 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,


, harmony
and mutual understanding, and the elements
will respond to the greeting — all you have to do
is feel it.
However, generally, a certain weakness is nor-
mal, and one simply needs to be prepared for it.
Usually, a person begins to get tired on the sec-
ond day, and there may be subsequent periods of
time w hen one may have a difficult time even
getting up. But none of that is a reason to worry.
At any time when strong fatigue is felt, it's best
to sit or lie down, and rest. It's not, however,
good to lie around for too long, it's best to take a
walk in the f resh air after resting, and you will
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lief, when a person no longer wants to stay in one
place, he feels like walking and communicating.
Many remain in excellent spirits up until the
completion of fasting.

10.3. Chilliness or fever (more typical of dry
fasting)
During the cold season, many fasters feel very
chilly. This is not a reason to worry either, you
should simply dress warmer. It's typical of many
to put on 2 -3 pairs of warm undergarments, sev-
eral swea ters, etc.
However, not everyone feels chilly. There are
people who merely suffer from the cold. They
endure hunger easily well both in the summer
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chilly. They should take more walks, take hot
baths (pine baths are best) and … pour cold wa-
ter over themselves. Short dowsing is recom-
mended, just for the impact on the thermorecep-
tors.
If, despite all the efforts, a person is still chilly,
he or she should try to decrease the water intake
volume or drink hot water. Figuratively speak-
ing, water extinguishes the fire element, while
without water, the fire flares up full-force.
Very often the chilliness spontaneously trans-
forms into fever. If the flushes get strong, one
can undress and drink water. In fact, chillin ess
and fever are very typical during fasting. But
while fever is not dangerous, chilliness is actually
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warm up in one way or another.

10.4. Bad breath
On the second or third day, the breath acquires
a foul smell  (if the body is not sufficiently
cleansed). This is the smell of the insufficiently
oxidized compounds being released. Usually the
acetone smell prevails. However, putrid, malo-
dorous, and other similarly 'pleasant' smells are
sometimes mixed in. In those who fast up to a
crisis for the first time, the breath may become
so foul that it may be difficult to remain in the
same room with the person. Imagine how many
toxins he or she may have carried in their body!
In the course of the body cleansing, the smell
grows weaker and after day 12 -18 it becomes
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release as many toxins as possible. The methods
are those already familiar to us — walks, physical
activity, water and other procedures that stimu-
late metabolis m.

10.5. Dimmed vision, vertigo
Often happens after a quick rise from a sitting
or a supine position (the so -called gravitational
or orthostatic collapse). A few seconds later, the
dimmed vision sensation usually passes, but the
person may fall during thi s time, while con-
sciousness is not typically entirely lost.
This state is caused by a sharp re -distribution
of blood, the volume of which decreases during
fasting. There is no danger in this, yet getting up
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chair or a wall (particularly in the bathroom af-
ter a warm bath.
Dimmed vision is most often encountered and
most clearly pronounced in tall thin people.
Those who spend a lot of time outdoors, don't
stay in bed for excessive periods of time, and are
engag ed in interesting activities are far less
prone to these unpleasant symptoms.

10.6. Headache
A headache is a sign of severely contaminated
blood. Most often headaches are present prior to
the crisis. After the crisis, headaches occur when
a person spends a lot of time in stuffy spaces or
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through brea thing.
Headaches pass if we assist oxygen in burning,
and waste removal systems in removing waste.
Thus, it's best to take more walks, perform ene-
mas and water treatments, resorting to sorbents
is also possible. Dissolve 3 tablespoons of
sorbent in 1 glass  of water and drink the solu-
tion. Place the sorbent in your mouth, like pills,
and wash down with boiled water.
Of course, this method does not have a deep
and persistent detoxifying effect on the body,
since no meaningful reconstruction takes place
in such a short time in the work of the gastroin-
testinal tract and detoxification systems. The
main goal of single -time sorbent intake is the
resolution of relatively simple daily tasks. Thus,
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substances. Depending on whether the desired
result has been achieved, the intake may be re-
peated 2 -3 times.
In the presence of strong pain, an additional
enema may be done. No medicine should be
taken when fasting.

10.7. Sleep disturbances
Overpowering sleepiness often comes over
people during fasting. There's no reason to com-
bat it, it's best to sleep as much as you want. Just
don't forget about cleansing and walks.
Sometimes, on the contrary, the desire to sleep
disappears when fasting. If it does not impose se-
rious discomforts, you can stay awake for as long
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of ability to sleep, then, after 3 -4 days of insom-
nia, after depleting the regular range of methods
(4 to 5 -hour daily walks, baths, shower), the fast
should be broken, and should be repeated in 2 or
3 months. In serious cases, a specialist's consul-
tation is necessary.

10.8. Pain in various parts of the body
Pain during a fast may often be frightening. It's
high time to remember the law of introducing
order, namely, the fact that when new order is
introduced, it always begins with a temporary
disorder. If you start to combat it, the new order
will not be introduced. All the symptoms during
fasting are usually short -lived and pass quickly.
The symptom demonstrates that the  body has
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tissues. This is the only meaning of the symp-
tom, and there is no point in searching for other
explanations. If something begins to hurt during
fasting, it means that the body is grasping onto it
and the restoration has begun. If you've fasted up
to a problem rooted your early childhood, the
cleansing is close to completion. During fasting
all the diseases emerge for a short time in reverse
temporal order. It is extremely rare for the pain
to persist f or a long time. Of course, that's fright-
ening, yet one simply has to live through it.  I
don't know of any cases of someone suffering
from ignoring the 'hunger symptoms.' There are
more afflictions from breaking fast before time.
The pain usually subsides without a trace several
days later, but sometimes returns. It depends on
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 and eventually raw, we qu ite commonly become more aware of our emotional
selves. When we commit to eating a raw diet, we gravitate toward fatty  foods to provide emotional numbing, as most fresh fruits are
not sufficient sedatives to overcome emotional distress. Usually thi s leads to the consumption of exorbitant amounts of nuts or seeds,
which are easy to overeat, because they do not quickly trigger satiation. Digestive distress and undue suffering result from this
behavior.
The answer to all this lies not in consuming food at all, but in maintain ing emotional poise and developing the ability to fully feel
our emotions.

Fats have several factors working against them when it comes to sat iety. First, fats pack many calories into tiny packages.
Because volume is one of the key factors in experiencing satiation, it  is difficult to eat enough volume of a fatty food to feel satiated,
without feeling sick first.
Second, the brain monitors blood-sugar levels constantly as a method of deter mining hunger. As blood-sugar levels rise,
hunger decreases. No corollary rapid hunger reaction occurs in the cas e of blood fat, and even if it did, dietary fat takes a relatively
long time to reach the bloodstream, often requiring twelve to twenty-fou r hours from the time it is eaten. If you eat an entire meal of
fatty foods, you still won’t be satiated. Y ou will very likely resort to e ating a sweet dessert at the end of the meal to finally satisfy
your appetite. The idea that eating fat keeps you satiated is simply untr ue.

Sweet Fruits Win Every Time!
When we eat sweet fruits, which are rich in simple sugars, the blood-s ugar level rises gently, almost immediately, as we discussed in
Chapter 2. The sweetness of these highly nutritious foods makes them dif ficult to overeat. And because of their copious water and
fiber content, fruits supply relatively high volume in a low-calorie  package, further making it difficult to eat too much of them. We
have all been taught that sweets will satiate us, and we have come t o rely upon this fact by choosing to eat our sweet desserts at the
end of our meals.
When we eat sweet desserts at the end of our meals, it indicates two thi ngs:

No matter how much food we ate, it likely did not satisfy our appetite, or else we  would not have been tempted by a sweet
dessert.
We ate insufficient simple carbohydrates during the meal, leaving  us craving those very carbohydrates at the end of the meal.
This is evidence of our natural and substantial need for simple carbohydr ates.

Had we eaten sufficiently of fruit at the start of the meal, it is li kely that we would not have desired other foods. No other food group matches the ability of fruit to satiate us.

Monomeals: Eating One Food at a Time
Eating a single-ingredient “monomeal” of fruit is an extremely pleasurable experience quite simply because it is so satiati ng and
yet, so uncomplicated. The minimalism of the meal runs counter to our habi tual multiple-food approach, with its accompanying
titillation of the tastebuds, thereby allowing us to avoid addiction to stim ulation and overeating.
Judging from the way most people eat, I feel safe in saying that addiction  stems from variety. Because the mono-fruit meal
does not excite the body, and is easily digested, it does not leave us dulled and fa tigued after eating, but rather engaged and clear of
mind. We are left both perfectly satisfied and mentally poised.
At first attempt, the monomeal may seem “boring,” because we are s o accustomed to the stimulation of eating multi-ingredient
meals. Over time, the simplicity of mono-fruit meals improves digesti on and heightens your senses, so that you can pick up the
nuances of every bite of raw plant foods. As an added benefit, you will be able to better recognize when you are actually satisfied.

