umbens
Parts used
: Roots and tubers.
Actions
: Alterative (blood purifier), analgesic, anodyne, anti-arthritic,
anti-inflammatory anti-rheumatic, astringent, bitter tonic,
cholagogue, hepatic (mild), sedative.
Echinacea Angustifolia
Echinacea is another one of God’s greatest herbs.
It is known as the “immune herb.”
Strengthens and stimulates the immune system.
It enhances tissue function, especially bone marrow, thymus gland andspleen tissue.
Has strong antibiotic and antiseptic properties.
A blood purifier and anti-inflammatory
Useful in cases of arthritis and rheumatism.
Useful in colds, flu, pneumonia, and similar conditions.
Strengthens cells.
A blood purifier.
Very useful in sepsis of the blood or any toxic blood conditions.
A must in all cancers, tumors, boils and abscesses.
Great in urinary tract infections and inflammation.
Useful in prostate conditions.
Scientific name
:
Echinacea angustifolia
Parts used
: Roots, rhizomes.
Actions
: Alterative, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory anti-putrefactive,
anti-venomous, antiseptic, antiviral, deodorant, depurant,
aphrodisiac, sialogogue, diaphoretic, aromatic, carminative, bitter,
stimulant, vulnerary.
False Unicorn (Helonias)
One of nature’s top tonics, especially for the male and female
reproductive organs and glands.
Strengthens the endocrine glands.
Use in prolapsed conditions of the intestines, uterus, hemorrhoids, veins,
etc.
It revitalizes and regenerates tissue, especially the reproductive tissues.
Increases the ability of conception.
Strengthens the mucous membranes, especially the genital-urinary
tissues.
Use for diabetes.
Use for ovarian, uterine or prostate weakness or conditions.
Helps prevent miscarriages.
Use for sterility problems.
Use for relaxed vagina.
Scientific name
:
Chamaelirium luteum
Parts used
: Root and rhizomes.
Actions
: Anthelmintic (vermifuge), cellular proliferant, diuretic, emetic(high doses), emmenagogue, oxytocic, sialagogue (fresh),
stimulating, tonic, uterine tonic.
Fenugreek
Fenugreek is a great expectorant.
It softens, loosens, and helps expel mucus (phlegm), especially from the
bronchial and lung tissues.
Helps dissolve cholesterol and other lipids.
A great blood cleanser and antiseptic.
Fenugreek is a medium range parasite killer.
Has some diuretic properties.
Excellent for diabetes (helps regulate sugar and insulin levels).
Scientific name
:
Trigonella foenum-graecum
Parts used
: Seeds.
Actions
: Alterative, antiparasitic, aphrodisiac, aromatic, astringent,
carminative, demulcent, deobstruent, detergent, detoxicant, emollient,
expectorant, galactagogue, laxative, nutritive, stimulant, stomachic,
tonic.
Garlic
Garlic is one of the great blood cleansers.
It has antiseptic, antiparasitic, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal
properties.
Especially good for intestinal parasites.
A great immune enhancer.
Stimulates the action of the liver and gallbladder.
Excellent for colds, flu, bronchitis and any congestive conditions.
Great for yeast infections of all types.
Garlic can be too strong and pungent for fruitarians.
Stimulates digestive enzymes.
Scientific name
:
Allium sativum
Parts used
: Bulbs
Actions
: Alterative, antibacterial, anticatarrhal, antifungal, antiparasitic,
antiseptic, antispasmodic, antisyphilitic,
antivenomous, antiviral,
aromatic, carminative, cathartic, cholagogue, depurative, diaphoretic,digestant, disinfectant, diuretic, emmenagogues, expectorant,
hypertensive, hypotensive, immuno-stimulant, nervine, rubefacient,
stimulant, stomachic, sudorific, tonic, vulnerary.
Gentian
One of nature’s best bitter tonics for the GI tract (gastrointestinal).
Strengthens the entire body.
One of the best herbs for the improvement of digestion.
Increases liver and pancreatic function.
Increases gastric secretions, while toning and strengthening the stomach.
Has antiparasitic properties, kills plasmodia and worms.
Strengthens the liver, spleen and pancreas.
Has a toning effect upon the kidneys.
Increases circulation.
A revitalizer of the body; used for fatigue, exhaustion and low energy
levels (anemia).
Used in all female weaknesses.
Use for indigestion, dyspepsia and gas.
Can be used for lightheadedness, dizziness, etc.
Can be used for infections and toxic conditions of the body.
Also can be used for poisonous bites and malaria.
Scientific name
:
Gentiana lutea
Parts used
: Root.
Actions
: Alterative, antacid, anthelmintic (vermifuge), anti-bilious, anti-
inflammatory antiperiodic, antipyretic, antiseptic, anti-spasmodic,
anti-venomous, bitter tonic, cholagogue, emetic (large doses),
emmenagogue, febrifuge, hepatic, laxative (mild), stimulant,
stomachic, tonic, sialagogue.
Ginger
Used throughout the world as a digestive aid and for circulation.
Used as a catalyst with other herbs.
Increases circulation to peripheral areas (brain, hands and feet) of the
body.
Great for indigestion and nausea.
Increases lymph flow and aids elimination of mucus from the upperrespiratory areas, especially the lungs.
Effective in motion and morning sickness.
Lowers cholesterol and blood pressure.
Prevents blood clotting.
Useful in post strokes.
Aids in the cleansing of congestion (mucus) in the cerebral and sinus
areas.
Increases perspiration and elimination through the skin.
Scientific name
:
Zingiber officinale
Parts used
: Dried rhizomes and root.
Actions
: Analgesic, anodyne, antacid, antiemetic, antispasmodic,
aperitive, aphrodisiac, aromatic, carminative, cholagogue, condiment,
detoxicant, diaphoretic (whole), diffusive stimulant, diuretic,
emmenagogue, expectorant, nervine, pungent, rubefacient,
sialagogue, sternutatory, stomachic, sweet, tonic.
Ginkgo Biloba
One of the best herbs for the brain and nervous system.
Improves cerebral vascular insufficiency.
Used throughout the world for memory loss and vertigo (dizziness).
Strengthens the heart and vascular system.
Increases blood flow to the tissues.
Useful in cases of asthma.
Used for tinnitus (ringing in the ears).
Has been proven beneficial for fibromyalgia.
Very beneficial for hemorrhoids, spider and varicose veins.
Has been useful for carpal tunnel syndrome.
One of nature’s great tonics, especially to the “neuro” system.
Scientific name
:
Ginkgo biloba
Parts used
:
Leaf
—promotes blood circulation, stops pain, benefits the
brain, and is astringent to the lungs.
Seed
—considered astringent for
the lungs, stops nocturnal emissions, stops asthma, enuresis,
excessive leukorrhea and increases energy.
Actions
: Adaptogen, alkalizer, anti-aging, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory
antioxidant, antispasmodic (mild), astringent, bitter tonic, cardiac
tonic (mild), expectorant (mild), nervine, sedative (mild), tonic,vasodilator, vulnerary.
Goldenseal
One of nature’s greatest “heal-all” herbs.
A true tonic for the body.
Not for long term use because of its accumulative properties.
It increases gastric juices and digestive enzymes. It also increases the
production and secretion of bile.
Used to strengthen and tone the pancreas.
Helps regulate blood sugars.
Considered a source of natural insulin.
Strengthens the nervous system.
It has homeostatic properties, especially for the uterus.
Tones the vascular system and helps increase circulation.
A great anti-inflammatory especially for the glandular system.
Use for gastric and intestinal problems.
Use in cancerous conditions.
A gentle laxative.
Use for drug and alcohol dependency.
Helps eliminate catarrh (mucus) in the body, especially in the respiratory
and GI tract tissues.
Use in cystitis, prostatitis and nephritis.
Excellent for hemorrhoids and hemorrhages.
Use for HIV and venereal diseases.
Has antiparasitic properties, and is antiseptic.
Use for infections, wounds, sores, fissures, etc.
Use in chronic skin conditions, eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis.
Use in all types of prolapsed conditions, (uterus, intestinal, etc.).
Makes a great eyewash.
Tones and cleans the liver. Use for jaundice, hepatitis, etc.
Use for ulcerated tissue.
Use for tonsillitis, typhoid fever, malaria, meningitis


