may increase abruptly. To achieve this you have
to repeat one -day fasts. I f you’re going to fast at

28  Old Slavic abdomen massage is an ancient Slavic technique
(widespread among the Siberian communities of Old Believers) that
originates in the distant past. This procedure does not require any
medical equipment: during the treatment a specialist applies a d osed
pressure with his/her hands to certain zones of the diseased organ at
the required angle. As a result, the functions of the organs are being
recovered and normalized. Dr. Filonov always associates the dry
fasting practice with procedures and massages.  On the very first day
of dry fasting, he treats his patients with the Old Slavic abdomen
massage.
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the fast carefully, then you’ll get an effect just like
one from a long fast. In six months or a year
you’ll become unrecognizably healthy.
- If you continue fasting for one day once a
week during one year, this will improve your
health and rid you of illnesses.
- The fatigue of the internal organs is greatly al-
leviated with one -day fasts. There are many
cases where a mild case of diabetes is cured only
due to the pancreas getting a coup le of days of
rest during the fast.
- One day of fasting makes the organism three
months younger. By the way, short -term fasting,
besides cleansing and substantial improvement
of appearance, has another unexpected effect. It
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and the ability to create.
- The effect of weight loss. If you properly and
competently prepare for 24 -hour fasts and con-
duct them systematically every week, you can
achieve good results in weight loss. American
specialists claim that eve n 1 day of fasting per
month can be very good for your health.

Day 2. On day 2, you can usually experience an
urge to eat, but you have to overcome it. Some-
times you may experience dizziness, headaches,
and discomfort in the stomach area. You
shouldn’t be afraid of these symptoms; they sig-
nify that the process of endogenous reconstruc-
tion and cleansing of the organism has started.
You need to go for walks more often and spend
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some relaxing exercises before sleep. You have to
conduct abdominal and spinal massage. From
day 2, anti -infl ammatory and immuno -stimula-
tion mechanisms of dry fasting are activated,
thus, such illnesses as acute respiratory disease
and flu can be fully cured. The weight loss usu-
ally is 1- 1.5 kg.
Without water there is no life. The thing is, in-
flammation also can’ t exist without water. Any
inflamed spot swells with water. Microorgan-
isms, such as microbes and viruses, can only re-
produce in a sufficiently aquatic environment.
Water deficit is destructive for an inflammation
or any kinds of edema. In such rough condit ions,
the organism will not allow the presence of a
pathological fluid (edema) inside of it, all this
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iological needs. That’s why dry fasting is effec-
tive during the treatment of these illnesses (ovar-
ian c ysts, endometriosis, spinal disc herniation
and any other illnesses which have this mecha-
nism in their pathogenesis).
Due to the dehydration of the organism, a
fierce competitive battle for water begins be-
tween the cells of the body and the pathogenic
micr oorganisms. The cells of the body, as hosts,
take water away from the microorganisms, but
the organism itself is able to not only synthesize
endogenous water in necessary amounts, but
also take water from the air during this period,
absorbing it through th e skin. This is due to the
fact that during dry fasting the organism acts to
excrete and not to absorb. The healthy, strong
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the sick and altered viruses and bacteria can’t do
that. According to modern scient ific research,
the cause of peptic ulcer is infective, this ac-
counts for a very powerful medicinal effect in
case of this pathology. That’s why it’s necessary
to conduct dry fasting outdoors, preferably in a
mountainous area, near mountain rivers and
water falls.
70% of glucocorticoids and sex hormones are
bound by the transport albumins of the blood
and only 30% circulate in the blood in a free
state. During dry fasting, the transport albumins
come apart and their amino acids are used for
the needs of the o rganism, first of all for the
needs of the brain and the cardiovascular sys-
tem. In such a case, there is a release of an
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in the blood in a free state, this accounts for a
good medicinal effect in the treatment o f
asthma. This extraordinary amount of glucocor-
ticoids, which is three times more usual, flood-
ing the blood, has a strong anti -inflammatory ef-
fect, suppressing all the inflammation sites in the
organism.
After all, we know that glucocorticoids are the
strongest anti -inflammatory agent in the organ-
ism. In the activity of the free glucocorticoid
forms, there is another very powerful medicinal
mechanism that fasting activates to affect in-
flammatory and autoimmune diseases, such as
rheumatoid arthritis and othe rs.
Here’s one of the interesting facts about the
study of the champion in the duration of dry
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immunity to the majority of the most dangerous
viral diseases.
Scientists from the United Arab Emirates pro-
posed to more actively study the defense mecha-
nisms of one of the hardiest animals — the
camel, in order to combat human diseases. Cam-
els have unique physiological characteristics,
which allow them to exist in the harshest desert
conditions. They cope with dehyd ration, be-
cause their circulatory system can store supplies
of water, the lack of food is supplied with the de-
posits of fatty tissue in the humps, and camel
milk is preserved fresh for much longer than cow
milk.  But that’s not all. Camels’ immune system
is so perfect that they aren’t susceptible to the
majority of viral diseases that other mammals
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mune to foot -and-mouth disease and rinderpest.
Up until now, people didn’t pay attention to
camels as a source of production of various sub-
stances that could help combat human viral dis-
eases.  Arabic scientists think that in the medi-
cine of tomorrow, the immune mechanisms of
the camel will not only be a matter of thorough
study, but also a means to combat many human
diseases.
During dry fasting the immune system begins
to very effectively conduct a series of complex
chemical reactions, when a foreign body invades
the organism, whether it be a virus or another
infection agent. At that moment the immune
system starts carrying out its mission — find and
destroy. There’s a whole system of amoeba -like
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cult name for those unfamiliar with the subject
— a system of phagocytizing mononuclear cells.
In every organ there is its own, spec ific only to
it, group of cells that resemble amoebas and mi-
grate over the whole organ, eating and digesting
everything foreign. Such specific cells exist in the
skin, liver and heart, and even in the brain.


of low-calorie greens and shunning fruits forces us to consume fats f or satiation and caloric sufficiency.
Whereas Americans consume between one-third and one-half of the ir calories as fat, most raw fooders consume at least 1½
times that amount. They eat a continuous stream of nuts, seeds, oils, cocon uts, olives, avocados, and other fatty fruits. Even when
the quantities eaten look small, the calories in these foods add up quickly. A s a result, many raw fooders attempt to live on a diet
where fat accounts for 50, 60, and even 70-plus percent of the mix. Here are some of  the reasons why:

Nuts and Seeds in Place of Meat and Dairy
Raw nut and seed loaves, pâtés, and cheeses are staples in every raw  gourmet kitchen and sure-fire favorites at raw food
restaurants. But nuts and seeds pack a caloric wallop that even the fat tiest meats cannot touch.

Seeds Instead of Grain
Flax seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, and several other s have become popular as the “meal” of dehydrated
crackers. Some are more gelatinous than others, but seeds typically  are “sticky” enough to hold together when dehydrated, creating
a reasonable facsimile of a cracker.
These dehydrates look, feel, and taste pretty much like crackers. They hold di ps as well as any cracker. Of course, in contrast
to crackers made of grains that offer only a small percentage of their c alories from fat, the majority of calories in these crackers
(even when “cut” with a huge proportion of vegetables) come from f at, ranging from about 50 to 70%. But they remind us so much
of “real” crackers when we eat them that it is difficult to remembe r they are more than half fat. And what do we eat them with?
Why, a nice fatty nut and veggie spread, a seed cheese, or guacamole, of cour se.

