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you will feel that your body does not recognize a
different beginning of a meal. As a result, you
can increase the consumption of fresh vegetables
and fruits to make them c omprise 60% of your
diet. Fresh vegetables, fruits and juices made
with them are all rich in vigor. Their tissues are
rich in energy, they support the structure of
body tissues and skin elasticity.
50% of an ideal diet comprises raw fruits and
vegetables. Cellulose and pectin contained in
most plant products are called ballast sub-
stances, since they are not absorbed by the body.
These substances are necessary, they play an im-
portant role in the process of digestion: they set
the intestinal hormonal system in motion, and
the whole body through it, regulating the
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croflora in the gastrointestinal tract, which is
partially used by the body as a full -fledged live
protein, with protein taking up a 10% share. Pro-
tein can be in the form of meat, fish, eggs, natural
cheese, or in vegetable form, i.e., nuts and seeds.
Brewer's yeast, bread and sprouted wheat soup
are also an important part of a protein diet. They
are especially indispensable as suppliers of vita-
mins B, E and D.
The remaining products are divided into three
parts. One -third (30%) is natural starch, ob-
tained from cereals and legumes. Another third
(at least 5%) are natural sugars, which are con-
tained in dried fruits, honey, and fresh juices.
The last third (no more than 5%) consists of nat-
ural fats, such as sunflower, corn and olive oil,
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prone to obesity should avoid eating sugar,
bread and cereals. Alternatively, they should be
consumed in minimal quantities, and  the por-
ridge must be freshly boiled. Chewing thor-
oughly is an absolute must. When eating
quickly, a person consumes 3 -5 times more por-
ridge than necessary. This leads to obesity. If you
use a small amount, chewing it to the con-
sistency of milk, then const ipation disappears,
bowel motility improves (at the time of chewing,
motility accelerates fourfold), congestion in the
gastrointestinal tract is eliminated.
The recovery period should be two times
longer than the fast. Try eating properly at least
during this period. The daily routine during the
recovery period remains approximately the
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tional therapy, active rest), but for thin people
special procedures may be added, such as full -
body oil massage (especially the  lower back) and
hot baths. Overweight people should employ
sauna and body massage with boiled down
urine. By observing such a sensible fasting pro-
gram, you will be filled with life force, and fast-
ing will become an indispensable part of your
life. Day aft er day, watching the miracle of re-
newal happening in your mind and body, you
will enjoy living the new healthy life, which
makes you more perfect and healthy every day.
For a excellent cleansing and purification of the
body, you have to take mixed turpentine baths as
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of withdrawal. The total number of baths equals
10.

13.7. How to prepare Bolotov’s whey (se-
rum)
Pour cold boiled well or spring water into a
clean 3 -liter jar.

27 Aleksandr Zalmanov (1875 -1965) was a famous naturopathic
physician  and gerontologist. He  proposed  a method of capillaries
restoration with special bath tonic which includes organic  turpen-
tine. He claimed  yellow and white bath tonic or emulsion can be
used for treatment of different acute and chronic diseases, such as
diseases of nervous system, polyneuritis, multiple sclerosis, leucae-
mia, presenility, chronic prostatitis, immunopath ological dis-
eases, allergies, chronic bronchitis, chronic pneumonia, sexual dis-
function.

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homemade sour cream in water. Half a cup of
celandine grass (dry or fresh, but clean, without
mold) should be placed in a gauze bag and
drowned at the bottom of the can with a sinker.
Neck cans tie a gauze in 3 layers.
Infuse kvass for two weeks at roo m tempera-
ture in a dark place. You have to keep an eye on
it - remove mold from the surface and filter the
liquid if sediment appears.
2 weeks later, 1 liter of ready -made kvass is
poured from a 3 -liter jar into a 1 -liter glass bottle
with a cap. This is a  portion for about 3 days of
intake.
Add 1 liter of water to the 3 -liter jar and add
1/3 cup of sugar.
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can continue in this manner without changing
the celandine for up to 2 months, adding water
and sugar.
Take between 1 tbsp. and 0.5 cup 20 -30
minutes prior to meals 3 times a day for 2 weeks.
Then, take it once a day for a month to consoli-
date the effect.

13.8. What are the potential  complications
during withdrawal from fasting?
When you come out of a short -term dry fast,
there are usually no serious complications, but
you still need to know about them. Complica-
tions most often occur with reckless people who
are not aware of their actions. Anything you
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sues related to personal health are twice as im-
portant. Therefore, if you decide to practice fast-
ing yourself, heed attention to it. Master the
method gradually, study the resources, others’
experience and, most importantly, watch your-
self. If, after short -term fasting, you start over-
eating and cannot control your behavior, do not
undertake long fasts in any case.
So, here are the main complications:

• Overeating in the first days after fasting.  If,
however, this happens after fasting and you
have overfilled your stomach, you must in-
duce vomiting and flush the stomach. Then
resume the withdrawal in the usual manner. If
you overeat later on, conduct a one -day fast,
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foods.
• Edema, urinary retention. A rather frequent
complication. It occurs due to the fact that
during fasting the body expends potassium
and the intake of salty foods in the early stages
of recovery contributes to the accumulation of
sodium, and as  a result, of water, in the cells.
Although it can be also observed even with
proper withdrawal from fasting after long pe-
riods of time and in beginners. Usually, it
manifests through rapid weight gain. The
amount of urine is reduced, and swelling of
the face and the legs may appear. If such
symptoms occur, salty foods and salt -contain-
ing foods should be excluded from the diet.
Attempt to eat nothing on this day, take 3
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water, 4 times a day every three hours, then
take 40 g


 dinner with more avocado, plus a plate of seed cheese on f lax crackers.
Such a regimen can easily top 75% fat and may seem far too heavy for a seas oned raw fooder. Over time, most people who
eat a raw diet refine their menus, eventually ending up eating “s imple meals,” which include more fruits and vegetables and fewer
fats. But it takes precious little in the way of nuts and seeds to equal or e xceed the percentage of fat consumed by the average
American. Even longtime raw fooders who consider their diets massivel y simplified in comparison to their early days are often
astonished to learn that they still consume an average of 40 or 50% fat!

“Don’t W orry, It’s Raw …”
Many leaders of the raw food movement endow raw foods with almost supernatu ral powers, teaching that consuming fat won’t
harm us “as long as it is raw fat.” They tell people that the unst able fats in nuts and seeds can withstand the sustained heat of leng thy
dehydration and subsequent room-temperature storage without degrading or  going rancid. This is wishful thinking on the part of
people wishing to profit from the high-fat raw fad by selling flax cracke rs, granola bars, and other dehydrated prepared foods.
Eating such concoctions within hours of dehydration is safest, but it is  still a far cry from eating fresh, unprocessed whole-food fats
as they occur in nature. Some even pride themselves on eating 80% of calor ies from fat and beyond, recommending such a program
as perfectly safe, which it categorically is not.
The high-fat raw foods that well-meaning raw chefs, teachers, and a uthors promote are very likely to cause in raw fooders
many of the same health issues that plague cooked food eaters, including c andida, chronic and intermittent fatigue, and even heart
disease. These maladies result in large part from excess fat in the  bloodstream, a correlation explained in Chapter 2. Sadly, I
personally know two raw fooders who have undergone open-heart surgery t his decade. Y es … their high-fat raw diets resulted in
the total blockage of their coronary arteries.
Raw fats are without question far better for us than cooked fats—espe cially when they come from whole plants as opposed to
extracted oils or cooked animal products. But do not let anyone mislead you: the h abitual consumption of fatty foods is not a
healthful practice.

Cooked or Raw, Too Much Fat Is Still Too Much Fat
Whether you eat cooked animal fat, cold-pressed plant oil, or whole-food raw f ats, too much fat is too much fat … and we must
recognize its health-destroying potential. Below are a few examp les. (See “Cooking Damages Nutrients” for more information on
the additional  health problems we create by cooking our fats.)
 Cooked or raw, higher-than-healthy levels of fat in the bloodstream for ce fat to “precipitate out” and adhere to arterial walls,
a condition known as atherosclerosis. Hypertension, aneurism, atheroscl erosis, embolism (thrombus), myocardial infarction,
cerebral infarction, and other vascular disorders are all related to ex cessive consumption of dietary fat.
Cooked or raw, increased fat in the bloodstream reduces the oxygen-carryin g capacity of red blood cells, predisposing us to
cancer. A lowered blood-oxygen level also adversely affects all cellu lar function, including muscle and brain-cell function.
Reduced oxygen to the brain results in impaired clarity of thought, poor deci sion making, and a dull mind. Some researchers
have suggested that impaired oxygen delivery sets the stage for sen ility, memory dysfunction, and learning disabilities.
Cooked or raw, increased fat in the bloodstream requires an increased epineph rine (adrenaline) response in order to drive the
pancreas to produce insulin. Following excess stimulation, adrenal exh austion sets in, as required by the Law of Dual Effect.
Adrenal exhaustion is the precursor for conditions such as mononucleosi s, Epstein-Barr virus, chronic fatigue
syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), post-viral fatigue syn drome, lupus, and myofascial disease, to name just a few.
Cooked or raw, increased fat in the bloodstream results in increased demand f or insulin, known as insulin resistance. As
described in Chapter 2, the resulting continuous drain on the pancreas ev entually leads to pancreatic fatigue and chronically
elevated blood-sugar levels. This predisposes us to a group of lipid (fat) meta bolic disorders, mistakenly referred to as
“blood-sugar metabolic disorders”: hyper- and hypoglycemia, hyperin sulinism, candida infections, diabetes, and others.
Cooked or raw, the excessive consumption of fat has been incontrovertibly li nked to the development of cancer, heart
disease, and diabetes. Future research is expected to continue to support th is statement, as countless thousands of studies
have already done, including the Framingham Heart Study and the Chin a Study, respectively the longest and the largest
nutrition studies ever undertaken. When other lifestyle factors ar e equal, the greater the amount of fat that a population
consumes, the higher the rates of these dreaded conditions. It has been sh own that when we consume more fat than we
require, we almost invariably consume less carbohydrate than we requi re. Insufficient carbohydrate consumption will result in
feelings of fatigue, loss of strength, reduced sex drive, and a general l owering of vigor and vitality.

