  restored to full
health by urine‐therapy  end a well‐ balanced diet, not based on the
theories of the late ArnoId  Ehret and Co.!
And now to returnn to the rationale of rubbing, and  to supply some
details  of my own case  which  have not yet been mentioned.
During my first fast  on urine and water,  I was intrigued,  though not
alarmed, to notice the palpitation;  of my heart, which  at times were so 110
 pronounced  that I almost felt I had  two hearts, instead of one. I
ascribed  this, contrary to medical assumptions,  to the theory  that my
heart was  not getting d sufficient  supply of blood  to pulsate upon and
was therefore  accelerated  somewhat  like a watch when the controlling
hair‐spring is broken or out of order. It was then that once  again I got
an idea from the Bible;  this time from  the New  Testament:  for I read
"...when  thou fastest, anoint thy head and  wash thy face  (Matthew  VI,
17.) I am fully aware that the interpretation  I put on this injunction  may
seem farfetched,  but as I have said, it none the less gave me an idea,
and  having read it, proceeded  to rub my head, face, neck and  other
parts of my body with urine,  and the palpitations  ceased. Moreover,  by
this method, I have found it possible to fast ‐if not too ill to start with‐
without  interrupting  one's daily tasks.  Patients  with skin diseases, for
example, have fasted, carried on their work, and  to those not in the
know, have not seemed to be fasting at all. As for myself, I can
undertake  a fast if so minded  to encourage  others, and  not even a
doctor with his impressive  instruments  can detect from my heart, etc.,
that I am abstaining  from food. This, however,  would soon  become
apparent  if I attempted  to fast without the urine‐rubbings.
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 CHAPTER  XVIII.
WRONG. FEEDING  THE PRIME CAUSE OF DISEASES

In the little book  entitled Britain's Health, prepared by S. Mervyn
Herbert, we read the following  relative to nutrition:  "Recent scientific
investigations  indicate that it is all‐important  in national health, and
that the provision  of adequate  nourishment  for every man, woman  and
child in the community  should go hand in hand with the most
elementary  environmental  services,  such as sanitation,  housing and
'the provision  of pure water...  Vitamins are now a commonplace,  and
from their study has developed  a new  conception  of food  values."
It has been shown that the incidence  of tuberculosis  realised that they
may  eat as much as they  can and  still be suffering from  malnutrition  if
the food they  choose lacks  the important  protective  elements.  Nearly
everywhere  in the  tropics  can be found appalling cases of scurvy,
pellagra or beri‐beri which  have developed  not from  star:'ation  but
from lack of vitamins  or minerals."  (I should have said and instead  of or).
It has been known  that the incidence  of tuberculosis  rose in all the
countries  which  had suffered  from food shortage during the Great War
(1914‐1918).
"The incidence  of malnutrition  in Britain  cannot be described  with
accuracy,  but  authorities  on diet are agreed that it is sufficiently
extensive  to constitute  the most  serious danger to health at the present
time... Lack of money is unquestionably  responsible  for a large  part of
malnutrition,  but a good deal is due to the ignorance  which  results in
certain foods  of low nutritive  value being consumed  in excess."  112
 Precisely.  All of which  can be reduced to one sentence:  "The prime
cause of disease is the absence of substances  which should be in the
body and the presence of substances  which  should not be in the body.  "
(Doctors, Disease and Health, by Cyril  Scott.) The gist of it iras been put.
even more  tersely  by Major  C. Fraser Mackenzie,  C.I.E., viz.: "We are
made of what we eat, so if many organ becomes diseased,  it generally
means the food was wrong."  Reduced to even still further conciseness:
The cause of disease is an ill‐balanced diet.
Yet, provided  this is kept in mind, it is an unwise procedure  to lay down
any specific rules anent what precise foods  people should or should not
eat, for climate,  environment  and  personal "idiosyncrasies"  have to be
taken into account. The Eskimos  cannot be expected to live on the
same aliments as the Brazilians,  for example. As to personal
idiosyncrasies,  they are numerous  and some of them very peculiar.  The
case  could be mentioned  of a man  to whom fish is so violent a poison
that even if he licks  a postage  stamp  (the sticky  side contains fish‐glue)
his whole face  swells  up to such an extent that he cannot see out of his
eyes. There  are also persons to whom eggs in any form whatsoever  are
poison. Yet sometimes  such persons grow out of these peculiarities.
The writer knows of a woman  who could not touch  an egg, whether by
itself  or in a pudding or cake, until she had turned 70, and then, strange
to say,  eggs ceased t o disagree with her.
Rabid vegetarians,  as


, and the work of defense
mechanisms improves so strongly that even the
most severe infections subside rather fast. The
microbes are simply consumed by the body.
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gets angry, manifests pride or boasts about fast-
ing.

10.16. What to do if menstruation occu rs
during a dry fasting practice?
Continue with the fasting practice, without
problems; in fact, the occurence of the period is
a sign of good functioning of the organism. It is
possible to get washed, taking care, however, to
prevent any water from entering the mouth.

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fast?

11.1. Before fasting
After you've cleansed your intestines and liver
and performed a water  fast, you may proceed
with dry fasting. One of the crucial things that
allow dry fasting to go well is  the consumption
of polyunsaturated fatty acids prior to fasting.
During the preparation for winter and summer
hibernation, an important characteristic of the
animals' diet is an enhanced consumption of
fatty acids, which increase the organism's ro-
bustness  to prolonged dry fasting. The term 'fats'
denoted substances that contain glycerin and
fatty acids, connected by etheric bonds. In more
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tain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They are di-
vided into two major groups according to the de-
gree of fatty acid saturation – solid fats (lard, an-
imal fat, butter), which contain saturated fats,
and liquid fats (sunflower, olive, nut, seed oils,
etc.), which mostly contain polyunsaturated
fatty acids. Scientists have been long aware that
during hibernation, particularly in the winter,
the water in all of the examined animals' blood
was replaced with glycerin. It's a polyatomic al-
cohol produced by the body by oxidizing fatty
acids as a required element. It does not dry out,
does not freeze when chilled, does not expand or
contract during temperature variations; basi-
cally, it preserves all of the body's liquid ele-
ments, wherever they are – in the blood, in the
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blood, freezing when c hilled and expanding, or
increasing in volume, would mechanically rip
these cells and blood vessels to pieces. Of course,
a person does not hibernate when dry fasting,
but there are many similar physiological mecha-
nisms that resemble those of hibernating a ni-
mals.

11.2. Essential benefits of fatty acids con-
tained in fish
The chief characteristic of fish oil fatty acids is
the fact that they participate in the synthesis of
energy by the body. Omega -2 is a structural sub-
stance of the brain and the retina of the eye, and
is required for normal brain activity, since it pro-
vides a fast input of energy that assists in impulse
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to another. It helps us think better, retain infor-
mation in memory and retrieve it when re-
quired. These fatty acids, as they bond to oxygen
molecules in the body, transport the electrons
and provide the body with energy for an entire
range of chemical reactions. There is a number
of practical observations that prove that con-
sumption of food rich in fish oil promotes the
relief of general fatigue, clears up thou ghts and
brain activity, increases physical activity.
Omega -3 fatty acids increase human energy en-
durance and activity, and also improve concen-
tration and memory to the same degree. The
statement that fish is the food of the genius is, in
fact, rather scientific, since the main bonds
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acids, which contain docosahexaenoic acid.

11.3. The importance of fish oil fatty acids in
sustaining health and vessel health
Omega -3 fatty acids, which fish oil is rich in,
thin the blood, lower the risk of blood thickening
and of formation of cholesterol plaques and
blood clots. The speed at which blood moves
through a healthy person's vessels is  60 km/hr,
blood's normal viscosity, its thickness, amount
and speed of flow throu gh the vessels are the
most important health indicators.
The greatest danger for our organism is the in-
creased blood coagulation and lowered viscosity
of blood in the vessels (although blood
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acids don't allow the thrombocytes (blood cells
that coal thickening and coagulation of blood
during bleeding) in the blood to adhere to each
other, thus thinning the blood and increasing its
flow speed.
An increase of thrombocyte count in the blood
and the lowering of blood viscosity is dangerous
for the functioning of all vital organs. In this
case, the heart, the brain, vision and the kidneys
suffer from insufficient oxygen intake, and these
organs' functioning is impeded by insufficient
blood delivery, which may, wit h time, lead to a
full loss of all vital functions by these organs.
For instance, due to increased blood coagula-
tion, an artery may slowly fill with stagnant
blood, and severe illness may develop in the
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as an infarction, a vascular accident, etc.
Omega -3 fatty acids play an important role in
the body's production of hemoglobin molecules,
which are responsible for transporting oxygen in
erythrocytes, participate in controlling the nutri-
tional elements that pass through the cell mem-
brane, and lower the negative effect of the dan-
gerous fats on the organism.
Recent medical research clearly testifies to the
efficiency of Omega -3 fatty acids in not only
fighting heart disease and preventing infarc-
tions, but in res olution of problems linked to bad
mood, frayed nerves, postpartum depression,
menopause symptoms, psychological crisis, and
other reasons that lead to depression.

