 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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 in ter ms of “percentage of high-carbohydrate, high-protein, and high-fat
foods.” Given that the items raw fooders deem “high protein” (nuts and s eeds) average 75% of calories from fat, the problem
becomes apparent rather quickly.
When you follow this author’s “low-fat” guideline (“50% carbohydrate, 30 –35% protein, and 10–15% oils,”) you end up
eating about 30% fat. The high-fat version of his plan (“50% protein, 30–35% carbohydrate, an d 20–25% oils”) yields a minimum
of 60% fat. Although he acknowledges the necessity to moderate the fat con tent of “protein foods” by consuming expensive high-
protein powdered supplements, my experience is that adherents of his plan s lather on the fat with abandon, with little or no
awareness of the extent to which their diets are predominated by fat.
The table below provides another example of the misleading results we ge t when analyzing nutrient content by volume rather
than calories. Consider a salad made of just two ingredients: 6 cups of le ttuce and ¼ cup of almonds. As this table shows, the
almonds account for just 4% of the volume but—surprisingly to many— nearly 80% of the calories.

In Appendix A I provide analyses of sample meals that use real recipes  and quantities, to help you begin to get a sense of how
your daily meals stack up in terms of caloronutrient ratio.

The Bull’s Eye: 80/10/10rv
For those who choose to follow the healthiest version of 80/10/10  in order to achieve off-the-charts results in every aspect of
your well-being, we add the suffix rv, standing for “raw vegan,” to the 80/10/10  designation. Also called the “low-fat raw vegan
diet,” 80/10/10rv  presents you with the life-changing opportunity to partake exc lusively of Nature’s bounty—consuming only whole,
fresh, unprocessed and undressed plant foods in the form Mother Earth presen ts them to us.
I have eaten substantially this way and used the 80/10/10rv  program, as it has evolved, with clients for more than twenty years
—with astonishing results. This approach to diet and nutrition has p roven over that time to be the healthiest dietary regimen known
to man. By the time you finish this book, you will have the specifics you nee d to implement this program in your life.

How Close to 80/10/10 Am I?
How does 80/10/10  compare to your  caloronutrient ratio? Well, naturally, each of us is unique, but the ge neralizations are
telling. Various sources suggest that Americans consume 40 to 50% of ca lories from carbohydrates, about 16% protein, and about
35 to 45% fat. 28  After twenty years of doing dietary analysis for my clients, I have  observed that 42/16/42 is typical for most
people.
As this book explains, most of us in the U.S.—even vegetarians and veg ans—tend to gravitate toward this 42/16/42 average,
a proportion that provides far less fuel (carbohydrate) than our bodies need in order to thrive … and a seriously dangerous level of
fat.
You will also step through some calculations so that you can assess the  caloronutrient ratio of commonly consumed raw food
plans. You will see for yourself, through simple examples, something th at became apparent to me years ago: Raw fooders, for the
most part, are consuming astonishing levels of fat—sometimes twi ce that of the fast-food-eating mainstream! Naturally, cooked fat
carries with it a host of problems not present in raw fats, but high level s of either can wreak tremendous havoc with our health.
If you are new to the high-produce way of eating, consider yourself lucky t o have encountered this information early in your
quest. With this book, you can steer clear of the pitfalls that leave so man y vegetarians and raw food enthusiasts disheartened and
unsure of where to turn next. If you are a raw fooders, this book may catapult y ou into a whole new reality, as answers to long-
standing nagging questions begin to emerge. You may find light bulbs goi ng on as you begin to understand why you or your friends
may not have quite thrived as promised on this “healthiest of all diet s.”

Tracking Your Own Numbers
In Appendix D. Resources for Diet Analysis, I describe online tools and othe r resources that you can use to get a sense of
what you are eating. I encourage you to take the time to learn to use a nut rient-analysis tool, at least for a short while. Perhaps the
most important use of these automated calculators is to make sure you get  enough calories for your size and activity level. This is of
critical importance, as undereating in terms of calories is one of the  main reasons that people fail to thrive on a high-produce diet.
To keep it simple, a week or so of tracking your meals online can give you suffi cient information to begin seeing the true
composition of your diet. From there, you will be able to recognize pitfalls and s tart adjusting your caloronutrient ratio. After that,
you may want to log on and catalog a day’s consumption here and there, or as ne w foods come into season, just to make sure you
are still on track … but soon 80/10/10  will become second nature, and no such effort will be necessary.
 Relax … We’ll Get There Together
Most folks find dietary changes more challenging than almost anythi ng else in life. Many patients have come to me desperate
to solve some serious health issue, saying “Doc, I will do anything you sa y, follow any program you suggest. Just don’t mess with my
diet.”