Am I Supposed to Feel Full?
Given that the key to eating for fullness while simultaneously con suming the right number of calories for our bodies is to eat high-
volume, nutrient-rich, simple-carbohydrate foods, then which foods should pr edominate? The truth is, the human body has only a
certain capacity. While it is possible to get adequate nutrition from a v ariety of different food sources, it is more easily obtained from
some foods than from others. For instance, lettuce is highly nutritious  in terms of nutrients per calorie, but it would be extremely
difficult—essentially impossible due to the finite nature of our di gestive capacity—to consume sufficient lettuce to meet our calor ic
requirements. (At 50 calories for a 10-ounce head, we would have to eat 40 heads a da y to consume 2,000 calories).
At the opposite end of the spectrum, it is possible to put the micronutrients r equired to meet our total daily nutrient
requirements into a single small pill. (Of course, our macronutrie nt needs—water, fiber, carbohydrate, protein, and fat—do not lend
themselves to consumption in pill form.) Were you to eat such a pill, howeve r, the lack of volume or bulk would result in a
tremendous and unyielding sense of hunger that could only be satisfied by  the consumption of more volume.
How do we get volume, nutrients, and simple sugars, all at the same time?  We eat sweet fruit. Because of its high water and
fiber content, fruit provides more volume with fewer calories than any  food category except vegetables. Hence, we can meet our
caloric needs without exceeding them, while fulfilling our innate  desire to consume foods in large volume. Because of its high volume,
low calories, and abundance of nutrients including simple sugars, eati ng a sweet meal predominated by fruit is bound to be satiating
every time.

Chapter 11. 80/10/10 in Practice

How does your daily diet differ when you learn to eat the low-fat raw vegan  way? On most days, you will eat juicy fruit for
breakfast, sweeter fruit for lunch, and all the acid fruit you care for be fore a vegetable-based dinner. It is really that simple.
Most raw fooders, and anyone else who has been taught to avoid fruit or to eat it  in somewhat limited quantities, are initially
dumbfounded by this formula. Responses range from “I could never do that”  to the full range of nutritional questions that have
already been covered in this text.
For people transitioning from a more mainstream diet, the concept of eatin g fruits and vegetables makes a lot of sense. After
all, fruits and vegetables are the true health foods. With the state  of human health at its absolute all time lowest, isn’t it time that  we
started eating fruits and vegetables as if our very lives depended upon t hem?
While people also tend to intuitively sense the wisdom of a low-fat diet, th e idea of committing to a completely vegan diet may
seem a bit mentally or emotionally challenging at first. But it make s more sense all the time, and the number of vegans is rising every
day.

Slow and Steady
Once people educate themselves about a new positive behavior and become conv inced that they desire to incorporate it into
their lives, I always encourage them to do so as quickly as possible. Yet, you  can be easy on yourself when adopting the 80/10/10
way of life. A gradual transition may be the best that you can hope for if you  have amassed a collection of mental, emotional, or
habitual blocks that would make a sudden and total switchover difficult.
Direction is more important than speed for most people when it comes to succe ssful transition. Imposing upon yourself the
unnecessary pressure to make “all or nothing” changes often leads  to frustrating failure. When people stretch themselves too quic kly,
they often “snap back” into their prior habits.
By decreasing the fat percentage in your diet even one point per week, you c an achieve the full benefits of 80/10/10  in less
than a year. After that, you have the rest of your life to reap the harv est of health that you have sown. This is not a diet program to
be used temporarily, but a healthful eating program for life.
I wrote this book to guide people to a low-fat plant-based raw foods  diet. No other program exists for this purpose.
However, many other low(er)-fat plant-based diet programs exist. Some peopl e choose to transition more gradually by consuming
fruit for breakfast and lunch, with a simple low-fat cooked meal plus a raw s alad at night. Over a period of months, the salad and
other raw dishes nudge out the cooked components, until 100% raw is achieved. If y ou are interested in such a path, don't feel guilty
about it. Give yourself permission to take advantage of the myriad of resour ces available to support your health in the most
appropriate way for you right now.
For some folks, there is a greater sense of urgency than for others, as he alth issues can impose themselves powerfully. If that is
the case, feel free to transition your diet as rapidly as you can. There i s no danger in converting to 80/10/10  immediately. One 89-
year-old man I worked with went from


 patterns and
relationships that triggered her present illness. Her son’s father (Kelly’s ex) was
suppressive and highly intimidating. Fearful of him, Kelly seemed unable tosuccessfully extricate herself from the relationship due to the ongoing contactwhich revolved over visitation and care of their son. But Kelly had grit! Whilefasting, she confronted these tough issues in her life and unflinchingly made thenecessary decisions. When she returned to Canada she absolutely decided,without any nagging doubts, reservations or qualifications, to make any changesnecessary to ensure her survival. Only after having made these hard choices couldshe heal.
I one respect, Kelly was a highly unusual faster. Throughout the entire month
on water, Kelly took daily long walks, frequently stopping to lie down and rest inthe sun on the way. She would climb to or from the top of a very large and steephill nearby. She never missed a day, rain or shine.
At the end of her month on water Kelly’s remaining breast lumps had
disappeared, the lymphatic system and immune system tested strong, as well asthe liver, pancreas, adrenals, and large intestine. No areas tested overly strong.
She broke the fast with the same discipline she had conducted it, on carrot
juice, a cup every two hours. After three days on juice she began a raw food dietwith small servings of greens and sprouts well chewed, interspersed at two hourintervals with fresh juicy fruits. After about ten days on “rabbit food,” she easedinto avocados, cooked vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains and then wenthome.
As I write this, it is eight years since Kelly’s long fast. She still comes to see
me every few years to check out her diet and just say hello. She has had twomore children by a new, and thoroughly wonderful husband and suckled themboth for two years each; her peaceful rural life centers around this new, happyfamily and the big, Organic garden she grows. She religiously takes her LifeExtension vitamins and keeps her dietary and life-style indiscretions small andinfrequent. She is probably going to live a long, time.
I consider Kelly’s cluster of organ weaknesses very typical of all cancers
regardless of type or location, as well as being typical of AIDS and other criticalinfections by organisms that usually reside in the human body without causingtrouble (called “opportunistic”). All these diseases are varieties of immune systemfailure. All of these conditions present a similar pattern of immune systemweaknesses. They all center around what I call the “deadly triangle,” comprisedof a weak thymus gland, weak spleen, and a weak liver. The thymus and spleenform the core of the body’s immune system. The weak liver contributes to a highlytoxic system that further weakens the immune system. To top it off, people withcancer invariably have a poor ability to digest cooked protein (animal orvegetable) (usually from a weak pancreas unable to make enough digestiveenzymes) and eat too much of it, giving them a very toxic colon, and anoverloaded lymphatic system.
Whenever I analyze someone with this pattern, especially the entire deadly
triangle, I let the person know that if I had those particular weaknesses I wouldconsider my survival to be at immediate risk I’d consider it an emergency situationdemanding vigorous attention. It does not matter if they don’t yet have a tumor, orfibroid, or opportunistic infection; if they don’t already have something of thatnature they soon will.
Here’s yet another example of why I disapprove of diagnosis. By giving the
condition a name like “lymphoma” or “melanoma”, “chronic fatigue syndrome”“Epstein-Barr syndrome” or “AIDS,” “systemic yeast infection”, “hepatitis” orwhat have, people think the doctor then understands their disease. But the doctorrarely understands that all these seemingly different diseases are essentially thesame disease—a toxic body with a dysfunctional immune system. What isrelevant is that a person with the deadly triangle must strengthen their immunesystem, and their pancreas, and their liver, and detoxify their body immediately. Ifthese repairs are accomplished in time, the condition goes away, whatever itsLatin name may have been.
Now, about some of the adjuncts to Kelly’s healing. Let me stress here that
had none of these substances or practices been used, she probably still wouldhave recovered. Perhaps a bit more slowly. Perhaps a bit less comfortably.Conversely, had Kelly treated her cancer with every herb, poultice and vitaminknown to man but had neglected fasting and colonics, she might well have died. Ithas been wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctlydetermine differences, similarities, and importances. I want my readers to beintelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienictreatment and useful supporting practices.
Echinacea and chaparral leaves, red clover flowers, and fenugreek seeds are
made into medicinal teas that I find very helpful in detoxification programs,because they all are aggressive blood or lymph cleansers and boost the immuneresponse. These same teas can be used to help the body throw off a cold, flu, orother acute illness but they have a much more powerful effect on a fasting bodythan on one that is eating. Echinacea and chaparral are extraordinarily bitter andmay be better accepted if ground up and encapsulated, or mixed with other teaswith pleasant flavors such as peppermint or lemon grass. These teas should besimmered until they are at the strongest concentration palatable, drinking three orfour cups of this concentrate a day. If you use echinacea, then chaparral probablyisn’t necessary and visa versa. Red clover is another blood cleanser, perhaps alittle less effective but it has a pleasant, sweet taste and may be better acceptedby the squeamish.
If there is lymphatic congestion I always include fenugreek seed tea brewed at
the strength of approximately one tablespoon of seeds to a quart of water. Expectthe tea to be brown, thick and mucilaginous, with a reasonably pleasant tastereminiscent of maple syrup.
Kelly used poultices of clay and wheat grass pulp on her lumps, somewhat like
the warm castor oil poultices I used on my mother’s arthritic deposits. Poulticesnot only feel very comforting, but they have the effect of softening up deposits and
tumors so that a detoxifying, fasting body is more able to re absorb them.
Poultices draw, pulling toxins out through the skin, unburdening the liver. Clay(freshly-mixed potters clay I purchase from a potters’ guild), mixed with finelychopped or blended young wheat grass (in emergencies I’ve even used lawngrasses) makes excellent drawing poultices. Without clay, I’ve also usedvegetable poultices made of chopped or blended comfrey leaves, comfrey root,slightly cooked (barely wilted) cabbage leaves, slightly steamed onion or garlic(cooked just enough to soften it). These are very effective to soften tumors,abscesses and ulcers. Aloe poultices are good on burns. Poultices should bethought of as helpful adjuncts to other, more powerful healing techniques and notas remedies all by themselves, except for minor skin problems.
Poultices, to be effective, need to be troweled on half an inch thick, extending
far beyond the effected area, covered with cheese cloth or rags torn from oldcotton sheets so they don’t dry out too fast. Fresh poultices needs to be appliedseveral times daily. They also need to be left on the body until they do dry. Thenpoultices are thrown away, to be followed by another as often as patience willallow. Do not cover poultices tightly with plastic because if they don’t dry out theywon’t draw much. The drawing is in the drying.
Sometimes poultices cause a tumor or deposit to be expelled through the skin
rather than being adsorbed, all this drama with rather spectacular pus and gore.This phenomena is actually beneficial and should be welcomed because anytimethe body can push toxins out through the skin, the burden on the organs ofelimination are lessened.
Wheat grass juice has a powerful anti-tumor effect, is very perishable, is
laborious to make, but is worth the effort because it contains powerful enzymesand nutrients that help detoxify and heal when taken internally or applied to theskin. As a last resort with dying patients who can no longer digest anything takenby mouth I’ve implanted wheat grass juice rectally (in a cleansed colon). Some ofthem haven’t died. You probably can’t buy wheat grass juice that retains much
medicinal effect because it needs to be very fresh and should be drunk within
minutes of squeezing. Chilled sharply and immediately after squeezing it mightmaintain some potency for an hour or two. Extracting juice from grass takes aspecial press that resembles a meat grinder.
The wheat is grown in transplant or seedling trays in bright light. I know
someone who uses old plastic cafeteria trays for this. The seed is soakedovernight, spread densely atop a tray, covered shallowly with fine soil, kept moistbut not soggy. When the grass is about four inches high, begin harvesting bycutting off the leaves with a scissors and juicing them. If the tray contains severalinches of soil you usually get a second cutting of leaves. You need to start a newtray every few days; one tray can be cut for three or four days. (Kulvinskas,1975)
More wheat grass juice is not better than just enough; three ounces a day