“Not Me,” Y ou Say?
If you have been following a raw diet, you are probably almost certa in that it does not contain 60% or more fat. “I love my salads. I
eat lots of greens,” you say. “I eat tons of fruit, too, compared to most people. There’s no way I eat that much fat!” Y et fat has a
way of sneaking into the diet, whether it is cooked or raw, and you won’t notice i t unless you understand where it comes from.
I analyze what people eat on an ongoing basis. While I occasionally meet s omeone who both claims to consume a low-fat diet
and actually does so, far more frequently people are shocked at the analysis  they receive. In almost every instance, people discover
that the raw food cuisine they consider the ultimate in health has a ctually become a very high-fat program.

Low-Fat Cooked vs. High-Fat Raw
People often ask whether it is better to eat a low-fat cooked diet or a hig h-fat raw one. Some people ask, “which is worse?”
It is important to differentiate between eating “just to stay ra w” and eating for health. The 80/10/10rv  plan represents the ideal—the
eating program that is optimal in every way, including your health. If  you were asked to choose between shooting yourself in the foot
or shooting yourself in the hand, hopefully your choice would be not to shoot yours elf at all. Choosing between the lesser of two
evils is not the point of The 80/10/10 Diet. Each situation calls for the application of intelligence. You may oft en have to make
decisions regarding the quality of your food. Knowing the ideal will serve  you extremely well: whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic, low-
fat plants.
That said, I must emphasize that habitually eating a high-fat raw  diet is profoundly damaging to the body, and we do ourselves
no favors by rationalizing, “I know all this fat isn’t so great for me, but at least it keeps me raw.” If I found myself—on rare occasion
—with only high-fat raw or low-fat cooked plant-food options, I would make one  of two choices: Either I would forgo eating
altogether by skipping that meal, or I would indulge in the high-fat meal  and then follow it with a day or more where I eat no overt
fat whatsoever. The occasional high-fat meal (preferably about six, a nd an absolute maximum of twelve times per year)  is certainly
an allowable exception, as the goal is to keep the overall  diet as close to the 80/10/10  parameter as possible.
I do realize, however, that for various reasons some people find themselves  ongoingly  unable to eat enough fruit to make a
low-fat raw vegan diet feasible for them. For such people, I must admit tha t eating in the 80/10/10  proportion, regardless of the
food choices, wins hands down over habitually partaking of the high-fat foods popu lar at raw potlucks, restaurants, festivals,
retreats, and workshops. If high-fat raw or low-fat cooked seem your only options, choose the low-fat option, every time.
If you must eat gourmet raw for a handful of “transitional” months, go ah ead … but keep your eye on the 80/10/10rv  target, if
health is your goal. Please, keep in mind that by far the easiest transi tion to this way of eating is invariably the shortest one, as
verified by the many who have gone before you.

Why Raw Fooders Eat So Much Fat Just as in the mainstream population, many raw fooders have been taught  to fear sugar and, therefore, to fear fruit. Eating lots


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plenty! It is a very powerful substance! The flavor of wheat grass juice is sointense that some people have to mix it with carrot juice to get it down. DO NOTOVERUSE. The energizing effects of wheat grass can be so powerful that somepeople make a regular practice of drinking it. However, I’ve seen many peoplewho use wheat grass juice as a tonic become allergic to it much as antibioticdependent people do to antibiotics. Better to save wheat grass for emergencies.
I also have treated my own breast cancers—twice. The first time I was only
23 years old. One night I noticed that it hurt to sleep the way I usually did on myleft side because there was a hard lump in my left breast. It was quite large—about the size of a goose egg. Having just completed RN training two years prior,I had been well brain washed about my poor prognosis and knew exactly whatrequisite actions must taken.
I scheduled a biopsy under anesthetic, so that if the tumor was malignant they
could proceed to full mastectomy without delay. I was ignorant of any alternativecourse of action at the time.
I might add that before I grew my first tumor I had been consuming large
amounts of red meat in a mistaken understanding gained in nursing school that agood diet contained large amounts of animal protein. In addition to the stress ofbeing a full time psychology graduate student existing on a very low budget, I wasexperiencing I very frustrating relationship with a young man that left meconstantly off center and confused.
A biopsy was promptly performed. The university hospital’s SOP required
that three pathologists make an independent decision about the nature of a tumorbefore proceeding with radical surgery. Two of the pathologist agreed that mytumor was malignant, which represented the required majority vote. But thesurgeon removed only the lump, which he said was well encapsulated and forsome reason did not proceed with a radical mastectomy. These days manysurgeons routinely limit themselves to lumpectomies.
I never did find out why I awakened from general anesthetic with two breasts,
but I have since supposed that due to my tender age the surgeon was reluctant todisfigure me without at least asking me for permission, or giving me some time toprepare psychologically. When I came out of anesthesia he told me that the lumpwas malignant, and that he had removed it, and that he needed to do a radicalmastectomy to improve my prognosis over the next few years. He asked me tothink it over, but he signed me up on his surgery list for the following Monday.
I did think it over and found I was profoundly annoyed at the idea of being
treated like I was just a statistic, so I decided that I would be unique. I made afirm decision that I would be well and stay well—and I was for the next fifteenyears. The decision healed me.
When I was 37 I had a recurrence. At the time I had in residence Ethyl and
Marge, the two far-gone breast cancer cases I already told you about. I also hadin residence a young woman with a breast tumor who had not undergone anymedical treatment, not even a lumpectomy. (I will relate her case in detail shortly.)I was too identified emotionally with helping these three, overly-empathetic due to
my own history. I found myself taking on their symptoms and their pain. I went so
far into sympathy as to grow back my tumor—just as it had the first time—a lumpmushroomed from nothing to the size of a goose egg in only three weeks inexactly the same place as the first one. Just out of curiosity I went in for a needlebiopsy. Once again it was judged to be malignant, and I got the same pressurefrom the surgeon for immediate surgery. This time, however, I had an alternativesystem of healing that I believed in. So I went home, continued to care for myvery sick residents, and began to work on myself.
The first thing I had to confront about myself was that I was being a
compassionate fool. I needed to learn how to maintain my own personalboundaries, and clearly delineate what stuff in my mind and my body was reallymine and what was another’s. I needed to apply certain mental techniques of self-protection known to and practiced by many healers. I knew beyond doubt that Ihad developed sympathetic breast cancer because a similar phenomena hadhappened to me before. Once, when I had previously been working on a personwith very severe back pain with hands-on techniques, I suddenly had the pain,and the client was totally free of it. So I protected myself when working with sickpeople. I would wash my hands and arms thoroughly with cold water, or withwater and vinegar after contact. I would shake off their “energy,” have a coldshower, walk bare foot on the grass, and visualize myself well with intactboundaries. These prophylaxes had been working for me, but I was particularlyvulnerable to people with breast cancer.
I also began detoxification dieting, took more supplements, and used
acupressure and reflexology as my main lines of attack. My healing diet consistedof raw food exclusively. I allowed myself fruits (not sweet fruits) and vegetables(including a lot of raw cabbage because vegetables in the cabbage family such ascauliflower and broccoli are known to have a healing effect on cancer), rawalmonds, raw apricot kernels, and some sprouted grains and legumes. I drankdiluted carrot juice, and a chlorophyll drink made up of wheat grass and barley
green and aloe vera juice. I took echinaechia, red clover, and fenugreek seeds. I
worked all the acupuncture points on my body that strengthen the immune system,including the thymus gland, lymph nodes, and spleen. I also worked the meridians,and reflex points for the liver, and large intestine. I massaged the breast along thenatural lines of lymphatic drainage from the area.
Last, and of great importance, I KNEW that the treatment would work, and
that the tumor would quickly disappear. It did vanish totally in three months. Itwould have gone away quicker if I had water fasted, but I was unable to do thisbecause I needed physical strength to care for my resident patients and family.
Eighteen years have passed since that episode, and I have had no further
reappearance of breast tumors. At age 55 I still have all my body parts, and havehad no surgery except the original lumpectomy. Many, viewing my muscles andathletic performance, would say my health is exceptional but I know my ownfrailties and make sure I do not aggravate them. I still have exactly the same organdeficiencies as other cancer patients and must keep a very short leash on mylifestyle.
If for some reason I wanted to make my life very short, all I would have to do
would be to abandon my diet, stop taking supplements, eat red meat and icecream every day and be unhappy about something. Incidentally, I have had manyresidential clients with breast cancer since then, and have not taken on theirsymptoms, so I can assume that I have safely passed that hurdle.
I’ve helped dozens of cases of simple breast cancer where my treatment
began before the cancer broadly spread. Kelly’s case was not the easiest of thisgroup, nor the hardest. Sometimes there was lymphatic involvement that themedical doctors had not yet treated in any way. All but one of my early-onsetbreast cancer cases recovered. I believe those are far better results than achievedby AMA treatment.
Before I crow too much, let me stress that every one of these women was a
good candidate for recovery—under 40 years old, ambulatory and did not feel
very sick. And most importantly, every one of them had received no other
debilitating medical treatment except a needle biopsy or simple lumpectomy.None of these women had old tumors (known about for more than six months)and none of the tumors were enormous (nothing larger than a walnut).
Clearly, this group is not representative of the average breast cancer case.
Hygienic therapy for cancer is a radical idea these days and tends to attractyounger people, or older, desperate people who have already been through theworks. In every one of my simple cases the tumors were reabsorbed by the bodyduring the thirty days of water fasting and the client left happy.
Except one. I think I should describe this unsuccessful case, this “dirty case,”
so my readers get a more balanced idea of how fearsome cancer really isn’t if thesick person can clearly resolve to get better and has no problem about achievingwellness.
Marie was an artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up back East in an
upper-middle class dysfunctional family. She was in her late twenties. She hadbeen sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had neverbeen able to communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover(honestly?, maybe, about some things).
Three years prior to coming to see me Marie had been medically diagnosed as
having breast cancer and had been advised to have immediate surgery. Sheignored this advice; Marie never told her friends, said nothing to her family andtried to conceal it from her lover because she did not want to disrupt their life.
On her own she did begin eating a Macrobiotic diet. In spite of this diet, the
tumor grew, but grew very slowly. After two years the tumor was discovered byher lover, who after a year of exhausting and upsetting arguments, forced Marie toseek treatment. Since Marie adamantly refused to go the conventional medicalroute, she ended up on my doorstep as a compromise.
By this time the tumor was the size of a fist and had broken through the skin of
the left breast. It was very ugly, very hard. Biokinesiology showed