Rare indeed (and gratifying) are the few who are so motivated to feel bet ter that they change directions on a dime. But I
acknowledge that dietary shifts are daunting for nearly everybody. Wit h this in mind, I created the 80/10/10  diet to allow everyone
to transition at a comfortable speed.
By focusing on the caloronutrient ratio (the percentage of carbohydrat es, proteins and fats), rather than on the specific foods,
this plan allows you to set your own pace. Succeeding on 80/10/10  is simply a matter of adjusting the volume of the foods you eat,
in relation to each other, to move yourself in the direction of your target. Gradually increasing healthful carbs from whole fruit and
decreasing fat will work just fine and is far better than making no cha nge at all. The results, especially when tracked with colorful
graphs on Nutridiary.com (See Appendix D. Resources for Diet Analysis  on page 332), will provide you with motivation to continue
making improvements.
Though food diaries and numerical analyses can be helpful, you do not need to buy  a food scale or log meals each day to
receive value from this book. On the pages that follow, I provide the informat ion, meal plans, and sample calculations to give you a
clear idea of how to incorporate the 80/10/10  formula into your life, with or without the high-tech tools.
Just giving conscious thought to what you eat with the caloronutrien t ratio in mind is a first step in the right direction. You can
spend as much or as little effort as you want becoming familiar with you r current diet and how it compares with the 80/10/10  plan.
Please, look to this book for inspiration and guidance toward the body and the health  you desire, but do not be discouraged.
Some people tell me that they feel overwhelmed as they become painfully  aware of how much fat they have been eating and how far
they have strayed from their goals. To those I say take heart … and relax. T he confusion will clear as we step through these pages
together.
By the time you finish reading this book, I venture to say that the road to su ccess will seem nearer and easier for you to follow.
If what you read makes sense and you are ready to take your health and your body t o new levels, simply start steering toward
80/10/10  … the results will come quickly. If you need support and more information, vis it my online discussion group, at
www.VegSource.com  (click on Raw & Sports/Graham).
Even when you have the 80/10/10  concept down to a science, you will never eat in that ratio at every meal, nor even every
day (nor should you). In reality, you will you eat more fat on some days and less  on others. The goal is to eat 80/10/10  as an
average, for an entire year or more. Once you have done that, I’d wager you w ill never look back.

Chapter 5. Carbohydrate: 80% Minimum

Nutritionists and health-minded diet professionals generally agre e that 60 to 80% of our calories need to come from carbohydrates.
Having established so far in this book that the percentage of total calori es in our diet to be provided by both fat and protein should
run in the single digits (not more than 10% each), we can


 fear they need more calcium to avoidosteoporosis and to give their children good teeth. What pasteurized milk actuallydoes to their children is make them calcium deficient and makes the children toxic,provoking many colds, ear infections, sinusitis, inflammations of the tonsils andlung infections, and, induces an allergy to milk in the children.
The Development Of Allergies
There are three ways a body can become allergic. (1) It can have a genetic
predisposition for a specific allergy to start with. (2) It can be repeatedly exposedto an irritating substance such as pollen when, at the same time, the body’smechanism for dealing with irritations is weakened. Generally weak adrenalscauses this because the adrenal’s job is to produce hormones that reduceinflammation. Once the irritating substance succeeds at producing a significantinflammation, a secondary reaction may be set up, called an allergy. Onceestablished, an allergy is very hard to get rid of.
(3) An allergy can develop in a way very similar to the second case, but
instead of being irritated by an external substance, it is irritated by repeatedlyfailing to properly, fully digest something. Pasteurized milk for example, basicallyimpossible to completely digest even in its low-fat form, often sets up an allergythat applies to other forms of cows milk, even raw, unpasteurized cows milk or
yogurt. Eating too much white flour can eventually set off a wheat allergy. My
husband developed a severe allergy to barley after drinking too much home-brewed beer; he also became highly intolerant to alcohol. Now he has allergicreactions to both alcohol and barley. And gets far sicker from drinking beer (twoseparate allergies) than from wheat beer, hard liquor or wine (only one allergy).
Eating too much of any single food, or repeatedly eating too much of an
otherwise very good food at one time, can eventually overwhelm the body’sability to digest it fully. Then, the finest whole food products may set up an allergicreaction. Worse, this allergic reaction itself subsequently prevents proper digestioneven when only moderate quantities are eaten.
An allergy may not be recognized as an allergy because it may not manifest as
the instant skin rash or stuffy nose or swollen glands or sticky eyes. that peopleusually think of when they think “allergic reaction.” Food allergies can cause manykinds of symptoms, from sinusitis to psychosis, from asthma to arthritis, fromhyperactivity to depression, insomnia to narcolepsy—and commonly thesymptoms don’t manifest immediately after eating. Frequently, allergic reactions
are so low grade as to be unnoticeable and may not produce an observablecondition until many years of their grinding down the vital force has passed. Whenthe condition finally appears it is hard to associate it with some food that has beenconsumed for years, apparently with impunity.
