 going to happen to me? And in this case
even a negative result produces a question rat her
than fear: what did I do wrong.
Thirdly, you have to prepare for cleansing in a
proper manner. A vegetarian diet is mandatory
before a big cleansing, you also need to exclude
alcohol entirely. As for the cleansing itself, the
more precisely you follow all the recommenda-
tions, the bigger effect you’ll get.
And finally, the completion, or coming out of
the cleansing. This is pretty much the most im-
portant moment: the cleansing is over, the body
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first, anywa y) absorb the food you used to eat.
That’s why after the cleansing, it’s important to
adhere to the same diet, you kept to before it.
9.5. Intestinal and liver cleansing (week -long
program)
This is a week -long program. You need to buy
the following at the  chemist’s: POLYSORB  MP
sorbent in packs (1 pack), if POLYSORB  MP is
not available, it can be substituted with any other
sorbent, Epsom salt  in 20 -gram sachets (7 sa-
chets); GEPAR phytocomplex in capsules or sa-
chets (15 sachets or 1 pack) or any cholagogic
tea; olive oil (250 ml); lemon -orange juice
(50:50) 250 ml (preferably freshly squeezed).
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•Take 1 tablespoon of the POLYSORB MP 4
times a day one hour before meals (mix in one
glass of water) for 3 days.
•Day 4 — take 2 tablespoons of POLYSORB MP
mixed in 1 glass of water 4 times a day, 1 hour
before meals.
•GEPAR phytocomplex for 6 days (pour 1 glass
of boiling water over the powder or the sachet,
let it draw for 15 minutes, or 1 capsule — drink
this 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals).
•Morning: on an empty stomach drink raisin
water (method of preparation: infuse 1 table-
spoon of raisins with a glass of boiling water
and leave it overnight.) In the morning, drink
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ridges or salads. Do your morning exercises,
self-massage, have a shower. Then, drink 1 ta-
blespoon of vegetable oil, eat a salad: carrots,
apples, cabbage, finely grated and seasoned
with lemon juice or vegetable oil.
• Lunch: vegetarian soup, freshly cooke d por-
ridge (buckwheat, millet or maize, you can
have it with some vegetables or fruit).
• Dinner: fermented milk products (quark, sour
cream, yoghurt, kefir, cheese) or beet salad.
• Don’t forget to drink the GEPAR phytocom-
plex before lunch and dinner. Before going to
bed, drink the raisin water, and go to sleep
with a hot-water bottle over the liver area.
• Keep to this diet for three days.
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prune compote.

So:
1st day  — vegetable diet, GEPAR, POLYSORB
MP.
2nd day  — vegetable diet, GEPAR, POLY-
SORB MP.
3rd day  — vegetable diet, GEPAR, POLYSORB
MP.
4th day  — dried apricot or prune compote over
the course of the day, 3 tablespoons of GEPAR,
POLYSORB MP 4 times a day.
5th day  — 3 more spoons of sorbent arbitrarily
on an empty stomach and prior to fluid intake in
the morning.
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cleansing  is prior fasting for a period of 8 -10
hours (you can fast for longer — up to 20 hours,
but not less than 8 hours). Failure to observe this
condition abruptly changes the course of physi-
ological processes in the digestive tract. Whe n
you eat, intestinal absorption mechanisms are
abruptly activated in the body. They will be ac-
tive until the organism fully absorbs the digested
food. And if, while the mechanisms of absorp-
tion are active, any substances get into the stom-
ach and the intestines, the body will begin ab-
sorbing them immediately. Thus, you won’t be
able to hold the salt solution in the intestines.
Moreover, the presence of incompletely digested
nutrients in the intestinal contents will slow
down the activity of the digestive tract: the
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along the intestinal canal, lingering in its sepa-
rate segments. If the fluid and the sorbent aren’t
moving along the intestinal canal, while the
mechanisms of intestinal absorption are active,
then, in all likelihood, the organism will begin
absorbing the solution.
Please be aware that an intake of even a small
amount of sweetened tea is a contraindication
for starting intestinal sorbent cleansing, since,
when it breaks up, sugar creates glucose, and
glucose abruptly increases the intensity of so-
dium absorption. As for drinking pure water,
there are no restrictions, because it’s quickly ab-
sorbed, but it’s still better not to drink 30
minutes prior to the procedure. Come home
from work early. Take some mineral water (you
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out), dissolve 60 grams of Epsom salt  in 1 glass
of mineral water (if you weigh under 80 kg), or
80 grams of Epsom salt in 1 glass of mineral wa-
ter (if you weigh more than 80 kg). You can add
some lemon juice to the Epsom salt, so it’ll be
easier to drink. Drink the Epsom salt  in one shot,
and within 1 hour wash it down with 6 -7 glasses
of mineral water.  Then proceed to self -massage
your abdomen.
After the last visit to the toilet, eat some ric e
porridge without salt, optionally with a small
amount of butter. After the meal, it’s good to
take a hot bath and have a good night’s rest, no
strenuous activity on that day.
6th day
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with 1 glass of water,
10:00 a m, 12:00 pm  — drink GEPAR, you can
drink apple juice until 2:00 pm.
2:00 pm  — drink Epsom salt  (1 sachet mixed
in a glass of warm water).
6:00 pm  — drink Epsom salt  (1 sachet mixed
in a glass of warm water), put a hot -water bottle
over the area of your rig ht hypochondrium.
7:00 pm  — drink 200 -250 grams of warmed -up
(35°C) olive oil (if you can’t tolerate olive oil, you
can replace it with quail eggs, you need to drink
half a glass), you have to drink the oil while
standing, on the exhale, preferably in one shot,
and wash it down with a bit of lemon -orange
juice. Drink 200 grams of lemon -orange juice
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pm, 7:30 pm, 7:45 pm, 8:00 pm, 8:15 pm, 8:30
pm, 8:45


 a slightly sweet taste—like some lettuces, gar den-fresh baby peas and corn, and young roots—also contain simple
carbohydrates, but they are so low in calories that chewing them may ut ilize more fuel than they provide.)

Think Fruit Meals for Health
Fruit is considered “health food” by almost everyone in the health fi eld. A director of nutrition for the U.S. Olympic teams
once called fruit “magic food.” All the major organizations of health a nd disease, from the government to private businesses, from the
National Heart Foundation to the American Cancer Society, agree th at we should increase our consumption of fruit.
As a category, fruits are our least toxic food choice. They digest cleanl y, leaving only water as residue, which is easily expelled
from the body. I see no healthful reason to look anywhere else for the vast ma jority of our calories. The health, nutrition, energy, and
human performance results available on a high-fruit, low-fat, raw v egan program eclipse even the proven, consistent benefits of low-
fat, starch-based diets.

Fruit As a Staple: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The practice of eating enough fruit to make complete meals of it is alie n to most of us. Yet it is an idea whose time has come.
Fruits are designed to be our staple; they contain everything require d to be the source and mainstay of our nutritional sustenance.
We have been trained to think of fruit as a treat, something to eat at the  end of a meal, or perhaps as a snack between meals
when nothing else looks good. But I invite you to begin thinking of fruit as re al food, and even as a meal unto itself.
If fruit is to become a primary food source for us, we must be willing to explore  new avenues, think new thoughts, and ask
new questions like the ones below. The consumer has a lot to learn—as we  literally have no frame of reference for such a concept
—and now is the time to get started. In this book, I answer some of these ques tions and many others:

How do we know when fruit is fresh?
How many blueberries (or oranges, or mangos, or bananas) does it take to make a me al?
How can I tell if I ate enough fruit?
Is there such a thing as eating too much fruit?
Which fruits provide us with the most carbohydrates per bite?
Which fruits provide the least?
Which fruits are best at the different seasons of the year?
Where does each fruit come from?

Eating 80% of our calories in the form of uncooked simple carbohydrates can becom e easy and natural once we learn to eat a
moderate amount of nuts and seeds, all the green leafy vegetables we ca re for, and great quantities of whole, fresh, ripe, in-season
fruit.

We Are Designed for Tropical Fruit
As a species, humans originated in a warm climate and eventually s pread throughout the “tropical belt,” the warm zone that
extends through most of the thousand-mile range above and below the equator. This is the environment where tropical fruits
abound.
Some folks suggest that wherever they live, they should eat food that is  locally grown, as “logically” that must be the best for
them, at least, that is what they have heard. In the U.S. and Europe, people oft en argue that since they live in a northern climate, it is
only appropriate that they should eat foods of northern origin.
Think about this: If you have a goldfish, cat, or dog, do you change the very natu re of their diet every time you move? Do zoo
animals get entirely different classes of food, depending on the latitu de of the zoo that houses them? Viewed in this way, it becomes
obvious that we must honor the unique dietary requirements of each speci es, based on its particular digestive physiology.
Further, many people live in climates that only produce food for a few months  of the year. What should they eat the rest of the
year? Humans are anatomically and physiologically adapted to the food of th e tropics, predominantly fruit, as are almost all of the
tropical creatures. In Central America, for example, all mammals w ith the exception of the river otter and the jaguar are known to
eat fruit, as are most of the birds, many of the amphibians, and quite a few of t he reptiles.
No logical or scientific reason exists to conclude that simply because  we have moved away from the tropics, we should therefore change what has been our natural food for the great majority  of our time on Earth. Regardless of where we go on this
planet (or even whether we ever venture off of the planet to other worlds ), tropical fruits remain our natural foods, the only cuisine
for which we are perfectly designed.

