o Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frtime people feel unwell, they experience typical
signs of intoxication. However, as soon as the
disposal of the ketone bodies begins, their con-
centration stops increasing, and since the ketone
bodies are high -energy components, they serve
as fuel for the synthesis of new amino acids,
which can lead to tissue regeneration. The pro-
cess of regeneration can be accompanied by se-
vere pain and you should be prepared for it. Ini-
tially, the acidotic crisis can happen on day 4, 3
or even 2 after you start your dry fast. With each
new fast it happens sooner. The faster it passes,
the more time is left for the renewal of the body.
At that time you can experience acetone -odor
breath, nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath,
weakness. The feeling of hunger subsides; thirst
is bearable. Blood pressure fluctuates depending
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no need to be afraid of any phenomena, since,
due to the organism’s adaptat ion to a new living
environment, symptoms become somewhat
more acute.
The best thing during this period is to take re-
laxed, slow walks in nature. Abdominal and spi-
nal self -massage, cupping massage is mandatory.
You may experience weight loss of up to 2 kg.
Fasting is a process of increasing physiological
regeneration, renewal of all cells, their molecular
and chemical composition.
Interestingly, biochemical changes during fast-
ing and reparative regeneration are very similar.
Both cases entail two phases: destruction and re-
covery.  In both cases, the destruction phase is
characterized by the prevalence of
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their synthesis, shift of pH to acidity, acidosis
and more. The recovery phase in both cases is
also charac terized by the prevalence of synthesis
of nucleic acids over their decomposition, and a
return of pH to its neutral state.
From the teaching on regeneration we know
that the amplification of the destruction phase
leads to the amplification of the recovery phase.
Therefore, with sufficient foundation, we can
consider fasting a natural stimulatory factor of
physiological regeneration.
At the basis of fasting, there is a biological pro-
cess that leads to the renewal and rejuvenation
of the tissues of the whole  body. In environmen-
tally unfriendly conditions, modern human’s
physiological regeneration mechanisms work
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cleansed and the regeneration mechanisms
begin to work in a natural way. All that can be
regenerated has natural tendencies towards self -
cleansing and recovery. It rejects anything alien
by itself, as soon as the process of deliberate vol-
untary intoxication ends. All that is capable of
regeneration really likes cleanliness, periodicity
and dosage. During dr y fasting, diseased, patho-
logical tissues are primarily destroyed, which
launches a truly universal mechanism of healing
bodily injuries using the internal cell reserve —
bone marrow stromal cells, one of the main
mechanisms of eliminating cranio -cerebral inju-
ries’ consequences.
After ending a fast, one can observe an ampli-
fication of regenerative processes in bone
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ically dividing cells, etc.). Indices of hemogenesis
regeneration in peripheral blood (skein cells, for
example), generally surpass initial numbers
threefold.
But the most important thing is that more
brain stromal cells than usual are produced.
These cells can turn into any other cells when
they reach the corresponding part of the body.
Stromal cells begin arriving in the damaged area,
when they receive an appropriate signal from the
central nervous system. When they reach the
damaged area, certain signal molecules instruct
them to transform into the missing cells of the
damaged tissue.

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temperature may increase. This is a physiologi-
cally normal phenomenon during dry fasting.
Shivering or fever is possible, depending on the
nature of the patient and the symptoms of the
disease, as well as on the patient’s sex and age. As
we already know, during dry fasting toxins burn,
one can say, in their own furnace — in the ab-
sence of water every cell starts an internal ther-
monuclear reaction. So we obtain a sort of an ex-
treme express method for destroying everything
unnecessary, heavy, and pathological inside the
cell. Each cell becomes a mini -furnace, a mini -
reactor. It’s as if the body’s internal temperature
increased. This temperature may not be regis-
tered with a thermometer but it is experienced as
internal fev er or shivering by people who are in
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point in this condition is the fact that tempera-
ture itself is an important part of the body’s de-
fense mechanisms. From our own experience we
know that in the presence of h igh fever all toxins
and poisons are destroyed, even cancer cells fully
halt their vital functions. Such a process speeds
up recovery. Reacting with an increase in tem-
perature, the organism causes deceleration in
the growth of microorganisms. It becomes ea sier
for the immune system to track down and kill
anything alien and altered.
One can also observe a decrease in the cold
threshold, normalization of thermoregulation
processes, manifested in hot flashes and requir-
ing use of cold water, which stabilizes t he pa-
tient’s condition. All catarrhal diseases are out of
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tolerate dousing with cold -water well, you can
walk barefoot on snow or dew, douse yourself
with ice-cold water, walk nude in nature.
Abdominal and  spinal self -massage, cupping
massage is mandatory.
The weight loss amounts to up to 1 kg. In the
presence of fever all metabolic processes in the
organism accelerate, that’s why exotoxins and
endotoxins that cause disease are destroyed
faster. Ovarian cy sts resolve themselves, mas-
topathy and myomas disappear, even cancer
cells fully stop their vital functions. It’s also
known  that when temperature increases, inter-
feron, which enables the body to fight viruses, is
secreted more actively. When temperature rises,
antibodies that protect the organism from
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and bactericidal activity of cytotoxic neutrophils
is enhanced; efficiency of lymphocytes grows
stronger. One of the most important cells, the T -
cell, works be st in the presence of fever. Cancer
researchers decreased tumor sizes by warming
them thoroughly. High temperature decreases
vital functions in pathogenic microorganisms.
In the early 20th century doctors used fever to
treat syphilis and some forms of chronic arthri-
tis: the patients were placed in a heated box. In
our daily lives we can always observe that pets,
as well as young children, refuse to eat when they
have a fever. The absence of  appetite is very often
encountered during different infections, but it
still isn’t known for sure where this symptom
comes from and what it means.
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Mateo, USA) assumed that lack of appetite is a
defense mechani sm, which has been preserved
in evolution since prehistoric times. Fasting in-
creases the effect of the T -helper 2 immune cells
(Th2), that are especially important in fighting
bacteria and viruses. All these processes acceler-
ate recovery. Reacting with an increase in bodily
temperature,


 and Overfat at the Same Time
When thin people have a desire to gain weight, they usually fail to rec ognize that they need to gain muscle, not fat. Almost every
client who has ever come to me wanting to curtail their weight loss because they thought that they were getting “too skinny” actuall y
still needed to lose some fat. In more than twenty years of advising people on  matters of health, nutrition, and athletic performance, I
have known only two individuals who actually wanted and  needed to gain fat.
What really happens when people begin eating healthfully is that th e fat starts falling off and they think they are losing muscle,
because they never realized how little muscle they actually car ry. People in this situation need to gain muscle while continuing to los e
fat. This requires exercise.
One client, a high-end fashion model, came to me saying she would do whatev er I suggested in order to extend her youthful
beauty, but she could not afford to lose any more weight. She was long and lanky a nd looked skinny to be sure, but she was
undermuscled. When we measured her body fat, she was shocked to discover th at it was almost 29%—at least 10% above what I
would consider healthy. She did not need to lose weight; she needed to lose fat w hile gaining muscle. She did just that, and she
continued her modeling career for many more years.
Gorging on Fat Is Not a Strategy for Weight Gain
Many people who eat a lot of fat lose a great deal of weight. How can this be? Con suming a diet that is low in carbohydrates and
rich in fat can leave people with a depressed appetite, which leads them t o eat fewer calories. 68  Also, although some people can
handle dietary fat fairly efficiently (and still consume many ca lories), most of us do not digest or assimilate it very well. This means
that even when we consume the same number of calories in high-fat f ood as we would on a lower-fat diet, we can experience an
effective net reduction in caloric intake. Of course, the heavy fat i nterferes with nutrient absorption, as well. This is a compound
problem, because a high-fat diet is already nutrient poor.

Overfat People Are Malnourished
We cannot be healthy when we are overfat, since our health cannot be bet ter than its weakest link. To the degree that we are
overfat, we are also typically malnourished: the more fat, the more mal nourished. The obese person who eats only fruits and
vegetables is virtually unheard of; we get fat when we eat foods tha t are less than optimally nutritious—foods that are nutritionall y
poor and impair our assimilation of nutrients. Hence, fatness and malnut rition are inseparably linked.

Overfat People Cannot Be “Perfectly Healthy”
W e like to think of ourselves as perfectly healthy, even when we know t hat we are not. W e say things like, “Except for my diabetes,
I am perfectly healthy,” or “Other than his darned asthma and needi ng to lose 80 pounds, he is perfectly healthy.” W e are shocked
when someone we deemed perfectly healthy dies suddenly from a heart att ack or stroke. But take note: people in perfect health
simply do not drop dead.  While perfect health is our natural state, it occurs only when we ta ke perfect care of ourselves.

How Much Body Fat Is Healthy?
In order to live healthfully throughout a lifetime, we must learn to m aintain both our weight and our body-fat percentage. For
men, a healthy body-fat percentage runs in the single digits. For women, the ideal range is about ten points higher. (It is certainly
possible for women to drop too low in body fat, despite what the glamour magazines wou ld have us believe. Women can develop
infertility, osteoporosis, eating disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other  serious conditions when their body fat drops into the single
digits.)
Most mainstream guidelines from medical or fitness professionals ru n significantly higher than my recommendations, as the
following table illustrates. 69

This discrepancy results from the fact that I equate health with f itness and athleticism, essentially viewing the two as
inseparable. In contrast, government, fitness, and medical “expert s” distinguish the athlete from the healthy individual, giving th em
separate classifications, as if it were possible to be healthy and not athletic.  Although we can indeed feel good and live free of
symptoms for several years as a sedentary individual, this strategy  is sure to fail over time. We should not fool ourselves into
believing that anything resembling true health is possible withou t regular, vigorous exercise.