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daily before meals. It is also advisable:
• Rapeseed, sunflower, corn, soybean, walnut
oil - 1 tablespoon of any oil from this list once
daily;
• Sunflower, sesame, poppy, pumpkin seeds,
walnuts;
• Wheat sprouts;
• Many other plant and animal products that
contain these acids in various degrees of con-
centration: flax oil, soybean oil - 1 tablespoon
once daily.
• Flax seeds and walnuts
• Fish and seafood
• Soybeans
• Dark green leafy vegetables

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of Omega-3 fats, use the following advice:
• Use rapeseed, sesame, nut or at least olive oil
as salad dressing.
• Regularly consume 100 -150g. of fatty and
semi -fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, herring,
sardines, trout, tuna, etc.) 3 -4 times a week. It's
best to choose fresh rather than frozen fish, as
well as fish caught in th e wild, rather than one
that was grown at a fish farm, since the amount
of Omega -3 fatty acids in fish depends on the
type of the food it consumes, and fish is fed
mostly flour and compound feed, rather than
plankton.
Curing and salting leads to a loss of a certain
part of Omega -3 fatty acids, up to 50% are lost if
the fish is


/10/10  in this fashion.
Of course, if you really overdo it on fatty foods, you will notice it right awa y and likely again the next morning. The tiredness,
foul mouth, slowed digestion and elimination, and other sensations are too pron ounced to ignore. They are great motivating factors
to bring you right back to the joys of the straight and narrow 80/10/10.
How Many Calories?
In the beginning, most people do not eat enough raw foods to obtain their necessa ry daily calories, because they are used to
eating concentrated cooked foods. As I described in Chapter 10, you will have to ea t a much  larger volume of whole fresh fruits
and vegetables to obtain the same number of calories that you would from cooked m eats and starches, because raw fruits and
vegetables are not as calorically dense. They contain a large amoun t of water and fiber—essential nutrients to be sure, but these t wo
items add a great deal of volume to our food.
Another obstacle most people must overcome in order to succeed with the 80/10/10  raw diet, is the fear of consuming fruit
for the major portion of their calories. In general, fruits are considera bly higher in calories than vegetables and leafy greens. So it
makes sense that most of the raw food diet be made up of fruit, complemented by lar ge salads to provide essential minerals such as
sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.
Determining caloric needs is not an exact science. There is room for a  fair amount of flexibility, especially on a day-to-day
basis. Averaged over a year’s time, we will likely find that peopl e who maintain their weight consume a predictable range of calori es
based upon their size, muscularity, and activity level.

10 Times Body Weight = BMR
Below I offer two guidelines for estimating the number of calories you s hould consider eating each day. Both of them begin by
multiplying your body weight (or your ideal/desired body weight) by 10. This provi des a very rough estimate of your resting basal
metabolic rate (BMR)—the number of calories required to operate you r brain, organs, and all essential functions.
For example, if you weigh 150 pounds, you can estimate that you need somewhere a round 1,500 calories per day, plus or
minus about 10%, just to maintain your basic metabolism at rest. Then, dependi ng on your activity level, I offer the following
calculations.

Calorie Guidelines for Healthy (Athletic) People
My optimal calorie-consumption guideline is likely to be different than  the advice you may find elsewhere, and somewhat higher than
the American average. This is because I base my recommendati on upon a healthful (high) level of physical activity—the leve l that
humans would have to maintain in order to obtain sufficient food in a more na tural setting.
Nature intended humans to have to cover large expanses of ground on foot, to cl imb trees, and even to swim when necessary
in order to obtain food and warmth. The resulting fitness level would be consi derably higher than that of the average American, as
would the average calorie output. As more food would be consumed, so would a greate r number of nutrients be available. Good
nutrition literally hinges upon us being fit enough to be healthy.
With the above in mind, I suggest that a healthy athletic person shoul d utilize at least as many calories in physical endeavors as
they use for their resting BMR. (Resting BMR is equivalent to 10 time s your ideal body weight). This means, for instance, that a
150-pound man who uses 1,500 calories as his baseline should also use at least another 1,500 calories in his activities for the day,
on average, for a total of 3,000 calories.
Using the 80/10/10  diet, nutritional intake would be vastly better than the American av erage for all nutrients. Fitness levels
would need to be increased, of course, in order to achieve that level of activi ty, but this can be done gradually.

Calorie Guidelines for Less-Active People
To be abundantly clear, I would like to reiterate: Good nutrition literally hinges upon us being fit enough to be healthy.  By this
I mean to say that even the most “perfect” diet will never result i n true health unless it is accompanied by high-level fitness a nd all of
the other essential elements of healthful living (see sidebar e ntitled “Fundamental Elements of Health”). I cannot recommend high ly
enough that you exert at least as much attention and effort into uplev eling your level of fitness as you do into learning about and
achieving optimal nutrition.
That said, if you are a less-active person wending your way toward fitne ss and health, here are some guidelines for caloric
intake.
If your work and the rest of your day is relatively sedentary, add another 200 ca lories to the BMR estimate described above.
Then add calories for exercise, perhaps 300–600 calories per session. It  could be more or less, depending upon the frequency,
intensity, and duration of your fitness sessions. If you also have a physi cally demanding job, you might require another 800 to 1,600
additional calories or more.
Thus, a sedentary woman who weighs 130 pounds must eat about 1,300 calories simply t o maintain her body weight. Let us
suppose that she needs another 260 calories (an additional 20%) per day to meet he r physical needs such as puttering around the
house, going up stairs, or to the mailbox, etc. This hypothetical woman would ne ed to eat food that supplied about 1,560 calories
per day.
A large man of 280 pounds, who is fit and not fat, who participates in sports and works i n construction, would require roughly
2,800 calories for basal metabolism. Add to that the 1,500 calories he expends at work ea ch day and the 2,000 he needs for his daily sports training. This active man needs to eat sufficient food to su pply him with approximately 6,250 calories per day. He has to
consume four times as many calories as the sedentary woman in our fir st example.

Calorie Comparison: 8 Ounces of Selected Foods
This chart demonstrates the tremendous range of caloric density amon g high-water versus high-fat whole foods in the
80/10/10  program. In each case, the food item weighs eight ounces. (Note that you wou ld have to eat 42 servings of 8 ounces of
lettuce, or 21 large heads, to get the same number of calories as one 8-ounce por tion of macadamia nuts!)

Lettuce:                   39 calories  (1 small head romaine)
Cucumber:            27 calories  (½ medium)
Tomato:                   41 calories  (2 medium)
Peach:                   89 calories  (2 medium)
Apple:                   109 calories  (2 small)
Mango:                   147 calories (1 medium)
Banana:                   202 calories (2 medium)
Avocado:             362 calories  (1 large)
Cashews:             1,254 calories  (1.7 cups)
Sunflower seeds:       1,293 calories  (1.5 + cups)
Almonds:             1,318 calories (1.7 cups or 200 nuts)
Walnuts:             1,483 calories (2 + cups, or 57 nuts)
Macadamias:       1,628 calories  (1.8 cups, or 88 nuts)

How Much to Eat
To give you an example of the volume of fruits and vegetables required, l et’s say you need about 2,000 calories per day. A
medium-sized banana has 105 calories; a large honeydew melon has 461 calorie s; a medium peach has 39 calories; and a large
simple salad may have 175 calories (a large 20-oz. head of lettuce runs about 96 c alories, and a pound of nonsweet fruits has about
75 calories).
To consume 2,000 calories from raw foods, you would need to eat something like a large  honeydew melon for breakfast (461
calories), a 12-banana smoothie for lunch (1,260 calories), 4 peaches before dinne r (153), and a large salad for dinner (175). This
would provide 2,026 calories, with a 90/6/4 caloronutrient ratio (90% carbohydrate s, 6% protein, and 4% fat). If you didn’t have
any physical activity that day, you might eliminate two bananas and on e of the peaches.
If it was a physical day, you could add half of a 6-oz. California avocado to the sal ad. It would provide about 145 more
calories, 111 of which would be from fat. The caloronutrient ratio for the day  would then be 86/6/9. Adding a whole avocado
would take the fat percentage for the day up to 13% … not a big deal, but it w ould be better to add a few pieces of fruit to meet the
extra caloric requirements of your exercise routine.