Our Own Private Tropics
Historically, it was only the population explosion caused by the advent of tool s and hunting, and exacerbated by the introduction of
farming, that resulted in humans being forced to move into what would othe rwise have been considered inhospitable and even
uninhabitable areas. We effectively took the tropics with us, though, as  we had no other choice.
Every one of us lives almost every minute of our lives in a miniature  tropical environment, keeping ourselves in the tropics by
the judicious use of clothing, bedding, and heat. Even the Eskimos surround th emselves with enough clothing and keep their homes
warm enough so that they can spend almost all of their time “in the tr opics.”
We have been trained from early childhood, and have learned through repeat ed experience, that it is extremely uncomfortable
and can be potentially dangerous, even lethal, for us to leave the safety  of our own private tropics, and early in life accepted the
wisdom and seriousness of this warning. We go through the rest of our live s without ever questioning that we must maintain
ourselves in the warmth of a tropical environment.

Fruit Is a Natural
Fortunately, most people love fruit. Children are naturally inclined t o eat it. Our ever-present sweet tooth is a signal from nature that
drives us to eat enough fruit to provide the simple carbohydrates that fue l every cell of our bodies. Whenever I introduce someone
to a delicious tropical fruit that they have never tried, it is met w ith delight. It doesn’t seem to make any difference what the fruit is,
people almost always “connect” with it immediately. Almost inva riably, I hear something like:

“W ow, this is the best thing I have ever tasted!”
“I just found my new favorite food!”
“I could live on this!”
“Where can I get this at home?”
“Do you know of any mail-order catalogs that can ship some to me?”
“Is this expensive? I want to buy lots of it!”
“How do I learn more about other fruits like this?”

The entire conversation points to the fact that people not only love fruit, they are designed for fruit. Wherever humans have
chosen to venture on planet Earth, they have carried this physiologica l predilection for tropical fruit with them. People who live in
temperate areas still require the foods for which they were designed, j ust as zoo animals that are geographically relocated still retain
their physical requirements.
In fact, it may be even more important for people who live in a cool climate to obt ain tropical fruits, as these people often must
do without other essential healthful-living conditions that are com mon to the tropics (warm temperatures, clean air, rural living, year-
round sunshine, sounds of nature, pure water, etc.). If you live in an area w here tropical fruits are scarce, it may be well worth your
while to consider which other environmentally essential factors y ou are also doing without, and to supply them to the best of your
ability.
Training ourselves to once again eat fruit, a practice that held us i n good stead for thousands of generations, is as rewarding for
our health as it is delicious.

Chapter 6. Protein: 10% Maximum

Of the three caloronutrients, protein is certainly the most discuss ed, and the most misunderstood. I begin with a discussion of
protein in order to clear the air about this vital nutrient, with the in tention of not discussing it again in the remainder of this book.
The need for protein has been greatly exaggerated by market forc es, and protein’s functions have been misrepresented. This
chapter discusses why we need protein and where we obtain protein on a low-f at 80/10/10  diet. We put the protein issues to rest
and then get to the heart of the 80/10/10  diet, carbohydrates and fats.

How Much Protein Do We Need?
I often respond to the question, “where do you get your protein?” with seve ral questions of my own: “How much protein do
you think we need?” “How much protein do you think you currently eat?” “W hat exactly is the function of protein?” “Have you ever
met anyone with a protein deficiency?”
Although I have met many people who have begun to or are considering vector ing their diets away from animal foods, I rarely
meet anyone who has a reasonable response to these queries. Usually the y tell me that we need large quantities of protein for
energy, or to stay strong, or to keep us from getting sick. Nothing could be f urther from the truth. Protein’s primary function is
growth, which is negligible in adults,


 us to a topic I call healthfood junkfood. Many people improve their
diet, eliminating meat and chemicalized food in favor of whole grains andorganically grown foods, but they then proceed to make these otherwise goodfoods into virtual junkfood by preparing them incorrectly. In my travels, I’venoticed this same thing happens everywhere on Earth. What should be health-producing dietaries are ruined by frying, salting and sugaring.
Healthfood junkfoods include organically grown potato chips deep fried in
cold pressed organic unsaturated canola oil (made rancid by frying) sprinkled withnatural sea salt; organically grown oat and nut granola roasted with cold-pressedunsaturated oil (made rancid by roasting) hideously sweetened with honey; carrotcake made with rancid whole wheat flour, cold pressed unsaturated oil (maderancid by baking), honey, and cream cheese (salted); whole wheat cookies (stale,rancid flour) sweetened with honey, made with vegetable oil baked at high heat(rancid); whole wheat pizza vegetarian style with lots of soy cheese; whole wheatpizza vegan style with lots of real raw milk cheese; organically grown corn chipsdeep fried in cold pressed vegetable oil with or without natural sea salt, yogurtsmade from powdered milk without an active culture of beneficial bacteria andcovered with highly sugared fruits, etc. These foods may well represent animprovement over the average American diet, but they still are not healthy foods,and should never be used in a diet for a sick person. Nor are they worthy of aperson attempting to maximize health.
The problem with healthfood junkfoods is not their major ingredients, but how
they were combined and processed and adulterated. Remember, fats, animal orvegetable, subjected to high heat become indigestible and toxic and makeanything they’re cooked with indigestible; salt is a toxic drug; cheese, hard enoughto digest as it is, when raised to high temperatures as it is when making pizza,becomes virtually indigestible and cheese inevitably contains a lot of butterfatwhich, though saturated animal fat, when raised to high temperatures, stillbecomes slightly rancid. And all these foods represent indigestible combinations.
My clients almost never believe me when I first explain the idea of food
combining. They think if it goes in one end, comes out the other, and they don’tfeel any unpleasant symptoms in between, then it was digested. But bad foodcombinations have a cumulative degenerative effect over a long period of time.When the symptoms arrive the victim never associates the food combination withthe symptom because it seems to them that they’ve always been eating the food.
Mainstream nutritionists have brainwashed the public into thinking that we
should have a representative serving from each of the “four basic food groups” ateach and every meal, plus a beverage and a desert. Or, as my husband Steve isfond of quipping, a “balanced meal” has four colors on every plate: somethingred, something green, something white and something yellow. But the balancedmeal is a gastronomic catastrophe that can only be processed by the very youngwith high digestive vitality, the exceptionally vital of any age, people with cast ironstomachs which usually refers to their good heredity, and those who are veryphysically active.
Few seem to realize that each type of food requires specific and different
digestive enzymes in the mouth, stomach, and intestine. Carbohydrates, fats,proteins—each requires differing acid or alkaline environments in order to bedigested. Proteins require an acid environment. Starch digestion requires analkaline environment. When foods in complex combinations are presented to thestomach all together, like a meal with meat, potatoes, gravy, vegetables, bread,butter, a glass of milk, plus a starchy sweet desert, followed by coffee or tea, thestomach, pancreas, liver and small intestine are overwhelmed, resulting in thefermentation of the sugars and starches, and the putrefaction of the proteins, andpoor digestion of the whole. It is little wonder that most people feel so tired aftera large meal and need several cups of strong coffee to be able to even get upfrom the table. They have just presented their digestive tract with an immenselydifficult and for some an impossible task.
For the most efficient digestion, the body should be presented with one simple
food at a time, the one bowl concept, easily achieved by adherence to the oldsaying, “one food at a meal is the ideal.” An example of this approach would beeating fruits for breakfast, a plain cereal grain for lunch, and vegetables for supper.If you can’t eat quite that simply, then proper food combining rules should befollowed to minimize digestive difficulty, maximize the adsorption of nutrients fromyour food, and reduce or eliminate the formation of toxemia, and of course foulgas.
In general, fruit should be eaten alone unless you happen to be hypoglycemic
or diabetic in which case fruit should be eaten with small quantities of a vegetableprotein such as nuts, or yogurt and/or cheese if able to digest dairy. Starchesshould be eaten with vegetables, which means that a well combined meal wouldinclude a grain such as rice, millet, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, corn, wheat,rye, oats, spelt, potatoes, or starchy winter squash combined with raw or cookedvegetables. Protein foods such as meat, eggs, beans, lentils, tofu, split peas,should be combined with vegetables, raw or cooked. But protein should never becombined with starches. The most popular North American snacks and mealsalways have a starch/protein combination, for example: meat and potatoes,hamburger in a bun, hot dog with bun, burrito with meat or cheese, meatsandwiches, etc. It is little wonder that intestinal gas is accepted as normal, andthat over time these hard to digest combinations eventually cause health problemsthat demand attention.
Another sure fire way to ruin any food, including the very best available is to
eat in the presence of negative emotions generated by yourself or others.Negative emotions include fear, anger, frustration, envy, resentment, etc. Thedigestive tract is immediately responsive to stress and or negative thoughts. Itbecomes paralyzed in negative emotional states; any foods eaten are poorlydigested, causing toxemia.
It is natural for a person who has lost a loved one or suffered a great loss of
any kind to lose their appetite for a period of time. This reaction is pro-survival,because while grieving, the body is griped by powerful negative emotions. Thereare people who, under stress or when experiencing a loss, eat ravenously in anattempt to comfort themselves. If this goes on for long the person can expect tocreate a serious illness of some kind.
Individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and
personality and who is generating the negative emotions. Self generated negativeemotions are very difficult to avoid. If you are unable to change your ownemotional tone or that of others around you, then it is important to eat very lightly,eat only easily digested foods such as raw fruits and vegetables, raw juices,steamed vegetables, and small servings of whole grains, nuts and seeds.
Diets To Heal The Critically Ill
A critically ill person is someone who could expire at any moment; therapeutic
interventions are racing against death. Can the body repair itself enough beforesome essential function ceases altogether? If there already exists too muchdamage to vital organs the person will die. If there remains sufficient organfunction to support life, enough vital force to power those functions, and a will tolive, the body may heal itself if helped by the correct therapeutic approach. Butthe therapy does not do the healing; the body does that by itself—if it can. Thisreality is also true of allopathic medicine.
I believe fasting is the therapy that almost invariably gives a critically ill person
their very best chance of recovery. If a patient dies while fasting they almostcertainly would have died anyway, and if death comes while fasting, it will bemore comfortable, with less pain, and with more mental clarity.
Critically ill people may have, among other things, any of the following
diagnoses: advanced cancer, advanced aids, heart failure, very high bloodpressure, kidney failure, advanced liver disease, advanced emphysema,
Food In The Order Of Digestive Difficulty
Individual digestive weaknesses and allergies are not taken into
account in this list:
Hard To Digest: Meat, fish, chicken, eggs (if cooked), all legumes
including soy products, peanuts and peanut butter, beans, split peas, lentils,chick peas, dairy products such as cheese, milk, butter milk, nuts and seedsand their butters.
Intermediate: all grains--quinoa, amaranth, millet, spelt, rye, wheat,
oats, barley.
Fairly Easy:  Brussels sprouts, green beans, green peas, broccoli,
cauliflower, raw cultured milk products, asparagus, cabbage, sproutsespecially bean sprouts, kale, other leafy greens.
Very Easy:  fruits, vegetable juices, fruit juices, broth (clear).
No Effort:  herb tea, water.
pneumonia or other catastrophic infections, especially those that seem
unresponsive to antibiotics, strokes, emboli, sclerotic vessels as found inarteriosclerosis, severe nerve degeneration interfering with nerve transmission tovital organs.
Treating the critically ill does not have to be an all or nothing, ideological
choice between holistic medicine and AMA style medicine. It is important for thecritically ill and their families to know that if they use standard medical treatmentsuch as drugs or surgery, these measures can and should be combined withnatural