 Hundreds of doctors have seen me do this.
We have taught nearly 1,000 people the basic principles of this
course, and many of them are medical doctors and chiropractors. 86 They are now using the RBTI tests and are amazed at the accuracy
of this even though all nine seminars have not yet been taught. We
have been teaching these seminars now for over two years.
My estimate is that 4% of all the people who take the seminars
will master them and to actually see the picture that these numbers in-dicate.
Numbers do paint pictures, as they too are a language. An archi-
tect must see the picture in his mind before he can take the math that he knows and make a blueprint of the building, the bridge, or whatev-er he is going to build. He must see every number and every piece of material it takes to make whatever the blueprint calls for before an es-timate of cost and time to build it can be completed. If an architect can
do that with a building why can't a biophysicist do it with a person's body? It can be done for I have done it.
I am not out to prove anything. I am out to make America the
healthiest nation on earth. I am teachin g principles that are in the Bi-
ble. When these principles are put into proper practice God will bless, God will honor, God will restore people to health.
Bad health is a result of disobedience to the laws God has made.
Good health is obedience to the laws that God has made.
I readily accepted the challenge to prove this when I taught the
first seminar.   87 CHAPTER 11
HOW A NEW CELL IS DEVELOPED

A new cell does not develop by dividing. It forms by a process of
ionization, the same way that a silver-plated, nickel-plated or chromi-um-plated process takes place.
The liver manufactures amino acids. (I have already explained
how amino acids are formed and established, etc.). Then on the end of a nerve when it is cut it forms little branches. On each end of these lit-tle branches it forms a stolon which is a cation of energy which lodges with nowhere else to go. This pr ocess repeats itself and a cell comes
into being. It does this on both sides of a cut, or bruise as an incision from an operation. This process is cal led knitting. If there is a mineral
deficiency adhesions form and the flesh is hard. But if the mineral is sufficient then no adhesions form. If the mineral is plentiful there will not even be a scar left from the ope ration. It may be a little lighter in
color, or maybe a bit of a marking there for a few months, or even a few years, but there will be no adhesions. All adhesions are caused by a mineral deficiency. Many times adhesions form within the body be-cause of a mineral deficiency when there has not been any operation because the worn-out cells are swelled and there is not enough mineral to force them into the blood stream, or to break them loose from the nerve ending, and for a new stolon to form and a new cell to come into
being.
Until the principle of the forming of a cell is understood, all diag-
nosis can be incorrect.
RBTI is not a system of diagnosis. It is a system of analysis. An analysis is something that is very accurate. It is very difficult
to find a group of doctors that agr ee on any diagnosis, but if one mil-
lion people did a RBTI test all of them would come up with the same answer and it would be accurate. (it is very easy to miss a diagnosis and to make a true analysis but it is impossible if your instruments and laboratory equipment are kept clean. However, humans being what they are, it is possible for a lack of training to misinterpret the analy-88 sis.) It practically eliminates human error because there are ways to
prove whether or not the mathematics of the RBTI is accurate or not.
If you can think of a jigsaw picture with only nine different pat-
terns of parts, but yet the parts of variable sizes, then you can imagine the shape and form of energy that makes up a human body, which is the most complicated of all the creatures God made.
If you would look at the brain under an ultraviolet ray microscope,
it would look like a series of little rods. These small rods are not the brain at all, they lead to brain ce lls which are round, and at the end of
each one of the rods is a very small round cello They are in clusters. Each one of the clusters causes us to do certain things. In the left quadrant of the brain rests the involuntary system of the body which controls the vagus nerve system. The right quadrant of the brain is the one that controls the muscular action. The frontal part of the brain controls our thoughts, our knowledge and etc. Whenever we wish to recall something we are using the frontal part of the brain. If there is a potassium deficiency then electrical impulses do not travel in the de-sired paths to locate the information in the cluster in which it is stored. Therefore, we are absent-minded. But don't let that excite you at all because absent-mindedness is a sign of genius.
Now, if it gets to the place where it is forgetfulness, it is rather se-
rious because then delta cells are beginning to form and maybe the re-call is gone forever.
Omega cells are premature aging and death has started. On a
peach, apple or banana, if there is a rotten spot, as far as that fruit is concerned that is complete loss of  reserve energy because it is de-
cayed flesh of that fruit. Decayed flesh in our system is complete loss of reserve energy.
We have cancers that are benign, that means they are contained,
and then we also have malignant cancers. However, a benign cancer may be malignant too, for it also may be growing very rapidly even though it is still benign. It is like a boil, which is a type of cancer. It has a rotten core in it, and that rotte n flesh is cancer in any man's lan-
guage. Any other rotten or decaying flesh is cancer, whether it is a 89 pimple on the face, or a sore on the leg or arm, or anywhere in the sys-
tem.
Our system should throw out a few hundred thousand delta cells
every day and replace them with new cells. This is the process of life. Every cell in our body, from the brain to the tip end of the too should be exchanged about every six months. The proof of that is the finger-nail. They grow out about every six months. As long as this is happen-
ing, cells being replaced throughout the whole system, you are in per-fect health, and in for a ripe old age. This is what the perfect equation denotes: How to grow old in good health.
Fifteen years ago I was called to the hospital early in the morning.
I had been there nearly all day with doctors on various patients that had accumulated while I had been out  of town. I had just gotten home
on a Friday afternoon and did not wish to go back to the hospital when the telephone rang with the message that they had a case and for me to come in. A woman, age 35, had broken out in hives two hours earlier from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. You couldn't put a pin down on her body anywhere but what there was a hive. She was about as red as a beet. The doctor asked if I had any suggestions to make without coming to the hospital. "No," I said, "I can only come to that answer by asking the lady some questions first."
The three doctors had examined her and one called me about the
case.
I asked if the lady had had a family upset, family argument. No, she had not had any family upset. Had she had any bad news from anywhere that upset her, like an
illness or death in the family? No she hadn't had any of that.
How long after she ate did she have this attack? They said three
hours.
Did she have cold hands or cold feet? No cold hands, no cold feet. I then said that the hives were caused by a calcium imbalance, and
the only thing that could have thrown her calciums out of balance so quickly was a heart attack. I asked how long it took the hives to come on. They answered, "15 to 20 minutes."
Did she have sharp-shooting pains in her stomach or chest? 90 Yes, but it quickly went away.
How long from then until the hives broke out? From 20 to 30
minutes.
That meant the hives had broken out in a ten-minute period from
the top of her head to the tip of her feet. Then I said, "See if she has not had a heart attack, and if she has not had a heart attack then I will
come to the hospital. Call me back  within an hour, let me know one
way or the other."
One other question I had asked, Did she have deep wrinkles in her
forehead? The answer was, "Yes." This indicates inward tension and potential of heart attack.
The inward cause of body chemistry will cause outward effects on
the body. In the seminars we teach the students who take the numbers to be able to describe the person. They learn to describe the outward appearance. The numbers talk and give the inward appearance. (lf your wife sent you to town to get a