The Diet for a Lifetime
Just like


 the usual
deadly triangle and other associated organ weakneses typical of cancer. Marie
began fasting on water with colonics and poultices and bodywork and counselingand supplements. At the end of the water fast, Marie looked much healthier, withclear eyes and clear skin and had a sort of shine about her, but the tumor had onlyreceded enough for the skin to close over it; it was still large, and very hard. Tofully heal, Marie probably needed at least two more water fasts of equal lengthinterspersed with a few months on a raw food diet. But she lacked the personaltoughness to confront another fast in the near future. Nor was she emotionally upto what she regarded as the deprivation of a long-term raw foods healing diet.
So I advised her to seek other treatment. Still unwilling to accept standard
medical management of her case, Marie chose to go to the Philippines to have“psychic surgery.” She was excited and optimistic about this; I was interestedmyself because I was dubious about this magical procedure; if Marie went Iwould have a chance to see the results (if any) on a person I was very familiarwith. Marie had her tickets and was due to leave in days when her lover, againstMarie’s directly-stated wishes, called her parents and informed them of what washappening.
The parents had known nothing of Marie’s cancer and were shocked, upset,
outraged! They had not known Marie was a lesbian, much less that their daughterwas flirting with (from their view) obvious quackery. Their daughter neededimmediate saving and her parents and brother (the one who had abused her) flewto Oregon and surprisingly appeared the next day in a state of violent rage. Theythreatened lawsuits, police, incarceration, they threatened to have their daughtercivilly committed as unable to take care of herself. They thought everything Mariehad done for the last three years was my fault. I was lucky to stay out of jail. Ofcourse, all of this was why Marie had not told them in the first place; she hadwanted to avoid this kind of a scene.
Marie did not have enough personal integrity to withstand the domination of
her immediate family. They put her in a hospital, where Marie had a radical
mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. Assured that they had done everything
that should have been done, the self-righteous parents went back home. Marienever recovered from chemotherapy and radiation. She died in the hospitalsurrounded by her lesbian friends who took dedicated, ever-so-sympathetic turnsmaintaining an emotional round-the-clock vigil.
Marie’s death was partly my fault. She was an early case of mine. At the time I
did not yet understand the total effect of lack of ethics and irresponsibility onillness. Had Marie really wanted to live in the first place, she would have soughttreatment three years earlier. In our counseling sessions she always evaded thisquestion and I had not been wise enough to pin her down with my knee on herchest and make her answer up. Marie had too many secrets from everybody andwas never fully honest in any of her relationships, including with me. I think sheonly came to Great Oaks at her lover’s insistence and to the day she died wastrying to pretend that nothing was wrong.
All Marie really wanted from her life was to be loved and have a lot of loving
attention. In the end, her dramatic death scene gave her that, which is probablywhy she manifested cancer and kept it and eventually, died from it.
The name for this game is “secondary gain.” A lot of sick people are playing it.
Their illness lets them win their deepest desire; they get love, attention, revenge,sympathy, complete service, pampering, create guilt in others. When sick peoplereceive too much secondary gain they never get well.
One of the hardest things about being a healer is that one accumulates an ever-
enlarging series of dirty, failed cases like this one. It is depressing and makes aperson want to quit doctoring. Whenever I get involved with a case I really wantthem to get better. My life is put entirely out of joint for several months dealingwith a residential faster. My schedule is disrupted; my family life suffers; mypersonal health suffers. No amount of mere money could pay for this. And thensome of these people go and waste all my help to accomplish some discreditablesecret agenda that they have never really admitted to themselves or others.
Constant Complaints
Alice was a middle-aged woman who couldn’t understand why she had
always felt tired, even when she was young. Her life had been this way ever sinceshe could remember. Most puzzling to her was why her life was so Book-Of-Joblike. She did everything the proper way. Doing things correctly was important toher, and fitted her Puritan background. Alice supported all the right causes, didgood works, was active in a Unitarian church and bought all her food at thehealthfood store—and made sure it was organically grown.
But in spite of Alice’s righteous living, her existence was a treadmill of
constant, minor complaints. She was constantly exhausted, so much so she haddifficulty getting up in the morning and feared she might have chronic fatiguesyndrome (whatever that is). Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts likethese, and had many acute illnesses like colds that hung on interminably andwould not go away. She had a constant post-nasal drip. Though she enjoyed life,her body was a millstone around her neck.
I’ve had a lot of clients exactly like Alice. Sometimes they complain of
headaches; sometimes constant yeast or bladder infections. Whatever thecomplaints, the symptoms are rarely severe enough to classify themselves assomeone who is seriously ill, but their symptoms rarely go away and they almostnever feel good. Medical doctors rarely find anything wrong with them, thoughthey will frequently prescribe an antibiotic to treat a somewhat constant infection,or an antihistamine for sinus symptoms. Getting a new prescription drug makesthe complaint go away for a short time until their resistance is lowered again andthe very same complaint returns. These people frequently depend on over thecounter pills and are routinely prescribed sleeping remedies and antidepressants.If instead of this route they will but take my medicine they are usually easy to fixand afterwards are amazed that it was all that simple and that so much of their lifehas been less than it could have been.
Alice had been through the medical doctor route. She had become quite
familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and also took synthetic thyroidhormone—the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by anunderactive thyroid, which was partly correct—but the thyroid medication didn’tgive her much more energy. Alice had been supporting this medical doctor ingrand style for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought.
I put Alice through my usual two hour first-time-visit thorough analysis. For
two weeks before coming to see me she had saved tiny samples of everything sheate, wrapped them in plastic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer.Along with these food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought abig box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices, prescriptionmedications, over the counter drugs, oils, grains, breads, crackers and smallsamples of her usual fresh vegetables and fruits. Even her water. Her entirekitchen! By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergicreactions. I also tested the integrity of her organs and glands and in the process,got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints.
Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty
years. Her pancreas was now too weak to digest the legumes that made up alarge part of her vegetarian diet. She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairyproducts and had especially been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it wasnecessary to keep up her protein intake. Really very typical. So many health foodstore shoppers these days mistakenly believe that, because they are vegetarianand do not eat meat, they especially need to boost their protein intake with dairyand soy. Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy andunfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to digest than cooked meats.
Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods
as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts and citrus. Most people don’t thinkthat anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sprouts. Thedoctor was right about one thing; her thyroid was underperforming. He had notnoticed that her heart was weak.
Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually
begins to catastrophically fail. A busy honest doctor will usually tell thecomplaining patient there is nothing wrong with them: go home, take two aspirin,accept the fact that your body is not perfect and don’t worry about it. A hungrydoctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any possiblereason for the complaint. This can go on as long as the patient has money or aslong as the insurance company will pay. They rarely find anything “wrong” and thepatient is far better off if the doctor doesn’t discover something “serious” to treatbecause their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than thecomplaint. For example, I have seen dozens of people whose lives were virtuallyruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain.
Biokinesiology is actually a far more sensitive system of analysis than lab tests.
It picks up weaknesses at a very early stage so total organ failure can beprevented. Rarely will any of the organ weaknesses I discover be confirmed by amedical doctor. First I put Alice on a six week cleanse. She did one week


 a rather peculiar philosophy. He said it's a day ruined when
somebody doesn't give him a piece of his mind or chews him out. However, he is afraid to give anyone a piece of his mind because he says he doesn't have that much to spare.
He tells the story that he and his wife had not been married very
long before he did some foolish thing and his wife was really letting him know that he was not the king that she thought she married. He said, 'Tm sorry, dear. Forgive me. If it were not for you I might not make it through the pearly gates." And that woman could not stay mad
at a man who said that.
Another time he did something silly and deserved a good repri-
mand.
His wife said to him, "What would you do if I left you?" "Honey, you know what I would do if you left me?" "No," she said, "what would you do?" "I would go with you." 168 She flat could not stay mad at him. They are the two most charm-
ing love birds you've ever seen.
His wife adores him, and so do his children, his secretary, and
employees. No man knows a man any better than his own children, his secretary or his administrative assistants, and yet there's nothing they would not do for him.
Some have asked Carey Reams about his scholastic background. This is his answer: "Is a man any better mechanic because he bought his tools from
any special warehouse?
"I studied in some of the world's best universities and under fa-
mous tutors. My wisdom came from God. He is my best teacher.
"At my age I do not care to tell wh ere I got my tools lest I should
boast of any other than God alone. Education is only the tools anyone
works with. Wisdom comes from God. Without knowledge and ordi-nary horse sense, or common sense, anyone would not know what God was saying to him in higher mathematics, chemistry, physics, bi-ophysics, or any other related field unless he had prepared himself ed-ucation wise by studying to show himself a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing th e truth. God said, 'To him who has it
shall be given.' I praise God that He has chosen a nobody like me to help carry the cross."
Reams is a man of great faith. He does not tell God how to answer
his prayers. He seldom ever asks for anything. He just knows that God will supply his needs and his wants for His glory.
He never screams at all. He never says anything against those who
scream even though he often tells them that there is a better way of doing things. Screaming isn't faith. Children of God may have to scream until they learn to exercise their faith. But once they learn to exercise their faith, then all things are theirs, he says.
"One of the sad things I have witnessed is the people that are
deathly ill go to a religious meeting and come out saying, 'Praise God, I am healed,' and our instruments show they are not healed. And yet
they will not believe these instrument s; consequently, they die. It is
glorious for people to go to a meeting and be healed, and when they 169 are healed, these instruments that the Reams testers use also show they
are healed," comments C. Reams.
He is the first man to ever express every degree of body chemistry
in biological mathematical terms. Reams hates the word "diagnosis" because he wants no one guessing at anyone's life. He says he has never made a diagnosis and he never will. He says he does make an analysis which can be proven and substantiated. He invites a true in-vestigation of his methods and is willing to teach it to those that are able to use it. He wants to use it only for the glory of God.
Reams is often accused of a conspiracy against the nation. He does teach seminars, and each tester goes out and does his
thing in his own way. The same as those who take a Dale Carnegie
course. He does not any more have a conspiracy than any university has which teaches in the chemistry classes how to manufacture or dis-till whiskey, or how to make wines. This does not make the students a conspiracy against the nation. There is no way that he is linked direct-ly to the students, nor does he r eceive anything from the students other
than the price of the seminars.
There have been three attempts to poison Carey Reams. One was on October 3, 1975, by putting strychnine into a pear he
had on his desk. He took one bite of it and in fifteen minutes was des-perately ill. He heaved for several hours. He knew not to drink any water. He knew not to go to a hospital in that area because the doctors would have given him something to kill him.
On January 23, 1977, poison was placed in his food while he was
in one of the larger motels. He was in the hospital 89 days, and as a result of this poisoning had to go through surgery twice. Once while in intensive care the oxygen was turned off and the administrative assis-tant came in, found him in a coma. It was 14 hours before he came back to reality.
He has to be careful where he travels, where he eats. Most of the
time he travels by car with a bodyguard. It is strange that in a free country a man like Carey Reams has to take an these precautions to live. There are countries in the world which offered him all kinds of protection if he would come there and practice, and would even give 170 special air rate for people coming to see him, and yet he has not ac-
cepted these offers because he believes that America is worth fighting
for.
When asked how many grandchildren he has he says, "Fifteen, the
last I counted them." He wants America to be a place where his grand-children can have life, liberty and freedom of speech and freedom to
go to whom they wish with their health problems, without needing at-tention by the police, or without harassment by the government. He wants them to have a freedom of choice to choose their work. He wants them to grow up to be men and women of God. Persons who are fearless, and will carry on regardless of the problems that are put before them.
"I have no troubles and no worries," remarked Reams. "Trouble is an assignment, a problem, that God gives us to cuddle
us a little closer to our heaven ly Father. Problems become trouble
when a person with the assigned problem is either in too big a hurry to work at the problem, or feels that they are too good to work at the problem, or are so panic-stricken that  they refuse to tackle the prob-
lem, or else they are just too lazy to do it, or they can procrastinate, then the problem becomes a worry.
"So these are the conditions that make for worry. I love my wife
very much but for 25 years of our married life she stayed two weeks behind with her worrying. I felt so sorry for her. One day I asked God about worry, and He said, 'WORRY IS THE DEVIL'S PRAYER.' So I wrote on little cards: JESUS SAID THAT WORRY IS THE DEVILS PRAYER, and stuck them up an over the house. And to this day she has never worried again.
It is absolutely impossible to worry and to pray to the Lord Jesus
Christ at the same time."
Reams is a very unselfish man and anything that he can do for an-
yone he does and he does not feel that he is being imposed upon. Most of the time he will do things before  he is asked. He is very apprecia-tive of any kindness extended to him.
One of the things that he said was a little difficult for him was that
when younger people wish to help him across the street, or to do any-171 thing for him, he had to learn to accept it graciously, even though he
felt he did not need it. He was a Boy Scout (Eagle Scout and Scout
Master) many years and loves to work with young people. He is never too busy to help them with their problems.
Reams has some favorite sayings such as: "Hate is one of the great causes of illness, beside the mineral defi-
ciency."
"Hate is the breaking of the Golden Rule because you must hate
yourself before you can break the Golden Rule."
Regarding the Golden Rule Reams says, "Much illness could be
prevented, food digestion improved and constipation greatly relieved if more people would live the Golden  Rule. It is impossible to speak
unkindly about anyone and love them too. Anyone may unintentional-ly cause a person to feel inferior or may be a threat to his vanity, and consequently, in his own egotistical defense he forgets the Golden Rule.
"In an cases that this situation exists the predominate factor is fear.
So in self-defense unkind words are spoken.
"Anyone who disobeys the Golden Rule only exposes his own true
character. ('Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:. and with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again. And why be holdest thou the mote that is in
thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?' Matthew 7: 1


