.
Increases circulation throughout the body, especially to the peripheral
areas (e.g., brain, hands and feet).
Antithrombotic (use to prevent postoperative thrombosis).
Strengthens bones and connective tissue.
Aids alkalization of the blood.
Scientific name
:
Iuscus aculeatus
Parts used
: Herb and rhizome.
Actions
: Anti-inflammatory, aromatic, cellular proliferator, diuretic,
laxative (mild), vasoconstrictor.
Cascara Sagrada
A great herb in low dosages to strengthen the GI tract.
Helps tone and strengthen the intestines.
Increases and strengthens peristalsis.
Increases secretions of the liver, pancreas, stomach and intestines.
Strengthens the autonomic nervous system of the alimentary canal.
Use for constipation, but better used in a cleaning and rebuilding formula
for the GI tract.
Helps clean and strengthen the liver.
Promotes bile secretion.Improves digestion in small dosages.
Use in cases of gallstones, piles and hemorrhoids.
Can be used for intestinal worms.
Scientific name
:
Rhamnus purshiana
Parts used
: Aged, dried bark.
Actions
: Alterative, anti-bilious, antidiabetic, bitter tonic, cathartic,
emetic, febrifuge, hepatic, laxative, nervine, peristaltic strengthener,
purgative, stomachic.
Cayenne (Red) Pepper
Used in high blood pressure cases because of its vascular dilation
properties.
Increases circulation. Excellent in cold conditions.
Stimulates lymph flow. However, it also creates mucus. I do not
recommend long term use of cayenne or any hot peppers because of their
stimulating and mucus-forming properties.
Can be an irritant to the mucosa of the GI tract in prolonged usage.
Used to heal ulcers.
Used with castor oil packs to help drive oils and herbs into tissues.
Used as a homeostatic externally and internally (stops bleeding).
A must for strokes and heart attacks.
Treats shock.
Scientific name
:
Capsicum annuum
Parts used
: Fruit
Actions
: Alterative, anti-rheumatic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent,
carminative, condiment, emetic, expectorant, hemostatic, pungent,
rubefacient, sialagogue, stimulant, stomachic, sudorific, tonic.
Chaparral
Chaparral is one of God’s top herbs in the Northern Hemisphere.
Its greatest power lies in its ability to move the lymphatic system.
Used for removal of tumors, boils and abscesses.
Has strong antimicrobial properties (bacterial, viral, fungal, etc.).
Very useful in rheumatic and arthritic conditions. Also excellent for gout.
Has analgesic properties (for pain).Stimulates peripheral circulation.
Stimulates liver function and increases bile production and flow.
Works as an anti-inflammatory
Somewhat of a cellular proliferator (strengthens cells).
Use in all cancers and HIV.
Use for all types of stone formation.
Prolapsed conditions, especially of the uterus.
Poisonous bites including snakebites.
Chicken pox, mumps, and the like.
Useful in all types of female conditions.
Very useful for stomach and intestinal conditions, including
hemorrhoids.
Scientific name
:
Larrea tridentata
Parts used
: Leaves and small stems
Actions
: Alterative, analgesic, anti-arthritic, anticancer, anti-
inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-rheumatic, anti-scrofulous, anti-
tumor, anti-venomous, aromatic, astringent, bitter, depurative,
diuretic, emetic (large doses), expectorant, laxative (mild), tonic,
vasopressor (mild).
Cleavers
One of the great lymphatic herbs. Helps move and dissolve lymphatic
congestion.
Use in swollen lymph nodes, abscesses, boils and tumors.
A great blood cleanser.
Has diuretic properties and helps dissolve kidney and bladder sediment.
A strong herb for cleansing the skin.
Excellent for eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis.
Helps eliminate upper respiratory congestion (sinus, throat, lungs, etc.).
Helps clean, tone, and strengthen the body.
Use for all cancers.
Use in urinary tract obstructions.
Has anti-inflammatory properties, and is used for any “itis”
(inflammatory) condition.
Scientific name
:
Galium aparine
Parts used
: Whole herb, especially leavesActions
: Alterative, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and laxative,
antiscorbutic, antitumor, aperient, astringent, blood purifier, diuretic,
hepatic (mild), lipotropic, refrigerant, tonic.
Comfrey
For centuries considered one of nature’s top healers.
Nicknamed “knit bone” for its powerful effect upon rebuilding the
skeletal structure.
Strengthens connective tissue. Used for hemorrhoids, varicose and spider
veins, prolapsed conditions (uterus, bowels, bladder, etc.), muscular
degeneration, osteoporosis, hernia, aneurysms, etc.
A powerful wound healer.
Useful in sprains, fractures, and the like.
A good astringent used to detoxify and clean tissue.
Helps move the lymphatic system.
Very beneficial for respiratory issues, both for its expectorant properties
and its antibacterial properties.
Comfrey is a tonic to the body, strengthening cells and tissue.
Checks hemorrhages, especially in the GI tract, urinary tract and lungs.
Comfrey is used to help regulate blood sugars.
Said to aid protein through increasing the secretion of pepsin.
A great lung tonic.
Excellent as a poultice for any injury.
Promotes the formation of epithelial cells.
Note
: Because of a strong alkaloid called pyrrolizidic acid, the FDA
considers this herb dangerous to the liver. However, generations of
use do not bear this out. If you were to extract this alkaloid and take
it by itself in large dosages it would cause liver damage. However, in
Herbology we never extract individual constituents.
Scientific name
:
Symphytum officinalis
Parts used
: Root and leaves
Actions
: Alterative, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic (mild), astringent, cell
proliferant, demulcent, essential oil, expectorant, hemostatic, inulin,
mucilage, nutritive, pectoral, primary constituents, starch, styptic,
tannins, tonic (yin), vulnerary.
Corn SilkA powerful cleanser of bladder and kidney tissue.
Helps clean toxins and mucus from the urinary tract.
Helps lower blood sugar.
Gently stimulates bile flow, aiding in improved digestion and
alkalization.
Used for bedwetting and edema.
Used for prostatitis.
Helps remove inorganic minerals from the body.
Used for both gallstones and kidney stones.
Excellent for cystitis.
Useful in hypertension and C.O.P.D.
Scientific name
:
Zea mays
Parts used
: Inner silk (stylus).
Actions
: Alkaloid, antiseptic, antispasmodic, cholagogue, diuretic,
lipotropic, vulnerary.
Corydalis
The “Great Corydalis” is valued as one of the top non-addictive pain
herbs of the world.
Used for all types of pain including nerve, joint, abdominal, menstrual,
muscular, heart.
Use for arthritis and rheumatism.
As a bitter, it has beneficial effects upon the liver and GI tract.
Use for spasms, convulsions, and seizures.
Use to relax and calm the nervous system.
Useful for asthmatic attacks.
Scientific name
:
Corydalis yanhusuo
Parts used
: Root.
Actions
: Analgesic, antispasmodic, bitter tonic, emmenagogue, diuretic.
Dandelion
One of nature’s top herbs.
A liver and gallbladder tonic.
Aids in pancreatic function.
A kidney and bladder tonic and cleanser.Said to have the same diuretic strength as Lasix© (trade name for
furosemide).
Promotes the formation of bile.
Improves the enamel of the teeth.
A great alkalizer.
Effective in liver conditions including hepatitis, jaundice and cirrhosis.
High in iron, and other minerals, which increases the oxygen-carrying
capacity of the blood.
A natural source of protein.
Aids in blood sugar issues including diabetes and hypoglycemia.
Scientific name
:
Taraxacum spp.
Parts used
: Whole plant: leaves, roots and flowers.
Actions
: Alterative, anti-rheumatic, anti-tumor, aperient, bitter, blood
purifier, cholagogue, deobstruent, depurative, diuretic, hepatic,
immune enhancer and rebuilder, laxative (mild), liptotriptic,
nutritive, stomachic, tonic.
Devil’s Claw
One of nature’s great anti-inflammatory herbs. (Promotes prostaglandin
production and activity.)
A specific for arthritis and rheumatism.
Great for any inflammatory condition: joint, muscular, neuro, or other.
Use in prostatitis.
Valuable in diabetes (pancreatic) or liver conditions.
Scientific name
:
Harpagophytum proc