Fat in Raw vs. Traditional Crackers
(percentage of calories)

66%: Sunflower flax crackers: (half sunflower seeds, half flaxseeds )
58%: Flax crackers (all flaxseeds)
49%: Veggie flax crackers (10 C. vegetables, 2 C. flaxseeds) †
47% Ritz  (9 Ritz = 140 calories)
38%: Nabisco Wheat Thins (15 Wheat Thins = 140 calories)
34% Triscuit (7 Triscuits = 140 calories)
22%: Nabisco Snackwell’s Wheat (10 Snackwells = 140 calories)
0%: Rice cakes (4 cakes = 140 calories)

†The “V eggie Flax” cracker listed above is an actual recipe from a r ecently published book by a popular raw food chef. In all
likelihood, at 49% fat, it is among the lowest-fat nut/seed-based cracker bei ng consumed in the raw food world today, as flaxseeds
contain the least fat (58%) among the nuts and seeds, and the recipe is loa ded with vegetables. The regular flax crackers shared at
potlucks and sold at festivals are virtually always significantly  higher in fat.
This “low-fat” cracker recipe yields approximately a hundred 3   3-inch crackers and contains a total of 1,840 calories, or
18.4 calories per cracker. Thus, about 8 of these raw crackers provide the caloric  equivalent of 9 Ritz, 15 Wheat Thins, 7 Triscuits,
10 Snackwells, or 4 rice cakes.

Nuts As Pastry Substitutes
Raw food chefs steer clear of bread, because it is a cooked food. But they still li ke to make pastries, pies, cookies, and other dishes that traditionally call for dough. Hence, they have learned to make pas try dough out of crushed nuts and even fluffy “bread flour” out
of leftover nut-milk pulp—both of which work exceptionally well, if your  goal is delicious food without regard for health.
Tastewise, raw pastries are definitely a hit. But the caloronutrie nt ratio is all wrong. As the following table shows, the fat in a
raw pie crust makes the Pillsbury Doughboy look lean.

True, raw pie crusts usually contain sweet fruits such as dates or r aisins, and many fillings also contain fresh fruit. These fruits
decrease the overall fat percentage of the recipe, but in even the best  case, not likely lower than 40% of total calories. But do not let
the percentages fool you. A raw fruit pie with a nut-based crust has a t remendous quantity  of fat, even before the filling and topping
are added. It is important to understand both calories and caloronutrient rat io in order to fully grasp the caloronutrient picture.

Coconuts for All Occasions
Creative raw food chefs have devised a wide range of culinary applicati ons for coconut meat and dried shredded coconut. Coconut
meat shows up in raw items such as icings, sauces, soups, smoothies, chee ses, and creams, whereas the shredded variety adorns
granolas, cakes, candies, cookies, pie crusts, tortes, and more.
Many raw fooders plow through a case of young coconuts weekly; some even dail y. In addition to the high fat inherent in such
a diet, imported coconuts are dipped in fungicide, thus contaminating both the  meat and the liquid.
Packaged or bulk shredded coconut, like all other products dehydrated to a crisp, is not  really a food in any sense of the
word. It is a party item at best. If you include dried coconut at all among  your list of acceptable “foods,” I urge you to use it
sparingly (maybe once or twice per year for very special occasions), and t o purchase only the unsweetened, organically grown
product. Otherwise, even the shredded coconut found in health-food stores usu ally contains sulfites to prevent browning, and often
other chemical preservatives and additives. Most commercial air-dri ed coconut is dehydrated at temperatures between 170 and 180
degrees F.

 Coconut Facts
Coconut is a versatile food with a delicious, unique taste. The fruit of th e coconut consists of a green or yellow-brown fibrous
husk inside which the coconut itself is found. The nut itself has a har d outer shell with a kernel inside.
In the young “green” coconuts, the kernel is soft and jelly-like, and th e central cavity is filled with coconut water. As the
coconut matures, the kernel becomes harder and the amount of water decrea ses. The edible parts are the water and meat or jelly.
Below are some of the many ways coconuts are used as food, as well as data on fa t content (from the USDA nutrient
database).

Coconut meat: The solid white flesh inside the mature coconut.
Coconut jelly: Young coconut meat still in a semiliquid state.
Coconut water: The translucent liquid inside a coconut.
Coconut milk:  Liquid expressed from grated coconut meat and water.
Coconut cream: Liquid expressed from grated coconut meat.
Coconut oil:  A soft solid at room temperature. Warms easily to liquid.
Dried coconut: Air-dried flaked or shredded mature coconut meat.

All manner of amazing health “benefits” are attributed to the coc onut, but I do not recommend using food as therapy for any
purpose. Coconut meat is nearly all fat, the vast majority of which (80%) i s saturated. If you eat a healthful low-fat raw vegan diet
and live healthfully, you will not need the “benefits” of coconut or any  other food.
I suggest eating and drinking fresh coconuts when you visit the tropic s, but otherwise reserving them only for an occasional
indulgence. Aside from fresh, organic young coconut “jelly” or coconut w ater, this luscious treat is, unfortunately, not the best choice
for your health—or your waistline.

Oils Supplant Foods
Many raw fooders believe that when they eat a large salad, they are con suming a low-fat meal. However, this is true only when the
salad includes no oil-based dressing or other high-fat ingredients. Jus t one liquid ounce (2 tablespoons) of any  salad oil transforms
an innocent, seemingly healthy salad into a high-fat fiasco. It is n o longer diet food, and it is no longer health food.
The simple salad example presented below includes 150 calories from vegeta bles and vegetable fruits, accompanied by a
dressing containing 2 tablespoons of oil. Note that even this small quanti ty of oil increases the calorie count to nearly 400, and the
calories from fat to 64%. In contrast, the same salad with no dressing, or perh aps with a blended fruit dressing, contains just under
10% of calories from fat, which is right on target.
Many raw fooders consume more vegetables and more oil in their “typical” salads. In addition, they add nuts, seeds,
avocado, olives, and other fatty accompaniments. In this case, both the total  calories and the percentage of calories from fat always
increase