”
 – Surprisingly we have fermented raw meats available in our culture.
Salami, cold smoked salmon, and corned beef are a few examples. Ceviche is an example where acid
from lemon or lime cooks the food (raw fish) while it marinates. These types of no-heat cooking
methods make protein easy to digest and taste good.
Protein Balance
The different ways to cook and prepare proteins are designed to increase your assimilation of
protein and hopefully help heal any intestinal damage or poor digestion. Eating a high protein diet
does not work for many people because we need to eat adequate amounts of fat with our proteins. So
do not be shy about enjoying fat with your protein. Proteins go well in combination with vegetables or
grains.
Many people have slightly damaged intestinal walls where partially digested protein can
permeate directly into the bloodstream.
1b
 If you have this condition, you generally will not feel very
well after eating a lot of protein. In the worst case your joints could swell in an autoimmune reaction
to the proteins in your bloodstream. Eating small amounts of proteins with larger amounts of cooked
vegetables helps people with problems assimilating protein. Dentist Melvin Page estimated that we
should eat a minimum of 1/15 th of our body weight in protein per day. To get your minimum or
average protein intake, take your desired body weight and divide it by 15. For example, someone
who weighs 150 pounds should eat at least 10 ounces of protein spread throughout the day. Dr. Pagethought that more small meals with protein spread throughout the day would help control and balance
your blood sugar. You can eat more protein than this, but for most people less than this amount is not
advisable.
Low Quality Proteins
Factory-farmed meats and eggs promote a profit-driven system of disease in which animals are
misused and mistreated. The cesspools from these factory farms pollute the air and the environment
including water supplies. Factory-farmed animals many times are barely allowed to move, are loaded
with drugs and chemicals to keep them alive, and are not fed their natural diet. It is unwise to eat the
unhealthy meat from these animals. Choose fresh grass-fed meats whenever possible.
Conventional packaged lunch meats contain many harmful food additives. Avoid those. Organic
packaged meats like salami, bacon, hotdogs, sausages and so forth can be health-promoting but it
really depends on how they are processed and what ingredients are added. Use those foods with
caution to ensure they are not negatively affecting your health.
Protein Powders
I know of some case studies in which people got tooth decay from consuming protein powder.
The significant processing of most protein powders renders the protein hazardous. Some high-quality
protein powders made from high-quality animal foods may be of benefit to people, but this is not
known for certain. What is the point of consuming protein powder when you can have real, healthy
protein? For example: If whey protein is healthy, then simply drink whey every day. That way you get
safe protein and probiotics as an added bonus. If you feel that you need more protein in your diet then
have real and natural proteins like eggs, fish, or beef. Soy protein blocks iron absorption even when
all the phytic acid has been removed;
2b
 this is an example of one of the many hazards of protein
powders.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is perhaps even more important to tooth remineralization than calcium. Phosphorous
is in most foods. However it is highly concentrated in dairy products like milk and cheese, in the
organs of land and sea animals, in muscle meats and proteins including eggs, and in grains, nuts and
beans. One has to be careful in using grains and beans for phosphorous sources because some grains,
like white rice, do not contain much phosphorous. Meanwhile other whole grains contain
phosphorous in a form that is not absorbable. Vegetables do not contain much phosphorous. Three and
a half ounces of a hard cheese provides 0.6 grams of phosphorus; the same amount of beef, chicken or
fish contains about 0.25 grams. Four cups of raw milk provide 0.9 grams of phosphorus. Organ meats
are generally much richer in phosphorous than muscle meats. Dr. Price’s nutritional recommendation
for phosphorus is 2.0 grams per day. This recommendation is double the US National Academy of
Sciences dietary reference intake.
Eggs
4 eggs contain 0.5 grams of phosphorous. Eggs from pastured chickens, ducks or other animals
are rich in tooth-decay-fighting vitamins and minerals.Fermented Foods & Enzymes
Enzymes act as catalysts in most of the biochemical processes in our bodies. When we cook our
food completely at temperatures above 150°F, its enzyme content is destroyed. When you eat a
cooked meal, it is vital to include and consume both raw and/or fermented foods with the cooked
food. Enzymes help us digest our foods. One way to get these enzymes is through the use of fermented
foods. Fermented drinks include rejuvelac, kefir, and beet kvass. Fermented foods include fermented
radish, cabbage (sauerkraut), pickles, fermented sweet potatoes and yogurt. Fermented vegetables are
a great way to consume your vegetables. Recipes for fermented foods can be found in
Nourishing
Traditions
 by Sally Fallon. Taking enzyme supplements or high quality probiotics is another method
to help your body assimilate food and achieve balance.
Fermented or Uncooked Food
Have something raw or fermented with every meal that otherwise is of exclusively cooked food.Vegetables for Minerals
We are told to cook our meat, chicken or fish completely to avoid harmful bacteria. Meanwhile
even many health-oriented people think we should have our vegetables raw to preserve nutrients and
enzymes. But uncooked vegetables contain a host of plant toxins including enzyme inhibitors,
oxalates, saponins, and lectins. Besides a few exceptions such as lettuce or cucumber, raw vegetables
are difficult to digest. Only people with strong digestive powers can do well eating lots of uncooked
vegetables. For the rest of us, we need heat or fermentation to break down the vegetable cellulose.
Unless you have very strong digestive fires, eating a great deal of raw vegetables is not healthy
because of the plant toxins. Vegetables should be prepared such that they should be easy to digest and
assimilate, as well as taste good.
If you visit a farm you can watch goats or cows madly salivate over grass. I have noticed that
reaction does not occur with humans. That is because we are not made to eat too many uncooked raw
fibrous vegetables. Raw vegetables can irritate the intestinal lining especially if the lining is already
inflamed. Cooked vegetables and fruits have their cellulose broken down so they are easier for us to
digest. I recommend usually eating cooked vegetables or fruit with some type of fat like butter or
cream. To me, a soft cooked piece of broccoli with some butter or cheese is much easier to digest
than a piece of raw crunchy broccoli. When vegetables are juiced, the cellulose is removed and the
nutrients are free to be assimilated. However too much vegetable juice may expose you to
unnecessary plant toxins and even excess sugars, depending upon which vegetables you are juicing.
Dark, leafy-green vegetables need to be eaten cooked, as the nutrients are released through
cooking. The bottom line is to prepare your vegetables in a way that tastes good to you. Do not force
yourself to eat raw vegetables to try to be healthy.Are Grains the Hidden Reason for many Modern Diseases
including Tooth Cavities?
9,000 years ago around 7,000 BC wheat and barley were first cultivated. Corn and rice
followed 2,500 years later in 4,500 BC. According to human fossil records, prior to this time period,
tooth decay was virtually unknown. Teeth recovered from Pakistan dating to around 5,500 BC show
signs of being drilled, presumably because of cavities. For the last 5,000 years the average rate of
tooth decay has been climbing. The rise in the rate of tooth decay has also been seen in Native
Americans who switched from a hunter gatherer lifestyle to a more heavily corn-based diet.
3b
 The
cultivation of grains has fostered the evolution of civilization, allowing city centers to emerge in
which large groups of people live together such as in ancient Egypt. Grains also made it possible to
raise large armies as it resolved the logistical problem of feeding thousands of soldiers.
In Weston Price’s field studies, a diet centered on white flour, refined sugar and vegetable fats
was devastating to the health, teeth and gums of native peoples worldwide. From this evidence even
Dr. Price himself concluded that consuming grain products in their whole form would resolve a part
of the problem of tooth decay. The natural health community, and now even the US Government and
food manufacturing giants, have embraced and promoted the view that whole grains are better for our
health.
Beyond the fossil evidence connecting grains to tooth cavities is over one hundred years of
scientific research that connects whole grains with a variety of diseases. This evidence is further
consistently confirmed by the nearly daily e-mails I receive from stressed-out healthy eaters
wondering why their previously cavity-free children now have tooth decay. There is one clear
response that over and over again proves to be correct: whole grains.
Considering modern humans (
Homo sapiens
) are about 200,000 years old, large amounts of
grains constitute a very recent addition to the


