 so-
dium absorption. As for drinking pure water,
there are no restrictions, because it is absorbed
quickly, but it’s still better not to drink any water
in the 30 minutes prior to the procedure.
In our opinion, the optimal and most conven-
ient period for cleansing is the time after a
night’s sleep, since the delay in food intake in
this case is natural and doesn’t require psycho-
logical and physiological efforts. You can carry
out the procedure at any  other convenient time
of day, but you have to observe the above -men-
tioned conditions.
Besides that, provide for: free access to the
bathroom and toilet and 3-4 hours of free time.

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The fluid for the irrigation of the digestive tract
(working solution) is prepared as follows. Use a
container that can hold at least 3 liters of liquid.
Pour 2 liters of boiled water into it, and without
covering it, put it in a clean dry place at room
temperature. This water has to stay in it for the
whole night.
Prepare the salt solution immediately before
the procedure. For this purpose, measure exactly
1 liter of pure water with a measuring jug and
add 1 level tablespoon of regular salt. The solu-
tion should be boiled thoroughly in a separate
vessel (bo iling time should be around 30 sec-
onds). After that, without letting the solution
cool down, add this liter to the two liters
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it is ready to use.
Make sure that all the salt has dissolved. The
solution should  be warm, but not hot. If you fol-
low the sequence of actions, it’s going to have
just the right temperature.
If you took the sorbent beforehand, you can
begin the cleansing procedure. Don’t let the so-
lution get cold, start taking it right away.

Fluid intake
As we’ve already mentioned, the solution has to
be consumed in its entirety over the course of
40-60 minutes. This condition is also crucial and
has to be observed rigorously.
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stalsis of the digestive tract, a sufficient pressure
on its walls has to be created. A more extended
intake will allow the fluid to distribute over the
different segments of the intestines, lessening
the pressure on their walls.
Second, the processes of moving the liquid
along the digestive tract have to get ahead of the
processes of dilution and absorption of the liq-
uid. A 40 -minute period allotted for consuming
the working solution conforms to all these con-
ditions.
This elucidates the need to consume a certain
amount of cleansing f luid — 2.5-3 liters. If you
stop and interrupt the working solution intake
for a long time, then the volume of the con-
sumed fluid won’t be sufficient to effectively
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course, the taste of salt water isn’t very pl easant
or habitual to us. Here, first of all, you need a
certain positive attitude and an awareness of the
need to carry out the procedure. Besides, you
have to firmly believe that the cleansing proce-
dure will help your body get rid of harmful tox-
ins and will prevent the emergence and develop-
ment of many diseases.
We can give a few practical recommendations
to those who carry out the intestinal sorbent
cleansing procedure for the first time:
•take small sips;
•don’t keep the solution in the mouth;
•try not to  swallow air;
•don’t force the intake of the fluid;
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ness in the abdomen or light nausea, you
should stop and take a 2 -3-minute break.
Our experience tells us that as you repeat the
intestinal sorbent cleansin g procedure, all the
troubles completely disappear the second or
third time around. Moreover, an experienced
person acquires a desire and an ability to drink
the entire volume much faster than in 40
minutes. However, we have to warn you: striving
to drink the cleansing solution as fast as possible
may lead to a painful stretching of the stomach
walls. Is it worth causing yourself suffering and
enduring unnecessary pain to save 10 -15
minutes?

Intestinal cleansing
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quired period of time. Now arm yourself with
patience and wait — all the mechanisms are
started. Immediately after you complete the fluid
intake and during the subsequent waiting you
can notice your abdomen swelling and feel the
fluid mo ving inside of it. These phenomena are
normal in the given situation.
Usually, during the first attempt of carrying out
this procedure, 60 -80 minutes pass from the mo-
ment you finish taking the working solution un-
til the moment you feel the first urges to d efe-
cate. If the urges are absent at that time, don’t
worry. If this is the case, do the following:  walk
for a while; carefully do some squats; while
standing alternately lift bent legs up to your
stomach, but do it calmly, without any fuss or
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couple of minutes.
When you acquire a certain experience in con-
ducting intestinal sorbent cleansing, you’ll no-
tice that the first urges to defecate will appear as
early as 10 -15 minutes after you complete the in-
take of the working solution. You need to make
yourself comfortable on the toilet and make sure
that the splashes of the cleansing fluid coming
out of you don’t scatter every which way.
After the first act of defecation, be on guard and
don’t go far from the toilet  — repeated urges
may appear at any time. Sometimes during the
urges to defecate, an act of urination can happen,
after which the desire to defecate disappears.
Don’t rush to leave the toilet, wait for 1 -1.5
minutes.
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tion can increase under the influence of the de-
scribed method of intestinal sorbent cleansing
— this is a normal phenomenon, which is linked
to partial penetration of sodium and water into
the bloodstream.
According to observations, abundant stool d is-
charge is repeated 4 -6 times, though it may hap-
pen a greater number of times. During the first
act of defecation, a doughy mass comes out, and
during the subsequent acts a dirty liquid with
sorbent particles comes out, becoming lighter
and clearer with e very time.
As your intestines are being emptied, the feel-
ing of heaviness and stretching in the abdomen
decreases, along with the bloating. After you feel
complete relief, repeat the above -mentioned
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if yo u don’t have the urges). Generally, some re-
sidual amount of the liquid lingering in the co-
lon will come out.
I wrote about this method because Epsom salt
isn’t sold everywhere. In our practice, we use in-
testinal cleansing with the aid of Epsom salt.

Finishing the procedure
At that, the intestinal sorbent cleansing proce-
dure per se is seemingly finished. However,
we’ve noticed the following. If you drink some
plain, fresh water (1 -1.5 liters, optionally, in sev-
eral steps), then the discharge of liquid from the
bowels resumes. At the same time, the liquid
coming out of the bowels takes the form of
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 s low-fat regimen is nothing short of miraculous in terms  of reversing heart disease, a healthy heart
does not ensure a healthy person. Pritikin’ s emphasis on grain (and, interestin gly, its excess protein, which averages
“only” 12% of calories) creates other health issues, ranging from arthritis to c ancer.
Horne’ s book presents a compelling and spellbinding argument against the consump tion of grains. Here is an excerpt
from Chapter 10, “Grains Are for the Birds”. 31
Pritikin’s mission, first and foremost, was the reversal of coronary he art disease. This was uppermost in his mind and so his
reasoning followed:

We must lower fat, cholesterol and protein, the causes of atherosclerosi s and heart disease. To do this we must cut out foods
of animal origin. We must become vegetarian.
As most of the food we eat goes into the production of energy, if we cut out anima l foods which provide most of the energy in
the American diet, as well as the protein, where then will we get our  energy and sufficient protein? The only other suitable foods available are cereals, root vegetables, and f ruits, because green vegetables are so low in food
value that you would have to eat them constantly all day long like cattl e do to get enough. We must therefore choose between
starch foods (cereals and potatoes) and fruit, and consider green vegetabl es mainly as a source of vitamins and minerals.

So far Pritikin’s reasoning was correct, but at this point his pr eoccupation with eliminating atherosclerosis became an
impediment. He knew that cholesterol and triglycerides (blood fats) were  the two factors most implicated in atherosclerosis and he
was determined that his diet should diminish these in the blood to as low lev els as possible. Cutting out animal derived foods
completely eliminated cholesterol and the harmful animal fats from  the diet, but what about triglycerides from vegetable sources?
Pritikin knew that concentrated sugar of any kind—refined sugar or ev en extracted natural raw sugar—entered the bloodstream too
quickly, upsetting the normal blood sugar levels and resulting in the produ ction of triglycerides, his number-two enemy. His reasoning
logically continued:

If out of our two remaining sources of energy and protein, one of them contain s sugar, a substance which elevates
triglycerides, we cannot entertain it as a principal source of nouris hment.
We must therefore severely ration fruit because of its sugar conte nt and rely almost entirely on cereals to provide our energy
and protein.

What was the outcome of this reasoning? It was a great outcome; Priti kin first of all eliminated his own atherosclerosis and
then proceeded to eliminate the atherosclerosis in the bodies of thousands  of people who followed his teachings.
This is how the current rage on complex carbohydrate started and why compa nies who make whole-grain bread, pasta,
cookies and crackers are doing so well.
But the reversal of heart disease and its associated problems is not the  be-all and end-all of health and longevity. There are
other things to consider besides restoring good circulation. Unsticking t he blood is only the first step in optimizing health, the second
step is to get the blood’s chemistry right. Pritikin had taken the lip o from lipotoxemia but much toxemia still remained. When he
grouped the natural sugars contained in fruit in with other sugars, Pritkin had made  a fatal mistake.