 are the result of
a mineral deficiency which may be expressed in a mathematical equa-tion.   46 CHAPTER 5
SOME OF THE CHEMISTRY OF FOODS

Each food has its frequency number, according to its kind, the
same as people have their frequency numbers. Once you know the frequency then you know the proper diet of all plants and animals. A horse can live on grass all of its life after it is weaned. Man's frequen-cy is the highest decimal and as such requires the most complex diet. Frequency is how much time it takes for one electron to make one complete revolution around one molecule. This is measured in micro numbers (e.g. man's frequency log of 24, or.0000024 of a second).
The greater variety of foods that we can eat, the safer it is to main-
tain good health. Our foods are depleted of minerals today, and by having a great variety we come near er fulfilling the mineral needs of
our deficiencies. We lose reserve energy by limiting our choice of
food intake.
In order to understand food chemistry we must understand that
there is a great similarity in amino acids in animals and plants. There is a great similarity in every frequency, and the micronage, milli-micronage and milli-milli-micronage structure.
That is, the biological physical mathematical principles are very
much alike in both animals and plants. No amino acids can be formed without FIRST  having an atom of nitrogen. It is the first requirement
in the formation of any amino acid cello Amino acid in its true form mayor may not be a complete cell. In its perfected form it could be a complete cell because all biological  cells are amino acid cells, but sel-
dom do you find one that is complete.
However, it is possible for it to be complete. The SECOND  requirement after the first atom of nitrogen (pro-
tein) to form the amino acid cell is calcium, or one or more of the
groups of calciums.
The THIRD  requirement to form the amino acid cell is oxygen.
The FOURTH  requirement is phosphate, and the FIFTH  is po-
tassium. 47 In this manner all biological stru cture is made, plants using carbon
dioxide and animals oxygen.
The magnetism of the union of these and many other elements on
any given frequency determine the organ structure, regardless of the various frequencies.
Phosphates in plants have a different chemical action from what
phosphates do in people. In plants the colloidal particles make cellu-lose, and in animals they are the bone structure. The greater the amount of cellulose in the plant the more tree-like the plant. The less cellulose it contains the more vine-like the plant.
The amino acids in plants are formed by ionization exactly as in
animals. Plants do not have blood like we have, they have what we call sap. The sap rises because the amino acid is in anionic form. The sap goes up into the branches and the leaves through the process of photosynthesis. It uses the phosphate to join carbon, hydrogen and ox-ygen. The plants breathe in the carbon from the air and breathe out the oxygen. Carbohydrates (C
6 H22 O11) in plants are formed in very sim-
ple terms as follows:
Carbon + water (Phosphates is the catalyst) = sugar in plant
6 carbons + 11 (H 2O) = C 6 H22 O11
The water is used to form the carbohydrates that are in the plant,
using calciums as a catalytic base for the plant carbohydrates.
There is a rule that the higher the carbohydrate content of the
plant or the fruit, the higher the mineral content, and the heavier the fruit, the greater the specific gravity. Any good physicist that knows
anything about soil chemistry, if you tell him how much water soluble phosphates are in the soil, he can tell you the carbohydrate content of the produce coming from that soil.
Today, most of the beans produced have less than one percent car-
bohydrate, when they should have 6 to 7%. Celery has an average of approximately 4% carbohydrate, when it should have nearly 9%. The higher the carbohydrate content the lower the freezing point. The low-er the freezing point the higher the mineral content. These are factors in determining the mineral content of foods. The higher the carbohy-48 drate content the more energy it is  possible for the person to get from
the food they eat.
However, in figuring energy we must consider the fact that people
have two different kinds of energy. We have the reserve energy and
the energy that we use to do our work.
The two kinds of energy are a rather complicated factor about life. A newly-born baby girl looks in perfect health, has a reserve ener-
gy rating of approximately 8. She would be weighing between six and seven pounds. The reserve energy rating decreases if it is below or above this.
A newly-born, healthy baby boy, weighing between six and seven
pounds, has a reserve energy of approximately 10. It generally de-creases the same as a girl if weight is above or below.
This reserve energy should increase to 100 at 18-21 years and
drop off at age 60.
A rather strange phenomenon takes place in both the boy and the
girl who use the same amount of calciums until the age of puberty. At
the age of puberty, which starts into the age of young womanhood for the girl, she will use seven times more calciums every day than a nor-mal man. If she has the correct amount of calciums she will go into young womanhood with no problems. But if the' calciums are defi-cient she will have all kinds of problems such as menstrual cramps, weakness, irritation, emotional upsets. Anytime a woman whose cal-ciums has dropped too low, starts the beginning of menopause, regard-less of the age. It is normal for half the women to be in their late for-ties or fifties before calciums begin to drop off and the menstrual peri-od stops.
There is a place at any age wherein the calciums can drop so low,
even in the teens, until they will go through menopause and the natu-ral period will not start again, unless God does a miracle, of which we do not have any instrument to measure the greatness of the love of God. We have to go by the biological, chemical factors which He has
given us. Women who have no deficiencies in calciums go through the menopause with no problems, hot flashes, cold flashes, or anything 49 else, and hardly know when their monthly cycle or menstrual period
has completed itself.
Therefore when the calciums in women drops, one of the signs is
nervousness, easily upset, cries easily. Except for the grace of God, they are hard to live with. If a man doesn't understand this, family life can become one living hell if he has low calciums also. When men's calciums drops low they don't go into menopause, but they are dog-tired at night, or when they come home from work because they have been tired all day. They too have nervous tension. They bark all day and bark at night.
When we are very deficient in calciums it is necessary then to de-
pend on mineral calciums in order to keep our calciums high enough to cause our personalities to be what we want them to be. When nerv-ousness comes about because of low calciums, it causes people to do and say things they wouldn't say otherwise.
Low calciums causes extreme nervousness. Nervousness causes
people to flare up, scream, take the broom to the cat or dog, because one is fighting for one's life.
Not many doctors seem to be able to help in this situation. However, some very wise doctors do give calcium shots for these
conditions. Many medical doctors are afraid to give the shots because they have given them at times with such bad results, and the woman was already nervous and with the shots became a screaming maniac. This was because the wrong calcium was given.
Under the present laboratory testing procedures doctors have no
way of knowing which of the six kinds of calciums to give.
But had the doctor known by way of the RBTI testing, in thirty
minutes the woman's nerves would have been calm again.
The type of calcium tests that I have developed does determine
which kind of calciums, and under what circumstances, and how much to give according to age, height, weight and sex of the person. I have been conducting RBTI seminars in this  for many years. The applicants
come from those ministering in the healing arts.   50 CHAPTER 6
APPLICATION, WHY AND WHEREFORE