 stroke and human ischemic stroke.
209,210 The medical use of DMSO
in humans is discussed in Chapter 9.
ROLE OF DMSO IN EXPERIMENTAL STROKE
The brain region vascularized by the MCA is the most commonly affected area fol -
lowing a cerebral infarction. The reason is due to the large size of the MCA and the direct flow it receives at an angle from the internal carotid artery (ICA) providing the easiest path for thromboembolism. The MCA is therefore a vessel of choice in studying stroke in animals.
In nonhuman primates, DMSO was studied in 20 rhesus monkeys ( Macaca
mulatta ) subjected to ischemic stroke via a transorbital approach to visualize and
clip the MCA under direct microscopy.
209 The animals were divided into four groups:
(1) shams, surgery but no occlusion (N = 2); (2) saline controls (N = 8), surgery and clipping of the MCA; (3) clipping of the MCA and treated with 3 mg/kg dexametha -
sone (N = 5); (4) clipping of the MCA and treated with DMSO (N = 5) 2.5 g/kg 50% solution mixed in saline. All treatments were given 4 h after occlusion of the MCA with the clip still in place. The occluding Mayfield clip was removed after 16½ h, and a second intravenous dose of dexamethasone or DMSO was repeated for all treated animals 30 min after clip removal. All animals were given a full neuro -
logical examination daily for 7 days following occlusion of the MCA. After 7 days, animals were killed for neurohistological analysis. Arteriograms were taken in all animals before occlusion, 30 min after occlusion, 16½ h after occlusion, and 30 min following unclipping of the MCA ( Figure 8.6). Table 8.2 summarizes the results of
the neurological examination after 16 h with the MCA clip in place and at 7 days following removal of the clip.
209
Mean average cerebral blood flow measured near the MCA prior to clipping was
89 mL/100 g tissue/min. This value dropped by 43%–54% after MCA clipping and essentially returned to preocclusion values with no significant group differences fol -
lowing unclipping. Angiographic changes following MCA occlusion can be summa -
rized as follows. ICA narrowing (arterial spasm?) was seen at the level of the siphon
in all animals 30 min following MCA occlusion ( Figure 8.6). All animals except
two saline controls survived the initial MCA clipping. Postmortem tissue weights
showed DMSO attenuated cerebral tissue edema when compared to dexamethasone or saline controls.165 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
After 16½ h and with MCA still occluded, the narrowed carotid was still seen
in the saline- and dexamethasone-treated groups. No narrowing of the ICA was
observed in animals treated with DMSO209 (Figure 8.6).
Reperfusion of the posterior parietal and temporal branches of the MCA was
more pronounced 30 min following unclipping of the MCA in DMSO than in con -
trols or dexamethasone-treated animals. Moreover, brain swelling of the trauma -
tized hemisphere examined at postmortem was moderately high in controls, mildly reduced in the dexamethasone group, and absent in DMSO-treated monkeys.
209
Postmortem histological examination of the ischemic hemisphere revealed less
structural damage of the inferior thalamic peduncle and fewer chromatolytic and
Pre-o cclusion
(a) (b) (c)
(d) (e)( f)
(g) (h) (i)Control
DMSO
dxms16½ h po st clip 17½  h po st clip
FIGURE 8.6  Arteriograms of rhesus monkeys showing characteristic vascular response
after 16½ occlusion and 17  h when MCA was deoccluded. Saline-treated controls (a–c), DMSO treated (d–f), and dexamethasone treated (dxms g–i) before and after deocclusion of the MCAt. Panels (a), (d), (g) show preocclusion vascularization prior to MCA occlusion. Treatments were given 4 h after clipping the MCA and repeated shortly before clip was removed. At 16½ h after clipping, no blood flow is seen filling the MCA or its branches and severe narrowing of the ICA at the siphon is visible in saline controls and dexamethasone treated (b, h arrow), but no narrowing of ICA is observed in DMSO treated (e arrow). After unclipping at 17½ h, ICA narrowing continues in controls (c bold arrow) and dexamethasone (i bold arrow). No narrowing of ICA seen in DMSO (f bold arrow). In addition, the perical -
losal artery and posterior parietal vasculature is absent in saline controls (c double arrows) and significantly reduced in dexamethasone (i double arrows). In DMSO (f double arrows), these vessels are seen to have recovered substantially as compared to preocclusion arte -
riogram. (Adapted from de la Torre, J.C. and Surgeon, J.W., Stroke, 7(6), 577, November–
December, 1976.)166 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
swollen neurons in the pre-occipital cortex and caudate-lentiform region in DMSO-
treated animals when compared to dexamethasone or saline controls. The caudate-lentiform region is an area of the brain supplied by the lenticulostriate branches of the MCA, and because they are end-arteries, the brain regions they feed lack
a significant collateral blood supply.
209 These end-arteries are not only a common
site for thrombosis but are also difficult to treat with thrombolytics because they remain localized to the regions where they terminate, such as the caudate-putamen and internal capsule.
In addition to light microscopic analysis, selective brain tissue regions from all
groups of macaque monkeys were examined by electron microscopy on a blind to treatment basis.
47 Brain sections from the nontraumatized hemisphere showed
no evidence of swelling or distortion of cellular components, including well pres -
ervation of synapses, synaptic vesicles, and unremarkable neuropil. By contrast, the traumatized hemisphere in dexamethasone-treated macaques showed severe swelling of neurons near the MCA occlusion and loss of a clearly delineated plasmalemma.
47
Ribosomes and osmophilic particles were seen to aggregate throughout the fluid-
filled intracellular space, while mitochondria in neurons appeared to be undergoing degenerative changes. Loss of neuronal mitochondria in brain tissue is known to reduce energy synthesis of ATP and make neurons more vulnerable to ischemic damage. Dexamethasone-treated animals also showed swelling of boutons (axon ter -
minals) and considerable loss of synaptic vesicles. These vesicles store neurotrans -
mitters at the axon terminal that are released at the synapse and are essential in propagating nerve impulses between neurons.
Brain sections from DMSO-treated macaques showed swelling of some boutons
and synaptic vesicles within neurons, but the axo-dendritic synaptic contacts revealed TABLE 8.2
Neurological Deficits Observed in Rhesus Monkeys 24 h and 7 Days after
Occlusion of the MCA and Following No Treatment (Saline Control, N = 8)), Dexamethasone (N = 5), and DMSO (N = 5)
Neurological Status in Monkeys after MCA Occlusion
Treatment24 h Postocclusion 7 Days Postocclusion
A B C D A B C D
Saline (control) — — — 8 — — — 6
Dexamethasone — — — 5 — — 1 4
DMSO — 4 1 — 2 3 — —
Source:  Adapted from de la Torre, J.C. and Surgeon, J.W., Stroke, 7(6), 577, November–December 1976.
Notes:  No neurological deficits (A); contralateral paresis, alert (B); contralateral paresis, lethar gic (C); severe
lethargy, or coma (D). Two saline-treated monkeys died on the fifth and sixth day postocclusion.
Significant improvement was observed in the neurologic status of DMSO-treated animals after 24 h and after 7 days following MCA occlusion as compared to saline controls and dexamethasone-treated animals.167 DMSO in Basic Neuroprotection
good preservation, and little to no damage of neuronal mitochondria or neuropil was
appreciated.47 There was no expansion of the extracellular space or compression of
the neuropil as compared to dexamethasone or no treatment animals. These findings showed significantly less subcellular damage after DMSO treatment when compared to dexamethasone or no treatment macaques. In particular, loss of axon terminals and