, to pass  from  the feet up thru  the physical  body;
and that  one's  mental  and feeling  world—like  a great  blow-
torch,  which  gives  you  the feeling  and  sense  of ACCOM-
PLISHMENT!  It will  dissolve  and  consume  every  discor-
dant  thing  which  have  ever  been  drawn  about  you.
Every  Individual  can do This,  who  will!  It is how  Mr.
and Mrs.  Ballard,  the Messengers,  have  been  enabled  to
carry  This  Activity  forward;  because  they  move  within
That  Tube  of Light.  Twice  a day,  they  use the Violet  Con-
suming  Flame  to keep  every  discordant  thing  dissolved,
which  had  ever  been  accumulated  thru  their  activities  and
embodiments.
Whether  you  believe  it or not,  you  have  lived  hundreds
and perhaps  thousands  of embodiments  similar  to this.  If
that startles  you,  I would  just  rest in it awhile.  It is True!
Suppose  you have  lived  thousands  of embodiments,  similar 174 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
to this.  Necessarily  the mistakes  may  have  been  many  and
great.  Then  think  of the Mercy  of the Great  Law,  the Light
of God,  the "Mighty  I AM  Presence"—which  has provided
a Means,  by which  in a few weeks  or months,  you  can dis-
solve  and  consume  the cause  of every  discordant  thing,
which  has ever  been  accumulated  about  you  thru  the cen-
turies!  Dear  People,  no such  Thing  was  ever  known  in the
history  of the World,  as This  Opportunity  which  stands
before  you today!  Now  understand  We are wholly  uncon-
cerned  who  believes  or who  does  not!  We present  The  Law
to mankind!  All may  use It, if they  will!  If they  won't,  they
will continue  on in their  limitation  and  distress;  but the
Opportunity  is here,  to call forth  This  Law  into  action  and
be Free;  from  everything  that  distresses  you in any manner
whatsoever!
It does  not mean  you  can just  say:  "Now  here  'Mighty
I AM  Presence'  You  can do this,"  then  you  run along  and
do anything  you please!  It means  you are compelled  to give
obedience  to This  Great  Presence  and  the Light,  which  is;
first,  Harmony  in your  feeling;  then  call  Its Powers  into
action;  then  cease  the  old  human  habits,  which  have
charged  your  world  with  discord  and  imperfection!  That
means—now  hold  tight  to your  chairs—Dear  Hearts:  all
destructive  habits  must  cease  from  your  Life!  It means  the
sex activity  must  cease,  which  is not for pro-creation  of your
kind!  It means  tobacco  must  go in all its forms!  It means
all intoxicants  must  go in all their  forms!  It means  all dope
must  cease  from  the Earth  forever!  It means  that  every DISCOURSE  VIII  175
human  Being  who  listens  to agitation  of any kind,  whether
it be communism  or whether  it be the unions,  is depriving
that one  of Freedom!
Let Me just for a moment,  call your  attention  to the need
of the World  today.  In every  civilization  which  has ever
been,  the same  thing  has occurred  over,  and over  and  over
again—always  ending  in the destruction  of the civilization;
by this same  element  which  is called  communism  and  the
strike  agitators  in the world.  Their  destruction  drives  in
and stirs  mankind  up to where  it has no Governing  Intel-
ligence;  and  the destruction  becomes  so great  in the world,
that people  destroy  themselves;  and  those  who  do not de-
stroy  themselves  are destroyed  by each  other!
Look  at the Orient  today!  Look  in Spain!  Dear  People,
if you saw  all actually  taking  place  there  today,  you  would
not care  to look  the second  time.
Why  have  We come  from  our Great  Cosmic  Activities,
to try to help  mankind  understand  the need  of today ? Be-
cause  America  is the "Cup  of Light"  to the World;  and  to
prevent  this  destruction  coming  into  your  America.  Dear
People,  unless  enough  of mankind  make  This  Call  to the
Presence,  that  same  thing  will  sweep  your  America!  As you
may know,  if you care  to observe  today,  the destructive  ele-
ment  is unparalleled  in the Orient;  for no quarter  is given
men,  women  or children  of any  kind.  Everything  is de-
stroyed,  before  the onrush  of its destructive  power.
That  is what  We are trying  to prevent  coming  into  your
Blessed  America!  Why  do We  give  This  Assistance  to 176 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
America ? Because  America  must  be the "Cup  of Light,"  for
the World,  if it is to exist!  Because  in a previous  time  It was
the "Cup  of Light"!  It has come  again  into  a Cycle  where
It must  be the "Cup  of Light"  now;  or the World  will  not
survive!  Dear  Ones,  the proof  is before  anyone  of mankind
who  cares  to look!
In the Call  of the Beloved  "I AM"  Students  of America
today,  the Service  rendered  had  been  UNPARALLELED
in the history  of the Earth;  which  proves  enough  of man-
kind  are calling.  We are nearing  THAT  POINT—where
the Power  of the Presence,  the Light  of God,  will  again
rule upon  Earth;  and  bring  Its Mighty  Activity  into  Domin-
ion! This  is how  We know  what  is required;  and  what  will
bring  the Dominion  of the Light  and  Its Perfection  on
Earth.
So today,  if you care  to give  assistance,  the Power  of your
Presence,  will  answer  your  Call.  These  Blessed  Ones  here,
have  so marvelously  and  faithfully  been  issuing  These
Mighty  Decrees;  for the Blessing  and  Freedom  of America
and Europe,  as you  have  heard  them  tonight.  Can  any  of
mankind  render  so Great  a Service  to their  fellow  Beings
across  the Earth;  as those  Mighty  Decrees  issued  for the
Freedom  of Europe,  Asia  and  the Orient  from  the ravages
of war!  There  is only  One  Power,  One  Presence  in the Uni-
verse,  which  is the Solution  of these  things;  whether  it be
for the Individual  or the nation.  That  is the Power  of God,
the "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  called  into  action!
NOTICE,  THIS  IS A WHOLLY  DIFFERENT  AC-DISCOURSE  VIII  177
TIVITY,  FROM  ANYTHING  YOU  HAVE  KNOWN
BEFORE;  BECAUSE  IN THE  RECOGNITION  OF
YOUR  OWN  INDIVIDUAL  GOD  PRESENCE,  THE
"MIGHTY  I AM,"  WHICH  YOU  CAN  CALL  INTO
ACTION,  A POWER  IS RELEASED  A THOUSAND
TIMES  GREATER,  THAN  ANYTHING  WHICH
CAN  BE RELEASED  IN THINKING  OF  GOD  AS
AN OMNIPRESENCE!  That  is why  This  Activity  pro-
duces  such  Powerful  Results  in the Life  of the Individual.
IT IS THE


 The World’s facts and figures tell a differentstory. Even if you don’t overeat, the food you eat is mostly
unhealthy. Yet a little knowledge of physiology, health,
diet and fasting could save you from health bankruptcy.Ignorance is a worse enemy than over indulgence.
Overhaul your body and save your precious health! You
can’t be a walking toxic factory and expect to live a long
life of super health in a painless, tireless, ageless body.33
Just trust yourself – be wise, then you will know how to live. – von GoetheAutointoxication Promotes Sickness
I was reared in Virginia on a typical southern diet.
Ninety percent of my food was prepared in the frying
pan: fried chicken, fried ham, bacon, potatoes, porkchops and other fried meats of all kinds. I ate heavy
cream, flour gravies and hot biscuits and plenty of pies,
cakes and jellies. When I look back, I see I suffered inmy youth from this self-poisoning and didn’t know it.
Despite my abhorrence of drugs, I let myself be drugged
by the poisons within me. Rarely was I entirely free ofthem, and the average health I enjoyed was far from the
radiant health that was my natural heritage.
I usually slept
10 hours a night instead of 8, and the
excess I am sure was largely due to autointoxication.
Even after a long night of sleep, I seldom woke up feeling
refreshed, plus I had a bitter morning taste in my mouth.Most people are not really living; they are merely
existing. They are so full of toxic poisons that living
becomes an effort. Few people rise early to see the sunriseand greet the new day with eagerness and joy! I do now!
Let us look at our bedrooms as recharge areas where
we are required to spend a certain length of time in sleep
to recharge our life batteries. Let’s make our bedroomsuncluttered and peaceful with ample fresh air and light.
Ceiling fans in hot summers are nice. During the early
morning hours you always get more accomplished – sotry to cultivate early morning rising. You can if you put
your mind to it! Work days, when you get up earlier,
take a “cat nap” for 20 minutes after eating your lunch.
I understand why millions worldwide use stimulants
such as tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, cola drinks and “pep
pills”. They try to fight the desperate moods of fatigueand depression caused by autointoxication. I could write
pages depicting the woes of toxins. As a youth my blood
was poisoned. No one would set out to foul their purebloodstream, yet, consistently, in ignorance I polluted
my precious life with unhealthy foods. Analyze your life
and improve where needed. Keep a daily journal.34
Stop your life from an out-of-control down spiral! Become the Health Captain of
your life by following The Bragg Healthy L ifestyle – start today!  – Patricia BraggOutwit Acidosis That Affects Millions
It has taken me all these years of research and study
to discover the great fact that the bloodstream should
be alkaline. Yet, with most of us, it is in an acid state.
From headache and indigestion, to pimples and thecommon cold, most problems arise from acidosis due
to self-poisons caused by unhealthy foods. When the
life stream is so polluted, how can our immune systemdefend the body against disease and illness? People
unwittingly prepare the body for sickness with their
unhealthy lifestyle and then let it be out of control, whilethey search for a magic pill that will work miracles!
Now if you are as naive as I was, you will ask, “What
can I do to counteract this supposed acidity? How can Icleanse my blood?” The answer is: “By supplying it with
alkaline-forming healthy foods.” At the first sign of
acidosis (heartburn, bloating, tired, etc.) go on a
3 day
water fast. After fasting, switch to alkaline-forming
healthy foods and be wise, always avoid unhealthy foods!
What Are Alkaline-Forming Foods?
 “But what are alkaline-for ming foods?” Y ou ask. They
are, generally speaking, organic, raw fruits and vegetables,
salads and leafy greens and lightly steamed vegetables.
Three-fifths of your diet should be composed of fruits
and vegetables, both raw and cooked. It’s alw ays best to
enjoy your raw fresh fruit  or a raw vegetable garden salad
before you eat any cooked foods. See recipe on page 231.
The alkaline forming foods are the most important
to your body. Some of you will say, “raw fruits and
vegetables give me gas, etc.” That is because you are on
the acid side and, when you eat the alkaline foods, theystart to houseclean and move the toxins out of your
bloodstream and body. So you avoid eating them and
use the weak excuse that they don’t agree with you. Theydo agree with you and your toxic body definitely needs
them to help get you clean, healthy and alkaline!35
Bad cooking diminishes happiness and shortens life. – Wisdom of AgesRaw, Organic Fr uits and Vegetables
Are Mother Nature’s Miracle Cleansers
When you get a bad reaction from certain raw fruits
and vegetables, remember that these are cleansing and
purifying foods. Use a small amount until you can reduce
your body’s toxic poisons. Your weekly 24 hour fast is
going to get rid of a lot of your body wastes. If you have
the intestinal strength to fast for 3 to 7 days, most
troubles from cleansing foods disagreeing with you willbe over. What are the acid-forming foods? Chiefly sugar,
its products and coffee, tea, alcohol, meats and fish.
No doubt the idea of excluding even a portion of the
latter will dismay you, but if you want to live agelessly
you must do many things at first that dismay you.
Eventually you will be dismayed at your dismay. Often anew task is difficult because you think it will be. Tackle it
with the idea that it is easy and it becomes easier! Living
on a diet composed mainly of organic fruits, veggies,salads, nuts and seeds isn’t difficult. No one will denythat fruits are luscious. Salads may be enjoyed in great
variety. The list of vegetables is long and diversified. All
the raw nuts and seeds, raw or lightly roasted pecans,almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, etc. are
nutritious and delicious. You need not confine yourself
to these foods, but if you lean towards acidosis you shouldcombine fasting with a diet of fruits, salads and veggies.
If you must eat meat, it should be only
2 or 3 times
weekly. On the least symptom of feeling bad, it’s best toget back to the healthier vegetarian alkaline diet quickly.
Headaches, dizziness, specks in the vision, bitterness in
the mouth, body fatigue and mental blockage merelydenote a bile attack, but again the disorder may be more
deep seated. If you think it’s your liver, you should cut
out all fats and flesh foods. Also, cut out all refined sugarsand refined starches. The little protein you need you
can get from organic healthy plant sources, beans, raw
nuts and seeds, sprouts, etc. The Vegetable Protein %Chart on page
233 gives some healthy food-to-eat  ideas.36
It’s never too late to begin getting into shape,
but it does take daily perseverance. – Thomas K. CuretonWe live not upon what we eat, but upon what we digest. – Abernethy
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. – Ben FranklinYour Mind Must Control Your Body
Prudently assume, that your condition is one of
autointoxication. If you feel your energy is at a low ebb,
and not up to par, go on a short fast lasting from 24
hours to 3 or 4 days. Drink nothing but pure, steam
distilled water. I will tell you more about water later.
You will experience a craving for food, but not an
actual hunger. It’s the body reflexes that are accustomedto being fed at certain intervals. Again let me state, “Flesh
is dumb!” It has all kinds of cravings, but you must be its
master. You must control your entire body with yourmind – your human miracle computer. I readily admit
that fasting takes immense determination and willpower.
I remember very well my first
4 day fast. It was while
I was under the care of the famous Dr. A. Rollier at his
sanitarium in Switzerland. I was battling for my life with
tuberculosis and I had been at the sanitarium for severalmonths. Dr. Rollier told me it was going to be a great
experience – and it surely was! The good doctor told me
to study my urine daily, so each day I took a specimenof my urine and kept it in a bottle. I put it on a shelf inmy room and I would look at the specimens each day.
As the urine would cool and settle I could see the great
amount of foreign matter that was leaving my body.
As soon as I finished the fast, I was placed on a highly
alkaline diet with an abundance of fresh fruits and raw
and lightly steamed or


