA,	AMA,	the	National	Cancer	Institute,	and	the	American
Cancer	Society	still	continue	to	suppress	cancer	cures,	such	as	that	developed	by
Dr.	Stanislaw	Burzynski;	his	office	has	been	raided	by	FDA	agents	and	U.S.
Marshals,	he	has	been	persecuted	relentlessly,	and	his	medical	license	is	on	a
ten-year	probation	during	which	time	he	is	not	allowed	to	see	new	patients.
These	actions	prevent	public	access	to	treatments	and	intimidate	other
unorthodox	physicians.
Physicians	who	have	worked	all	their	lives	within	the	existing	system	often
feel	threatened	by	change.	The	majority	of	physicians	support	efforts	by	state
medical	boards	and	government	regulatory	boards	to	suppress	alternative
approaches.	A	less	expensive,	more	effective	way	of	practicing	medicine
threatens	their	economic	well-being,	as	well	as	philosophically	questions	the
validity	of	their	lifetime	work.	Physicians	who	have	dared	to	introduce
alternative	treatments	have	had	their	licenses	revoked,	been	financially	ruined,
and	ostracized	because	they	were	willing	to	help	patients	with	treatments	thatwere	not	the	“accepted	standard	of	care.”
A	chilling	example	of	how	nonconforming	doctors	are	kept	in	line	is	the	case
of	Jonathan	Wright,	M.D.	On	May	6,	1992,	a	small	army	of	FDA	agents	plus	ten
police	officers,	with	drawn	guns	and	flak	jackets,	attacked	Dr.	Wright’s	office.
Rather	than	simply	opening	the	office	door	and	walking	in,	they	broke	it	down,
terrifying	his	staff	and	patients	in	the	waiting	room.	Why?	Was	Wright	on	the
FBI’s	list	of	known	terrorists?	No.	Wright	was	merely	an	outspoken	critic	of
modern	medicine	and	the	FDA,	and	he	regularly	used	vitamins	and	natural
substances	in	his	practice.	This	approach	to	healing	made	him	a	target.
During	the	fourteen-hour	raid,	all	of	Wright’s	records,	equipment,	manuals,
vitamins,	minerals	and	herbs	were	confiscated.	They	even	took	his	postage
stamps.	None	of	Wright’s	patients	ever	had	complained	about	him.	Wright	was
never	charged	with	anything,	nor	ever	prosecuted	for	anything.	Yet,	both	his
practice	and	his	reputation	were	damaged.	It	took	years	and	hundreds	of
thousands	of	dollars	in	legal	fees	to	have	his	patient	records	returned	and	his
practice	restored.	Events	like	this	are	not	supposed	to	happen	in	America,	but
they	do	happen	to	doctors	who	step	out	of	line.	As	a	result,	we	are	denied	the
right	to	choose	certain	treatments	because	our	doctors	cannot	offer	them.
Most	people	are	unaware	that	a	physician	can	lose	his	or	her	license	to
practice	by	failing	to	adhere	to	“prevailing	standards	of	practice	in	their
community.”	A	loss	of	license	can	occur	even	if	no	patient	is	harmed,	no	patient
has	complained	and	the	condition	of	the	patients	involved	actually	improved.
Physicians	can	learn	something	new	at	a	medical	conference	or	from	a	medical
journal,	but	they	cannot	use	it	in	their	practice.	The	only	treatments	allowed	are
the	ones	already	in	use,	which	makes	innovation	and	progress	slow	to	almost
impossible.	Physicians	must	be	very	courageous	to	depart	from	traditional
practices,	even	if	they	believe	doing	so	can	be	helpful.
Money	is	at	stake,	and	competition	from	less	expensive,	natural	treatments	is
discouraged.	The	FDA	is	supposed	to	regulate	drugs	to	assure	that	they	are	safe
and	effective.	In	practice,	FDA-approved,	properly	prescribed	drugs	kill	about
four	hundred	people	every	day.	Why?	Because	the	FDA	has	become	an
instrument	of	the	pharmaceutical	companies.	The	drug	industry	is	among	the
most	profitable	in	the	world,	and	Americans	pay	more	for	the	same	drugs	than
people	in	other	countries.	To	help	protect	these	economic	interests,	about	one-
half	of	the	senior	officials	at	the	FDA	formerly	were	employed	as	key	executives
in	the	drug	industry.	After	leaving	the	FDA,	about	half	eventually	return	to
executive	positions	in	drug	companies.	This	practice	is	termed	“the	revolving
door.”	The	FDA	is	very	biased	in	favor	of	drugs,	and	people	are	denied	freeaccess	to	the	documented	health	benefits	of	nutritional	supplements.	Needless	to
say,	these	people	are	not	in	favor	of	treating	diseases	with	vitamins.	Both
manufacturers	and	retailers	of	supplements	have	been	subjected	to	FDA	seizures
and	harassment.