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A  A nd new Ze A l A nd
Dried, crushed
eucalyptus leavesDried eucalyptus leavesGotu kola powderDried gotu kolaGotu kola (Centella
asiatica, p. 76) is a
cleansing tonic for the
skin and digestion. It
also strengthens the
nervous system and
improves the memory.
Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus
globulus, p. 96) leaves
were traditionally used
by Aborigines to treat
fevers and infections.
Eucalyptus is a warming
and stimulant herb. As
well as being strongly
antiseptic, it is effective
in relieving colds,
coughs, and sore
throats.Fresh gotu
kola leaves
medicinal use elsewhere, for example gotu kola ( Centella asiatica, p. 76) and
visnaga ( Ammi visnaga, p. 62), which have a long history of medicinal use in
India and the Middle East. Early British settlers imported European medicinal
plants, such as vervain ( Verbena officinalis, p. 149), hawthorn ( Crataegus
oxycantha,  p. 87), mullein ( Verbascum thapsus, p. 281), and dandelion
(Taraxacum officinale, p. 141), which have now all become naturalized. Native
American plants have also found their way to Australia, including prickly
pear ( Opuntia ficus-indica, p. 242) and Canadian fleabane ( Conyza
canadensis, p. 194). As Australian herbalists generally follow the Anglo-
American herbal tradition, these plants are often employed in local practice.
Chinese Influence
Traditional Chinese medicine has substantially influenced herbalism in
Australia. Following the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century,
herbal formulas gained a reputation for effectiveness, and Chinese medicine
maintained a small but loyal following in all the major cities. During the 1980s,
a renaissance in all branches of herbal medicine began, and today Australia
has three colleges of traditional Chinese medicine. In 2012, traditional
Chinese medicine became a nationally regulated form of medicine, with
practitioners required to register with the Chinese Medicine Board of
Australia. Naturopathy and Western herbal medicine are yet to achieve
this status.
The Future
With the passing of enlightened legislation—the Therapeutic Goods
Act—in 1989, herbal medicine became a dynamic growth industry in
Australia. This process is likely to continue as Australia and New Zealand
are due to harmonize their medicines legislation. Quality standards for
over-the-counter herbal medicines have been raised and many new herbal
products developed. There is increased commercial cultivation of medicinal
plants, notably tea tree ( Melaleuca alternifolia, p. 112), and university training
and herbal research has been expanded. In this environment, Australians are
becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of natural medicines.
 With its ancient culture, ties to Western herbalism, and location on the
Pacific Rim, Australia is host to many herbal traditions. The next 20 years
will doubtless see further exciting developments.Red river gum ( Eucalyptus camaldulensis ) has aromatic, astringent leaves. When it is taken internally,
generally to treat diarrhea, it turns the saliva red.
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48the development of herbal medicine
48Prickly ash berriesPrickly ash barkSaw palmetto
dried fruitSaw palmetto tincture
Prickly ash leaves Cornsilk (Zea mays,  p. 154) is a remedy  for problems affecting the urinary system.
Prickly ash  (Zanthoxylum americanum, p. 153)  is a warming remedy  that is used to treat  poor circulation.Gravel root
(Eupatorium  purpureum, p. 209)  is a traditional  Native American  remedy for urinary  tract problems.Slippery elm (Ulmus rubra, p. 145), soothes  the mucous membranes.
Saw palmetto  (Serenoa repens,  p. 136) has an  antiseptic effect  within the  urinary tract.
Stretching from the Arctic wilds of Canada and Alaska to the
tropical regions of Panama, North and Central America cover diverse
geographical regions and harbor an immense variety of medicinal plants. Most of them are indigenous, but others—such as nutmeg, ginger, and tamarind—were introduced from the Old World from the 16th century onward. Likewise, native American medicinal plants—such as corn, cocoa, cayenne, and sunflower—were introduced to Europe, Asia, and Africa. This trade of species was an important part of the interplay between the Old and New Worlds’ herbal traditions.
Herbal Traditions in Central America
Herbal medicine is commonly practiced in rural areas of Central America,
especially in Guatemala and Mexico. In the Mexican tradition, loss of “balance” between hot and cold elements within the body is thought to be the underlying cause of illness, and the healer’s art is to restore balance and vitality.  Mexican herbal medicine is not a static tradition, but has evolved
from a shifting blend of Aztec, Mayan, and Spanish influences. Long before Hernando Cortez and his conquistadors came ashore in 1519, the Mayan and Aztec cultures had a well-developed understanding of plant medicines. The Badianus Manuscript, the first American herbal (written by an Aztec, Martin de la Cruz, in 1552), lists the medicinal uses of 251 Mexican species. They include damiana (Turnera diffusa,  p. 144), taken by the Maya as an aphrodisiac, and mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), used by the Aztecs as an eye lotion. Both species are still used medicinally, alongside European herbs such as pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium, p. 235) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris, p. 143). It is thought that approximately 65 percent of the plants used today by traditional Mexican herbalists originated in Europe. In other Central American countries efforts are being made to
encourage people to use herbal medicine as the first line of treatment for illness. Projects in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, for example, are teaching women how to use local herbs within their communities, while in Cuba doctors routinely prescribe medicinal herbs to make up for the scarcity of conventional medicines.
Caribbean Herbal Medicine
Throughout the Caribbean, domestic herbal medicine remains popular.
Some of the widely used herbs include fever grass or lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus, p. 198), which, as its name suggests, is used to treat fevers, and kerala (Momordica charantia, p. 236), a creeping vine that is prized as a “cure-all” on many of the islands. Kerala has been shown to have an ability to lower blood-sugar levels and may help to slow down the North America
Many ancient herbal traditions in North and Central
America not only withstood the influx of European settlers but helped to reinvigorate Western herbalism. In parts  of Central America herbal medicine is widely practiced, and in the U.S. and Canada it is again enormously popular.
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Wild yam chopped rhizomeWild yam  (Dioscorea villosa,
p. 91) contains steroidal
saponins that have
a hormonal effect. It was
used to produce early
versions of the birth-
control pill.
Lobelia  tablets
(Lobelia inflata, p. 110)
help relax the small
muscles of the bronchial
tubes, easing asthma.
Goldenseal (Hydrastis
canadensis, p. 105)
was prized as a cure-all
in the 19th century.
Pokeweed
(Phytolacca americana,
p. 247) was used in
the 19th century
to induce vomiting.
Skullcap  (Scutellaria
lateriflora, p. 135) is an
effective relaxant.
Cramp bark
(Viburnum opulus, p. 150)
is a sedative and muscle
relaxant, hence its
common name.
Pleurisy root
(Asclepias tuberosa,
p. 173) was a popular
Native American
remedy for fever.Wild yam rhizomeonset of diabetes, a relatively
common illness among Afro-
Caribbeans. The medical
and religious customs on
each Caribbean island vary,
but on many they reflect
the African traditions of
transported slaves, especially
of the Y oruba people
shipped from West Africa,
who carried on the practices
of their homelands. In some
of these traditions, herbs
are valued for their magical
power as well as for their
medicinal properties.
Tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum,
p. 240) for example, is
used for divination in many
American cultures, including
in Santeria and Voodoo religious rituals, as are