olve, to grow, to truly become Who You
Really Are. Your mind is right now filled  with
old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but
mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s
important now, it’s time now, to change
your mind about some things. This is what
evolution is all about.
  Chapter 12
Why can’t I do what I really want to do with
my life and still make a living?
What? You mean you actually want to have
fun in your life, and still earn your keep?
Brother, are you dreaming!
What? —
Only ki dding —just doing a little mind
reading, that’s all. You see, that’s been your
thought about it.
It’s been my experience.
Yes. Well, we’ve been all through this now
a number of times. The people who  make
a living doing what they love are the people
who insi st on doing so. They don’t  give up.
They never give in. They dare life not to let
them do what they love.  But there’s another element that must be
brought up, because this is the missing
element in most people’s understanding
when it comes to life work.
What’s that?
There’s a difference between being and
doing, and most people have placed their
emphasis on the latter.
Shouldn’t they?
There’s no “should” or “should not”
involved. There’s only what you choose,
and how  you can have it. If you choose
peace an d joy and love, you won’t get
much of it  through what you’re doing. If you
choose happiness and contentment, you’ll
find little  of that on the path of doingness. If
you choose reunion with God, supreme
knowing,  deep understanding, endless compassion, total  awareness, absolute
fulfillment, you  won’t achieve much of that
out of what you’re doing.
In other words, if you choose evolution —
the evolution of your soul —you won’t
produce that by the worldly activities of
your body. Doing is a function of the body.
Being is a function of the soul. The body is
always doing something. Every minute of
every day it’s up to something. It never
stops, it never rests, it’s constantly doing
something. It’s either doing what it’s doing
at the behest of the soul —or in spite of  the
soul. The quality of your life hangs in the
balance.
The soul is forever being. It is being what it
is being, regardless of what the body is
doing, not because of what it’s doing.  If you think your life is about doingness, you
do not understand what you are about.
Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a
living —and when your life is over, neither
will you. Your soul cares only about what
you’re being while you’re doing whatever
you’re doing.
It is a state of beingness the soul is after,
not a state of doingness.
What is the soul seeking to be?
Me.
You.
Yes, Me. Your soul is Me, and it knows it.
What it is doing, is trying to experience  that.
And what it is remembering is that the best
way to have this experience is by  not doing
anything. There is nothing to do but to be.  Be what?
Whatever you want to be. Happy. Sad.
Weak. Strong. Joyful. Vengeful. Insightful.
Blind. Good. Bad. Male. Female. You name
it. I mean that literally. You name it.
This is all very profound, but what does it
have to do with my career? I’m trying to find
a way to stay alive, to survive, to support
myself and my family, doing what I like to
do.
Try being what you like to be.
What do you mean?
Some people make lots of money doing
what they do, others can’t make a go o f it—
and they’re doing the same thing. What
makes the difference?
Some people have more skill than others.  That’s the first cut. But now we get to the
second cut. Now we’re down to two people
with relatively equal skills. Both graduated
from college, both were at the top of their
class, both understand the nature of what
they’re doing, both know how to use their
tools with great facility —yet one still does
better than the other; one flourishes while
the other struggles. What’s that about?
Location.
Location?
Somebody once told me there are only
three things to consider when starting a
new business —location, location, and
location.
In other words, not “What are you going to
do?” but “Where are you going to be?”
Exactly.  That sounds like the answer to my question
as well. The soul is concerned only with
where you are going to be.
Are you going to be in a place called fear,
or in a place called love? Where are you —
and where are you coming from —as you
encounter life? Now, in the example of  the
two equally qu alified workers, one is
successful and the other is not, not
because of anything either is doing, but
because of what both are being.
One person is being open, friendly, caring,
helpful, considerate, cheerful, confident,
even joyful in her work, while the other is
being closed, distant, uncaring,
inconsiderate, grumpy, even resentful of
what she is doing. Now suppose you were
to select even loftier states of beingness?
Suppose you were to select goodness,  mercy, compassion, understanding,
forgiveness, love?  What if you were to
select  Godliness? What then would be your
experience?
I tell you this:
Beingness attracts beingness, and
produces experience.
You are not on this planet to produce
anything with your body. You are on this
planet to produce something wi th your soul.
Your body is simply and merely the tool  of
your soul. Your mind is the power that
makes the body go. So what you have here
is a power tool, used in the creation of the
soul’s desire.
What is the soul’s desire?
Indeed, what is it?  I don’t know. I’m asking You.
I don’t know. I’m asking you.
This could go on forever.
It has.
Wait a minute! A moment ago, You said the
soul is seeking to be You.
So it is.
Then that is the soul’s desire.
In the broadest sense, yes. But this Me it is
seeking to be  is very complex, very  multi -
dimensional, multi -sensual, multi -faceted.
There are a million aspects to Me. A  billion.
A trillion. You see? There is the profane and
the profound, the lesser and the  larger, the
hollow and the holy, the ghastly and the
Godly.  You see?  Yes, yes, I see...the up and the down, the
left and the right, the here and the there,
the before and the after, the good and the
bad...
Precisely. I am the Alpha and the Omega.
That was not just a pretty saying, or a  nifty
concept. That was Truth expressed.
So, in seeking to be Me, the soul has a
grand job ahead of it; an enormous menu
of beingness from which to choose. And
that is what it is doing in this moment now.
Choosing states of being.
Yes—and then producing the right and
perfect cond itions within which to create
the experience of that. It is therefore true
that nothing happens to you or through you
that is not for your own highest good.  You mean my soul is creating all of my
experience, including not only the things I
am doing, but th e things that are happening
to me?
Let us say that the soul leads you to the
right and perfect opportunities for you to
experience exactly what you had planned
to experience. What you actually
experience is up to you. It could be what
you planned to experi ence, or it could be
something else, depending upon what you
choose.
Why would I choose something I don’t wish
to experience?
I don’t know. Why would you?
Do You mean that sometimes the soul
wishes one thing, and the body or the mind
wishes another?  What d o you think?
But how can the body, or the mind, overrule
the soul? Doesn’t the soul always get what
it wants?
The spirit of you seeks, in the largest
sense, that grand moment when you have
conscious awareness of its wishes, and
join in joyful oneness with them. But the
spirit will never, ever, force its desire on the
present, conscious, physical part of you.
The Father will not force His will upon the
Son. It is a violation of His very nature to  do
so, and thus, quite literally, impossible.
The Son will not  force His will upon the Holy
Spirit