 that he does. He has given everything he has to God and says that no one can steal anything from him because he has nothing. If
they take something that God has loaned him to use they have taken it from God.
On one occasion someone questioned him about riding in a Cadil-
lac with a chauffeur. He said, "That's not my Cadillac."
"Whose is it?" he was asked. "How come you are riding in some-
body else's car?"
He said, "It belongs to the Lord. The Lord just lets me use it, and
He also furnished me with a chauffeur."
He frankly says that his Father is so good to him He gives him all
of his needs, and supplies all of hi s wants. He has gotten to the place
now where he is afraid to ask God for anything because he believes that God will give it to him. He relates God is now often giving him things that he did not ask for, did not want, but yet the Lord said to him, "I want you to be the steward of this for me," to which Reams re-160 plied, "Yes, Lord. Show me how. Send me your people and give me
the victory and I will give You the glory."
Mr. Reams fought for his country on foreign shores in World War
II in the South Pacific. He was a Battalion Commander and Major and
was made so on the battlefront, and before it could be confirmed through channels he was in a truck that was blown up. Completely blinded in one eye, he had his helmet shot off of his head from the in-side and a bullet went around the side of his head, shaving off the hair just above his ear. Also a bullet went through his arm. The scar is still there today, it has never healed.
In regard to his instantaneous healing received at the Kathryn
Kuhlman meeting he reports, "Jesus made the biological laws of phys-ics, the laws of health, and He can change them any time He wants to for His glory and He can do it instantaneously, but God has only given me the gift of teaching people how to cleanse the temple. "
He learned how to handle men and designate authority. He says he
is not a business manager but an executive. He makes a distinction be-tween the two. God, he says, "is not a businessman either, because there is no other God for him to do business with. Consequently, He's in the miracle business and He has made us soldiers of the battlefront to do battle for Him. If we are not doing battle for Him, for the Father and the Son, then we may be on the supply line supplying things nec-essary for those who are on the battlefront. God did not call everyone to become soldiers, but he called upon all men to take up their cross
and follow Him." This Reams has done.
Carey Reams is not only a chemist, mathematician but is also a
biophysicist. He deals with chemicals with the expert ease that is as
skilled as a skilled mechanic uses tools. He can read equations and pronounce long chemical words as easily as a first grade teacher can read first-grade books.
Reams loves children very, very much, as well as adults and sen-
ior citizens. Children do not quickly take to him. They seem to be afraid of him because of the word "doctor," but very quickly he puts the child at ease and they become great friends. 161 He is also a farmer and agricultural engineer. He has owned an ag-
ricultural engineering firm, doing the impossible in agriculture all over
the free world. Reams retired in 1968 and had intentions of going into research. He maintained the laboratories, the mineral and research di-vision, and gave the business to the other engineers. His aim when he was a young man was to be a medical doctor, but the great Depression came and he was not able to get into medical college. He then decided to study foods and food chemistry to help prevent people from becom-ing ill. He was surprised that most farmers did not care whether or not their foods made people sick or kept them well. Their remark was, "I do not grow foods to eat. I grow them to sell. "
Carey Reams is a very good musician. He does not sing, but he
plays a number of instruments, including the bassoon, trombone, ac-cordian, baritone, alto horn, french horn, piano and organ. He is not a classical player, but does play well enough to get through a service.
He does not have time enough to stay in practice on any of these in-struments, but is a lover of music.
He is a lover of the great outdoors, and a fisherman. Plus being a
camera enthusiast. He loves to take pictures of landscapes and flow-ers, and has many albums of pictures taken in various parts of the world.
He has owned citrus groves and been highly successful as a
farmer. He knows food processing and makes the statement that much of our prepared foods today (canned and frozen) are 40 years behind of what science has developed for the preparation of higher nutritional foods. In order to prepare a higher nutritional food it must begin be-fore the seeds are planted, or before the trees come into blossom.
Reams is an excellent cook, and does not mind washing the dish-
es. If he is ever a visitor in your home, you will find that he makes his own bed, cleans the tub, keeps his room tidy, and you hardly know he's there. He realizes the heavy load the new mother has and does all in his power to lighten that load. He is more like a member of the fam-ily from the first day, and it seems you have known him forever. He does not seem a stranger, and he does not "put on the dog." 162 He is a very fine public speaker. On one occasion he was asked to
speak in a university in which half of the students didn't want him to
speak, and began to boo. As he stood to speak he waited a number of minutes for the booing to die down and It didn't. Very loudly he said, "Would you like for me to tell you about the time I was caught in bed with another man's wife?" A few in the front rows quieted down. After a second and third repeat of the same question most of the students were sitting on the edge of their seats. Then he said, "An honest con-fession is good for the soul."
He left them in suspense for a bit then said, "You know what that
man said to me?" The audience could hardly wait to hear what the man said to him. "I was five years old and my father said, 'Son, go get in your own bed. Your father is tired from a hard day's work and wishes to go to bed.' " It is remark able the wisdom that God has given
this man.
Carey is a man of great patience but  says the best of saints have
very sharp horns because they don't use them very often.
Horns mean power; power with God and power with man. C. Reams is a pilot of small airc raft. He became a pilot in 1936
and has continued flying until recently when his eyesight is not suffi-cient to either drive a car or to fly a plane without someone with him. He says that when he is flying he is "chicken."
He believes in obeying every rule of aerodynamics and that God
meant what He said when He said, "Tempt not the Lord thy God" (es-pecially when you are in the air flying light aircraft!).
Recently while teaching a class on the Reams Biological Theory
of Ionization he received word that his mother had died.
No one in the class had even suspicioned the message he had re-
ceived, but by the next morning the word was out that his mother had passed away the previous afternoon. Before the class began sympathy was expressed to him. He did not attend the funeral but continued his
Father's business and said, "Let the dead bury the dead." He 'knew his brothers and sisters could take care of it without his being there. He had taken care of his mother for the last few years of her life. After eu-163 logy was expressed in the class he said, "If it were not for Jesus today
I would be an orphan.”
He never shed a tear. The class shed the tears for him. A few days later he received the bill from the funeral home. With
the check he sent a note: "Thank you for delivering my mother to the angels, to be taken to the throne of my Saviour."
He does not perform his religion, he wears it. He thinks it. He breathes it. He talks it. You will not be around him very long
before he will be telling you something about the greatness of God.
Often when he lectures, Reams will say to the audience, "There is
one book on health I highly recommend, please get out your pencil and paper and write the name of th is book because I don't want you to
forget it." He waits for them to get their pencil and paper then says, "This is one book that I have never found to be wrong, and it's abso-lutely accurate. It will work every time, if you will follow the instruc-tions." By this time the audience can  hardly wait for the name of the
book. Then he says, "The name of the book is the Bible."
This man is impartial to race, religion, creed and sex. He treats all
al