One	of	the	supposed	justifications	for	modern	medicine’s	suppression	of
alternative	approaches	is	that	they	have	not	been	properly	tested	for	safety	and
effectiveness.	In	truth,	many	alternative	approaches	(such	as	the	use	of	vitamin
supplements)	are	supported	by	thousands	of	sound	studies,	while,	ironically,	up
to	90	percent	of	the	techniques	and	procedures	used	by	modern	medicine	have
never	been	proven	to	be	safe	or	effective.
Medical	Malpractice
According	to	a	1995	issue	of	the
Journal	of	the	American	Medical
Association,
more	than	1	million	people	per	year	are	injured	in	hospitals,	and
180,000	die	from	those	injuries.	Illnesses	caused	by	prescription	drugs	are
estimated	to	cost	more	than	$136	billion	a	year.	A	1981	study	published	in	the
New	England	Journal	of	Medicine
concluded	that	at	least	one-third	of	hospital
patients	suffered	some	ill	effect	during	their	stay,	and	that	9	percent	suffered
major	injury.	Consider	what	the	late	Robert	Mendelsohn,	M.D.,	author	of	the
1979	book
Confessions	of	a	Medical	Heretic,
wrote:	“I	believe	that	more	than
ninety	percent	of	Modern	Medicine	could	disappear	from	the	face	of	the	earth—
doctors,	hospital,	drugs,	and	equipment—and	the	effect	on	our	health	would	be
immediate	and	beneficial.”
Normally,	one	might	think	that	if	doctors	went	on	strike	the	public	would
suffer	serious	health	problems.	Yet,	Mendelsohn	noted	cases	when	doctors	went
on	strike	and	the	death	rate	declined.	In	1973,	doctors	were	on	strike	in	Israel	for
a	month,	and	this	coincided	with	a	decline	of	55	percent	in	the	death	rate.	In
1976,	a	fifty-two-day	doctor	strike	in	Bógota,	Colombia,	coincided	with	a
decline	in	mortality	of	35	percent.	The	same	year,	in	Los	Angeles,	doctors	staged
a	slowdown,	and	the	death	rate	dropped	by	18	percent.	In	each	case,	when	the
doctors’	labor	actions	ended,	mortality	rates	shot	back	up	to	prior	levels.
In	recent	years,	a	number	of	medical	journals,	such	as
Pediatrics,	Lancet,
Annual	Review	of	Public	Health,
and	particularly	the	July	26,	2000,
Journal	of
the	American	Medical	Association,
have	been	filled	with	statistics	on	injuries
and	deaths


 health care systems and increasing
availability of medical facilities to deserving cases are the benefits of preventive health care.
The Governments of the world, World Health Organization, Corporations, Companies, NGOs and
all those who are interested in the welfare/improving the health of people, may consider to get
verified that OP is an important curative as well as preventive measure in the promotion of health
to confirm for themselves, whether these findings are valid and hold good. If the results are valid,
propagate OP at the national level. This will improve health of people at the least cost. A healthy
nation will become a wealthy nation.
Ayurveda texts contain the primary preventive routine to be followed for maintaining health by all
individuals in Swastha Vritha.  They could be suitably modified for the present day conditions and
propagated among the people. Formulation of these rules and educating the people will improve
the health of people at minimal cost and reduce the burden on health services besides being cost
effective. The daily and seasonal practices increase immunity, resistance and preserve the health
of the individual. The practices are preventive, curative and prophylactic for maintenance of
health.
Web site:-www.oilpulling.com – contains all the details given in this small booklet.
 I earnestly request all those who come across this to propagate by any method they think
appropriate. Those with a web site of their own may consider giving a link to this web site.
It is superfluous to state that Media is the major player in spreading the message in the
whole world. I have no doubt left they will give maximum coverage as they had done
before.
<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Omad Orin Looping.
DR Phillips
Introduction.
Omad orin looping has changed my life beyond all recognition. I know it's a
cliché when people say this or that changed their life, but I can say with total
confidence that without omad and orin looping my life would be radically
different to what it is today. Let me explain.
I now get so much more happiness and enjoyment from food. This is what omad
does to you, your enjoyment of any food goes up a hundredfold. Actually that is
an understatement, I now get immense happiness and HUGE enjoyment from
food that it's off the charts, the feeling of looking forward to my one meal every
day, I didn't get this at all before omad orin looping.