 obedience  to the greatest  extent,  for the Re-
quirements  of the Presence.
You have  no idea,  Beloved  Ones,  how  old momentum,
unknown  to you in the outer  at the present,  acts  subtly  in
your  feeling  world.  That  is why  the Guard  is always  needed,
every  night  and  morning.  At night  before  you  retire,  and
in the morning  when  you  awaken,  call the Presence  to set
That  Guard  into  action,  in and  over  your  feeling  world.
As you do It, you will  find  Tremendous  Assistance  given. 182 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Our Rejoicing  is so great,  in being  able  to accomplish
these  things,  for These  Three  Points  Accomplished  are
eternally  sustained.  I thank  you for your  willingness,  not to
be curious  to know  all about  It. Do you know,  Dear  Hearts,
and because  this is so remarkable,  I must  mention  it to you:
when  I referred  to this,  there  was  no curiosity  went  forth
from  any  one!  That  I consider  an amazing  achievement
within  you!  You  rested  in what  I said.  Thank  you  with  all
My Heart.  Once  you  understand  It you  will  rejoice.  It is
magnificent,  for it shows  a poise  gained  within  you of Self-
control,  Precious  Ones.  Never  lose  It! I congratulate  you!
Now,  it is not My Intent  to talk  to you  further  than  to
acquaint  you  with  this;  because  of what  the Power  of your
attention  does.  Dear  Precious  People,  your  attention  is the
Most  Powerful  Thing.  Once  you can realize  the Fulness  of
what  you can do by the Power  of your  attention,  there  will
not be one thing  in the world  which  will  retard,  interfere
with  or bind  you  any  longer.  Your  attention  upon  the
"I AM  Presence"  is the Release  of Infinite  Power  for every
single  Requirement  of yours  or whatever  you  might  wish
to do for others.
In My Closing  Words,  I want  to assure  you  today,  there
have  been  released  into  this room,  perhaps  the Most  Power-
ful Healing  Currents  in any  of the Classes.  There  are so
many  calling  forth  to This  Class  for Assistance  from  all
over America,  that  We are releasing  this intentionally.  Now
will you be kind  enough  by the Power  of your  attention,  to
direct  These  Currents  of Energy  to anyone  whom  you DISCOURSE  VIII  183
know  to be worthy;  or to whom  you want  to give  assistance,
so they  may  have  the Help ? It is a Wonderful  Opportunity.
Also  while  I have  this  opportunity,  I wish  to thank  the
People  of Boston,  who  have  come  here  for the first  time,
who  have  accepted;  and  who  have  already  received  such  a
Great  Blessing.  I assure  you,  each  one,  that  it is just  the
beginning  of the Freedom  and  Blessing,  which  you  can
have  and call forth  into  your  world.
I might  offer  this  suggestion  to you  and  to all Students
and Group  Leaders  thruout  America:  If you  will  stand  by
firmly  in your  Call;  and  ask the "I AM  Presence,"  to reach
out Its Hands  and  bring  the earnest  sincere  people,  who
are seeking  This  Light,  into  the Classes,  into  your  Groups
and keep  out all others;  you  will  find  you will  gain  a Mo-
mentum;  and  the Selective  Intelligence  of the Higher  Men-
tal Body  of each  one,  will  actually  reach  out Its Hands  and
by the Power  of Attraction,  draw  to These  Classes  and the
Groups,  the earnest  sincere  people  who  really  want  the
Light;  those  who  do not feel antagonistic;  and  are willing
to put aside  their  own  pre-conceived  ideas,  at least,  to find
out whether  they  care  for This  Understanding.
Recently,  We  have  observed  that  particular  activity
among  the Groups  and  the students  everywhere.  Where  It
has been  adhered  to closely,  the attendance  has expanded
much  more  rapidly,  than  if there  be a feeling  within  the
Group  Leader  or Individuals,  they  have  to do something
outwardly  to get the attention  of the people.
There  are two  activities  and  perhaps  the Radio  is the 184 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
greatest  power  of getting  the attention  of the people,  than
any other  thing.  The  reason  for that  is this:  with  the Tran-
scriptions  and  Mrs.  Ballard's  Work  over  the Radio,  when
the people  are listening  to the Radio,  they  are wholly  quiet
and in their  own  atmosphere.  There  is nothing  to distract
the attention  from  the words  to which  they  are listening.
Now,  Beloved  Ones,  I am not criticising  the students  of
the Classes;  but  let Me just  remind  you,  when  someone
walks  into  the room,  you  know  how  quick  the attention
goes to that  Individual,  until  he or she sits down  and  is
quiet.  Notice,  how  easily  things  in the room  or a movement
will take  your  attention.  I ask you for your  own  blessing  to
pay no attention  to who  comes  in or goes  out;  but  hold
your  attention  upon  what  is being  given!  If you  will  train
yourselves  to do it, you will  sometimes  grasp  points  which
you pass  over  in that  moment,  which  would  be of Infinite
Blessing  to you.
I ask you  to watch  it. Because  of old habit,  the moment
there  is an unusual  movement  somewhere,  the attention
wants  to go there;  and  unless  you  hold  it in a firm  grasp,
it will  do it. The  safe  way  on the point  of concentration,
as the Messenger  once  said  to you in the Class,  is when  you
have  before  you a point  of Achievement,  you  want  to hold
all your  forces  concentrated  and  focused  upon  it. You  can-
not afford  to let outer  activity  draw  your  attention  here  and
there,  if you want  to have  Quick  Accomplishment.  As you
hold  your  attention  steady,  it holds  your  forces  in its one
direction.  Then,  hold  it steady  there,  until  the Power  surges DISCOURSE  VIII  185
in, and  all of a sudden  like  that  (wave  of hand),  it bursts
thru and  the Accomplishment  is complete.
That  is the power  of your  outer  co-operation,  in calling
the Great  Powers  of the Presence  forth,  to any  given  re-
quirement.  As you  watch  and  train  yourselves  to do these
things,  you  can have  so much  quicker  results  in anything,
which  you  call forth  into  action.
So will  you watch  it just within  yourselves—not  in others.
Just take  yourselves  in command  and  see how  you can best
and most  quickly  utilize  the Powers  of the Presence  which
you are calling  forth;  and  hold  your  outer  in an Absolutely
Immovable  Focus,  until  the accomplishment  is complete.
As you  train  yourself  to do these  simple  things,  it becomes
the Most  Marvelous  Thing  in your  Life.  Now  that  does
not require  any  great  effort  so to speak;  but just


 baked vegetables. About 2 weeksafter the fast, I experienced a sense of exhilaration and
well-being that I had never known in my entire life!
From that time on my health and vitality grew by
leaps and bounds! That was not my only fast under Dr.
Rollier’s supervision. He started me out with a
24 hour
weekly fast and in the next 9 months, put me on a 7, 14
and 21 day fast. Between fasts I was fed an alkaline diet.37
When you live The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle you can help activate
your own powerful internal defense arsenal and maintain it at top
efficiency. Remember bad, unhealthy eating habits make it harder
 for your body to  fight illness and stay healthy! –  Paul C. Bragg
What wound did ever heal but by gentle degrees. – William Shakespeare
Little things are like weeds – the longer we neglect them the larger they grow.Keep Your Stomach Healthy & Alkaline
Because acidosis is more of a negative than a positive
ill, you should beware of it. Have you ever said, “Oh,
I’m a little off color; low on energy; a bit blue for no real
reason. Everyone has their off days. It seems to be a partof life.” Nothing of the kind! You can maintain yourself
in a state of consistent good health, not spasmodic good
health. You can come to consider your body a finemachine, one that with proper care will never go wrong.
At the first suspicion of acidosis, analyze your diet. A
grayish tongue, a snappish temper, a flushing of the face;these are not too trivial to heed! They are signs of red
flashing danger! Perhaps today they might not amount
to much, but tomorrow they will be more insistent.Acidosis is insidious and accumulative in its action; and
it is today, not tomorrow, that you should begin to
defend yourself, for life is self-defense. Your adversaryhas you at a disadvantage, and what you lack in stamina
you must make up for in living a healthy lifestyle!
Beware then of acidosis and all of the evils it invites.
Apart from asking for trouble from invading germs,chronic acidosis will lead to high blood pressure and
followed by arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
Thus, the wr ecking chain is working: over-acid dietary
autointoxication, high blood pressure, stiff arteries and
eventually premature death. High-sugar, high-fat and high-
protein diets promote acidosis. Stay away from them! Eata healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables and grains from
organic sources. At the first danger sign, be strong and
give up all unhealthy habits and faithfully live The BraggHealthy Lifestyle. This will guide you to super health!38
Bragg Organic Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar with the “Mother” is the #1 food
I recommend for maintaining the body’s vital acid-alkaline balance.
– Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Author of “Conscious Eating” and “Spiritual Nutrition”Perfect pH Balancer – Apple Cider Vinegar
Another safeguard to keep pH acid/alkaline balance
healthy is to enjoy the healthy Bragg Organic Raw Apple
Cider Vinegar Cocktail three times daily. Drink a glass
upon arising, another an hour before lunch and one anhour before dinner. Read page
161, 238, and recipe page 230.
Important
Parts of the
Digestive
System
39
The word “vegetarian” is not derived from “vegetable,” but
from the Latin phrase, homo vegetus, meaning among theRomans, a strong, robust, thoroughly healthy man. –
Paul C. BraggChapter 4
Fasting Fights Deadly
Acid Crystals
Toxic Acid Crystals Can
Cement Your Joints to Make You Stiff
Stand on any street corner and watch the average
person hobble along. Their feet, knees, hips, spine and
head seem to be cemented. There is no free-swinging
movement in their locomotion. Let’s look at their feet.They seem to pick up their feet heavily and lay them
down flatly. Their knees seem to be completely cemented
and stiff. There is little movement in the swinging hipmotion, their spines are rigid and so are their heads. All
of the elasticity and resiliency seems to have gone out
of what should be a free-swinging body.
Crystals Are Cement – Not Lubrication
Between the moveable joints of every bone in the
human body, Mother Nature has placed an abundant
supply of a lubricant known as synovial fluid. Take alook at a youngster who is, say
10 years of age, and watch
the easy movement of every moveable joint in his body.Why is this?  I know that your answer would be, “This
child is only
10 years of age. I am 66. I can’t have the
same freedom of motion in my joints as a child of 10
does.” My answer to you is, “Why can’t you? Years havenothing to do with the amount of synovial fluid thatallows the joints to move freely and easily. There is justone thing that cements your body’s moveable joints andthat is the build-up of toxic acid crystals.”
Age is not toxic. Just because you live
 50, 60  or 70
years, there should be no diminishing of the supply of
synovial fluid due to your calendar years.
40
Water flows through every single part of your body, cleansing
and nourishing it. But the wrong kind of water – with inorganicminerals, harmful toxins, chemicals and other contaminants canpollute, clog and gradually turn every part of your body to stone.USA leads the world in heart diseases, strokes, cancers, arthritis and diabetes!How Toxic Acid Crystals Build in Your Body
Despite the fact that I am way past 85, I pride myself
on having the most flexible body, regardless of my age,
and I feel ageless! I can perform difficult yoga postures
with ease while standing on my head. Few people inthe world can do this regardless of age.  Mother Nature
can’t stiffen and cement one person’s body as they age
and yet allow me to have the flexibility of a youngster.
There are 4 great eliminative systems in our bodies
that get rid of the poisons created by our daily living. By
nature, we eat food, we drink liquids and we breathe air.Most humans eat too much food, eating by habit rather
than by hunger. They have been brainwashed to believe
that they must have scheduled meals by the clock. I knowfrom long experience as a Physical Therapist that people
with these grotesque shapes have not been able to burn
up these so-called regular meals. They have beenconditioned to eat breakfast whether they have hunger
or not, so they load up on ham, bacon, eggs, hot cakes,
sugared doughnuts and sweet rolls, toast, jelly, jams,fried potatoes, pancakes, w affles, pork sausage, coffee,
hot chocolate and dry processed (unhealthy) cereals.
The body doesn’t have enough Vital Force energy to
continually masticate, digest, assimilate and eliminate theseheavy breakfasts. There is always a toxic residue left...
where does this toxic residue go? It is concentrated and
crystallized as deposits in the moveable joints in the body.It’s a slow process that few sense until the joints start to
give them trouble. It takes years of wrong eating to create
these heavy concentrations of acid crystals and toxins inthe moveable joints. When these calcium-like spurs attach
themselves to the joints and calcified substances replace
the synovial fluid, it’s then that the pains and aches arefelt in the moveable joints of the body causing pain.41The
Bones
of the
Human
Body
Bone, like all living tissue, requires adequate
nutrition for health and growth. Bones needsufficient levels of minerals, especially calcium,
phosphorous, magnesium, manganese, zinc,
copper and silicon, plus vitamins A, C and K.Vitamin D and boron are necessary to ensure
proper intestinal absorption and utilization of
calcium. Live The Bragg Healthy Lifestyleto keep the bones healthy and strong!HEALTHY BONES:
Back View
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body. We are all sculptors and painters,
and our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. –  Henry David ThoreauFront ViewExcerpt from the Bragg Back Book. See back pages for booklist.42
Make me aware that there is more  to life than measuring its speed.
Periodic fasting keeps you connected to your body’s natural tendency
to cleanse and rejuvenate. – Pamela Serure, The 3-Day Energy FastJoint & Back Pains – Curse of Mankind
The toxic crystals first attack the feet, and their 26
moveable bones in each foot. The force of gravity sends
the toxic crystals down into the feet. Gradually the feet
and ankles start to stiffen, because the toxic acid crystals
are taking over and replacing the lubrication in the jointsof the feet. Instead of having flexible feet, they become
stiff and tire easily (
read page 138). They ache, burn and
cause tremendous misery. (Do read our Foot and Back books.)
From the feet and ankles, the toxic acid crystals move
upward, causing many people to suffer from pains in
the knees. As time marches