 chapter you will learn
how to eat to maximize your nutrient absorption and tooth remineralization. In the last chapter you
learned that fat-soluble vitamins are essential to remineralize decayed teeth. Now you will learn how
to increase the minerals and the fat-soluble nutrient content of your diet. You are going to learn how
to replace processed foods with whole foods, and learn ways to prepare food that will help ensure its
optimal nutrient absorption.
Cavities in our teeth appear for a reason. And people with cavities have frequent food habits that
create cavities. The problem is most people do not know which foods cause the cavities, so it seems
like cavities strike them out of nowhere. Even within the framework of the entrenched bacterial theory
of tooth decay, the dental establishment acknowledges that the root of tooth decay lies in what foods
are eaten. The convenient difference between what conventional dentistry focuses on and what we are
looking at here is that dentistry points to foods your bacteria might be feeding off of, rather than to
what foods you are feeding your bacteria. Tooth decay comes from eating foods that are harmful to
your body. So tooth decay is a specific biological reaction to a set of environmental factors. It is not a
random or mistaken occurrence. This chapter will illustrate what these harmful foods are. Many of us
typically consume as a staple certain foods that harm our teeth, without knowing it. Pay particular
attention to your consistent food habits since one or more of them may be the cause of your misery.
Sometimes just removing the tooth-decay- promoting foods will make decayed soft teeth hard as stone
again.The Town without a Toothache
Hereford, Texas became known as the “Town without a Toothache” in 1942 due to the
pioneering work of dentist George Heard and author of
Man Versus Toothache
. Dr. Heard explains
the town’s secret:
After a newcomer has lived in Hereford a few years, provided he had drunk lots of raw
whole milk, he develops resistance to tooth decay. Even the tooth cavities which he brings
with him when he comes to Hereford will be glazed over, if he has drunk raw milk.
For years I made inquiry of my patients as to their milk habits. Almost invariably I found
that the possessor of a mouth full of sound teeth had been a consistent milk drinker from
early childhood. A surprisingly large number liked either buttermilk, clabber or both. The
significant fact is that the milk those patients drank came from cows that had grazed on
native grass in Deaf Smith County pastures. In winter, as a rule, the cows had grazed on
green wheat.
1a
My fellow dentists heard me out of respectful attention. One dentist Dr. Young remarked:
“If all our patients adhered to Dr. Heard's ideas, we would be minus patients.”
2a
There are not words to explain the supreme value of raw grass-fed milk in all its forms. High
quality raw milk will substantially contribute to your health and well-being, and to your children’s
health and well-being. Milk is very high in the minerals calcium and phosphorus which we know we
need for strong teeth and bones. Four cups (one quart) of milk provides about one gram of calcium
and one gram of phosphorus per day. This is a significant portion of your daily requirements of the
minerals you need for healthy teeth and bones. The fat portion of the milk, the cream, contains small
amounts of valuable fat-soluble vitamins like A and D, as well as vitamin C. When pasturing cows
eat rapidly growing grass in the time of rapid growth after it rains, there will be moderate amounts of
bone hardening Activator X in the milk. It is worth noting that the soils of Deaf Smith County, Texas
were extremely high in the mineral phosphorous.
Dr. Heard’s years of observations show that people drinking one quart (four cups) of excellent
grass-fed milk per day will be immune to cavities. He also advised to take some of the milk in
different forms such as: buttermilk, clabber, cottage cheese, kefir, and yogurt. Several ancient
Ayurvedic texts, more than 2,000 years old, describe using milk, yes, raw grass-fed milk, as a cure
for literally hundreds of ailments. The most particularly healing milk to the body was identified as
buttermilk. Since all milk was cultured in those days (the refrigerator was not yet invented) this
would of course be non-pasteurized cultured buttermilk. Milk’s healing power lies in its nutrient
density and the ease with which our body can digest it.
Before the recent invention of refrigerators, milk was drunk either immediately after milking,
known as sweet milk, or it naturally began to sour and was transformed into cheese or yogurt.
Probiotics are vital to our health and good digestion. Many forms of soured milk are excellent for
obtaining these detoxifying and vitamin-creating bacteria. Having healthy teeth is a result of more than
just eating well; it is about absorbing food well. An essential aspect of nutrient absorption is having a
diet rich in probiotic, live foods. In addition to a wide spectrum of probiotic bacteria, different forms
of soured milk including yogurt contain highly absorbable forms of calcium. Soured milk is also low
in milk sugar, known as lactose. Dr. Heard’s observation that people who are immune to cavities
consume a significant amount of soured milk reveals a vital but little known way to create immunity to
tooth decay.Let’s review some of the life-affirming forms of raw milk.
Clabber
is a strong soured yogurt-like milk product produced by allowing milk to sit out in a jar
at room temperature.
Kefir
 (pronounced
keh-FEER
 )is produced when milk sits in a jar with kefir grains. This is a
symbiotic matrix colony of bacteria and yeast that resemble a cauliflower. Kefir grains can be
obtained online, or from friends. At room temperature the kefir grains consume milk sugars and
transform raw milk into a potent nutrient-rich cultured beverage. It can be drunk plain or in smoothies.
Kefir seeds our intestines with milk-digesting bacteria and aids in cleansing and detoxification of the
body. Regular consumption of kefir will increase your vitality and longevity by filling you up with
more than 60 probiotic yeasts and bacteria, not to mention the highly digestible forms of minerals in
the kefir milk.
Whey
is the light yellowish liquid that remains when milk solids are removed from cultured
milk. You may have seen it on the top (or at the bottom) of your yogurt container. After milk sours, the
liquid portion of the milk can be separated from the solids, leaving you with curds and whey. Whey is
an ancient health remedy because of how easy it is to absorb and digest along with its vast probiotic
contents. Whey can be obtained from yogurt if you do not have access to raw milk.
Butter milk
 is the liquid that is left over from the process of churning butter. It has a refreshing
sweet and sour taste, and will aid your overall health.
Suggested Dairy Intake
2-4 cups of raw dairy per day. Make sure to regularly include any or all of these probiotic
milks: kefir, yogurt, clabber, whey and buttermilk.
Dentist George Heard’s message for the people:
Reader, would you like to have my formula for building sound teeth in one line? Well, then,
here it is: Drink plenty of pure raw milk every day.
3a
These excellent results were enjoyed by Deaf Smith residents because the cows pastured on
Texas’s native grasses grown on mineral-rich soil and grazed green wheat in the winter time.
Deceptive Labeling
Milk laws are backwards these days. Milk laws are controlled at the state level, so the law may
be different in your state. Dairy products that are sold in larger chain stores labeled as kefir,
buttermilk, cottage cheese, or cream cheese are in fact counterfeit. Because of the laws, real kefir,
buttermilk, and cream cheese are banned from our stores. Instead, the products you see have a
specific strain of culture added to the milk or cream to create these products. The natural, old-
fashioned way to make these products is through natural fermentation without adding enzymes. Store
products do not benefit from the natural culturing process and are dramatically inferior. Usually the
taste is completely different from what the real food, not available in stores, actually tastes like.
Equally, the health benefits from the store-bought products will not be the same, with the possible
exception of some superior brands of yogurt.
The problem with store-bought dairy is not just in the culturing process, but also in the quality of
the original milk used. Most milk labeled as organic comes from cows that are not raised naturally.
Dairy cows, even from supposedly organic dairies, are often confined, and deprived of their natural
diet of grasses. Instead, they are fed grains and other inexpensive fodder, including waste grains fromdistilleries which are not a part of the cow’s natural diet. The result of this large scale, profit-driven
production is that the grain-fed milk lacks wholesome life-sustaining nutrients. In general people do
not do well on grain-fed milk; it is too sweet and nutrient poor. Unless labeled otherwise, you can
assume that store-bought milk is completely grain fed, even the organic varieties. Although the ideal
of organic milk is that it comes from pasture-fed,