Before I got into omad and orin looping I had some very serious health problems
developing. I liked my drink as they say, pints at a time, or bottles of wine. I was
more than partial to junk and processed foods, and even though I would not like
to admit it I was also addicted to tea, and especially coffee multiple times every
day often with snacks. Many other junk snacks that I thought were normal. I
didn't enjoy these things nearly as much as I do now on omad, but even though I
wasn’t enjoying them, I kept consuming them out of habit. As a result of too
much of them I was starting to get fat. I used to eat at least three large meals a
day, with coffee and snack breaks in between and more drinks and junk in the
evenings. I just did this because that is what I always did.
I then had several serious health conditions developing. I was wrongly diagnosed
several times with many different things and eventually an umbrella term that so
many are being told these days “you have I.B.S or irritable bowel syndrome."
The doctors tried to give me medication as they do. Thankfully my parents
brought me up to question everything the drug pushers try to push on their
patients. I also went to a boarding school where one of the teachers taught the
truth about big pharmaceuticals. As a result I hardly ever had any drugs or
anything from big pharma in my life including no jabs, pain killers or antibiotics.
I didn't want to start taking in drugs now, but the doctors never had any
alternative for example healing the body naturally with making changes to
eating and lifestyle. Omad orin looping will never be taught in medical schools,
or the big pharma companies’ profits would tumble.
It got so bad that after some tests they informed me I had something called
gastrointestinal interstitial cystitis. This was on top of other IBS problems, I was informed that part of my intestines had apparently pushed through part of my
colon and was causing all kinds of problems. Constipation, blockages and pain,
something called diverticulitis. They were talking about surgery, and even after
the operation (or perhaps because of it) then I would need  bags fitted front and
back all the time. That would be it for me for life, at my young age in my 40s.
Needing bags to go to the toilet in for the rest of my life. Even with surgery,
having bags to go to the toilet in and going down the drug route, they were
saying this is the only option available to me.
In short I wasn't exactly in the best of health; my energy levels were right
through the floor. I was not only feeling ill and in pain everyday but all kinds of
problems going to the toilet that meant I couldn't go out anywhere without
worrying about my problems. Many other health problems developed head aches
and pain everywhere. Feeling ill every day. My life on the health front was a
misery.
It affected my work, my family life, going out with friends, everything. When you
are in pain and suffering with discomfort so much you are almost willing to do
anything to bring relief. I almost went through with the surgery and to start on
the road taking the drugs and having to go to the toilet in bags fitted that big
pharma push people on. I knew once on that road it's very hard, almost
impossible to get off it, having to take more drugs for the side effects and then
more drugs for those new side effects and so on.
I wondered, just maybe is there a natural way to heal myself and bring relief
from the suffering, pain and discomfort. Is there any way that my wife could
have her old husband back, my kids could have their old dad back who was
actually able to play with them and take them out without getting so grumpy and
short tempered because of the intense pain and discomfort?
I started reading books and doing research. One woman I found in my research
called Martha Christie had more severe health problems to me and wrote a book
called your own perfect medicine. She completely healed herself by drinking her
own orin. I reread the book and listened to her interviews then read and listened
to over 30 other orin therapy books, including the first one in modern times
called ‘The water of life’ by John Armstrong. All available for free download on my
friend Andrew Norton Webber’s website www.aquariusthewaterbearer.com well
worth reading. In fact if you are serious about your health then these books are
essential reading. As essential as listening to all of Andrew Norton Webbers
interviews and talks. Also researching for yourself the validity of how this therapy
works so well.
There are thousands of testimonials of people curing similar things wrong with
them to what I was suffering with. These are real people that you can contact
today, and I did. I have spoken to many and am constantly in touch with
experienced practitioners. There are now large communities online who have a
broad range of knowledge about these therapies.  I tried it straight away. To my
amazement, this perfect medicine worked far better than any big pharma drugs
that I almost went on. As shocking as it was, I was desperate and had nothing to lose. I know it went against my instincts at the time, I just had nothing to lose, I
was willing to try anything at this stage. I soon discovered through further
research that eating less, even getting down to one meal a day worked
exceptionally well with looping your own perfect medicine. These two therapies
together were what cured me and healed my body completely. And I do mean
heal my body completely.
Within a short time I was able to go back to work and function normally. I didn't
need the surgery or to go down the big pharma drug pushers road at all. In fact
my next big scan showed my bowels and intestines had completely healed up
with no evidence that there was ever a problem. I did not have that surgery that
the doctors had previously told me that I absolutely needed, and now the scan
showed there was no need for it at all. I entirely avoided surgery. I honestly did
not have any operation; my body healed itself due to omad orin looping.