Because cooked grains create a condition known as acid toxemia, people who adher e to starch/grain-based diets eventually
fall victim to cancer, arthritis, chronic fatigue, hypothyroidism, a nd a host of other health challenges. A diet of grains and cooked
vegetables provides most of the vitamins; however, vitamin C—the  most important vitamin of all for the maintenance of tissue
integrity and immune system function, and the most easily destroyed by heat—is seriously lacking unless the diet also includes a great
deal of fresh fruit.
I maintain that whole, fresh fruits—“the other carbohydrate”—con tain precisely the fuel upon which we were designed to
thrive.
Let’s step back for a moment and examine in more detail the three typ es of carbohydrates—complex carbohydrates, refined
simple sugars, and whole-food simple carbohydrate from fruits.

Complex Carbohydrates
We find complex carbohydrates in rice, corn, and other grains; roots and tuber s (potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots,
beets, turnips, parsnips, and the like); and legumes (beans, peas, and lentil s). We make breads, cakes, pastas, cereals, pancakes,
and pastries from these complex carbohydrate sources.
Across the board, complex carbohydrate foods are nutritionally inferior to fr uits and vegetables, which are the two highest
sources of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Grains, for example, are low in vitamins A, B, C, and E, as well as sodium,
calcium, sulfur, and potassium. The phytic acid in grains is an antinu trient that drastically reduces zinc absorption. Legumes are low in
vitamins A and C as well. Both grains and legumes contain more protein  than I would recommend eating in quantity (their
percentages averaging in the teens and twenties, respectively).
With the exception of corn, peas, and some root vegetables like carrots and beet s, we cannot even attempt to eat most
complex carbohydrate foods from the garden, unprocessed, in the form Nature gi ves them to us. Even if we can physically chew
and swallow starchy carbohydrates, they are very difficult for our bodies  to digest. This is true whether they are eaten raw, soaked,
cooked, processed, or refined. We do not have the digestive enzymes to break down the ol igosaccharides in beans, nor the
polysaccharides (cellulose and other fibers) in grains and starchy v egetables, a sure sign that they are not designed for human
consumption. Biochemistry tells us exactly which foods we can and cann ot digest, and therefore what foods we should eat.
In the raw food world, creative chefs have devised recipes that utilize  soaked lentils, wild rice, oats and other grains. The
dishes they create from these easier-to-swallow yet still subst antially indigestible “staples” allow them to replicate many of  the tastes and textures we once enjoyed with cooked food. In all cases, however, grains, st archy tubers, and legumes create nutritional,
digestive, and health problems for those who eat them. Even when soaked and ra w, grains are acid forming in a body that needs to
be slightly alkaline.

Complex Carbohydrates and Disease
Many research studies link diets high in complex carbohydrates to nega tive health conditions. The gluten-containing grains 32
(primarily wheat, but also rye and barley) contain at least fifteen opi oid sequences, which are strongly addictive, morphine-like
substances that have potent psychoactive properties and produce serious n eurological disorders, constipation, urinary retention,
nausea, vomiting, cough suppression, and other symptoms. 33
Gluten intolerance (celiac disease) contributes to or causes a wide  range of other diseases, including asthma, arthritis, chronic
fatigue, Crohn’s disease, Type 2 diabetes, depression, eczema, fibromya lgia, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, lymphoma, and
gastrointestinal cancers. Gluten intolerance may also be linked to a utism, schizophrenia, and several autoimmune disorders.

Masking the Bland Taste of Complex Carbs
Most people who attempt to thrive on a high-carbohydrate diet devoid of fruit ru n into health problems. Primarily, this is because
most starchy carbohydrates are completely unappealing if served as is. Society has proven repeatedly for more than forty years that
people will not, in fact cannot gravitate toward a diet dominated by plain, undr essed complex carbohydrates.
Brain-destroying, neurotoxic, and profoundly addictive flavor enhance rs, called “excitotoxins,” are added to almost all
processed foods, especially frozen and diet foods. 34

Excitotoxins Enhance Flavor While Poisoning Our Foo ds
In his book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, Russell L. Blaylock, MD suggests that the prolific use of excitotoxic f lavor
enhancers in almost all processed foods is a major cause of obesity and disea se in our country.
The most common and dangerous excitotoxins include Nutrasweet, (aspart ame) and MSG and its derivatives, which show up
on food labels as innocuous-sounding ingredients like hydrolyzed vegetable  protein, autolysis yeast, yeast extract, textured protein,
soy protein extract, sodium caseinate, natural flavoring, and spices. 35
Excitotoxins are substances that react with specialized receptors  in the brain in such a way as to lead to destruction of certain
types of brain cells. These highly addictive, neurotoxic substances ac celerate aging and stimulate the nervous system, causing
neurodegenerative diseases, neurological disorders, endocrine disorders, heart attacks, strokes, tumors, vision loss, migraines,
seizures, and many other diseases. They also worsen or mimic the symptom s of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS,
lup