 to us all—we are all lovers trying to
reach perfection. We do this, as Symeon teaches, when “we awaken as the
Beloved in every last part of our body.” In Symeon’ s time these words
violated the dogmatic belief that the body was wicked and corrupt. In our
age the opposit e prejudice applies: a lover is someone whose appeal isbasically physic al, sexual. In both cases the fusion of spirit and body has
been missed.
Yet at moments the piercing joy of love does appear, despite dogma. The
touch of your beloved or simply the sight of her can seem  suddenly
amazing, appea ring like lightning, just as Symeon says. But the same
feeling can penetrate the heart from nowhere, because love is inherent in
life itself. Emily  Dickinson, whose lovers were all in her imagination, is to
me a true lover nonetheless. She writes:
Not “Revelation”—tis—that waits
But our unfurnished eyes—
This is a message of compressed wisdom, which says that we are waiting
not on the day of redemption but on our own perception.
The exquisitene ss of true ecstas y cannot dawn unless we can contain it;
our minds are so absorbed in relentless activity that quietness rarely lasts
more than an instant. The body by its nature is also active and restless.
Since activity and stillness are opposites, the body generally registers some
degree of agitation or even discomfort as it moves into alignment with
spirit. The reputation that ecstasy has for being physically intense
contributes to the frenzy and mutilation that devotees have resorted to in
order to duplicate the opening to ecstasy—they are mistaking the symptom
for the cause.
The divine has nothing to do with pain. Because it stands outside—
ekstasis —the envelope of time and space, spirit cannot be sensuous. Our
five senses cannot take us to where ecstasy dwells. But as true ecstasy
begins to manifest, our senses definitely react. The reaction is entirely
individual and unpredictable, since one person’ s intense erotic opening is
another ’s frightening collapse of defenses. What feels like the expansion of
the soul into infinite space to me may seem like a terrifying fall into the
void to you.
When we say that ecstasy is like the drop melting back into the ocean, it
must be made clear that we are the drop and the ocean at the same time, just
on dif ferent levels.
Ecstasy is the r elease of individuality back into wholeness.  Whatever brings you closer to
wholeness brings you closer to ecstasy.Here I think we’ve reached the secret of ecstasy. Most of us do not see
ourselves as supreme sexual technicians, nor can we relate easily to the
extraordinary mysticism of a saint. Ecstasy will never be ordinar y, yet it can
be brought within our reach once we realize its real nature. Although often
experienced in the most extrem e situations, ecstasy is a quality  of spirit as
natural as any other. We do not have to sojourn into the darkness of the
mythic past to retrieve it. The patient work of inner growth is all we need.
To promote stillness inwardly is to promote ecstasy. The inner being
doesn’ t have to be tricked or manipulated to achieve this stillness. Our
minds are like runners that only have to slow down in order to walk, then
slow down from a walk to standing still. This process of shifting from
activity to stillness is a simple yet very deep description of meditation. We
could modify the biblical injunction to “Be still and know ecstasy.” There is
no single road to this quietness of meditation, yet to be genuine any
meditation must take the mind beyond its superficial nature, which is
restless and chaotic, to its deeper nature as the peace that passes all
understanding.
REACHING  ECSTASY
The emer gence  into stillness can take place under any conceivable
circumstance. Arjuna achieved his moksha on a raging battlefield after the
bloody onslaught of family against family. Medieval saints found theirs in
complete retreat  from the world. At this very moment someone is finding it
in a bustling city or staring out to sea. The release is never incidental or
accidental. Tastes of ecstasy come and go, yet attaining compl ete stillness
of the mind means walking the spiritual path to its concl usion, with
discipline and faith.
Expansion of consciousness is the r oad to ecstasy.
Expansion of consciousness is a broad term that covers almost everything
I have discussed up to now, for the path to love is all about such expansion.
Love pulls you out of ego boundaries, and when you are dedicat ed to acting
from love, you are able to live in spirit. Many of the most important themes
have already been covered:Seeing your beloved as a mirror of your higher Self.
Surrendering to love as a guiding force.
Letting go of attachment to the false self and its needs.
Devoting every day to achieving true union and healing the wounds of separation.
Countless people live with their beloved without following any of these
principles; their love doesn’ t provide a strong enough basis to escape their
old conditioning. Until they discover the spiritual path, few are able to heed
the voice of spirit, which speaks intuitively. If only you perceived it, you
are alrea dy in a state of ecstasy that is permanent and unshakab le. But only
at moments when your boundaries fade away do you have flashes of reality.
Then direct intuitive knowing becomes possible, and you can see yourself
for who you are, sublime and ecstatic. Thousands of years ago the
Upanishads expressed our twofold nature in a beautiful metaphor:
Two birds, one of them mortal, the other immortal,
live in the same tree. The first one pecks at the fruit,
sweet or bitter; the second looks on without eating.
Thus the personal self pecks at the fruit of this world,
bewildered by suf fering, always hungry for more,
but when he meets the true Self, the resplendent God,
the source of creation, all his cravings are stilled.
The two birds in the tree, self and Self, are inseparable; both sit in the same
tree (the body) faced with the same fruit (the material world). Yet for all
their closeness the bird who craves the fruit does not know its mate. It takes
an awak ening to reveal the Self, and although in one sense it is awesome,
being “the resplendent God,” in another sense it is just one’s intimate
beloved, who has faithfully kept watch through all time, waitin g only to be
seen. Once it is seen everything in life changes. As the Upanish ads declare,
the life of the self, once united with the Self, rises to a blessed level:
Good and evil both vanish;
delighting in Self, playing like a child with Self,
he does whatever is called for, whatever the result.
When self-realiz ation dawns, there is no longer any question of struggle
or effort. The spirit guides you to do whatever is called for, according to
your own makeup. In reality universal love requires only one thing, that the
sweet point in the heart expand until bliss and peace become the nature of
our life. This first happens within individuals, then it happens torelationships based on spirit, finally it extends to whole families and
societies.
A single point in the heart can expand to liberate the world.
Ecstasy is therefore not an individual feeling at all but a glimpse of the
wholeness waiting to be seen everywhere. The Upanishads state this very
explicitly:
Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,
unreachable, nearer than breath, than heartbeat.
Our senses tell us that we are breathing and that our hearts beat,  but there is
a breath within the breath that is spirit (in Christian terms it has been called
afflatus, the breath of God).
Near as spirit may be, centur ies of cultural prejudice have made it
necessary to rediscover our intuitive, direct knowledge of it. Many
disciplines and techniques can be employed here, particularly meditation. In
this book I have concentrated on the expansion of conscious ness that is
available throug h love, motivated by the tragic absence of love we see all
around us. Yet the road to the Self is not closed on any side—the
transcendent is “nearer than breath, than heartbeat”—and fortunately a
multitude of teachings exist to put our feet on the path.
In the end the path does not actually ascend anywhere in time or space.
The self is still the self, the ego is still the ego, the senses are still the
senses. How can you go anywh ere to capture what is already so close to
you? The mystery is that this “pathless path,” as the masters refer to it,
causes immense  transformation. There is a world of difference between
those who live in love and those who only touch upon it fitfully. Perhaps the
greatest differen ce is this qualit y called ecstasy, which is the actual feeling
of breathing God’ s breath and beating with His heart.
I do not want to betray the intimacy of ecstasy; it is the most private of
love affairs. Being becomes your beloved, and the merging of yourself with
another person follows with complete ease and naturalness. If one had to
lay down some  kind of pattern for how ecstasy is attained


. And let people not mistake my
statement that "all that  grows on trees has poor
nourishment," for fruit honeys and their ripe wines, their
juices and candies made from them help in special
diseases, because their value as food is different from
their value as medicaments. This is clearly known to
those who are versed in pharmacology. Galen said that
from the viewpoint of morality  and divine tr uth, it was his
intention to warn people not to eat fruit.
 BUT DISFAVORS OTHER FRUITS —
He further said that it was his habit to be smitten by
fever once a year and when his father commanded him to
abstain from eating fruit, he was protected from fever that
year. From that time he made it a rule never to eat fruit
and he swore that he never ha d fever after that, except for
one day. And one can mention this as an item of truth
because the moisture of fru it contains materials from
which fevers are formed. And let it not seem strange to us
that many people eat fruit w ithout developing fevers, for
habits and regulations bri ng various results. If a Hindu
should eat refined bread and sheep's meat he would surely
get sick and if one of us s hould eat rice and fish, as the
Hindus do always, he would doubtless also get sick. It is
not the intention of this work to declare it a special cause
[of sickness], but it is the intention to declare that fruits
are generally not good to eat and one should eat little of
them. One must never combine them with a meal, but one
may eat pears, grapes and figs before meals as they soften
and moisten the stool. One may eat after them, provided
they have left the stomach. And the binding plants such
as quince and plums should be  eaten sparingly and after a
meal, in order that they should contract and close the
opening of the stomach. PARTICULARLY PEACHES AND APRICOTS
And just as grapes and figs are considered the best of
all fruits, so are peaches a nd apricots considered the
worst. And one should never come close to these two
species because they produce moistures that mix with the
blood and make it boil and this is the main cause for the
formation of putrefied fluids and fevers. But dried fruits
like raisins, dried figs, kernels of pistachio and hazelnuts
are not bad, but it is best to us e them only as relishes with
food, especially raisins and pi stachio nuts, because they
are very good for the liver. Gale n said also: The health of
the liver is our life. The part aking of some sweets after a
meal is very good, because it gives the stomach the power
to retain the food and to digest  it. This is all that I have
found proper to mention in this chapter and that is all we
intended.