, it would be
extremely general, as follows:The time comes when seeking is over and realization begins. First the
mind becomes aware of its own activity while standing apart from it.
Ordinarily we are immersed in our own inner dialogue; the stream of
thoughts, wishes, fears, and fantasies running through our heads keeps us
fixated. We buy into a mental drama that has no conclusion. The mind gains
its restless energy from our participation. Being fixated on your own ment al
drama is all it takes to cause the drama to work itself up.
At certain moments, however, the fixation is not so alluring. Some part of
ourselves detaches from the mind’ s activity—the first stage of ecstasy is
just this faint awareness of being a witness to the drama rather than an
engaged participant. The observer has begun to put a slight distance
between itself and the observed.
The second step is the stilling of the mind. This is not achieved by force
or indeed by any action at all. Doing anything is the opposite of being still.
Because we have spent our whole lives in activity, non-doing is extremely
unfamiliar. Most of the time it occurs by accident—out of the blue, one
notices that the stream of consciousness has ceased, like turning  off a water
tap. Sexual activity is so often associated with ecstasy because it is one of
the few times that most people can be fully distracted from their minds.
Whether a person tries to make it happen or not, what creates stillness in the
mind is simply that the observer  is able to continue to stand apart for longer
than a moment.
Gaining some distance between the observer and the observed is so rare
that the second stage of ecstasy occurs quite infrequently. For most of us the
excursions away  from mental activity last only a few seconds. But if we
manage to achieve the second stage, stillness takes on a surprising aspect.
Our attention reveals to us that silence has its own dynamism. The still
mind, though devoid of thoughts, quivers and vibrates all the same. There is
a kind of trembling anticipation  that can go one of two ways. Either a new
thought will be born to bring back the internal dialogue or the faint
trembling of silence will lead to even deeper silence.
Poised here at the edge of ecstasy, you cannot make your mind choose
one way over the other. Even people who have experienced silent mind
many times, such as in prolonged practice of meditation, do not go past the
front room of silence at will. But if the mind chooses to plunge into deeper
silence, the third stage has been reached. This deeper silence doesn’ t quiver;it cannot be disturbed by even the faintest activity. One experiences it like
the softest black velvet or the deepest dark cave. Anyone who has come this
far is now truly “standing outsid e.” Of course it would be just as accurate to
say that you are standing inside, because inside and outside have lost their
difference. Y ou are merely there where ecstasy is.
The fourth and final stage requires nothing new on your part—once your
attention has been captured by deep silence, the inner transformation is
complete. What ever is to happ en next dawns of its own accord. One is
brought face to face with pure Being, pure awareness, pure joy. In ancient
Sanskrit terms, sat chit ananda,  eternal bliss consciousness, reveals itself. A
Christian saint might call the same experience “the face of God.” The poet
of the Song of Solomon put it in lover ’s terms:
My eyes are radiant with your spirit;
my nostrils fill with your fragrance.
My ears delight in your music,
and my face is covered with your dew.
But these are images only. The fact that ecstasy exists is the promise that
kindles our faith on the path to love; tastes of it are the water that refreshes
our quest. We take faith from those living masters who have reached the
goal. They stand apart from us, yet they are clothed in the same flesh and
bones; they move, act, breathe, and live as the rest of us do. Only secretly,
in their realized  souls, do they know with utter certainty that, like the two
birds in the tree, they are Self while we are self.
I often turn to a few pages of dialogue between an Indian discip le and his
master that bring this contrast to life for me. The disciple is resisting the
idea that there is anything beyond the world of the senses. He is the
questioner; the answerer is the South Indian master Sri Nisar gadatta
Maharaj:
Q: Is your world full of things and people as is mine?
A: No, it is full of myself.
Q: But do you see and hear as we do?A: Yes, I appear to see and hear and talk and act, but to me it just happens,
as to you digestion or perspiration happens....
Q: If you are the world, how can you be conscious of it?
A: Cons ciousness and the world appear and disappear together, hence they
are two aspects of the same state.... As long as the mind is there, your
body and the world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective,
enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on
the thread of memory.
Q: So is yours.
A: Oh, no. I live in a world of realities, while yours is of imagi nings. Your
world is personal, private, unsha reable, intimately your own. Nobody can
enter it, see as you see, hear as you hear, feel your emotions and think
your thoughts. In your world you are truly alone, enclosed in your ever-
changing dream, which you take for life. My world is an open world,
common to all, accessible to all. In my world there is communit y, insight,
love, and real quality; the individual is the totality.... All are one, and
the One is all.
As many times as I have read this passage over the years, it never fails to
move me at a level deeper than emotion or memory or even insight. I feel
brought face to face with the real, and I stand in awe of a person who can
say of the mate rial world that it is the merest speck fleeting through his
mind. But it is also heartening to realize that such great masters began as
ordinary people. The only difference between them and any one of us is that
the masters set foot on the path,  beginning the journey of soul- making that
leaves time behind. Eventually  the path ends, and the foundation of our
world, which stands upon mem ory and mind, crumbles, leaving a new
world of unimaginable realness. Understandably, Maharaj’ s disciple was
intensely curiou s about what this new world is like, but his master could
only answer him from a place beyond words:
Q: How do you know that you are in the supreme state?A: Because I am in it. It is the only natural state.
Q: Can you describe it?
A: Only by negation, as uncaused, independent, unrelated, undivided,
uncomposed, unshakeable, unquestionable, unreachable by effort....
And yet my state is supremel y actual, therefore possible, realizable,
attainable.
There may be those who would find this a discouraging description,
riddled with paradox. How can the unreachable be reached or the
indescribable be real? I can only turn to those arrows of light that hurtle at
us from that world, the moment s of ecstasy that quiet all doubt and still all
questionings. It takes a long time before such experiences born in the
deepest silence can be translat ed into time and space. A life filled with
chaos is extreme ly difficult to fill with ecstasy. While you are caught in the
ecstatic moment, however, all of reality seems like a miracle. The very root
of the word miracle  reminds us that it derives from the Latin mirar e, “to
behold with rapt attention.” No better definition of ecstasy has ever been
given.
To those  who have gained entry  to ecstasy there is no reason to ask for
more. No transformation is as all-embracing, and after returning to the
everyday world,  the great gift seems to be not the intensity of remembered
joy but the revelation of truth. One moment of genuine ecstasy removes a
lifetime of doubts—you realize once and for all that spirit is real. You know
from firsthand experience that you are the divine essence. In that sense
ecstasy is the most immediate and yet the most far off of experiences. It is
immediate because it is unden iable; it is distant because it will take a
lifetime to secure ecstasy as a permanent reality. Fortunately this journey,
itself creates ecstasy, being the path to love.
OceanofPDF.comLOVING  PRACTICE
Cultivating Inspiration
ONE OF THE most beautiful proofs of ecstasy is delivered in a moment of
inspiration. I have already discussed signals from spirit which hint at a
reality beyond that perceived by the five senses. But inspirati on is much
more than a hint—when you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a
world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated
from within. This inner light is truth, and when we suddenly see the truth,
we gain insight, clarity, and objectivity.


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FOR CONSTIPATION
If the stools have become very  hard it is best that he
should take cassia fistula. A nd here is the mode of its
preparation: oxtongue herb—f our drachmas; licorice,
cleaned and shelled, herba fontis, barberry seeds—three drachmas of each; althea seeds—five drachmas; moist
roses of seven petals, anethum—seven hearts. All should
be soaked in one and a half  liters of warm water a day
and a night, then it should be boiled and crushed and
strained over twenty drachmas  of cassia fistula, twenty
drachmas of almond oil and one ounce of sugar. He
should take it and wait until it completes its action and its
evacuation. He should then eat a boiled chicken. If it is
not the proper time for finding moist roses he should
place over it three ounces of st rained rose syrup. And I
know that one who reads this paragraph will wonder, and
say: It is not right to use barberry seeds, because they
have the character of preven ting the softening of stools
toward which you aim. One should know that barberry
seed has the property of prev enting the injury caused by
cassia fistula, of strengt hening the intestines and
preventing tenesmus. This is what the old practitioners
taught us. And the physicians also mention that oxymel of
roses causes softening. It is proper that my lord should
possess it also and should take it when it is very hot to
soften the stool.
Its mode of preparation: One should take a liter of very
strong vinegar and throw into it one hundred moist rose
leaves, which have been placed in the sun for one day.
Next morning one should remove the roses and place other rose leaves in the vi negar, the same number as
before. And one should not refrain from changing the
rose petals every day for fo rty days. And one should take
this vinegar and make of it a syrup, three pounds of sugar
for every three ounces of vinegar.
Ibn Zuhr compounded an oxymel syrup made of
raisins and it was very good when made during the
summertime. Its mode of preparation: The dark raisins
should have their seeds remove d. In one liter of vinegar
one should throw half a pound of raisins and soak them
for two days. Afterward he should put them on the fire
and boil them twice and purify them, making oxymel
vinegar. And this compound is made with great care
because the vinegar will withhold the white superfluity
and will prevent the formation of malodorous moistures
and nothing can be equal to it or  like it. It is of a very
subtle substance and has a cooling effect on the
temperament. The oxymel is of great help in all fevers.
But the vinegar hurts the liver very much, it irritates it
and shrinks it and causes its blood to become pale.