 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


 day in the ornamental nursery. It was to be very, very light work. She was to continue on the lemon and water and a very light diet, along with lots of vegetable juices, very low carbohydrates, a little fruit for break-fast and no more throughout the day. She continued to lose 50 pounds a month until her weight dropped to 260 pounds, which was about normal for her big size. To this day sh e is still that size. This was in
1968.
The refractometer I had given her is an instrument to measure the
total carbohydrates in the urine. She kept her urinary sugar between land 2. She had to keep it there and it  was very difficult to do because
her own fats turned to sugar. But she did it and is the picture of health today. She can pick up and carry 300 to 400 pounds.
This is one case where the birth control pill caused overweight. It caused the pancreas to stop manufacturing thyroxine. The pancreas takes the glycogen from the liver and manufactures
thyroxine out of it. It goes to the thyroid gland which adds potassium to it, and the potassium then forms with the thyroxine and forms a substance similar to grandma's old-fashioned soap, which dissolves the excessive oils in our body and is a weight-control factor. It is the governor for weight. The birth cont rol pill upset the thyroxine manu-105 facturing in the pancreas and therefore it didn't manufacture enough
and the lady just kept putting on weig ht. This is one great cause of
overweight.
You can go on all the calorie-counting diets you want and if this is
the problem you will starve to death and still won't lose any weight.
There are other factors involved also, but this is a very serious one
that really upsets the weight. If the pancreas should manufacture too much thyroxine and the thyroid adds potassium to it, then you would have trouble putting on weight. If it doesn't manufacture enough you will have too much weight. Doctors give thyroid extract with the po-tassium for the thyroid gland, which is the worn-out cell of the thyroid gland. The thyroxine is the cell that is not worn-out. Which makes all the difference in the world in the results you get.
You may have a case wherein the pancreas is manufacturing the
right amount of thyroxine, but the body does not have enough potassi-um, therefore, you can be over or under weight from that problem. But probably it would be overweight. But it may be either one. The RBTI test tells us definitely whether this is the cause of overweight, or whether it is something else.
The reason the liver is not manufacturing enough glycogen is that
there are not enough calciums of the right kind present.
Therefore the liver doesn't have the material to make the amino
acids that the pancreas needs to manufacture the thyroxine to control the body weight. For people who are too skinny the thyroid manufac-tures too much thyroxine. For the overweight it doesn't manufacture enough thyroxine. This is easily remedied by the correct diet.
Overweight can be a genetic cause. You cannot do very much
about the weight if it is a genetic thing because the genes at the time of conception determine your weight throughout your life. Many peo-ple will be thin until they reach 50 years of age, or varying ages, and then it's a matter of looking like se nior citizens. Generally people with
big bones, broad shoulders, big head, and large feet have more weight than they want. But if it is a genetic  normal weight there isn't anything
you can do about it. 106 If your body is in any range outside of A of the RBTI test you can
take a diet and bring your body back to range A, and then your body
weight will drop to its genetic normal. However, it may not be the weight you desire. You will generally look in weight like some of your aunts, uncles, or grandparents, but you'll wish you didn't.
Another cause of overweight is a lack of calciums in the diet,
which can cause extreme nervousness. These people eat, eat and eat. This is not obesity, this is a nervous condition. They eat in order to overcome the nervousness. In eating they are trying to get more calci-ums and yet the body doesn't pick it up. Nature is craving food like an alcoholic craves his drink, as a person who is on pot craves dope. Hence the gaining of weight. Also, we find that by eating it helps to control temper. If these persons don't eat they become very irritable, and very difficult to live with.
Other causes of overweight: • People who eat too much fats, foods that are too rich, too much
carbohydrates, and especially those who eat them late at night (espe-cially carbohydrates) when the body already has a sufficient amount.
• Eating too much potato and bread. The starch in the potato can
be converted very easily into sugar by the liver. A very poor choice of foods can be the cause of overweight.
• Not drinking enough distilled water, to regulate the foods. • Slow digestion of food. It digests so slowly until the body chem-
istry is starving all the time. They eat all they can hold, feel stuffed.
• Skip breakfast, have a brunch. At noon they have a lunch, and in
the evening eat a big, big meal. They get up feeling miserable in the morning. They feel like something the cat has drug in, and they can't do one-tenth of the work that they  ought to be doing. They are trying
to hold a job. They are upset and irritable. The brunch does not even digest. They have their lips poked out for someone to step on, and generally someone accommodates them before the day is over. Their favorite song is that "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." This too can cause overweight: just plain frustration.
These are factors that need to be determined before we can pin-
point the cause and effect of overweight. 107 Weight is very easy to control.  Anyone who will keep the carbo-
hydrate sugar level between 1 and 2 of the RBTI test, eat a great varie-
ty of foods, especially vegetabl es, and cut down on meats (way down
on all kind of meats, and do away with the eating of unclean meats), I have never seen one person whose weight wouldn't drop to its genetic level. (By unclean meat I am speaking of those referred to in Leviticus 11: pork and all its products, including ham, bacon, sausage, pork chops, spare ribs, pork roast, salt bacon, cracklings-any part of a hog is unclean to man. All the shell fish, including shrimp, tuna, mackerel, catfish, oysters, lobster, clams, scallops. Any fish without fins and scales is unclean for human consumption. Then there is also the rab-bit, guinea pig, crow, buzzard, bald eagle, muskrat, and snakes.) The unclean meats digest in a period of an average of three hours, causing more energy to be released than a body can consume.
The clean meats digest in an average of 18 hours, giving the per-
son a chance to use the energy as it is made available. The same prin-ciple is putting high-test gasoline in the car that is not manufactured for it. The car will run better if regular gasoline is used.
The high-test gasoline will burn up the pistons and the valves. The
steel and the iron is not tempered for the heat of the high-test gasoline.
I am against the abuse of foods. Use temperance in all things. I am not against fried chicken, but  there are people who have it
every day. I am not against coffee, but there are people who drink 20-30 cups a day. Coffee many times can be an asset to people with ar-thritis or bladder or urinary problems, even weight problems. Coffee with chickory is good for people with low calciums and have nervous disorders. Coffee should be weak enough for you to see the bottom of the cup for it to be a diuretic.
Watermelon juice can be a very fine diuretic, providing that you
are not fat, or do not have high blood sugar. Some people can take wa-termelon juice and have high blood sugar without raising it, but some cannot.
There are conditions in which pe ople have high blood sugar and
also urinary problems. These kind of conditions require opposite diets. Even in a retreat under the very best of controlled diet, it is sometimes 108 very difficult to make a diet that will show immediate improvements
for the person to recognize the improvement. However, in a retreat the
testers and the doctors who are supe rvising can tell from one test to
another whether the person is improving or not. No one is kept in a re-treat whose body does not respond to diet. If the body chemistry does not respond in seven days they are asked to leave because it simply means that the RBTI is not effective for their body chemistry.
There is less than one percent of all people tested whose body
chemistry will not respond to these tests.
There are people who come too late to the retreat. But if we can
keep a person living for 30 days, and their body chemistry continues to improve, and they follow through on the diet after they go home, take the test as instructed, as far as we know, they all get well.
There are people who wish to go back into their old way of


Do you choose success in worldly terms?
Do you choose more money?
Good. Then choose it. Reall y. Fully. Not
half-heartedly.
Yet at your stage of development do not be
surprised if “worldly success” no longer
concerns you.  What is that supposed to mean?
There comes a time in the evolution of
every soul when the chief concern is no
longer the surviva l of the physical body, but
the growth of the spirit; no longer the
attainment of worldly success, but the
realization of Self.
In a sense, this is a very dangerous time,
particularly at the outset, because the  entity
housed in the body now knows it is jus t
that: a being in a body —not a body -being.
At this stage, before the growing entity
matures in this point of view, there is often
a sense of no longer caring about affairs of
the body in any way. The soul is so  excited
about being “discovered” at last!
The mind abandons the body, and all
matters of the body. Everything is ignored.  Relationships are set aside. Families are
disappeared. Jobs are made secondary.
Bills go unpaid. The body itself is not even
fed for long periods. The entire focus and
attention of the entity are now on the soul,
and matters of the soul.
This can lead to a major personal crisis in
the day -to-day life of the being, although
the mind perceives no trauma. It is hanging
out in bliss. Other people say you have  lost
your mind —and in a s ense you may have.
Discovery of the truth that life has nothing
to do with the body can create an
imbalance the other way. Whereas at first
the entity acted as if the body were all  there
is, now it acts as if the body matters not at
all. This, of course, i s not true —as the
entity soon (and sometimes painfully)
remembers.  You are a tri -part being, made of body,
mind, and spirit. You will always be a tri -part
being, not just while you are living on the
Earth. There are those who hypothesize
that upon death th e body and the mind are
dropped. The body and the mind are not
dropped. The body changes form, leaving
its most dense part behind, but retaining
always its outer shell. The mind (not to be
confused with the brain) goes with you,  too,
joining with the spiri t and the body as the
one energy mass of three dimensions,  or
facets.
Should you choose to return to this
experiencing opportunity that you call life
on Earth, your divine self will once again
separate its true dimensions into what you
call body, mind, and spirit. In truth you are all one energy, yet with three distinct
characteristics.
As you undertake to inhabit a new physical
body here on Earth, your ethereal body  (as
some of you have termed it) lowers its
vibrations —slows itself from a vibratio n so
rapid that it cannot even be seen, to a
speed that produces mass and matter. This
actual matter is the creation of pure
thought —the work of your mind, the higher
mind aspect of your three -part being.
This matter is a coagulation of a million
billion t rillion different energy units into one
enormous mass —controllable by the
mind...you really are a master mind!
As these tiny energy units have expended
their energy, they are discarded by the
body, while the mind creates new ones. This the mind creates out  of its continuing
thought about Who You Are! The ethereal
body “catches” the thought, so to speak,
and lowers the vibration of more energy
units (in a sense “crystallizes” them), and
they become matter —the new matter of
you. In this way, every cell of you r body
changes every several years. You are —
quite literally —not the same person you
were a few years ago.
If you think thoughts of illness or disease
(or continuing anger, hatred, and
negativity), your body will translate these
thoughts into physical form.  People will see
this negative, sick form and they will say,
“What’s the matter?” They will not know
how accurate their question is.
The soul watches this whole drama play
out, year after year, month after month, day  after day, moment after moment, and
always holds the Truth about you. It never
forgets the blueprint; the original plan; the
first idea; the creative thought. Its job is to
remind you —that is, to literally re -mind
you—so that you may remember once
again  Who You Are —and then choose Who
You no w Wish to Be.
In this way the cycle of creation and
experience, imaging and fulfilling, knowing
and growing into the unknown, continues,
both now and even forever more.
Whew!
Yes, exactly. Oh, and there’s much more to
explain. So much more. But never, ever  in
one book —nor probably even in one
lifetime. Yet you have begun, and that is  good. Just remember this. It is as your
grand teacher William Shakespeare said:
“There are more things in Heaven and
Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.”
May I ask you some questions about this?
Like, when you say the mind goes with me
after death, does that mean my
“personality” goes with me? Will I know in
the afterlife who I was?
Yes...and who you have ever been. It will
all be opened onto you —because then it
will profit you to know. Now, in this moment,
it will not.
And, with regard to this life, will there be an
“accounting” —a review —a tally taking?
There is no judgment in what you call the
afterlife. You will not even be allowed to  judge yourself (for you  would surely give
yourself a low score, given how judgmental
and unforgiving you are with yourself in this
life).
No, there is no accounting, no one giving
“thumbs -up” or “thumbs - down.” Only
humans are judgmental, and because you
are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am
not—and that is a great truth you cannot
accept.
Nonetheless, while there will be no
judgment in the afterlife, there will be
opportunity  to look again at all you have
thought, said, and done here, and to decide
if that is  what you would choose again,
based on Who You say You Are, and Who
You Want  to Be.  There is an Eastern mystical teaching
surrounding a doctrine called Kama Loca —
according to this teaching, at the time of our
death each person is given the opportunity
to relive every thou ght ever entertained,
every word ever spoken, every action ever
taken, not from our standpoint, but from the
standpoint of every other person affected.
In other words, we’ve already experienced
what we felt thinking, saying, and doing
what we did —now we’re  given the
experience of feeling what the other person
felt in each of these moments —and it is by
this measure that we’ll decide whether we’ll
think, say, or do those things again. Any
comment?
What occurs in your life after this is far too
extraordinary t o describe here in terms  you
could comprehend —because the experience is other -dimensional and
literally  defies description using tools as
severely limited as words. It is enough to
say that  you will have the opportunity to
review again this, your present l ife, without
pain or  fear or judgment, for the purpose of
deciding how you feel about your
experience  here, and where you want to go
from there.
Many of you will decide to come back here;
to return to this world of density and
relativity for another chance  to experience
out the decisions and choices you make
about your Self at this level.
Others of you —a select few —will return
with a different mission. You will return to
density and matter for the soul purpose of
bringing others out of density and matter.
Always there are on the Earth those among you who have made such a choice. You
can tell them apart at once. Their work is
finished. They have returned to Earth
simply and merely to help others. This is
their joy. This is their exaltation. They seek
naught b ut to be of service.
You cannot miss these people. They are
everywhere. There are more of them than
you think. Chances are you know one, or
know of one.
Am I one?
No. If you have to ask, you know you are
not one. One such as this asks questions
of no one. There is nothing to ask.
You, My son, in this lifetime are a
messenger. A harbinger. A bringer of news;
a seeker and frequently a speaker of Truth.
That is enough for