 bread quality is growing. One excellent new U.S. business,
called Great Harvest Bakery is a fast-growing national franchise chain. They bakeand sell only whole grain breads; all their wheat flour is freshly ground daily on thepremises in the back. Unfortunately, as of the writing of this book, they do notgrind their rye flour but bring it in sacks. I can’t recommend their rye breads. The
founder of Great Harvest is a knowledgeable buyer who fully understands my
next topic, which is that wheat is not wheat.
There are great differences between hard bread wheats; being organically
grown is no cure all for making good or nutritious bread. Great Harvestunderstands this and uses top quality grain that is also Organic.
When I first stated making my own bread from my own at-home-ground flour
I was puzzled by variations in the dough. Sometimes the bread rose well and wasspongy after baking like I wanted it to be. Sometimes it kneaded stickily andended up flat and crumbly like a cake. Since I had done everything the same wayexcept that I may have bought my wheat berries from different healthfood stores,I began to investigate the subject of wheat quality.
The element in the cereal that forms the rubbery sponge in risen bread so it
doesn’t crumble and rises high without collapsing, is gluten. The word glue derivesfrom gluten. The gluten content of various wheats varies. Bread bakers use “hardwheat” because of its high gluten content. Gluten is a protein and gluten comprisesmost of the protein in bread wheat; the protein content and the gluten content arealmost identical.
Try this. Ask your healthfood store buyer or owner what the protein content is
of the hard red wheat seeds they’re selling. You’ll almost certainly get a puzzledlook and your answer will almost certainly be, “we have Organic andconventional.” Demand that the store buyer ask this question of their distributor/wholesaler and then report back to you. If the distributor deigns to answer, theanswer will be the same—I sell Organic or conventional hard red wheat. Period.When I got these non-answers I looked further and discovered that hard breadwheats run from about 12 percent protein to about 19 percent and this differencehas everything to do with the soil fertility (and to an extent the amount of rainfallduring the season), and almost nothing to do with Organic or conventional.
This difference also has everything to do with how your dough behaves and
how your bread comes out. And how well your bread nourishes you. Thirteen
percent wheat will not make a decent loaf—fourteen percent is generally
considered #2 quality and comprises the bulk of cheap bread grain. When youhear in the financial news that a bushel of wheat is selling for a certain price, theymean #2. Bakers compete for higher protein lots and pay far higher prices formore protein.
We prefer our bread about 25% rye, but rye contains no gluten at all. Mix any
rye flour into fourteen percent wheat flour and the dough becomes very heavy,won’t rise, and after baking, crumbles. So I kept looking for better grain andfinally discovered a knowledgeable lady that sold flour mills and who also was aserious baker herself. She had located a source of quality wheat with an assayedprotein content and sold it by the 50 pound sack. When I asked her if her wheatwas Organic she said it was either sixteen or seventeen percent protein dependingon whether you wanted hard red spring wheat or hard white spring wheat.Organic or conventional? I persisted. No, she said. High protein!
So, I said to myself, since protein content is a function of soil fertility and since
my body needs protein, I figured I am better off eating the best quality wheat,pesticide/herbicide residues (if there are any) be damned. Think about it! Thedifference between seventeen percent and fourteen percent protein is about 25percent. That percentage difference is the key threshold of nutritional deficiencythat makes teeth fall out. We can’t afford to accept 25% degradations in ournutritional quality in something that we eat every day and that forms the very basisof our dietary.
Please understand here that I am not saying that high protein wheats can’t be
grown organically. They certainly can be. The founder of Great Harvest Bakeryperforms a valuable service locating and securing high-protein lots of organicallygrown wheats for his outlets. But often as not Organic products are no morenourishing than those grown with chemicals. Until the buyers at Organic wholefood wholesalers get better educated about grain, obtaining one’s personal millingstock from them will be a dicey proposition.
Sometimes Organic cereal can be far worse than conventional. To make a
cereal Organic is a negative definition; if it hasn’t had chemicals, then its Organic.Grain is one of the few foods that will still produce economic yields of low qualityseed on extremely infertile soil or when half-smothered in weeds becauseherbicides weren’t used for reasons of ideological purity. V egetables will hardlyproduce anything under those conditions; carelessly grown fruits and vegetablesare inevitably small, misshapen, unmarketable. But seed cleaning equipment canremove the contamination of weed seeds in cereal grains (at a cost.)
The price the farmer receives for Organic cereal grain is much higher, so it is
possible to accept rather low yields or expend more money for cleaning out highlevels of weed seeds from the field-run harvest, and still make a good profit. Alousy Organic cereal crop like this might even make a higher profit because thefarmer has been spared the expense of fertilization, of rotation, of weed control. Iremember once I bought a sack of Organic whole oats that were the smallest,most shriveled, bitterest oats I’ve ever tried to eat. We ended up throwing outthat tiny, light (lacking density) seed in favor of using the “conventional” wholeoats that were plump, heavy and sweet.
Wheat is not the only cereal that is damaged by industrial milling. So are oats.
Most consumers have never seen whole oats; they look very much like wheatberries. But rolled oats become rancid and stale on the shelf much like wheat flouron the shelf.
Another pitfall about using whole grains is that to be nutritious they must still be
fresh enough to sprout vigorously. A seed is a package of food surrounding anembryo. The living embryo is waiting for the right conditions (temperature andmoisture) to begin sprouting. Sprouting means the embryo begins eating up storedfood and making a plant out of it. All foods are damaged by exposure to oxygen,so to protect the embryo’s food supply, the seed is surrounded by a virtuallyairtight seed coat that permits only enough oxygen to enter for the embryo’srespiration (yes, seed breaths slowly). Often the embryo is located at the edge of
the seed and has its own air intake port. When the seed coat is removed or
damaged, the innards are exposed to air and begin deteriorating rapidly. In thecase of oats, especially rapidly, because oats are the only grass-based cereal thatcontains large quantities of oil—five percent oil, more or less. That’s why oats“stick to your ribs.” Rolled oats become stale and lose their flavor (and nutritionalcontent) and perhaps become rancid very rapidly. So we make porridge fromwhole oat groats that we coarsely grind to grits (steel-cut oats) in an electric seed/spice mill just before cooking.
It is not easy to cook oat grits. They take a lot longer than rolled oats and if
not done exactly to the recipe I’m about to give you, will almost inevitably stick tothe pot badly and may also froth over and mess the stove. Here’s how to cookthem. Coarsely grind (like corn meal) your whole oats until you have one cup ofoat grits. Bring exactly four cups of water (no salt) to a very hard boil at yourhighest heat. You may add a handful of raisins. Light or turn on a second, small-sized burner on the stove and set it as low as possible. Into the fast boiling water,slowly pour the ground oats, stirring continuously. Take about 30 seconds toslowly pour the grits into the boiling water or you’ll make clumps. Keep on thehigh heat until the water again boils vigorously. Suddenly, the mixture will beginrising in the pot and will try to pour all over the stove. This means it is all at boilingtemperature again. Quickly move the pot to the low burner; that instantly stopsthe frothing. Then cover. Let the porridge cook for 30 minutes, stirring once ortwice to prevent sticking. Then, keeping it covered, turn off the heat. They can beeaten at this point but I think it is better to let the oats finish soaking on the stovefor at least two to four hours. Then reheat in a double boiler, or warm in amicrowave.
We usually start a pot of oats at bedtime for the next morning. See why people
prefer the convenience of using rolled oats? But once you’ve eaten oats maderight, you’ll never prefer the flavor of rolled oats again. And if the human body hasany natural method of assaying nutritional content, it is flavor.
Nutritionally, millet is almost the same story as oats. Millet seed is protected by
a very hard hull. Cooking unhulled millet is almost impossible. After hours ofboiling the small round seeds will still be hard and the hulls remain entirelyindigestible. Worse, the half-round hulls (they split eventually) stick in your teeth.But prehulled millet, sitting in the sack for weeks and months, loses a lot ofnutrition and tastes very second-rate compared to freshly-hulled millet.


 me in 1931. I would have no ob-jection to anyone using the Reams Theory of Ionization if it accom-plished the purpose of the goal, as was mentioned in the Preface of this book. Same people are so afraid that they might be called upon to
pay a royalty if they used the perfect equation, and therefore have counterfeited one of their own. I would be delighted to have them use the perfect equation rather than the counterfeit, because I want Ameri-ca to be the healthiest nation on earth. Provided they conformed to our laboratory guidelines that God has given through years of research. In order to understand the difference between a cation and an anion is like the understanding between a negative charge and a positive
charge. The difference in a negative charge and a positive charge is this: it is simply the direction in which the charge or electrical current
is traveling.
In a substance wherein the cation is traveling counterclockwise in
each nuclear shell, the substance is cationic. In an anionic substance the electron is an anion traveling clockwise in each molecular shell. It is something like the clock hands going around when you face the clock, the hands would be going clockwise which is anionic. But if the hands traveled in the opposite dir ection they would be cationic. The
electrons in an atom travel in such a way that they form a complete shell around the atom like a mantle. This makes a world of difference in molecular structure. 38 Because of the difference in the anionic and the cationic molecular
chemical and mathematical structure of the micronage, the milli-
micronage, and milli:-milli-micronage, their synchronization divinely and physically determines the frequency. Now the frequency also de-termines the shape and form of all kinds as well as man, so we are tru-ly marvelously and divinely made.
A tree stands straight up, and a vine has to climb a tree, but when
a vine climbs a tree whether it is s outh of the equator or north of the
equator it still climbs that tree c ounterclockwise. It goes around from
the left towards you to the right-around and around that tree or post. It is climbing the tree counterclockwise, but the root Of it were in a pot)
and you needed to replant the vine because it had become rootbound in the pot, you would find that the roots go around the pot clockwise.
Has it ever crossed your mind why that above the ground the vine
climbs the tree or the stake counterclockwise, and yet the root goes around the pot clockwise? Actually it is the same direction. The only confusion is that we start in the middle. If you begin at the bottom it is the same direction all the way to the top. If you start at the top and go to the bottom it is the same direction all the way to the bottom (e.g., looking at a coil spring on end). God is not the author of confusion, He is the author of harmony.
What in the world does the direction of the electron and the anions
and cations have to do with diet or health?
Unless we understand how one cell is made in our bodies we can-
not understand how two cells, four cells, eight cells, and sixteen cells and all of the cells are made. In order to understand what manner of micronage we have, we must understand how minerals are made available and how to replace worn-out cells.
This brings us to know that we do not live off the food we eat, WE
LIVE OFF THE ENERGY IN THE FOOD WE EAT.
What kind of energies are there? How does one express those energies? Einstein expressed heat energy by saying E equals MC square (E
1
= MC2). To most people who are not mathematicians that doesn't
mean anything, and to many who are mathematicians it doesn't mean 39 very much. In simple language we could say: by burning matter, heat
and electricity are formed. Heat is electrical energy, which would be:
~ equals the substance between E 1 and MC2. Then there is matter.
Matter is the substance composed in the union of E 1 + E 2C2 = sub-
stance.
E1 is heat
E1 =MC2
E2 is electricity
M is matter C is conversion The square (2) is the process of ionization which puts things to-
gether or takes them apart.
E
2 = E 1 +MC2
M= E 1 + E 2C2
Elements and compounds are made from anions and cations. Compounds are made from elements. We now have the basic
foundation for expressing energy in mathematical terms.
However, this is not the whole picture. It is only a part of it be-
cause the resistance between anions of different values will give off heat energy. And the same is true of cations-those of different values when mixed together will give off heat energy.
We can say then that energy is made from the resistance between
anions and anions, cations and cations, but the greatest amount of en-ergy is made from anions and cations all seeking their synchronization point.
Nature makes energy in many compound patterns. And it makes
these compound patterns from nine elementary geometric patterns.
The liver manufactures a substance called bile, which in its purest
state is a form of dilute hydrochloric acid. The body stores bile in little sacs in the stomach, gall bladder and capillaries of the liver.
All the foods that we eat are cationic, with the exception of lem-
ons. Lemon juice is anionic. In other words, the electron in lemon juice is traveling clockwise and al l the electrons in other foods are
traveling counterclockwise. However, some foods are more cationic than others, and some are less cationic. But we can say that lemon 40 juice is nature's own natural dilute  hydrochloric acid, and the liver can
daily convert it into some 5 to 6 billion different enzymes, or vitamins
if one is in good health. Lemon juice has less chemical change than any other natural substance known to man. The only other substance that can be used is man-made hydrochloric acid tablets.
It is rather strange too that we  call hydrochloric acid an acid when
it really isn't an acid, it is a base. In bases the electrons are anionic,
therefore they travel clockwise in the molecule and acids are cationic and therefore travel counterclockwise.  So this is the actual physical
difference between an acid and a base.
The foods that go into our stomach are cationic, when the bile is
released it gives off heat and electrical energy in both anionic and cat-ionic form. The energy from the digested food is taken to the liver, where it is mixed with oxygen, and also the natural calciums and many other elements in our diet.
The enzymes and the vitamins are the same thing. There is no dif-
ference. The liver joins these enzymes together in the skeletal forms of amino acids. It is not a complete, finished amino acid. When we use the word complete we think of it as perfect but this is unfinished, it is
in skeletal form of amino acid. The liver dumps this unfinished amino acid into the blood stream. The blood stream takes it by some 284 transformer glands in our body. It then either adds anionic or cationic energy to the amino acid, or gives off something through the glands, according to the magnetic micronage structure attraction of the glands. As the blood carries the amino acids through the body they become the building blocks for our system. Each organ takes the kind of build-ing block from the amino acid in cationic form that it needs to rebuild and restore and keep perfect that organ.
This cationic energy is then a form of energy in one or more of the
nine elementary, geometrical patterns. This is nature's way of putting together the various organs. The bones differ from the fingernails, the brain differs from the lungs, and the lungs differ from the liver, and the liver differs from the kidneys, etc.  All are different structures but
have the same frequency. 41 This brings us now to the point of molecular structure. How is one
molecule of any organ made? We will begin with a person from the
time they are born until they die.
You may have been taught that ce lls divide-which is incorrect.
Cells do not divide. If cells divided they would then break the link of the nerve from the main source of the brain to the cell itself, and there-
fore it could not function. It is in the structure of the brain that the mo-lecular pattern of the organ is restored, and also the anionic structure of the cell is formed, and also in th e anionic and cationic structure that
forms the atom.
This then gives us the basis of the structure of one cell which can
be expressed mathematically.
What is there now to keep a cell from just growing and growing
all out of proportion?
This takes us back then to the brain. The brain is the determining
factor of the magnitude and size of the cello Man was made in the im-age of God. So if we are created in the image of God then we look like Him. Very much like Him. The cleaner we keep our temple the more like Him we become. Since that is tr ue then there is something in the
mathematics of our body structure that makes us like Him. The ques-tion now is: What is that factor?
That factor is the FRE