THE LIVER'S ROLE IN HEALTH
Galen has already explained that the preservation of
man's health lies in the health  of the liver; it colors the blood and increases its moisture s, but it increa ses its heat,
and if it does that too much, it may burn the blood. While
vinegar weakens his strength, raisins, that are congenial
to the liver, give it fats and nourishment. When the syrup
is compounded of vinegar and raisins as the venerated
[Ibn Zuhr] did, we get the bene fit of the vinegar and we
prevent injury to the liver. We thus obtain the benefit of
the raisins and we are saved from increased heat. This
syrup is so wonderful and good that it should be prepared.
Your servant has already compounded for his master
two syrups and an electuary for the occasions which he
mentioned. One of the syrups he should always take,
every time. Its function is to purify the blood, remove its
turbidity and cleanse it of the gases that come from the
black bile. It will expand the spirit and gladden it. It will
chase away evil thoughts and feelings.
And this is the mode of pr eparation: One should take
rose leaves—one pound; oxtongue —half a pound;
lavender—two ounces; Sodom's apple, fumaterra seed
and citron leaves—one ounce of each. He should soak all
of these in six liters of warm water a day and a night.
Then all of them should be boiled several times, crushed,
cleansed and strained through a sieve. Place them in six
liters of sorrel syrup and put over a small flame until they thicken into a syrup, perfuming it with a quarterweight of
myrrh.

TO STRENGTHEN THE HEART
Your servant has not found any syrup equal to it, to
gladden and strengthen the hear t and give it power. It is
mild and neither raises nor lowers the temperature and
therefore can be taken at any time. And the amount to be
taken is from two to three ounces, in cold water in
summertime and in warm water in wintertime.
But the second syrup which your servant saw fit to
compound will loosen the stool very much and will often
cause a bowel movement twice or three times, depending
upon the preparation. It strengthens the expelling force in
the stomach and in the in testines and removes the
moisture and the black and re d biles with ease, without
harming the organs of digestion. As to the amount to be
taken, that is from three to four ounces of warm water in
which anise has been boiled until it is changed in
appearance. One should not ta ke it constantly, but only
when he needs it to expel the retained superfluities. When
one has accustomed himself to taking it once a week, it
will strengthen the intestines and remove the factor that causes dryness of the stools. The stools will become soft
and return to their normalcy.
Its preparation: One takes shelled polypody, pistachio,
broken and crushed—two ounces; senna Mecca and
oxtongue—one ounce of each; crushed licorice and
crushed althea—half ounce of each; moist fennel—a
handful; and moist roses—twenty flowers. He should
soak all these in four liters  of warm water a day and a
night. In the morning he shoul d boil it, crush it and strain
it over thirty drachmas of ca ssia fistula, purified and
mixed with half an ounce of almond oil, strained and put
away separately. And he shoul d take myrobalan of Kabul
in a polished form and amilegium myrobalanus emblici—
ten drachmas of each. He should macerate the myrobalan
and soak it in a liter and a half of warm water a day and a
night. And in the morning he should squeeze the
myrobalan very well and purify it and add to what he
boiled, the cassia fistula which he prepared separately. He
should mix the two fluids and throw into them four liters
of violet syrup and place over a weak flame, and he
should suspend over it a bundle of soft flaxen cloth or
spikenard and mastic— two drachmas of each—and
crushed rhubarb— three drachmas. And he should not
forget to squeeze the bundle with his hand to bring out
the powers of the ingredient s which it contains. And when the liquid assumes a syrupy thickness it should be
removed from the fire and hidden in a clay vessel lined
with lead. In time of need one should proceed as I
mentioned.

DIGESTIVES, APHRODISIACS, SEDATIVES
The spice hinted by your serv ant is the great electuary
which was prepared by his servant beforehand. It helps
the triple digestion [in th e stomach, the liver and the
organs] and strengthens all th e organs in general and the
heart and brain in particular. It delays aging, liquefies the
white fluid, prevents fumes from rising to the brain,
strengthens the senses, rem oves their tension, helps sex
life and expands the soul.
And this is the mode of preparation: One takes
myrobalan from Kabul and India and belilegium—one
ounce of each; myrobalanus emblici —two ounces; citron
rind, oxtongue, lavender flower, bitter costus root and
aconite—one ounce of each; red rose flowers—one
ounce; ash, cunilla, aspara gus seed, pistachio seed,
hedge-mustard seed, white and red saw-leaved centaury
anise, mastic, balsam bark—half an ounce of each; cubeb,
cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, galingale, long pepper,
ginger, musk, doronicum, aloe wood—one-eighth of an ounce each; the heart of pistachios—three ounces. The
dry ingredients should be ground and sifted through a
sieve until the drugs and the pistachios are thinned out.
The myrobalan should be


 so that they may learn how to
live conservatively or prudently, thereby enjoying the
greatest mental and physical efficiency, and also the
longest life. (See chapter on “Enervating Habits.”)

   To the ig norant, thoughtless, and sensual such suggestion
and advice will seem unnecessary, or perhaps the whims or
preachments of a crotchety person, or the qualms of a sated
sensualist; but it is the writer’s belief that the more sober
and thoughtful will welcome  a knowledge that will help
them to become masters of themselves. So far the masses
have trusted their health and life to a profession that has
failed to make good. I say this advisedly; for now the
supposed masters in the profession are looking for the
causes of disease, and it should be obvious to any thinking
mind that, until the cause of disease is found, certainly no
dependable advice can be given as to how to avoid disease.

   Fifty -eight years of independent thinking, unbiased by
sect or creed, ha ve enabled me to discover the true cause of
disease; and it is so simple that even a child can learn to
protect itself against the said -to-be “diseases peculiar to
children.”
   “These are the times that try men’s souls.” If Tom Paine
were here now, he w ould change the wording of that line to
read: “These are the times that try men’s nerves.” Nerve -
energy and good money are the commodities that are spent
very rapidly these days. Chasing the dollar causes great
waste of energy; and the dollar has been chas ed so much
that it has developed wanderlust to such a degree that men
enervate themselves catching up with a few, but prostrate
themselves endeavoring to break them of their wander -
habit. There are many ways to use up nerve -energy. It
should be the ambitio n of everybody to conserve all the
nerve -energy possible for the extraordinary amount
required to keep the speeding -up necessary to adjust
humanity to the automobile pace. This will come in time.

   Man adjusted himself to the change from the ox -cart,
Dobbin the flea -bitten, string -halt, and blind, and the
steamboats, on which our forebears took their honeymoon
trips, to the “steam -cars” and high - stepping bays and
family carriage.

   Many will go into the hands of the receiver before the
nervous syst em becomes adjusted to high -power
automobiles and flying -machines.
   Without nerve -energy the functions of the body cannot be
carried on properly. The present -day strenuousness causes
enervation, which checks elimination, and the retained
toxins bring o n Toxemia.

   Everything that acts on the body uses up energy. Cold
and heat require the expenditure of nerve -energy to adjust
the body to the changes.

   After middle life, those who would keep well and live to
be old must have a care concerning keepi ng warm and
avoiding chilling of the body. They must let up on table
pleasures and practice self -restraint in all ways. Allowing
the feet to be cold for any length of time allowing the body
to chill when a top -coat would prevent —is using up nerve -
energy ve ry fast.
   Work with worry will soon end in flagging energy —
enervation.

   As no provision is made for the demand of an extra
supply of energy at a given time, it is necessary, very
necessary, to know how to conserve what we have and
build more.

     CONSERVATION OF ENERGY THE GREATEST
THERAPEUTIC MEASURE

   Now that I have found that enervation is the source of the
cause of the only disease (Toxemia) to which mankind is
heir, it is easy to see that the so -called science of medicine,
as practiced, is an ally extraordinary of all the causes of
enervation, and becomes a builder of disease instead of
curing or ameliorating man’s sufferings. Every so -called
cure in its very nature causes enervation. Even the drugs
used to relieve pain end in making a gr eater pain, and
sometimes kill. The drugs to relieve cough in pneumonia
sometimes kill the patient. Removing stone from the gall -
bladder does not cure the cause, and more stones form.

   Rest from habits that enervate is the only way to put
nature in lin e for curing. Sleep and rest of body and mind
are necessary to keep a sufficient supply of energy. Few
people in active life rest enough.

WHY ENERVATION IS THE CAUSE AND NOT
THE DISEASE

   Enervation per se is not disease. Weakness, lost power, is
not disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue -waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged
with toxin, and this we call Toxemia —poison in the blood.
This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the
toleration -point, a cri sis takes place; which means that the
poison is being eliminated. This we call disease, but it is
not. The only disease is Toxemia, and what we call diseases
are the symptoms produced by a forced vicarious
elimination of toxin through the mucous membrane.

   When the elimination takes place through the mucous
membrane of the nose, it is called a cold —catarrh of the
nose; and where these crises are repeated for years, the
mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones
enlarge, closing the passage, e tc. At this stage hay -fever or
hay-asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any
of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of
Toxemia, we have croup, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis,
bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc. What is i n a name? All
are symptoms of the expulsion of toxin from the blood at
the different points named, and are essentially of the same
character and evolving from the one cause namely,
Toxemia —crises of Toxemia.

   This description can be extended to every organ of the
body; for any organ that is enervated below the average
standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of
crises of Toxemia. The symptoms presented differ with
each organ affecte d; and that gives color to the belief that
every symptom -complex is a separate and distinct disease.
But, thanks to the new light shed upon nomenclature
(naming disease) by the Philosophy of Toxemia, every
symptom -complex goes back to the one and only caus e of
all so -called diseases —namely, Toxemia.