 pustules. Bacilli notably produce diseases such as influenza and tuberculosis. Spirillum can be the cause of serious disease, including syphilis. Pathogens can spread to infect humans and ani -
mals through a range of vectors including air, water, soil, animals, and insects and by physical contact between the infected host and the noninfected victim. These organisms have wreaked havoc throughout the centuries by decimating a dispropor -
tionately large number of people from such epidemics and pandemics as the plague of Athens in 430 BC, the bubonic (black death) plague in 1338, the great Plague of London in 1665, the cholera pandemic of 1816, and the flu pandemic of 1918, to name but a few.
In the history of medicine, probably the greatest breakthrough of all time is the
start of the antibiotic era and the control of infectious diseases that have been the leading cause of human morbidity and mortality for most of human existence. Prior to the antibiotic era, it was common to believe and easy to record that “the treat -
ment is worse than the disease.” Names like Koch, Pasteur, Domagk, Lister, and Ehrlich were instrumental in changing this cynical cliché by laying the groundwork
for less toxic and more clinically effective antimicrobial therapy. Their work largely
paved the way for the chance discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1929. 100 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Fleming made a keen observation noting that the Penicillium notatum  mold acci -
dentally cultured in a petri dish was able to kill several colonies of staphylococci
bacteria that had also invaded the petri dish near the mold. Despite this monumen -
tal observation, penicillin languished on a laboratory shelf for a decade largely in part because Fleming did not seem to grasp the potential of his great discovery or the conviction to pursue it further. In support of this conclusion, it is well known that Fleming failed to undertake essential experiments where penicillin would be administered to animals infected with pathogens to see whether the animals would be protected and survive the systemic infection.
2 This was and still is a simple rule
of thumb in experimental pharmacotherapeutics in 1929.
Credit for these animal experiments and penicillin’s clinical effectiveness was
finally realized in 1939 by a team at Oxford led by Ernst Chain, Howard Florey, who was the head of the laboratory where the work was done, and the chemist Norman Heatley.
3
In 3 years, this team not only showed the bactericidal properties of penicillin in
animals and humans but also purified, mass-produced, and made penicillin clini -
cally available as an antibacterial agent so that, by 1944, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were able to survive wound infections sustained in the Second World War that would otherwise may have been fatal. The number of lives saved by penicillin continues to this day. Fleming, Florey, and Chain shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
The brilliant Spanish physician and scientist Gregorio Marañon referred to peni -
cillin as a miracle cure that opened a new era, full of hope for all humanity. He also prophetically warned that even a miracle cure had its limits. Presently, there are more than a thousand different preparations containing penicillin and over 150 anti -
bacterial agents in the pharmacopoeia to control bacteria, viruses, molds, protozoa, and parasites.
At the end of 1945, no one could have predicted that the miracle cure that was
penicillin would lose some or all of its effectiveness against evolving germs it had easily defeated in the past. The new post-antibiotic era of drug resistance where organisms are able to resist the effects of antibiotics to which they were previously sensitive was now in progress, not only for penicillin but also for many other newer antimicrobials developed after penicillin.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria reveal the amount of sophistication and high adapt -
ability these germs have been able to develop to changing environments. This reaction by disease-producing pathogens poses one of the most serious medical concerns of the twenty-first century because when it is encountered clinically, first-line antibiotic treatments lose their efficacy and second-line antibiotics that may have less efficacy, greater cost, and more safety concerns become the only line of defense. Bacteria that can resist many antibiotics are called multidrug resistant and are commonly referred to as superbugs. These superbugs are especially dangerous in prolonged hospital stays and in intensive care units where an increasing number of invasive measures
and interventions and inadequate maintenance of hygiene standards pose a high risk
for infection.
4
Any adjuvant therapy or new approach that potentiates the activity of first-
line antibiotics to prevent antibiotic resistance would help postpone the day when 101 DMSO in Basic Microbiology
antibiotics are no longer generally efficacious.5 This topic and the role played by
dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as an adjuvant in drug-resistant microbes is discussed in
the section “How Bacteria Achieve Antibiotic Resistance” in Chapter 6.
DMSO AND PATHOGENS
When treating an infection, physicians may face a choice between using a bacteri -
cidal drug, a bacteriostatic drug, and a combination of the two. A bactericidal drug means that it kills bacteria, while a bacteriostatic drug prevents the growth of bac -
teria. The use of one or the other or both is dependent principally on the type of infection being treated and the achievement of a good clinical outcome with the least toxicity.
6
The first observations concerning the bacteriostatic properties of DMSO were
made by Jacob et al.7 They reported that a 20% solution of DMSO showed bacterio -
static properties against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas
bacilli  grown in cultures. Additionally, Jacob’s group also observed that 1% DMSO
solution altered the sensitivity of resistant tubercle bacilli (the cause of tuberculosis) to antibiotics. As will be seen in Chapter 6, hard-to-cure drug-resistant tuberculosis has become a serious and growing problem worldwide. This occurs when bacteria develop the ability to withstand multiple first-line antibiotic attack and relay that resistant ability to subsequent generations of bacterial offspring. Since that entire strain of resistant bacteria inherits this capacity to fend off the effects of various antibiotics, resistant bacteria can spread from one person to another. Even treatable forms of tuberculosis are particularly tricky to cure because drug-sensitive strains must be treated with a 6-month course of antibiotics. Tougher cases require costly long-term hospitalization and a regimen of multiple drugs that can last years. Patients die when this treatment is ineffective.
Perhaps one of the unusual properties of DMSO is its ability to penetrate biologi -
cal membranes or act as a penetrant carrier for other even larger molecules. This property implies that enhancing the penetration of an antibiotic into a bacterial cell, for example, may reduce the concentration needed for the antibiotic to be effective and also reduce its potential toxicity.
As a bactericidal agent, DMSO’s minimal inhibitory concentration is reported
to be 50% for S. aureus  and from 20% to 40% for beta-hemolytic streptococcus,
Corynebacterium  species, E. coli, and Proteus  species.
8
Pottz et al.9 confirmed Jacob’s team findings and further tested DMSO for bacte -
ricidal and bacteriostatic properties against a variety of microorganisms where they observed growth inhibition at concentrations of 40%–50% (Table 5.1).
Pottz et al.
9 found that the bactericidal concentration of DMSO required to inhibit
the growth of E. coli, A. cloacae, P. vulgaris, beta-hemolytic streptococci group A,
Salmonella paratyphi B, and C. albicans was 30%, and for P. aeruginosa, it was
10%. D. pneumoniae  was most sensitive to DMSO and required only  5% concentra -
tion (Table 5.1). S. aureus and Streptococcus faecalis required a 40% and a 50%
concentration respectively.
These microorganisms are responsible for many serious infections, which if left
untreated can have organ damage consequences or be fatal to the host. For example, 102 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
certain strains of E. coli, which includes serotypes O157:H7, O104:H4 in contami -
nated food or water, can secrete Shiga toxigenic toxins that can result in bloody diar -
rhea and cause severe damage to the lining of the intestines and kidneys.10
A. cloacae  is a rod-shaped bacterium generally found in normal gut flora that
sometimes causes respiratory and urinary tract infections. Strep throat from beta-
hemolytic streptococci group A is a common throat infection in school-aged children that can lead to a spectrum of more serious diseases including glomerulonephritis and rheumatic fever.
11
S. paratyphi  B and S. faecalis  are contaminants in food and water that often infect
the intestines and urinary tract. P. aeruginosa  and Candida  species are opportu-
nistic pathogens commonly found in hospital intensive care units where they can cause stubborn infections in patients after surgery.
12 In this list of microbes, the most
sensitive micro