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 microorganisms that are too small to be seen with the naked eye. Microorganisms
that are harmful to human health are referred to as pathogens, that is, organisms that
are capable of causing disease. Most bacteria, however, are not pathogens, and it has been estimated that nonpathogenic or harmless bacteria make up over 70% of all bacteria. It is also estimated that about 100 trillion mostly benign bacteria—called normal flora—are found symbiotically in the human body, primarily in the oral mucosa, intestines, and surface of the skin. Bacterial cells consequently outnumber human cells by a factor of 10 to 1. Normal flora in the body has created the recently discovered human microbiome, an ecosystem that has been linked not only to the digestion of food but also to obesity, depression, asthma, Crohn’s disease, and even cancer.
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_The_19_Century.indd   20 26/02/16   4:42 pm21 Early Origins t O th E 19th C EnturyWe tend to underestimate the medical skills of apparently
undeveloped communities—particularly during the so-called
Dark Ages in medieval Europe—but it is evident that many
people had a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of plant
medicine. For example, recent excavations at an 11th-century
monastic hospital in Scotland revealed that the monks were
using exotic herbs such as opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum,
p. 244) and marijuana ( Cannabis sativa, p. 182) as painkillers and
anesthetics. Likewise, the herbalists in Myddfai, a village in
South Wales, obviously knew of Hippocrates’ writings in the
6th century ce and used a wide variety of medicinal plants.
The texts that have been handed down from that herbal
tradition are filled with an engaging blend of superstition and
wisdom. Two prescriptions from a 13th-century manuscript
illustrate the point. The first recipe could have been written by
a modern, scientifically trained herbalist; the second, one must
presume, is pure fancy, and would not choose to try it out!
To Strengthen the Sight
Take Eyebright and Red Fennel, a handful of each, and half a handful
of Rue, distil, and wash your eye daily therewith.
To Destroy a Worm in the Tooth
Take the root of a cat’s ear, bruise, and apply to the patient’s tooth
for three nights, and it will kill the worm.
Islamic & Indian Medicine 500–1500 ce
Folk medicine was largely unaffected by sweeping forces of
history, but Western scholastic medicine suffered greatly with
the decline of the Roman Empire.
 It was thanks to the flowering of Arabic culture in
500–1300 ce  that the gains of the classical Greek and Roman period were preserved and elaborated. The spread
of Islamic culture along North Africa and into present-day
Italy, Spain, and Portugal led to the founding of renowned
medical schools, notably at Cordoba in Spain. The Arabs
were expert pharmacists, blending and mixing herbs to
improve their medicinal effect and their taste. Their
contacts with both Indian and Chinese medical traditions
meant that they had a remarkable range of medical and
herbal knowledge to draw on and develop. Avicenna
(980–1037 ce ), author of Canon of Medicine, was the
most famous physician of the day, but perhaps the most
unusual herbal connection was made a century before
his time by Ibn Cordoba, an intrepid Arab seafarer, who
brought ginseng root ( Panax ginseng, p. 118) from China
to Europe. This valuable tonic herb was to be regularly
imported into Europe from the 16th century onward.
 Further east, in India, the 7th century saw a golden age
of medicine. Thousands of students studied Ayurveda at
university, especially at Nalanda. There, scholars recorded
the medical achievements of the time, with advances such
as the development of hospitals, maternity homes, and the
planting of medicinal herb gardens.
Central & South American Cures
On the other side of the world, the ancient civilizations
of Central and South America—Maya, Aztec, and Inca—
all had herbal traditions with a profound understanding
of local medicinal plants. One account tells of Incas taking
local herbalists from what is now Bolivia back to their
capital Cuzco in Peru because of the herbalists’ great
capabilities, which reputedly included growing penicillin
on green banana skins.
 At the same time, medicine and religion were still closely
interwoven in these cultures, possibly even more so than
in Europe. One gruesome account tells of Aztec sufferers
of skin diseases who sought to appease the god Xipe
Totec by wearing the flayed skins of sacrificial victims.
Fortunately, a supernatural appeal to the gods
was not the sole means to relieve this and
other afflictions. Many herbs were available
as alternative treatments, including
sarsaparilla ( Smilax  spp., p. 270), a tonic
and cleansing herb that was used
in treatments for a variety of skin
complaints including eczema
and psoriasis.
Galen and Hippocrates, two of the
preeminent physicians of the classical
era, debate in this imaginary scene
depicted in a fresco.
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The developmen T of herbal medicine
Rebirth of European Scholarship 1000–1400 ce
As European scholars slowly started to absorb the lessons
of Arabic medical learning in the early Middle Ages, classical
Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts preserved in the libraries of Constantinople (later Istanbul) filtered back to Europe, and hospitals, medical schools, and universities were founded. Perhaps the most interesting among them was the medical school at Salerno on the west coast of Italy. It not only allowed students from all faiths—Christian, Muslim, and Jewish—to study medicine, but it also allowed women to train as physicians. Trotula, a woman who wrote a book on obstetrics, practiced and taught there in the 12th century ce. Herbs were, of course, central to the healing process. An adage from the Salerno school on sage (Salvia officinalis,  p. 131) went as follows: Salvia salvatrix, natura conciliatrix
(sage, the savior; nature, the conciliator). By the 12th century, trade with Asia and Africa was
expanding and new herbs and spices were being regularly imported into Europe. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179),
the famous German mystic and herbal authority, considered galangal (Alpinia officinarum, p. 61)—used in Asia as a warming and nourishing spice for the digestive system—to be the “spice of life,” given by God to provide health and to protect against illness.
Asian Unification
Marco Polo’s travels to China in the 14th century coincided with the unification of the whole of Asia from the Y ellow
Sea in China to the Black Sea in southeastern Europe by Genghis Khan and his grandson Kublai Khan, whose capital
was in China, not far from Beijing. Neither the Chinese nor Ayurvedic medical traditions were directly threatened by this conquest. The Mongol rulers were strict in banning the use of certain toxic plants such as aconite (Aconitum napellus,  p. 160), but their decree may have held an element of self-Marco Polo’s voyage to China in the 14th century opened the door for a flourishing
reciprocal trade in goods, including medicinal herbs, between East and West. Eventually,  exotic herbs like ginger, cinnamon, and cloves became widely used in European medicine  and cooking.
Manuscript page from an Anglo-Saxon herbal of about 1050 ce, illustrating the aerial parts and root system of a medicinal plant.preservation, given aconite’s alternative use as an arrow
poison—one that could have been used against the ruling powers. Moreover, the Mongol unification may have encouraged greater communication between the two medical disciplines. In other parts of Asia, such as Vietnam and Japan, Chinese culture and medicine exerted the primary influence.  While kampoh—the traditional herbal medicine of Japan— is distinctive to that country, its roots stem from
Chinese practices.
Trade between Continents 1400–1700
Trade routes had slowly expanded during the Middle Ages, bringing exotic new herbs in their wake. From the 15th century onward, an explosion in trade led to a cornucopia  of new herbs becoming readily available in Europe. They included plants such as ginger (Zingiber officinale, p. 155), cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum, p. 93), nutmeg (Myristica fragrans, p. 115), turmeric (Curcuma longa, p. 90), cinnamon (Cinnamomum spp., p. 81), and senna (Cassia senna, p. 75).
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one way. The European herb sage,
for example, came into use in China,
where it was considered to be a
valuable yin tonic.
 The arrival of Columbus’ ships in
the Caribbean in 1492 was followed
by the rapid conquest and
colonization of central and
south America by the Spanish
and Portuguese. Along with
their booty of plundered
gold, the conquistadores
returned to the Old World
with previously unheard-of
medicinal plants. Many
of these herbs from the
Americas had highly potent
medicinal actions, and they
soon became available in the apothecaries of the major
European cities. Plants such as lignum vitae ( Guaiacum
officinale, p. 218) and cinchona ( Cinchona  spp., p. 80) with
strong medicinal actions were used with greater and lesser
degrees of success as treatments for fever, malaria, syphil