CHAPTER II

The Care of Patients in the Absence of a
Physician or in the Presence of a Physician Who
Is Not Adequate and Not Experienced in This
Science

According to the prominent medical authorities, medical
science is of extreme importance to man, because he is
disposed to become sick from  most of the foods he eats,
and sooner or later he will n eed the advice of a physician.
Medical science is divi ded into three parts.

THE HEALTHY, THE SICK AND THE CONVALESCENT
The first and most important part: the behavior of the
healthy, and that is the care of  health and its maintenance.
The second part: the care of  the sick; ways and means
of regaining of health that ha s been lost. This is known as
medical advice.
The third part: the care that Galen called "the
restoration." This is the care of health in persons who are neither very well nor very sic k, such as those who are in a
convalescent state or the aged.
As has already been explained, a man needs the
services of a physician in ev ery item of health and at
every time, but his need of a physician during sickness is
especially great and avoiding him is dangerous. Fools
think that a man needs a physician during his sickness
only and at no other time, but it  very often happens that a
man gets sick while traveling or while in a small town
where there is no physician or  only a physician on whose
wisdom people do not rely. This is the place for the
advice of your servant, indi cating what to do on such an
occasion.

THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Galen has already explained to us that the ancient
Greeks, when in doubt as to what to do in a certain
disease, did nothing but left the patient to nature, which
they considered suf ficient to cure all illnesses. And
Hippocrates sang the praises of nature in many places at
great length, considering natu re to be wise, clever and
capable of doing what is necessary for the sick without
resorting to medication. And it is true that the physician should help nature, support it and do nothing else but
follow it.

RAZI'S RULE
And Razi said in one of hi s well-known chapters: If a
disease is stronger than the pa tient, there is no hope that
he will survive and no physician will help him; if the
strength of the patient is gr eater than the strength of the
disease, he will not need a physician, because nature will
cure him; but if the strength of the patient and that of the
disease are equal, then one needs a physician to increase
the patient's strength. Th is can be done only by the
perfect physician, who knows how to strengthen the
patient and take care of him, so that he may overcome the
hurdles of nature. However, most physicians commit
many errors and, while they think they increase the
patient's strength, they really  weaken him and interfere
with his progress.

ARISTOTLE HARSH ON PHYSICIANS
And about this, Aristotle said, in his book De sensu et
sensibili,- that many die from medication because of the
ignorance of physicians in understanding nature. When the physicians say "nature," they mean the power that
rules all living creatures,  whose presence and true
function has been explained in the books of the ancient
sages. For these reasons kings  invite many physicians and
chose from them the most intelligent, wise and
experienced. Through their concilium they may be saved
from error.

USE MILD REMEDIES
From all that I have mentioned in my introduction, it
becomes clear that it is proper to leave the patient to
nature when there is no good physician. And the
expression "leaving to nature" implies that one should not
take a medication which healthy people are not used to
taking and that one should not  forget to take the proper
amount of his food. One should drink when he is thirsty,
and one should eat when he is hungry, as one is
accustomed to do. And one should eat the lightest of the
foods that he is used to ea ting. And it is proper for a man
to know that even if he has with him one or many
prominent physicians, he should not permit himself to
employ drastic medication, unle ss it is upon the advice of
a very, very adequate and experienced physician whose
wisdom has been put to th e test and whose experience cannot be doubted. Otherwis e one should prefer during
illness light rather than strong medications.

AND AVOID THE DRASTICS
I will now explain the ch aracter of the strong
medicaments and name them. They are: venesection with
the loss of much blood, strong and prolonged purgatives
such as colocynth, convolvulus scammonia and cleansing
by strong emetics, like the two types of hellebore and nux
vomica, and strong enemas that contain colocynth,
sagapenum, castor oil and the like. Equally strong
measures are abstaining from food entirely and the
avoidance of drinking and the enduring of thirst. There
are already many prepared medications for various
conditions like the theriac, Th eodoric and Mithridatic and
their like. All these medicaments are powerful and one
should prepare them only upon the advice of a physician
who excels in theory and pract ice. From these things, if
they have a beneficial influence in their place, the patient
will recuperate immediately or a short while afterward or
will, at least, be saved from death. But if they fail, they
will cause immediate death or  an illness that will
ultimately cause the patient's death. And therefore it is
proper to exercise care. THE LIGHT PROCEDURES
The light medical procedures  are: the removal of blood
through cupping and scarification on the thighs or on the
upper part of the body, a purge with manna, pears, plums,
cherries, violets and syrup of roses in a cold state.
Emetics such as barley water, oxymel, horse-radish,
atriplex littoralis seeds or melon roots and others. Also
light enemas, like those of ba rley water,


ALL DISEASES ONCE INNOCENT

   Cancer, tuberculosis, Bright’s dis ease, and all chronic
diseases were once innocent colds “ameliorated,” and
which returned and were “ameliorated” again and again;
each time accompanied by a greater constitutional
enervation, and a greater constitutional toleration for toxin -
poisoning, req uiring a greater requisition of mucous
membrane through which to eliminate the toxin.

   Research is being carried on vigorously in an attempt to
find the cause of disease; the conception of disease being
that it is individual. Here is where investigator s meet their
Waterloo. All the so -called diseases are increasing
symptom complexes due to repeated crises of Toxemia.
They have no independent existence. As soon as Toxemia
is controlled, they disappear, unless an organ has been
forced by innumerable crise s to degenerate. Even organic
change, when the organ is not destroyed, will be overcome
by correcting the life and getting rid of the cause —crises of
Toxemia.
    To find the cause of cancer, start with colds and catarrh,
and watch the pathology as it tra vels from irritation,
catarrh, inflammation, induration, ulceration to cancer.

   As well try to find the cause of man by ignoring his
conception, embryonic life, childhood, manhood, etc.

   All symptoms of all so -called diseases have one origin.
All diseases are one. Unity in all things is nature’s plan.
Polytheism is gone, and everything pertaining to it and
coming out of it must go.

HERD -BELIEFS

   Few realize man’s possibilities if his handicaps are
removed —handicaps which are old beliefs a nd herd -
instincts.

   The Toxemic Philosophy is founded on the truth that
there is no such thing as cure. In this it differs from all the
so-called curing systems. Every pretense or promise of
cure, in all lines of therapeutics, is false. This cannot be
grasped by all minds until time for thinking has allowed the
idea to soak in. Convention and superstition have the floor,
and they are unwilling to sit down and listen to the other side. Many learn slowly, others not at all, and still others
are put to sle ep mentally by truth.

   There are ox -cart minds in every generation. The recent
episode at Dayton, Tennessee, should cure the enthusiasm
of those who think the world has outgrown superstition. I
have bucked up against medical superstitions of all kinds
all my life, and I know that clear -thinking minds are as
scarce as hens’ teeth. Many compliment me on my clear
reasoning on medical subjects; but the moment I cross the
border -line into their ethical, moral and theological
preserves, they remind me of my t respassing in no
uncertain terms. Even my own profession is quick to ink
the waters of my reasoning by declaring that I am an
infidel —a word that fills the elect with abhorrence. Who is
an infidel? One who rejects a senseless convention. Didn’t
Christ repu diate the Jehovic cult?

   The average mind prefers the old interpretation of to the
“new -fangled” definitions. Until the world agrees on one
dictionary, one Bible, and one God, the tempest in the
teapot of misunderstanding will continue to ebullate,
sending the atomized fundamentalists heavenward and the
anatomized modernists hellward.

    Of course, God made man. He made everything. But why
not find out just how He made him? Surely there is as much
“glory to God” in discovering just how He did it as i n
accepting an infantile interpretation which up to date has
got us nowhere. When we know how man is made, we shall
understand the laws of his being; and it will not be
necessary for him to die of apoplexy, stone in the gall -
bladder or kidney, hardening of  the arteries, or any other
so-called disease caused by breaking the laws of his body
and mind.

   If we do our duty to our children, shall we teach them the
laws of their being and how to respect them, or shall we go
on in the same old way, and, when th ey get sick from
breaking the laws of their being and ruin their health, call a
surgeon who will cut out God’s mistakes? Think it over; or,
if you’re too fanatical or bigoted to think, pay a surgeon to
cut out the effects of wrong living, and continue the cause.

LET US REASON TOGETHER!

   Let us do a little homely reasoning. We are inclined to be
awed by the word “infinite.” The infinite is limitless to our
limited comprehension —it is a relative term and
ambiguous; but, as we grow in experience, our on ce limited comprehensions take on extended dimensions. Each
person’s infinite is personal and varies from every other
person’s comprehension. We cannot think in terms of the
limitless, and we should not try; for, if we know the
analysis of an atom of salt,  we know the analysis of the
infinite amount there is in the world. This is true of all
elements. If we know the analysis of a pound of butter, we
know the analysis of the infinite amount contained in the
world. If we know all about a man, we know all abou t all
men. If we know what finite love is, we know that infinite
love is of the same character.

   We should keep our feet on the ground —stay on earth —
and be satisfied that all worlds are like our world.

HOW TO MEASURE THE INFINITE

   We know al l by an intensive study of a part. If we know
all about one disease, we know all about all diseases.

   We shall tell the reader all about Toxemia, and then he
should know all about all diseases; for Toxemia is the basic
cause of all diseases.

   Inste ad of beginning at the top of any subject, we should begin at the bottom and work up. The usual way for our
finite minds is to accept the infinite on faith; then to us the
comprehensible does not agree with our preconception, our
faith is shocked, our hous e of belief is divided against
itself, and we fall. This is the parting of the ways; and we
must reconcile our faith and knowledge by transferring our
faith to the belief that the road to all knowledge is by way
of the comprehensible. We must either do thi s or live in
doubt concerning the knowable, and accept the unknowable
on faith.

   Every truth squares itself with every other truth; every
department of science and reason blends into a unit. The
laws of life are those of the cosmos; the laws of the
universe are the laws of God. The road to an understanding
of God is from rock to man, and through man to God.
Every step must be a block of truth, or God, the goal, will
be sidestepped. Behold the head -on collision of the
Christian world and the wholesale ma ssacre that took place
during the World War —all due to undigested truth. The
world is full of truth; but mental indigestion, due to wrong
food combinations, is universal.