Strategies for Increasing Muscle Mass
Increasing muscle mass is one way to decrease overall body fat percent age. As the percentage of lean tissue increases, the
percentage of fat tissue automatically decreases. If you are thin bu t still carry a higher-than-healthful body fat percentage, this i s an excellent way to achieve your ideal body composition, because increasing  muscle mass has the secondary effect of facilitating fat
loss. How does this occur? When we add muscle, we increase our body’s calori c requirements. For many of us, there is a time
lapse while we become accustomed to eating more food. During this lag time, our bodies commonly utilize stored fats to make up
for the deficit in calories, reducing our body-fat percentage.
Unfortunately, muscle mass is easily lost. The phrase “use it or l ose it” definitely applies, as muscles must be used on an
ongoing basis in order to grow and maintain size. Day to day, muscle loss rare ly accounts for even one-hundredth of one percent of
our body-weight fluctuations. Muscle loss can account for a fair amount  of weight loss, however, if an active person becomes totally
sedentary, as in the case of the extended bed rest that is required in ins tances of extreme sickness or recovery from a debilitating
accident. We can measure muscle atrophy within twenty-four hours of  the initiation of complete rest. Fortunately, muscles regain
their prior size with relative ease when we resume normal activi ties, even after months of convalescence or weeks of water fasting.
Of course, if we are active and then become unexpectedly sedentary and c ontinue eating as much or more than we did before, we
will gain fat, as the body stores excess calories as fat, not muscle.
Gaining muscle is the only truly healthful way to gain weight an d increase size without running the risk of creating hormonal
imbalances that result from harboring excess body fat. The only wa y to gain muscle weight is by “asking” your body to build through
the demands of strength-training activities. Pure strength tra ining is technically defined as “one repetition maximum,” or “1RM,”
meaning you can lift that particular weight a maximum of one time be fore muscular fatigue results. More often, people train for
strength by lifting weights in not more than four sets of one to five re petitions each. Strength training a few times per week is all that
is necessary to develop your new, lean body.

Losing or Gaining Fat … the Right and Wrong Way
The simplest method of losing fat is to consume fewer total calories eac h day than the amount you use. Estimating calories
consumed versus calories used can provide a very good assessment of your pote ntial overall rate of weight loss. (See Appendix D.
Resources for Diet Analysis) Given that a pound of fat contains 3,500 calor ies, if you expend 115 calories per day more than you
consume, you will fairly reliably lose one pound per month. Such calculati ons are not necessary on an ongoing basis; typically you
only need to figure calories in versus calories out to develop an understa nding and a routine. Once you establish healthful daily
habits, tracking your diet and exercise will become a thing of the past.
Another way to achieve a net loss of calories for weight reduction is to m ake a commitment to add regular exercise into your
daily routine. You must be patient about it, however, as briskly walking a mi le per day only yields on average about a one-pound
weight loss over the course of a month. This assumes, of course, that all ot her factors, including total calorie intake, remain relatively
constant during that time.

The Truth Behind Detoxification
The tendency among raw fooders to attribute magical powers, such as “ cleansing” properties, to foods is nothing short of
misguided. Raw foods do not cleanse; they are simply the foods we are designed f or. Consuming them provides the body the
necessary energy to relieve itself of toxins that have been held in  suspension with water. The body does this through its normal
mechanisms—the organs of elimination and detoxification.
Our liver and kidneys are always working to detoxify us. When we consume t he standard American diet, these organs work
overtime just to keep up, because we are constantly ingesting as many t oxins as we eliminate (or more). When we switch to raw
food, the liver and kidneys have a chance to catch up. They can finally make  progress in detoxifying the body, reducing its toxic
load.
One pint of water weighs one pound, so weight loss can be dramatic when we ar e losing water as a result of reducing the
body’s toxic load. I have seen people lose twenty-five and even as muc h as forty pounds in the first week of switching to an all-raw


 onfresh, raw food; one week on dilute carrot juice with some green leafy vegetablesjuice too; one week on water fasting; and then she repeated the series. After sixweeks of detoxification, I gave Alice a Life Extension megavitamin formula,discovered she could not handle the acid form of vitamin C (that she had alreadybeen taking) and had her start on protomorphogens to rebuild her weakenedendocrine system, her exhausted adrenals and weak pancreas. She also begantaking pancreatic enzymes when she ate vegetable protein. She was put on amaintenance diet that eliminated foods she was allergic to; the diet primarilyconsisted of whole grains, nuts, cooked and raw vegetables, and raw fruits. Onher maintenance diet Alice had a profound resurgence of energy and rediscovereda sense of well-being she had not known for decades. She began to feel like shehad when she was a child. Her constant sinus drip was gone. She was able tostop taking synthetic thyroid hormones and instead, supported her endocrinesystem with protomorphogens.
A Rampaging Infection
At the age of 40, John, an old bohemian client of mine, came into a moderate
inheritance and went “native” in the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific. He spentabout four months hanging out with the locals. Life there was so much fun thatJohn completely forgot that his body was actually rather delicate, that many of hisorgans were weak, and that to feel good, he had to live a fairly simon-pure life.
But the jovial, accepting, devil-may-care Fijians enjoyed a constant party,
even more so because John’s money allowed the Fijians to manifest powerful,tropical, home-grown strains of recreational herbs to smoke in abundance, beerand rum and worse, the Fijians (and John) constantly used a very toxic thoughonly mildly-euphoric narcotic called kava, something Europeans usually have nogenetic resistance to. The Fijians (and John) also ate a lot of freshly-caught fishfried in grease, well-salted, and huge, brain-numbing bowls of greasy starches,foods that they call i’coi, or “real food” as opposed to things like fruit and
vegetables that aren’t real food because they don’t knock you to the floor forhours trying to digest them in a somnambulant doze.
John miraculously kept up with this party for a few months and then, while
scuba diving, got some small coral scratches on his leg. These got infected. Theinfections got worse. Soon he had several huge, suppurating, ulcerous sores onhis legs and worse, the infections became systemic and began spreading rapidly.He was running a fever and was in considerable pain. So John booked anemergency ticket home and fled to find Doctor Isabelle. When I met his plane hewas rolled out in a wheelchair, unable to walk because of painfully swollen legs.
John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would
not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previouscourses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions thatfirst brought John to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because heknew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors wouldhave done exactly as they pleased.
I gave John a colonic, a gentle, mental spanking, and put him to bed without
any supper. He started water fasting and did colonics every day. He begangobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put hugepoultices on his sores made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a weekor so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready). John’s sores were amazing.Every day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body. The oldones kept getting bigger and deeper. The largest original ones were about threeinches in diameter, smelled horribly and had almost eaten the flesh down to thebone. His pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn’tirritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my house was remotebecause John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. John was never delirious,but he was always original. He did not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief andhowled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs.
After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores.
There were forty three. Seven or eight of them were enormous, two or threeinches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear wereshallow, small and stayed small. After that point no more new ones showed upand the body began to make visible headway against the infection. Very slowlyand then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from theedges. John’s fever began to drop. And he had less pain. I should mention thatJohn brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism into ourhouse to which we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I wereattacked where the skin had been broken. However, unlike John, in our cases,our healthy bodies immediately walled-off the organism and the small, reddenedpustules, though painful, did not grow and within a week, had been conquered byour immune systems. And after that we had an immunity.
After about three weeks of his fasting we were thoroughly tired of hearing
John’s cathartic howls, tired of nursing a sick person. We needed a break. John atthis point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had previously water
fasted for 30 days and knew the drill very well. So we stocked up the vitamin C
bottle by his bed and went to town for the weekend to stay in a motel and see amovie. As they say in the Canadian backwoods, we were bushed.
John had promised to be good. But as soon as we left he decided that since he
felt so very much better, he could break his fast. He knew how to do this andfortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it more orless correctly, only eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables. But by thetime we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. The pain was rapidlygetting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new onesappeared. Dr. Isabelle again took away his food and gave him another verbalspanking a little more severe than the one he’d had a few weeks earlier and puthim to bed again without his supper.
After two more weeks on water, John had gained a great deal on the sores.
They were filling in and weren’t oozing pus, looked clean and the new formingmeat looked a healthy pink instead of purple-black. But John had been veryslender to start with and by now he was getting near the end of his food reserves.He probably couldn’t have fasted on water for more than one more week withoutstarvation beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under closesupervision. I gave him dilute juice only, introduced other sustenance verycautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would notpermit the organism to gain. This time it didn’t. John’s own immune system,beefed up by fasting, had conquered a virulent organism that could have easilykilled him.
Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the common childhood
illnesses, people frequently died of infections as virulent as the one that attackedJohn. They usually died because they “ate to keep up their strength.” Most ofthese deaths were unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor nursing care. Forexample, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to consist of spoon-fed milk—sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the assistance
of massive doses of vitamin C, if people would but fast away infections they could
cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the side effects ofantibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
Dr. John Tilden, a hygienist who practiced in the ‘20s, before the era of
antibiotics, routinely fasted patients with infectious illnesses. Supporting the sickbody with wise nursing, he routinely healed scarlet fever, whopping cough,typhoid, typhus, pneumonia, peritonitis, Rocky Mountain fever, tuberculosis,gonorrhea, syphilis, cholera, and rheumatic fever. The one common infection hecould not cure was diphtheria involving the throat. (Tilden, Impaired Health,  V ol.
II).
Recently, medical gerontologists have discovered another reason that fasting
heals infections. One body function that deteriorates during the aging process isthe production of growth hormone so the effects of growth hormone have beenstudied. This hormone also stimulates the body to heal wounds and burns, repairbroken bones, generally replace any tissues that have been destroyed and, growthhormone stimulates the immune response. Growth hormone also maintains muscletone and its presence generally slows the aging process.
Growth hormone might make a wonderful life-extension supplement; on it a
middle-aged person might readily maintain the muscle tone of youth while slowingaging in general. Unfortunately, growth hormone cannot at this time beinexpensively synthesized and is still far too costly to be used therapeuticallyexcept to prevent dwarfism. However, any technique that encourages a body toproduce more of this hormone would be of great interest to life extensionists.
The body only produces growth hormone at certain times and only when
certain nutrients are present in the blood. Gerontologists call these nutrients“precursors.” The precursors are two