No two people get the same amount of energy out of their foods.
Therefore I do not recommend the calorie-counting system whatever. The first reason is that it is not accu rate in people that are obese (and
less than two percent are obese, and overweight).
1 have developed a test called the Reams Biological Theory of
Ionization as a result of prayer and fasting for seven days in 1931, that
has been used ever since, and has been a great help to people, and to-day it is spreading all over the world. For this discovery 1 have been arrested more times than the Apostle Paul. I have not stayed in jail as long, but there are only 44 more states for me to be arrested in for teaching the health message as it is written in the Bible. The Bible says to seek to know the truth, and the truth shall make you free


 they can get out of  them,
rather than what they can put into them.
The purpose of a relationship is to  decide
what part of yourself  you’d like to see “show
up,” not what part of another you  can
capture and hold. There can be only one
purpose for relationships —and for all  of life:
to be and to decide Who You Really Are.
It is very romantic to say that you were
“nothing” until that spec ial other came
along,  but it is not true. Worse, it puts an
incredible pressure on the other to be all
sorts of  things he or she is not.
Not wanting to “let you down,” they try very
hard to be and do these things until they
cannot anymore. They can no long er
complete your picture of them. They can no
longer fill the roles to which they have been assigned. Resentment builds. Anger
follows.
Finally, in order to save themselves (and
the relationship), these special others
begin to reclaim their real selves, ac ting
more in accordance with Who They Really
Are. It is about this time that you say
they’ve “really changed.”
It is very romantic to say that now that your
special other has entered your life, you  feel
complete. Yet the purpose of relationship is
not to h ave another who might  complete
you; but to have another with whom you
might share your completeness.
Here is the paradox of all human
relationships: You have no need for a
particular  other in order for you to experience, fully, Who You Are,
and...without a nother, you  are nothing.
This is both the mystery and the wonder,
the frustration and the joy of the human
experience. It requires deep understanding
and total willingness to live within this
paradox in a way which makes sense. I
observe that very few peop le do.
Most of you enter your relationship -forming
years ripe with anticipation, full of sexual
energy, a wide -open heart, and a joyful, if
eager, soul.
Somewhere between 40 and 60 (and for
most it is sooner rather than later) you’ve
given up on your grand est dream, set aside
your highest hope, and settled for your
lowest expectation —or nothing at all.  The problem is so basic, so simple, and yet
so tragically misunderstood: your  grandest
dream, your highest idea, and your fondest
hope has had to do with you r beloved other
rather than your beloved Self. The test of
your relationships has had  to do with how
well the other lived up to your ideas, and
how well you saw yourself  living up to his
or hers. Yet the only true test has to do with
how well you live up t o yours.
Relationships are sacred because they
provide life’s grandest opportunity —
indeed,  its only opportunity —to create and
produce the experience of your highest
conceptualization of Self. Relationships fail
when you see them as life’s grandest
opportun ity to create and produce the
experience of your highest
conceptualization  of another.  Let each person in relationship worry about
Self—what Self is being, doing, and  having;
what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what
Self is seeking, creating,  experiencing, and
all relationships would magnificently serve
their purpose —and their participants!
Let each person in a relationship worry not
about the other, but only, only, only about
Self.
This seems a strange teaching, for you
have been told that in the highest form of
relationship, one worries only about the
other. Yet I tell you this: your focus upon the
other —your obsession with the other —is
what causes relationships to fail.
What is the other being? What is the other
doing? What is the other having? What is
the other saying? Wanting? Demanding? What is the other thinking? Expecting?
Planning?
The Master understands that it doesn’t
matter what the other is being, doing,
having,  saying, wanting, demanding. It
doesn’t matter what the other is thi nking,
expecting,  planning. It only matters what
you are being in relationship to that.
The most loving person is the person who
is Self -centered.
That is a radical teaching...
Not if you look at it carefully. If you cannot
love your Self, you cannot love another.
Many people make the mistake of seeking
love of Self through love for another. Of
course, they don’t realize they are doing
this. It is not a conscious effort. It’s what’s
going on in the mind. Deep in the mind. In what you call the subconscious. They  think:
“If I can just love others, they will love me.
Then I will be lovable, and I can  love me.”
The reverse of this is that so many people
hate themselves because they feel there  is
not another who loves them. This is a
sickness —it’s when people are  truly
“lovesick” because the truth is, other
people do love them, but it doesn’t matter.
No matter how many people profess their
love for them, it is not enough.
First, they don’t believe you. They think you
are trying to manipulate them —trying to  get
something. (How could you love them for
who they truly are? No. There must be
some mistake. You must want something!
Now what do you want?). They sit around trying to figure out how
anyone could actually love them. So they
don’t believe you, and embark on a
campaign to make you prove it. You have
to prove that you love them. To do this, they
may ask you to start altering your  behavior.
Second, if they finally come to a place
where they can believe you love them, they
begin at once to worry about how long they
can keep your love. So, in order to hold
onto your love, they start altering their
behavior. Thus, two people literally lose
themselves in a relationship. They get into
the relationship hoping to find  themselves,
and they lose themselves instead.
This losi ng of the Self in a relationship is
what causes most of the bitterness in such
couplings.  Two people join together in a partnership
hoping that the whole will be greater than
the sum of the parts, only to find that it’s
less. They feel less than when they were
single. Less capable, less able, less
exciting, less attractive, less joyful, less
content.
This is because they are less. They’ve
given up most of who they are in order to
be—and to stay —in their relationship.
Relationships were never meant to be thi s
way. Yet this is how they are experienced
by more people than you could ever know.
Why? Why?
It is because people have lost touch with (if
they ever were in touch with) the  purpose
of relationships.  When you lose sight of each other as
sacred souls on a sacred journey, then you
cannot see the purpose, the reason,
behind all relationships. The soul has come
to the body, and the body to life, for the
purpose of evolution. You are evolving, you
are becoming. And you are using your
relationship with everything to decide what
you are becoming. This is the job you came
here to do. This is the joy of creating  Self.
Of knowing Self. Of becoming, consciously,
what you wish to be. It is what is  meant by
being Self-conscious.
You have brought your Self to th e relative
world so that you might have the tools  with
which to know and experience Who You
Really Are. Who You Are is who you  create
yourself to be in relationship to all the rest
of it. Your personal relationships  are the most important elements in this process.
Your personal relationships are  therefore
holy ground. They have virtually nothing to
do with the other, yet, because  they involve
another, they have everything to do with the
other.
This is the divine dichotomy. This is the
closed circle. So it i s not such a radical
teaching to say, “Blessed are the Self -
centered, for they shall know God.” It might
not be a bad goal in your life to know the
highest part of your Self, and to stay
centered in that.
Your first relationship, therefore, must be
with yo ur Self. You must first learn to  honor
and cherish and love your Self.
You must first see your Self as worthy
before you can see another as worthy. You  must first see your Self as blessed before
you can see another as blessed. You  must
first know your Self  to be holy before you
can acknowledge holiness in  another.
If you put the cart before the horse —as
most religions ask you to do —and
acknowledge another as holy before you
acknowledge yourself, you will one day
resent it. If there is one thing none of you
can tolerate, it is someone being holier  than
thou. Yet your religions force you to call
others holier than thou. And so you do  it