Before omad orin looping I had terrible trouble going to the toilet many
unfortunate embarrassing incidents and taking an unusual long time being such
an uncomfortable unpleasant experience.
I am now in the fortune position of being free from pain. My IBS has vanished
altogether and I'm no longer overweight. I eat once per day around 1700 hrs and
always have a good bowel movement the next morning soon after I wake.
Leaving no crap in me at all, feeling so clean and empty and ready for the day. In
fact on the health front I'm now a very energetic happy camper. I'm in my 40s
but feel like I'm in my 20s all over again. I can return to my love of mountain
climbing from my younger days. My wife and I are even talking about having
another baby.
I can fit back into slim fit jeans and tailored shirts and suits


 every village
along the two thousand miles of the Incan empire. They
were swift messengers of almost inhuman endurance. They
ran barefoot, covering immense distances every day—at
times the equivalent of two or three Olympic marathons.
Some of their trails began at the height of a mountain peak
in the Colorado Rockies  and ascended more than a mile
higher.
It must have been these runners, the eyes and ears of the
emperor Atahualpa, who warned him of the approaching
Spanish. By treachery, Pizarro collected a fortune in
ransom when he kidnapped (and later murdered)
Atahualpa. One hopes the legends are true which say thatthe most priceless Incan  gold was secreted away in time.
(Pizarro, who was unusually greedy, even for a
conquistador, was himself murdered by jealous rivals in
1541.)
If you think of the human brain as the fortress at Machu
Picchu, then it too must have runners to carry its
commands to the farthest outposts of its empire—in this
case, the big toe. The physical routes are certainly visible—
the central nervous system runs down the spinal column,
branching out on either side at each vertebra in the
backbone; these major nerves then branch into millions of
tinier pathways that communicate to every region of the
body. The early anatomists saw the major nerves in the
sixteenth century, but the nervous system kept a secret.
Who were the runners that took the messages to and from
the brain?
Many people still think that the nerves work electrically,
like a telegraph system, because until ﬁfteen years ago,
that is what medical texts contended. However, in the
1970s, a series of impor tant discoveries began, centering
on a new class of minute chemicals called
neurotransmitters. As their name implies, these chemicals
transmit nerve impulses; they act in our bodies as
“communicator molecule s,” whereby the neuron s of the
brain can talk to the rest of the body.
Neurotransmitters are the runners that race to and from
the brain, telling every organ inside us of our emotions,
desires, memories, intuitions, and dreams. None of these
events are conﬁned to the brain alone. Likewise, none of
them are strictly mental, since they can be coded into
chemical messages. Neurotransmitters touch the life of
every cell. Wherever a thought wants to go, these
chemicals must go too, and without them, no thoughts can
exist. To think is to practice brain chemistry, promoting a
cascade of responses throughout the body. We have alreadyseen that intelligence, as know-how, pervades the
physiology—now it has acquired a material basis.
That gives away the plot of this chapter, but with none of
the drama. In truth, no other recent event in biomedicine
has been as revolutionary as these discoveries. The arrival
of neurotransmitters on the scene makes the interaction of
mind and matter far more mobile and ﬂowing than ever
before—far closer to the model of the river. They also help
ﬁll the gap that apparently separates mind and body, one of
the deepest mysteries that man has faced since he began to
consider what he is.
—
At ﬁrst, around 1973, it seemed that only two
neurotransmitters were needed, one to activate a distant
cell, such as a muscle, and the other to slow down the
activity. Two brain chemicals, acetylcholine and
norepinephrine, do just that; they are the “go” and “slow
down” signal s of the nervous system. They were considered
revolutionary at the time, because they proved that the
impulse sent from one nerve cell to the next was not
electrical but chemical in nature. All at once, the accepted
notion of tiny sparks jumping from neuron to neuron was
rendered obsolete. But the new chemical model at ﬁrst
continued to preserve the basic theory that only two signals
were necessary. Man-made computers operate using just
this kind of binary switch, and apparently so did the brain.
Then, as molecular biologists around the world began to
investigate more deeply, numerous new neurotra nsmitters
cropped up, each with a diﬀerent molecular structure and
apparently a diﬀerent message to deliver. Structurally,
many of them were related, being built up as peptides,
complex chains of amino acids of the same kind as those
which appea r in the proteins that make up every cell,
including brain cells.A great many riddles began to be solved, directly or
indirectly, as these discoveries emerged. If you take a
sleeping cat, remove a tiny portion of its spinal ﬂuid, and
inject it into a cat that is awake, the second  cat will
immediately fall asleep. This is becau se a cat’s brain puts
its body to sleep chemically, with its own internal sleeping
potion. In order for the animal to wake up again, the
opposite chemical, a wake-up signal, must be injected into
the spinal column.