 living
and break all the rules of health, and commit suicide.
One man, who was only in his late thirties, had acute emphysema.
He began the RBTI diet in the early summer. It was not necessary for him to be in a retreat. He could do his food chemistry at home. By November there was no sign of emphysema in his lungs. I personally instructed him not to go out in inclement weather. He had a poultry farm. I told him it wouldn't make any difference if every chicken he had died, "Don't you go out in bad weather." All of the new cells in the lungs were so young, his lungs were about as delicate as a new-born baby. They had not yet built up the reserve and strength of adult cells. I warned, "If you do go out in inclement weather you could take double pneumonia and you could be dead in 48 hours. DON'T GO OUT!"
He came the first of December for the test and I warned him again.
One cold, wet December day they had some baby chicks come in, it was raining, the wind was blowing, and one of the employees didn't come and he went out to tend to the baby chicks. That night he took pneumonia and 12 hours later was dead. This is suicide. We can't help that. An autopsy was done and the doctors were surprised that there was no emphysema in either lung. 109 Overweight is not the cause of death for anyone. Death results be-
cause the body chemistry is in the wrong range. More people under-
weight, or who have normal weight, die in proportion to overweight people.   110 CHAPTER 15
FADS OR FACTS

I am often asked, "Is this food or that food good for you?" Many times people think I just do not want to tell them. They ask
the RBTI testers if this or that food is good or bad for them, and the testers give the same answer: "I do not know whether it is good or bad for you because we do not have scientific facts to back up our an-swers. Until we have the RBTI test made we do not know whether something is good or bad for anyone, unless it is a no-no, such as in-
temperance on anything, or the unclean meats, or the failure to rest one day in the week, or that we make a garbage can out of our stom-achs, or that we are not drinking enough distilled water."
There are some rules that can be followed which will greatly aid
most adults, or even children, in some respect:
• Eat the heavy carbohydrates early in the morning, unless you are
a diabetic and are instructed differently.
• Eat the large meal, the heavy meal, in the middle of the day. • Eat a very light meal in the evening. • Do not nibble while you are watching television at night because
you will likely find the night sleepless. The lack of sleep has never killed anyone, but worrying about sleep does kill.
• In the American diet most adults eat too much meat and not
enough vegetables. Everyone should have a raw (green, leafy) salad before the main course, at least once a day, twice a day is better, if they wish to stay healthy. Salad dressings may be used if desired.
• People should drink distilled water systematically, and should
keep their body in rhythm. It is very important to have meals on time, or within a half hour one way or the other. There should be a time for a bath eaeh day, and a definite time for your bathroom duties. It is a very good idea to brush your teeth after each meal. In doing this your body gets accustomed to a rhythm, and it is ready for food at a given time. But if it never knows when you are going to take food it throws the body chemistry into confusion, which results in a loss of energy 111 because the body is unprepared for the food that you are eating. Occa-
sionally this is all right, but whenev er it is kept up day after day, week
in and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out, anyone
is asking for trouble. Even for men it is a good thing to have a definite time to shave. It makes a world of difference in your whole day to keep your body rhythm as near perfect as possible.
An occasional break in this rhythm will not do any harm. An oc-
casional big meal in the evening w ill not do any harm, but a continual
breaking of these rules will affect your health.
What foods are nourishing to one person will be poison to anoth-
er. There are genetic reasons why this  is true. There is no one food
that I know of that agrees with everyone.
Some advocate there are combinations of foods that one should
not eat, such as acids with alkaline,  milk with acid fruit, etc. This is
taboo. Energy is created by putting acids against alkalines.
In 1973 I recommended a diet for two ladies in the retreat who
were in their seventies. One of them had worked all the days of her life, the other kept house for her. The one who kept house for the other worked tirelessly for her sister. They came to the retreat for a tune-up. They went on a 3-day lemon and water fast.
There was no sweetening in the lemon. They went through a mild
withdrawal. On the fourth day the one who had worked out decided that she could not eat the poached egg and toast for breakfast.
The cook could not change the menu without a written order from
me. The lady said, "Mr. Reams, I am allergic to eggs, I cannot eat eggs. I haven't eaten eggs in forty years. Now you have given me eggs for breakfast."
I got out her record of the past few days, looked it over and said,
"I see no reason why you shouldn't eat eggs. I want you to eat eggs for breakfast."
She said, "They will make me sick." I said, "Good. This is the place, if eggs will make you sick, get
sick. This is why you are here." I knew she was not allergic to eggs.
She did eat the egg and toast. It is very important to know the next
day what the person ate the day before in order to know what foods 112 would give them the most energy in the shortest length of time. That
afternoon I saw her and asked, "Well, are you sick?"
"No," she replied, "I'm not sick. Those were the best eggs I've
eaten in forty years." She wasn't allergic  to them at all. It was all in her
head. She had an idea eggs would make her sick so had not eaten them, and consequently there are minerals in eggs that she needed and were missing in her body chemistry.
A few days later there was a half grapefruit served for breakfast
and a glass of skimmed milk (non-fat). There again she refused to eat the food that was set before her. This time she came to me and was quite excited. "Mr. Reams," she said, "you are supposed to know about foods and this is supposed to  be a health retreat. Don't you know
that you can't mix milk and orange or grapefruit? One is alkaline and one is acid and it will make you sick. Don't you know you can't do that?"
"No," I said, "I don't know that. Nevertheless, this is what you are
going to eat this morning for breakfast."
She said, "It will make me sick." I replied, "Great, go ahead, get sick. Let's find out whether we are
on fads or facts. Here we go by the numbers. You go eat your grape-fruit, and drink your milk. Then we' ll see if you get sick. Please let me
know if you get sick."
I didn't see her again until the next morning. When I asked, "Did
the milk and grapefruit make you si ck?" she replied, "Didn't hurt me
at all. I felt wonderful all day. In fact, I feel better than I have in years."
Many times people have fads that they think are the healthy way
to live, and it is about the worst thing they could do.
There is only one combination that I know of that I do not recom-
mend and that is mixing pears with celery. It won't do any harm, but the juices of each neutralizes the other and not enough energy is given off to do any good. It is almost like water when you put these two juices together.
Some who come to the retreat are surprised and say, "We thought
you ran a health retreat, and you serve coffee!" 113 When people come who drink 12 to 30 cups of coffee a day you
cannot take them off of coffee instantly. It may cause them to have a
heart attack. We take them off of coffee slowly. Coffee is more dan-gerous to stop quickly than cigarettes. I have never known anyone to be harmed by quitting cigarettes instantly, even if they were smoking three packs a day. But I have known people to die that quit coffee in-
stantly when they were drinking 20 cups or more a day. And they did it on their own, it was not on any program that I recommended. They just simply decided to quit.
They became so religious in time th at they quit coffee, and all of a
sudden the heart simply stopped. Caffeine is a stimulant for the heart, and