 experiment to test the synergic potential of DMSO-FDP, male CD-1 mice
weighing 22–29 g were restrained and their heads were positioned under a head injury apparatus with their chins resting firmly on a flat surface at the base of the apparatus.
161 The apparatus consisted of a 25 cm long glass shaft held vertically by
clamps on a ring stand and a tubular lead cylinder weighing 40 g. The lead cylin -
der was allowed to drop 20 cm through the shaft onto the center of the head, thus creating an 800 g/cm force injury on the cranium. An imaginary line was drawn coronally just anterior to the ears in order to create a consistent injury site on the animal’s head. This head injury mouse model has been previously used to screen the effectiveness of potential pharmacological agents after brain trauma.
165 FDP was
given at 350 mg/kg in a 10% solution, and DMSO was administered at 1 gm/kg in a 28% solution both intravenously via the tail vein.
All mice were pretested on the string prior to head injury, and all were able to
grasp the string for a 90 s trial period and to travel with ease from the center of the string to one of the end posts holding the string. The extent of motor deficits reflected by the reduced ability of mice to remain gripping the string after head injury has been shown to be inversely proportional to the increased severity of the head injury.
166
Following head injury, testing showed 11 of 12 mice treated with DMSO + FDP
retained sensory function as compared with 5 of 12 mice given vehicle nontreatment, 8 of 12 treated with DMSO only, and 7 of 12 treated with FDP.
161 The combination
of DMSO + FDP significantly protected mice from motor deficits after injury, as
indicated by an increased mean grip test score (76.3 s) shown by this group 1 h after
head injury when compared with vehicle nontreated (5.8 s), FDP-treated (20.8 s), and DMSO-treated (19.6 s) animals. The pattern of protection continued for at least 2 h after head injury, with all groups showing some improvement over the previous grip 159 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
test taken 1 h after head injury. However, the only significant protection after 2 h was
observed in the group treated with DMSO + FDP. Two hours after head injury, the group treated with FDP + DMSO had a mean grip test score of 86.5 s, which was significantly better than from the DMSO only (33.8 s), FDP only (24.3 s), and vehicle nontreated groups (12.2 s).
161
This study was the first to demonstrate that the combined DMSO + FDP given to
mice that have been subjected to a moderate 800 g/cm concussion head injury can significantly modify the sensory-motor deficits, incidence of mortality, and histopa-thology. DMSO + FDP appeared superior in reducing the trauma-induced neurologi -
cal deficits and fatal outcome to either agent administered alone.
Besides the improved sensory-motor function of mice treated with DMSO + FDP,
a possible fringe benefit to the head-injured brain where inadequate cerebral perfu -
sion is expected may be the ability of these two agents to allow RBCs to maintain their deformability. Under normal conditions, RBCs with a 7–8  µm diameter can
squeeze through capillaries that are 3–5  µm wide so that oxygen can be delivered to
the tissues. The RBCs’ viscoelastic properties or deformability is possible because of a spectrin–actin interaction within the erythrocyte, which is dependent on its stored ATP and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate.
167
If 2,3-diphosphoglycerate or ATP stores are reduced by ischemia-hypoxia
(Heckler/Marcel), it is probable that RBCs will increase their rigidity and thus be unable to adequately perfuse the cerebral microvasculature. This consequence would prevent optimal oxygen delivery to neurons and glial cells, which rely on oxy -
gen for the elaboration of ATP and for their basic cellular metabolism. Infusion of FDP raises the concentration of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate,
168 allowing RBCs to deform
normally and consequently facilitating oxygen disassociation from hemoglobin169,170
during ischemia-hypoxia. Conversely, DMSO is reported to promote the formation of ATP from ADP
171 and to preserve mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, thus
ensuring ATP production after experimental brain ischemia172 This activity could
additionally favor RBC deformability during tissue ischemic-hypoxia, a process that would improve cerebral perfusion.
Another advantage of adding FDP to DMSO is that FDP has been shown to be
effective in preventing ischemic injury to the brain
173,174 ostensibly by inhibiting exci -
totoxic release of glutamate during brain ischemia and preventing ATP loss by sub -
stantially increasing the flux of glucose into the pentose-phosphate pathway. Indirect evidence has also demonstrated that FDP can modulate cerebrovascular tone, myo -
cardial contractility, platelet aggregation, and blood pressure,
175,176 systems that can
exacerbate damage following severe head injury.
The exact mechanism for the synergic activity demonstrated by the DMSO + FDP
combination has not yet been determined, but it may be assumed to lie in the abil -
ity of each agent to address different but critical metabolic abnormalities associated with the pathogenesis of severe head injury, for example, ATP loss leading to neu -
ronal energy deficiency, metabolic acidosis, abnormal Ca
2+ entry into cells, platelet
aggregation, inflammatory response, cerebrovascular constriction, glutamate toxic -
ity, ICP increase, and free radical formation. This drug combination is reviewed in terms of its effect on experimental and clinical ischemic strokes in this chapter and Chapter 9.160 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
DMSO IN EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN ISCHEMIA
Stroke is the most fatal neurological disease and the leading cause of long-term dis -
ability in the United States. Stroke is divided into two major types, ischemic stroke,
where an artery is blocked by a blood clot, and hemorrhagic stroke, where a brain vessel bleeds from a leak or a rupture. About 80% of strokes involve blockage of a major cerebral artery, and this is where most of the animal research in brain isch -
emia is presently focused.
177 A considerable amount in our current understanding of
cerebral ischemia induced by stroke comes from animal models representing global and focal ischemia.
Global ischemia is the product of mild-to-severe reduction of cerebral blood
flow throughout the brain, which can occur either acutely or chronically. If blood flow  cannot be restored within a given time limit (depending on the cause),
 permanent damage to the brain or death can result. When blood flow is restored
after global ischemia, reperfusion injury can occur if the brain is not pharmaco -
logically protected. Many diseases can cause chronic global brain ischemia such as atherosclerosis of a conducting brain artery, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, cardiac arrhythmias, and congenital heart defects, while acute global ischemia can result from a heart attack.
178
Focal brain ischemia is less severe than global ischemia but more common
both clinically and using experimental animal models. Focal ischemia reduces blood supply to a specific region of the brain where immediate or delayed neuro -
nal death can occur.
178 This area of injury is called the core ischemic zone and is
marked by severe ischemia with blood flow falling 75%–90% of baseline in con -
junction with the loss of oxygen and glucose, leading to rapid depletion energy stores.
178 Severe focal ischemia can result in brain cell death from the necrosis of
neurons within the ischemic core, but glial cells may be spared if blood flow is restored early.
179
Surrounding the ischemic core is an area called the penumbra where brain cells
are kept structurally intact by collateral blood vessels but functionally impaired.180
The ischemic penumbra is a zone where pharmacological therapy could most
likely be effective in restoring the loss of function.181 The ischemic penumbra blood
perfusion is generally too low to maintain electric activity but sufficient to preserve ion channels and structural integrity.
180
Research using animal models of stroke have provided not only an understand -
ing of the pathomechanisms underlying injury after ischemic stroke but also a way to develop effective therapy to prevent and arrest the severe pathology associated with stroke. Although many models of stroke have been used for research, includ-ing nonhuman primates, rodents are more often used due to their lower cost, ease of handling, substantial characterization of pathological expectations from previous research, and potential for genetic engineering.
Experimental focal ischemia has generally involved occlusion of the MCA that is
the largest branch of the internal carotid artery (ICA) that supplies a portion of the anterolateral frontal lobe, most of the temporal lobe, and the parietal lobe. Occlusion of the MCA in animals can result in sensory-motor deficits and cognitive impairment 161 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
that can be monitored, quantitated, and analyzed by a variety of research tools when
drug evaluation is done.
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 herbal tradition that is part
of it developed separately from Chinese folk medicine. It arose from ideas recorded between 200 bce and 100 ce in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Huang Di Nei Jing). This text is based on detailed observations of nature and a deep understanding of the way that all life is subject to natural laws. It contains concepts that are fundamental to TCM, including yin and yang ; the five elements (wu xing); and the theory of the
effect of nature upon health. In TCM, living in harmony with these principles is the key to good health
and longevity. According to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic, members of previous generations lived for a hundred years, and had constitutions so strong that illness was cured by incantations alone. Only later, as human vitality, or qi, declined and people became “overactive…going against the joy of life,” did herbal medicine, acupuncture, and other branches of TCM become necessary.
Key Theories
Unlike other herbal traditions that have a unified theory for making sense of illness and disease (for example, the European theory of the four humors), TCM has two quite different systems—the yin and yang  theory
and the five elements. They developed quite separately in China, and the five elements system was only accepted and fully incorporated into Chinese China, Japan, and
Southeast Asia
China’s ancient herbal tradition has survived intact into the
21st century, and in China it is now accorded equal status with
Western conventional medicine. Today, many Chinese universities teach and research herbal medicine, a factor of crucial importance
in the reemergence of herbalism worldwide.
On the streets of Hong Kong herbal pharmacists are a familiar sight. Prescriptions are formulated during a
consultation with an herbalist, and the patient then obtains the appropriate herbs.Jing jie
(Schizonepeta
tenuifolia, p. 268)
is prescribed for
fevers and measles.
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Fo ti
 (Polygonum multiflorum,
p. 124), the oldest
Chinese tonic herb, is
used to prevent aging.
Dong quai
(Angelica sinensis,
p. 63) is taken by
millions of Chinese
women as a nourishing
blood tonic.
Galangal (Alpinia
officinarum, p. 61) is a
warming herb used for
abdominal pain.
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum
cassia, p. 81) is a
warming herb that
helps the circulation.
Notopterygium root
(Notopterygium incisium,
p. 240) is used in China
for colds, especially those
accompanied by aching
muscles and joints.
Ginkgo  (Ginkgo biloba,
p. 100) improves
the memory and the
circulation. T ablets,
made from the leaves,
are a bestselling herbal
remedy in Europe.
Su xian hua
 (Jasminum officinale,
see J. grandiflorum,
p. 224) is an aromatic
herb used to treat
depression.medicine during the Song dynasty (960–1279 ce). To this day, differences
between these theories are reflected in practitioners’ approaches to
diagnosis and treatment.
 In Chinese thought, everything in the universe is composed of yin and
yang—words that were first used to denote the dark and light side of a
valley. Everything has yin and yang aspects, or complementary opposites—
such as day and night, up and down, wet and dry. Every yin or yang category
can itself also be subdivided—so that while the front of the body is yin
relative to the back, which is yang, the abdomen is yin relative to the chest,
which is yang.
 The five elements theory associates constituents of the natural
world—wood, fire, earth, metal, and water—with other fundamentals
such as seasons, emotions, and parts of the body. Each element gives rise to
the next in a perpetual fashion ( see diagram above). For this reason, the
system might be more accurately described as the five phases,
representing the process of continual movement in life. The five elements
have a central role in Chinese herbal medicine, especially in the grouping of
tastes of herbs and parts of the body.
Diagnosis & Treatment
Instead of looking for causes of illness, Chinese practitioners seek patterns
of disharmony, which are expressions of imbalance between yin and yang.
Particular attention is given to reading the pulse and tongue, both of which
are very important for an accurate diagnosis. Ill health results from a
deficiency or excess of either yin or yang. A cold, for example, is not just
the result of a virus (though this clearly is a cause), but a sign that the body
is not adapting to external factors such as “wind-heat,” “wind-cold,” or
“summer-heat.” A high temperature denotes too much yang and shivering The ancient five elements theory  is used by the Chinese when writing prescriptions. It associates herbs
with the natural world, including elements, seasons, and parts of the body. In the circular movement,
each element gives rise to the next (for example, winter gives rise to spring). The five-angled movement
is a controlling one, in which each element restrains another.MEtal
Season  Autumn Climate  Dry
Emotion  Grief taste  Pungent Herb
Ginger actions  Stimulant, Warming
Parts of the body  Lungs, Large
intestine, Nose, SkinWOOD
Season  Spring Climate  Windy Emotion  Anger
taste  Sour Herb  Schisandra action  Astringent
 Parts of the body  Liver, Gallbladder, Eyes, Tendons
EaRtH
Season Late summer Climate  Damp
Emotion  Reflection taste  Sweet
Herb  Jujube actions  Tonic, Restorative
Parts of the body  Spleen, Stomach,
Mouth, FleshFIRE
Season Summer
Climate  Hot
Emotion  Joy
taste  Bitter
Herb  Chinese rhubarb
action  Cooling
Parts of the body
Heart, Small intestine,
Tongue, Blood vesselsWatER
Season Winter
Climate  Cold
Emotion  Fear
taste  Salty
Herb  Chinese figwort
action  Drains fluids
Parts of the body
Kidneys, Bladder,
Bones, Ears, Hair
Ginkgo
tablets
Ginkgo
seeds
Ginkgo
leaves
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42The developmenT  of herbal medicine
42Goji berry (Lycium
chinense, p. 111) is used in China as a blood tonic.
Hong hua (Carthamus
tinctorius, p. 184).  Known as safflower in the West, hong hua is used in China to induce menstruation and to help heal wounds.
White peony
(Paeonia lactiflora,  p. 117) helps menstrual complaints. In China, women who take the root regularly are thought to become as beautiful as the flower itself.
Huo xiang (Agastache
rugosa, p. 161) stimulates and warms the digestive tract.
Ephedra (Ephedra
sinica, p. 95) contains ephedrine, used in Western medicine  to treat asthma.
Chinese rhubarb
(Rheum palmatum, p. 126) is laxative in large doses  and constipating in  small ones.is the result of an excess of yin. The art of the Chinese herbal practitioner
is to restore harmony between yin and yang  both within the patient’s body
and between the patient and the world at large.
Chinese Herbs
Over the centuries, the number of medicinal herbs has grown, and the 1977 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Substances has 5,757
entries, the majority of which are herbs. The Communist Revolution in 1949 helped swell the number of plants used in TCM, because herbs that had previously only been employed in folk medicine were incorporated into the tradition. As the herbal tradition developed within TCM, the taste and other
characteristics of herbs became closely linked with their therapeutic uses. The Divine Husbandman’s Classic (Shen’nong Bencaojing, 1st century ce) lists 252 herbal medicines specifying their tastes and “temperatures,” and today, Chinese herbalists still relate the taste and temperature of an herb directly
to its therapeutic use. Sweet-tasting herbs such as ginseng (Panax ginseng, p. 118) are prescribed to tone, harmonize, and moisten, while bitter- tasting herbs such as dan shen ( Salvia
miltiorrhiza, p. 130) are employed  to drain and dry excess “dampness.” Hot-tasting herbs are used for treating “cold” conditions and vice versa. Together, an herb’s taste and temperature link it to specific types of illness. For example, Baical skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis, p. 134), which
is bitter-tasting and “cold,” is a drying, cooling herb for conditions such