 have written. It is the
process of salvation to which much
Western theology has devoted itself.
This is a day -to-day, hour -to-hour, moment -
to-moment act of supreme consciousness.
It is a choosing and a re -choosing every
instant. It  is ongoing  creation. Conscious
creation. Creation with a purpose. It is
using the tools of  creation we have
discussed, and using them with awareness
and sublime intention.  That is “playing this spiritual game.” Now,
how long have you been at this?
I haven ’t even begun.
Don’t go from one extreme to the other, and
don’t be so hard on yourself. You have
been dedicated to this process —and
you’re actually engaged in it more than
you’ll  give yourself credit for. But you
haven’t been doing so for 20 years —or
anything  close to that. Yet the truth is, how
long you have been engaged in it is not
important.  Are you engaged in it now?
That’s all that matters.
Let’s move on with your statement. You ask
us to “look where it’s gotten you,” and  you
describe yo urself as being “one step away
from the poorhouse.” I look at you  and see
a quite different thing. I see a person who is one step away from the rich  house! You
feel you are one paycheck from oblivion,
and I see you as one paycheck  from
Nirvana. Now much de pends, of course, on
what you see as your “pay” —and to what
end you are working.
If the object of your life is to acquire what
you call security, I see and understand  why
you feel you are “one paycheck from the
poorhouse.” Yet even this assessment  is
open to correction. Because with My pay,
all good things come to you —including  the
experience of feeling secure in the physical
world.
My pay —the payoff you get when you
“work for” Me —provides a great deal more
than spiritual comfort. Physical comfort,
too, can be yours. Yet the ironic part about
all this is that, once you experience the kind of spiritual comfort My payoff provides,  the
last thing you’ll find yourself worrying about
is physical comfort.
Even the physical comfort of members of
your family wi ll no longer be a concern to
you—for once you rise to a level of God
consciousness you will understand that
you are not responsible for any other
human soul, and that while it is
commendable to  wish every soul to live in
comfort, each soul must choose —is
choosing —its own  destiny this instant.
Clearly, it is not the highest action to
deliberately abuse or destroy another.
Clearly,  it is equally inappropriate to neglect
the needs of those you have caused to be
dependent on you.  Your job is to render them inde pendent; to
teach them as quickly and completely as
possible how to get along without you. For
you are no blessing to them so long as  they
need you to survive but bless them truly
only in the moment they realize you  are
unnecessary.
In the same sense, God’ s greatest moment
is the moment you realize you need no
God.
I know, I know...this is the antithesis of
everything you’ve ever been taught. Yet
your teachers have told you of an angry
God, a jealous God, a God who needs to
be needed. And that is not a God at all, but
a neurotic substitute for that which would
be a deity.  A true Master is not the one with the most
students, but one who creates the most
Masters.
A true leader is not the one with the most
followers, but one who creates the most
leaders.
A true  king is not the one with the most
subjects, but one who leads the most to
royalty.
A true teacher is not the one with the most
knowledge, but one who causes the most
others to have knowledge.
And a true God is not One with the most
servants, but One who s erves the most,
thereby making Gods of all others.
For this is both the goal and the glory of
God: that His subjects shall be no more,  and that all shall know God not as the
unattainable, but as the unavoidable.
I would that you could this understand: your
happy destiny is unavoidable. You  cannot
not be “saved.” There is no hell except not
knowing this.
So now, as parents, spouses, and loved
ones, seek not to make of your love a glue
that binds, but rather a magnet that first
attracts, then turns around and  repels, lest
those who are attracted begin to believe
they must stick to you to survive. Nothing
could be further from the truth. Nothing
could be more damaging to another.
Let your love propel your beloveds into the
world —and into the full experience of  who
they are. In this will you have truly loved. It
is a great challenge, this path of the  householder. There are many distractions,
many worldly concerns. The ascetic is
bothered by none of these. He is brought
his bread and water, and given his humble
mat on which to lie, and he can devote his
every hour to prayer, meditation, and
contemplation of the divine. How easy to
see the divine under such circumstances!
How simple a task! Ah, but give one a
spouse, and children! See the divine in a
baby who needs changing at 3 A.M. See
the divine in a bill that needs paying by the
first of the month. Recognize the hand of
God in the illness that takes a spouse, the
job that’s lost, the child’s fever, the parent’s
pain. Now we are talking saintliness.
I understand y our fatigue. I know you are
tired of the struggle. Yet I tell you this:
When you follow Me, the struggle disappears. Live in your God space and the
events become blessings, one and all.
How can I get to my God space when I’ve
lost my job, the rent needs paying, the kids
need a  dentist, and being in my lofty,
philosophical space seems the least likely
way to solve any of  this?
Do not forsake Me when you need Me
most. Now is the hour of your greatest
testing. Now is the time of your greatest
chance. I t is the chance to prove everything
that has been written here.
When I say “don’t forsake Me,” I sound like
that needy, neurotic God we talked  about.
But I’m not. You can “forsake Me” all you
want. I don’t care, and it won’t  change a
thing between us. I me rely say this in
answer to your questions. It is when  the going gets tough that you so often forget
Who You Are, and the tools I have  given
you for creating the life that you would
choose.
Now is the time to go to your God space
more than ever. First, it w ill bring you great
peace of mind —and from a peaceful mind
do great ideas flow —ideas which could  be
solutions to the biggest problems you
imagine yourself to have.
Second, it is in your God space that you
Self realize, and that is the purpose —the
only purp ose—of your soul.
When you are in your God space, you know
and understand that all you are now
experiencing is temporary. I tell you that
heaven and Earth shall pass away, but you  shall not. This ever -lasting perspective
helps you to see things in their pr oper light.
You can define these present conditions
and circumstances as what they truly are:
temporary and temporal. You may then use
them as tools —for that is what they are,
temporary, temporal tools —in the creation
of present experience.
Just who do you  think you are? In
relationship to the experience called lose -
a-job, who do you think you are? And,
perhaps more to the point, who do you
think I am?  Do you imagine this is too big a
problem for Me to solve? Is getting out of
this jam  too big a miracle for  Me to handle?
I understand that you may think it’s too big
for you to handle, even with all the tools I
have given you —but do you really think it’s  too big for Me?
I know intellectually that no job is too big for
God. But emotionally I guess I can’t be
sure. Not  whether You can handle it, but
whether You will.
I see. So it’s a matter of faith.
Yes.
You don’t question My ability;  you merely
doubt My desire.
You see, I still live this theology that says
there may be a lesson in here somewhere
for me.  I’m still not sure I’m supposed to
have a solution. Maybe I’m supposed to
have the problem.  Maybe this is one of
those “tests” my theology keeps telling me
about. So I worry that this  problem may not