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 or transferred to a charitable foundation on behalf of the medical center.
When Jacob was a paid director of Research Industries, he was able to
purchase 50,000 shares of stock in the company at $6.50 a share. Today the
corporation is a publicly traded stock issued on NASDAQ, the over-the-counter
market of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Its 2,050,000 shares
traded at a high in 1980-81 of $15.50 a share. Plus, the doctor had the option to
purchase an additional 50,000 shares at $6.50 and another 50,000 shares at $9.50,
over the next four years. In 1982 the high price per share was $12.50. If he had
executed his options at the stock’s high 1982 price, the accrued value of all these
shares would have come to $1,875,000, for which Jacob paid $1,125,000—a clear
gain of $750,000.
Finally, when he ended his function as a physician-monitor for the DMSO
investigations, Jacob became, for a time, a consultant to the company at a salary of
$24,000 a year, which supplemented his University of Oregon salary.
It seemed not to bode well for Jacob’s financial future if the investment made
by Research Industries Corporation in DMSO research,
manufacturing, marketing,
and distribution proved invalid. The physician appeared to have too much invested
in RIC for him to let this happen so that an objective observer might see potential
conflicts of interest here for Stanley Jacob. Consequently, at the semi-annual
scientific conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 19, 20, 21, 1982, by
the American College of Advancement in Medicine, I interviewed Dr. Jacob on
exactly these potential points of conflict. The following is what Stanley Jacob
said:
“When I first went to work for Research Industries Corporation in 1973 they
offered to give me a quarter of a million shares of the company’s stock. I refused
it. At that time the stock sold for fifty cents a share. I turned the stock down
because I never wanted anyone to accuse me of vested interests before DMSO
was approved by the FDA.
“After DMSO won approval, however, I did take a stock option and executed
it for 50,000 shares by borrowing money with other directors (I was myself a
director of Research Industries Corporation) cosigning the loan note. I also held an
option to acquire another 100,000 shares, but the stock price had risen markedly to
$6.50 a share. I borrowed $325,000 to purchase the 50,000 shares.“My idea of taking the stock at that point was to donate any profits I made to
DMSO research. Unfortunately, it got into that time of 20 percent prime rate so
that the legal expenses and interest expenses reduced the profit return sharply. I
received less than $9.00 per share at the sale of my block of stock when I made
the sale two years later. My resultant loss on the entire transaction was $2,000.
“Before the Kennedy hearings, in June 1980, I completely disassociated myself
from Research Industries Corporation—dropped my directorship, sold the stock,
and gave up all rights to any other of the stock options. The particulars of my
disassociations were not in the hearings because I actually made the financial
transition with the stock the same month as the Kennedy hearings, in July 1980.
That’s because there was a legal two-year holding period for the stock. I had
acquired the 50,000 shares in July 1978.”
RESOLVING THE SCANDAL OF DMSO
What was the outcome of these various revelations? Of consequences connected
with irregular practices among DMSO researchers and other principals involved,
attorney Buc said, “There are a series of actions that will have to be considered.
Any of the clinical investigators who
have violated our regulations will have to be
considered for potential disqualification as clinical investigators. That is a process
that is begun by the Bureau of Drugs. The clinical investigators are entitled to a
hearing, and it ultimately reaches the Commissioner.”
The FDA did judge whether Dr. Shirley and Dr. Stewart should be eliminated
as qualified FDA clinical investigators. They were eliminated.
“In addition, to the extent that the information that the Inspector General or any
of us turn up results in allegations of criminal activity,” continued Ms. Buc, “I
know that we will be considering criminal prosecution as well, for the
investigators, if there are allegations of criminality there, and, if it comes to that,
the people at the agency as well.”
The FDA had already interrogated and discharged Dr. Pani, and the Justice
Department brought criminal charges against him. Dr. Pani pleaded guilty to a
single misdemeanor count of improperly receiving payments. The Indian-born
researcher openly accepted loans of $38,500 from Dr. Jacob to assist in paying for
cancer treatments for his wife and also for donations to an Indian religious leader.
Dr. Pani’s wife subsequently died from cancer.
The supervisor of Dr. Jacob’s work at the University of Oregon Health
Sciences Center, and a friend of his for many years, William W. Krippaehne,M.D., described the DMSO champion as a compassionate humanitarian who has
given large sums of money to friends and strangers alike without question. Dr.
Krippaehne said that his friend has treated patients from all over the country, often
without charge, has given money to people in need, including members of the
university staff, without requiring repayment, and has put extra money back into
university research programs. “If he didn’t do charity work,” Dr. Krippaehne said,
“his net income would be significantly into six figures.” He also said that Dr.
Jacob, an associate professor of surgery and author of over 100 medical journal
articles, was a “catastrophe” when it came to business matters.
Dr. Krippaehne made these statements on the witness stand, as the Justice
Department also brought criminal charges against Dr. Jacob for three counts of
improper payments to an FDA official and one count of conspiracy. The trial for
the surgeon and the FDA official took place in May 1982 but ended in a mistrial.
The government bureaucrats continued their attack and pursued Dr. Jacob in a
second trial after Dr. Pani pleaded guilty to misdemeanor.
Dr. Jacob welcomed the initial trial, stating that it would give him a chance to
vindicate the use of DMSO. At the second trial not only was he acquitted of all
the charges, but the Justice Department actually dropped the charges on the fifth
day of the trial, held October 29, 1982. Dr. Jacob was cleared completely and
received a semblance of an apology from the government. The grand jury
indictment was totally dismissed.
In our interview, Dr. Jacob explained what happened: “Dr. K.C. Pani is a
friend of mine. His wife was my patient. I got to know him well. He had
horrendous medical bills. I loaned him money by personal check which Dr. Pani
returned by personal check. And this exchange of checks was the basis of the
indictment for conspiracy and giving an illegal gratuity to a government official.
“I learned a lot from this experience. For instance, I was under the erroneous
impression that a Grand Jury of the United States hands down an indictment only
after it has sifted through all the evidence and has weighed it carefully. That isn’t
true at all. Most of the time the United States Grand Jury merely does what the
United States attorney tells them to do. This is what happened in my case. The
result is that the United States taxpayer has invested one to two million dollars in
investigating this case, sending inspectors and investigators across the country
several times, preparing for the trial, conducting the trial, and finally dropping the
charges to vindicate me and DMSO. Still, the prosecutors seemed to be
aboveboard. I developed respect for both United States attorneys. I had the feeling
that they were going through the motions of prosecution but that they almost wishthey hadn’t gotten involved in the case. Their hearts weren’t in it.
“The judge had strong feelings that the case should be dismissed and he
relayed his feelings to the Justice Department. So, my attorneys and the
prosecutors worked out an arrangement where we mutually read statements in
open court that said in essence, I understand where people could interpret that our
exchange of checks was a conflict of interest, and I’m sorry such an interpretation
was made.’ The federal attorneys in turn stated, ‘We are dropping all charges
against Dr. Jacob, and we wish to take this opportunity to commend him for his
good services to the community.’”
Additionally, Dr. Jacob admitted that it had been “wrong” and “inappropriate”
for him to make payments to an FDA scientist even though the payments in no way
involved a conspiracy to clear DMSO and win its approval for other uses. The
government, furthermore, excused its own action by saying that its sole purpose
was to simply
“ensure that the integrity of the regulatory process is upheld.” In
effect, Assistant United States Attorney Richard E. Dunne III said that the Justice
Department wasn’t after Dr. Jacob as a profiteer because of his early financial
connection with Research Industries Corporation, the producer of Rimso-50, but
the


 the same stillness arises within yo u. You sense how deeply it rests
in Being–completely at one with what it is and wher e it is. In realizing this, you too
come to a place of rest deep within yourself.

***

When walking or resting in nature, honor that realm  by being there fully. Be still.
Look. Listen. See how every animal and every plant is completely itself. Unlike humans, they have not split themselves in two. They  do not live through mental
images of themselves, so they do not need to be con cerned with trying to protect
and enhance those images. The deer is itself. The d affodil is itself.

All things in nature are not only one with themselv es but also one with the totality.
They haven't removed themselves from the fabric of the whole by claiming a
separate existence: “me” and the rest of the univer se.

The contemplation of nature can free you of that “m e,” the great troublemaker.

***

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature –the rustling of leaves in the
wind, raindrops falling, the humming of an insect, the first birdsong at dawn. Give
yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond  the sounds there is something
greater: a sacredness that cannot be understood thr ough thought.

***

You didn't create your body, nor are you able to co ntrol the body's functions. An
intelligence greater than the human mind is at work. It is the same intelligence that
sustains all of nature. You cannot get any closer t o that intelligence than by being
aware of your own inner energy field–by feeling the  aliveness, the animating
presence within the body.

***

The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional  love and readiness to celebrate
life at any moment often contrast sharply with the inner state of the dog's owner–
depressed, anxious, burdened by problems, lost in t hought, not present in the only
place and only time there is: Here and Now. One won ders: living with this person,
how does the dog manage to remain so sane, so joyou s?

***

When you perceive nature only through the mind, thr ough thinking, you cannot
sense its aliveness, its beingness. You see the for m only and are unaware of the life
within the form–the sacred mystery. Thought reduces  nature to a commodity to be
used in the pursuit of profit or knowledge or some other utilitarian purpose. The
ancient forest becomes timber, the bird a research project, the mountain something
to be mined or conquered.
When you perceive nature, let there be spaces of no  thought, no mind. When you
approach nature in this way, it will respond to you  and participate in the evolution
of human and planetary consciousness.

***

Notice how present a flower is, how surrendered to life.