   Many think they know what I mean when I use the word
“Toxemia,” having referred to the dictionary for its
definition.  TOXEMIA, THE BASAL CAUSE
OF ALL SO -CALLED DISEASES

Toxin Poisoning —Toxin: Any of a class of poisonous
compounds of animal, bacterial, and vegetable origin —any
poisonous ptomaine. (Standard Dictionary.)

   There a re so many ways for the blood to become
poisoned that, unless what I mean by “Toxemia” is
thoroughly comprehended, there must be a confused
understanding. This explanation is made necessary because
even professional men have said to me: “Oh, yes, I believe
in the poisoning resulting froin retained excretions
(constipation) and ptomaine (food) poisoning.”

   As stated before, a ptomaine poisoning resulting from the
ingestion of food that has taken on a state of putrescence, or
a poisoning resulting from th is change taking place in food
after it has been eaten, and which is generally called
autotoxemia, is not an autogenerated poisoning. Both of
these poisons are generated on the outside of the body, and
must be absorbed before the blood can be poisoned. Foo d
or poison in the intestines is still on the outside of the body.
A suppurating wound, ulcer, or chancre is on the outside of
the body, and if it causes septic (blood) poisoning, it will be
because the waste -products are not allowed to drain —to escape. Th e discharge being obstructed, it becomes septic,
and its forced absorption poisons the blood. Even vaccinia
fails to produce septic poisoning, because its poison is
discharged on the surface —on the


Quinn  SYPHILIS  Raojibhai has described an interesting case of skin disease of his friend, Shri Juthabhai. He was an old but healthy man living in a jarijan Ashram. Somehow he got syphilis and its eruptions spread everywhere on the body. Shri Juthabhai started fasting with urine and anointing the body with two-three days stored urine. As a result his body became full of big yellow blisters. His appearance became horrible. It continued for six days. Blisters were not subsiding. He then asked one of his friend to anoint the body with force so as to break open the blisters. When his friend did this, Shri Juthabhai's body became white with pus. After this he took bath with luke-warn water and felt immediate relief.   Now his skin started regaining its normal condition and in six more days he was completely all right. Shri Juthabhai further disclosed that he had never fasted in his life and it was his first fast but he did not feel any weakness. Urine keeps body nourishing during fast.  Miracles of Urine Therapy by Morarji Desai  181   ***************************** T ***************************** TEETH LOOSE  Once I advised a young man with loose teeth to rinse his teeth with urine. He followed the advice but after fifteen days when I met him, he seemed to be discouraged about the results. According to him there was no improvement in his condition and he thought of discontinuing urine therapy. On further inquiry it was revealed that he was taking very hot tea at least four times a day. Hot tea uses to burn his guns and tongue and they were in injured condition perpetually. I asked him how could he hope to get cured under these circumstances. He showed his inability to discontinue the practice of taking tea. However he promised to reduce the quantity and also stop taking very hot tea. After about a month I again met with him. This time he was happy that his condition was better. He was planning to stop the tea altogether to get full benefit from water of life.   "Miracles of Urine Therapy" by Morarji Desai  TESTICLE PAIN  “B. Fande, had pain and swelling in his right testicle and thigh. Medicine could not cure him. He  fasted on urine for two days, massaged with urine for 15 minutes daily, used to drink urine about four times a day, and was particular about dieting. He was completely cured.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  THORN IN FOOT  Shri Mangilal Malviya who is a naturopath related his experience of urine therapy to Raojibhai. Once he was going through a forest on foot. He was wearing a chapel. A long thorn suddenly penetrated into his left foot. Pain was unbearable. With great difficulty and force he could take out that thorn. Removal of thorn resulted in a gush of blood. He urinated on it and tied a piece of cloth at the spot. Pain vanished and was healed with any pus.   Miracles of Urine Therapy by Morarji Desai  THYROID 182  Ma. Rosalba C. of Ramirez. Mexico  "I am 47 years old, I had 5 children. I give thanks to God for the knowledge of urine therapy. Want to give my testimony to all the people of how I am and how I healed. In 1980, I had a very strong car accident, I had to remove the spleen; from there I became sick. In July 1993, after passing through a very sad situation, two brothers were killed and other family problems. I began to suffer from depression, headaches and neck, cramps in the hands and feet, also felt some palpitations too strong, my eyes were deformed, were swollen and exalted. There were nights I could not sleep and suffered from insomnia, I started to lose a lot of weight, I felt like I was drowning, I could not go to the bathroom alone and was very thirsty. I have a brother who is a doctor and started giving me medication, serum injected me and healed me. He had to stay in the hospital where he works after several studies, doctors there told me that my thyroid gland was not working well.  I was prescribed pills and was taking them for a year or so. I improved a little, but if I stopped taking the pills, I became shaky. I was sent to another hospital with a specialist to see if he could cure this disease. By then I had a tumor in the neck that was growing and if I stopped taking the medicine the symptoms would return, but I could not take the medication, it was like a drug. In this hospital I was sent to another, to apply nuclear medicine. Radioactive iodine was what I had to take, with which I felt very tired and various other symptoms.  I was alone, I was still without strength, I wanted nothing more than to be dead. I went back to the Doctor, after 15 days, because the symptoms were the same. There was no improvement. The doctor told me to continue taking the medicine again. I felt that iodine I had done nothing, and as I frequently had sore throat and bronchitis, I was taking 6-8 daily medications. I was starting to hurt the kidneys and did not know whether to take the medicine or not.  One day my husband took me to hospital, and I was diagnosed with a tumor in the breast. I worried because I was filling diseases. One day, as in May of 1995, I was invited to be a witness, before a notary, to some scriptures. I gladly went along with neighbors and friends, and that was when a neighbor said the urine was good for all diseases and that was in the Bible. In Proverbs 5 verses 15 to 18. The next day I started taking just a little with water, because I did not know how to take it. When I started taking the urine, I had bronchitis and was taking thyroid medicine and antibiotic. I continued with the urine; at that moment the medicine disgusted me. It couldn't take it, and I gradually stopped taking the medicine. I didn't have directions, nor had I attended any conference. 183  Three months later, I came across a paper with instructions or directions and an explanation of all that urine cures. It was then that I started fasting for one day, then two days and thank God, I fasted for three days; before the fasts, I had the opportunity to go to a conference.  I'm cured of the thyroid, and that I have no neck tumor, I feel great, I'm not on drugs and breast cyst disappeared. Varicose veins in the legs are going away, and I can see without glasses. I wish everyone had this wise knowledge so that  everyone can heal without spending money, you only need prayer to God and your water of life."  Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  THYROID  Ma. of Refugio S., Mexico. "In 1990 I started with the issue of Thyroid. Every year I did analysis and x-rays to be able to shrink the tumor. It appeared that it wouldn't go away with medication. I took 3 radiation treatments and still it did not reduce the tumor. One day, I realized from the conferences they gave in October 1995. I started the urine therapy and that was my relief. Now I'm healthy. I thank God for therapy."  Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  TOE BLEEDING  Once I myself was walking on a rocky terrain with my friend. All of a sudden my right foot collided with a big stone. My toe started bleeding profusely and nail was half torn. I was in a fix as to what to do when my friend reminded me to urinate on it. I followed his advice and tied the toe with a urine-wet piece of handkerchief. I kept on wetting it for days and the toe was completely healed.  Miracles of Urine Therapy by Morarji Desai  TOOTH ACHE  “Banarsidas Brahmachari is a propagandist of Urine Therapy. He had a toothache in 1966. He began gargling, and he found great relief in only 20 minutes. In three days he completely cured his toothache by only gargling with urine.” 184  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TOOTH ACHE  Once I was on a train with my wife. It was night long journey. In the middle of night her tooth started aching severely. I had few tablets of aspirin with me but it did not work. I then asked her to go to bathroom and put some urine in the mouth and rinse for few minutes. She did not like the idea but pain was severe and there was no other way. At last she did try the remedy and was relieved like magic.  "Miracles of Urine Therapy" by Morarji Desai  TOOTH ACHE  Once one of my relatives came to me with severe toothache. He had a cavity in his molar tooth and that was the source of pain. I took a piece of cotton and soaked it in the urine bottle and inserted it in the cavity. Within a minute pain subsided.  "Miracles of Urine Therapy" by Morarji Desai  TOOTH INFECTION  “Jose Martinez had a bad infection in a tooth that needed root canal or extraction. The infection caused his face to become inflamed and he had a lot of pain. He obtained temporary relief with