a, factor Xa, and fibrin produc -
tion, all of which are proinflammatory.
166
It would seem that if a drug could be found that suppressed tissue factor, vul -
nerable atherosclerotic plaque formation and platelet activation leading to arterial thrombosis could be dampened and possibly prevented.
Emerging evidence in a key research finding by Camici et  al.
167showed that
DMSO was able to suppress tissue factor expression and activity as well as thrombus formation in a mouse carotid artery injury model. Tissue factor expression was seen to increase 19- and 24-fold in human aortic endothelial cells stimulated with tissue necrosis factor-a (TNF- α) or thrombin, respectively.
167 What was remarkable about
this study was that DMSO was seen to inhibit the tissue factor induction of TNF- α
and thrombin in a concentration-dependent manner. In the same study, in addition to blocking tissue factor mRNA expression, DMSO also inhibited the proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells, which occurs in vascular injury and atherogenesis after signal transduction pathways are activated.
168 No toxic effects by
DMSO on the aortic endothelial cells were observed even at the highest doses used of 12.6 mmol/L,
157a finding previously supported in human corneal endothelial cells.169
The findings from this study prompted the suggestion that DMSO has the potential to be applied to drug-eluting stents in order to inhibit platelet aggregation, particu -
larly since DMSO was also shown to suppress paclitaxel- and rapamycin-induced tissue factor expression, which are known to represent a cause for stent thrombosis in drug-eluting stents.
170,17170 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
DMSO was found to suppress in a concentration-dependent manner tissue factor
expression and activity in response to TNF- α or thrombin exposure in human endo -
thelial cells, monocytes, and vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro.167 Moreover, it
was additionally observed that DMSO prevented the proliferation and migration of
vascular smooth muscle cells from human aorta, an outcome that could have impor -
tant clinical application in treating coronary thrombosis and MI.167
In summary, DMSO combines antiplatelet and anti-inflammatory properties
much like aspirin, a drug of choice for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke,
172 but unlike aspirin, DMSO adds two more properties that can additionally
block alternate signaling pathways that lead to coronary artery syndromes. These two additional properties, anti-free radical effect on platelet aggregation
173,174 and
anti thrombin activity on thromboembolism,151,167 place DMSO in a class by itself as
a potential treatment for thrombogenesis of any etiology.
Clinical studies to investigate these actions by DMSO seem highly warranted.
CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
The DMSO toxicology in animals is discussed in Chapter 2. A thorough human toxi -
cology study was reported by Brobyn5 in 1967 due to the wide and ever-increasing
use of DMSO not only under clinical supervision but also as a home remedy where DMSO could be purchased over the counter by consumers.
A short-term study (14 days) and a long-term study (90 days) were undertaken by
Brobyn,
5 who reported his findings on 213 healthy human volunteers. These volun-
teers were periodically examined by specialists after being administered 1 g/kg/day 80% DMSO daily. This dose was considered 3–30 times higher than the typical DMSO dose used or recommended. The specific clinical examinations included complete physical examinations with laboratory examinations of blood and urine, ophthalmologic, dermatologic, cardiologic, neurologic, pulmonary function, and bone marrow studies.
5
The results of this study concluded that no significant adverse effects from either
the short-term or long-term administration of DMSO were observed after a very extensive toxicology study was conducted.
5 Minor side effects of DMSO adminis -
tered daily included skin irritation, nausea, sedation, and diarrhea, which resolved following discontinuation of DMSO.
5 DMSO at 3–30 times the usual treatment dose
in humans appeared as a relatively very safe drug, and in particular, no lens changes that were seen to occur in some animal species were detected in any subject after extensive ophthalmological examinations after 3-month follow-up.
5 This absence of
ocular changes after high and prolonged administration of DMSO has been fully confirmed in other studies.
175–177 There has not been another major toxicological
study on topical DMSO following Brobyn’s5 report, but thousands of papers deal -
ing with DMSO and its various routes administration, including intravenous, oral, dermal, and intravesical, have reported that adverse reactions are relatively mild and
usually can occur in relation to its concentration and its mode of administration.
177–179
Following intravenous administration, the best-documented side effect from
DMSO is intravascular hemolysis after intravenous infusion of 40% solution
or greater, which can result in urinary excretion of hemoglobin.180 Dark urine is 71 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology
sometimes a marker of kidney damage, but despite a dose-dependent transient hemo -
lysis with resultant hemoglobinuria, no injury or alteration of renal function after
DMSO administration occurs.181 The hemolysis appears related to osmotic changes
exerted by DMSO on erythrocytes. In one case report, 50 mL intravesical instil -
lation of 50% DMSO was used successfully to stop chronic, profuse hematuria due to eosinophilic cystitis, a condition characterized by dysuria, frequency, and hematuria.
182
Intravascular hemolysis by DMSO after intravenous administration can be pre -
vented by using less than a 30% DMSO solution.178 However, in order to avoid fluid
overload and hypernatremia, DMSO should not be given at highly diluted rates of infusion, that is, 10% or less.
183 Fluid overload can be avoided if the DMSO solution
is infused between 25% and 35% concentration.184,185
An annoying side effect of DMSO administration by any route includes a
 garlic-like breath odor due to the pulmonary excretion of its breakdown product to
dimethyl sulfide.179 This odor produced from DMSO can potentially interfere with
double-blinded clinical trials when intravenous or topical DMSO is used because the sulfide odor will easily identify the patient receiving this treatment. However, the odor problem caused by DMSO administration can be neutralized with scouting equipment placed in the room that absorbs the dimethyl sulfide and maintains the room relatively odor free.
DMSO is a relatively safe drug. Side effects to DMSO are common, but these are
usually minor and are related to the concentration of DMSO used and the route of administration.
186–188
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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


 a vailable only to a few, isolated
individuals, but a necessity if human kind is not t o destroy itself. At the present
time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both
accelerating.  Paradoxically, things are getting wo rse and better at the same time,
although the worse is more apparent because it make s so much noise.

This book, of course, uses words that in the act of  reading or listening, become
thoughts in your mind. But those are not ordinary t houghts: repetitive, noisy, self-
serving, clamoring for attention. Just like every t rue spiritual teachers, just like the
ancient sutras, the thoughts within this book don't  say “look at me", but “look
beyond me.” Because the thoughts came out of stilln ess, they have power, the
power to take you back into the same stillness from  which they arose. That stillness
is also inner peace. And that stillness and peace i s the essence of your being. It is
the stillness that will save and transform the worl d.

 Chapter 1
Silence and Stillness

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you
lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is in separable from stillness. This is
the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.

***

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillne ss? The inner space or awareness in
which the words on this page are being perceived an d become thoughts. Without
that awareness, there would be no perception, no th oughts, no world.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

***

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise  of thinking. The equivalent of
external silence is inner stillness.

Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it.
Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens t he dimension of stillness within
yourself, because it is only through stillness that  you can be aware of silence.

See that in the moment of noticing the silence arou nd you, you are not thinking.
You are aware, but not thinking.

***

When you become aware of silence, immediately there  is that state of inner still
alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of  thousands of years of collective
human conditioning.

***

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awarene ss rest upon it. How still they are,
how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach y ou stillness.
 ***

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness,  you become still yourself. You
connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a on eness with whatever you perceive
in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yo urself with all things is love.

***

Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even when there
is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underne ath the noise, of the space in
which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness
itself.

You can become aware of awareness as the background  to all your sense
perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of a wareness is the arising of inner
stillness.

***

Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner
resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it  is, this acceptance also takes you
into that realm of inner peace that is stillness.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — n o matter what form it takes
— you are still, you are at peace.