   The symptoms that are called gastritis (catarrh of the
stomach) are very unlike the symptoms of cystitis (catarrh
of the urinary bladder); yet both are caused by crises of
Toxemia —both become the locations for the vicarious
elimination of toxin from the blood.

   It should be obvious to the discerning how extraordinarily
illogical it is to treat catarrh of the nose as a local disease;
or, when crises are repeated until ulceration takes place,
and the mucou s membrane becomes so sensitive that dust
and pollen cause sneezing and watering of the eyes —
symptoms called hay -fever—to treat these symptoms as a
distinct disease caused by pollen. Rest and total abstinence
from food, liquid and solid, and reforming all enervating
habits, will restore nerve -energy; the elimination of toxin
through the natural channels will take place, and full health
will return. This state will remain permanently if the erstwhile victim of hay -fever, or any other so -called
disease, will “stay put.”

   The first elimination of toxin through the nose is called a
cold. When this elimination is continuous, with
exacerbation —toxin crises (fresh colds) —occasionally,
ulceration takes place, bony spurs form, and hay -fever
develops. These are al l symptoms of toxin elimination. The
cause is the same from the first cold to hay -fever. The
catarrhal discharge that continues throughout the interims
of fresh colds (crises of Toxemia) is chronic catarrh, named
such in medical nomenclatures, and treated locally as
though it were an independent, fiendish entity; when the
truth is that the victim of so -called chronic catarrh keeps his
system enervated by tobacco, alcohol, sugar and sweets of
all kinds, coffee, tea, excessive eating of butter and bread,
too much rich cooking, excessive eating of all foods, excess
of sensual pleasures, etc. ( See chapter on “Causes of
Enervation.”)

   Keeping the system enervated prevents the
reestablishment in full of elimination through the normal
excretory organs. The org anism, as time runs on, becomes
more tolerant of toxin, and the “catching -


pain killers, but he was getting desperate. He remembered reading in the urine therapy book that holding a mouthful of urine for a few minutes was an excellent treatment for this type of problem. He used the remedy every four to six hours as recommended just as if he was taking medication. He was desperate and wanted to see if this simple remedy would work before going to the emergency room at a local hospital. He recalled the taste of urine being repulsive, but the pain was unbearable. Besides holding urine in his mouth, he also put a rag soaked in urine on his face. within minutes, the pain started diminishing and two hours later the inflammation started subsiding. He prepared the ultimate universal remedy and used it as instructed, every three hours, for a few days before seeing the dentist and all the while the pain and the infection were under control. His dentist could not believe Martinez’s story and though she will never admit it in public, she now mentions the application to patients who are allergic to or do not like using antibiotics.”  Uropathy by Martin J. Lara  185 TRAUMA  Marcelina L. Juan. Mexico.  "A month ago I fell off a truck. The impact was very strong, giving me a centón (spanish slang meaning "patchwork quilt") on my back. Before the accident, I was suffering 3 years from kidney and venous insufficiency. The impacts were throughout the body, except the feet, which are very delicate. In that moment, I felt a wet feeling as if it caused vaginal hemorrhage. I started bleeding and that night I could not sleep from the pain I felt in my right leg.   Thanks to my sister and the experience of other relatives, I knew about urine therapy. I decided not to take allopathic medicine, because it affects the kidney. The second day of taking my urine every morning, it did not hurt and I could move easily. I thank God for having me arrive at this treatment, remedy or means of healing. Due to this, I have been able to sleep very well and no longer have pains like back pain, fatigue and wounds from the fall.   My son was suffering from cough that he would get rid of with anything, plus he suffer from very strong colds. I gave him the urine and stopped coughing in three days and he feels very energetic."   Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  TUBERCULOSIS  A woman was diagnosed with tuberculosis (T.B.) after 9 months of chronic cold and coughing. Hundreds of injections, tablets, and capsules were administered by the doctors, but the blood and phlegm continued to cough up from her throat.   She went to a special urine therapy center to try a urine-cum-fasting treatment. Over the course of 4 months, she did 2 long fasts of 19 days and 21 days length. After discharge of phlegm, she got back into eating food step by step. She reports: “I am now fully recovered and have experienced lightness of body. Since my recovery, I have never tried any medicine even when I am occasionally assailed by my old ailment, which I repel by dietary precaution and nature cure (urine therapy).”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  TUBERCULOSIS 186  “Shri Harishchandra Desai from Baroda has informed that he could cure his brother's T.B. by this therapy. In addition he could get rid of his spectacles and piles too I He gained 15 lb. in one and a half month's experiment.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  TUBERCULOSIS  “Gopal Shah had T. B. for the last 4 years. Doctors despaired of his case. He started Urine Therapy on January 15th  and continued it for three months. During the time he never fasted but used to take cow's milk, bread, and vegetables without any condiments. He cured himself completely and could walk two miles easily with vigor.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS  “M.Gupta wrote that he was at death's door due to T.B. but experienced a wonderful change for the better in only three days with Urine Therapy.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS  Judith A. Muñoz: "I live in the Salto, Jalisco. I feel good. I was sick with tuberculosis. I was miserable. The circulation was also affected, colitis and hemorrhoids. I give thanks to God and the people who attended the conference and gave their testimony. I feel great. Thank you."  Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  TUBERCULOSIS OF BONE  “Miss K.  R. Shah, age seventeen, suffered from bone T.B. She was so weak that she could not get up from bed, nor was she able to turn  on one side or the other. She had a boil the size of a golf ball on her left thigh. Doctors forwarded the case to me. I gave her one dose of homeopathic medicine and opened the boil, and about a pound of pus was discharged from it. This discharge gave her some relief, and she had some sleep after a long period of sleeplessness. I gave her homeopathic medicine for some time but there 187 was no desired result, the disease could not be rooted out. It appeared that she would not survive, even for a week. I had to take recourse to Urine Therapy.  She was given to drink one ounce of her own urine three times a day. She was permitted to take a simple and easily digestible diet. She applied the pads of urine on the boil. On the third day, the discharge of pus ceased, and the patient showed some appetite. On the sixth day, she asked for food twice and began to sit without any support. On the ninth day, she insisted on the third meal also and began to walk in the courtyard of the house. On the twelfth day, she asked for more food, but it was not allowed. On the sixteenth day, drinking of urine was stopped. Now she was healthy and used to walking outside the courtyard. Thus in 15 days of Urine Therapy, Miss K.R. Shah regained her health. In  addition, she recovered her appearance, color, appetite, weight, and vigor for a normal girl her age."  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS OF LUNG  “A man from Bombay had an attack of T.B., but doctors could not diagnose it,and so a cavity developed on the left lung. The right side also showed some effect. Under x-ray, the trouble was traced out at last. He was admitted to the Sarodaya Hospital at Ghatkoper. On advice, he began Urine Therapy and cured himself completely by his own urine.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  TUBERCULOSIS OF LUNGS  Shri Ramjibhai was suffering from T.B. of lungs for the last four years. First coughing and fever started. He became weak. He felt slightly relieved for four months when he was taking some medicines but again cough and fever was aggravated. Some other doctor treated him and he again felt better for three-four months. But soon condition worsened and he was advised operation.  In the mean time Ramjibhai had to go to one of his relative's place. That relative had a great faith in nature cure and also in urine therapy. He encouraged him to try urine treatment before going for operation. He started this experiment with anointment of the body with urine. After a week Ramjibhai started drinking it. After fifteen days he met Shri Raojibhai Manibhai Patel and as encouraged to continue it and observe relevant precaution. He continued the treatment and after three months his condition was appreciably better. At the time of conference he had already continued the treatment for eleven months with much improvement. He was working and during this 188 period two-three times he was drenched in rain. But there was not adverse reaction. he was free from fever and cough. he hoped that further continuation of treatment will cure him completely.   Miracles of Urine Therapy by Morarji Desai  TUMOR OF ARMPIT  “Shrimati Mahima is a self-controlled lady. She had a very big tumour in her armpit. She cured her tumour by urine treatment in no time.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  TUMOR OF ARMPIT  “A middle-aged woman had a growth of some proportions situated near the armpit. Two surgeons advised an operation, but made a concession to her daughter's suggestion, that the patient might rest and take very light nourishment before the ordeal. The operation was accordingly arranged to take place in the hospital a week hence.   However, as the patient's daughter had derived much benefit herself from urine-fasting, she prevailed on her mother to try  the treatment in the interim. In five days, not a trace of the growth was left.   I may add that two days after the patient should have presented herself at the hospital for the operation, the family doctor called. He was indignant at having his advice and arrangements flouted, in this "independent" manner; but when having thoroughly examined the patient, he found her condition entirely normal, there was nothing more to be said. Subsequently, he called in his colleagues, who, to express it mildly, were extremely astonished, and being human, were not altogether pleased.”