 one lifetime. Be happy.  Oh, I am. But I can always hope for more!
Yes! And you will! Alwa ys you will hope for
more. It is in your nature. It is divine  nature
to seek always to be more.
So seek, yes, by all means seek.
Now I want to answer definitively the
question with which you started this
segment of  our ongoing conversation.
Go ahead and do  what you really love to
do! Do nothing else! You have so little time.
How can you think of wasting a moment
doing something for a living you don’t like
to do? What kind of a living is that? That is
not a living, that is a dying!
If you say, “But, but...I have others who
depend on me...little mouths to feed...a
spouse who is looking to me...” I will
answer: If you insist that your life is about what  your body is doing, you do not
understand why you came here. At least do
something that pleases you —that spea ks
of Who You Are.
Then at least you can stay out of
resentment and anger toward those you
imagine  are keeping you from your joy.
What your body is doing is not to be
discounted. It is important. But not in the
way that you think. The actions of the body
were meant to be reflections of a state of
being, not attempts to attain a state of
being.
In the true order of things one does not do
something in order to be happy —one is
happy and, hence, does something. One
does not do some things in order to be
compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way. The
soul’s  decision precedes the body’s action
in a highly conscious person. Only an
unconscious person attempts to produce a
state of the soul through something the
body is doing.
This is what is meant by the statement,
“Your life is not about what your body is
doing.” Yet it is true that what your body is
doing is a reflection of what your life is
about.
It is another divine dichotomy.
Yet, know this if you understand nothing
else:
You have a right to your joy; children or no
children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it!
Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no
matter how much money you make or  don’t make. And if they aren’t joyful, and they get
up and leave you, then release  them w ith
love to seek their joy.
If, on the other hand, you have evolved to
the point where things of the body are not
of concern to you, then you are even more
free to seek your joy —on Earth as it is in
heaven. God says it’s okay to be happy —
yes, even happy in  your work.
Your life work is a statement of Who You
Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it?
Do you imagine that you have to? You don’t
have to do anything.
If “man who supports his family, at all costs,
even his own happiness” is Who You  Are,
then l ove your work, because it is
facilitating your creation of a living
statement  of Self.  If “woman who works at job she hates in
order to meet responsibilities as she sees
them” is Who You Are, then love, love, love
your job, for it totally supports your Sel f-
image, your Self -concept.
Everyone can love everything the moment
they understand what they are doing, and
why.
No one does anything he doesn’t want to
do.
  Chapter 13
How can I solve some of the health
problems I face? I have been the victim of
enough chronic problems to last three
lifetimes. Why am I having them all now —
in this lifetime?
First, let’s get one thing straight. You love
them. Most of them, anyway. You’ve used
them admirably to feel sorry for yourself
and to get attention for yourself.
On t he few occasions when you haven’t
loved them, it’s only because they’ve gone
too far. Farther than you thought they ever
would when you created them.
Now let’s understand what you probably
already know: all illness is self -created.
Even conventional medica l doctors are now seeing how people make themselves
sick.
Most people do so quite unconsciously.
(They don’t even know what they’re doing.)
So when they get sick, they don’t know
what hit them. It feels as though something
has befallen them, rather than th at they did
something to themselves.
This occurs because most people move
through life —not simply health issues and
consequences —unconsciously.
People smoke and wonder why they get
cancer.
People ingest animals and fat and wonder
why they get blocked arter ies.
People stay angry all their lives and wonder
why they get heart attacks. People
compete with other people —mercilessly and under incredible stress —and wonder
why they have strokes.
The not -so-obvious truth is that most
people worry themselves to death.
Worry is just about the worst form of mental
activity there is —next to hate, which is
deeply self-destructive. Worry is pointless.
It is wasted mental energy. It also creates
bio-chemical reactions which harm the
body, producing everything from
indigestion  to coronary arrest, and a
multitude of things in between.
Health will improve almost at once when
worrying ends.
Worry is the activity of a mind which does
not understand its connection with Me.  Hatred is the most severely damaging
mental condi tion. It poisons the body, and
its effects are virtually irreversible.
Fear is the opposite of everything you are,
and so has an effect of opposition to your
mental and physical health. Fear is worry
magnified. Worry, hate, fear —together  with
their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness,
impatience, avarice, unkindness,
judgmentalness, and condemnation —all
attack the body at the cellular level. It is
impossible to have a healthy body under
these conditions.
Similarly —although to a somewhat lesser
degree —conc eit, self -indulgence, and
greed lead to physical illness, or lack of
well-being. All illness is created first in the
mind.  How can that be? What of conditions
contracted from another? Colds —or, for
that matter, AIDS?
Nothing occurs in your life —nothing —
which is not first a thought. Thoughts are
like magnets, drawing effects to you. The
thought may not always be obvious, and
thus clearly causative, as in, “I’m going to
contract a terrible disease.” The thought
may be (and usually is) far more subtle
than tha t (“I am not worthy to live.”) (“My life
is always a mess.”) (“I am a loser.”) (“God
is going to punish me.”) (“I am sick and tired
of my life!”).
Thoughts are a very subtle, yet extremely
powerful, form of energy. Words are less
subtle, more dense. Action s are the most
dense of all. Action is energy in heavy
physical form, in heavy motion. When you think, say, and act out a negative concept
such as “I am a loser,” you place
tremendous creative energy into motion.
Small  wonder you come down with a cold.
That would be the least of it.
It is very difficult to reverse the effects of
negative thinking once they have taken
physical form. Not impossible —but very
difficult. It takes an act of extreme faith. It
requires an extraordinary belief in the
positive force of the universe —whether you
call that God, Goddess, the Unmoved
Mover, Prime Force, First Cause, or
whatever.
Healers have just such faith. It is a faith that
crosses over into Absolute Knowing.  They
know that you are meant to be whole,
complete, and perfect in this moment  now.
This knowingness is also a thought —and a very powerful one. It has the power  to move
mountains —to say nothing of molecules in
your body. That is why healers  can heal,
often even at a distance.
Thought knows no distance. Thought
travels around the world and traverses the
universe faster than you can say the word.
“Say but the word and my servant shall  be
healed.” And it was so, in that self -same
hour, even before his sentence was
finished. Such was the faith of the
centurion.
Yet you are all mental lepers. Your mind is
eaten away with negative thoughts.  Some
of these are thrust upon you. Many of these
you actually make up —conjure  up—
yourselves, and then harbor and entertain
for hours, days, weeks, months —even
years. ...and you wond er why you are sick.
You can “solve some of the health
problems,” as you put it, by solving the


organism to DMSO appeared to be D. pneumoniae  (now known as
Streptococcus pneumoniae ),9 which is a major cause of pneumonia and a host of
other infectious diseases such as meningitis, endocarditis, and brain abscesses.13
Shiga toxins from Shigella dysenteriae  or E. coli  inhibit cell-free protein synthe -
sis resulting in multiple cytotoxic effects including neurotoxicity and enterotoxicity. Shiga toxin secreted by Shigella also binds to specific receptors on the cells’ surface in order to attach and enter the cell where it can inactivate the 60S ribosomal subunit to inhibit protein synthesis and cause the destructive lesions seen in shigellosis. DMSO is reported to reduce the endocytosis that occurs after Shiga toxin release and prevent both the cytotoxicity and binding of the Shiga toxin, possibly by its ability to prevent mem -
brane permeability or by inhibiting translocation of the toxin from the cell surface.
14
It was assumed from Pottz et al.’s9 original study that DMSO’s antibacterial action
may have been through the neutralization of penicillinase, an enzyme produced by some bacteria that provide resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics like penicillin. Further TABLE 5.1
DMSO Bactericidal Activity
Test Microorganism DMSO Minimal Inhibitory Concentration
0 10 20 40 50
E. coli ++++ ++++ + − −
Aerobacter cloacae ++++ ++++ + − −
Pseudomonas aeruginosa ++++ ++++ ++ − −
Proteus vulgaris ++++ ++++ ++++ − −
S. aureus ** ++++ ++++ ++ − −
Streptococcus pyogenes * ++++ ++++ + − −
Salmonella schottmulleri ++++ ++ ++ − −
Diplococcus pneumoniae ++++ − − − −
Candida albicans ++++ + + − −
Notes:  *, beta-hemolytic streptococcus group A; **, coagulation positive; +, very
mild growth; ++, mild growth; ++++, strong growth in blood agar or broth
cultures; −, negative growth.9103 DMSO in Basic Microbiology
experimentation with DMSO to test the possibility that it neutralizes penicillinase’s
protective action on bacterial growth exposed to penicillin proved negative. Pottz et al.9
concluded from their extensive findings that the killing action of DMSO on bacteria was not through neutralization of penicillinase. Pottz’s study speculated that, instead, DMSO’s antibacterial action may have been due to dissolution of susceptible micro -
organisms by some unknown mechanism exerted by DMSO.
9 This assumption was
supported by microscopic analysis of D. pneumoniae smears, which showed that the
majority of these microbes had dissolved into a sediment after contact with DMSO.9
It is known that the gram-positive microbe S. aureus  can be cleared from murine
lungs by the bactericidal action exerted by phagocytosis from resident alveolar macrophages without significant contribution from polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs).
15 PMNs’ bactericidal intrapulmonary killing activity is more prominent
against gram-negative bacteria such as P. aeruginosa. Recent evidence indicates
that actual phagocytosis of bacteria may not be necessary for intrapulmonary kill of gram-positive microbes and that the majority of inhaled staphylococci in mice are killed without being ingested by resident alveolar macrophages.
16,17
One theory is that reactive oxygen metabolites, including the oxidant superoxide,
and the radical hydroxyl anion are secreted by phagocytes to create the alveolar bactericidal activity. With this in mind, DMSO was used to test its ability as an antioxidant and hydroxyl radical scavenger to see whether the rate of pulmonary bactericidal activity against P. aeruginosa  and S. aureus  was depressed in infected
mice. Intratracheal and aerosol delivery of these bacteria were given to mice.
18
DMSO at doses of 50–165 mg/mouse was administered intraperitoneally 30 min
before challenge with S. aureus  and pseudomonas delivered by either intratracheal
or aerosol route.18 DMSO was observed to have no activity in inhibiting macrophage
killing of S. aureus  but did cause a dose-dependent inhibition of pseudomonas clear -
ance from the lungs of treated mice,18 supporting the assumption that alveolar bac -
tericidal action against pseudomonas by PMNs is done through the production of reactive hydroxyl anions that are inhibited by the action of DMSO as a hydroxyl radical scavenger. Conversely, DMSO’s lack of effect in allowing the clearance of S. aureus  from infected murine lung suggests that phagocytic alveolar macrophages
fail to produce reactive oxygen for bactericidal activity,
19 but this assumption has
been challenged by others.20
The question arose whether using DMSO clinically for a variety of ailments
might predispose the user to bacterial infections by inhibiting phagocyte bactericidal activity. This concern grew from an in vitro  experiment where DMSO treatment
of human and mouse neutrophils and mononuclear phagocytes caused a dose-dependent inhibition of the killing of E. coli  and Listeria monocytogenes. However,
when the experiment was repeated in vivo  using mice, results showed that adminis -
tration of DMSO prior to subjecting mice to E. coli  and L. monocytogenes  infection
caused only a slight and nonsignificant decrease in the subsequent in vitro  bacteri -
cidal activity of neutrophils and macrophages from those mice.
21 Repeated injections
of mice with physiologically relevant doses of DMSO did not increase the lethality of either E. coli or L. monocytogenes, nor did it inhibit the clearance of a sublethal
Listeria  challenge from the spleen and liver of these mice. The findings indicated that
clinical usage of DMSO does not predispose human subjects to bacterial infection.
21104 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Bacterial endotoxin from gram-negative pathogens can directly injure lung endo -
thelial cells in culture. This injury is unaffected by antioxidants such as superoxide
dismutase or catalase because they are unable to enter cells. Bacterial endotoxins are prevented by DMSO, which penetrates cells to exert antioxidant activity.
22 Since allo -
purinol can inhibit direct lung cell injury from endotoxin, it is probable that xanthine oxidase, which allopurinol is known to inhibit, may be a source of oxidant generation in lung endothelial cells. Current data suggest a two-stage oxidant process of lung cell injury where there is direct injury of the cell both by intracellular generation of toxic oxidants and triggering of an inflammatory response.
22 Inflammatory cells that
have been activated to adhere to lung cells are able to enhance the injury by generat -
ing and releasing extracellular oxidants, but this process can also be neutralized by DMSO’s anti-inflammatory action.
22
The inability of many antibiotics to enter the blood–brain barrier in mammals
has been a limiting factor in the treatment of bacterial brain infections such as life-threatening meningitis and brain abcess.
23 Although pathogens can invade the brain
in a variety of ways, the main pathway is through the bloodstream, where they can enter the subarachnoid space in places where the blood–brain barrier is vulnerable, for example, the choroid plexus. There is some controversy regarding the ability of DMSO to potentiate the penetration of molecules, including antibiotics, across the blood–brain barrier. Previous studies have shown that DMSO enhances the penetra -
tion into the brain of the protein tracer horseradish peroxidase and of ketoconazole, an antifungal agent.
24,25 The ability of DMSO to carry molecules across the blood–
brain barrier may depend on the size of the molecule to be delivered, its polarity, and molecular weight; however, the exact mechanism for achieving such penetration is unknown.
26 It has been suggested that molecules that exceed 70,000 Da (a unit
of atomic mass) cannot be delivered by DMSO through the blood–brain barrier,25
suggesting that DMSO may shrink the endothelial cells’ tight junctions that make up the blood–brain barrier to allow small molecules to pass through. This idea was tested on seven healthy adult mares using trimethoprim (TMP)–sulfamethoxazole (SMZ), an effective antimicrobial combination against gram-negative organisms.
27
A solution of 40% DMSO was injected intravenously at 1 g/kg for 30 min followed immediately after by TMP–SMZ at a combined dosage of 44 mg/kg. The mares were also given the same treatment a week later without DMSO. The combination TMP–SMZ was 543 Da combined, well under the 70,000 Da theoretical limit of DMSO to enhance molecule penetration into the brain. It was found that DMSO was not able to enhance the penetration of TMP–SMZ into the cerebrospinal fluid but did delay