orn is a particularly beneficial remedy if  the muscles of the colon are weak, and if there is poor bile flow. The plant should not be used for constipation caused by excessive tension in the colon wall.acid. (However, most blackcurrant oil available on the market has been refined and will not contain these oils.) The proanthocyanidins, especially in  the fruit, are strongly antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, and like bilberry (Vaccinium myrtilis, p. 147) exert a protective activity on the capillaries. The prodelphinidins are anti-inflammatory.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In Europe,
blackcurrant leaves are used for their diuretic effect. By encouraging the elimination of fluid, the leaves help to reduce blood volume and thereby to lower blood pressure. The leaves are also used as a gargle for sore throats and mouth ulcers. According to French investigators, blackcurrant leaves increase the secretion of cortisol by the adrenal glands, and thus stimulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system. This action may prove useful in the treatment of stress-related conditions. Blackcurrant berries and their juice are high in vitamin C. They help improve resistance to infection and make a valuable remedy for treating colds and flu. According to the herbal authority R. F. Weiss, the juice is “as good as, if not better than, lemon juice (Citrus limon) for patients with pneumonia, influenza, etc.” The juice also helps to stem diarrhea and calms indigestion. Juice that is fresh or vacuum-sealed is more effective than concentrate.boyl [the plant] in beer, and drink it for colds;  and so do the Indians, from whom the English had the medicine.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses The astringent
root bark of smooth sumac is often used as a decoction. It is taken to alleviate diarrhea and dysentery, applied externally to treat excessive vaginal discharge and skin eruptions, and used
as a gargle for sore throats. The berries are
diuretic, help reduce fever, and may be of use in type 2 diabetes. The berries are also astringent and can be used as a gargle for both mouth and throat complaints.
Related Species Sweet sumac (R. aromatica)
has a similar range of uses. Poison ivy
(R. toxicodendron) was formerly used in herbal medicine as a treatment for rheumatism, paralysis, and certain skin disorders. It is itself highly irritant to the skin, and causes severe dermatitis.
Ribes nigrum (Grossulariaceae)
Blackcurrant
Description Erect deciduous shrub growing
to 5 ft (1.5 m). Has serrated, palm-shaped lobed leaves, small greenish-white flowers, and clusters  of black berries.
Related Species Cascara sagrada (R. purshiana),
native to woodlands along the Pacific coast of North America, is used medicinally in much the same way as alder buckthorn. Common buckthorn (R. cartharticus), a European native, is today used mainly in veterinary medicine.
Cautions Use only dried bark that has been
stored for at least a year, as the fresh bark is violently purgative. The berries may also be harmful if eaten.Alder buckthorn bark is toxic when fresh but is safe to use
once dried and stored for a year.
Blackcurrant fruit is harvested in summer. The juice  is extremely rich in vitamin C.
Castor oil plant is widely cultivated for its seed
oil, which is used medicinally, in cosmetics, and as a lubricant.Rhus glabra (Anacardiaceae)
Smooth Sumac
Description Deciduous shrub growing to a
height of about 61⁄2 ft (2 m). Has straggling branches,
compound leaves in pairs, large clusters of
greenish-red flowers, and downy deep red berries.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to North
America, smooth sumac is found on the  borders of woods, along fences and roadsides, and in neglected sites. The root bark is collected  in autumn, the berries when ripe in late summer.
Parts Used Root bark, berries.
Constituents Smooth sumac contains tannins.
Its other constituents are unknown.
History & Folklore Indigenous peoples across
North America used smooth sumac and closely related species to treat hemorroids, rectal bleeding, dysentery, venereal disease, and bleeding after childbirth. John Josselyn, a 17th-century New England naturalist, observed: “the English use to Habitat & Cultivation Blackcurrant is native
to the temperate regions of Europe, western and central Asia, and the Himalayas. It is grown mainly  in eastern Europe for its sour-sweet fruit. The leaves are gathered in early summer, the berries when ripe in mid to late summer.
Parts Used Leaves, berries.
Constituents Blackcurrant leaves contain
flavonoids, tannins, proanthocyanidins, prodelphinidins, and a volatile oil. The berries contain flavonoids, flavonols, proanthocyanidins and sugars (10–15%). The seeds contain the essential fatty acids linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids, and up to 18% gamma-linolenic acid and 9% stearidonic Ricinus communis
(Euphorbiaceae)
Castor Oil Plant
Description Evergreen shrub growing to
about 33 ft (10 m) in its natural state, but a
much smaller annual when cultivated. Has large, palm-shaped leaves, green female flowers, and prickly red seed capsules.
US_246-265_Pergularia_Extensa_Salvia_Sclarea.indd   262 26/02/16   12:47 pm263 other medicinal plantsRubia tincto Rum
Habitat & Cultivation Castor oil plant is
probably native to eastern Africa. It is cultivated in
hot climates around the world. The seed capsules
are gathered throughout the year when nearly ripe
and are then put out in the sun to mature.
Parts Used Seed oil, seeds.
Constituents The seeds contain 45–55% fixed
oil, which consists mainly of glycerides of ricinoleic
acid, ricin (a highly toxic protein), ricinine (an
alkaloid), and lectins. The seeds are highly
poisonous—2 are sufficient to kill an adult—but the
toxins do not pass into the expressed oil.
History & Folklore Castor oil has been used
medicinally for about 4,000 years. Until recently, it
was a common remedy given regularly to children
“to help keep the system clear.” Owing to its
unpleasant taste, castor oil is remembered
as the bane of many childhoods.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Castor oil
is well known for its strongly laxative
(and, in higher doses, purgative) action,
prompting a bowel movement about
3–5 hours after ingestion. The
oil is so effective that it is
regularly used to clear the
digestive tract in cases of
poisoning. Castor oil is well
tolerated by the skin, and it is
sometimes used as a vehicle for medicinal
and cosmetic preparations. In India, the oil is
massaged into the breasts after childbirth to
stimulate milk flow. Indian herbalism uses a poultice
of castor oil seeds to relieve swollen and tender
joints. In China, the crushed seeds are used to
treat facial palsy.
 RCautions Do not ingest the seeds, which are
extremely poisonous. Do not take castor oil during
pregnancy, and do not take more often than once
every few weeks as a treatment for constipation.as a garden escape. It has been cultivated for at least
3,000 years. The flowers are gathered in summer.
Parts Used Flowers, essential oil.
Constituents Rose contains a volatile oil
consisting of geraniol, nerol, citronellol, geranic acid
and other terpenes, and many other substances.
History & Folklore The rose comes originally
from Iran and has been cultivated there since
antiquity. Sappho, the 6th-century bce Greek poet,
described the red rose as the “Queen of flowers.”
In Rome, it was much used in festivities and the
petals were consumed as food. Rosewater
was prepared by the Arab physician Avicenna
(980–1037 ce). During the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, the rose was esteemed as a remedy
for depression.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The rose is
currently little used in herbal medicine, but it is
probably time for a reevaluation of its medicinal
benefits. The essential oil, called “attar of rose,”
is used in aromatherapy as a mildly sedative,
antidepressant, and anti-inflammatory remedy.
Rose petals and their preparations have a similar
action. They also reduce high cholesterol levels.
Rosewater is mildly astringent and makes a valuable
lotion for inflamed and sore eyes.
Caution Do not take the essential oil internally
without professional supervision.
Rubia tinctorum (Rubiaceae)
Madder
Description Evergreen perennial growing to
3 ft (1 m). Has whorls of finely toothed lance-
shaped leaves, greenish-white flowers, and black
berries containing 2 seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation Madder is native to
southern Europe, western Asia, and North Africa.


	ways.
They	want	to	feel	safe
.	This	means	living	without	fear	and	knowing	that	you
are	accepted.
They	want	to	expand
.	This	means	feeling	more	free,	not	having	that
suffocating	feeling	of	being	trapped	or	closed	in.They	want	to	be	inspired	to	do	great	and	wondrous	deeds
.	I	don’t	have	to
explain	this—why	else	does	Hollywood	make	billions	of	dollars	a	year?	Even
the	fantasy	of	great	and	wondrous	deeds	makes	us	go	back	for	more.
As	you	look	at	yourself	right	now	can	you	create	these	changes?	Nobody	can,
not	on	their	own	just	by	thinking.	You	need	true	alchemy.	You	must	release
the	same	flow	of	love	that	was	given	to	the	rabbits.	Baba	taught	me	that
alchemy	comes	from	inside.	People	spend	a	lot	of	time	looking	for	all	kinds
of	outside	solutions.	They	move,	they
	change	jobs	and	get	new	friends,	they
forget	their	troubles	with	games	and	sports	and	movies.	They	aren’t	thinking
about	love,	however;	the	supreme	power	in	the	universe	has	been	overlooked.
The	first	thing	Baba	wanted	me	to	know	is	that	I	should	never	overlook	love
again.The	Boy	Who	Needed	Love
B
aba	had	been	standing	still	when	suddenly,	true	to	his	habit,	he	moved
quickly	out	the	cabin	door,	heading	straight	for	the	road.	I	ran	after	him,
thinking	he	was	going	to	the	village,	but	after	a	few	moments	he	stopped.	We
had	come	across	some	boys	up	ahead.
“Take	a	look,”	he	said.
I	knew	them	all.	Four	boys	from	school	who	were	kicking	down	the	road	on	a
summer	day.	They	needed	diversion,	and	at	that	moment	they’d	found
something	promising,	because	one	of	the	boys	was	shouting,	“No	way!	Go
home,	Stinky.”
“What	are	we	looking	at?”	I	asked.	Baba	was	paying	close	attention	to	the
boy	they	were	picking	on.
“Someone	in	dire	need	of	an	alchemist,”	he	said.
Jimmy	Stinky?
	I	thought.	His	real	name	was	Jimmy	Starkey	which	made	him
unpopular	to	begin	with	because	he	had	an	Indian	mother	and	a	British	father.
He	was	the	kid	who	forever	got	teased.	Jimmy	was	wiry	and	small	for
	his	age.
Somebody—probably	his	dad—had	told	him	that	he	had	to	try	and	fit	in.	So
every	Saturday,	like	clockwork,	Jimmy	showed	up	to	give	it	another	try.	This
time	he	held	out	a	new	cricket	ball.	Indian	boys	are	probably	even	more	crazy
for	cricket	than	for	soccer.
“Where’d	you	get	that	ball?”	one	of	the	other	boys	said.	“Hand	it	over.”
Jimmy	hesitated.	“What’s	wrong,	you	afraid	we’ll	take	it?”
“We	just	want	to	see	your	ball,	Stinky.	What’s	wrong	with	that?”	another	boy
chimed	in.
“Okay,”	Jimmy	said	doubtfully.	He	handed	the	ball	to	the	first	boy,	who
started	tossing	it	up	and	down.	“My	dad	bought	it,	for	all	of	us,”	Jimmy	said.
He	was	actually	sounding	hopeful.
“Please,	Baba,	let’s	go,”	I	said.	It	made	me	uncomfortable	to	watch;	I	had
been	one	of	Jimmy’s	tormentors,	and	if	Baba	hadn’t	been	there,	my	attitudewould	have	been	just	like	his	present	tormentors’.	But	Baba	wouldn’t	budge.
I	don’t	have	to	tell	you	how	this	scene	was	playing	out.	After	they	began
tossing	his	ball	around,	the	three	boys	wouldn’t	throw	it	to	Jimmy;	then	he
wanted	it	back,	but	they	wouldn’t	give	it	to	him;	then	they	threw	it	into	a	ditch
and	walked	away	laughing.
“I’m	watching	him,”	said	Baba.	“I’m	feeling	his	misery,	but	I	can	also	feel	his
tormentors,	who	are	happy	and	satisfied	with	how	they	treated	him.	It’s	a	little
drama	about	human	nature,	isn’t	it?”	Jimmy	was	now	in	the	ditch
	by	the	side
of	the	road	trying	to	find	his	lost	ball	in	the	weeds.
I	didn’t	want	to	get	involved	at	all.	Jimmy	found	his	ball	in	the	muddy	ditch,
and	when	we	passed	him,	he	hung	his	head	while	I	looked	the	other	way.
Baba	let	me	walk	down	the	road	at	my	own	slow	pace.	I	couldn’t	get	Jimmy
out	of	my	mind,	and	more	than	once	I	wanted	to	turn	and	run	after	him.
“And	what	would	you	do	if	you	caught	up	with	him?”	Baba	asked.
“I’d	tell	him	I	was	sorry,”	I	said.
“What	if	he	didn’t	want	to	listen?”	Baba	asked.
“I’d	try	and	convince	him.”
“How?”
I	didn’t	like	being	interrogated.	I	had	stood	by	and	watched	while	Jimmy	was
ragged	without	mercy.	There	was	no	good	reason	why	he	should	trust	me.	I
did	have	an	idea,	though.	“I’d	ask	him	if	he	wanted	to	practice	pitching	and
batting	with	me.	He’s	really	lousy	at	cricket,”	I	said.
Baba	shook	his	head.	“Once	a	dog’s	been	beaten,	it’s	hard	to	make	him	see
your	hand	holding	anything	but	a	stick.”
Baba	had	never	talked	so	grimly	before,	and	I	wondered	why	he	was	trying	to
make	me	feel	even	guiltier.
“Guilt	is	pointless,”	he	said	impatiently	“It	adds	more
	pain	when	what	you
want	is	less.	There	are	subtle	ways	to	show	Jimmy	that	you’ve	changed
inside.	Let	me	show	you.”Baba	would	have	made	a	great	actor,	because	in	an	instant	he	changed	before
my	eyes.	He	stiffened	and	crossed	his	arms	like	a	policeman	confronting	a
guilty	criminal.	His	eyes	looked	right	through	me,	and	his	body	tightened	into
a	rigid	pillar.	“How	do	I	look?”	he	said.
“Pretty	scary.”
“And	how	do	I	look	now?”
Without	so	much	as	a	moment’s	hesitation	he	changed	again.	His	body
softened,	the	sternness	in	his	face	melted,	and	I	saw	myself	reflected	in	his
eyes	just	as	I	did	in	my	mother’s	when	I	came	home	from	boarding	school.
“That’s	amazing,”	I	said.
“The	soul	finds	many	ways	to	express	what	is	true	about	you,”	said	Baba.
“Through	your	body	language,	your	tone	of	voice,	the	look	in	your	eyes,	the
whole	sense	you	give	off	of	being	tense	or	relaxed.”
“I	never	notice	those	things,”	I	said.
“Oh,	we	all	notice,	but	we	pretend	not	to,”	said	Baba.	“That’s	what	is	so
amazing	about	this	particular	secret	weapon.	It’s	out	in	plain	sight,	yet	it	still
remains	a	secret.”
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ivorous nature than to create cruelty-free, abundant fruit forests in every open space available.  Who needs a grass lawn anyway?  Can you imagine a society where you can walk and freely pick your lunch from the trees that line the streets and fill the public parks and places?  Fruit trees create fertility, abundance, and health.
We have a naturally symbiotic relationship with fruit trees.  They tempt us with their
sweet, tangy edibles so that we, in return, will spread their seeds to sustain their spe -
cies.  No life is lost in Veganic Fruiticulture—there is only a perpetuation of fertility, life,
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Fruiticulturehealth and abundance.  That is a life in harmony with nature—the foundational design
element for all human systems, integrated harmoniously with the planet’s ecology.  That is Veganic Fruiticulture!
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To watch the video, Raw Fruitarian Permaculture on Maui with Jesse Krebs, Ph.D., by Dr.
David Klein and Shakta Edmunds, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrxy5WCTM
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FruiticultureUnderstanding & Meeting Our True Human & Planetary Needs
by Don Weaver
My primary passion is for “the causes of health” and see -
ing humanity awaken to these causes and go beyond mis-
guided preoccupation with disease, destruction and death.  It is time to transf or
m our relationship to ourselves, Nature
and the Earth by understanding and meeting true human and planetary needs.  Clearly, such understanding and suf -
ficient “applied love” can swiftly restore and regenerate our now largely degenera t
e species on our interdependently
degraded and depleted Earth Biosphere.  This total Earth Regeneration requires that we free ourselves from the psy -
chic and physical addictions of our false little fear-driven
egos which futilely a ttempt to fill the v oids mean
t to be filled to overflowing with the
natural expressions of human love, wisdom, goodness and compassionate action. These expressions are generally smothered by the false beliefs and miseducational systems de -
signed to produce competitive, conforming consumers who passively accept the health-and- earth-destruc tiv
e mass media images of “how to live in the modern world. ”
If our passion is for knowing how to live sanely, healthfully and constructively in symbi -
otic (not parasitic) relationship with each other and our home planet, then we will dis -
cover, and remember, those wise ways.  Will they include living lightly, planting gardens and orchards, g iving back c
ompost and rock dust to the soil which gave us our body, em -
bracing living nutrition and health?  Surely it’s our degree of passion-compassion-love of life and gra titude f
or Life which energizes us to muddle or fly toward realization of truth -
ful answers.  As more and more of us rise up on our human/angel wings, the total world consciousness will rise up with us.
Possibly the h
ypnotic spell imprisoning much of natural human consciousness can be
broken as enough of us live a life demonstrating healthy love between people, animals, plants, trees and all Creation.  Perhaps the wise, responsible and compassionate thing to do is for each of us to assume it is our passion that will determine the fate of humanity
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Fruiticulture
Fruit tree planting in India by Naandi Foundationand Earth. Each may say:  “If I am Life then I must pass-Life-on to this and future genera -
tions. ”  This is another way to feel the truth of “pass-i-on. ”  Life is our birthright; it is defi-
nitely our adult opportunity!
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“When the truth is buried deep“When the truth is buried deep
Beneath a thousand years of sleepBeneath a thousand years of sleep
Time demands a turn aroundTime demands a turn around
And once again the truth is found”And once again the truth is found”
-George Harrison (a verse given to Donovan for his classic song, Hurdy Gurdy Man)-George Harrison (a verse given to Donovan for his classic song, Hurdy Gurdy Man)