 such
as conjunctivitis, mastitis (inflammation of the breasts), and rheumatism.
Research  Chinese research indicates that the
Asian species has significant antimicrobial activity, including against the tuberculosis bacillus. Clinical studies suggest that this species can also help to lower high blood pressure.
Caution  Do not eat the berries, which are
thought to be toxic.
Loofah fruit is dried and used in Chinese medicine to treat
muscle and joint pain.
Peyote is a powerful hallucinogen. It is used in  Native American ceremonies.It is best known in the West as a bathroom
accessory—the fibrous skeleton makes a good  skin scrubber.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  In Chinese
medicine, the inner skeleton of the dried fruit  is used to treat pain in the muscles, joints, chest,  and abdomen. It is prescribed for chest infections accompanied by fever and pain, and is used to
clear congested mucus. Loofah is also given
to treat painful or swollen breasts.
Research  Chinese research indicates that the
fresh vine has a stronger expectorant effect than the dried fruit. German research (1999) using a homeopathic preparation of the plant showed it  to be as effective as a standard nasal spray for relief of hay fever.
Lycopodium clavatum
(Lycopodiaceae)
Club Moss
Description  Creeping evergreen moss growing
to 43⁄4 in (12 cm). Has numerous straggling
branchlets covered with bright green linear leaves,
and scaly spikes bearing yellow spores.
Habitat & Cultivation  Club moss is found
throughout temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. It is common on mountains and in moorland. The plant is gathered in summer.
Parts Used  Moss, spores.
Constituents  Club moss contains about
0.1–0.2% alkaloids (including lycopodine), polyphenols, flavonoids, and triterpenes.
History & Folklore  Club moss
has been used medicinally since at least the Middle Ages. The whole plant was employed as a diuretic to aid in the flushing out of  kidney stones. In Wales, club moss was used for certain back problems and for colds and sore throats. Being strongly water-resistant, the spores are still used to coat tablets. The spores ignite explosively and have been used in  making fireworks.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Club moss is
diuretic, sedative, and antispasmodic, and is particularly useful for treating chronic urinary issues. The herb may also be taken for indigestion and gastritis. The spores can be applied to the skin to relieve itchiness. Club moss is frequently used in homeopathic medicine, being prescribed for headache, liver problems, and digestive symptoms such as gas and burping.
 QCaution  Club moss is potentially toxic in
overdose. This plant should only be used with the supervision of a professional practitioner.Constituents  Peyote contains alkaloids, principally
mescaline, which is a powerful hallucinogen.
History & Folklore  Peyote has been used
in Native American religious ceremonies for
over 3,000 years. Its use as a hallucinogen was
popularized by Aldous Huxley in his book
The Doors of Perception.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Peyote is a
shamanistic plant, taken in Native American rituals
to deepen spiritual understanding. It plays an important part in the emotional and mental state of the community. It is also used to treat fevers, as
a painkiller for rheumatism, and to treat paralysis. It is applied as a poultice for fractures, wounds, and snake bite. Peyote is also used to induce vomiting.
Caution The use of peyote and mescaline is
illegal in most countries.
Luffa cylindrica syn. L. aegyptica
(Cucurbitaceae)
Loofah,
Si Gua Luo (Chinese)
Description  Annual vine climbing to 49 ft
(15 m). Has large lobed leaves, tendrils, and
yellow female flowers producing long cylindrical  marrow-like fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation  Loofah is native to
the tropics of Asia and Africa. It is now grown
as a fruit in tropical regions around the world.
It is harvested when ripe in summer.
Part Used  Fruit.
Constituents  Loofah contains polysaccharides,
xylan, xylose, and galactan.
History & Folklore  Loofah was brought from
India to China in the T ang Dynasty (618–907 ce).  Lophophora williamsii (Cactaceae)
Peyote
Description  Cactus growing to 2 in (5 cm).
Has a squat gray-green body with tufted hairs,  and pink or white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Peyote is native
to northern Mexico and the southwestern region of the U.S.
Part Used  Whole plant.
Club moss
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Lycopus virginicus (Lamiaceae)
Bugleweed
Description  Perennial herb growing to 2 ft
(60cm). Has a square stem, lance-shaped leaves,
and whorls of whitish flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Bugleweed is common
throughout most of North America, thriving close
to water. It is harvested in summer when in flower.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Bugleweed contains phenolic
acids (including derivatives of caffeic, chlorogenic,
and ellagic acids).
History & Folklore  In the 19th-century
Physiomedicalist tradition, bugleweed was regarded
as astringent and calming to the nerves, and was
given for loose coughs, internal bleeding, and
urinary incontinence. Herbal practitioners once
considered the plant to be a mild narcotic.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Bugleweed
has sedative properties and today the herb is
principally prescribed to treat an overactive
thyroid gland and the racing heartbeat that often
accompanies this condition. Bugleweed is also
considered an aromatic and tonic astringent
that reduces the production of mucus.
Research  Studies indicate that bugleweed and,
to some degree, gipsywort ( see Related Species,
below) reduce the activity of the thyroid gland.
Related Species  Gipsywort ( L. europaeus ), a
European native, has astringent and cardiotonic
properties. It is taken for palpitations and anxiety,
and has been used to lower fever.
 QCautions  T ake only under professional
supervision. Do not take during pregnancy.Dioscorides (40–90 ce) recommended loosestrife
to staunch wounds and for nosebleeds, and noted
that its smoke would drive away snakes and flies.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  An astringent
herb, yellow loosestrife is principally used to treat
gastrointestinal conditions such as diarrhea and
dysentery, to stop internal and external bleeding,
and to cleanse wounds. It makes a workable
mouthwash for sore gums and mouth ulcers, and
may be used to treat nosebleeds. Y ellow loosestrife
has also been taken as an expectorant.
Related Species  The yellow pimpernel
(L. nemorum ), another European native, is
astringent and staunches blood. Jin qian cao
(L. christinae ), from China, is a diuretic used to
treat urinary pain. A Chinese trial showed that
the latter is also effective in treating both kidney
stones and gallstones.
Lythrum salicaria (Lythraceae)
Purple Loosestrife
Description  Attractive perennial growing to
about 5 ft (1.5 m). Has straight red stems,
pointed lance-shaped leaves, and spikes
of brilliant purple flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Purple
loosestrife is native to Europe
but well-established in the
wild in North America.
It thrives in marshes and along rivers and streams, to altitudes of
3,300 ft (1,000 m). It is gathered when in flower
in summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Purple loosestrife contains salicarin,
a glycoside (vitexin), tannins, a volatile oil, mucilage,
and plant sterols.
History & Folklore  In 1654, the herbalist
Nicholas Culpeper praised this herb, writing that
“the distilled water is a present remedy for hurts
and blows on the eyes, and for blindness … it also
cleareth the eyes of dust or any other thing gotten
into them, and preserveth the sight.” A common
plant in Ireland, purple loosestrife was much used
there against diarrhea.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The astringent
purple loosestrife is mainly employed as a
treatment for diarrhea and dysentery. It can be
safely taken by people of all ages; some herbalists
recommend it to help arrest diarrhea in breast-
feeding babies. The herb may also be used
to treat heavy periods and for inter-menstrual
bleeding. Externally, it is applied as a poultice
or lotion to wounds, leg ulcers, and eczema,


 to cancer. Cancer of the prostate is not an uncommon condition, but it is rare
compared with the number of cases of enlarged prostate that develop.
Physicians say that the cause of prostatitis is unknown. We see in it another development out of
wrong life. Excesses in eating and drinking and in sex seem to be the most common causes.
Because no attention is given to these phases of the living habits of the sufferer, the condition tends
to grow progressively worse.
I recall a conversation I had with a man who suffered with prostatic enlargement but three years
ago. Describing his symptoms to me and the medical treatment he was getting, he added, “I eat like
a horse.” His physician had not instructed him about his eating, but was content to try to palliate
his discomforts with drugs and X-rays.
No satisfactory palliation for prostatic disease had been evolved. Operations to remove the
gland or part of it, injections to shrink the gland, and all other treatments that have been tried, have
proved to be highly unsatisfactory.
Why? Because there are no treatments that antidote wrong life. The
manner of living that results
in engorgement and enlargement—also called hypertrophy—of the prostate gland cannot be
counteracted by drugs and surgery. It will be necessary to correct the way of life.
When enlargement of the prostate and strangury (drop urine) have evolved, with their pain and
regrets, a good surgeon can end the patient’s misery—permanently. Thousands have died as a
result of prostatic operations. Perfect drainage is required for a successful operation on the
prostate gland and this is not possible.
For this reason, when a surgeon assures you. “The operation does not amount to anything; you’ll
be up and out in three days,” it would be well to ask him: “Out where?” All too often it is out in
the cemetery.
At present the better surgeons do not like to remove the prostate. Walter C. Alvarez, M.D., says
of this: “For myself I would have only one type of operation performed, and that would be the
transurethral, which is perfomed through a ligated tube which is passed down through the urethra.
“The only difficulty with this operation is that it requires much skill, and when much prostatic
tissue has been removed, the urologist must be able to operate with speed.”
With all the skill and speed the urologist may be able to exercise, the operation is still mere
palliation. It removes no cause, it restores no health. When cause is untouched it continues to build
more trouble.
At one time operations on the prostate gland were more popular than they are now. The loss of
popularity was due to the high death rate which seems to have been about twenty-five percent, and
to the great aftermath of trouble. The man who has an operation for enlargement of the prostate and
survives the operation has not settled his account with nature. Indeed, the resort to surgery almost
guarantees that he shall not be restored to health.
A troublesome prostate is the result of continued practice of habits that no self-respecting man
124will continue after he has learned the truth. From the systemic and not merely local effects of these
bad habits, surgery can provide but temporary relief.
Prostatic surgery is intended to enable ignorant old men to side-step the results of breaking the
laws of biology in their mental and physical habits. To give up the physical and mental bad habits
that build prostatitis will enable these patients to get well, providing the change of habits takes
place early enough.
Advanced prostatitis is a condition that can be completely remedied only in a small percentage
of cases, but those so afflicted can be taught how to live to make their lives more comfortable and
to greatly prolong life. Once the prostate gland has enlarged, there seems to be a strong tendency
for it to enlarge again on slight provocation. Even after it has been brought down to normal size, it
re-enlarges with ease and speed if the patient does not rigidly adhere to a healthful way of life.
I have seen prostate glands that were as large as baseballs and nearly as
hard—cases in which a
catheter (an instrument used to draw off urine) had been inserted and used because the passing of
urine was a painful process. The enlargement was reduced to nearly normal size in a week, the
hardness was entirely dissolved, so that urination was normal after proper care was given.
Commonly, however, more time than this is required to reduce the prostate.
In some cases it does not seem possible to reduce all of the enlargement, but it may be reduced
so that the urine flows freely, all discomforture in the back, hips and legs (and sometimes lumbago
and sciatica, which are not present all the time) are relieved. This is all accomplished by stopping
enervating habits, putting the patient to bed and stopping all food.
Men who have prostatic enlargement are forced to get up frequently at night to pass urine. The
irritated bladder will not retain urine in a normal manner. The nightly promenading interferes with
sleep and this results in further eneveration.
I have seen these patients who were forced to be up as many as fifteen to twenty times a night. I
have seen them, after a few days of fasting, sleep thirteen hours in a stretch without having to void
urine. Men who had great difficulty in passing urine were able to do so as freely as when they
were boys.
In only a small percentage of these cases is this improvement permanent. I have seen numerous
instances in which the enlargement recurred within two or three weeks. Overeating will result in a
speedy re-enlargment of the prostate. Nervous excitement, over-work, sexual excesses, and a
variety of other enervating indulgences will do the same. Tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol and other
stimulants quickly cause the enlargement to recur.
The fast in these cases provides only temporary relief if the way of life is not changed. The
engorgement and enlargement of the prostate gland may be reduced by a fast, but this is not all that
is necessary to the restoration of health. A short fast is certainly inadequate to reduce the prostate
more than a small amount. It will make urination easier and relieve some of the distress, but a few
days afterward the trouble will be as severe as ever, unless radical, sweeping changes in the ways
of life are made.
The fast may be used as a means of controlling the enlargement in those cases where it cannot be
permanently eliminated. If indiscretions in eating or in other facets of living have resulted in re-
enlargement of the gland, a fast of one to two days is commonly enough to restore a free urine flow
and relieve the discomfort and difficulty.
This may be repeated at intervals as need arises. But no amount of fasting will compensate for
the failure to correct completely the mode of life. If the way of life is not changed, fasting becomes
a mere palliative and, though far less harmful than other forms of palliation, leads the individual to
125depend upon palliation rather than a radical correction of cause.
12631
Gonorrhea
“I have gonorrhea; what shall I do?” The voice came over the telephone from a near-by city. The
caller was advised to fast at once, with rest.
“But I have to work, my business requires my attention. I cannot fast. Would it not be better to
take penicillin?”
Penicillin would suppress the symptoms he was told, but they would recur in a brief time. After
a short discussion, he decided to take penicillin. A few days later he called again and triumphantly
announced that he had taken penicillin, this being administered by a local physician, and that his
symptoms had all speedily cleared up. It was an old story, but one that he did not understand.
Several more days passed and he called again.
“The symptoms have returned,” he said. “What do I do now?”
Again he was advised to fast. Again he said that he could not fast. A fruit diet was urged. He
said he would try it. Eventually, after repeated failures by other methods, he went on a fast and
was soon free of his symptoms with no recurrence.
“Failure Against Gonorrhea.” was the significant title of a press release made in December,
1962, by the World Health Organization. The experts on gonorrheal infection of WHO reported
that “in spite” of the widespread employment of penicillin and other “powerful anti-biotics”
complete failure to control gonorrhea throughout the world had been registered.
Instead of wiping out the disease as the first optimistic prediction promised us, there had been
for a few years an increase in the number of cases. They estimated that there are 60,000,000 new
cases of gonorrhea each year in the world, an incidence that they blame largely on the teen-agers—
young people who had been taught that a shot of penicillin will “fix you up” in jig time.
Figures the Committee accumulated reveal that gonorrhea is more common between the ages of
fifteen and twenty-five than at any time in the past.
Many sections of the United States have reported an alarming increase in venereal disease that
is swamping clinics and control centers. Just to take the figures released in 1962 by one state,
California: 26,932 cases of gonorrhea were officially reported by physicians.
Compare this with 14,697 cases reported in 1955. It is