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 ideas. His philosophy ordained that the intangible vital
force that maintains life and governs good health was the
province of religion rather than of the newly self-aware
“science” of medicine. To the new medical establishment,
inching its way forward toward scientifically sound medical
practices, “supernatural” concepts such as the vital force
were a reminder of the ignorance and superstition that were
part and parcel of older healing practices.
 Even before Descartes’ theories, the rational approach
to scientific and medical exploration was beginning to reap
rewards. Slowly, medical understanding of bodily functions
was gaining ground. William Harvey (1578–1657) made a
detailed study of the heart and circulation, proving for the
first time that, contrary to Galenic thought, the heart
pumped blood around the body. Published in 1628,
his study is a classic example of the revolution in
medical science.
 Since Harvey’s time, science has had astounding
success in revealing how the body works on a
biochemical level and in distinguishing different
disease processes. However, by comparison it has
been altogether less successful in developing
effective medical treatments for the relief and
cure of diseases.
The Gap in the Scientific Approach
In hindsight, it seems as if the new science
of medicine could only be born in separation
from the traditional arts of healing, with which it
had always been intertwined. As a result, even though
traditional medicine has generally lacked scientific explanation,
it has frequently been far ahead of medical science in the
way it has been applied therapeutically. In American Indian
Medicine  (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970), Virgil Vogel provides a good example of “ignorant” folk medicine
outstripping scientific understanding in therapeutic application:
 “During the bitter cold winter of 1535–6, the three ships
of Jacques Cartier were frozen fast in the fathom-deep ice of
the St Lawrence River near the site of Montreal. Isolated by
four feet of snow, the company of 110 men subsisted on
the fare stored in the holds of their ships. Soon scurvy was
so rampant among them that by mid-March, 25 men had
died and the others, ‘only three or foure excepted,’ were
so ill that hope for their recovery was abandoned. As the
crisis deepened Cartier had the good fortune to encounter
once again the local Indian chief, Domagaia, who had cured
himself of the same disease with ‘the juice and sappe of a
certain tree’. The Indian women gathered branches of the
magical tree, ‘boiling the bark and leaves for a decoction,
and placing the dregs upon the legs.’ All those so treated
rapidly recovered their health, and the Frenchmen
marvelled at the curative skill of the natives.”
 Naturally, the Native Americans had not heard of vitamin C
deficiency, which causes scurvy, nor would they have been able
to explain in rational terms why the treatment worked. Indeed,
it was not until 1753 that James Lind (1716–1794), a British
naval surgeon, inspired partly by Cartier’s account, published
A Treatise of the Scurvy, which showed conclusively that the
disease could be prevented by eating fresh greens, vegetables,
and fruit, and was caused by their lack in the diet. James Lind’s
work is a marvellous example of what can be achieved by
combining a systematic and scientific approach with traditional
herbal knowledge.The symbol for “om” —
life force—is used by
followers of the Indian
practice of Ayurveda
as a focus for meditation.
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26
The developmen T of herbal medicineIsolating Chemicals
The discovery of the medicinal value of foxglove (Digitalis
purpurea, p. 202) is another case where traditional herbal knowledge led to a major advance in medicine. Dr. William
Withering (1741–1799), a conventionally trained
doctor with a long interest in medicinal plants,
started to investigate foxglove after encountering
a family recipe for curing dropsy (water
retention). He found that in some regions of
England, foxglove was traditionally used to
treat this condition, which is often one of
the indications of a failing heart. In 1785,
he published Account of the Foxglove,
documenting dozens of carefully
recorded case histories, and showing
how foxglove’s powerful (and
potentially dangerous) active
constituents, now known as cardiac
glycosides, made it a valuable plant
medicine for dropsy. Cardiac
glycosides remain in common
use to the present day. Y et
despite this clearcut example
of the possibilities inherent
in a marriage of herbal
medicine and scientific
method, conventional
medicine was to take
another path in the
19th century.
Laboratory versus
Nature
From the early 19th
century, the chemical
laboratory began to
regularly supplant Mother
Nature as the source
of medicines. In 1803,
narcotic alkaloids were
isolated from the opium
poppy (Papaver somniferum,
p. 244). A year later, inulin was
extracted from elecampane
(Inula helenium, p. 107). In 1838,
salicylic acid, a chemical forerunner
of aspirin, was isolated from white
willow bark (Salix alba, p. 129), and
was first synthesized in the laboratory
in 1860. From this point on, herbal medicine and biomedicine were to take separate paths. Aspirin, an entirely new chemical formulation, was  first developed in Germany in 1899. But this was still an  early step. For the time being, the influence of the universities, medical schools, and laboratories of Europe would remain limited, and herbal medicine would prevail  as the predominant form of treatment for most people around the world.
New Frontiers, New Herbal Medicines
Wherever Europeans settled during the great migrations of the 18th and 19th centuries—North America, South America, southern Africa, or Australia—much of the European medicine familiar from home was either unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Settlers came to learn that native peoples were a wellspring of information about the medicinal virtues of indigenous plants. For example, European settlers in southern Africa learned about the diuretic properties of buchu (Barosma betulina, p. 71) from native peoples; and Australian settlers came to understand the remarkable antiseptic properties of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia, p. 112) from observing the medicinal practices of the Aborigines. Mexican herbal medicine as it exists today is a blend of Aztec, Mayan, and Spanish herbs and practices.
 In North America, native herbalists were particularly
adept at healing external wounds and bites—being superior in many respects to their European counterparts in this area of medicine. This is not surprising, given the range of highly Opium poppy, native to Asia, yields a resin that has long been smoked for its narcotic
effect. The main active constituent, morphine, was first isolated in the laboratory in  1803 and is used to relieve pain.
In the 18th century, the physician William Withering documented foxglove’s ability to restore a failing heart.
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discovered—including well-known herbs such as echinacea
(Echinacea spp., p. 92), goldenseal ( Hydrastis canadensis,
p. 105), and lobelia ( Lobelia inflata, p. 110).
 European settlers learned much from observing native
practices. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries,
as pioneers moved west across the frontier territory, new
plants were constantly being added to the official record
of healing herbs. In addition to the three species mentioned
above, about 170 native plants were listed in The Pharmacopeia
of the United States.
Samuel Thomson & his Followers
Lobelia was one of the key herbs, along with cayenne
(Capsicum frutescens, p. 74), advocated by Samuel Thomson
(1769–1843), an unorthodox herbal practitioner who believed
that all illness resulted from cold. His simple approach was
entirely at odds with the conventional practices of his time
(see North America, p. 50). Thomson’s methods were often
very effective and were well suited to the needs of people
living in frontier territory. His system of medicine—in many
ways an early form of naturopathy, in which ill health is
treated with naturally grown food, sunlight, fresh air, and
natural medicines—became extraordinarily popular, with
millions of people across North America following his
methods. Thomson’s success waned as other
more sophisticated herbal approaches were
developed—those of the Eclectics and
Physiomedicalists, for example—in the
fertile medical world of 19th-century
America, which also saw the