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is,
smallpox, and other serious illnesses.
 For most rural communities, however, the only foreign
plants that were used medicinally were those that could also
be grown locally as foods. Garlic offers one of the earliest and
clearest examples. Originating in central Asia, over time it
was cultivated farther and farther west and was grown in
Egypt around 4500 bce. In Homer’s 8th-century bce epic
poem The Odyssey, the hero is saved from being changed
into a pig thanks to garlic. The herb was introduced into
Britain after the Roman conquest in the 1st century ce, and
by the time it reached the island its remarkable medicinal
powers were well understood. In later centuries, potatoes
(Solanum tuberosum, p. 271) and corn ( Zea mays, p. 154),
both native to South America, would become common
foods. These plants have clear medicinal as well as
nutritional benefits. Potato juice is a valuable remedy for the
treatment of arthritis, while cornsilk makes an effective
decoction for urinary problems such as cystitis.
Health & Hygiene 1400–1700
Between the 12th and 18th centuries, the influx of exotic
medicinal plants added to an already large number of useful
European herbs. Conceivably, an overall improvement of
health in Europe might have resulted. After all, not only
were new medicinal plants available, but Europeans had the
opportunity to observe the different medical practices of
people in South America, China, Japan, and especially in India,
where trade was well established. But, in fact, the reverse was
the case. People living in Europe during this period probably experienced some of the most unhealthy conditions the
world has ever seen. In contrast, Native Americans before
the arrival of Columbus lived longer, healthier lives than their
counterparts in Europe. This fact is unsurprising given the cities
of medieval Europe, with their open sewers, overcrowding,
and ignorance of simple hygiene.
 Conditions such as these laid fertile ground for the spread
of plague-infested rats from the ports of the Mediterranean
throughout Western Europe. From the mid-14th century
onward, plague killed millions, in some cases close to 50
percent of the population. No medical treatment—herbal
or mineral—was able to alter its fatal course. Epidemics
continued to decimate the cities of Europe and Asia well into
the 18th century. An outbreak in India in 1994 reawakened the
terror inspired simply at the mention of the word “plague.”
 Syphilis was another disease spread by seafarers. It was
reputedly brought back from the Caribbean to Naples by
Columbus’ crew in the 1490s, spreading quickly throughout
Europe and to the rest of the world, reaching China in 1550.
 European doctors had little success in combating diseases
as devastating as plague. The medicine they practiced was
based on the blind acceptance of Galen’s humoral principles.
Perhaps if, as in Chinese and Indian medicine, European
medicine had continued to evolve, revising ancient medical
texts and reinterpreting them in the light of new discoveries,
it would have had greater success. As it was, European
physicians were at least as likely to kill their patients
with bloodletting and toxic minerals
in misbegotten attempts to balance
the humors as they were to cure.
Indeed, the increasingly
fashionable use of
mineral cures such
as mercury led to the
growth of chemical
formulations, culminating
in scientific medicine’s
ultimate break away from
herbal practices.
The Influence
of Paracelsus
One of the key European figures
of the 16th century was Paracelsus
(1493–1541), a larger-than-life
character who rejected the tired
repetition of Galen’s theories in
favor of detailed observation in
medicine. “I have not borrowed
from Hippocrates, Galen, or
anyone else,” he wrote, “having
acquired my knowledge from
the best teacher, that is, by Garlic  is native to Asia but was readily
adopted for its medicinal and culinary
qualities in the West.
17th-century doctor  wearing a
costume designed to protect against
contamination by the plague.
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The developmen T of herbal medicine
experience and hard work.” And again, “What a doctor
needs is not eloquence or knowledge of language and of books, but profound knowledge of nature and her works.” He also paid great attention to the exact dosage, saying that “it depends only on the dose whether a poison is a poison
or not.”
 As a result, Paracelsus was an influential force in the future development of chemistry, conventional medicine, herbal medicine, and homeopathy. Though he is known as the “father of chemistry,” he also explored alchemy, which concerned itself with the transmutation of base materials to gold, and the search for immortal life. Paracelsus also revived interest in the Doctrine of Signatures—the ancient theory that held that a plant’s appearance indicated the ailments
it would treat—and affirmed the value of locally grown medicinal herbs over expensive imported specimens.
Culpeper & Printed Herbals
Paracelsus’ advocacy of local herbs was later fiercely espoused
by Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654). The frontispiece to  his The English Physitian contains the memorable words: “Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, whereby a Man The iconoclastic Paracelsus, an alchemist and chemist, was one of the greatest scientists
of the 16th century, and advocated the use of minerals in healing, but only in tightly  controlled dosages.may preserve his Body in Health, or Cure himself, being
Sick, for three pence Charge, with such things only as grow  in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.” Wounded during the English Civil War fighting for the
Commonwealth, Culpeper championed the needs of the ordinary people who could afford neither the services of a doctor nor the expensive imported herbs and formulations that doctors generally prescribed. Drawing to some degree on Dioscorides, Arabian physicians, and Paracelsus, Culpeper developed a medical system that blended astrology and sound personal experience of the therapeutic uses of local plants. His herbal became an instant “bestseller” and appeared in many subsequent editions. The first herbal published in North America, in 1700, was an edition of his herbal. While the popularity of The English Physitian was notable, other herbals also found a place in households. The development of the printing press in the 15th century brought herbal medicine into homes on a wide scale. Texts such as Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica were printed for the first
time, and throughout Europe herbals were published and ran through many editions.
Deadly Cures 1700–1900
By the end of the 16th century, Paracelsus had become the
figurehead of the new chemical medicine. However, where he had insisted upon caution in the use of metallic poisons—mercury, antimony, and arsenic—the new medical thinkers were not so inhibited. Larger and larger doses of the purgative known as calomel (mercurous chloride, Hg
2Cl2) were given
to those suffering from syphilis and many other diseases. The treatment was very often worse than the illness, with some patients dying and many more suffering from the long-term consequences of mercury poisoning. Hippocrates’ saying “Desperate cases need the most
desperate remedies” was taken very literally, as is evident in the incredible excess of purging and bleeding that developed over the next three centuries in Europe and North America. These practices reached a peak in the “heroic” medicine of the early 19th century. Its leading proponent, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), maintained that only bloodletting and calomel were required in medical practice. His position was obviously extreme, but it is clear that in this new climate herbal medicines were becoming increasingly irrelevant.
The New Rationalism
Along with the new emphasis on chemical cures, modern
medicine came to look askance at the notion of the “vital force.” Up until the end of the 16th century, nearly all medical traditions had been based on the concept of working with nature, with the body’s healing capacities, which could be supported and strengthened with appropriate medicinal herbs. In traditional Chinese medicine, qi is the primal energy that maintains life and health. In Ayurveda, it is prana, and
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Mask of a northwestern Native American shaman. The efficacy of techniques
used by native healers often surpassed that of conventional medical practices
of the time.in the Western
tradition, Hippocrates
writes about “ vis
medicatrix naturae ”
or the healing power of
nature, while modern Western
medical herbalists and homeopaths
use the term “vital force.”
The importance of the vital force
was diminished in the West by the
philosophy of René Descartes (1596–1650). This French
mathematician divided the world into body and mind, nature
and