Thus it is that many North Americans have developed allergies to wheat, dairy,
soy products (because many soy foods are very hard to digest), corn and eggs.These are such common, widespread, frequently found allergies that anyoneconsidering a dietary cause of their complaints might just cut all these foods out ofthe diet for a few weeks just to see what happens. And individuals may be allergicto anything from broccoli to bacon, strawberries to bean sprouts. Unraveling foodallergies sometimes requires the deductions of a Sherlock Holmes.
However, food allergies are very easy to cure if you can get the suffererer to
take the medicine. Inevitably, allergic reactions vanish in about five days of
abstinence. Anyone with sufficient self-discipline to water fast for five days can
cure themselves of all food allergies at one step. Then, by a controlled, gradualreintroduction of foods, they can discover which individual items cause trouble.See Coca’s Pulse Test in the Appendix where you’ll find step-by-step instructionsfor allergy testing that are less rigorous, not requiring a preliminary fast.
Flour, And Other Matters Relating To Seeds
One of the largest degradations to human health was caused by the roller mill.
This apparently profitable machine permitted the miller to efficiently separatewheat flour into three components: bran, germ and endosperm. Since bread madewithout bran and germ is lighter and appears more “upper class” it becameinstantly popular. Flour without germ and bran also had an industrial application—it could be stored virtually forever without being infested by insects because whiteflour does not contain enough nutrition to support life. Most health consciouspeople are aware that white flour products won’t support healthful human lifeeither.
Essentially, white flour’s effect on humans is another demonstration of Health =
Nutrition / Calories. When the bran and germ are discarded, remaining are thecalories and much of the protein, lacking are many vitamins and minerals andother vital nutritional substances.
Whole wheat bread has been called the staff of life. In ages past, healthy
cultures have made bread the predominant staple in their diet. Does that meanyou can just go to the bakery and buy whole grain bread, or go to the healthfoodstore and buy organically grown whole wheat flour, bake your own, and be ashealthy as the ancients? Sorry, the answer is almost certainly no. There are pitfalls,many of them, waiting for the unwary.
White flour has one other advantage over whole wheat flour. It not only
remains free of insect infestation, it doesn’t become stale (meaning rancid). In thewheat germ (where the embryo resides) there is considerable oil, containing
among other things, about the best natural source of vitamin E. This oil is highly
unsaturated and once the seed is ground the oil goes rancid in a matter of days.Whole wheat flour kept on the unrefrigerated shelf of the store is almost certainlyrancid. A lot of its other vitamin content has been oxidized too. If the wheat flourhad flowed directly from the grinder into an airtight sack and from there directly tothe freezer, if it had been flash frozen and kept extremely cold, it might have astorage life of some months. Of course that was not the case. Maybe you’relucky and your healthfood store is one of the very few that has its own small-scaleflour mill and grinds daily. Probably not.
How about your baker’s whole wheat bread? Where does the baker get
flour? From the wholesaler’s or distributor’s warehouse! In fifty pound kraftpapersacks! How much time had elapsed from milling to wholesaler to baker tobaking? The answer has to be in the order of magnitude of weeks. And it mightbe months. Was the flour stored frozen? Or airtight? Of course not.
If you want bread made from freshly ground flour you are almost certainly
have to grind and bake it yourself. Is it worth the trouble? You bet. Once you’vetasted real bread you’ll instantly see by comparison what stale, rancid wholewheat flour tastes like. Freshly ground flour makes bread that can be the staff oflife and can enormously upgrade your health— if the wheat you use is any good.
But before we talk about wheat quality, a more few words of warning. If you
think wheat goes rancid rapidly, rye is even worse. Rye flour goes bad so fast thatwhen you buy it in the store it usually is the rye equivalent of white wheat flour.The germ has been removed. The bag may not say so. But it probably has. If youare going to make rye breads, even more reason to grind your own. Corn mealfrom the grocery store has usually been degerminated too. If it hasn’t been, the oilin the seed’s germ has probably gone rancid.
Grinding flour at home is easy these days. There is an abundance of at-home
milling products and no shortage of hype about them. You’ll find staunchadvocates of stone mills. These produce the finest-textured flour, but are costly.
The sales pitch is that stones grind at low temperature and do not damage the oils
(remember the development of rancidity is a function of temperature) or thevitamins, which are also destroyed at high temperature. This assertion is half true.If you are going to store your flour it is far better to grind it cool. However, if youare, as we do, going to immediately bake your flour, what difference does it makeif it gets a little warm before baking. That only accelerates the action of the yeast.