In humans, where the same chemical mech anisms
operate, the body is awakened in the morning not by a rude
internal alarm but by a series of timed signals, at ﬁrst mild,
then progressively stronger, that lift us from deep  sleep by
stages. The whole process involves a gradual transition, in
four or ﬁve waves, from the biochemistry of sleep to the
biochemistry of wakefulness. If this process is interrupted,
you do not come as fully awake as you should—the
biochemistry of two distinct phases has been mixed. That is
why parents  of newborns, having to get up several times
during the night, feel that they are never quite normal
during the day. Alarm clocks also jolt us out of our natural
wake-up patterns, giving rise to grogginess that may
persist all day, until the next round of sleeping-and-waking
readjusts the mind-body chemistry.
Here is a related example. All camels exhibit an unusual
tolerance for high levels of pain—they can calmly chew on
thorns while  at the same  time being beaten with a stick by
an irate camel driver. Curious researchers examined
camels’ brain cells and found that they produce large
quantities of a speciﬁc biochemical that, if injected into
other animals, causes them to ignore pain, too. Sleep and
pain toleranc e, it is now known, thus depend on precise
chemical messengers produced in the brain.
One by one, various other functions that were once “all in
your head ” have been connected to speciﬁcneurotransmitters. Schizophrenics suﬀering acutely from
hallucinations and psychotic thoughts often improve
dramatically if put on a kidney dialysis machine, which
ﬁlters impurities from the blood. As we saw, brain
researchers have established that a neurotransmitter called
dopamine exists in abnormally high levels in the brains of
schizophrenics. Current chemical treatment of the disorder
entails using psycho-active drugs that suppress dopamine;
perhaps the dialysis machine is actually removin g it, or a
related by-product, from the bloodstream.
By the mid-1980s, barely ten years after the original
breakthrough, more than ﬁfty such neurotransmitters and
neuropeptides were known. All ﬁfty can be manufactured
on one side of the synapses between our neurons, and once
they cross the synapses, all ﬁfty can be received by the
receptor sites on the other side. This implies an incredible
ﬂexibility to communicate from cell to cell. The individual
neuron was now seen to be a producer of messages that did
not just say “yes” or “no,” as a computer does. The brain’s
vocabulary is far larger, encompassing thousands of
combinations of separate signals, with no end in sight,
since new neurotransmitters continue to be discovered at a
fast rate.
What kind of messages do nerve cells exchange with one
another? The answer is tantalizing, for certain segments of
our chemica l vocabulary  seem to be just as speciﬁc as
ordinary speech, while others are highly ambigu ous. Our
tolerance for pain, like the camel’s, depends on the class of
biochemicals discovered in the 1970s called endorphins
and enkeph alins, which act as the body’s natural
painkillers. The word endorphin  means “internal
morphine,” and enkephalin  means “inside the brain.” And
that is their story: they are like a version of morphine
produced by the brain itself.This hitherto  unknown ability to make internal opiates
proved very exciting. It was already suspecte d that the
body must be able to regulate the sensation of pain.
Although insistent, pain does not always register on our
awareness. Strong emotions, for example, can override
pain signals from the body, as when a mother rushes to
save her child from a burning house or a wounded soldier
ﬁghts on, ignoring the pain of his injuries. Under more
ordinary circumstances, all of us to some extent can take
our attention away from a minor pain—we don’t  notice a
sore throat, for instance, if we are talking to someone with
intense interest.
Despite this


take	a	deep	breath.	Being	mental	images,	negative	thoughts	and	images	pass
away.	If	you	seriously	want	to	delve	into	the	hidden	compartments	of	your
mind—some	people	do,	being	spiritually	adventurous—that’s	a	conscious	choice.
If	you	would	rather	have	your	meditations	be	easy	and	light,	that	is	also	a
choice.	The	mind	delivers	what	is	asked	of	it.
Finding	your	inner	beauty	is	meant	to	be	lasting,	and	it	will	be.	The	main
thing	that	causes	the	deep	experience	of	meditation	to	fade	away	is	stress.	When
you	sit	alone	to	meditate,	the	outside	world	has	been	left	behind	for	a	few
minutes,	yet	once	you	go	back	into	it,	the	demands	of	the	outside	world	can’t
be	escaped.	Those	demands	can	create	a	constant	stream	of	stress,	as	we	all	well
know.	The	destructive	effects	of	stress	have	been	well	studied	for	almost	fifty
years.	When	someone	is	put	into	a	stressful	situation,	the	brain	and	body
respond	with	stress	hormones	like	cortisol	and	adrenaline.	These	are	very
effective	natural	tools	that	jump-start	the	body	into	fight-or-flight	mode.