and used to treat excess vaginal discharge and
vaginal itching. Purple loosestrife is now little used
to treat eye problems, but, as Culpeper’s
experience suggests, the herb could be worth
further investigation as a remedy for disorders
of the eyes and vision.
Research  In animal experiments, extracts of
the flowers and leaves have been shown to be
hypoglycemic—lowering blood-sugar levels. The
plant is also thought to have antibiotic activity.
Madhuca spp. (sapotaceae)
Butter Tree
Description  Deciduous tree growing to 65 ft
(20 m). Has leathery leaves, clusters of scented
white flowers, and greenish fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation  Madhuca species are
native to central and northern India. The flowers,
leaves, and seeds are gathered in summer.
Parts Used  Flowers, seed oil.
Constituents  The leaves contain an alkaloid
and a saponin; the seeds a saponin and fixed oil.
History & Folklore  Butter tree has been a
source of food and medicine in India for at least
2,000 years. Its flowers are eaten and are
fermented to make alcoholic drinks.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The
expectorant flowers are used to treat chest
problems such as bronchitis. They are also taken
to increase breast-milk production. The leaves are
applied as a poultice to eczema. The seed oil is
laxative and is taken for constipation and to loosen
the stool of hemorrhoid sufferers.Purple loosestrife  is
used to relieve
diarrhea and
dysentery in breast-
feeding babies.Lysimachia vulgaris (primulaceae)
Y ellow Loosestrife
Description  Attractive perennial growing to
3 ft (1 m) with whorls of broadly lance-shaped
leaves and bright yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
yellow loosestrife commonly grows in damp
hedgerows and near water. It is also cultivated
as a garden plant. It is gathered when in flower
in summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Y ellow loosestrife contains a
benzoquinone, triterpenoid saponins, flavonoids,
and tannins.
History & Folklore  Pliny (23–79 ce)
recorded that lysimachia, the plant’s Latin name,
was a tribute to King Lysimachus of Sicily, who
discovered its medicinal benefits. The name
“loosestrife” refers to the plant’s reputed power
to prevent conflict, particularly between animals,
and to repel insects. The Greek physician
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232Magnolia officinalisOther medicinal plantsMagnolia officinalis (Magnoliaceae)
Magnolia,
Hou Po (Chinese)
Description  Deciduous tree growing to 80 ft
(25 m). Has aromatic bark, large leaves, and
fragrant creamy-white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to China,
magnolia grows wild in mountainous regions. It  is now planted in many parts of the world as an ornamental tree. The bark is stripped in spring.Malva sylvestris (Malvaceae)
Common Mallow
Description  Biennial growing to 5 ft (1.5 m).
Has a pulpy taproot, 5-lobed scalloped leaves,  and pink to mauve flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Common mallow is
native to Europe and Asia. It is naturalized in the Americas and Australasia, growing in open areas and on hedges and fences. The leaves are gathered in spring, the flowers when in bloom in summer.
Parts Used  Leaves, flowers, root.
Constituents  Common mallow contains
flavonol glycosides, mucilage, and tannins. The
flowers also contain malvin (an anthocyanin).
History & Folklore  The young leaves and
shoots of this plant have been eaten since at
least the 8th century bce. The plant’s many
uses gave rise to the Spanish adage, “A
kitchen garden and mallow, sufficient
medicines for a home.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses
Though less useful than marshmallow
(Althaea officinalis, p. 165), common
mallow is an effective demulcent. The flowers
and leaves are emollient and good for sensitive areas of the skin. It is applied as a poultice to reduce swelling and draw out toxins. T aken
internally, the leaves reduce gut irritation and
have a laxative effect. When common mallow
is combined with eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus,  p. 96), it makes a good remedy for coughs and other chest ailments. As with marshmallow, the root may be given to children to ease teething.influential was the root’s shape, which often vaguely resembles the human form. The roots have been carved and used as talismans for thousands of years, especially to aid fertility in women, and as a charm against misfortune. From Roman times onward, mandrake root bark was used as an anaesthetic and analgesic, and as a treatment for insanity.
Magnolia is distinguished by its
beautiful creamy-white flowers.
Part Used  Bark.
Constituents  Magnolia bark contains alkaloids,
coumarins, flavonoids, and lignans. The lignan,
honokiol, found in the bark of several magnolia species appears to have antitumor and anti-anxiety activity. Another lignan, magnolol, has antibacterial and anti-anxiety activity.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Magnolia bark
is aromatic, warming, and pungent. It relieves cramping pain and flatulence, and is taken for abdominal distension, indigestion, loss of appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea. It is now also used to treat anxiety, chronic stress, and lowered mood, and as a neuroprotective remedy that aids memory and mental function.
Research  Research suggests that magnolia bark
extract is antimicrobial and may have specific use  as an oral antiseptic to control bacteria and relieve bad breath (halitosis). Two Italian clinical studies found that magnolia extract helped relieve anxiety and support positive mood in menopausal women.   A 2012 Korean study concluded that magnolia may be useful in treating Alzheimer’s disease.
Related Species North American species,
notably M. grandiflora, are used in much the same way as magnolia (above), with traditional uses including for fever and rheumatism.