On the negative side, stone mills grind slowly and are very fussy about which
grains they will grind. If the cereal is a bit moist or if the seed being ground is alittle bit oily, the mill becomes instantly blocked.
Steel burr mills grind fast and coarsely and are inexpensivebut coarse flour
makes heavy bread. The metal grinding faces tend to wear out and have to bereplaced occasionally—if they can be replaced. Breads on the heavy side are stilldelicious; for many years I made bread with an inexpensive steel burr millattachment that came with my juicer.
Some steel burr mills will also grind oily seed like sesame and sunflower.
However, oily seeds can be ground far more easily half-a-cup at a time in a littleinexpensive electric spice/coffee mill, the sort with a single fast-spinning propeller.
I currently think the best compromise are hammermills. The grain dribbles into
a chamber full of fast-spinning teeth that literally pound the grain into powder.Since air flows through with the grain the flour is not heated very much. This typeof mill is small, very fast, intermediate in price between steel mills and stone mill,lasts a long time, but when grinding, sounds like a Boeing 747 about to take off. Itis essential to wear hearing protectors when using it.
Awareness of


 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


 one lifetime. Be happy.  Oh, I am. But I can always hope for more!
Yes! And you will! Alwa ys you will hope for
more. It is in your nature. It is divine  nature
to seek always to be more.
So seek, yes, by all means seek.
Now I want to answer definitively the
question with which you started this
segment of  our ongoing conversation.
Go ahead and do  what you really love to
do! Do nothing else! You have so little time.
How can you think of wasting a moment
doing something for a living you don’t like
to do? What kind of a living is that? That is
not a living, that is a dying!
If you say, “But, but...I have others who
depend on me...little mouths to feed...a
spouse who is looking to me...” I will
answer: If you insist that your life is about what  your body is doing, you do not
understand why you came here. At least do
something that pleases you —that spea ks
of Who You Are.
Then at least you can stay out of
resentment and anger toward those you
imagine  are keeping you from your joy.
What your body is doing is not to be
discounted. It is important. But not in the
way that you think. The actions of the body
were meant to be reflections of a state of
being, not attempts to attain a state of
being.
In the true order of things one does not do
something in order to be happy —one is
happy and, hence, does something. One
does not do some things in order to be
compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way. The
soul’s  decision precedes the body’s action
in a highly conscious person. Only an
unconscious person attempts to produce a
state of the soul through something the
body is doing.
This is what is meant by the statement,
“Your life is not about what your body is
doing.” Yet it is true that what your body is
doing is a reflection of what your life is
about.
It is another divine dichotomy.
Yet, know this if you understand nothing
else:
You have a right to your joy; children or no
children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it!
Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no
matter how much money you make or  don’t make. And if they aren’t joyful, and they get
up and leave you, then release  them w ith
love to seek their joy.
If, on the other hand, you have evolved to
the point where things of the body are not
of concern to you, then you are even more
free to seek your joy —on Earth as it is in
heaven. God says it’s okay to be happy —
yes, even happy in  your work.
Your life work is a statement of Who You
Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it?
Do you imagine that you have to? You don’t
have to do anything.
If “man who supports his family, at all costs,
even his own happiness” is Who You  Are,
then l ove your work, because it is
facilitating your creation of a living
statement  of Self.  If “woman who works at job she hates in
order to meet responsibilities as she sees
them” is Who You Are, then love, love, love
your job, for it totally supports your Sel f-
image, your Self -concept.
Everyone can love everything the moment
they understand what they are doing, and
why.
No one does anything he doesn’t want to
do.
  Chapter 13
How can I solve some of the health
problems I face? I have been the victim of
enough chronic problems to last three
lifetimes. Why am I having them all now —
in this lifetime?
First, let’s get one thing straight. You love
them. Most of them, anyway. You’ve used
them admirably to feel sorry for yourself
and to get attention for yourself.
On t he few occasions when you haven’t
loved them, it’s only because they’ve gone
too far. Farther than you thought they ever
would when you created them.
Now let’s understand what you probably
already know: all illness is self -created.
Even conventional medica l doctors are now seeing how people make themselves
sick.
Most people do so quite unconsciously.
(They don’t even know what they’re doing.)
So when they get sick, they don’t know
what hit them. It feels as though something
has befallen them, rather than th at they did
something to themselves.
This occurs because most people move
through life —not simply health issues and
consequences —unconsciously.
People smoke and wonder why they get
cancer.
People ingest animals and fat and wonder
why they get blocked arter ies.
People stay angry all their lives and wonder
why they get heart attacks. People
compete with other people —mercilessly and under incredible stress —and wonder
why they have strokes.