, usually after a few da ys
of noticeably increased wel l-being, they suddenly experience a set of severe symptoms and feel just awful. This is not a setback,
not something to be upset or disappointed about, but a healing crisis, actually a positive sign
    Healing crises always occur after a period of marked  improvement. As the vital force builds up during the healing process, the
body decides it now has obtained enough energy to throw off some accumulated toxins, and forcefully pushes them out through a
typical and usually previously used route of secondary elimination, such as the nose, lungs, stomach, intestines, skin, or perhaps
produces a flu -like experience with fever chills, sweat, aches and pains, etc. Though unpleasant, this experience is to be
encouraged; the body has merely accelerated its eliminati on process. Do not attempt to suppress any of these symptoms, don"t
even try to moderate fever, which is the body"s effective way to burn out a virus or bacteria infection, unless it is a dange rously
high fever (over 102° Fahrenheit). Fever can be lowered without drugs by putting the person into a cool/cold bath, or using cold
towel wraps and cold water sponge baths. The good news is that healing crises usually do not last long, and when they are pas t you
feel better than you did before the crisis.
    Asthmatics seem to have the worst crises. I have had asthmatics bring up a quart of obnoxious mucous from their lungs every
night for weeks. They have stayed awake all night for three nights continuously coughing and choking on the material that was
being eli minated. After that clearing -out process they were able to breath much more freely. Likewise I have had people who have
had sinusitis have nothing but non -stop pussy discharge from their sinuses for three weeks. Some of this would run down the throat
and c ause nausea. All I could say to encourage the sufferer was that it needed to come out and to please stand aside and let the
body work its magic. These fasters were not grateful until the sinus problem that had plagued them since childhood disappeare d.
    The interesting thing about healing crises are that the symptoms produced retrace earlier complaints; they are almost never
something entirely unknown to the patient. Usually they are old, familiar somatics, often complaints that haven’t bothered th e
faster for many years. The reason the symptom is familiar but is not currently a problem is because as the body degenerates it los es
vital force; with less vital force it loses the ability to create such acute detoxification episodes in non -life-threatening sec ondary
elimination routes. The degenerated body makes less violent efforts to cleanse, efforts that aren"t as uncomfortable. The neg ative
side of this is that instead of creating acute discomfort in peripheral systems, the toxemia goes to more vital organs  where it
hastens the formation of life -threatening conditions.
    There is a very normal and typical progress for each person’s fatal illness. Their ultimate disease starts out in childhood o r
adolescence as acute inflammations of skin -like organs, viral  or bacterial infections of the same. Then, as vital force weakens,
secondary eliminations are shifted to more vital organs. Allergies or colds stop happening so frequently; the person becomes
rheumatic, arthritic or experience weakness in joints, tendons,  ligaments, or to have back pains, or to have digestive upsets. These
new symptoms are more constant but usually less acute. Ultimately, vital organs begin to malfunction, and serious disease dev elop.
But a hygienist sees the beginning of fatal diseases su ch as cancer in adolescent infections and allergies.
    Retracing is generally seen only on water fasts, not on extended cleansing diets. The body begins to repair itself by healing
conditions in the reverse order to that which they occurred originally. T his means that the body would first direct healing toward
the lungs if the most recently serious illness was an attack of pneumonia six months previously. In this case you would expec t to
quickly and intensely experience a mini -case of pneumonia while the body eliminates residues in the lungs that were not
completely discharged at the time. Next the body might take you through a period of depression that you had experienced five
years in the past. The faster may be profoundly depressed for a few days and co me out of it feeling much better. You could then
re-experience sensation -states like those caused by recreational drugs you had playfully experimented with ten years previously
along with the "trippiness" if it were a hallucinogen, speediness if it was “sp eed" or the dopiness if it was heroin. Retracing further,
the faster might then experience something similar to a raging attack of tonsillitis which you vaguely remember having when y ou
were five years old, but fortunately this time it passes in three days  (or maybe six hours), instead of three weeks. This is retracing.
    Please do not be surprised or alarmed if it happens to you on a fast, and immediately throw out the baby with the bath water
thinking that you are doing the wrong thing because all thos e old illnesses are coming back to haunt you. It is the body’s
magnificent healing effort working on your behalf, and for doing it your body deserves lots of "well done", "good body" thoug hts
rather than gnashing of teeth and thinking what did I do to dese rve this. The body won’t tell you what you did to deserve this, but it
knows and is trying its darndest to undo it.

The Unrelenting Boredom Of Fasting
    Then there’s the unrelenting boredom of fasting. Most people have been media junkies since they were  kids; the only way they
believe they can survive another day of fasting is by diverting their minds with TV. This is far from ideal because often the
emotions of a faster are like an open wound and when they resonate with the emotions portrayed on most TV  shows, the faster gets
into some very unpleasant states that interfere with healing. And the emotions many movies prompt people to sympathetically
generate are powerful ones, often highly negative, and contrary to healing. Especially unhelpful are the adr enaline rushes in action
movies. But if TV is the best a faster can do, it is far better that someone fast with television programming filling their m inds than
to not fast at all. I keep a library of positive VHS tapes for these addicts –comedies, stories o f heroic over -comings, depiction’s of
humans at their best.
    Boredom is probably the most limiting factor to fasting a long time. That is because boredom is progressive, it gets worse wi th
each slowly -passing day. But concurrently, the rate of healing is accelerating with each slowly -passing day. Every day the faster
gets through does them considerably more good than the previous day. However, fasters rarely are motivated enough to overcome
boredom for more than two weeks or so, unless they started the fast to solve a very serious or life -threatening condition. For this
reason, basically well people should not expect to be able to fast for more than a couple of weeks every six months or year, no
matter how much good a longer fast might do.

Exercise Whil e Fasting
    The issue of how much activity is called for on a fast is controversial. Natural Hygienists in the Herbert Shelton tradition insist
that all fasters absolutely must have complete bed rest, with no books, no TV, no visitors, no enemas, no exer cise, no music, and of
course no food, not even a cup of herb tea. In my many years of conducting people through fasts, I have yet to meet an indivi dual
that could mentally tolerate this degree of nothingness. It is too drastic a withdrawal from all the st imulation people are used to in
the twentieth century. I still don’t know how Shelton managed to make his patients do it, but my guess is that he must have b een a
very intimidating guy. Shelton was a body builder of some renown in his day. I bet Shelton’s patients kept a few books and
magazines under their mattress and only took them out when he wasn’t looking. If I had tried to enforced this type of sensory
deprivation, I know my patients would have grabbed their clothes and run, vowing never to fast again. I think it is most important
that people fast, and that they feel so good about the experience that they want to do it again, and talk all their sick frie nds into
doing the same thing.
    In contrast to enforced inactivity, Russian researchers who super vised schizophrenics on 30 -day water fasts insisted that they
walk for three hours every day, without stopping. I would like to have been there to see how they managed to enforce that. I
suspect some patients cheated. I lived with schizophrenics enough yea rs to know that it is very difficult to get them to do anything
that they don’t want to do, and very few of them are into exercise, especially when fasting.
    In my experience both of these approaches to activity during the fast are extremes. The correct  activity level should be arrived at
on an individual basis. I have had clients who walked six miles a day during an extended water fast, but they were not feelin g very
sick when they started the fast, and they were also physically fit. In contrast I have had people on


 passed, I  realized one of the basic laws of cancer: Wrong foods caused the
malignancy to grow, while proper foods allowed natural body defenses to work and
the malignancy was absorbed a little. This is one reason some people can live so long
with cancer, while others succumb very quickly. Through a process too long to
describe here, I  worked out the relationship of enzymes, minerals, and co-enzymes,
as well as proper detoxification procedures.
By the time I  started my program, I  was in very bad shape. I  was extremely
depressed, with nothing seeming to work out well. I  had a feeling of impending death
most of the time, was always tired, and became completely exhausted at the slightest
effort.
The cancer had eaten into the nerve connections to my heart, causing rapid pulse
rates and irregular beating. My cancerous pancreas was so damaged and enlarged
that I  had hypoglycemia and was going into insulin shock several times a day. My
liver also was cancerous and enlarged. I  could not eat much, as I  was so nauseated.
My intestines were so laden with cancer that I  was in constant pain. I  w ill have scars
for a long time to come.
When I  finally worked out the total nutritional support program, I  thought
everything would be wonderful and I  would recover without further difficulties. But I
had still another lesson to learn. Recovery can be worse than the disease itself. I  not
only had to destroy the cancer, but I  had to rebuild a badly damaged body also.
At first, I  was anxious to destroy the cancer as quickly as possible, but I  found that
the toxic poisons made me extremely ill. I  had to learn how to be sure the cancer was
dissolving, but not too fast. At the proper rate, one would feel sick, but not violently
ill.
As the body absorbs the cancer, it overloads the blood and liver with toxic poisons,
making one feel constantly sick. This, for me, lasted about eight months after the
cancer growth was stopped. All the while, the mental depression remains and the diet
leaves you with cravings. One has been accustomed to all the tasty "junk" and it is
very hard to give it up forever.
As one begins to get over the "goopy" sick feeling, he w ill notice that he has a
good day when he feels wonderful, then several bad days when he feels "goopy" sick
again. He enjoys the good days so much that the bad ones seem much worse than
they really are. Now he can realize how sick he has been.
About the time one is having a few more goods days than bad, he starts having
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muscle cramps — very bad ones. This condition goes on for a minimum of nine
months, and often much longer, while one is rebuilding muscle protein that was
taken out of the tissue during the early stages of the cancer. This stage is similar to the
severe growing pains one might have experienced as a child or youth.
There is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow — one's good health! If all the steps
have been faithfully carried out, one's body is in better condition than ever before in
many cases. That wasn't true in my case, at least it hasn't been yet. Although my
"incurable" cancer is cured, it did a lot of damage and it was five years before I  was
free of pain and felt really good. Nevertheless, I  was given years of precious,
productive living. And if you can first find hope and then health through Metabolic
Medicine, I  w ill not have lived in vain.
Pancreatic Cancer Study
The most outstanding study in medical history is of Pancreatic Cancer. At the
request of Robert A. Good, Ph.D., M.D., former president of Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Nick Gonzalez, a medical student,
reviewed thousands of Dr. Kelley's patient's records selecting 22 patients with
Pancreatic Cancer. Although Dr. Kelley had many more patients who were diagnosed
with Pancreatic Cancer, only these 22 met the rigid standards required in this study:
i.e., Biopsy diagnosed at a major medical institution.
Dr. Good requested this study, which is called a numerator/denominator. In this
study, a single form of cancer was chosen. Gonzalez chose pancreatic cancer since
the five-year survival rate in orthodox medicine is virtually zero.
In this study, a total of 22 Kelley pancreatic cancer patients properly diagnosed by
the orthodox medical community were broken down into three groups based on their
level of following Kelley's protocol. The median survival of the three groups is shown
as:
Unit One: Ten patients never followed the protocol; average survival 67 days.
Unit Two: Seven patients followed the protocol partially; average survival 233 days.
Unit Three: The five patients who followed Dr. Kelley's protocol completely achieved
an average of nine years survival.
In fact, all five were still alive at the time the study was made except one patient
who had died (of Alzheimer's) after 11.5 years, cancer free.
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Medic a l Professionals Evalu ations
(Circa 1982)
W h a t I n o tice d  o ve r th e  years was a disappearance o f a ll m y sym ptom s,
th e  re tu rn  o f energy, endurance, and interest...
D r. John R hine ha rt (M e d ica l D o c to r)
Dr. John Rhinehart (Medical Doctor)
I  first met Dr. Kelley six years ago. I  had taken a seriously ill member of my family to
him for an evaluation and a "nutritional" program. What I  got was a fascinating and
provocative experience about a new way to live healthfully, and a whole new
concept of what physical and spiritual health is all about. This was all in addition to a
nutritional program. While I  did not understand at that point exactly all the
ramifications of his approach, I  was so intrigued that I  decided to go on a program
myself. Part of doing this was to test for myself whether it really was possible that Dr.
Kelley had developed a method for applying his theories.
My own physical problems resolved around long-term exhaustion of what I  now
know as my sympathetic nervous and glandular systems. Medically, this
encompassed several diagnoses including irritable colon and mucus colitis, severe
low blood sugar, intermittent episodes of high blood pressure, depression, and very
erratic and low energy patterns. These are all called: "burn-out."
What I  noticed over the years was a disappearance of all my symptoms, the return
of energy, endurance, and interest, which I  could count on. I  knew something vitally
important had happened in my body and did not quite understand how that had
been accomplished and so decided to study with Dr. Kelley in order to find some
answers to that apparent riddle. What I  discovered was a simple theory that
addressed an extremely sophisticated piece of machinery — our bodies — in a new
and comprehensive as well as therapeutically effective way.
Over the last two years I  have incorporated the program in my practice and have
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seen all types of people responding well, providing they commit themselves to doing
the program thoroughly. I  would also like to emphasize that the program is a dynamic
and ever developing one, so much so that the changes incorporating new knowledge
make year-old programs seem like ten years old.
Over all, I  believe that Dr. Kelley's program is sparked by a special sort of genius
decades ahead of its time, and w ill be a paradigm of medical care in the future.
John Rhinehart, M.D.
Newton, CT
Dr. Douglas M. Baird (Osteopathic Surgeon)
An open letter to my Colleagues, April 1982. The prevailing orientation of the
traditional medical community over the past 150 years, with regard to cancer and
other degenerative disease processes, has been largely a destructive, anti
symptomatic phenomenon. Admittedly, these approaches have some absolute
applications for limited, short-term therapy, but in my strong opinion anti
symptomatic therapies have no validity in the treatment of long-term disease. What is
and has been needed for some years is a major re-evaluation of the medical scientific
doctrine and the establishment of a more appropriate model for the understanding of
health and disease. Hopefully, this new model could redirect the investigative
energies of the research community on to more rewarding horizons.
I  feel that the time has come from both the scientific and humanistic viewpoints, for
a change in emphasis from the disease process itself to the person who has the
disease and from a position of fighting against disease to one of re-establishing and
preserving good health. One of the major contributors to the proposed changes in
medical thought has been Dr. W illiam Donald Kelley, a dentist by profession, who
developed a self-sustaining, cohesive model which largely explains and properly
categorizes volumes of seemingly divergent scientific information, theories,
observations and experiences. The key is biological individuality. Dr. Kelley's genius
is in developing an entire scientific model beginning with the individual and his
inherent uniqueness.
A major reorganization of thought and practice is required of the medical
community to utilize the tools, which have