fully soaked and cooked before it is safe to eat.
(Sweet cassava is safe to eat without such processing.)
Tapioca  is a native Brazilian name for the processed
root, which is used in commercial food preparation
as a thickening agent. The Witoto of the Colombian
Amazon poison fish with the water used to wash
bitter cassava. The Makuna use the wash water
to treat scabies.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Cassava root is
easily digestible and makes a suitable, if low-protein,
food for convalescence. The bitter variety may
be used to treat scabies, diarrhea, and dysentery.
Cassava flour may be used to help dry weeping
skin. In China, a poultice is made of cassava, wheat
flour, and ginger ( Zingiber officinale, p. 155) to draw
out pus when infection is present.
Caution  Raw bitter cassava is toxic and has
caused many deaths. The root must be carefully
soaked and cooked before eating.
Maranta arundinacea
(Marantaceae)
Arrowroot
Description  Perennial growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m).
Has a creeping rhizome, many long-stemmed oval
leaves, and flowering stems with clusters of creamy-
white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to northern
South America and the Caribbean islands, arrowroot
is cultivated mostly on the island of St. Vincent. The
rhizome is unearthed 10 to 11 months after planting.
Part Used  Rhizome.
Constituents  Arrowroot contains 25–27%
neutral starch.History & Folklore  In Central America, the
Maya made the root into a poultice for smallpox
sores, and an infusion for urinary infections.
Arrowroot was a staple food of the Arawak people
of the Caribbean. The plant reputedly gets its name
from its use to treat poisoned arrow wounds—
presumably as a drawing poultice.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Arrowroot is
used in herbal medicine in much the same manner
as slippery elm ( Ulmus rubra, p. 145), as a soothing
demulcent and a nutrient of benefit in convalescence
and for those with weak digestions. It helps to relieve
acidity, indigestion, and colic, and is mildly laxative.
It may be applied as an ointment or poultice mixed
with antiseptic herbs such as myrrh ( Commiphora
molmol, p. 85).
Self-help Use  Acidity & indigestion, p. 307.
Marrubium vulgare (Lamiaceae)
White Horehound
Description  Square-stemmed perennial
growing to about 20 in (50 cm). Has toothed,
downy leaves and double-lipped white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
white horehound is naturalized in North and
South America. It flourishes in dry, bare, or open
areas, and is gathered in spring.
Parts Used  Leaves.
Constituents  White horehound
contains the diterpenes marrubiin
(0.3–1.0%) and marrubenol,
tannins, and 0.06% volatile oil.
Marrubiin is thought to be
chiefly responsible for the
herb’s expectorant and bitter
activity. It also acts on the heart
to correct an irregular heartbeat.
History & Folklore  White
horehound has been a remedy for
chest problems since ancient times, perhaps
most frequently taken as a syrup made with
honey or sugar. The Greek physician Dioscorides
(40–90 ce ) recommended a decoction of white
horehound as a treatment for tuberculosis,
asthma, and coughs.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  White horehound
is helpful for wheeziness, bronchitis, bronchiectasis
(a damaged air passage within the lung), bronchial
asthma, non-productive coughs, and whooping
cough. The herb apparently causes the secretion
of a more fluid mucus, which is readily cleared
by coughing. As a bitter tonic, white horehound
increases the appetite and supports the function
of the stomach. It is widely used in Mexico to
help control type 2 diabetes. The herb may also
act to normalize heart rhythm, improving
its regularity.Marsdenia condurango
syn. gonolobus condurango
(Asclepiadaceae)
Condurango
Description  Climbing vine growing to 33 ft
(10 m). Has heart-shaped leaves and funnel-
shaped, white-green flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Condurango is native
to deciduous forests of the Andes in Peru and
Ecuador. It generally grows at altitudes between
3,300–6,600 ft (1,000–2,000 m). The bark is
collected year round.
Parts Used  Bark, latex.
Constituents  Condurango bark contains
glycosides (based on condurangogenins), a volatile
oil, and phytosterols.
History & Folklore  Early in the last century,
condurango was erroneously yet widely believed
to be a remedy for cancer.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The bark’s
main effect is to stimulate stomach secretions.
It is often used in South American folk medicine
as a potent bitter and digestive tonic. Condurango
is a specific treatment for nervous indigestion
and anorexia nervosa, since its bitterness slowly
increases the appetite as well as the stomach’s
ability to process more food. The herb is also
thought to stimulate the liver and pancreas, and
may be taken for liver disorders. Condurango
also encourages menstruation. The caustic
white latex has been applied topically to
remove warts.
Research  The condurangogenins in
condurango may act to counter tumors.
The whole plant, however, does not seem
to impede cancer development.
Caution  The latex is poisonous and should not
be taken internally. Cassava  is a staple food in many tropical regions
of the world.
Dried herb
Medicago sativa (Fabaceae)
Alfalfa,
Lucerne
Description  Perennial herb growing to 32 in
(80 cm). Has 3-lobed leaves, flowers that range
in color from yellow to violet-blue, and spiraling
seed pods.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Europe,
Asia, and North Africa, alfalfa is found in meadows
and in both open and cultivated areas. Grown as
a fodder crop in temperate climates, it is harvested
in summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts, seeds, sprouting seeds.
Constituents  Alfalfa contains isoflavones,
coumarins, alkaloids, vitamins, and porphyrins.
The isoflavones and coumarins are estrogenic.
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234Melaleuca leucadendronOther medicinal plants
History & Folklore  Though mostly used as
an animal feed, alfala seeds have been consumed
as food for thousands of years. Pliny (23–79 ce) records that alfalfa was brought to Greece by Darius, King of Persia (550–486 bce), during his attempt to conquer Athens.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Alfalfa is perhaps
more therapeutically useful as a food than a medicine as the seeds are taken to help lower cholesterol levels. In view of alfalfa’s estrogenic activity, it can prove useful in treating problems relating to menstruation and menopause.
Cautions  Do not take alfalfa alongside the
anticoagulant medication warfarin. Avoid sprouted seeds in compromised immune states. Using large amounts is not advisable in pregnancy or in autoimmune diseases.
Melaleuca leucadendron
(Myrtaceae)
Cajuput
Description  Aromatic, evergreen tree growing
to 130 ft (40 m). Has peeling bark, pale green
oval leaves, and clusters of small white flowers  on long spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Southeast
Asia, cajuput is cultivated for its essential oil and timber. The leaves and twigs are gathered throughout the year.
Part Used  Essential oil.
Constituents  The volatile oil contains
terpenoids, mainly cineole (50–60%), beta-pinene, alpha-terpineol, and others. Cineole is strongly antiseptic. Early investigations suggest the fruit  may have antiviral properties.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Cajuput is
normally combined with other essential oils such as eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus, p. 96). Its antiseptic properties treat colds, sore throats, coughs, and, especially, chest infections. The diluted oil may either be steam-inhaled or applied to the chest  or throat to treat laryngitis, tracheitis, and bronchitis. As cajuput stimulates the circulation and is antispasmodic, it is used as a friction rub
for rheumatic joints and neuralgia.
Related Species  Niaouli (M. vir