The
Damaging	Effects	of	Chronic	Stress
Radical	Beauty	involves	getting	back	into	balance	and	restoring	the	natural	state
of	mind	and	body.	Beauty	is	a	healed	state.	Stress	is	the	enemy	of	healing;	we
weren’t	designed	to	be	stressed	out	for	any	lengthy	period.	Fight-or-flight	is
meant	to	persist	for	only	a	matter	of	minutes,	but	low-level	chronic	stress
activates	these	hormones	too	often,	and	their	effect	lasts	too	long.	What	should
be	a	temporary	reaction	becomes	routine.	The	result	is	a	biochemical	imbalance
that	the	brain	and	body	have	a	hard	time	adjusting	to.	You	can’t	be	in	a
meditative
state	and	a	stressful	state	at	the	same	time;	the	two	don’t	mesh.	By
“meditative	state,”	we	mean	a	state	of	restful	alertness,	in	which	you	feel	calm
and	centered	but	very	awake	at	the	same	time.	Low-level	chronic	stress	imposes
a	very	different	mind-body	state.	The	following	symptoms	are	quite	common	in
modern	life,	even	among	people	who	think	that	they	have	adapted	well	to	daily
stresses	(in	fact,	some	high-performance	types	boast	that	they	thrive	on	stress).Is	Chronic	Stress	Getting	to	You?
Some	typical	signs	of	low-level	chronic	stress
You	feel	irritable	and	on	edge.
Your	muscles	feel	tight,	especially	in	the	neck	and	back.
Your	stomach	is	in	knots.
You	swing	between	feeling	highly	alert	and	very	dull.
You	lose	energy	quickly	through	the	day.
You	find	it	hard	to	focus	and	concentrate.
Your	efficiency	at	work	declines.
When	you	go	to	bed	at	night,	your	mind	races	with	thoughts,
making	it	hard	to	fall	asleep.
Sleep	is	shortened	or	restless.
You	wake	up	feeling	tired.
Your	sex	drive	decreases.
You	feel	slightly	anxious	without	cause.
You	become	lethargic	and	depressed.
You	find	it	hard	to	express	enthusiasm	and	optimism.
You	feel	unexplained	aches	and	pains.
You	have	digestive	difficulties	or	intestinal	pain.
You	catch	more	colds	and	flus	than	normal.
As	you	can	see,	this	is	an	extensive	list.	Millions	of	people	ignore	stress
because	they	are	willing	to	put	up	with	less	than	ideal	well-being,	until	they
reach	the	point	where	lack	of	sleep,	flagging	energy,	free-floating	anxiety,	and
dull	attention
become	normal.	More	damage	is	done	to	natural	beauty	by	these
overlooked	factors	than	anything	else.	If	someone	sees	wrinkles,	pallor,	sagging
skin,	dull	eyes,	and	other	signs	of	premature	aging	in	the	mirror,	they	are
reading	the	story	of	how	they	managed	stress	in	the	past.	Nothing	caused	by
chronic	stress	is	normal,	however,	and	as	long	as	your	body	is	subjected	to	the
chemical	imbalances	created	by	stress,	you	will	be	out	of	balance.
Why	create	such	a	valuable	thing	as	the	meditative	state	only	to	allow	it	to	be
disrupted	by	your	daily	experiences?	Our	focus	here	is	on	avoiding	that.	No
one’s	life	is	perfectly	stress-free.	At	the	same	time,	everyone’s	life	has	areas	where
the	stress	can	be	reduced.	To	simplify	the	problem,	at	any	given	moment	you
are	doing	one	of	the	following:
Creating	stressReacting	to	stress	caused	by	external	forces
Healing	your	stress	and	the	stress	around	you
We’d	like	to	help	you	get	past	the	first	two	situations	so	that	you	can	become
something	new:	a	healer	of	stress.	In	this	way	you	will	be	able	to	maintain	the
restful	alertness	that	is	the	true	foundation	of	mind-body	balance.	Every	cell	in
your	body	will	respond	positively	when	this	happens.
The	biggest	step	you	can	take	is	to	reject	the	role	of	victim.
People	make	jokes	like	“Gray	hair	is	inherited.	You	get	it	from	your
children.”	They	complain	about	the	stress	and	strain	of	modern	life.	It’s	as	if
stress	is	like	air	pollution,	existing	all	around	us	with	very	little	we	can	do	about
it.	But	there’s	a	lot	you	can	do	about	it,	once	you	escape	the	role	of	victim.