 rate of
clearance of alcohol from the body, aiding recovery
from intoxication. Kudzu root, however, is thought
to act in a more or less opposite way—it slows the
liver’s ability to break down (and clear) alcohol from
the system. Kudzu root may therefore increase the
risks associated with alcohol consumption, and
should not be taken as a “hangover cure.”
Research Chinese studies indicate that kudzu
increases cerebral blood flow in patients with
arteriosclerosis, and eases neck pain and stiffness.
U.S. research indicates that kudzu may suppress
the desire for alcohol.
Related Species The closely related P. mirifica
and P. tuberosa  have been investigated for their
contraceptive effect.
Pulmonaria officinalis
(Boraginaceae)
Lungwort
Description Perennial growing to 1 ft (30 cm).
Has broad oval basal leaves, smaller upper leaves
mottled with white spots, and clusters of
pink-purple flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Lungwort is native to
Europe and the Caucasus. It flourishes in mountain
pastures and in damp sites. The leaves are gathered
in late spring.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Lungwort contains allantoin,
flavonoids, tannins, mucilage, and saponins.
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids occur in the roots, but in
negligible quantities in the leaves.Pomegranate’s leathery
fruit and jewel-toned
seeds feature in ancient
Greek mythology.
Lungwort’s speckled leaves were once considered a sign of
its ability to cure lung problems.History & Folklore In 1500 bce, the pharaoh
Tuthmosis reputedly brought back pomegranate to
Egypt from Asia. Prized as a fruit, it was also sought
after as a remedy for worms. The Greek physician
Dioscorides, in the 1st century ce, knew of the
herb’s ability to expel worms, but this attribute was
subsequently forgotten in Europe for nearly 1,800
years. In the early 19th century, after an Indian
herbalist used pomegranate to cure an Englishman
of tapeworms, English doctors in India became
interested in pomegranate and its medicinal
properties were investigated.Pulsatilla chinensis
(Ranunculaceae)
Chinese Anemone,
Bai Tou Weng (Chinese)
Description Perennial herb growing to
10 in (25 cm). Has erect downy stems,
compound leaves, bell-shaped flowers,
and feathery seedheads.
Habitat & Cultivation Chinese anemone
is native to eastern Asia, and is found in Mongolia,
China, and Japan. The root is unearthed either
before the plant comes into flower in spring,
or in autumn.
Part Used Root.
Constituents Chinese anemone contains
lactones (including protoanemonin and anemonin),
pulsatoside, and anemonol.
History & Folklore Chinese anemone root
was first documented in Chinese medicine in the
Divine Husbandman’s Classic  (Shen’nong Bencaojing ),
a herbal written in the 1st century ce.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Chinese
anemone is thought to clear toxicity and to lower
fever. It is most commonly taken as a decoction
to counter infection within the gastrointestinal
tract. The root is also used to treat malarial fever
and vaginal infections.
Research Chinese studies have shown the root
to be potentially valuable as a treatment for
amoebic dysentery.
Related Species See pasque flower ( Anemone
pulsatilla, p. 168).
Caution T ake Chinese anemone only under
professional supervision.Pomegranate
fruit
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260
other medicinal plantsPygeum africanum
Medicinal Actions & Uses Until recently,
the chief medicinal value of pomegranate was
as a deworming agent, with the rind and bark being considered specific remedies for tapeworm infestation. Now, pomegranate juice is widely available and known for its positive effects on the heart and circulation. Like other medicinal plants with a high anthocyanidin content, pomegranate fruit and juice have potent protective activity on  all aspects of the circulation, supporting healthy circulation and countering local inflammatory activity, which damages the inner lining of the blood vessels. The juice is commonly taken to  help with cardiovascular problems, including  high blood pressure, capillary fragility, angina,  and congestive heart failure. It also appears  to help prevent dental plaque.
Research In recent years, there has been
significant interest in the medicinal properties  of pomegranate fruit and juice. As above, pomegranate has a strongly beneficial activity  on the cardiovascular system, but it also appears  to have an unusually wide range of potential therapeutic properties, including antibacterial, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and estrogenic activity. James A. Duke, a former USDA  botanist, has described it as an “antimenopausal fruit.” Pomegranate shows signs of having
anticancer activity and has been recommended  as a preventative and treatment for prostate cancer. New potential uses are likely to emerge over time.
Cautions Do not use the rind or bark unless
under professional supervision. This plant, and especially its bark extracts, is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.
Pygeum africanum (Boraginaceae)
Pygeum
Description Evergreen tree growing to
115 ft (35 m). Has oblong leaves, white flowers,  and red berries.
Habitat & Cultivation Pygeum is native
to Africa. It is still harvested from the wild, but severe shortages have led to the establishment  of plantations.
Part Used Bark.
Constituents Pygeum contains phytosterols
(beta-sitosterol), triterpenes (ursolic and oleanolic acids), long-chain alcohols (n-tetracosanol), as well as tannins.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In conventional
medicine in France, the fat-soluble extract of pygeum bark has become the primary treatment for an enlarged prostate gland. A decoction of the bark may reduce the severity of chronic prostate inflammation, and it may also help reverse male Quillaja saponaria (Rosaceae)
Soap Bark
Description Evergreen tree growing to 65 ft
(20 m). Has glossy oval leaves, white flowers, and star-shaped fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Soap bark is native to
Chile and Peru, and is cultivated in California and India. The bark is gathered throughout the year.
Part Used Inner bark.
Constituents Soap bark contains up to 10%
triterpenoid saponins, calcium oxalate, and tannins. The saponins are strongly expectorant and can cause inflammation of the digestive tract.
History & Folklore In Peru and Chile, soap
bark has traditionally been used by Andean peoples as an alternative to soap. The bark has been used medicinally as an expectorant remedy.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Soap bark has
a long tradition of use as a treatment for chest problems. Its strong expectorant effect is beneficial in the treatment of bronchitis, especially in the early stages of the illness. Like other medicinal plants that contain saponins, soap bark stimulates the production of a more fluid mucus in the airways, facilitating the clearing of phlegm through coughing. Soap bark is useful for treating any condition featuring congested mucus within the chest, but it should not be used for dry irritable coughs. Soap bark is also used externally, appearing in the formulations of dandruff shampoos.
 QCautions Use only under professional
supervision. As soap bark is irritant to the digestive tract, internal use must be carefully monitored.sterility when this is due to insufficient prostate secretions. In combination with other plants, pygeum may be valuable in the treatment of prostate cancer.
Research Trials carried out since the 1960s,
many of them in France, have established that pygeum extract has positive effects on the
prostate gland. Specifically, the extract increases glandular secretions and reduces levels of cholesterol within the organ. In some Western countries, surgery is the main option for enlarged prostates, but in France pygeum is prescribed in 81% of cases.
Related Species The fruit kernels of the
Asian P. gardneri are used to poison fish.
 QCaution Only take pygeum under
professional supervision.
ranunculus ficaria
(Ranunculaceae)
Lesser Celandine,
Pilewort
Description Mat-forming perennial growing to
6 in (15 cm). Has small tubers, fleshy heart-shaped
leaves, and shiny-petaled, brilliant yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Lesser celandine is
native to western Asia, North Africa, and Europe. Commonly found in woods, roadsides, and bare open spaces, it is collected when in flower in spring.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Lesser celandine contains
saponins, protoanemonin and anemonin, tannins, and vitamin C.
History & Folklore Lesser celandine has
been used from the earliest times as a medicine  for