The not -so-obvious truth is that most
people worry themselves to death.
Worry is just about the worst form of mental
activity there is —next to hate, which is
deeply self-destructive. Worry is pointless.
It is wasted mental energy. It also creates
bio-chemical reactions which harm the
body, producing everything from
indigestion  to coronary arrest, and a
multitude of things in between.
Health will improve almost at once when
worrying ends.
Worry is the activity of a mind which does
not understand its connection with Me.  Hatred is the most severely damaging
mental condi tion. It poisons the body, and
its effects are virtually irreversible.
Fear is the opposite of everything you are,
and so has an effect of opposition to your
mental and physical health. Fear is worry
magnified. Worry, hate, fear —together  with
their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness,
impatience, avarice, unkindness,
judgmentalness, and condemnation —all
attack the body at the cellular level. It is
impossible to have a healthy body under
these conditions.
Similarly —although to a somewhat lesser
degree —conc eit, self -indulgence, and
greed lead to physical illness, or lack of
well-being. All illness is created first in the
mind.  How can that be? What of conditions
contracted from another? Colds —or, for
that matter, AIDS?
Nothing occurs in your life —nothing —
which is not first a thought. Thoughts are
like magnets, drawing effects to you. The
thought may not always be obvious, and
thus clearly causative, as in, “I’m going to
contract a terrible disease.” The thought
may be (and usually is) far more subtle
than tha t (“I am not worthy to live.”) (“My life
is always a mess.”) (“I am a loser.”) (“God
is going to punish me.”) (“I am sick and tired
of my life!”).
Thoughts are a very subtle, yet extremely
powerful, form of energy. Words are less
subtle, more dense. Action s are the most
dense of all. Action is energy in heavy
physical form, in heavy motion. When you think, say, and act out a negative concept
such as “I am a loser,” you place
tremendous creative energy into motion.
Small  wonder you come down with a cold.
That would be the least of it.
It is very difficult to reverse the effects of
negative thinking once they have taken
physical form. Not impossible —but very
difficult. It takes an act of extreme faith. It
requires an extraordinary belief in the
positive force of the universe —whether you
call that God, Goddess, the Unmoved
Mover, Prime Force, First Cause, or
whatever.
Healers have just such faith. It is a faith that
crosses over into Absolute Knowing.  They
know that you are meant to be whole,
complete, and perfect in this moment  now.
This knowingness is also a thought —and a very powerful one. It has the power  to move
mountains —to say nothing of molecules in
your body. That is why healers  can heal,
often even at a distance.
Thought knows no distance. Thought
travels around the world and traverses the
universe faster than you can say the word.
“Say but the word and my servant shall  be
healed.” And it was so, in that self -same
hour, even before his sentence was
finished. Such was the faith of the
centurion.
Yet you are all mental lepers. Your mind is
eaten away with negative thoughts.  Some
of these are thrust upon you. Many of these
you actually make up —conjure  up—
yourselves, and then harbor and entertain
for hours, days, weeks, months —even
years. ...and you wond er why you are sick.
You can “solve some of the health
problems,” as you put it, by solving the


 study, DMSO was shown to differentiate cultured P19
embryonic carcinoma cells into beating cardiomyocyte-like cells. The differentia -
tion by DMSO 1% was accelerated by a differentiation-inducing factor-1 (Br-DIF-1),
which turned the cancer cells into spontaneously beating  ca rdiomyocyte-like cells,
partly by enhancing the expression of the T-type Ca2+ channel gene.42 These results
suggest that accelerating DMSO-induced differentiation of embryonic cancer cells by using Br-DIF-1 as a supplement is able to spontaneously change cancer cells into beating cardiomyocyte-like cells, while lowering the concentration of DMSO to safer levels.
45
A similar P19 embryonic carcinoma cell line derived from stem cells confirmed
the ability of DMSO to differentiate these cells into cardiomyocytes. Experiments such as these suggest the possibility that differentiated cancer cells derived from stem cells are a promising intervention for cardiac repair and that DMSO may be a key agent in this transformation.
46
Just as important is the exciting possibility of induction by DMSO of cardiomyo -
cytes from embryonic stem cells that could be used for transplantation to repair the heart after a heart attack or in conditions where left ventricular failure impairs the heart’s pumping capacity. Although this clinical approach to a damaged heart is still in its research infancy, it raises optimism that one day it could become the great -
est revolution in cardiovascular medicine in a century. Work has already begun in attempting to make this heart repair a reality, and preliminary clinical findings have indicated the feasibility of this approach.