***

The plant that you have in your home–have you ever truly looked at it? Have you
allowed that familiar yet mysterious being we call plant to teach you its secrets?
Have you noticed how deeply peaceful it is? How it is surrounded by a field of
stillness? The moment you become aware of a plant's  emanation of stillness and
peace, that plant becomes your teacher.

***

Watch an animal, a flower, a tree, and see how it r ests in Being. It is itself. It has
enormous dignity, innocence, and holiness. However,  for you to see that, you need
to go beyond the mental habit of naming and labelin g. The moment you look
beyond mental labels, you feel that ineffable dimen sion of nature that cannot be
understood by thought or perceived through the sens es. It is a harmony, a
sacredness that permeates not only the whole of nat ure but is also within you.

***

The air that you breathe is nature, as is the breat hing process itself.

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the
breath of nature. If you had to remember to breathe, you would soon die, and if you
tried to stop breathing, nature would prevail.

You reconnect with nature in the most intimate and powerful way by becoming
aware of your breathing and learning to hold your a ttention there. This is a healing
and deeply empowering thing to do. It brings about a shift in consciousness from
the conceptual world of thought to the inner realm of unconditioned consciousness.

***
 You need nature as your teacher to help you re-conn ect with Being. But not only do
you need nature, it also needs you.

You are not separate from nature. We are all part o f the One Life that manifests
itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely
interconnected. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible
stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree e xists, you add something to the
flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to
know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sa credness through you!

***

A great silent space holds all of nature in its emb race. It also holds you.

***

Only when you are still inside do you have access t o the realm of stillness that
rocks, plants, and animals inhabit. Only when your noisy mind subsides can you
connect with nature at a deep level and go beyond t he sense of separation created
by excessive thinking.

Thinking is a stage in the evolution of life. Natur e exists in innocent stillness that is
prior to the arising of thought. The tree, the flow er, the bird, the rock are unaware
of their own beauty and sacredness. When human bein gs become still, they go
beyond thought. There is an added dimension of know ing, of awareness, in the
stillness that is beyond thought.

Nature can bring you to stillness. That is its gift  to you. When you perceive and
join with nature in the field of stillness, that fi eld becomes permeated with your
awareness. That is your gift to nature.

Through you nature becomes aware of itself. Nature has been waiting for you, as it
were, for millions of years.

Chapter 8
Relationships

How quick we are to form an opinion of a person, to  come to a conclusion about them. It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label a nother human being, to give them a
conceptual identity, to pronounce righteous judgmen t upon them.

Every human being has been conditioned to think and  behave in certain ways–
conditioned genetically as well as by their childho od experiences and their cultural
environment.

That is not who they are, but that is who they appe ar to be. When you pronounce
judgment upon someone, you confuse those conditione d mind patterns with who
they are. To do that is in itself a deeply conditio ned and unconscious pattern. You
give them a conceptual identity, and that false ide ntity becomes a prison not only
for the other person but also for yourself.

To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that
you recognize their behavior as a form of condition ing, and you see it and accept it
as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.

That liberates you as well as the other person from  identification with conditioning,
with form, with mind. The ego then no longer runs y our relationships.

***

As long as the ego runs your life, most of your tho ughts, emotions, and actions
arise from desire and fear. In relationships you th en either want or fear something
from the other person.

What you want from them may be pleasure or material  gain, recognition, praise or
attention, or a strengthening of your sense of self  through comparison and through
establishing that you are, have, or know more than they. What you fear is that the
opposite may be the case, and they may diminish you r sense of self in some way.

When you make the present moment the focal point of  your attention–instead of
using it as a means to an end–you go beyond the ego  and beyond the unconscious
compulsion to use people as a means to an end, the end being self-enhancement at
the cost of others. When you give your fullest atte ntion to whoever you are
interacting with, you take past and future out of t he relationship, except for
practical matters. When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you
relinquish the conceptual identity you made for the m–your interpretation of who
they are and what they did in the past–and are able  to interact without the egoic
movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is a lert stillness, is the key.
 How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in y our relationships. Love does
not want or fear anything.

***

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her  level of consciousness your level
of consciousness, you would think and act exactly a s she does. With this realization
comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.

The ego doesn’t like to hear this, because if it ca nnot be reactive and righteous
anymore, it will lose strength.

***


 depth of 100 ft (30 m)
below sea level. Commercial harvesters rake plants
off banks and rocks. The cleaned seaweed, after
being boiled with sulphuric acid for 6 hours, yields
agar, which sets to form a jelly. Around 6,500 tons
of processed agar are produced each year.
Part Used Seaweed extract (agar).
Constituents Agar contains polysaccharides,
mainly agarose and agaropectin (up to 90%), which
are very mucilaginous.
History & Folklore Agar is commonly used
as a thickening agent in food preparation, but its
most widespread application is in scientific research,
where it is used as a culture medium for growing
micro-organisms in petri dishes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Like most
seaweeds and their derivatives, agar is nutritious
and contains large amounts of mucilage. Its chief
medicinal use is as a bulk laxative. In the intestines,
agar absorbs water and swells, stimulating bowel
activity and the subsequent elimination of feces.
Related Species While G. amansii  is the main
agar-producing species, G. cartilagineum  (found
on the Pacific coast of North America) and other
closely related species around the world are being
used as alternative sources.Habitat & Cultivation Native to
southeastern provinces of China, gardenia prefers
humid, tropical climates. The fruit is gathered
when it turns reddish-yellow.
Part Used Fruit.
Constituents Gardenia fruit contains iridoid
glycosides. The flowers are the source of the
essential oil.
History & Folklore Gardenia has been used in
Chinese medicine for at least 2,000 years. It provides
an important essential oil used to flavor teas. The oil
is also used to make perfumes. Gardenia perfumes
often blend gardenia, jasmine, and tuberose.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In the Chinese
herbal tradition (pp. 40–43), gardenia is a “bitter, Gaultheria procumbens
(Ericaceae)
Wintergreen
Description Aromatic low-lying shrub growing to
6 in (15 cm). Has leathery, oval leaves, small white or
pale pink bell-shaped flowers, and brilliant red fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to North
America, wintergreen is found in woodland and
exposed mountainous areas. The leaves and fruit
are gathered in summer.
Parts Used Leaves, fruit, essential oil.
Constituents Wintergreen contains phenols
(including gaultherin and salicylic acid), 0.8% volatile
oil (up to 98% methyl salicylate), mucilage, resin,
and tannins.
History & Folklore Wintergreen was popular
with Native Americans, who used it for treating back
pain, rheumatism, fever, headaches, sore throats, and
many other conditions. Samuel Thomson, founder
of the 19th-century Physiomedicalist movement,
combined it with hemlock ( Conium maculatum, p.
193) to treat severe fluid retention. The leaves have
been used as a substitute for tea ( Camellia sinensis, p.
181), for example during the American
Revolutionary War (1776–1784).
Medicinal Actions & Uses Wintergreen is
strongly anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and soothing to
the digestive system. It is an effective remedy for
rheumatic and arthritic problems, and, taken as a tea,
it relieves flatulence and colic. The essential oil, in the
form of a liniment or ointment, brings relief to
inflamed, swollen, or sore muscles, ligaments, and
joints, and can also prove valuable in treating
neurological conditions such as sciatica (pain resulting
from pressure on a nerve in the lower spine) and
trigeminal neuralgia (pain affecting a facial nerve).
The oil is sometimes used to treat cellulitis, a bacterial
infection causing the skin to become inflamed.
Cautions People who are sensitive to aspirin
should not take wintergreen internally. Oil of
wintergreen should never be taken internally,
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216Gelsemium sempervirens  other medicinal plantsGelsemium sempervirens
(Loganiaceae)
Y ellow Jasmine,
Gelsemium
Description Evergreen woody climber growing
to 20 ft (6 m). Has shiny, dark green leaves and
clusters of fragrant, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
southern U.S. and Central America, yellow jasmine prefers damp sites. The rootstock is unearthed in autumn.
Part Used Rootstock.
Constituents Y ellow
jasmine contains indole alkaloids (including gelsemine and gelsedine), iridoids, coumarins, and tannins. The alkaloids are toxic and act as a depressant to the central nervous system.
History & Folklore It is unclear whether
yellow jasmine was used in Native American medicine. The plant came into regular use only  in the middle of the 19th century. It was first employed by followers of the Eclectic herbal movement, and then later became an official medicine, listed in the Pharmacopoeia of the  United States from 1863 to 1926.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A potent medicinal
herb, yellow jasmine is prescribed in small doses  as a sedative and antispasmodic, most commonly for neuralgia (pain caused by nerve irritation or damage). Y ellow jasmine is often given for nerve pain affecting the face. The herb is also applied externally to treat intercostal neuralgia (nerve pain between the ribs) and sciatica (pain resulting from pressure on a nerve in the lower spine). Y ellow jasmine’s antispasmodic property is used in treating whooping cough and asthma. The herb is occasionally taken for migraine, insomnia, and bowel problems, and also to reduce blood pressure. Y ellow jasmine is also used in homeopathic medicine.
 RQ Cautions Y ellow jasmine is an extremely
toxic plant that should be used only under professional supervision. The plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.Parts Used Root, aerial parts.
Constituents Wild geranium contains up to
30% tannins.
History & Folklore Native American peoples
used wild geranium for sore throats, mouth ulcers, infected gums, and oral thrush. The herb was later used by European settlers for diarrhea, internal bleeding, cholera, and venereal diseases.
Medicinal Actions & Uses An astringent and
clotting agent, wild geranium is used today much as in earlier times. The herb is often prescribed for irritable bowel syndrome and hemorrhoids, and it is used to staunch wounds. It may also be used to treat heavy menstrual bleeding and excessive vaginal discharge.
Related Species See herb robert
(G. robertianum, following entry).
Caution Wild geranium should only be taken for
a few weeks at a time.
Geranium robertianum
(Geraniaceae)
Herb Robert
Description Strong-smelling annual or biennial
herb growing to 20 in (50 cm). Has deeply cleft
red-green leaves, bright pink flowers, and pointed seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
Asia, herb robert is naturalized in North America. It is gathered in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Herb robert contains tannins, a
bitter principle (geraniin), traces of volatile oil, and citric acid.
History & Folklore Herb robert’s unpleasant
odor has earned it the name “stinking Bob” in parts of England.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Herb robert
is little used in contemporary European herbal medicine. It is occasionally employed in much the same way as Wild geranium (G. maculatum, preceding entry), as an astringent and wound healer. The herb bears closer investigation as a remedy. According to one authority it is effective against stomach ulcers and inflammation of the uterus, and it holds some potential as a treatment for cancer.Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
central Asia, avens is a common wayside plant. The root is dug up in spring, and the aerial parts are picked in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts, root.
Constituents Avens contains phenolic
glycosides (including eugenol), tannins, a volatile  oil, and possibly a sesquiterpene lactone (cnicin).
History & Folklore Once known as herba
benedicta (blessed herb), avens was credited with significant magical powers in the Middle Ages. A German text of 1493 states that if avens root is in the house, the devil is powerless. According to tradition, the root should be unearthed on March 25th.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Avens is an
astringent herb, used principally for problems affecting the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract. The herb tightens up soft gums, heals mouth ulcers, makes a good gargle for infections of the pharynx and larynx, and reduces irritation of the stomach and gut. It may be taken for peptic ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, and dysentery. Avens has been used in a lotion or