 it to be granted to her. She
simply takes it. She insists on a sharing of domestic chores, including
care of the children.
This new independence and the shift from the external to internal
thinking on the part of the woman is not easily accepted by her
husband. He becomes threatened. Anxiety is entering his life at a
time when he cannot afford it. The last thing he needs is an upstart
wife, even though he encouraged her to get out more on her own
and think for herself. He didn’t expect to create a monster, least of
all one that would challenge his own established supremacy. He
may react with a heavy dose of dominance, which has always worked
at putting his submissive partner in her place in the past. He argues
against the absurdity of working, when she is paying most all of her
salary for babysitters. He points to the illogic of her belief that she
isn’t equal. In fact, she’s indulged. “You don’t have to work, you
have it made, all you have to do is take care of a house and be a
mother to your children.” He tries guilt. “The children are going to
suffer.” “I can’t have this aggravation.” Perhaps he threatens her
with divorce, or as a last resort, suicide. This often works. The wife
says to herself, “Wow, I almost blew it,” and reverts to her sub-
missive role. The heavy dose of dominance served toDECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 199remind her of her place. But if she refuses to regress, the marriage
itself may be in jeopardy. At any rate, there is a definite crisis. If the
wife persists in replacing her submissiveness with self-reliance, the
husband, who needs to dominate someone, might leave for a
younger wife who will stand in awe of him and thus put her in the
position of looking up to him and becoming a cute little showpiece.
On the other hand, the marriage may survive the crisis, and an inter-
esting shift may take place. The thread of dominance and submission
still winds its way through the marriage. That is the only kind of
marriage both partners recognize. Often the husband will now take
on the submissive role out of fear of losing something he cherishes,
or at least depends on. Staying home more, getting closer to the
children (out of guilt from earlier abandonment), he may say things
like, “You don’t need me any more” or “You’re changing, you’re
not the girl I married and I’m not sure I like the new you.” He has
become more submissive. He may become a heavy drinker, and a
self-pitier out of a need to manipulate his wife or to recapture his
long-lost superiority. The wife is now in a career, or moving toward
one; she has her own circle of friends, and is developing outside in-
terests of her own. Perhaps she is having an affair as an assertive
retaliatory gesture, but at the least, she is feeling good about receiving
some acclaim and compliments for her accomplishments. However,
the thread is still there, and a crisis looms heavy. As long as one
partner must be more important than the other or fear-of-divorce is
the thing that binds the two together, dependency is still the
cornerstone of the alliance. The dominant partner, be it man or wo-
man, is not satisfied with a slave for a spouse. The marriage may
continue in a legal sense, but any love or communication between
the two partners has been destroyed. Divorce is common here, but
if not, two people begin to go their separate ways within the mar-
riage—no sex, separate quarters, a communication pattern based on
mutual put-down, in lieu of understanding.
A different conclusion is also possible, if both partners decide200 / Your Erroneous Zonesto reevaluate themselves and their relationship. If both work at be-
coming free of erroneous zones, and loving each other in the sense
of allowing the other partner to choose his own fulfillment, then the
marriage can flower and grow. With two self-reliant people, who
care enough about each other to foster independence rather than
dependence, but at the same time share happiness with a loved
person, marriage can be an exciting prospect. But, when two people
try to merge into oneness, or one tries to dominate the other in any
way, that spark that is within us all fights for one of the greatest
human needs, independence.
Longevity is not an indication of success in marriage. Many people
stay married out of fear of the unknown, or because of inertia, or
simply because it is the thing to do. In a successful marriage, a
marriage where both partners feel genuine love, each is willing to
let the other person choose for himself rather than to dominate. There
is not the constant hassling that involves thinking and speaking for
the other partner, and demanding that he does what he’s supposed
to. Dependency is the serpent in the paradise of a happy marriage.
It creates patterns of dominance and submission and ultimately
destroys relationships. This erroneous zone can be eliminated, but
it will never be an easy battle, since power and control are at stake,
and few want to give them up without a fight. Most important, de-
pendency should not be confused with love. Putting some spaces
in togetherness ironically solidifies marriages.
You Are Treated the Way You Teach Others to Treat You
Dependency is not something that just happens because of associ-
ation with domineering people. It is, like all erroneous zone behavior,
a choice. You teach people to dominate you, and to treat you the
way you’ve always been treated. There are manyDECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 201schemes that maintain the domineering process, and they are re-
peated only if they work. They work if they keep you in line and in
a dependent position in the relationship. Here are some of the com-
mon strategies for maintaining dominance and control threads in
marriage.
• Yelling, screaming and voice-raising of any kind. This will keep
you in line if you are a soft person and want things quiet and smooth.
• Threatening behavior such as, “I’ll leave, I’ll get a divorce.”
• Inducement of guilt. “You had no right to—” “I don’t understand
how you could have done such a thing.” If guilt is your hang-up,
then you can be kept “submissive” with such statements.
• The use of anger and explosive behavior, such as throwing
things, swearing, hitting objects.
• The physical ailment ploy. Having a heart attack, headache,
back problem, or whatever when one partner doesn’t act the way
the other wants him to. You can be manipulated by this if you have
taught your partner that you’ll behave when he gets sick.
• The silent treatment. No talking and deliberate sulking are su-
perlative strategies that one partner can use to maneuver the other
into correct behavior.
• The tears routine in which you cry in order to help the other
person to feel guilty.
• The leaving scene. Simply getting up and walking out is a good
way to manipulate a partner into or out of certain behavior.
• The “You don’t love me” or “You don’t understand me” contriv-
ance for getting one’s way and maintaining the dependency in the
relationship.
• The suicide scheme. “If you don’t do what I want, then I’ll kill
myself” or “If you leave me, I’ll end it all.”202 / Your Erroneous ZonesAll of the above strategies are methods that keep the other person
in the desired role in marriage. They are used when they work. If
one partner refuses to be manipulated by them, the other will not
continue to use them. It is only when one mate is responsive to these
ploys that the other gets in the habit of using them. If you give the
proper submissive reactions, you are teaching the other what you
will tolerate.
If you get pushed around, you’ve been sending push-me-around
signals. You can learn to teach others to treat you the way you want
to be treated. It will take time and effort because it has taken a lot
of time to teach others how you wanted to be treated until now. But
you can make the change whether it be on the job, in the family, at
a restaurant, on the bus, any place at all that you receive shabby
treatment which you dislike. Rather than saying, “Why don’t you
treat me better?” begin to say, “What am I doing to teach others to
treat me this way?” Put the focus on you, and begin changing those
reactions.
Some Common Dependency and Dependency-Fostering Behavior
• Feeling unable to leave the nest or leaving it with bad feelings
on both sides.
• Feeling required or obliged to visit, telephone, entertain,
chauffeur and the like.
• Asking permission of a spouse for anything, including spending
money, authority to speak, or use of the car.
• Invasions of privacy, such as looking through drawers and
private records of children.
• Sentences like, “I could never tell him how I feel, he wouldn’t
like it.”
• Falling into depression and immobilization after the death of a
loved one.DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 203• Feeling committed to a particular job and never venturing out
on your own.
• Having expectations for how a spouse, parent, or