The versatility of DMSO can be seen when other cancer cell differentiators
are compared to DMSO. When oxytocin was used as a P19 cancer cell differen -
tiator, aggregated P19 cells could be differentiated into cardiomyocytes, but mono -
layer cells did not differentiate and express specific cardiac muscle marker genes. However, when DMSO was used instead of oxytocin, both aggregates and monolayer cells could be differentiated into cardiomyocytes.
47
A study explored the preventive effects of DMSO on experimental hepatic fibrosis
induced by dimethylnitrosamine in rats.48 DMSO 2 mL/kg daily for 4 weeks was
given orally in the drinking water, and at the end of the observation period, DMSO
was seen to prevent the dimethylnitrosamine-induced body and liver weight loss
with no major side effects. Significantly, DMSO also suppressed the induction of hepatic fibrosis and the expression of mRNA for type-1 collagen in the liver as deter -
mined by histological evaluation and reduced hepatic hydroxyproline.
48 This study 90 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
also determined that DMSO inhibited lipopolysaccharide-induced tumor necrosis
factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and nitric oxide production as reflected by reduced TNF-alpha mRNA levels.
48
TNF-alpha is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that can be produced by a wide vari -
ety of cells and is involved in an assortment of pathological processes and a wide spectrum of human diseases. TNF-alpha is associated with chronic inflammation and autoimmune disorders as well as malignant disease and tumor development.
49
TNF-alpha is often used experimentally to produce cell damage. This was the
case in a study where TNF-alpha was added to human keratinocyte cultures to induce toxic production of metalloproteinase-9 and metalloproteinase-9 mRNA expression.
50 As metalloproteinases formed in the keratinocyte culture, an inflam -
matory environment was created that simulated impaired chronic wound healing. In situations where inflammation is allowed to continue, TNF-alpha and its product metalloproteinase-9 can persist in wounds and impede normal healing. Following DMSO 1% v/v administration to the inflammatory keratinocytic preparation,
 metalloproteinase-9 was inhibited, and metalloproteinase-9 mRNA expression lev -
els were significantly  l owered.50 The results imply that DMSO blocked TNF-alpha
induction of inflammatory metalloproteinase molecules possibly at the transcrip -
tion level.50
The pathological activities of TNF-alpha are not restricted to inflammation. Its
association with many disorders is reflected by its correlation with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality.
51 However, much research has focused on inhibiting the
effects of TNF-alpha in such diseases as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease.
For this reason, a number of anti-TNF-alpha inhibitors such as infliximab and
adalimumab have been approved by the FDA for prescription use in the United States for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease, which constitute a billion-dollar industry despite their reported serious adverse effects that include non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, heart failure, demyelinating disease, and systemic infec -
tions, including tuberculosis.
52,53
Curiously, despite its relative cost-effectiveness, safety, and efficacy as a TNF-
alpha blocker and powerful anti-inflammatory agent, DMSO has not yet been tested in clinical trials against these debilitating disorders.
DMSO was studied as an anticancer agent by one of the great cell biologists of
the twentieth century, Charlotte Friend. Among the many contributions to the field of cancer research made by Charlotte Friend, while working at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, was to isolate the first virus shown to cause leukemia in adult Swiss mice. Her original observations had an enormous impact on the growing field of leukemia and sarcoma tumor viruses.
54 The last 20 years of Friend’s career was spent studying
cell differentiation induced by Friend leukemia virus made possible with the use of DMSO.
The Friend leukemia virus was originally perceived as a disorder resulting from a
defect in cell maturation. It was discovered that these leukemic cells were not subject
to control by normal regulators such as erythropoietin or hemoglobin. Investigators
using the Friend leukemia virus model reported that DMSO increased the infec -
tivity of some viruses, but when Friend tried to increase the virus infectivity with DMSO, she discovered instead that this solvent could induce differentiation of Friend 91 DMSO in Genetics
erythroleukemia cells with a loss of their malignant potential.55 This monumental
discovery has led to the hope that less toxic forms of cancer therapy using DMSO or
similar agents may be achieved based on the induction of cytodifferentiation. Friend and her coworkers published a series of papers showing induced cytodifferentia -
tion of Friend leukemia cells to normal erythrocyte maturation, thus confirming the role of DMSO in the differentiation process.
56,57 The experiments by Friend et al.
were reproduced by others who reported erythroid cell–transforming spleen focus-forming virus exposed to DMSO-induced erythroid differentiation of these cells.
58,59
Treating malignant tumors through the induction of cell differentiation as shown
in a number of experiments using DMSO thus became an attractive concept in onco -
logical research that still continues to this day.
Friend speculated that the loss of malignancy potential for the leukemia cells
might reflect a toxic action by DMSO, which could injure these cells so they were not able to replicate and grow malignant after a prolonged (96 h) exposure to 280 mM DMSO.