 extended fasts who were unable
to walk for exercise, or so weak they were unable to even walk to the bathroom, but these people were critically ill when the y
started fasting, and desperately needed to conserve what little vital force they had  for healing.
    Most people who are not critically ill need to walk at least 200 yards twice a day, with assistance if necessary, if only to move
the lymph through the system. The lymphatic system is a network of ducts and nodes which are distributed th roughout the body,
with high concentrations of nodes in the neck, chest, arm pits, and groin. Its job is to carry waste products from the extrem ities to
the center of the body where they can be eliminated. The blood is circulated through the arteries and v eins in the body by the
contractions of the heart, but the lymphatic system does not have a pump. Lymphatic fluid is moved by the contractions of the
muscles, primarily those of the arms and legs. If the faster is too weak to move, massage and assisted mov ements are essential.
    Lymph nodes are also a part of our immune system and produce white blood cells to help control invading organisms. When the
lymph is overloaded with waste products the ducts and nodes swell, and until the source of the local irrit ation is removed, are
incapable of handling further debris. If left in this condition for years they become so hard they feel like rocks under the skin.
Lumps in the armpits or the groin are prime sites for the future development of a cancer. Fasting, mass age, and poultices will often
soften overloaded lymph nodes and coax them back into operation.
     The Stages Of Fasting
    The best way to understand what happens when we fast is to break up the process into six stages: preparation for the fast, lo ss of
hunger, acidosis, normalization, healing, and breaking the fast.
    A person that has consumed the typical American die t most of their life and whose life is not in immediate danger would be
very wise to gently prepare their body for the fast. Two weeks would be a minimum amount of time, and if the prospective fast er
wants an easier time of it, they should allow a month or  even two for preliminary housecleaning During this time, eliminate all
meat, fish, dairy products, eggs, coffee, black tea, salt, sugar, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and greasy foods. This de -addiction will
make the process of fasting much more pleasant, a nd is strongly recommended. However, eliminating all these harmful substances
is withdrawal from addictive substances and will not be easy for most. I have more to say about this later when I talk about
allergies and addictions.
    The second stage, psych ological hunger, usually is felt as an intense desire for food. This passes within three or four days of not
eating anything. Psychological hunger usually begins with the first missed meal. If the faster seems to be losing their resol ve, I
have them drink unlimited quantities of good -tasting herb teas. Salt -free broths made from meatless instant powder (obtainable at
the health food store) can also fend off the desire to eat until the stage of hunger has passed.
    Acidosis, the third stage, usually begins  a couple of days after the last meal and lasts about one week. During acidosis the body
vigorously throws off acid waste products. Most people starting a fast begin with an overly acid blood pH from the typical
American diet that contains a predominance o f acid -forming foods. Switching over to burning fat for fuel triggers the release of
even more acidic substances. Acidosis is usually accompanied by fatigue, blurred vision, and possibly dizziness. The breath s mells
very bad, the tongue is coated with bad -tasting dryish mucus, and the urine may be concentrated and foul unless a good deal of
water is taken daily. Two to three quarts a day is a reasonable amount.
    Mild states of acidosis are a common occurrence. While sleeping after the last meal of the da y is digested bodies normally work
very hard trying to detoxify from yesterday’s abuses. So people routinely awaken in a state of acidosis. Their tongue is coat ed,
their breath foul and they feel poorly. They end their brief overnight fast with breakfast, bringing the detoxification process to a
screeching halt and feel much better. Many people think they awaken hungry and don’t feel well until they eat. They confuse
acidosis with hunger when most have never experienced real hunger in their entire lives. If  you typically awaken in acidosis, you
are being given a strong sign by your body that it would like to continue fasting far beyond breakfast. In fact, it probably would
enjoy fasting long beyond the end of acidosis.
    Most fasters feel much more comfort able by the end of the first seven to ten days, when they enter the normalization phase; here
the acidic blood chemistry is gradually corrected. This sets the stage for serious healing of body tissues and organs. Normal ization
may take one or two more week s depending on how badly the body was out of balance. As the blood chemistry steadily
approaches perfection, the faster usually feels an increasing sense of well -being, broken by short spells of discomfort that are
usually healing crises or retracings.
    The next stage, accelerated healing, can take one or many weeks more, again depending on how badly the body has been
damaged. Healing proceeds rapidly after the blood chemistry has been stabilized, the person is usually in a state of profound  rest
and th e maximum amount of vital force can be directed toward repair and regeneration of tissues. This is a miraculous time when
tumors are metabolized as food for the body, when arthritic deposits dissolve, when scar tissues tend to disappear, when dama ged
organ s regain lost function (if they can). Seriously ill people who never fast long enough to get into this stage (usually it take s
about ten days to two weeks of water fasting to seriously begin healing) never find out what fasting can really do for them.
    Breaking the fast is equally or more important a stage than the fast itself. It is the most dangerous time in the entire fast. If you
stop fasting prematurely, that is, before the body has completed detoxification and healing, expect the body to reject foo d when
you try to make it eat, even if you introduce foods very gradually. The faster, the spiritual being running the body, may hav e
become bored and want some action, but the faster’s body hasn’t finished. The body wants to continue healing.
    By reje ction, I mean that food may not digest, may feel like a stone in your stomach, make you feel terrible. If that happens and
if, despite that clear signal you refuse to return to fasting, you should go on a juice diet, take as little as possible, sip  it slow ly
(almost chew it) and stay on juice until you find yourself digesting it easily. Then and only then, reintroduce a little soli d raw food
like a green salad.
    Weaning yourself back on to food should last just as long as the fast. Your first tentative meals should be dilute, raw juices.
After several days of slowly building up to solid raw fruit, small amounts of raw vegetable foods should be added. If it has been a
long fast, say over three weeks, this reintroduction should be done gingerly over a few weeks. If this stage is poorly managed or
ignored you may become acutely ill, and for someone who started fasting while dangerously ill, loss of self control and impul sive
eating could prove fatal. Even for those fasting to cure non -life-threatening illnes ses it is pointless to go through the effort and
discipline of a long fast without carefully establishing a correct diet after the fast ends, or the effort will have largely been wasted.

Foods For Monodiet, Juice or Broth Fastin g
 zucchini, garli c, onion, green beans, kale, celery, beet greens and root, cabbage, carrot, wheat grass juice, alfalfa
juice, barley green juice, parsley juice, lemon/lime juice, grapefruit juice, apples (not juice, too sweet), diluted
orange juice, diluted grape juice

Less-Rigorous -Than -Water Fasts
    There are gradations of fasting measures ranging from rigorous to relatively casual. Water fasting is the most rapid and effe ctive
one. Other methods have been created by grasping the underlying truth of fasting, namely w henever the digestive effort can be
reduced, by whatever degree, whenever the formation of the toxins of misdigestion can be reduced or prevented, to that extent  the
body can divert energy to the healing process. Thus comes about assorted famous and someti mes notorious monodiet semi -fasts
like the grape cure where the faster eats only grapes for a month or so, or the lemon cure, where the juice of one or more le mons is
added to water and nothing else is consumed for weeks on end. Here I should also mention the "lemon juice/cayenne pepper/maple
syrup cure," the various green drink cures using spirulina, chlorella, barley green or wheat grass, and the famous Bieler bro ths–
vegetable soups made of overcooked green beans or zucchini.
    I do not believe that mo nodiets work because of some magical property of a particular food used. They work because they are
semi -fasts and may be


 become available as a result of his model.
I  have used Dr. Kelley's Metabolic Medicine program for several years and the
results, I  can assure you, are most gratifying.
Douglas M. Baird, D.O.
Palm Beach, F L
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Dr. Sanford C. Frumker (Doctor of Dentistry)
As a periodontist, I  soon became convinced that to treat those things in the mouth
that cause gum disease is only partial treatment. Based on a great deal of evidence, I
was convinced that if the body of the patient was well nourished and the machinery
in the mouth was working properly the patient w ill not have gum tissue breakdown.
As a result of this thinking over many years, I  have taken several nutrition courses.
Thanks to time spent with Dr. Roger Williams, and a great deal of reading and
studying, I  had established specific criteria for a nutritional program. With no
exception, (and that was not a program I  could easily use in my practice) none of the
nutrition courses satisfied my criteria.
International Health Institute's (Dr. Kelley's) program was the first program I  saw
that at least on paper appeared both to be practical and to fill my requirements.
However, since I  had been led down umpteen primrose paths by other "nutrition"
programs, I  was very skeptical of the Metabolic Medicine program.
When, with great skepticism, I  started my own Metabolic Medicine program, I  felt I
was in excellent health. I  had only one health problem that I  was aware of and that
was that I  had nasal polyps, which were caused by allergies.
The polyps were particularly bad in winter. I  could not breathe through my nose at
all. So after having the polyps surgically removed I  was referred to an allergist. The
allergist found I  was allergic to dust and all dairy products. I  already knew about the
allergy to the dairy products because after a heavy dairy meal, my nose would
completely close due to the swelling of the polyps.
To control the growth of the polyps, the allergist recommended weekly "allergy
shots." For two years, they worked well and I  could breathe fairly well through my
nose in the winter. During the third and fourth years, the allergy shots did not work as
well and I  had trouble breathing through my nose. During the fifth and sixth years,
the allergy shots did not work at all. I  couldn't breathe through my nose at all in the
winter and very little in the summer. My allergist now informed me the only thing that
would help me was cortisone injections. Knowing the undesirable effects of
cortisone, I  refused.
Things got bad enough that finally I  had one cortisone injection.
When I  began my Metabolic Medicine program, I  informed Dr. Kelley of my
allergy to dairy products and asked him if anything could be done to help. To my
surprise, Dr. Kelley said he was not at all interested in my specific allergies, but he
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was interested in getting the body working right so I  would not be allergic to
anything. I  was very doubtful of Dr. Kelley and the entire program at that time.
When I  filled out my Nutritional Evaluation Survey, I  discovered many health
normalities that I  never knew existed. Filling out my survey, indeed, was an
experience in self-discovery and understanding. If the information and the claims for
what it indicated were correct, this was the most valuable physical examination and
insight into my inner workings I  had ever experienced. However, I  had grave
reservations as to the truth of diagnosis made from this information and the blood test
and urinalysis.
Therefore, I  went into the program not only skeptical, but almost with a chip on my
shoulder. Based on past experiences, I  felt sure I  was wasting my time and money.
I  have now been on the program for several years. Even during the first winter, with
no allergy shots, no cortisone (and no allergist), my nose was open all winter. I  could
breathe through my nose!
Being suspicious, I  could not give the Metabolic Medicine program full credit for
my feeling so good. So I  went back to my Metabolic Medicine's Self-Test book and
compared all the signs and symptoms with where they are now. By checking these
signs and symptoms, I  had an objective way of seeing what this program was doing to
my internal machinery!
To put it mildly, the Metabolic Medicine program has been a great success for me.
My allergies are under control. I  have never felt better. In addition, with the
Metabolic Medicine's Self-Test book, I  have been able to see objectively what is
happening with me. With these objective observations of myself, with certainty, at
least for me, the program is an unqualified huge success.
Now that I  am convinced, I  am offering this program to all of my dental patients. I
know it does the job. I  know it is what we need to get our internal machinery to do
the job.
Sanford C. Frumker, D.D.S.
Cleveland, OH
Dr. Lloyd H. Price (Doctor of Optometry)
My training as an optometrist started long before I  entered Northwest Illinois Optical
College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1922.
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As a farm boy, I  had the opportunity to observe the habits of animals, both
domesticated and wild, and in those days mankind was living closer to nature and
using none of today's processed foods. I  am 84 years young, and I  see that it's quite
difficult for this present generation to realize how the pioneers existed and thrived
with very few fatal degenerative illnesses such as cancer.
In any "health" profession, the practitioner has a good opportunity to observe the
results obtained by the various modalities of treating the physical defects of his or her
patients. It is estimated that 85% of our learning is acquired through our eyes.
When I  got out of college and started to practice my profession of fitting glasses, I
soon realized that there must be an underlying cause of so much myopia
(nearsightedness), cataracts, glaucoma, etc. As I  gave the subject more study, it was
clear to me that man was creating most of his eye problems by incorrect diet and
poor choice of foods.
For this reason, I  took several courses in naturopathy and studied and read
everything I  could find in health books and magazines that dealt with the subject.
Many of my patients are so nearsighted that they are unable to see 20/20 on the
eye chart. It is quite common for them to blame watching television and thus avoid
the real cause, which is faulty diet and junk foods. Through the science of iridology, it
is quite easy to observe unhealthy body conditions as well as deposits of drugs.
I  always try to emphasize basic health principles such as the importance of proper
diet and tell my patients to avoid sugar, soft drinks and refined foods. Some will listen
and, if they do, in a very short time their eyesight will improve. I  have even had cases
where I  was then able to reduce the strength of the lenses.
One patient, aged 75, had cataracts. I  sent her to an Ophthalmologist, and he told her
she would have to have surgery in three months. I  told her of Dr. Kelley's nutritional
program and my wife, who is one of Dr. Kelley's Technicians, had her evaluated. She
followed the program and when she returned to the Ophthalmologist, he told her she
would never have to have the surgery.
Another patient quite suddenly lost 70% of her eyesight. She went on Dr. Kelley's
nutritional program and in a matter of six weeks her eyesight returned.
When Dr. Kelley says we have been starving for 30 years, I  certainly agree for I  am in
a position to observe this.
Dr. Kelley is no less than 75 years ahead of his time. Although this book deals
primarily with cancer, that is by no means the limit to his concepts and abilities. I
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have seen many of the patients with other degenerative disease respond equally as
well as the cancer patients.
Lloyd H. Price, O.D.
Des Moines, IA
Dr. Jack O. Taylor (Doctor of Chiropractic)
I  had always held nutrition of some importance and often gave my patients rather
inconsistent advice about "improving your diet" or "why not try this vitamin for that
symptom?" After several years of dealing with sick people, some of whom I  knew
were on good diets, and some junk eaters, I  began to realize that we were healthy not
solely as a result of our intake, but instead, we were healthy or sick as a result of what
our bodies did with the intake. It was discouraging to suggest the same "balanced"
diet for several patients, getting entirely nowhere with many and having dramatic
positive responses from others. Searching through the available literature seemed to
add to my questions rather than provide answers.
Several years ago a very dear friend developed cancer and my wife was in to
accompany her to Dr. W illiam Donald Kelley.