Baba.	“Something	that	happened	to	me.”	I	gingerly	took	the	twig	from	his
hand	and	watched	it	tremble	while	Baba	began	his	story.
“One	day	when	I	was	a	boy,	my	father	brought	home	a	twig	exactly	like	that
one.	He	tied	it	to	a	low	bush	outside	our	door.	I	had	never	seen	a	butterfly
emerge	from	its
cocoon,	and	every	day	I	woke	up	with	excitement,	thinking
that	today	would	be	the	day.
“Two	weeks	passed,	and	when	I	came	out	one	morning	to	see	the	end	of	the
twig	trembling,	just	as	it	is	now,	I	was	beside	myself	with	impatience.	Soon	a
dark	insect	head	appeared,	then	with	great	struggle,	a	body	The	new	butterfly
was	very	weak.	Being	born	had	totally	exhausted	it.
“I	watched	as	it	clung	to	the	twig,	so	spent	that	it	couldn’t	unfurl	its	wings.
They	were	soggy	and	crumpled,	like	wadded	tissue	paper.	Taking	pity	on	the
poor	creature,	I	blew	on	its	wings	to	dry	them.	I	blew	and	blew,	and	then
something	awful	happened.	I	blew	so	hard	that	one	wing	tore.”
“What	did	you	do?”	I	asked,	seeing	the	crippled	wing	in	my	mind’s	eye.
“There	was	nothing	to	do,”	said	Baba.	“I	had	to	watch	the	torn	wing	dry	out,
and	the	butterfly	limped	away	It	could	barely	fly.”
We	both	were	quiet	for	a	moment	before	Baba	said,	“I	didn’t	tell	you	thatstory	to	make	you	sad.	It	taught	me	something	I	never	forgot.	All	things	come
in	their	own	good	time.	Nature	assigns	a	time	for	the	butterfly	to	unfold	its
wings,	and	no	one,	not	the	most	mighty	emperor,	has	ever	forced	a	butterfly
to	be	born	faster.	Look	at	a	rosebud	as	it	unfolds	into	a	beautiful	flower.	No
power	on	Earth	can	make	it	open	faster	either.	Nature	knows	its	own	best
time.”
“Does	it	know	my	best	time?”	I	asked.
“Yes,”	said	Baba.	“Your	soul	knows	when	your	time	is	coming,	and	it	leads
you	step	by	step.	In	this	way	you	fit	perfectly	into	God’s	plan.”
Baba’s	voice,	which	was	always	so	calm,	was	filled	with	passion	now.	“Every
small	breath	you	take	has	its	time,	but	so	do	the	great	events	of	your	life.	Your
soul	knows	the	end	of	the	journey,	but	it	will	make	every	step	a	blessing	along
the	way.”
I	felt	a	shiver	run	down	my	spine,	because	I’d	never	thought	my	life	could
have	great	events	in	it.
“Everyone’s	does,”	said	Baba,	reading	my	thoughts.	“Every	step	you	take
with	your	soul	is	a	great	event,	because	through	you	life	itself,	as	far	as	the
most	distant	galaxy,	is	finding	a	new	expression.	Your	next	thought	is	as	great
as	the	birth	of	a	star,	as	great	as	what	you	hold	in	your	hand.”
I	had	looked	away	from	the	twig	and	missed	the	butterfly’s	crawling	out	of	its
chrysalis.	Now	it	was	free,	hanging	upside	down	from	the	twig.	The	creature
looked	so	weak	and	helpless	that	I	knew	why	Baba	had	taken	pity	on	it	as	a
boy.
“It	may	look	weak,”	said	Baba.	“But	life	has	repeated	this	moment	for
millions	upon	millions	of	years.	Ages	have	come	and	gone,	yet	nothing	has
stopped	these	fragile	wings	from	unfolding.”
We	sat	quietly	and	watched	as	the	crumpled,	damp
	wings	stiffened	bit	by	bit.
The	butterfly	twitched	them	over	and	over,	and	like	magic	sails	they	opened
until	they	were	ten	times	bigger	than	they	started	out.	The	dull	brown	color
turned	to	the	most	sparkling	blue.	Finally	the	butterfly	seemed	to	know	that	it
was	ready,	because	instead	of	twitching	its	wings,	it	flapped	them.	Its	body
was	carried	up	in	the	air,	and	after	a	minute	it	was	gone.A	mighty	speck	of	life	had	just	joined	the	cosmos.
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
Baba	convinced	me	that	my	soul	knows	how	I	feel	and	what	I	want.	It	knows
the	great	events	that	will	take	place	in	my	life.	All	these	things	are	part	of	how
a	caterpillar	turns	into	a	butterfly.	Imagine	what	it	experiences.	One	day	a
caterpillar	is	chewing	on	a	leaf,	just	like	every	other	day,	and	it	has	this
thought,
Maybe	I’ll	weave	some	threads
.
It’s	never	had	such	a	thought	before,	but	suddenly	this	idea	is	so	strong	that	it
weaves	threads	all	around	itself.
Now	that	I’m	in	here,	I’m	getting	sleepy,
	it	thinks.	Everything	becomes	still
inside.	The	caterpillar	doesn’t	want	to	eat	anymore;	it	doesn’t	even	want	to
see	daylight.	Down	it	sinks	into	a	kind	of	sleep,	and	then	what	happens?
Every	single	cell	in	its	body	shifts	and	grows	a	new	shape.	At	one	point	the
old	caterpillar	is	little	more	than	a	shapeless,	soupy	blob,	and	then	out	of
nowhere	a	new	body	takes	form.
Finally	the	caterpillar	feels	the	impulse	to	wake	up.
I
	don’t	want	to	be	in	here,
it	thinks.	So	it	pokes	and	shoves	and	chews	its	way	through	the	threads	it	has
woven.	All	it	wants	is	to	see	the	light	of	day,	and	once	it	is	hanging	in	the	sun,
it	has	an	urge	to	twitch.	It	doesn’t	know	it	has	wings;	it	doesn’t	even	know
what	wings	are.	But	in	a	minute	or	two	all	it	wants	to	do	is	fly—without
lessons!
Now,	here’s	the	big	question:	Can	you	grow	in	your	own	way	with	such
perfect	timing?	Can	you	discover	that	you	are	unfolding	into	surprising	stages
you	never	expected?	The	soul	is	where	the	future	stores	its	biggest	surprises.
Your	DNA	already	contains	a	blueprint	for	your	body	to	grow,	which	is
amazing	enough.	When	a	baby	begins	as	a	single	cell	in	its	mother’s	womb,
that	cell	already	knows	when	the	baby	will	grow	its	first	tooth,	when	it	will
focus	its	eyes,	grip	with	its	hands,	and	learn	to	balance	so	that	it	can	walk.
Before	a	baby	sees	the	world	for	the	first	time,	its	DNA	knows	that	one	day
the	same	person	will	have	gray	hair.	A	whole	life	span	is	compressed	into	a
speck	thousands	of	times	smaller	than	the	period	at	the	end	of	this	sentence.
Your	soul	knows	as	much	about	your	mind	and	heart	as	DNA	knows	about
your	body.	It	stores	everything	in	its	secret	vault,	every	desire	you	mighthave.	You	aren’t	a	puppet,	though.	You	have	choices,	thousands	of	them	every
day.	You	can	choose	to	tap	into	the	most	powerful	force	in	the	universe.
That’s	what	your	soul	is