 joints.
“I am going to advertise you all over Canada,” she said to the
Hygienist
 who conducted her fast
and after-care. She kept her word, but the important thing in this connection is that, after the
92passage of over three years, she is still free of arthritis. She has had no recurrence of pain and
inflammation. Her enthusiasm for fasting in particular and
Hygiene
 in general knows no bounds.
These two cases may be taken as typical of hundreds of similar cases the writer has seen
recover during the past more than forty years. Not all of these recoveries have continued on for
years without recurrence; some of the individuals were foolish enough to return to their former
disease-producing mode of living, but they have been able to remedy the recurrences by returning
to good physical behavior, so that they have remained well.
Keeping well requires that we give a reasonable amount of intelligent attention to the manner in
which we live. It takes no more time and effort to eat sensibly than it does to eat imprudently and
indiscriminately. One must breathe—it requires no more time to breathe pure air than it does to
breathe impure air. Indeed, in all the ways of living, not more time, often less time is required to
live rightly than wrongly.
Why shall we go through life taking an antacid after each meal, when it is possible to eat in such
a way that we can at all times be comfortable after meals? Why shall we take aspirin for recurrent
headaches, when we can live in a manner to avoid headaches? Why take a daily laxative, when it
is easily possible to have normal bowel movements? The intelligent reader will have no difficulty
in answering these questions.
Discomfort has meaning to the observing and reasoning individual. The intelligent man should
see in all discomforts and pains hints of warnings that he should slow down and eliminate some of
his indulgences. He should heed their warnings. Nature is a remarkable teacher and if we accept
her instructions and observe her warning signs, health and long life will be ours.
Because of its very painful nature and its tendency to completely incapacitate the sufferer,
rheumatic arthritis is one of the most serious and most dreaded disease of man. Developing, as it
does in the joints, it soon, unless its causes are removed, makes an invalid or a semi-invalid of the
patient. The pain is so severe and so persistent that it rapidly destroys all peace of mind and
prevents rest and sleep. Although probably developing most frequently in cold, damp areas,
arthritis is found in all localities.
Several varieties of arthritis are known, but listing then is of no practical importance. Were we
laboriously to draw a picture of each of the several varities in the forms of the disease, we would
be but filling up space and wearying the reader. All of these several variations are traceable to the
same underlying cause, and are remediable by eliminating this cause.
Pain and swelling of the tissues surrounding the joints are prominent features of the early stages
of arthritis. As soon as inflammation develops, efforts are made to immobilize the joint. The
muscles and ligaments become tensed and contracted, the on-guard condition thus developed
seemingly increasing the pain.
Involving as it does the joints, especially the surrounding tissues, arthritis presents a more
complicated problem than the more simple, transient pains and aches that may be called
rheumatism, such as lumbago, or so-called muscular rheumatism. Developing, as it frequently
does, in the cartilage that pads the ends of the bones of the joints, the arthritis may lead to
destruction of the cartilage and produce deformity.
If the cause is not removed, the denuded ends of the bones will ultimately unite (ankylose) so
that the joint becomes fixed and immovable. When this bony union takes place the pain ceases, but
the joint is forever lost.
Rheumatic arthritis is not built in a day. The vigorous and strong may practice enervating habits
for years before it evolves. Or such individuals may, after its first appearance, hold it in check for
93years before it becomes a serious crippling influence. We should know that arthritis represents an
end-point in a pathological process that has been years in its development.
Before the development of the joint inflammation, there are aches and pains, with periods of not
feeling well, periods of not being able to sleep, of poor appetite, of indigestion, and of other
evidences that all is not well within. So long as we continue to close our eyes to the existence of
the many “minor” symptoms and refuse to recognize them as forerunners of the more complex
stages of disease, just so long will we refuse to make
those changes in our way of life that are
essential to the prevention of arthritis.
How often do people who are bothered with vague musuclar pains, a little stiffening of the
joints, a “touch of neuritis,” an “attack” of lumbago or of sciatica, mistake the significance of these
warning signs. They palliate these symptoms with drugs, massage, manipulations, hot baths, and
persist in the way of life that builds trouble.
Suppressing symptoms does nothing to remove their causes and fails to check the further
development of a chronic state and the possible development of invalidism.
Fundamentally and primarily the cause of arthritis is toxemia. This is the summing up of a
multitude of abuses of the body in eating, drinking, emoting, in sexual activity, and in other forms
of activity. Eating too much from childhood lays the foundation for the toxemia. No one knows just
how many subtle toxins are involved in the cause of arthritis. It may be said that hundreds or even
thousands may be involved in its production.
Years will elapse before it becomes possible to isolate all the compounds amino acids alone
are capable of forming with one another and with other by-products of proteins and carbohydrates.
It is safe to assume that no single poison is alone and independently responsible for the evolution
of any complex pathology.
How can we hope, in our present state of ignorance, to isolate and analyze one particular toxic
substance that is the cause of cancer or of Bright’s disease or of insanity? Can it be asserted with
any degree of assurance that the toxins responsible for any one or all of the so-called degenerative
diseases differ in any essential? The character of the disease resulting from the toxic saturation is
determined by individual factors rather than by the character of the toxin.
I describe the cause of arthritis as a perversion of nutrition in a toxemic subject. There seems to
be no doubt that the primary irritation leading to the abnormal changes in the joints is due to the
presence in the blood and lymph of an unstable toxic material accumulating for months and years in
one who is enervated. These sufferers are always heavy eaters, but are especially prone to overeat
on sweets and starches—bread, potatoes, cakes, pies and candy.
Their joints are likely to be stiff and they find it difficult to get around in the morning when they
first arise. Stiffness wears off after a little use of the limbs, but the knee joints, ankle joints, elbow
joints, and other joints of the body are likely to complain bitterly when used. There may be no pain
and there are rarely any constitutional symptoms, so that the patient is likely to think that the
stiffness is entirely local.
Wrong food combinations, excesses of starches and sugars, condiments, coffee, tea, liquors, and
tobacco are potent factors in laying the groundwork for the evolution of arthritis. Added to these
factors may be any form of
enervating emotional unrest, sensual indulgence, and physical
overactivity. With all of this said, arthritis seems to develop only in those of the so-called gouty or
arthritic or rheumatic diathesis—or predisposition. Diathesis is only a word and will remain more
or less meaningless unless we understand the factors behind the predisposition.
Rheumatic arthritis, as distinguished from traumatic and tubercular arthritis, represents an
94impaired state of nutrition in addition to the common toxemia. The calcium deposits and stone
formation that are part of the disease indicate that the nutritional perversion is similar to, if not
identical with, that which is back of the formation of gall stones, kidney stones, hardening of the
arteries, deposits of lime on the valves of the heart, deposits in the feet in gout, and the formation
of stones in other parts of the body.
When enervation and toxemia have lowered resistance, anything that puts an added strain upon
the body may precipitate an arthritic crisis in one who is predisposed to the development of
arthritis. Acute illness, “infection,” a “focus on infection,” indigestion, an unusual meal, cold,
getting wet, anxiety and overindulgence of the emotions, may precipitate a crisis.
So-called infections from abscessed teeth or abscesses elsewhere in the body should be
recognized for what they are—
secondary sources of trouble.
 Super-added to toxemia and
gastrointestinal putrefaction, they complicate the condition of the patient. They are never primary
causes.
Yet, it sometimes happens that a patient is able to resist the other sources of troubles but not
these plus the secondary "infection,” so that, when the source of secondary "infection” is removed,
the symptoms temporarily clear up. This is heralded as a great victory for
science.
 Recurrence too
frequently viti