 possess it, and it
serves no purpose that has anything to do with being a happy, ful-
filled person. It is an erroneous zone, a kind of psychological influ-
enza that incapacitates you just as a physical disease would.
Let’s define the term anger. As used in this chapter, it refers to an
immobilizing reaction, experienced when any expectancy
209is not met. It takes the form of rage, hostility, striking out at someone
or even glowering silence. It is not simple annoyance or irritation.
Once again the key word is immobility. Anger is immobilizing and
it is usually a result of wishing the world and the people in it were
different.
Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to
frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not.
In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever
you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are
angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.
There is no psychological reward for anger. As defined here, anger
is debilitating. In the physiological realm, it can produce hyperten-
sion, ulcers, rashes, heart palpitations, insomnia, fatigue and even
heart disease. In the psychological sense, anger breaks down love
relationships, interferes with communication, leads to guilt and de-
pression and generally just gets in your way. You may be skeptical,
since you’ve always heard that expressing your anger is healthier
than keeping it bottled up inside of you. Yes, the expression of anger
is indeed a healthier alternative than suppressing it. But there is an
even healthier stance—not having the anger at all. In this case you
won’t be confronted with the dilemma of whether to let it out or
keep it in.
Like all emotions, anger is the result of thinking. It is not something
that simply happens to you. When faced with circumstances that
are not going the way you would like them to, you tell yourself that
things shouldn’t be that way (frustration) and then you select a fa-
miliar angry response which serves a purpose. (See the payoff section
later in this chapter.) And as long as you think of anger as a part of
what it means to be a human being, you have a reason to accept it,
and avoid going to work on it.
By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive
ways—if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of
yourself as someone who can learn to think new210 / Your Erroneous Zonesthoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger
can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation,
and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue
to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it.
But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be
eliminated.
You may make a case for anger because it works in getting your
way. Well, take a closer look. If you mean that raising your voice or
looking upset will help you keep your two-year-old child from
playing in the street where she might get hurt, then raising your
voice is an excellent strategy. It only becomes anger when you are
genuinely upset, when you get flushed, and increase your heartbeat,
when you slam things around and are generally immobilized for
any period of time. By all means select personal strategies that will
reinforce appropriate behavior, but don’t take all of the internal hurt
that goes with it. You can learn to think like this: “This behavior she
is exhibiting is dangerous to her. I want to make her see that playing
in the street will not be tolerated. I’ll raise my voice to demonstrate
my strong feelings about it. But I won’t go around being mad.”
Consider a typical mother who cannot master this controlled dis-
play of anger. She is constantly upset about her children’s repetitious
bad behavior. It seems that the more upset she gets, the more they
misbehave. She punishes them, sends them to their room, screams
constantly and is almost always in a state of pique when dealing
with the kids. Her life as a mother is a battle. Loud voices are the
only thing she knows, and each evening she is an emotional wreck,
drained from a day on the battlefield.
So why don’t the kids behave when they know how upset Mommy
decides to be whenever they act up? Because the irony of anger is
that it never works in changing others; it only intensifies the other
person’s desire to control the angry person. Listen to the above
children, assuming they could give voice to their own rationale for
misbehaving.
“See what it takes to set Mommy off? All you have to do isFAREWELL TO ANGER  / 211say this, or do that, and you can get control over her and send her
into one of her fits. You may have to stay in your room for a short
while, but look at what you get! Complete emotional domination
over her for such a low price. Since we have so little power over her,
let’s do this some more and watch her go bananas over our behavi-
or.”
Anger, when used in any relationship, will almost always encour-
age the other person to continue to act as he has been. While the
provoker may act scared, he also knows that he can set the other
person off whenever he wants, and therefore exercise the same kind
of vindictive authority as the angry individual thinks he has.
Whenever you select anger as a response to someone else’s beha-
vior, you are withholding from that person the right to be what he
chooses. Inside your head is the neurotic sentence, “Why can’t you
be more like me? Then I would like you now, instead of being angry.”
But others will never be the way you want them to be, all of the time.
Much of the time people and things will not go the way you would
like them to go. That’s the way the world is. And the likelihood of
it changing is zero. So, every time you choose anger when you run
into someone or something you don’t like, you are deciding to be
hurt or in some way immobilized because of reality. Now that’s
really silly. Being upset about things that aren’t ever going to change.
Instead of choosing anger, you can begin to think of others as having
a right to be different from what you’d prefer. You may not like it,
but you don’t have to be angry about it. Anger will only encourage
them to continue as they are, and will bring about all of the physical
stress and mental torture described above. The choice is really yours.
Anger or new sentences about things that will help you to eliminate
the need for the anger.
Perhaps you see yourself in the opposite camp, that is, someone
who has a great deal of anger, but has never had the courage to ex-
press it. You keep it in and never say a thing,212 / Your Erroneous Zonesbuilding yourself up for those painful ulcers, and living with a lot
of present-moment anxiety. But this is not the opposite of the indi-
vidual who rants and rages. You have the same sentences in your
head that people and things should be the way you want them to
be. If they were, you reason, you wouldn’t feel anger. This is faulty
logic, and eradicating it is the secret to getting rid of your tension.
While you will want to learn to express pent-up anger instead of
storing it up, the ultimate goal is to learn to think in new ways that
will not create the anger. Such internal thoughts as: “If he wants to
be a fool, I’m not going to choose to be upset. He, not me, owns his
dumb behavior” or “Things aren’t going the way I think they should.
While I don’t like it, I’m not going to immobilize myself.”
Learning to express the anger with courageous kinds of new be-
haviors that have been discussed throughout this book is your first
step. Then, thinking in new ways that will help you to shift from
the external to the internal side of the mental health ledger, refusing
to own anyone else’s behavior is the ultimate step. You can learn
not to give other people’s behavior and ideas the power to upset
you. By thinking highly of yourself and refusing to let others control
you, you won’t hurt yourself with present-moment anger.
Having a Sense of Humor
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time.
Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power
to choose either.
Laughter is the sunshine of the soul. And without sunshine
nothing can live or grow. As Winston Churchill put it,
It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in
the world unless you understand the most amusing.FAREWELL TO ANGER  / 213You may take life too seriously. Perhaps the single most outstand-
ing characteristic of healthy people is their unhostile sense of humor.
Helping others choose to laugh, and learning to stand back and ob-
serve the incongruity of almost every life situation is an excellent
remedy for anger.
In the scheme of things, what you do and whether you are angry
or not will have all the impact of another glass of water being thrown
over Niagara Falls. Whether you choose laughter or anger will not
matter much—except that