55 However, this assumption was never proven. Despite these
encouraging in vitro  results, in vivo  experiments to test the chemotherapeutic
potential of DMSO in infected Swiss mice using a 7% DMSO solution in the drinking water neither prolonged the life of the infected mice nor improved their disease course when compared to nontreated controls.
55 The 1975 study by
Friend and Scher55 was a kiss of death for DMSO investigations as an anticancer
agent for nearly a decade because after Friend’s negative DMSO findings, sci -
entists decided that this research avenue was not worth pursuing. On the other hand, the negative rodent findings by Friend and Scher
55 have not, to the best
of our knowledge, been replicated. If another rat experiment using DMSO in
the drinking water is attempted, a  m inimum 28% or higher solution of DMSO
in the drinking water for several weeks may be a more realistic dose than a 7% solution as used by Friend in her study.
55 The reason is that DMSO is quickly
excreted from the body after oral ingestion, and a cumulative therapeutic serum concentration is unlikely to result from a dose of 10% or less. The trick is to get rats to drink the same amount of water daily at a comparable rate to untreated controls using the bitter-tasting DMSO solution mixed into the drinking water. This was achieved using 28% DMSO in the drinking water to which several drops of an artificial sweetener had been added. Rats were observed to drink their daily 100 mL water ration for several months consistently in both DMSO and untreated controls.
60
This trick of neutralizing the bitter taste of DMSO in water may have been used in
another experiment. For example, a study was done to determine whether DMSO is able to potentiate anticancer activity when given in conjunction with other antitumor drugs against a rodent tumor.
61 DMSO was given in the drinking water at nontoxic doses rang -
ing from 25% to 32% mixed with other anticancer agents. It was found that continuous DMSO ingestion from daily water drinking potentiated the antitumor agents’ ability to significantly reduce tumor growth and prolong the survival time of tumor-bearing rats


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 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


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


 the late stages, recovery
is not always possible.
Bronchial asthma, which is defined as recurrent paroxysms of difficult breathing (dyspnea) and
coughing, is a catarrhal condition involving the mucous membrane of the lower respiratory
passages. The asthma is more or less spasmodic and is always accompanied by catarrhal
affections in other parts of the body. There is a catarrh of the nose and throat, commonly sinusitis,
often gastritis or colitis and metritis or cystitis. Indeed, the catarrh exists for some time before
asthmatic symptoms appear.
Asthma is found everywhere, in all classes of peple. It is found in both warm and cold
countries, in wet and dry climates, in high and low altitudes, among the rich and in the poor, the
high and the low, the short
and thin, the fat and the lean, the light and the dark. Men, women and
children develop the disease and it is seen at times in pampered animals. In those very climates to
which asthmatics are sometimes sent to seek a
cure
, people native to the community and the
climate often develop asthma.
Two people practice bad habits for years, one of them being about as indulgent as the other, and
one of them develops asthma, the other develops arthritis. Why does one pay for his bad habits in
one way and the other in another? We are in the habit of saying that this is due to diathesis or
predisposition, but these are words that explain little.
Why is one so disposed and the other differently disposed? Why does one man develop kidney
disease and another man develop gallstones? Why do two men equally exposed to the rigors of a
blizzard not both develop pneumonia? Why does one have pneumonia and the other only a cold?
Why does one man have bronchial catarrh for years and never develop asthmatic symptoms, and
another have the same catarrh and also the asthmatic symptoms? It is now customary to say that one
is allergic and the other is not, but this is another word that explains nothing.
The asthmatic is a neurotic; by this, I mean that he is predisposed to develop nervous diseases.
But what is the predisposition? The answer, I believe firmly, lies primarily in constitutional
weaknesses, growing, in many instances, out of heredity, in other cases out of larval deficiencies,
resulting from faulty nutrition in the parents and grandparents.
Other factors that may be involved in producing what is called predisposition are habit and
environmental stresses. Tobacco stresses the heart and lungs overeating stresses the liver and
kidneys; too much physical activity stresses the heart and joints; fear stresses the heart and nervous
system. These are but samples of stresses to organs and systems that are part of the conventional
ways of life. Such stresses weaken and impair organs and functions and lay the groundwork for
90local pathological evolutions.
Cold and heat and dryness and wetness and other environmental factors may place enough stress
upon the body to do harm. Sudden extremes of such factors may precipitate a crisis.
We trace asthma, as we do all other so-called diseases, to a blood and flesh condition which we
denominate toxemia. It is caused by a mode of living that expends nerve energy excessively, brings
on a state of nerve fatigue which we call enervation, so that the functions of life are carried on at a
low physiological level. Consequently, elimination of waste is checked so that it tends to
accumulate in the blood, lymph and tissues.