Earlier	in	this	book	we	mentioned	stress	in	passing,	but	not	in	terms	of
achieving	real,	lasting	control	over	it.	By	understanding	how	stress	is	created,
you	can	begin	to	lower	the	stress	level	anywhere	you	find	yourself—at	work,	in
family	situations,	in	everyday	crises	and	challenges.
It’s	true	but	often	ignored	that	each	of	us	is	a	creator	of	the	stress	we	suffer
from.	Stress	is	viral.	Once	someone	creates	it,	the	stressful	results	spread	to
others.	The	most	infamous	example	is	shouting	“Fire!”	in	a	crowded	theater.
The	spread	of	panic	in	a	crowd	seems	like	an	extreme	example,	yet	in	smaller,
less	glaring	ways,	any	of	us	can	contribute	to	the	virus	of	stress.	Here	are	some
examples
of	how	this	happens.	Since	one	main	area	of	stress	for	most	people	is
at
work,	let’s	start	there.
How	Stress	Goes	Viral	at	Work
Common	conditions	that	create	needless	stress:
Someone	is	demanding,	critical,	and	a	perfectionist.
The	person	in	charge	gives	erratic	orders	prone	to	unpredictable
changes.
Co-workers	show	disrespect	for	one	another	or	their	work.
An	undignified	work	environment	exists	(e.g.,	a	place	where	bad
language,	gossip,	and	sexual	remarks	are	allowed).
Personal	issues	are	brought	to
work	and	become	everybody’s
business.
Workers	are	criticized	in	public.
The	people	in	authority	can’t	be	trusted.
There	is	constant	pressure	to	meet	deadlines.Worker	loyalty	isn’t	valued.
The	threat	of	losing	your	job	is	present.
A	worker’s	experience	and	knowledge	are	undervalued.
Work	rules	are	rigid,	leaving	little	room	for	creativity	and	personal
suggestions.
Reading	over	the	list,	consider	the	three	options	that	face	you	every	day.
Are


 stretched straight out while the right leg,
with the knee bent, lies on top. This posit ion opens the pelvis so the
anus and rectum may be cont racted with ease.
3. The left ann lies on the floor with the hand down to war d the left
leg, and the right ann i s placed, with the hand down, in front of the
body. Support the head with a cushion so the neck does not become
strained.
Figure 45. Prone Position for the Dee r Exercise. The Internal Exercises
4. Perform the movements as outlined in the Deer Exercise. (One
may forego the hand rubbing on the pubis if this is too uncomfortable.
The main benefit of the Deer is gained from the tightening of the anal
muscles.)
5. Combine the breathing as taught in the Crane Exercise to complet e
this pose. Repeat the breathing twelve times while simulta neously
contracting the anal muscles.
NOTE: You may wish to practice this exercise while lying in the
sunlight so that the sun bathes the anus and body in its health
enhancing and energy-producing light. Please refer ahead to the Sun
Worship Exercise, which utilizes the energizing and gennicidal qual
ities of the rays of the sun.
THE CRANE EXERC ISE
A special species of crane can be found in China. These cranes-male
and female- are distingui shed by their poisonous red combs. The poisons
which have been ingested throughout the crane's life are stored in its comb,
causing the comb to be extremely poisono us. High -ranking soldiers of the
early dynasties used this quality to demonst rate their loyalty to their
princes. Those who were qualified to wear the combs around their necks or
arms were so highly regarded that punishm ents for their wrongdoings were
not meted out in the court of law; if these men did something wrong, they
would commit suicide by licking the comb. The poisons stored in the comb
were potent enough to kill a large man in minutes. Yet every bit of that
poison passed throu gh a crane's system without harming it. In fact, the
red-combed crane was noted for its longevity.
In light of the crane's lethal diet-one composed mainly of poisonou s
amphibians and insects-th e previous observation comes as a bit of a
surprise. But past investigations have pinpointed the cause of the crane's
longevity. First it was assumed that the cranes had digestive systems which
were strong enough to take in lethal doses of toxins and then store them
without banning the other organ systems. But it was found that their
digestive systems did not differ markedly from those of other, poison
intolerant birds. So the ancient Taoists observing them determined there
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lllustration 4. The Crane.
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was something else which gave them the ability to protect themselves
from toxins. When those Taoists realized that the crane's unique pose
one leg folded into the belly and one leg holding the bird erect-gave the
bird its unique characteristics, the Crane Exercise was developed.
As it stands, the crane will fold one leg into its belly and exert pressure on
its abdominal muscles and internal organs, to stimulate and strengthen its
digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems. This pose will not lose its
efficaciousness when it is adapted for human use. Since human intestines
are involunt ary organs and are located in areas which are unreachable by
external exercise, emulating the crane will benefit the digestive system
greatly. Humans emulate the crane by practicing standing on one leg and
then by learning to use the diaphragm to massage the digestive and
intestinal organs.