***

Pay attention to the gap — the gap between two thou ghts, the brief, silent space
between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap
between the in-breath and out-breath.

When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something” becomes — just
awareness. The formless dimension of pure conscious ness arises from within you
and replaces identification with form.

***

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is w here creativity and solutions to
problems are found.
 ***

Is stillness just the absence of noise and content?  No, it is intelligence itself — the
underlying consciousness out of which every form is  born. And how could that be
separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out of that and is
being sustained by it.

It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of gra ss; of all flowers, trees, birds, and
all other forms.

***

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a
thing, and it is not of this world.

***

When you look at a tree or a human being in stillne ss, who is looking? Something
deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking at  its creation.

In the Bible, it says that God created the world an d saw that it was good. That is
what you see when you look from stillness without t hought.

***

Do you need more knowledge? Is more information goi ng to save the world, or
faster computers, more scientific or intellectual a nalysis? Is it not wisdom that
humanity needs most at this time?

But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wis dom comes with the ability to
be still. Just look and just listen. No more is nee ded. Being still, looking, and
listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence  within you. Let stillness direct
your words and actions.

 Chapter 2
Beyond the Thinking Mind

The human condition: Lost in thought.

***

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned with in the confines of their own
thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made,  personalized sense of self
that is conditioned by the past.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimensio n of consciousness far deeper
than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence,
awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the
Christ within, or your Buddha nature.

Finding that dimension frees you and the world from  the suffering you inflict on
yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your
life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting in ner peace cannot come into your
life except through that unconditioned dimension of  consciousness.

If you can recognize, even occasionally, the though ts that go through your mind as
just thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-e motional reactive patterns as
they happen, then that dimension is already emergin g in you as the awareness in
which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless i nner space in which the
content of your life unfolds.

***

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that c an easily drag you along
with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your
attention in completely.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t tak e your thoughts too seriously.

***

How easy it is for people to become trapped in thei r conceptual prisons.

The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: thi s is how it is. You have to be
larger than thought to realize that however you int erpret “your life” or someone
else’s life or behavior, however you judge any situ ation, it is no more than a
viewpoint, one of many possible perspectives. It is  no more than a bundle of
thoughts. But reality is one unified whole, in whic h all things are interwoven,
where nothing exists in and by itself. Thinking fra gments reality — it cuts it up into
conceptual bits and pieces.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, bu t it is also very limiting when it
takes over your life completely, when you don’t rea lize that it is only a small aspect
of the consciousness that you are

***

Wisdom is not a product of thought. The deep knowin g that is wisdom arises
through the simple act of giving someone or somethi ng your full attention.
Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness  itself. It dissolves the barriers
created by conceptual thought, and with this comes the recognition that nothing
exists in and by itself. It joins the perceiver and  the perceived in a unifying ﬁeld of
awareness. It is the healer of separation.

***

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, y ou are avoiding what is. You
don’t want to be where you are. Here, Now.

***

Dogmas — religious, political, scientific— arise ou t of the erroneous belief that
thought can encapsulate reality or the truth. Dogma s are collective conceptual
prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they
give them a sense of security and a false sense of “I know.”

Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity th an its dogmas. It is


 infections devised in the 18th century.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A bitter-tasting,
pungent herb with antiseptic and antiviral activity, weeping forsythia is used to treat infections such as colds, flu, sore throats, and tonsillitis. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is used to treat
a range of other conditions (including boils, swollen glands, and skin infections). The American herbal scientist James A. Duke recommends it be taken as a warm tea, combined with honeysuckle (Lonicera spp., p. 229) and lemon balm (Melissa
officinalis, p. 113), at the onset of colds and similar viral infections.
Caution Not advisable in pregnancy.Fennel has a long history of use as a remedy for ailments
of the digestive tract.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The primary use
of fennel seeds is to relieve bloating, but they also
settle stomach pain, stimulate the appetite, and
are diuretic and anti-inflammatory. Like anise (Pimpinella anisum, p. 248) and caraway (Carum carvi, p. 184), the seeds make an excellent infusion for settling digestion and reducing abdominal distension. The seeds help in the treatment of kidney stones, and, combined with urinary antiseptics such as uva-ursi (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,  p. 170), make an effective treatment for cystitis. An infusion of the seeds may be taken as a gargle for sore throats and as a mild expectorant. Fennel is safe for children when taken at a low dose and,  as an infusion or syrup, can be given for colic and painful teething in babies. Fennel increases breast-milk production and the herb is still used as an
Fragaria vesca (Rosaceae)
Wild Strawberry
Description Low-growing perennial herb
spread by runners. Has 3-lobed leaves, white flowers, and small red berries.Ficus religiosa (Moraceae)
Peepal
Description Tree growing to around 26 ft (8 m)
with large, leathery, heart-shaped leaves and purple fruit growing in pairs.
Habitat & Cultivation Peepal grows in
northern and central India, in forests, and alongside water. It is also widely cultivated throughout the subcontinent and southern Asia. The fruit is gathered when ripe.
Parts Used Fruit, leaves, bark, latex.
Constituents The fruit contains fruit sugars,
flavonoids, and enzymes.
History & Folklore Sacred to Hindus and
Buddhists, the peepal is the tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment. It is a long-living tree; a peepal in Sri Lanka is thought to be over 2,000 years old.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Peepal’s uses
are similar to those of the banyan (F. benghalensis,  p. 211). Its astringent bark and leaves are taken for diarrhea and dysentery, whereas the leaves alone are used for constipation. The leaves are applied with ghee (clarified butter) as a poultice to boils and to swollen salivary glands in mumps. The powdered fruit may be taken for asthma and  the latex is used to treat warts.
Related Species See preceding entries, fig
(F. carica) and banyan tree (F. benghalensis).
US_202-223_Digitalis_lutea_Iris_versicolor.indd   212 26/02/16   12:47 pm213 other medicinal plantsFumaria o FFicinalis
Habitat & Cultivation Wild strawberry is
native to Europe and temperate regions of Asia.
The leaves and fruit are gathered in early summer.
Parts Used Leaves, fruit.
Constituents The leaves contain flavonoids,
tannins, and a volatile oil. The fruit contains fruit acids
and a volatile oil with methyl salicylate and borneol.
History & Folklore Wild strawberry appears
to have been little used medicinally until the Middle
Ages. Writing in 1652, Nicholas Culpeper listed its
benefits: “the berries are excellent good to cool
the liver, the blood, and the spleen, or a hot
cholerick stomach … the leaves and roots thereof
[are] also good to fasten loose teeth and to heal
spongy foul gums.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wild strawberry
leaves are mildly astringent and diuretic. The plant
is little used medicinally today, but it can be taken
to treat diarrhea and dysentery. The leaves were
used as a gargle for sore throats, and in a lotion
for minor burns and grazes. In Europe, the fruit
is considered to have cooling and diuretic
properties, and has been prescribed as part of
a diet in cases of tuberculosis, gout, arthritis,
and rheumatism.Habitat & Cultivation Common in Europe,
ash thrives in lowland and moorland. The leaves
are gathered in summer, but the bark is gathered
in spring.
Parts Used Leaves, bark, seeds.
Constituents Ash leaves contain flavonoids,
tannins, mucilage, triterpenes, and iridoids.
History & Folklore The ash was the “world-
tree” of Norse mythology, its roots spreading to
the domain of the gods, and its branches extending
to the remotest corners of the universe. In Norse
myth, the first man was carved from a piece of ash
wood. In parts of Europe, ash bark was used as
a cost-free substitute for quinine in the home
treatment of malaria. Such use probably continued
in rural areas into the 20th century.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Ash bark is tonic
and astringent. Little used in herbal medicine today,
it is occasionally taken for fever. The leaves are also
astringent, and they have a laxative and diuretic
effect. They have been used as a mild substitute
for senna ( Cassia senna, p. 75).
Related Species The bark of the American
white ash ( F. americana ) has been used as a bitter
tonic and astringent. Several ash species exude a
nutritious sap, called “manna,” which is used as
a laxative for children. In particular, the manna ash
(F. ornus ), which has antioxidant activity, has been
cultivated in southern Europe for its high yield of
manna sap.Research In one clinical trial (Italy 1976), patients
taking bladderwrack lost much more weight than
the control group. In more recent German
research, the polyphenols and polysaccharides
appeared to have antiviral and anti-HIV activity.
Cautions Do not take if pregnant or
breastfeeding. If suffering from a thyroid illness or
taking insulin, take only under professional advice.
Fumaria officinalis (Fumariaceae)
Fumitory
Description Climbing annual growing to 1 ft
(30 cm). Has compound leaves and maroon-tipped
pink tubular flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
North Africa, fumitory also grows in Asia, North
America, and Australia.
Parts Used Flowering aerial parts.
Constituents Fumitory contains isoquinoline
alkaloids and flavonoids.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A notably
bitter-tasting herb, fumitory has a stimulant and
cleansing action on the liver and gallbladder,
and is principally used to treat chronic itchy skin
problems such as eczema. It is also diuretic and
mildly laxative.
Related Species Fumitory is related to
corydalis ( Corydalis yanhusuo, p. 86), and
F. parviflora from central Asia. The latter, like
fumitory, is used as a detoxifying, laxative,
and diuretic herb.
Caution Fumitory is toxic in excessive doses.
Use only with professional advice.Wild strawberry was said
to “comfort fainting spirits.”
Fumitory may be applied externally as a treatment
for eczema.Fucus vesiculosus (Fucaceae)
Bladderwrack,
Kelp
Description Brownish-green alga growing
to 3 ft (1 m) in length. Has flat, usually forked,
fronds containing air bladders.
Habitat & Cultivation Bladderwrack is
native to the North Atlantic shores and western
Mediterranean, and is harvested all year.
Part Used Whole plant.
Constituents Bladderwrack contains polyphenols,
polysaccharides, and minerals, especially iodine
(up to 0.1%). The polysaccharides are
immunostimulant. The iodine may stimulate the
thyroid gland.
History & Folklore Bladderwrack has been
employed as a fuel, as a winter feed for cattle, and
as a source of iodine and potash.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Due to its iodine
content, bladderwrack is taken as an antigoiter
remedy. The plant appears to raise the metabolic
rate by increasing hormone production by the
thyroid gland, though this increase may be limited
to poorly functioning thyroids. Bladderwrack is
reputedly helpful in rheumatic conditions.Fraxinus