The presence of more than a physiological amount of waste in the body—at all times there is
waste being carried by the blood and lymph away from the cells for excretion—results in irritation
and inflammation. In those individuals in whom this development takes place, the foundation for
asthma is laid in the respiratory tract.
That this explanation of the cause of asthma is valid is shown by the fact
that elimination of
toxemia, restoration of normal nerve energy and correction of the mode of living results in a
permanent clearing up of symptoms and the individual no longer suffers with asthma. As no other
means of care results in a more rapid freeing of the body of its toxic load than physiological rest,
nothing brings relief from asthmatic paroxysms as certainly and as speedily as the fast.
But relief is not all the sufferer wishes. He wants to get well and this is precisely what he
accomplishes if the fast is conducted long enough and his mode of eating and living after the fast
are made to conform to his genuine physiological needs.
The length of the fast required to enable the asthmatic to breathe freely and easily will depend
on the severity of the condition. Usually within twenty-four to thirty-six hours the worst cases are
enabled to lie flat in their beds and to breathe easily and sleep. Breathing is not normal at this
stage, as the stethoscope quickly reveals. There will be rales in the lungs, as there will be mucus
in these structures. Indeed, the secretion of mucus will not cease for several days.
I favor carrying the fast to the clearing up of all abnormal sounds in the lungs, if this is possible.
In very thin and weak individuals this is not always to be recommended. In such instances, a fast as
long as it is safe must be followed by a period of light eating and then another fast is
recommended. In long-standing cases of this kind, several short fasts and periods of careful
feeding may be required before full recovery results.
Some fasting advocates advise not taking nourishment until at least thirty-six hours after all
asthmatic symptoms have cleared up. But these experts also urge a return to the fast if eating is
followed by asthmatic sensations. The recurrence of symptoms so soon after eating is resumed is
certain evidence that the fast has not been carried far enough to permit full systematic readjustment.
I do not favor playing with asthma in this manner. In the long run, where a more extended fast is
possible, it will prove more effective and the results will be far more satisfactory.
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Arthritis: Two Years or Twenty-eight?
“Two years!” exclaimed a patient, when told it would require a minimum of two years for him to
get well of his arthritis by fasting and other
Hygienic
 methods. “I have taken twenty-eight years
already. What are two more years?”
He had been a bacteriologist working in a laboratory and giving nothing more than the usual
attention to his health, when he developed the first signs of arthritis. He was in intimate daily
contact with physicians of the highest order and received the best care the profession had to offer
in this disease. But, as is generally known and is admitted by the profession, no cure for the
disease exists. Palliation—relieving symptoms without removing the cause of the disease—is all
that is provided, and this does not prevent the spread and intensification of the trouble.
With the passage of the years, joint after joint became involved until, when the foregoing remark
was made to a
Hygienist
 who had been consulted, the patient was a twisted and distorted man
walking with the aid of crutch and cane, in a much stooped position. He was unable to turn his
head from side to side, and in constant pain.
He was told that there was a possibility that some of his joints were ankylosed—fused—and
that, if so, these joints would remain ankylosed. There is no way to un-fuse ankylosed joints. They
remain fixed, immovable. The good news was, in this case, however, that he could be freed of
pain. He could be restored to usefulness and he could enjoy life.
This man underwent a lengthy fast—one of thirty-six days. There was great improvement. He
was freed of pain, witnessed the disappearance of swelling from some of his joints, its reduction
in others and the slow return of movement to joints that had long been stiff.
Two years were not enough. It took four years to complete all the improvement possible in this
man. During this time he had a second long fast and several fasts of a few days each. His eating
between fasts was carefully supervised; he was given daily sun baths and after a certain
amount of
initial improvement had been made, he was given daily exercise.
Result: his spine is almost straight, the use of his arms and legs is normal, he can turn his head,
he walks in a nearly upright position, he does not use cane or crutch, he has no pain, he looks the
“picture of health,” and he works like a slave.
He has remained in excellent health with no recurrence of pain or swelling for a period of seven
years, and feels so well that he has taken on a lot of political activities in addition to his regular
work, which is enough for one man.
His was an extreme case and required a lengthy period for recovery. Let us consider for contrast
a milder case, of shorter duration with less joint inflammation and stiffness: Mrs. G. was forty-four
years old. She was the wife of a Canadian school principal. Her arthritis was of but a few months
standing, but it was painful and crippled her movements. Mrs. G’s physician could promise her
nothing but temporary relief which was aspirin or cortisone for the rest of her life. He told her
there would be a probable spreading and increase of pain. She journeyed to the States and
underwent a fast. The fast lasted only three weeks, but it freed her of all pain and inflammation and
restored normal movement to her


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