Caution Do not take during pregnancy. Mandrake’s narcotic properties and human-shaped root have
inspired much legend and lore.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Mandrake
has now largely fallen out of use. The herb is
sometimes applied as a poultice or plaster for rheumatic and arthritic pains, or, as a decoction,  for ulcers and similar kinds of skin disorders.
 RCautions  Mandrake is toxic. Do not take
internally. Use externally only under professional supervision. The plant is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.
Manihot esculenta
(Euphorbiaceae)
Cassava,
Manioc
Description  Shrub growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m).
Has fleshy roots, woody stems, large palm-shaped
leaves, and green flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Cassava is native to
tropical Central and South America. Possibly the most grown root crop in the world, bitter and sweet varieties are grown commercially throughout the tropics (Nigeria, Thailand, and Brazil being the foremost producers). The plant was first cultivated in Peru around 4,000 years ago. The root is unearthed 8 to 24 months after planting.
Part Used  Root.
Constituents  Cassava contains cyanogenic
glycosides (0.02–0.03% in the bitter varieties, 0.007% in the sweet) and starch.Mandragora officinarum
(Solanaceae)
Mandrake
Description  Perennial growing to 2 in (5 cm).
Has a deep branching root, a rosette of broad
floppy leaves, funnel-shaped white to purple flowers, and yellow fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to the
Mediterranean region of Europe, mandrake grows on dry riverbeds. Its leaves are picked in summer.
Part Used  Root.
Constituents  Mandrake contains 0.4% tropane
alkaloids (hyoscine and hyoscyamine).
History & Folklore  Legend held that the
mandrake, on being uprooted, emitted a scream that was so powerful it could kill the person harvesting the plant. Consequently, reported one classical authority, mandrake was pulled up by dogs that had the stems tied to their tails. The fantastic powers attributed to the plant were partly due  to the narcotic-like properties of the root. Also
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History & Folklore  Bitter cassava has large
quantities of highly toxic glycosides, and must be
care


 asserted that these figures for 1962 do
not begin to tell the story, for although the law requires all physicians to report such cases, many
fail to do so. Indeed, it is said that such cases are rarely reported. Less than ten percent according
to estimates of the cases of gonorrhea have been reported. It is stated that teen agers and young
adults are the chief
victims
.
The false security that was aroused by the first optimism for the anti-biotics, has now given way
to despair—and alarm. Physicians admit that penicillin and steptomycin are “no longer effective”
against the disease. The common explanation is employed: the germs have developed resistance to
the drug.
Even progressively larger doses are now admitted to be resulting in more “treatment failures”
than did much smaller doses when the drug was first used. It is now realized that it is not possible
to treat gonorrhea out of existence with universal use of anti-biotics.
While one may have gonorrhea numerous times in a lifetime, it is well known that one
infection
127does not confer
immunity
, as is claimed for many other infections; it is now said by the experts of
WHO that the only hope for the future resides in the possible finding of a vaccine that will confer
immunity
. It is strange that they never suggest that good behavior is a sure preventive. They take it
for granted that youth has started on a course of sexual laxity from which it cannot be returned, no
matter what the cost.
My observations as well as statistics of the disease show that circumcision is a very poor
substitute for good behavior. The disease is very prevalent in circumcised as well as
noncircumcised peoples of the world.
Before the days of penicillin I used to get numbers of cases of gonorrhea for care. Then came the
“wonder drugs” and the belief that one to three shots would rapidly cure gonorrhea. I ceased to get
these patients. Everybody who developed gonorrhea resorted to penicillin. Symptoms were thus
suppressed and recurrences were again suppressed. But suppressing symptoms does not provide
any lasting answers.
Gonorrhea is a self-limited disease. This is to say, it runs a more or less variable course to
recovery. Patients get well under all kinds of treatment and they get well with no treatment at all. A
number of years ago some tests were made and it was discovered that warm water was as
effective as the drugs popularly used. The course of gonorrhea runs from four to six weeks. Its
course can be shortened by rest and fasting. Complications can be prevented in all cases by
fasting.
Every enervating influence, such as tobacco, alcohol, overeating, lasciviousness, late hours,
over-activity, will delay recovery and increase the liability to the development of complications.
My own experience has indicated that the disease gets well more rapidly in females than in
males and there is less suffering, due primarily to the fact that the female canals are larger and
drain better. Adequate drainage is
vitally important and any bandages or ligatures that interfere
with drainage are almost certain to cause complications.
This is one condition in which I think that we may profitably alter our rule against drinking much
water, and permit the free taking of water. Much water drinking means frequent urination and this
helps to keep the urethral canal washed out. Injections into the canal tend to carry infectious
material further back into the canal, whereas urine tends to sweep it to the mouth of the urethra and
out. Externally, both in males and females, strict cleanliness is essential.
While I prefer the fast in all such cases, if the circumstances of the patient are such that a fast of
any length is not feasible, the fruit diet may be substituted for the fast. Three meals a day of fresh
fruits, with no eating between meals and no heavy fruit meals taken, will enable the patient to carry
on his activities and get will without complications.
Fasting or a light diet of this kind not only hastens recovery and prevents the development of
complications, but it also assures the patient greater comfort while the disease is at its height.
There is less pain and in the case of the male, fewer painful erections.
Again, I emphasize: the fast is not a
cure
; it does not
cure
 gonorrhea. The self-healing processes
of the body eliminate the cause of the gonorrhea and restore the normal state. When one fasts under
such conditions, one merely avoids putting hindrances in the way of the reconstructive processes
of life.
12832
Paralysis Agitans
A woman nearly forty years old arrived at a
Hygienic
 institution in this country, after suffering
with Parkinson’s disease for six years. Her home was in Costa Rica, her husband was an Austrian
engaged in the importing business. When her first symptoms appeared a physician was consulted.
After a few local physicians had been given the opportunity to restore her to health, her husband
took her to Vienna, where she was given the best medical care Europe afforded at the time.
Two years later she was brought to New York, where she was again treated by the best
specialists on the east coast. After a total of six years of
the finest care available, with no results
except that her condition had grown progressively worse, she was taken to the
Hygienic
institution.
At this institution she was put to bed and placed upon a fast. As progressed, she gained control
of her limbs. After a fast of more than thirty days, she was allowed to resume eating. There was an
immediate recurrence of tremor, but it was not so bad as before the fast. The results were the
same, except that the tremor was much less, after the second fast as after the first.
After another period of eating, she was given a third fast. There was no recurrence of tremor
afterwards. For more than ten years, thereafter, as long as the
Hygienist
 was able to maintain
contact with her, she had no recurrence of the tremor. She carried on the work of her household
and enjoyed better than average health. The total time during which she was under
Hygienic
 care
was nine months.
The developments in this case are typical, with the exception of the completeness of recovery.
Not all cases make full recovery; indeed, full recovery is not the general rule. The rule is that the
majority of these cases make sufficient progress to become useful again, but retain a part of the
tremor.
There are a small number of cases, in late stages of the disease, that make no appreciable
improvement. It is correct to say that cases that make full recovery and cases that make no
improvement are both comparatively rare. This is apparently true for the same reason in both
instances:
Hygienic
 care is instituted much too late. It is rare that a patient with paralysis agitans
undergoes
Hygienic
 care at the first appearance of symptoms. Indeed, the author has never known
of such an instance.
Paralysis agitans, also known as shaking palsy and Parkinson’s disease, was named after Dr.
James Parkinson, who was British. He first described the disease in 1817. It commonly develops
late in life, usually after the age of forty. It is slightly more prevalent in men than in women, and is
characterized by stiffness and rigidity of the muscles, which causes delayed action of the voluntary
muscles, and by tremor, which is chiefly noticeable when the patient is sitting still and disappears
when he is active. A description of a typical very advanced case reads: “Quaking of the limbs,
rigidity of the muscles, an abnormal slowness of movement, staring wild-eyed without blinking,
right facial expression, and often drooling from the mouth.”
There are an estimated 280,000 cases of paralysis agitans in the United States, with thirty-six
thousand new cases developing each year.
Tremors, whether coarse or fine, result from alternate contraction and relaxation of opposing
muscles. They are not confined to paralysis agitans, but are seen in cases of venereal excess,
129chronic alcoholism, delirium tremens, opium, chloral, mineral drug and other forms of poisoning.
They may also be seen in many cases of neurasthenia, debility, senility, arteriosclerosis, hysteria,
goiter, paresis, etc.
Usually affecting the hands and feet, the tremor of senility is exceedingly fine. In paralysis
agitans the tremor is rhythmic and regular and persists during sleep as well as during waking
hours.
Beginning mildly, paralysis agitans progresses gradually with tremor and weakness beginning in
an extremity, usually one hand and arm. In the beginning the tremor can be controlled by the will,
but the disease gradually extends until an entire side is affected and it becomes no longer possible
to control the tremor.
In advanced stages, there is often dullness of the mind, drooling, a tendency to go forward (the
so-called propulsion walk), and restlessness of the fingers, which appear to be continually going
through the motions of crumbling bread. There is a progressive loss of power in the affected
muscles, moderate rigidity, alternations in the gait, and, at times, mental impairment. In advanced
states, the tongue and chin may become tremulous. Rarely is speech lost. Some of the patients
become very much worse under excitement and so great is the trem