 advant ages to the human genesis entails
an ignorance of the most pertinent human features, those which have been absolutely essential for th e very special type of social
organization characteristic of humans as opposed to the groupings found among other animals.
The fact is that most people ha ve at one time or another known
the meaning of love, if not fully in the reality of their lives, then at least in longing and in dreaming. Love is then seen to be a condition of joy nearing ecstasy, a desire to give oneself for others, a longing for the pure and the beautiful, the righteous and noble, so powerful
as to completely transfigure the meaning of existence. In such
moments, there is no possibility of meanness and selfishness, of
brutality and cruelty. Clearly, such a humanizing predisposition, innate and biologically implante d, affecting all thought and
behaviour, has been absolutely indispensable for the familial and social structure required by an evolving and a developing brain. In
the fact of such requirements, any contrary suppositions can but
amount to faulty and injurious myth-making. Since most people like to find support for what they happen to be, rather than for what they
should be, such spurious myth-making, from which scientists themselves are not entirely absolved, are very popular.
The intensity of love's ecstasy, proving its biological
implantation, is evidently designed to be kindled in an atmosphere of sexual love, the longing for another, calling for tenderness and
solicitation, care and adoration. In such a scheme, the human body and the human face have necessarily been decreed by natural selection as the most beautiful things in the Creation, the ultimate
objects of veneration. As sexual love is fulfilled, so comes a sense of profound meaningfulness in all things. Lovers have no doubt that
life has meaning, that nature is sacred.
In such a state, mere carnality is transcended into a near divine
rapture. Each touch becomes an act of adoration, each word and movement holy. There can be no blind demand for an animal stampede into the self-centred relief of immediate coitus. On the contrary, the love game overcomes time, and when coitus occurs, it
is a sublime unitive rapture wh ich thoroughly transcends flesh,
place and time, in a 'high' whose promise was whispered in the first encounters of loving. This near divine transfiguration of the body, and thereby of the universe, in the 'high' of sexual love, is the complete opposite of the lewd and lustful, of the pornographic,
purient interest in the body, in the sexual organs. The purity which it
demands makes it the prerogative of youth, of young lovers. Although it carries an obvious ability to be shared with others, and with all things, it is the most naturally achieved in an enduring relationship with another. By definition, careless change and
promiscuity are contrary to it.
The impulse to a wider sharing of love, originally awakened in
sexual loving, takes also a sexless form of immense importance to a creature communally bonded by compassion rather than by instinct or advantage, in the love of family, of friends, of community, of nature. The natural tendency for love  to spread out into non-sexual
directions gives an indication of how sexual love itself should
evolve among lovers, in a form the most congenial and useful to society. The pristine rapture of sexual love cannot last, and is not designed to do so, but rather to be progressively replaced by compassion, in the teaming of procreation, with interests shared,
and, with advancing years, in a heightening social and spiritual
involvement. Living, loving and ageing in such an atmosphere of evolving love, the human being is assured of a meaningful participation in the function and structure of family and society. And most other cultures have believed that human society symbolically reflects the underlying structure of Creation.
Such a definition of sexual love is so contradicted by the usual
expression of sex in industrial societies, that it must appear as unreal and Utopian. Yet there is sufficient evidence that sexual love, rather than just sex, is the normal human pattern among simpler peoples, and among those few fortunate primiti es still surviving in the more
benevolent habitats.
Having a top biological priority in humanization, one can
understand why the joys that attend the achievement of sexual love are the highest that can come to  the human being, and why the
failure to achieve love is accompanied by the most terrible misery and frustration, anger and hatred. Contrary to what the Freudians
have claimed, guilt is a biologica lly implanted reprimand for sexual
patterns which fail to comply with the needs of humanization. Since the precarious wholeness of the mind depends on the unifying forces of love, beauty and harmony, the failure to find love is punished by the most satanic of afflictions—an unwhole and
disturbed mind.
The failure to achieve sexual love, more evident today than
ever before, is to be seen in the breakup of the family, in selfish sexual opportunisms in the common uncaring for the young, and, as
a result of this dehumanization of sexuality, in a soaring juvenile destructiveness and anger, in a general feeling of having been
cheated of life's promise. Neglected, unloved, without the guidance
which only genuine loving is entitled to provide, it is not surprising that the young have rebelled against the prurient standards set by callous and insensitive adults. The generation gap is the inevitable
result of an older generation felt to  be corrupt and lewd, the makers
of a civilization which has become inhuman in its materialistic and
opportunist preoccupations.
While it is true that many young subscribe in their own ways
still to this civilization—imitation is after all the Simian way of learning—there are also those who have managed to recover something of the lost innocence, even  if drugs have played their part
in this recovery.
So demented is the sexual demand, so blind the preoccupation
with orgasmic relief, that the c onclusion one is dealing with a
pathological process appears irresi stible. And there can be no doubt
that the increase of social violen ce has gone hand in hand with an
increase in this ferocious sexua l pursuit, with an increase in
uncaring and promiscuity. The association of sex with violence and human depravity is patent in ente rtainment, in pornography, as it is
in group outlets from gang behaviour to revolution and warfare.
For the past century, psychologists and sociologists have loudly
proclaimed that guilt and repression are responsible for the
frustrations and angers of the age.  Sexual freedom has thus become
the panacea for the ravaged modern soul. Many people have come to believe that the pursuit of the orgasm is a virtual duty, a recipe for healthfulness, in spite of the f act that the ability to contain the
physical urge of sex, and find pleasu re in so doing, must have been
a necessity from the first steps in human evolution, without which
an effective integration of the family and social group would have been quite impossible.
That frustration, the ally of anger and hatred, are the
consequences of lust, of sexualit y pursued without love, can be
observed in the backwash of dissatis faction that invariably follows
the purely physical preoccupations of sexuality. This is particularly
marked in the young; outburst s of violence, destructiveness,
aggressiveness often follow periods  of extreme licence among the
youth gangs of large cities. One must therefore conclude that a socially disturbed mind is especially prone to any other disturbing
influences that may impinge upon it, such as the abnormal mind-
affecting amines in an abnormal diet.
The manner in which the higher aspects of the mind become
sabotaged by the lower, is as yet little understood. Arthur Koestler, contemplating the overwhelming fa ilure of human beings to be
human, and the periodical insanity of human history, concludes that
something must have gone wrong in the evolution of the brain.
Others have speculated that viruses as yet undetected have infected parts of the brain controlling the sexual motivations. But there is a less far searching explanation in the virtually universal prevalence of the abnormal mind-affecting amines, which does not require such
a bungling on the part of nature in the making of its highest work,
the brain. The 'lower emotions' such as fear, aggressiveness, and the blind
copulatory drives, are known to originate in the limbic system, a region a few centimetres thick which encapsulates the dilated end of
the brain stem. The 'higher emotions' such as the humanizing
sensibilities arise in a most comp licated interplay between the
cortex and the brain stem. It would seem that the role of the cortex is to transmute an ancient ma mmalian capacity for effective
emotional experiences; some interchange between the limbic system and the most highly evolved humanizing aspects is accordingly
natural and normal. But to conclude, as does P. D. Maclean, that
this points to an evolutionary failure to wall off the primitive from the human, which would account for an ingrained paranoid streak, seems unjustified. The problem is functional,—the wrong 'colour' of
the affective processes due to abnormal amine stimulation. The
same faulty amines responsible for an overall disturbance of the
mind and an arousal of its more primitive aspects, could account for the near demonic sexual drives of most humans, inducing a pattern