The nature of the symptoms in each case will depend on the locations
and severity of the
changes in the nervous tissues. A sudden loss of vision in one eye or a period of double vision may
be an early symptom. The eye symptoms usually clear up in a short time and they may not recur for
months or years. The patient may develop peculiar feelings, with tingling and numbness in various
parts of the limbs and body.
Weakness in the legs and difficulty in walking may later develop. There may be trembling,
jerking of the legs, difficulty in talking, a hand may become clumsy or useless. Tremor of the hand
may develop when the individual attempts to pick up something. Trouble with the rectum and the
urinary bladder may also develop.
These symptoms may remain mild for a number of years or they may clear up and not recur for
long periods. It is this remission of symptoms that indicates that in the early stages of the disease
the developments are not irreversible. About half of these patients are still able to work after
twenty-five years, a fact which indicates the slowness of the development of the disease. This
certainly provides ample time for something constructive to be done.
Many cases are so mild and the symptoms so evanescent that they are not diagnosed as sclerosis
for years. The tendency of the symptoms to cease for periods of time is said to be one of the basic
characteristics of the disease, the other being the scattered character of the symptomatic
developments, as the hardening is scattered.
I have previously pointed out that no two cases are alike in their symptoms or in their
development, each patient lending his own individuality to the disease; but this is no more true of
multiple sclerosis than of any other disease.
No germ or virus has been found upon which to lay the blame for the development of the disease
and it is freely confessed that “the cause is unknown.” It is, however, thought to be “probably of
infectious origin.”
No treatment has proved satisfactory. This is true in so many diseases that it is almost the rule.
How can there be satisfactory treatment of a disease the cause of which is unrecognized? Standard
works on the disease say: “The cause of the disease is entirely unknown … there is no specific or
really effective treatment … always a long-standing disease, total recovery from it is very
doubtful.”
87Certainly we cannot expect total recovery if the cause is unrecognized. The failure to recognize
the general impairing influences in the life and environment of the patient as the true cause of
functional and organic deterioration blinds us to the causes of disease.
The search for specific causes has about reached its end. The time has arrived when we must
find in wrong living habits the cause of the failures of the organism and the evolution of its
diseases. When these are recognized and removed, there is a possibility of recovery in thousands
of individuals who are now regarded as hopelessly
incurable.
I have never had opportunity to care for a case of multiple sclerosis in the early stages, hence I
can only suggest that if these cases were given
Hygienic
 care at the outset of their trouble, the
percentage of recoveries would be high. All of the cases I have had the privilege of caring for
have been in advanced stages and I do not consider these favorable cases.
The fact that I have been able to return some of these, even in helpless conditions, to a state of
usefulness speaks volumes for the efficiency of the
Hygienic
 program in restoring normal tissue
and functional condition.
Let us review the general picture of the fasting experience, as applied to a multiple sclerosis
case. The first fast brings about remarkable improvement in the general health of the individual
with considerable increase in his control and use of his limbs, often enabling the bed-ridden
patient to get up and walk about. He manages to hold this improvement and not infrequently to add
to it, while eating a carefully planned diet and taking regular exercise and sun baths following the
fast.
A second fast adds to his control and use of his limbs. I have employed as many as three fasts in
these cases. Each fast has resulted in increased control of the limbs and has made it possible for
them to be used with greater ease.
I continue the rest in bed following the fast, adding a period or two of daily light exercise of a
type that requires increasing skill in their performance. The purpose of the exercise in these cases
is not so much that of increasing the size and strength of the muscles as to increase the individual’s
skill in their use. Heavier exercise may come later if desired.
I am convinced that daily sunbathing in these cases is especially helpful in furthering the
evolution of nerve health. The diet is one of fresh fruits and vegetables with only moderate
quantities of fats, sugars, starches and proteins. I prefer the vegetable proteins—nuts and
sunflower seeds are good in these cases.
The important thing for us to remember is that the sclerosis does not belong to the initial stages
of the disease. In these early stages recovery is most likely to take place, providing only that all
impairing influences are removed from the life of the individual and his blood and flesh are freed
of their toxic load.
It is in the initial stage that full recovery is or should be possible, not in the advanced stages
when irreversible changes in the nerve structures have taken place. The ancient adage: “A stitch in
time”—in this case, action in time, can make the difference.
8821
Asthma
A young soprano whose voice and hard work had won her the high honor of being a member of the
Metropolitan Opera found herself in a heartbreaking situation: She had developed a serious
asthmatic condition and could no longer sing.
Her physician told her frankly, “I can give you temporary respite. We have no cure for asthma.”
The desperate singer consulted a specialist who reiterated what the family physician had told
her. There was no
cure.
At that moment this singer faced the prospect of the wreckage of her career, in spite of her
talent, training, work and dreams. She gave up singing. She retired to her farm in New Jersey.
Medicine had written off her chances.
Then she heard of
Natural Hygiene
—the concept of the importance of the body's own healing
capacity. Uncertain—but willing in her predicament to try any possible avenue of help, she
consulted a
Hygienist.
After examining her and hearing her story, he told her, “You can be helped. I believe you can
free yourself of this asthmatic condition if you will do what I tell you—not by medicine or medical
treatment at all.”
“What then?” she demanded.
“Simply fast.”
She did not understand. He explained at length to her the processes of fasting as we have been
discussing them and their techniques in this book.
The young singer grasped at this idea that was entirely new and startling to her.
The fast did the job.
In a matter not of months but of weeks the asthma cleared, within a few months she was back at
the Metropolitan. A career that might otherwise have been smashed on the rocks of asthmatic
suffering was able to return to its triumphant course.
In both the United States and Canada today are thousands of men and women of all ages who
have recovered without any attention being given to the things to which they were told they were
allergic.
Indeed, as I have so often stressed, once they have been restored to full health, they can take a
bath in pollens of all kinds without any ill effects. I have seen long lists of the foods and other
substances to which patients have been shown by the scratch test to be
allergic.
An asthmatic undergoing a fast was in my office one morning when a cat walked into the room.
The asthmatic looked startled—then laughed. “Before coming here,” he told me, “I would have had
an attack of asthma if a cat walked into a room where I happened to be.” He picked up the cat, held
it in his arms, and proceeded to stroke its back. “It feels good to be able to breathe again.”
He had been sent from New England to Arizona, where five years of the “climate
cure”
 had
done him no appreciable good. Asthmatics suffer year after year, often becoming worse with the
passage of time, when all of them could get well in four to eight weeks and remain well for the
remainder of their lives.
Standard text books name several varieties of asthma—including cardiac, renal and bronchial,
89and describe many complications. As we regard all varieties of asthma and all so-called
complications as symptoms rising out of the same general cause, and requiring the same general
corrections of the mode of living, we may ignore, for the present, these differentiations. The
symptom-complexes that are named different disease require special attention only in so far as it is
needful to know where possible, if organic change is so great as to make recovery impossible.
We must not forget the unity of disease and the unity of cause that binds all the so-called
diseases together. The different so-called diseases get their names from the tissues and organs
involved in the pathological process. The symptoms are characteristic of the organs and tissues
and not of the poisoning.
Renal asthma is seen in advanced kidney disease and cardiac asthma is seen in severe heart
disease. In both instances the difficult breathing is due to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs and
to other changes in the lungs. Recovery from these types of asthma depends upon recovery from the
heart or kidney disease. As asthma in these diseases is a development in