 G. Pandit1s Experiences : Shri K,. G, Pandit w~~' afil.
Engineer at.the Bhillai steel Plant. Now.from his own experience he:
has begun to propagate for spreading.. the ma~sage of auto"urine;
therapy. He is now manager of Auto~urine Research Centre and
Clinic, Raipur, (Madhya Pradesh). At his suggestion several workers
at the Bhillai plant have healed their injuries by wa~hing with urine
and putting urine packs on them in short times of two or three days.
Cricket Captain of Bhillai Shri Madan Joshi has found that
drinking urine and urine massage has proved as tonic during his
hard days of n:atches or even practice.,,
Innumerable patients on his advice have relied on drinking urine:
and light diet to cure themselves of ailments like gastric trouble,
dysentery, diarrhoea, indigestion and even headache, within a short
time.
After 15 years of his own and others experiences, Shri K; G.'
Pandit has come to this conclusion that by taking a couple of days1
tast with three or four daHy doses of fresh urine and massage with
old urine and strict adherence to diet, influenza and malaria can be
removed immediately.
Shri K. G. Pandit is a devoted canvasser d,f auto-urine therapy. He
is in a sense making good the loss of the late Dr. Paragjibhai Desai
by this new therapy. His experience is :
11He was sick ·when he was -QO. His digestive· system and
circulatory system had almost gone ourof-erder: For about two years
be tried allopathy, homoeopathy and Ayurved o/ithout any benef.jt;; ·
So he turned to drinking auto-urine and mass~ge with 7 ·days1 old
urine. Within two weeks he was considerab.ly cured.!lnd in a
month1s time he was entirely free illness.11 •
Bleeding Piles : In every summer he had to walk for ten miles SOME VIEWS : 247.
daily in the hot region of the Berar districts of Akola and AmaradL.
This used to result iri hardness of the stools. This ultimately have him
the dread disease of bleeding piles. So he returned toNagpur, took
three.daystfast on urine and water and took ene.ma with lukewarm ·~.
water. He took urine thrice a day and enema every third day. Withi:n
three days piles subsided (>feeding also stopped. Within a fortnight
piles were, sompletely cured.
Cataract in Eyes : In 1967 when he was examined by an eye
surgeon.he found that both the eyes were having cataract. He
decide.don a ten day urine fast. After five days blood-pressure was
found t0 have come down. On his wife1S insistence, therefore, he.
brQke the fast by resuming milk, buttermilk and orange juice. He
continued to drink urine thrice daily and even urine massage. After a
week he began normal food.
Then he got himself examined by the same doctor. The latter was
swpris.ed to find that the cataract had become reduced. Since then.
he has contin~::~ed to wash his eyes with fresh L:Arine and thus could
resume his week of writing and reading.
Rheomatism : lh 1975 he took there days1 fast with urine to
rheumatic pain in his knees and left shoulder. Rheumatism was
completely cured and the cataract also was reduced;
In 1976 again the same doctor examined and found that there
was no need of an operation to remove· cataract.
He take~ 'every morning a full number of urine as he thinks it to
be a prevaritl~e medicine against all diseases, washes eyes with
fresh urine thrice and massages with a week -old urine before taking
his bath.
-EDITOR
Shri Nekiram Chaudhari1s Experiences : Shri Nekiram
Chaudhari, Manager, Gandhi Ashram, Hapur Dist. Meerut, (U.P.)
an experienced u·rine therapist, writes in his letter of 22-l-1977 :
111n 1964 I had acute burning pain in my liver. I was extremely 250 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
childhook Hole of Urinary track has become very narrow and has
severe difficulty in passing Urine. Doctors had advised operation. He
writes in his letter dated 25-11-'89 addressed to Auto-Urine Therapy
Centre, that after reading "Manav Mootra" book in Gujarati, he
started drinking auto-Urine thrice a day and within a short period
hold of urinary track has automatically widened and Urine passes
smoothly.
Shri Hiralal Samchai,
Karmanns STR 18 4850, Moenchenglad Bach-1, W. Germany.
He is aged 56. Because of const:mt Alergy he had a severe Throat
Truble. In his letter received by the Auto-Urine Therapy Centre on
8-11-'89. He writes that in the lecture arranged by the society of
persons suffering from A/orgy that it was said that there is no
medicine in Allopathy which can campletely cure Alergy and
Asthama and advised to resort to Auto-Urine Therapy. He adds that
after reading the book "Manav Mootra" by Raojibhai Patel and
Armstrong's Auto Urine Therapy he resorted to Auto-Urine Therapy
and there is a marked improvament and kidney which was working
16% has started working 26%
Shri Prabhubhai laljibhai Vyas,
At&Po. Koliyad. Dist. Rajkot.
He was suffering from severe constipation and gas trouble. In his
letter, dated 25-7-'90, addressed to Auto-Urine Therapy centre he
state that as per advice given by the centre on 5-3-'89 he resorted to
Auto-Urine Therapy and has fully recovered from constipation and
gas trouble.
Shri Jagjivandas Manji Adatia,
At. & Po. Gonda/, Dist. Rajot. MORE RECENT SUCCESSES. : 251
He was suffering from Cold constipation and deatness. In his
letter of Aug. '90 addressed to Auto-Urine Therapy Centre he
informs that as per advice given on 21-6-'90 by Shri Shahsikant
Patel, Adviser, Auto Urine Therapy Centre he has a marked recovery
from cold and constipation but very little improvement in deafness.
He has requested for further advice which has been given in centre's
letter, dated 3-8-'90.
Shri Rameshkumar Aroda,
18 Radhaswami Road, near Adarsh Cinema,
Amrutsar, Punjab, Age 46.
He was suffering soraisis (Skindisease) since last ten years. He
started USE of Auto-Urine Therapy since June 1990 as per advice of
Auto Urine Therapy Centre. In his letter, dated 6-9-'90 addressed to
Bharat Sevak Samaj, he informs that he has completely recovered
from the iII ness.
Shri Mohanbhai Gordhanbhai Mistri,
Mangaldas Dudhwalani Chali,
Uttemnagar, Maninagar, Ahmedabad.
He was suffering from cancer of "Annnali"!foodpipe) and was
neither able to take food nor even tablets and lost weight of 1 0 kgs.
He writes in his letter, dated 16-8-'90. That after following
Auto-Urine Therapy within short period he has recovered fully and
since last two years there is no trouble.
Shri Shantilal Arjun Thanki,
Porbander, Dist. Junagadh -Age 64.
He was suffering from Arthritis of knees. He started practice of
Auto-Urine Therapy since 9-7-'90 as per advice of Auto-Urine,,
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Therapy centre. In his letter dated Nil, Jully 1990, addressed to
Shashikant Patel, Hon. Adviser of the Centre he informs after USE of
Auto-Urine drinking and Massage there is 50% improvement.
Shri Parmar Anilkumar Bhagwansingh,
Kvkeri, Tal. Chikhli, Dist. Valsad, Age. 20.
He was heving bad :,mell from mouth aAd was suffering from
Malaria for about 10 months and hand taken Qyin ine Injection and
other Allopathy medicine but there was no complete cure. He writes
in his letter dated 13-8-'90, addressed to Shri Shashikant Patel, Hon.
Adviser, Auto-Urine Therapy Centre that he started practice of
Auto-Urine Therapy since last fifteen days and there is substantiar
relief and that though there is op


 finally broke his fast on a little raw  beef. When
animals  are ill, they have the sense to fast until hunger reasserts itself.
During his fast I washed him all over with old, strong,  greasy urine, and
although he lost many of his old hairs during the process, he finished up
with a beautiful coat.
Although the following  experience  with poultry does not strictly come
under  the heading of urine‐therapy,  sine: hens  do not urinate and  no
urine was  used, t is instructive  none the less as showing what a fast will 104
 do even for birds. I had 60 hens  at the time (October,  1916) but not one
of them had laid an egg for weeks, although they  had been well  fed and
stimulated  with condiments.  As some of them were ill, many
"authorities"  had given me free or professional  advice. Finally, I decided
to put half  of them on a fast, with nothing but plain water. The result
was remarkable,  for on the fourth day I found several eggs.
Subsequently,  I fasted the  remaining  half, with the  same gratifying
result ‐eggs in plenty. The fast  in each case lasted  a week. I then
changed ‐what had been the previous  diet consisting  of "anything  and
everything"  to nothing but whole grain wheat ‐for which  the hens  had
to work in ashes for every morseland  raw  greens, which I gave them
twice  a day. This, plus the grass they could peck from my orchards  was
all they  got.  The result was an average of 250 eggs a week from 60 hens
for 18 weeks without  a break, and at the negligible  cost  of ⅓ d. per egg.
Treatment  of a foal's leg for laceration.  The foal in question  had tried  to
force her way through a thick thorn hedge  with disastrous  results. She
suffered  a large  slash  in the flesh of one of her back legs at the knee‐
joint, and the gash resembled  a great lip hanging down. I was  advised
to call in a vet. and  have it stitched up, but I declined, knowing that
such a measure  would only leave unsightly marks and much reduce  her
value. I therefore  bound up the wound with a soft clean woollen cloth,
(undyed) under  a piece  of tree‐ply flexible wood, ind filled up the space
between the flesh and  the wood with cow‐ dung, finally drawing the
poultice tight at the bot.om with broad  tape so as to keep the dung in
place and  let the foal  have her run.  Twice a day I called  the animal  so
that I might pour a pint  or more  of urine into the top of the poultice in
order to keep the properties  of the dung active. This process I kept up 105
 for a fortnight.  Then at length I undid the bandages ‐ and lo and behold!
the wound was perfectly  healed, and without  leaving a trace of a scar.
Truly there  are lessons  to be learnt from Nature. The first, second  and
third are‐work with Nature  and she will do the work!

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 CHAPTER  XVII.
THE RATIONALE  OF RUBBING  AND URINE PACKS

A correspondent  who asked  a number  of intelligent  questions  surprised
me on that account  by asking: "Is not the skin a one‐way organ?" And
yet what shred  of evidence or deduction  is there on which  to base such
an assumption?  Take the simplest analogy. If one covers with a
distended  handkerchief  the top of a cup containing  a little milk, and
then inverts the cup, the milk  will ooze out through  the handkerchief.
Conversely,  if one puts  a little milk  on the handkerchief  distended  over
the cup, the milk  will ooze through  into the cup, and the more  quickly if
one rubs  it through the material.  That the skin  is capable of absorbing
not only fluids but air has been known  for very many years. Why  are
cellular underclothes  advocated?  Because the skin requires to breathe.
Hence  the unwisdom  of clogging the pores with suppressive  unguents,
or of "wrapping  oneself up" in sheaths of warm underclothes,  as did the
Victorians.  Should the skin be prevented  from breathing  entirely the
victim  dies. The story  of the child which  was  painted completely  with
liquid gold in order to cut a figure in pageant is well  known‐the child
was dead in two hours. On the other  hand the rubbing with milk of
underweight  and ill‐thriving children was at one time a common
practice,  and often attended with good results. As we all know, friction
produces  heat, and  heat opens up the pores of the skin because they
likewise generate heat. That is why it is so important  what the
compresses  contain. Compresses  which  merely draw  out and  put
nothing back can prove  seriously strength‐ sapping;  a matter which  has 107
 been brought to my notice in many cases.  Thus the compress  par
excellence  is a urine compress,  and rubbing with urine is far superior to
any other  form of friction. For the lacer purpose old urine alone, or old
mixed with  fash, rind' warmed up (it must  n‐ver be boiled) is the most
efficacious.  The most  practical method is to store  up urine in bottles,