 restore
normal liver function so that bile chemistry may become normal again and cease precipitating the
mineral elements and thus end the making of stones.
In a few weeks then, the normal bile will cause a disintegration of the stones already formed, the
sand will pass into the intestines and will be voided. As the liver cannot be restored to health
without restoring the whole body to health, no treatment directed at the liver will serve these ends.
A general or systemic housecleaning followed by a genuine health-building program is essential.
Perhaps I can do no better than end this chapter with a quotation from Geo. S. Weger, M.D.,
who had an extensive experience with gallstones, both as a regular physician and as a
Hygienist
.
He says: “Given proper assistance, the chemistry of the body can be so altered that stones soften,
disintegrate, and pass out with but slight discomfort. We have treated many cases and seldom have
we found it necessary to resort to surgery. It is a remarkable fact that this softening occurs very
rapidly on a complete fast. Frequently patients coming for treatment for different ailments develop
hepatic colic from the eighth to the tenth day of fasting.
“In these, the presence of gallstones may never have been suspected. The same is true of stones
in the kidneys. In recurrent attacks there is no treatment in the intervals to equal a diet restricted to
fresh fruits, salads, and cooked non-starchy vegetables. It can be safely predicted that there will be
no recurrence in those patients who follow instructions as to diet and exercise. In most instances if
the gall stone is not larger than a small olive it will become soft and pass out without resort to
surgery and its consequent risks. The exceptions are in those run-down people who have no
reserve vitality or courage left to sustain them for a reasonable time, while nature is establishing a
normal chemical balance.
135“Extreme caution and conservatism on the part of the physician is
necessary in determining the
proper course in a given case. The process of recovery may seem slow but it is in reality
marvelously rapid compared with the long time it takes for the stones to form. While most cases
can get well by fasting and dieting and while such treatment is always in order, it must be borne in
mind that atrophy or gall bladder disease may be the result of longstanding, unrelieved cases.
Without recourse to olive oil, bile salts, and the hundred and one remedies that are generally
prescribed, our percentage of non-surgical recoveries is so high as to warrant a favorable
prognosis if the patient cooperates in the removal of first causes. It should be borne in mind that
while surgical interference is often the only recourse, this procedure does not remove the cause of
gallstones nor prevent recurrences. Therefore correct diet and other accessory health measures are
just as necessary after operation as they were before.”
13635
Tumors of the Breast
One of those rare young women, possessed of great beauty of form and features, just married and
alarmed about a growth of her left breast—a lump nearly as large as a billiard ball—had for four
months suffered considerable pain. She had not consulted a physician for fear he would pronounce
it cancer and want to remove her breast.
It was 1927 and that year the country went through the first “cancer week.” New York’s
newspapers carried columns each day about cancer and urged all people to see their physicians for
a check-up. Lumps, moles, bleeding, loss of weight and other such symptoms were indicative of
possible cancer. The propaganda was deliberately designed to frighten the public.
The young woman, whose home was in White Plains, New York, was duly frightened. She
consulted a physician. He told her that she had cancer and that the breast would have to be
removed immediately. She did not want to lose her breast—she did not want to be disfigured.
She consulted a second physician. He made the same diagnosis and urged immediate removal of
her breast. A third physician rendered an identical verdict. A fourth was consulted with the same
outcome: “The breast must come off at once.”
But there was one paper in New York that did not carry the scare
propaganda that was being
distributed from some central source. The New York
Evening Graphic
, a Macfadden publication,
often assailed for many reasons, right and wrong, refused to join in the effort to frighten everybody.
The present writer had a daily column in the
Graphic
.
I devoted a column to the cancer propaganda and pointed out that many people who did not have
cancer were being frightened into operations. I denounced the fear program as a crime against the
welfare and sanity of the public. The young woman read my column and came in to see me.
It was eight o’clock on a Friday evening when she entered my office. I examined her breast and
decided that she did not have cancer, but that she was suffering from an enlarged gland. I advised
her to fast. She took the advice. I instructed her to return to me at the same time on the following
Monday evening. When she came in on Monday evening she was a very happy woman, her face
wreathed with smiles. I invited her to sit down and without questioning her or waiting for her to
say anything, I said, “Go ahead and tell me the story.”
It was a simple story, but it was a happy one. I have listened to similar stories many times
through the years that have since elapsed. ‘‘When I awoke this morning,” she said, “there was no
pain in my breast. There has been no pain all day. This evening at five o’clock, when I went to take
a bath, I said to my sister: ‘I would like to feel my breast to see if the lump is still there, but I’m
afraid to …’ My sister said: ‘Don’t be a child, go ahead and find out.’ I investigated nervously and
it is gone.”
I listened to the story with great satisfaction and took the note of her elation and relief. I
examined her breast and found no trace of the lump. The young woman remained under my care for
the remainder of two weeks and was discharged.
I had occasional contact with this woman for thirteen years after her recovery and during this
period there was no recurrence of the “tumor.” I have been able to maintain contact with
subsequent cases for as many as twenty years and they have suffered no recurrence of their
“cancers.” Hers was one of two such “cancers” that fully recovered in three days.
137I have seen a large number recover in a week, several more to recover in two weeks, and many
to become free of their breast “cancers” in three to six weeks. I am sure that not all such cases of
“cancer” find their way to me or to my institution. There must be many thousands of them who
submit to operations every year, either for the removal of the lump or for removal of the whole
breast.
I have seen enough of them to know that there is a wide difference between cancer and a
diagnosis of cancer. I am sure that these are the only kinds of “cancer” that are
cured
 by early
surgery.
I have never seen a case of undoubted cancer recover, no matter how cared for nor by whom. I
am convinced that cancer is an irreversible pathology and that the only remedy for the condition is
prevention. I am
sure that it can be prevented and that this can be done by a well-ordered life, one
that maintains a high state of health at all times.
I think that I should call attention to the fact that all four of the diagnoses in the case of the young
woman, which I have just described, were made without a biopsy, which is a procedure of taking
out some of the tissue of the lump or growth and examining it under the microscope. Each man
advised an operation upon the basis of a wild guess.
The biopsy is far from infallible, often finding cancer where none exists, but it is probably far
more accurate than merely feeling of the breast, at these men did. Their diagnoses may be said to
have been made on suspicion. Or, perhaps they were merely floating with the propaganda tide. At
any rate, they all agreed without knowing the others’ diagnosis, that the young woman had cancer
of the breast and that an immediate operation was urgent.
Fortunately for women, not more than one such lump out of ten thousand is cancer. Most of the
lumps will quickly clear up when the mode of living is corrected. Just as fasting causes the body to
use up its excess fat in nourishing the vital tissues so it causes the break down, by the process of
autolysis
, of growths or tumors (neoplasms) and uses the nutritive elements contained in these with
which to nourish the vital tissues.
In like manner, dropsical swellings, edematous swellings, deposits and infiltrations are
absorbed and the usable portion are used as food; the non-usable portions are excreted.
To understand this, it is necessary for the reader to know that tumors (new growths) are
composed of the same kinds of tissue of which the normal parts of the body are constituted.
Tumors are named according to their composition. Thus a fatty tumor is called a
lipoma
; a
muscular tumor is called a
myoma
; a nerve tumor is called a
neuroma
; a bone tumor is called an
ostemoma
; an
epithelioma
 is made


 for a particular female so that not more than a few offspring result. With  the hazards of babyhood in the
wild, this maintains a stable population. If the population increases,
mothers nurture their young for longer, to such an extent that the
number of offspring can be considerably reduced. In all primates, including the human, there is in fact a clash between the hormones involved in suckling and nursing, and those of breeding, so that the
female has no interest in sex during nurture, a device of obvious biological advantage, for if female mammals were more interested
in sex than in breeding, the line would have become extinct early,
an interest which little girls with their little dolls still demonstrate, no matter how they behave later.
Is the human an exception to this primate breeding control.
Could it not be that the stampede of over population is the outcome of a deranged breeding pattern, as abnormal as the patterns of eating
and sex already mentioned? It is commonly assumed, with the
support of scientific authority, that the human female has lost the cyclical nature of the oestral cycl e, and thereby the female decision
regarding the time of coitus. The human female is described as 'open'. This is a cultural falsification, a device to provide the human
male with the ready access to sexual relief he has come to require,
for there is definite evidence that  women have a peak desire for
coitus during the oestral cycle, which implies that it is in such peaks
that the woman would best accept th e man. In thus complying with
the other primates, it would follow that the woman would also
follow the primate device of extending nurture as a means of
population control.
The way in which the natural woman would do this is probably
through the pituitary gland. As population pressure increases, so the
social environment becomes less assured, anxiety increases, and child care intensified. It requires no conscious observation, no
reasoning. Intuitively, the woman senses the threat of population
pressure to the species. There is some indication that primitive groups, such as those in the Amazon basin, had achieved stability by such means, before the interrupti ons of civilized men. But it is to
be noted that this control depends on a sufficient degree of human
sensitivity, both on the part of  the woman, in order to sense
intuitively the social situation, and on the part of the man to respect her increased preoccupation with child  nurture. A loss of sensitivity,
and the device breaks down.
The situation is complicated by the fact that the woman, unlike
the other primate females, is largely conditioned by her cortex. If
she exists in a society wherein th e woman is considered 'open', so
she acts, and believes herself to be  open to male whim and fancy.
This is true also regarding the orgasm, which is an essentially male preoccupation forced upon the gene ral sexual pattern, to the point
where orgasmically harassed women become bad mothers, failing in
what is after all the pre-eminent fe male biological duty. The fact of
the situation is that while na ture has placed the essential
responsibility of breeding on the female, it is the male in the human situation who has come to decide the sexual pattern, and this pattern
is essentially geared to male sexual pleasure, freed from the entanglements of love, and even of breeding care, which is as good
a definition of lust as one can find.
Rejecting the existential evid ence, one can suppose that
humanization occurred in humanly congenial conditions, and that
sexual restraint on the part of the male was a natural human ability, not the psychological liability it has been claimed to be, in which
case the size of the human population in terms of the environment
would be controlled as it is in other primates—by a greater preoccupation with breeding and l ess with sex. Under existential conditions, the reverse seems to apply; the more anxious and
harassing the times, the more peopl e breed. Evidently, something
has happened which has inflamed sexual desire, to the point where
it overrides the biological perimeters of the species, and this
something may well be traceable to the amines already mentioned as originating in a faulty and inhuman diet, combined with a general humanizing impoverishment characteristic of civilization. Premature sexual interests in children can often be simply traced to wrong feeding, especially in animal foods.
Since the Ice Ages, the abnormal amines have been affecting
the mind, but on the whole, human beings have not become beset by a demented sexual urge. A hard life, and a hard faith, no doubt helped. In fact, in early times, human breeding may have been so restrained, that religion intervened to boost breeding in order to
meet a changed society, one increasingly determined by a more
congested existence. The stampede only got under way with the rise of civilization, and its adverse effe ct of sexual love, combined with
an increase in the pathological st imulation of the lower aspects of
the mind. The incidence of child neglect and of promiscuity,
indicate the severity of the dementia. With some 18 per cent of
births the result of transient unions in the big cities of civilization, and a much higher proportion of unl oved children, the condition is
an advanced one, threatening human survival.
Food has been in league with this situation, for unless the food
supplies were increased to meet the ever-increasing harvest of
babies, population control would ha ve been long ago affected by
starvation and pestilence. So it is that intensive agriculture, the abuse of artificial fertilizers, the mechanization of meat, milk and egg production, the adulteration, refining and preservation of food,
the intensifying exploitation of the oceans, and the complex
chemical and poisonous parapherna lia of civilized food technology
are as guilty as lust, the reverse side of the same counterfeit coin.