 forher many beneficences.
THE POETRY OF EATING.
By Russell H. Chittenden.
" With the mind in a state of pleasurable
anticipation, with freedom from care and worry,which are so liable to act as deterrents to freesecretion, and with the food in a form which,appeals to the eye as well as to the olfactories,its thorough mastication calls forth andprolongs vigorous salivary secretion, with whichthe food becomes intimately intermingled.Salivary digestion is thus at once incited, andthe starch very quickly commences to undergothe characteristic change into soluble products.As mouthful follows mouthful, deglutitionalternates with mastication, and the mixturepasses into the stomach, where salivarydigestion can continue for a limited time only,until the secretion of gastric juice eventuallyestablishes in the stomach-contents a distinctacid reaction, when salivary digestion ceases
through destruction of the starch-convertingenzyme. Need we comment, in view of thenatural brevity of this process, upon thedesirability for purely physiological reasons ofprolonging within reasonable limits the intervalof time the food and saliva are commingled inthe mouth cavity? It seems obvious, in view ofthe relatively large bulk of starch-containingfoods consumed daily, that habits of thoroughmastication should be fostered, with thepurpose of increasing greatly the digestion ofstarch in the very gateway of the alimentarytract. It is true that in the small intestinesthere comes later another opportunity for thedigestion of starch ; but it is unphysiological, asit is undesirable, for various reasons, not totake full advantage of the first opportunitywhich Nature gives for the preparation of thisimportant foodstuff for further utilisation.Further, thorough mastication, by a finecomminution of the food particles, is a materialaid in the digestion which is to take place in thestomach and intestines. Under normalconditions, therefore, and with properobservance of physiological good sense, a large
portion of the ingested starchy foods can bemade ready for speedy absorption andconsequent utilisation through the agency ofsalivary digestion.
" Nowhere in the body do we find a more
forcible illustration of economical method inphysiological processes than in the mechanics ofgastric secretion. Years ago it was thought thatthe flow of gastric juice was due mainly tomechanical stimulation of the gastric glands bycontact of the food material with the lining
membrane of the stomach. This, however, is not
the case, as Pavlov has clearly shown, and it isnow understood that the flow of gastric juice isstarted by impulses which have their origin inthe mouth and nostrils ; the sensations ofeating, the smell, sight and taste of food servingas physical stimuli, which call forth a secretionfrom the stomach glands, just as the samestimuli may induce an outpouring of saliva.These sensations, as Pavlov has ascertained,affect secretory centres in the brain, andimpulses are thus started which traveldownward to the stomach through the vagusnerves, and as a result gastric juice begins to
flow. This process, however, is supplemented byother forms of secretion, likewise reflex, whichare incited by substances, ready formed in thefood, and by substances—products of digestion—which are manufactured from the food in thestomach. Soups, meat juice, and the extractivesof meat, likewise dextrin and kindred products,when present in the stomach, are especiallyactive in provoking secretion. When the latterfoods have been in the stomach for a time,however, and the proteid material hasundergone partial digestion, then absorption ofthe products so formed calls forth energeticsecretion of gastric juice. It is ihus seen thatthere are three ways—all reflex—by whichgastric juice is caused to flow into the stomachas a prelude to gastric digestion. Further, it hasbeen shown by Pavlov that there is arelationship between the volume and characterof the gastric juice secreted and the amount andcomposition of the food ingested, thussuggesting a certain adjustment in the directionof physiological economy well worthy of note. Adiet of bread, for example, leads to the secretionof a smaller volume of gastric juice than a
corresponding weight of meat produces, but thejuice secreted under the influence of bread isricher in pepsin and acid, i.e., it has a greater
digestive action than the juice produced bymeat. The suggestion is that gastric juiceassumes different degrees of concentration, withdifferent proportions of acid and pepsin, to meetthe varying requirements of a changingdietary."CHAPTER VIII
THE THREE  INCHES  OF  PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY
The Effect of Prejudice—Professor Fisher's Experiment.
WHILE Professor Cannon was groping about
in Nature's alimentary preserves incomparative darkness, I concentrated myattention upon the first three inches of thecanal which comprise the field of our personalresponsibility, and which has been neglected bymost of the students of the subject.
While the area considered was right out in
front, and open to visual inspection all the time,the opportunity to study its most importantfeatures having to do with nutrition was notcontinuous. Mr. Edison may rivet his attentionon an electrical problem and stick to it for forty-eight hours on a stretch, but Taste is onlyoccasionally on exhibition for observation andcannot be pressed into long service at any onetime. For test of normal Taste only the timerequired for the most economic nutrition is
available. A real body-need with keen appetiteis the first healthy excuse for calling on Taste toperform. Normal appetite, too, being satisfiedwith appetising foods, is of brief duration. Onemay linger over a meal as long as desired,enjoying the intimate memory of the gustatorygratification in leisurely process, but in case of afirst-class labouring man's hunger and theexigency of a railway station dinner in themidst of a desert, industrious application offaithful Fletcherizing for fifteen minutes willusually supply the real needs of the moment foreight hours at least. This estimate involves ahealthy condition of the nutrition department,including an abundance of powerful saliva forthe hastening of the mouth treatment, but sucha beatific facility can be secured in a very shorttime by the faithful and intelligent employmentof all departments of head digestion.
A person who specialises on the mouth end of
the alimentary canal has plenty of time to restbetween inspections. He will naturally watchfor any feeling of results that may happen whileMother Nature is doing her twenty-five feet ofdigestion and absorption, but if his part has
been performed properly, there will be no newsof the process until there is something toexcrete from the material ingested. When thisoccurs, if a microscope is handy for minuteinspection, it will be found that most of theexcreta is composed of what I think of as thedandruff of the alimentary canal. It is composedof shapeless particles of skin which have beendiscarded by the mucous surface of the canal inthe same manner that dead skin is beingcontinually detached from the head and allparts of the external surface of the body.Depending on the nature of the food, there maybe small particles also of indigestible cellulosefrom vegetable foods and the condensed solids ofthe digestive juices when they have been usedand worn out.
THE EFFECT  OF PREJUDICE.
I have noticed that the early prejudices in
favour of or against foods are likely to prevailthroughout life. I have observed this in trying tosecure local appreciation for my own favouriteNew England dishes in foreign countries.Tinning, or canning, science has made it
possible to serve Boston baked beans and brownbread or even an entire Thanksgiving Dinner inJapan or Borneo, but it is impossible to excitenative appreciation for them commensuratewith the cost and trouble of the transportation.In Scandinavia, where they file the appetite tothe keenest of edges with the piquancy of the" Smoer Broed," or " Smoer Goes,"* theAmerican taste for very sweet things is notappreciated. Chocolates for that market aremore bitter than sweet, and so it goesthroughout the world where head digestion isimportant in determining the prescription offoods.
At one time, during a year and a half of travel
in unusual countries where the French, Englishor American menu is not easily available, I
never missed an opportunity to study the effectof head prejudice on digestion. If the fortunateopportunity occurs to sample the sumptuous" ris tavel " of Java, there will be the best ofchances to confirm my observation in this
* Literally " Butter-goose"; a table set apart, with bread and
butter and a variety of snacks.regard. This dish is varied in sumptuousness, or
variety, but the humblest offering of it consistsof a large and deep soup plate piled high in themiddle with snowy rice with each individualgrain unbroken. This, to begin with, is atriumph of oriental culinary art. Surroundingthis rice mountain are dabs of every sort of a" relish " any one ever imagined. You selectthese from tiers of plates borne in each hand byas many as a dozen servants, following eachother in procession, and presentingopportunities of choice amounting to twenty ormore, perhaps even thirty or more inextraordinary cases. Hence it is the privilege ofthe guest to take much or little of any, or all, ofthe condiments according to the state of hisappetite or greed. All the colours and nearly thewhole food kingdom are represented, and thetemptation is