or a combination of different
coloured peppers)
1 tablespoon of tomato puree
salt and pepper
In a frying pan melt about 50g of butter. Mix in sliced courgettes or marrow,
onion, garlic, sliced peppers, tomato puree, season to taste with salt and
pepper. Cover with a lid and leave for 10 minutes on minimum heat.
Alternatively you can stir-fry it on a low heat. Mix well and serve with
plenty of cold pressed virgin olive oil and freshly chopped dill or parsley.
Enjoy with meat and fish. Cauliflower "potatoes"
1 large cauliflower cut into pieces
V< cup butter or ll, cup home-made yoghurt
salt, pepper to taste
parsley and paprika garnish
Cook cauliflower until just tender. Drain.
Puree in blender or food processor. Add butter or yoghurt, salt and pepper
and blend thoroughly. Reheat and serve. Garnish with parsley and paprika.
The pureed cauliflower may be placed in a baking dish, sprinkled with
grated cheddar cheese and heated in the oven until the cheese melts.
(Recipe courtesy of Elaine Gottschall)
Baked vegetables
You can bake any combination of the following vegetables:
onions, white or red or shallots
peppers, red, yellow, orange or green
Brussels sprouts
courgettes or marrow
pumpkin
winter squashes
large mushrooms
turnips
aubergines (eggplant)
Peal the onion and cut into halves or quarters. Shallots do not need to be
peeled, just bake them in their skins.
Cut the peppers into quarters, remove seeds.
Peel the outer leaves from Brussels sprouts.
Peel and cut into large chunks courgettes, marrow and pumpkin.
Remove the seeds from the pumpkin and the marrow. Rub courgettes and
marrow with salt.
Peel and slice winter squash, remove the seeds.
Peel the turnips and cut like potato chips.
Cut the aubergine into chunks and rub with salt.
Rub plenty of goose or duck fat on the vegetables, place them in a baking
tray and bake at 150°C (300°F) for 20-40 minutes or until a sharp knife goes
through easily. Serve with meat or fish. 7. Baking at home
The basic breadlcakelmuffin recipe
2% cups of ground almonds
?/4 cup of softened butter (or coconut oil, goose fat,
duck fat or home-made yoghurt or cr^me fraiche)
3 eggs
Ground almonds you can buy in most health food shops. Instead of ground
almonds you can use walnuts, pecans and hazelnuts, which you can grind
in your food processor to a flour consistency.
Mix all the ingredients well. You may want to add more or less ground
almonds to reach porridge-like consistency. Grease your baking pan with
butter or ghee, line it with greased baking paper and put the mixture into it.
Bake in the oven at 150°C (300°F) for about an hour. Check occasionally
with a dry clean knife, if the knife comes out dry then the bread is ready.
To make variations of this bread you can add some salt, pepper, dried
herbs, tomato puree, grated cheddar cheese (if well tolerated), nuts, seeds,
dried fruit, fresh or frozen berries, chunks of cooking apple, grated carrot,
chunks of pumpkin (without the skin and seeds). If you want to sweeten
the mixtureadd Vz cup of honey into it and/or i7» cups of dried fruit (dates,
apricots, raisins, figs) and/or 2 ripe bananas. If the dried fruit is too hard,
soak it in water for a few hours to soften.
Improvise, try to make your own variations. You can bake this mixture as
a bread or cake or in small paper cups as muffins or make a pizza base. It
really is very easy and manageable even for the most inexperienced cooks.
Pizza
Make a pastry following the previous recipe. Spread it on a baking tray cov
ered with greased baking paper in a layer about 2 cm thick. Bake in the
oven at i50°C (3oo°F) for about 30 minutes. Check with a dry knife if it is
ready
Cool down. Spread tomato puree on the top and sprinkle with salt.
On top of the tomato puree you can put your choice of filling: slices of
red/yellow/green pepper, mushrooms, pieces of cooked meat or sausages,
slices of tomato, chopped greens, anchovies, fish, prawns and pineapple,
etc.
Put grated hard cheese (cheddar and/or parmesan) on top of your filling if your patient is at the stage when he or she can tolerate cheese. If the
cheese is not tolerated then you can use home-made mayonnaise instead.
8. Desserts
Baked apples
With a sharp knife scoop out the cores with the seeds from large cooking
apples. Fill each apple with a teaspoon of honey a teaspoon of butter, ground
or coarsely chopped apricot kernels (or walnuts, or any other available nuts,
or desiccated coconut). Add a dried apricot per apple (optional) cut into
small pieces. Bake in the oven ati6o-i8o°C (32o-36o°F) for 20-25 minutes.
Crbme-caramel
For one person you need:
3 tablespoons of water
1 teaspoon of honey
ground cinnamon
Multiply the ingredients per number of people you want to serve.
Mix all the ingredients well. Pour into shallow ramekin dishes (or any
other small terracotta dishes): you need one ramekin dish per person.
Sprinkle some cinnamon on top. Preheat the oven to i50°C (300°F). Bake
for 30-40 minutes.
Apple crumble
4 cooking apples
2 eggs
carrot pulp from juicing 2 lb. of carrots on lb carrots, very finely chopped
10 dried apricots
% a cup of honey
% a cup ofunsalted butter
Cut the apples into pieces and place on the bottom of your baking dish.
Chop dried apricots into small pieces.
Mix together eggs, butter, carrot pulp, chopped dried apricots and
honey. Put the mixture on top of the apples, mix slightly with the apples.
Bake in the oven at 150 °C (30o°F) for approximately 40 minutes. Apple pie
4 large cooking apples
a handful of raisins
ll2 cup of honey
1 cup of fresh or frozen blackcurrants
fresh pumpkin peeled and finely chopped, 2-3 cups
pitted dried dates, 2 cups
1 cup of hazelnuts
'I2 cup of ground almonds
Soak the dates in 2 cups of water for 2-3 hours. Drain the dates and reserve.
Put the soaking water into your baking dish. Add cored and sliced apples,
raisins and blackcurrants. Spread them evenly and sprinkle with the
ground almonds. Pour honey on top spreading evenly.
In a food processor blend the dates, pumpkin and hazelnuts. Spoon out
this mixture on top of the pie spreading evenly. Slightly press and smooth
with a spoon or a knife so that the top looks like the top of a pie. Bake at
150-170°C (300-350T) for an hour.
Winter squash cake
6 eggs
2 cups of grated (packed tightly) winter squash with sweet orange flesh
(buttercup, butternut or other)
'/? a cup of honey
73 cup ofbutter (or ghee, coconutfat, goose fat or duck fat)
3 cups of ground almonds
3 medium-size apples
Grease your baking dish and cover the bottom with apples, cored and cut
into slices. If your patient's digestive system is sensitive, then peel the
apples. Otherwise you can leave the skins on.
Blend the rest of the ingredients in your blender and put the mixture on
top of the apples. Smooth the top and bake at i50°C (3oo°F) for 40-50
minutes. Cake Pinocchio
2 cups of shelled hazelnuts
1 cup of honey (250ml)
4 eggs
50g unsalted butter, preferably organic
4 tangerines to decorate
Preheat the oven to 175-200°C (350-400°F).
Roast the hazelnuts in the oven and rub their skins off. Reserve 1 cup of
the nuts for the cream and grind the rest into a coarse flour.
Make 4 circles out of baking paper large enough to fit on a large cake
dish and grease them with butter. Separate the whites of the eggs from
the yolks. Whip the egg whites stiff with half of the honey. Carefully fold
in the ground hazelnuts. Spread the mixture on the four baking paper
circles and bake for 5-10 minutes. Cool down and remove the baking
paper.
Cream.  Soften the butter by leaving it in the room for a few hours. Whip
the 4 egg yolks with the rest of the honey until they increase in volume and
become pale whitish in colour. Beat in the butter gradually, adding it in
small amounts.
Coarsely chop the rest of the hazelnuts, reserving 10-15 whole