12. The Deceits of Lucullus

When one considers that all other animals consume food as nature
presents it to them, and that virtually no food is now eaten in a
natural condition, one is entitled to  ask how such an extraordinary
recourse to artificiality could have arisen. It is not always hunger
that drives people to eat the extraordinary foods like maggots, birds'
nests, barnacles and tripe, but some curious perversion of taste, and
the endless, often unnecessary adulterations and interferences with
foods point to a related assault against the simple and natural,
symptoms of man's revulsion against the natural world.
The artificialities of food, the endless search for the titillation of
a jaded palate, are also the results of frustration and boredom.
Lucullus was a Roman general who never lost a battle, but was eventually betrayed by the politicians at home. In disgust, he retired to gourmandize, inventing sumptuous dishes and gastronomic orgies never before imagined, with an army of cooks instead of centurions.
Faced with the frustrations of living some people take to the way of
Lucullus. The business magnate gorges himself to death, not because he is successful, but because he is humanly frustrated, secretly cheated of meaning and value to life, in the ruthless
acquisitiveness of a materialistic jungle. As a result, since the Romans, and in fact long before them, there has been a succession
of able food inventors and artificers.
Such enticements to gluttony become self-perpetuating. The
glutton's preoccupation with food has much the same features as that of the compulsive addict, with ever more varied and outrageous titillations needed, until the ludicrous is reached as in the food
fantasies of Lucullus. Fire was probably first used for cooking in
order to overcome the nauseating smell and taste of raw meat and it was used by the early food collector s to soften the hard fibres of
vegetable foods that could not be eaten raw. For a long, long time, cooking was thus primarily utilitarian. It was only with the use of
more sophisticated culture that the cook became an acrobat.
The softening of vegetable fibres enables vegetables to be
better digested in a mixed diet. Over-coarse vegetable foods interfere with protein absorption and result in putrefaction, nausea and general gastric disquiet which can  end in an actual dislike of all
vegetables, commonly observed in big flesh eaters. This explains
why many people insist that vegetables which can perfectly well be
eaten raw, be thoroughly cooked. But a price is paid for this emasculation of vegetable food. Not only the common constipation,
but more serious diseases like diverticulitis result from a prolonged insufficiency of vegetable fibres in the diet.
The softening of the food also  enables the normal mechanism
of satiety to be cheated. A slice or two of wholemeal bread will induce a feeling of satisfaction, while a whole loaf of white bread still leaves a sense of dissatisfaction. The extraordinary ability of the stomach to expand is no doubt a natural provision enabling the primate to gorge when food is abundant; but this is rarely the case in
nature, so that the stomach is not continuously distended to its fullest, as it is among the civilized. Big eaters have the highest
incidence of stomach cancer.
There are also stimulants in  abnormal foods, such as meat,
which cause the stomach to over-secrete. Many hours after a meal of meat, peristaltic contractions persist, even when the stomach contents have emptied


3 tablespoons of butter (or coconut oil, ghee, goose fat, duck fat)
2 cups of cooked and mashed squash (butternut squash, pumpkin or other
less watery squashes, apple sauce, pear sauce)
To prepare the squash (pumpkin), cut it into two halves and remove the
seeds. Place on a baking tray with the cut surface down and bake in the
oven until very soft (a knife should go through it very easily). Cool, scoop
out all the inside and mash with a fork.
You can improvise on this recipe by adding to the mixture honey, dried
fruit, coarsely chopped nuts, shredded coconut, berries and fruit pieces. Mix all the ingredients well. Put into a well-buttered baking dish and
bake in the oven at 150-175°C (300~350°F) for 45 minutes to an hour.
Occasionally check with a dry knife if it is ready (the knife has to come out
dry).
If in the same mixture you add 2 tablespoons of pure tomato puree (with
a single ingredient: tomato), some salt and pepper, you can bake a pizza
base. Just spread the mixture on a baking paper, shaping it with a spoon.
Experiment with your own varieties, using ingredients available to you
from the allowed list. Here are a few examples of egg-free recipes you can
make.
Egg free-banana muffins
2 cups of cashew nuts or any other nuts
2 ripe bananas
4 teaspoons of honey
4 teaspoons of gelatine powder or crystals
4-8 tablespoons of coconut oil or butter
Grind the nuts into a flour (you can use ground almonds instead). Mash
the banana. Dissolve gelatine powder in half a cup of hot water.
Mix all the ingredients together. Fill paper muffin cases with the mixture
and bake at 150-170°C (38o°F) for 15-20 minutes.
You can vary this recipe by folding in different berries into the mixture,
small pieces of fruit, coarsely chopped nuts or seeds (sunflower, sesame or
pumpkin).
Egg-free Easter Eggs
2 cups of pecans
a handful of coconut flakes
4 tablespoons of butter or ghee
2 tablespoons of honey
Blend all the ingredient in the food processor into a fine paste. With your
hands roll out small eggs. Put them in the freezer until ready to eat.
With this mixture you can make different biscuits, using children's
biscuit shapes. Roll the mixture on a well-buttered surface until 1 cm thick.
Put it into a freezer for 2 hours or longer, take out and cut into shapes
(squares, animals, tractors, etc.). You can let your children do the cutting out. Egg-free crackers/biscuits
2 tablespoons of butter (coconut oil or duck fat/goose fat)
2 cups of ground nuts (almonds, hazels, walnuts, etc.)
2-3 tablespoons of water (or almond milk or coconut milk)
You can improvise by adding to this mixture herbs, cinnamon, paprika,
cayenne pepper, black pepper, salt, grated cheddar cheese (if well toler
ated) or peanut butter.
Mix the ingredients well. Roll out thinly on a board, sprinkled with
some ground nuts. Cut into squares or any other shapes. Sprinkle some
coarse salt, poppyseeds, caraway seeds or coriander seeds on top. Bake in
the oven on well-buttered baking paper ati50°C (300°F) for 10-15 minutes.
Egg-free fruit dessert
1. Blend or cut into small pieces available berries and fruit and cover the
bottom of your baking tin with the mixture. Nice combinations are
plums and apples, pears and raspberries, cherries and pineapple, apple
and blackcurrants.
2. Pour about 3 cups of ground almonds over the fruit.
3. Sprinkle \k cups of shredded coconut over the almonds.
4. Spread 1-2 cups of pecan halves over the coconut (you can use any other
available nuts, coarsely chopped).
5. Cover the top with 200g of butter, cut into slices (you can use coconut oil
or ghee instead of butter).
6. Bake ati6o-i75°C (350°F) for about 40 minutes.
Egg-free apple pie
1. Fill your baking dish halfway up with peeled and chopped cooking
apples and plums (take the stones out). Instead of plums you can use
blackcurrants, raspberries, blackberries, pears, elderberries, etc.
2. Pour half a cup of honey over the fruit and mix lightly.
3. Soak two handfuls of dried dates in half a cup of hot water to make them
softer. Drain and use for the crust. The soaking water is very sweet and
can be poured over the fruit.
4. To make the crust blend the dates with 1 cup of ground almonds and 2
tablespoons of butter. With your hands shape the mixture into a bail,
put it on a large sheet of baking paper or cling film and roll it out into a round pancake shape large enough to cover the top of your baking dish.
Lift up the baking paper with the rolled out pastry and carefully flip it
over the fruit. Make sure that the pastry covers the whole of the fruit,
trim off any excess and fill any holes with it.
5. Bake in the oven at i3o-i50°C (300°F) for about 40-50 minutes.
Egg-free cookies (biscuits)
2 cups of ground nuts (nut flour)
1 cup of cooked and mashed butternut squash
pear sauce made from 1 large pear
1 tablespoon of butter or any other acceptable fat
Mix all the ingredients well and bake small biscuits on baking paper at 150-
i6o°C (300°F) for about 20 minutes.
10. Beverages
Nut/seed milk
You can use almonds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pine nuts, etc. to make
milk. Almonds make the best milk. You can add a teaspoon of flaxseeds to
make the milk thicker. Soak the nuts/seeds in water for 12-24 hours, drain.
Blend in a food processor with water: fori cup of nuts/seeds add 2-3 cups of
water. A good juicer will crush the nuts/seeds well, making a paste, which
you blend with water. Mix well and strain through a cheese-cloth or a fine
strainer and you have got milk. You can add some soaked dates or raisins,
when blending, they will make the milk sweet. If you find that the milk is too
rich, just add more water. You can add some freshly pressed apple juice or
carrot juice into it to make a very tasty and nourishing drink.
Coconut milk
Bring to boil 1 cup of unsweetened shredded coconut and 1 cup of water.
Cool down and blend well in the food processor. Strain through a cheese
cloth or a fine strainer.
Ginger tea
1 tablespoon of freshly grated ginger root
water In your teapot put the grated ginger root and pour over boiling water.
Cover and brew for 5-10 minutes. Pore through a sieve. It is a warming
drink and aids digestion.
Freshly squeezed juices
Use only organic fruit and vegetables for making juices. Wash your fruit and
vegetables and cut any bad bits off. Do not peel and do not remove seeds.
A good juice to start the day is pineapple + carrot + small amount of
beetroot.
The most therapeutic juices do not taste very nice: green and vegetable
juices. To make your juices tasty and enjoyable to drink I recommend
making mixes of different fruit and vegetables. You can make all sorts of
juice mixes, but generally try to have:
• 50% of highly therapeutic ingredients: carrot, small amount of beet
root (no more than 5% of the juice mixture), celery, white and red
cabbage, lettuce, greens (spinach, parsley, dill, basil, fresh nettle
leaves, beet tops and carrot tops),
• 50% of some tasty ingredients to disguise the taste of therapeutic
ingredients: pineapple, apple, orange, grapefruit, grapes, mango, etc.
Your patient can have these juices as they are or diluted with some water. If
throughout the day your GAPS child would not drink just water, you can
add some of these freshly squeezed juices into the water to make a tasty
drink. Initially start with 1 cup of juice a day. With a small child you may
want to start from a very small amount, like 1 teaspoon a day. Increase the
daily amount very gradually until your child has 2 cups of freshly squeezed
juices a day. These juices should be taken on an empty stomach, so first
thing in the morning and middle of the afternoon are good times.
With these juices you can make ice-lollies. Just fill ice-lolly forms with
freshly squeezed juice and freeze.
You can also make ice-cubes from these juices which can be used to
make a cold drink in hot weather. Just fill the glass with these ice-cubes and
add mineral water (still or carbonated).
The carrot pulp left from juicing can be used in your baking mixtures
together with ground nuts or as a replacement for