 body and so it must be. f, • all ti d g1ven up or
f m_es an as mother Gita says one must be controlled in all sorts o eatmg.
Fast : Fasting Js a part of urine therapy but most of the patients
are not rea~y to go on pure fast on water and so they cannot take
~j'~:~~antage ~f th_is unique therapy. So there is found a middle way
.. g on mtlk m least quota possible or on fruit juices 'in sm~ll
q~~-tltl~s so that one can sustain himself and take full advantage
o ~~ t erapy. One should fast on pure water for as many day.
one _can pull on and then go on liquid fast for as many da : ::.
. po~~lbl~ so that one can reap the full fruits of this therapy. Mil~ fast
or •qUt~ fa~t c~n ~ prolonged for as many days as p~ssible and.
along With It the ~atlent should resort to this therapy and can take
~beulf advantage of 1t. We have experimented on this and found it to ·
very useful.
. Go~d Mastication or Chewing : As simple and balanced. food
ISh the. ftrst.. must, So is the second must of good mastication or food
c ewmg. More chewed the better" is the must for all foods A
~:~It of ch:wing t~e minutely powdered food is easily dige~ti~le~
~ chewmg reqwres less_food as it can provide full nutrition tb the body. Sri Morarjibhai has well said that there are no teeth in
the belley and sl)) chewing in the mouth, the entry of the digestive
system, is the great must. Homeophathy is very effective because
it uses minutely powdered drugs. More pondered the medicine,
more effective it is. This is so in the case of food also, more
masticated the food, better digestion and nutrition is there in the
body. So mastication anc!. chewing well is a great must. This simple
concept is more neglected than observed and so it is considered a
must for au:
Drinks :Most of men's other slavery after the tongue slavery is
the slavery ofready made costly and injurious drinks?f all sorts.
Man. in general has already become the slaue tea and coffee. All
patients andurine therapy patients should have to give up all these
drinks if they.have to keep good health, before and after the
recovery. The best drink is pure water and then come useful drinks
like coconut water, and other fruit juices. If one has not lost the real
taste of the tongue, one can very well enjoy the real taste of pure
water and fruit juices. One has to give up too much of salt and sugar
as they are injurious. Wine and other drugs are creators of toxins
and affect even the brain cells and so they must be given up· for ever
and for ever. So pure drinks are the must and at no cost is should
~:evaded.
Meat : The next bar is on meat. It is a must as it is a great cause
of toxins and mental perversity. The reason for this is very simple.
No animal either a cow or a goat or sheep, never wantto die and
when the butcher's knife is ori its throat, the whole system of the
animal revolts and it is full of negative reactions like fear, anger,
violence and negative instincts. SO the dead body of animal's every
eeH becomes poisonous and meat is full of poison. Meat eater does
n11t only eat meet but eats also the poisons. The meat eaters are more
~t~Jo;lent that the vegetarians. Most of the humanity is still meat-eater
IIIIV!I~ai:l·there is violence all round the world in one form or the other.
lllhii!IJ Is why giving of meet is a must for all and for all times.
' t.m ;;·H. ·
11 dr:fctJNteco : Tolstoy, the great Russian thinker says rightly that
tobacc-G> In any form is worse then wine. He has seen this factual
truth with his on eyes during. his war career as a commander. Tobacco is itself a poison and its use in any form poisons the whole
body system. Tolstoy says that man with tobacco hibit can kill men
easily then a drunked because tobacco a is more poisonous than
wine-Tobacco affect not only blood but ruins the nervous?· system
and makes man's mind fully pervious. Tobacco _i.s so rampant all
over the world that any fickle minded man can easily be a victim
of it. So gi\ling up of tobacco in any form is a must for all times and
for all sections of society. No man habitual of tobacco can ever be
truly healthy. This avoidance of tobacco is a must of all musts.
Sex: Sexuality is rampant all over the world after Frued's theory
of sex was propagated everywhere. Bhagawan Das, a great
theosophist has rightly said that Frued's ·theory of sex and its
propagation has done more harm than the two so-called world wars.
Sex in a way is a natural phenomenon but nowa-days it is made
a game on T.V., novels and stories and cinemas. This has made sex
very common among all sorts of men and women and that is the
great cause of general debility among men and women now-a-days.
Sex has been enhanced by the use of double bed which is really
a disease bed and sometimes it becomes a deathbed. People do not
understood sex properly. This a veiy serious thing. By over sex, one
loses life force along with wasting semen which is soul of human
life. Control of sex_is a must for,all and it is more so for all patients.
. If one indulges in sex after recovery, one again becomes sick. So
control of sex is great must for all.
Observation of la~s : In Ayurveda, it is emphatically laid down
that if strict ob5ervation of rules of healthy life is not done, what is
the use of medicine. If these laws are observed, there is no need
of medicines. Such is the great emphasis on the observation of the
laws of healthy life. Why it is so? It is so because as vedanta, Geeta ·
and Bible say that tansgression of laws of life is sin and their pro
per observation is a great merit. This is so because laws of life is
the active form of God Himself. If these laws are broken, God feels
insulted and insulated God cannot behelpful at all. There is great.
joy in the observation of laws of life and such a joy is divine and
God too is not far from such a divine joy. so observance of all laws
of righteous life is a divine must...
Prayer : Pr.1~·er is the must of all musts a divine must, a
. ~pontaneous must ad without it all cures are secontiary. Pr(!yerwith
a dean life, with pure character and enjoined with the observation·
of a11·taws of sound and healthy l!fe work wonders and this is the
universal experience of all sa ins. One may ask why should one pray
God. Is God a despot who r~quires our flattery to be pleased? l().t
is not so at all True Prayer means finding out one's own divine' self
. because essenti<illy man is God's incarnation. He is so engrossed
in worldly things like money, sex and other base enjoyments that
he forgets his own divine self and becomes a pethy mortal man. So
he must pray in such a way that he can find his own Divine self
who is all heaith, wealth and wisdom. So such a_ prayer is the greatest
Divine must and is the musts of all must the Divine Fundamental
must.
. Exercise : Most of the people are so lazy in doing physical
exercise, that they never care for any exercise and that is why they
suffer small or big ailments. It is sheer laziness and carelessness on
the part of such people that they try to avoid physical work. lt. is
a mental attitude· of the most of the people that exercise is only
meant for sportsmen only or only for the athlete$. Really speaking
exercise is physical prayer to keep fit the body. It keeps all systems
of the body quite fit and s_o every one' should do exercise for the
sake health. It is a must for all except those who do manual work
for earning their bread. Yogcic Asiansand calesthenics along with
few simple pranayam Keep fit the whole bodY. and mind too. It is
a last must but not the least and so form a child to an old man, every
·body should to exercise according to one's qw11 need and fitness.
New Cases
Urine therapy is so much propagated· not only in Gujarat but in
India and abroad that many books are already written on this very·
Therapy. In Gujarat, Ravajibhai made the start and his noble work
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pour a very little into a flat‐bottomed  bowl ‐place the hands  in the bowl
so as to get just sufficient  of the fluid on the palms, and  then start the
rubbing till 'he hands are dry. Pour a little more  urine into the bowl, and
repeat the process.  By dint of taking only a little at a time on one's
hands, none of the urine drops  on to the floor.
As to compresses,  from all that has already been written in this  book
when relating case‐ histories, how and  when to apply them will have
become obvious. However,  it will do no harm to repeat myself. Cloths
soaked in urine should be placed over the local  site of the trouble, and
kept moist  by adding more  urine when required. They  should be
applied wherever  there  are boils, bums, wounds, lumps, swellings,  or
other  aberations.  Naturally,  the body will not be rubbed at the actual
place where  a compress  is required. In no circumstances  should
suspicious  lumps be rubbed  or the tissues in the near vicinity.
I have already mentioned  briefly that the most  important  parts to rub
are the neck, face, head and  feet. But that does not mean to say that
the whole body should not be rubbed  as well.  Unless  the  malady
requires a compress  at one or other  site, this  is an essential  part of
urine‐therapy  in order to supply nourishment  to the patient during a
urine‐fast. Apart from that, urine is the most wonderful  skin‐food  that
exists;  as may  be seen from the hands of those who do the rubbings.   108
 It has been suggested  by sceptics that a dry rub or a rut with plain cold
water would be equally effective.  But  the  answer is an emphatic
negative. I have tried  both. Even urine‐fasts  without  the urine rubbings
are attended  with palpitations,  just as are fasts  on plain water only. I
grant that the rubbing is both excellent exercise and  acts as excellent
massage,  but without the urine it does not and  cannot rebuild  wasted
tissues. Only in very bad cases where  the patient is too weak and
emaciated  to stand  it, have I dispensed  with the rubbings,  in which  o.se
the urine can be absorbed  via the skin  by means of the urine packs.
I will now give a case‐ history to show that continued  poulticing  with
any other  substance,  however  apparently  harmless,  can prove highly
strength‐sapping to the patient as well  as quite unproductive  of a cure.
 Gentleman,  well  over 50. Had  been an enthusiastic  follower of what
may  be called a "caterpillar  diet" It consisted  of one meal a day, chiefly
of wholemeal  bread, salads, fresh  fruits, fresh  milk, nuts  and honey. He
had  by this  means hoped  to reduce  his "corporation"  and  to cure  an
arthiritic and  dropsical  condition  and  other  troubles as well‐ chronic
costiveness  being one; for which  he resorted to salts  and high  enemata.
When he finally sent for me, he had  been in the doctor's hands  for
some time,  and  was in such a state  that he had  to have two nurses.
Although now taking two meals and four snacks a day,  he was  under  10
stone, very weak,  bedfast, suffering from bed‐sores, and  spending half
the day and most  of the night coughing up phlegm and ropy mucus. But
what I would draw  special  attention  to here, was the state of his arm.
About  two  years previously  a running sore had  manifested  itself, to
which  poultices had  been applied. In spite of this (or in my opinion
largely  because of it) he now had  five discharging  sores the poulticing  109
 having been continued  all that time (two  years). I at once  suggested
that all this  poulticing  was responsible  more  than any other  factor for
his loss of strength, in that the constant  "draining"  of nourishment  via
his arm was starving both his limb and  his torso.  The upshot was,
though the nurse protested,  that the poulticing  ceased,  and the arm
was simply bound in plain unmedicated  rag, and  not touched  for a
week. His meals were regulated  to two a day,  with no snacks, and  only
plain cool water to drink. All medicines  (they had  merely  upset his
digestion)  were discarded.  At the end of a week, the plain bandages
were removed for inspection,  but  although  the sores were still
suppurating,  there  was evidence  to suggest that the bulk  of the matter
had been asorbed by the heat of the blood  via the pores of th skin.  In a
month, even though there  was still a little discharge,  the arm was
usable, and the patient could write letters for the first  time in years.
Without  massage or any remedial local  measures  whatever,  he had
gained  14 lbs. in weight. The most  marked changes showerd in his face,
both arms, chest, shoulders  and buttocks.  I may  add, by the way,  that I
healed his bed‐sores with nothing more  "scientific"  than my own saliva.
The chief point to note in this  case, however,  is that as soon  as the
medicated  poultices  were stopped, the patient put on more  flesh
though he was taking less food. He was subsequently