 great preceptor,Dr. Hindhede, the ideally honest scientist anddoctor, ventures to prescribe only the plainest offoods that are delicious to a true, keen appetite,and cost the least through being in season and
so common and easy to grow as to be cheapest.
This good and superlatively honest doctor
does not Proscribe anything that Nature
permits as food and he does not even Proscribe
the transportation of grapes from Madeira tothe North Cape of Norway for the enjoyment ofthose who can afford to pay for them.
Would the Proscribers of flesh food have
denied Amundsen and his companions the fleshof their faithful dogs as a last resort in securingnourishment for the completion of their journeyto the South Pole? It was their truly last resortin gaining the victory over the Ice God ; andwould to God that brave Captain Scott and hisband of faithful ones had had such a last butsaving resort to help them accomplish theeleven miles between them and rescue! Butthen, the world would have missed a model ofaltruism that is worth a million lives, and one ofwhich million everybody would like to be, iftheir lives are worth the living.
THE PROTEIN  ENTHUSIAST.
While writing this chapter I have beenforwarded material for indignation and a text
for condemnation in the form of a book so full offood prescription that it is positively poisonous,as read with the intelligence of my own andcurrent knowledge of the subject, that it oughtto be pilloried as a " Horrible Example" ofpresumptuous prescription and proscription. Itis an advertisement pure and simple, but soprejudicial to the natural facts in the case thatit again raises the question of the advisability ofa Supreme Court of the Physiology of Nutrition,to try such nutrition perverters for high treasonto Mother Nature.
I will not name the book or the author, to
further the advertisement. I once stopped acontroversy with the doctor-father of the authorby offering to wager him one hundred poundsthat I could beat him out on a ten mile go-as-you-please tramp, which he had mentioned asone of his stunts to prove his contentions. Ourages were nearly equal, and the difference oftraining consisted of his prescribing for himselfover 100 grams of proteid daily (less by 20 percent. than the vicious Voit* or Koenig
Standards, and less by 30 per cent. than theStandard that killed poor Professor Atwater),while I had subsisted for years on less than halfhis prescription. He warned me that I wascourting death, but that he was providing forhimself longevity by the mile. He got mad withme, and nearly fumed at the mouth, because Iassumed to insist that only Mother Nature wasa competent prescriber, intimating that he wasnot. I could not out-talk him, and so I sent hima challenge. He made the excuse that he wasleaving for the Continent for a rest, but wouldtalk further with me when he returned. Hisreputed forty-thousand-pound office practice ofprescribing his favourite dietaries had wornhim out and he was going for a rest. Later I
* Carl Voit, of Munich, prescribed as Standard daily diet for
a man doing moderate work : 118 grams of Protein, 56 grs. Fat,
500 grs. Carbohydrates, with a total fuel value of 3,055 large
calories; increasing the same to 145 grams Protein, 160 grs. Fat,450 grs. Carbohydrates, with a total fuel value of 3,370 large
calories. This is the celebrated Voit Diet Standard. Professor
Atwater, of Connecticut, went further, prescribing as Daily DietStandard no less than 125 grams of Proteins, with sufficient fat
and carbohydrates to equal a total fuel value of 3,500 large
calories for a man doing a moderate amount of labour;increasing the amount of Protein to 150 grams, with fats and
carbohydrates to a total fuel value of 4,500 large calories per diem.heard of him in a sanatorium—surely
disgraceful to a doctor to be compelled to go tosuch a place for " treatment."
The race, or contest, never took place, but
since then I personally have several timesbroken records established by men one-half, andeven one-third, of my age with progressive easeup to three years ago when last put to a test,and I have noted no letting-up of the progress ofrecuperation as judged by " feelings " orendurance when doing unusual stunts.
In this direction I now feel that I have done
enough, and that it is not for age to temptProvidence by competing with the Prime ofMuscularity in feats of strength and endurance.John L. Sullivan and Jefferies and many morewent once too often into the ring, and MotherNature, not Corbett or Jack Johnson, knockedthem out for good and all. Fletcherizing does notinclude either imprudence or bluff. It merelytrusts good Mother Nature for directions toaccompany her nutriment-medicine. Wheneverat any time I feel the impulse to turnsomersaults from the lead platform of a man-of-war into good, clean salt-water—as I did a fewyears ago or so in the Philippines, as a
demonstration to impress the natives—I will" up and do it, or die in the attempt." What I amdoing now more than ever is keeping my ear tothe mouth of Mother Nature, my finger on herpulse of command, and doing her biddings aswell as I can interpret them. If a thing is notagreeable to do, I take it as a warning not to do
it. There are so many useful things to do thatare pleasant, what is the use of going out of theway to do disagreeable things. There are somethings that are natural and agreeable that weshould do, and which we have got out of thehabit of doing, physical exercise, for instance.We are dealing with cultivated abnormalitiesalways in a cramped and complex civilisation." We are constantly doing the things that weshould not do, and leaving undone those thingsthat we ought to do," as the Prayer Book tellsus, including carelessness of eating, andshirking physical exercise. To return to thecallow book of the canny doctor-son of myantagonist of a dozen years ago. It isn't socallow as it is canny, and since the persons inthe case are of the canniest of peoples, thosewho are so shrewd that Jewish merchants do
not thrive among them, and the prescriptionresults in thousands of pounds a year revenue,the game may be set down to ordinarycommercial cupidity and popular gullibility. It issafe to always warn against Prescription forRevenue. Like patriotism or religion forrevenue, it is questionable, if not surelyselfishly prejudiced. On the other hand, MotherNature charges no fee for her advice. She paysgood coin as a premium for her patients in thesame way that I bribed my first test subjectsinto eating right by paying them for eating in
addition to furnishing the food.
DOUBTING  THOMASES
who are too lazy, or incredulous, or careless, to
take a month to try the Mother NaturePrescription as interpreted by me, are liable tosay: " Appetite is abnormal. Taste is perverted,and the demands of the body are whollyunnatural." True! But abnormality of that sortcan be corrected in a very short time. A "poorchap " who is lucky enough to have to gowithout food long enough to " whinney like ahorse " at the smell of fresh-baked bread and
the thought of good Danish butter on it, is notgoing to " turn up his nose " at even a crispbaked potato; neither is he likely to requiresweetbreads to coax himself to eat. Correctingperverted appetite is like purifying a streamwhich is being polluted at its source and runsmuddy all the way to the sea. Stop thepollution, and the stream will purify itself asfast as ever it can by hurrying along with itsimpurities to the great ocean sewerage.CHAPTER X
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FLETCHERITE
Fletcherism and Longevity—W. E. Gladstone, Fletcherite —
Fletcherizing Liquids—Getting the Best out of Everything— TheStudy of Mother-Nature.
SINCE the term "Fletcherite" is incorporated
in some of the latest dictionaries, it is properthat the person whose name has been used forthe designation should define what constitutesa Fletcherite.
Any person who eats in a healthy manner is a
Fletcherite.
Any person who eats in a polite manner is a
Fletcherite.
Any person who is faithful to his end of
responsibility in securing healthy nutrition forhimself is a respectable eater and a goodFletcherite.
WHAT  IS NOT A FLETCHERITE.
The above definitions are fully compre-
hensive, but sometimes it is more effective todescribe a thing by telling what it is not, andleaving the remainder as an inferential
description.
Following this suggestion: it is safe to say,
that :
Anyone who eats when he is not hungry or
what his appetite does not approve, is not aFletcherite.
All this presupposes the ordinary opportunity
for selection in civilized communities where thisbook is liable to be read and where itsrevelations and recommendations are mostneeded.
Any one who does not give his appetite a
chance to guide him to healthy nutrition is not aFletcherite.
Any one who does not extract all of the taste
from his