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FruiticultureForeword
by Dr. Douglas Graham
The year 1967, “The Summer of Love, ” was a time of relative in-
nocence; a rebellion against the establishment (the Vietnam War was really hea ting up
) by back-to-the-land “hippies, ” or
“flower children, ” and fantastic change (fans were blown away by the first season of Star Trek in ’66-67, and the technologi -
cal possibilities it foreshadowed).  In ’69, the acclaimed singer/songwr iter Joni Mit chell captur
ed the generation when she
wrote and performed the classic and often quoted song, Woodstock.  In Fruiticulture, David appropriately used this quote from the song, and I agree fully:  “And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. ”
Certainly that phrase caught my attention, and that of countless other young men and
women at the time, as we were in our formative years and we looked to the musicians for guidance on politics, philosophy, and even religion.  More than one hundred different musicians wrote songs against our involvement in the Vietnam War, but Joni’s Woodstock may have been the most influential.
Grace Slick ranted against the poisoning of our Earth as she and The Jefferson Airplane
co-led the counterculture revolution. In the song, Eat Starch Mom, she quipped, tongue in cheek, “I don’t care if there’s chemicals it in, as long as my lettuce is crisp”; a sad but all too true commentary on the apathetic mainstream view towards health and the chemi -
cal poisoning of our planet.
As John Lennon and T he B
eatles came of age, they stopped writing catchy but meaning -
less ditties and began expressing their views on life, politics, and yes, the revolution. In
their song, Revolution,
The Beatles acknowledged that “we all want to change the world, ”
but made it clear that they will not support “destruction” or “people with minds that h a t e.”
Even Peter Townsend and The Who, authors of the song, My Generation, couldn’t resist
the temptation to write about their frustration in trying to create the changes that they
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Fruiticulturecould see were necessary if society was to go in a healthy direction. The lyrics to their
song, Magic Bus, profoundly express what it is like to be a young person being squashed by an older generation that wields all the power and all the authority. Youth: “I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, ” Authority: “You CAN’T have it. ”
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As a youth and then a teen, David Klein was immersed in all of these influences.  He also withstood a continual nonstop bombardment of brainwashing from the main-stream medical establishment that told him there was “no cure” for his ulcerative colitis.  From ages 18 to 26, ulcerative colitis destroyed his health and made his life miserable.  He was told that diet was not a factor in his disease (he ate the standard American diet), and he must conform and take medicines, even though the medicines did not in any way help him heal.  One medicine even gave him temporary brain damage.
Through it all, David never surrendered his passion to reclaim his health.  His search led
him to the Fruitarian Diet, and thirty-four years later he is still crowing about how it res -
urrected his life, and then some.  In Fruiticulture, David, along with his great ecologist friend Don Weaver, brings their shared dream to light—they literally pour their hearts out in revealing their vision of global health. Their message was never more necessary.
Over the past twenty-five years, David has persistently and consistently focused on help -
ing others regain their health, guiding them on issues of diet and lifestyle, while Don has
taught the world the value of plant -
ing fruit trees, growing organically, and remineralizing the world’s soils to bring us the truly nutritious food we are lacking. In Fruiticulture, David and Don take their teachings another step deeper, addressing the heart of the matter.  David and Don teach us how to create a culture of fruit, the world’s best food, and the best agri-cultural crop for the environment.
Four Fruitarians
Left to right: Morris Krok, Enrique Candioti,
Don Weaver, Dr. Douglas Graham
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FruiticultureIn Section 1, David explains the science that identifies our need for fruit, tells us what
will happen if we don’t eat enough fruit, and then describes exactly how to guarantee that our fruit intake is sufficient.
In Section II, David and Don identify the substances, influences, conditions, and forces
necessary for growing the highest quality fruit from the healthiest trees, and they ex -
plain why fruitarianism and fruit-based agriculture can restore the world to vibrant health.
In Sec tion III, Da
vid takes on big issues, such as how to end world hunger, pollution and
wars.
True to the slogan of “Think globally but act locally, ” Section IV explains what we can do
as individuals to join, and lead, the Fruiticulture revolution.
David and Don are co-leading a health revival for humanity and the planet, and I am fully
on board.  Together with our Fruitarian health educator friends we have put on numer -
ous Fruitarian health education events and contributed to each other’s literary works for mor e than twen t
y years.
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These days, our athletes may have even more influence than the musicians.  I had the good fortune of being Martina Navratilova’s nutrition coach at the time when she ate the first banana ever consumed live on television on court at a major tournament.  That sum -
mer, thousands of recreational level tennis players mimicked her actions. The banana has remained an on-cour t staple ev
er since; an important step of acceptance for a fruit that
was considered uncouth to eat out of hand a mere 100 years ago.
When Michael Jordan crashed into our consciousness, an entire generation wanted to
“Be like Mike, ” unthinkingly eating and drinking whatever he promoted, none of which was healthy.  “Sir” Charles Barkley didn’t want to be held responsible for the effect his self-destructive lifestyle was having on his viewers.  His famous quote, “I’m no role mod -
el, ” was an ineffective attempt at a disclaimer.  Our good friend and my former student, Bradley Saul, r esponded b
y creating OrganicAthlete; a nonprofit organization dedicated
to helping people to live more healthfully, while also encouraging athletes to take a more responsible role when choosing their sponsors. 8
FruiticultureToday, vegan athletes are no longer uncommon, and you will find them disproportion -
ately represented in the top ten percent of almost every sport.  For the 2018-19 season,
the NBA welc omes
to the league its first raw vegan athlete in superstar Michael Porter Jr.,
a client of mine whose diet consists primarily of fruit, and is rounded out by raw vegeta -
bles, nuts, and seeds.  The next wave of youngsters will be eating fruit when they choose to be like this Mike.
David
’s idea for writing Fruiticulture with Don is a grand slam homer, as it brings us all
back to our naturally healthful ways of eating sweet and juicy fruit, to living in peace and
harmony with Nature, to the nurturing embrace of Hygiea, the goddess of health—en -
abling us to live long and healthy lives by giving humanity and our planet the nurturing care it truly needs.  I think F ruiticultur
e is the most important “planetary healers manual”
since Viktoras Kulvinskas’s seminal Survival Into the 21st Century book of 1975, and shar -
ing Fruiticulture may be the single most important thing you ever do for your loved ones.
Dr. Douglas Gr aham
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Four Fruitarians
Left to right: Dr. Robert Sniadach, Dr. Timothy Trader,
Dr. Douglas Graham, Dr. David Klein
Rawstock, Occidental, California (2003)9
FruiticultureIntroduction
by David Klein, Ph.D., Jesse Krebs,
Ph.D. & Don Weaver
Let’s Get Back to Nature – Now!
by David Klein, Ph.D.

Our global crises can only be attributed to humanity’s dis-
connection from Nature.  We’ve cut ourselves off from our natural biological r oots and lost t
ouch with our true in-
stinctual selves.  Trapped in unnatural lifestyles, most have lost t ouch with their sense of appreciation, empa th
y, com-
munal spirit and ability to reason.  Worst of all, most people eat toxic pseudo -f