 energy—were it not for the present clamour for sugar, converted into alcohol it could rival petrol at present prices—but human food is much more
than calories. With the increasing world pressure on the primary
foods, there is no doubt that the cane producing lands would do better to grow primary foods ra ther than sugar—less cars and
gadgets, and less foreign exchange, but better health, and a happier
people.
But it is the use of lands, capable of growing primary human
foods like cereals, for meat production, that constitutes the greatest
economic folly. It requires some tw elve to fifteen times more land
to produce a pound of meat than a pound of cereal, which means that some two to three thousand million more people could be fed if the world became vegetarian. It is not suggested that the world
population should so increase. Rather, the aim is to emphasize how
wasteful it has become to use land for the production of animal food, a wastefulness which the planet can no longer tolerate.
Since the power of demand is still largely in the hands of the
industrial communities, and their clamour for meat, far from being satiated, is for ever increasing,  and since much of the animal
feeding stuffs is produced in the po orer parts of the world, it means
that the nutrition of the poorer two thirds of the planet is being increasingly sacrificed so that the gluttony of the more prosperous communities can be met. One can doubt that such a situation will be tolerated for much longer, for more  than oil, the West has been
meeting its protein surfeits at the expense of a planetary majority.
The situation is already threatening. The shortage of animal
food is boosting prices, a main factor in the inflationary costs of feeding. Those countries formerly exporting animal foods are now
consuming it themselves. And there is no unexploited land left on the planet. If the industrial communities do succeed in even
maintaining their present levels of consumption of animal foods, it
can only be at the cost of a deteriorating world situation, leading inexorably to worldwide starvation. And starving people are desperate people. With the means of making atomic weapons now well within the capacity of the poorer, increasingly more poorly fed peoples of the world, it is not impossible that the planetary
holocaust will be the result of greed.
Wisdom would conclude that a worldwide adoption of a
vegetarian dietary is the proper means of planetary justice and
survival. Wisdom would also prepar e for this inevitable change in
good time, so that it came about in good order, without the
widespread disaster which such momentous change will exact if it
comes about in violence and chaos. Unfortunately, it is not only the greed of the presently prosperous countries that is involved. Many of the poorer peoples have come to imitate the dietary habits of the West, as they have attempted to catch up with its industrial
advantages. Former peasantries, only eating animal foods on rare
festive occasions, now insist on a daily intake, as the mark of emancipation. And many of the poorer peoples are, by culture and tradition, the opposite of vegetarian.
The prospects are undoubtedly grim. Success is only likely to
be achieved if the overall bad habits of civilization, as well as the
mounting pressure of population, can become corrected. In all
probability, all these problems are interconnected. Wrong eating must in some way at present unrealized, play its part in the population stampedes of recent times, just as this stampede has its reverse influence on world food resources. The challenge of a world
food reform calls for a better understanding of the forces at work
behind the extraordinary rise in the human population of this planet.

II. The Unloving Crowd

Although the earth could support a considerably larger number
of people than exist at present on a vegetarian dietary, congestion is fast becoming a dehumanizing influence. Human society differs from the often vast aggregations of individuals one finds among
other animals, wherein the individual is subordinate to the group
structure, in that society is the radiation of the humanizing predispositions engendered within each  individual. It  is only when
such conditions* are fulfilled in the individual that society is itself a humanizing force. Constraint, limitation of individual freedom, subordination of the individual to the needs of vast societies are thus
inherently antihuman.
Human love is so powerful a force, that it can no doubt be
exercised in large social groupings, possibly extending to a planetary scale. But this requires first of all the reality of love and its achievement between individuals, as well as a social structure
which preserves individual liberty, in the sense of allowing and
encouraging every individual to develop along humanizing lines. Unfortunately, the larger the social groupings in human history, the greater the interferences in such  liberty. The rise of the first
civilizations were attended by such dehumanizing devices as slavery, and although slavery has been condemned for over a
hundred years, human beings have become increasingly subordinate
to the vast social groups, with the crises of coercion expressed in the totalitarian regimes.
Under such conditions, humanization is thwarted. If human
beings are not thugs and bullies, they become passive and uncaring,
which is a form of dehumanization. But the effects of overcrowding,
inevitable with the rise of the gigantic modern metropolis, are more insidious. Even in rats, spared the precarious balance of the human mind, overcrowding results in an tihuman parallels—in killing and
maiming without reason, in a neglect of the young, in queer sexual
practices, and in inexplicable bursts of communal madness. In its
over-plentifulness, human life is becoming dangerously cheap. The
calculations of over-kill, in the event of a nuclear war, are symptomatic of such cheapening.
Quite apart from the increasing pressure on the resources
offered by nature, the impact of overcrowding on the environment
has the antihuman consequence of  leading to a disorderly, ugly
environment. This is evident enough even where order prevails—in architecture, where the pressure of economics and maximal utilization of space has filled the cities with concrete and glass boxes devoid of human meaning. Where the population pressure
results in a breakdown of order, the results are appalling, in the
clutter and dirt of modern cities, in the noise and enervating bustle, in the congestions of crowd and traffic, in the pollution of the air, in the loss of sunlight, not. to mention those hideous consequences of urban disorder, the slums and semi-slums that fester around all
cities, and increasingly within them.
As the crowded cities have spread, forever consuming more of
the countryside, so nature has become increasingly devastated, and
rendered meaningless. It is one of the most depressing observations to find the degree to which city inhabitants, including the young, come to lose all contact with nature, to the point where they feel lost
and awkward, if not actually listless and violent, when brought into
contact with what is precariously le ft of nature. The fact is that
unless nature is free and uncorrupted, it does lose much of its
meaning to the human being. For one thing, the sense of an invigorating purity one can experience in unspoilt and beautiful scenes, is ruled out—by as little as a carelessly discarded wrapper! Since the appreciation of purity, as much as beauty and harmony,
are essential Humanizing attributes, this loss of environmental
purity results in an impure human being, necessarily more callous, more able to accept the hideousness of the environment in which he finds himself.
Anthropologists are agreed about few things, but most of them
concur that large-scale conflict—what has come to be known as
war—is a relatively recent occurren ce. It has increased in severity
and extent, and in its dehumani zation, as population pressure has
increased. What then is the reason fo r this extraordinary soaring in
the human population, itself a recent phenomenon? If the human species has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and a
human-like primate for millions, this crisis of over-population is all
the more extraordinary.
The hominids of the Palaeolithic roamed over most of the
world. If it was only a matter of food, then surely they would have stumbled upon conditions in some part of the world where the kind
of rapid increase we are witnessing would have occurred. All the
evidence indicates that the hominids,  like the higher primates, have
never known a population explosion. They have been as a group, restricted breeders. Gorillas a nd chimpanzees maintain stable
populations; overcrowding only comes from human encroachment into their habitats. It cannot be disease, in the form of the sweeping
and devastating epidemics known in the crowded and unsanitary
conditions of the urban past, that kept their numbers down, for the
surviving bands of gorillas, already seriously menaced by human intrusion, are superbly healthy.
One way in which population stability is maintained in such
primates, is by varying the length of nurture. Nursing mothers are
not sexually harassed by the males, so that if nurture is prolonged, the occasions for breeding are reduced. The males are not inconvenienced, for although ever-ready to mount a receptive female, they only become sexually aroused on signals of one kind or another from the females, and can spend a life of bachelor
uninvolvement if no such signals come.
More usually, nursing persists long enough after birth to cut
down the breeding cycles