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FruiticultureGenerosity Towards the Earth Can Swiftly Reverse Our Soil-Food-
Health Degeneration
by Don Weaver
An unknown author—perhaps it was “the human soul”—proposed that: “Unhappiness
is the hunger to get. Happiness is the hunger to give. ”  I think we can see a lot of truth in this as we observe our individual and collective lives.  Have you ever felt completely well-nourished, healthy and whole, in no particular need for “more?”  Isn’t that when we’re most likely to feel spontaneously grateful to be alive, with Love in our hearts, and naturally wanting our friends, fellow humans and all life to share this simple, natural happiness?
Is there any good reason why humanity and the Earth can’t move into an awakened
consciousness of health and happiness, where our primary motivations are giving and sharing “simply abundant” life on a rejuvenated planet?  We’ve dragged some of the heavy, obsolete, “bad” reasons into the new century, e.g. our hyper-competitive, separa -
tive, egocentric systems in every field, creating a mental climate that encourages the horrendous exploita tion of humanit
y, animals and the whole crying Earth.  While we
are greedily getting and getting and sucking dry our generously giving Mother Nature, we’ve neglected our critical role as givers and replenishers.  Now in 2018, while we’ve so far miraculously managed to avoid nuclear self-destruction, it is clear that Nature’s finite reserves of quality soil-water-vegetation-air-climate-and-beauty are being severely de -
pleted worldwide.  Therefore, a future in which we and Earth are alive and healthy clearly depends on a dr amatic flow er
ing of our true, generous minds and hearts to enable the
essential symbiotic human-Earth regeneration.
Psychologist Abraham Maslow (The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature) wrote that we
have a “hierarchy of needs” and, until our primary survival needs of adequate food, wa -
ter, shelter and security are met, our “higher” needs or aspirations to share in conscious evolution and giving from our deepest na tur
e of Intelligence and Love cannot be real -
ized. Ecologist John Hamaker (The Survival of Civilization) wrote that most of us are more or less deficien t in multiple essential nutrien ts
, thanks to the “efficiency” of modern
agribusiness, based on mining and poisoning the soil and ignoring “the Law of Return, ”  19
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Fruit tree planting, Kauai, Hawaii  among others. Add the many toxic byproducts of diets based on cooked and “refined” an -
imal and vegetable conglomerations, the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs used to sup -
press pain and “stimulate” vitality, and we see a human race in deep trouble: a naturally
beautiful, intelligent, inspired and aspiring human race largely “on hold, ” having yet to meet even its primary need for natural, fresh, pure mineral-vitamin-protein-enzyme-rich foods. Consider very deeply how much this can explain the manifestations of a global sickness—including the worldwide epidemic of “the hunger to get” and the relative scar -
city of “a happy mind in a healthy body” and “the hunger to give. ”
Since neither the U.S. Department of Soil Fertility Mining nor the profit-driven Medical
Symptom Suppressing (usually body-destroying) Business nor the largely “corporate-20
Fruiticulturesponsored” governments appear ready to eliminate the causes of disease and support
the causes of health, I suggest we each let our own lives be meaningful in leading the way toward personal and planetary Regeneration.  Since the “health care” bill is up to $3.3 trillion per year in the U.S. alone, 1 of every 2.15 people is expected to develop can -
cer, and soil depletion worsens annually, obviously it is time we each respond fully and wisely.
Let us start with the soil as our f ounda
tional life-support system, and establish a new,
consciously symbiotic garden-culture relationship with the Earth via soil, food, air, sun -
light, trees and vegetation.  Where else would one start?!  If enough individuals, families and local communities consume produc e fr
om organic, remineralized and composted
soil while extending their garden, orchard and farm land, and embracing the beautiful principles of the ever-more comprehensively described Natural Hygiene, I think we’ll see a Global Health and Earth Regeneration Revolution quickly underway.  What is the cur -
rent percentage of people who’d choose to trade their present quality of life and health for a life of human-and-planetary health-building w or
k and play in conscious coopera -
tion with friends, family and the Natural World?
While the addictive aspec ts of the
“rat-race” can be difficult to shake, those who have
seen the potentials of the Natural Design, encompassing health, sanity, meaningful work,
creativity, love, and joy, will surely opt for the “human race” to create Paradise on Earth. Losing this race due to lack of inspired responsibility could soon bring us to starvation in an impoverished Biosphere with very harsh climates.
Just as wholistic doctors (“teachers”) try to consider “the whole person, ” it is obviously
time to strive to become wholistic ecologists