Historically, as well as in modem times, man has suffered from many
acute and chronic problems of the abdomen including constip ation, di
arrhea, ulcers, diverticulitis, and cancers of the stomach, intestines and
colon. All of these diseases are caused by· a similar problem-w eakness in
one or more parts of the digestive tract. When a tissue or an organ is weak,
it is more susceptible to disease, and the greater the weakness, the more
intense the symptoms. The digestive tract is controlled by the involuntary
muscles. We need, then, to find a way to bring these muscles and organs
under our control. We need to force the stomach, intestines and colon to
move, to work so they may be strengthened. Normally, when we breathe,
the lungs tend to expand outward toward the chest. The Crane Exercise,
however, forces the lungs downward, and because the intestines have
nowhere to go, they are pressed outward against the abdominal muscles to
form a little ball. This motion breaks up constipation, encourages absorp
tion of nutrients. and strengthens the entire digestive tract while stimulating
the lungs and circulatory system. In this way, invading germs do not have a
good environment in which to settle and germina te because one's bowel
movem ents are so strong and regular. Then it is not easy to get diseases. The
Crane also increases the circulation to the abdominal organs and muscles.
Thus, it can reduce cholesterol and fat accumulation. The pose also helps
asthma through its effects on the lungs, and because the lungs and skin
work together as a unit, the pose can help skin disorders such as rashes and
sores.
Poor breathing habits are a major cause of weakne ss and disease in the
body. One tends to breathe using only the upper half of the lungs and only
rarely does one utilize the lower portion of the lungs. (Autopsies have
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sometimes shown that the middle and lower lobes of the lungs have never
even been used. They are either like new or atrophied.) The stale air that
remains in the lower areas of the lungs and the wann moisture which
accompan ies the stale air provide the conditions necessary for germs to
flourish. Also, the air we breathe contains Chi, or energy, in addition to
oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, etc. We depend on the air we breathe not only to
give us oxygen. which is necessary for our metabolism, but also to provide
us with energy, the electrical charge without which we will quickly weaken
and die. Poor breathing habits also encompass fast breathing. Such breath
ing is violent, and it damages the delicate membranes and increases the rate
of the heart beat. It also prevents us from getting the necessary nourishment
for the air we inhale. Any nu mber of problems, such as disease, headache,
indigestion, dizziness, poor blood circulation, and aging can arise. (The
aging process is hastened when the heart rate increases. The rate goes up as
stress and tension mount. Later, signs of age show up on the face as stress
and tension effectively choke cell nourishment.)
We want, therefore, to correct poor breathing habits. Slow diaphrag
matic breathing, as taught in the Crane, allows for full expansion of the
lungs and full absorption of energy from the air intake, all the while
exercising the lungs and gently massaging the internal organs. The Crane
also encourages us to improve our circulation and lower the heart rate at the
same time. (The ideal rate is 45 beats/minute, the rate the heart sinks down
to during sleep.)
In sum, the Crane Exercise is designed to strengthen the organs within
the trunk of the body. Even though these organs are controlled by the
autonom ic, or involuntary, nervous system, the Crane enables us to bal
ance the energy and thereby promote a smoother functioning of these
organs.
INSTR UC TIONS FOR THE CRANE EXERC ISE
This pose may be practiced while standin g, sitting, or while lying down
on your back.
I. Begin by rubbing the palms of your hands together vigorously.
This creates heat in your hands and brings the energy of your body
into your palms and fingers.
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2. Place your hands, palms down, on your lower abdome n so that
they lie on either side of your navel.
3. Keeping your mouth closed, inhale through your nostrils.
4. Begin to exhale slowly, while pressing your hands down lightly so
that the abdomen forms a hollow cavity. This motion gently forces the
air out of the lower lungs. (In this instance, the hands are like the
leg of the crane.) As you do part four of the exercise, imagine that
every drop of air is leaving the lungs and that as it leaves the
microorganisms are carried out also.
5. After you have exhaled complet ely, slowly inhale again. As you
inhale, extend your abdomen outward so that it becomes like a
balloon. Try not to allow the chest to expand-use only the muscles
in your lower abdomen.
6. One complet e exhalation, followed by an inhalation, constitutes
one round of breathing. At first you will probably only be able to do
two or three rounds of breathing at one sitting. Gradually you will be
able to increase the number until you have reached 12 rounds.
a.
)
b.
Figures 46a and 46b. The Crane Exercise.
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NOTE A: It is not necessary to force either the inhalation or the
exhala