 a 10
times larger volume or about 1 ml of mouthwash for 2 drops of MMS.
MMS Therapy
The discovery and initial developments of MMS therapy were outlined by Jim Humble in a 2008 Nexus article (6). MMS is activated to
release chlorine dioxide by mixing with 5 drops of acid for every 1 drop of MMS. Originally lemon juice and vinegar were used which
are now commonly replaced by a 10% solution of citric acid. This is about 5 times more acid and releases considerably more chlorine
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drink it.
You may add herb tea or juice without vitamin C, e.g. commercial apple or grape juice but not orange juice. The initial strong and
somewhat nauseating smell is now greatly reduced as the chlorine dioxide remains dissolved in water rather than escaping into the
air. Do not take any antioxidant supplements close to MMS. If it is too acid for you then partly neutralize the liquid with bicarbonate
shortly before drinking. Carefully add only small amounts of bicarbonate so that it still tastes slightly acidic when ingesting.
Therapy can be approached in two ways. Jim Humbles recommendation is to start with a low dose and gradually increase by 1 drop
each day until a slight feeling of nausea develops and then cut down by 2 drops. After several days you try increasing again, and so
gradually work your way up to 15 standard drops 1 to 3 times daily for about one week. But many individuals do not get that far
because they become sensitised, and nausea starts already at low levels without sufﬁcient antimicrobial ef fect.
Nausea can be reduced by taking the remedy after a meal, but this also reduces the antimicrobial effect compared to taking it on an
empty stomach. It may be best to take MMS just before going to bed. MMS works very fast, and people often become sleepy after
taking a dose of MMS. Also it is easier to cope with nausea if you can fall asleep.
An alternative method with acute infections is to take a very high dose or even a high double dose one hour apart and accept that
you will feel nauseous and may vomit for a day or longer. Nausea or vomiting usually starts 2 or more hours after ingesting a very
high dose, and by then the chlorine dioxide has already been absorbed  so that vomiting does not cause any loss in effectiveness.
This method has been used in the successful treatment of malaria, blood poisoning, and other acute infections. It commonly clears
the condition in one hit. For details of oral MMS therapy see my Sodium Chlorite article (7) and also Jim Humble’ s Standard MMS
Protocol (8).
An alternative method for intensifying the antimicrobial program or for overcoming an infection is by taking 3 to 4 drops of acidiﬁed
and diluted MMS every hour and a half for several days. Temporarily reduce the dose if any nausea should occur. You may do this by
swallowing the MMS or with oral absorption or a combination of both.
To quickly stop nausea you may take 1000 mg or more of vitamin C, but this also stops the antimicrobial activity. To avoid or minimize
oxidative damage I recommend taking MMS only in the morning and evening or only once a day and use a combination of
antioxidants, including vitamin C, at lunchtime or several hours away from the MMS. To minimize unpleasant side effects try to
alkalize the body before going on a course of MMS.
The main danger after a high dose of MMS is from low blood pressure and hypoglycemic shock due to ﬂuid loss after vomiting and
diarrhoea. If this should happen take immediately a high dose of vitamin C to stop the reaction, lie down, and drink lots of lightly
salted and sweetened water. A general recommendation for rehydrating after vomiting and diarrhoea is a ﬂuid made with 6 level
teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 level teaspoon of salt dissolved in 1 litre of water, or alternatively use salted rice water. Also. Individuals
with G6PD deﬁciency, an enzyme deﬁciency with a tendency to haemolytic anaemia, must avoid MMS and other oxidising
substances.
If this MMS program causes problems or is too difﬁcult then you may try instead oral or rectal absorption. If used for more than a few
weeks, especially for cancer and autoimmune diseases, then I recommend non-acidiﬁed MMS as explained below.
Other Delivery Options
Because frequently nausea causes individuals to stop using MMS before the infection or cancer is cleared, different ways of using it
have been explored. Most common among these is transdermal application. When bypassing the stomach nausea is not normally a
problem.
A given number of drops of MMS are activated with 5 times more drops of acid, after 3 minutes DMSO is added at the same rate as
the acid. After another 3 minute wait the solution is rubbed into the skin. A variation of this uses 10 drops of MMS and 1 tsp each of
acid and DMSO. This method has also been adopted for cancer treatment, including by Jim Humble (9).
While this method does not cause nausea, there is no real evidence that it works. There is even strong theoretical evidence that it
cannot work. DMSO can act as a mild oxidant, but generally, and especially in the presence of stronger oxidants, it acts as an
antioxidant. The main metabolite when DMSO is oxidised is MSM, which may also be written as DMSO2. If you search Google for
DMSO +antioxidant you ﬁnd expressions like: “DMSO-The King Antioxidant” and “It turned out that DMSO was a powerful
antioxidant…” You just cannot combine the most powerful oxidant with a powerful antioxidant and expect that they do not talk to each
other.
However, I still regard it as useful to apply activated MMS on the skin for topical treatment of local infections and tumours. While
MSM is less effective as a carrier than DMSO, it does improve passage through the skin, and it is not an antioxidant, so it is safe to
use with MMS. But absorption will be slow, and therefore it is not suitable for getting chlorine dioxide into the blood.
In contrast, absorption through the mucous membranes will be fairly fast, and may give better results. Possible absorption areas are
the rectum, the vagina, and the mouth.
Rectal absorption is similar to using  coffee enemas which is already ﬁrmly established in natural cancer therapy. First you clean the
lower bowel with an enema. Then insert a small number of activated drops of MMS in a large glass of water. Hold for 10 to 20
minutes, expel, use again a cleaning enema, and then insert a larger number of activated drops in a glass of water.
Try to hold for up to 30 minutes. You may be able to move around during this time but preferably just sit or lie down. Protect the anus
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chronic conditions you may repeat this once a week with increasing numbers of drops. This will be good with problems in this area,
such as rectal or prostate cancer, irritable bowel, and infections, cysts and cancers of the female organs.
Vaginal application is suitable in case of vaginal thrush to kill the roots and spores of Candida that will be embedded in the mucous
membrane and may cause ﬂare-ups. Start with 1 activated drop in a small glass of water and gradually increase on subsequent
occasions. If the acidity of the solution is a problem you may nearly neutralise it with bicarbonate several minutes after adding the
water. Also try using the mouthwash solution.
Oral absorption is my preferred method. I believe that just swishing acidiﬁed and diluted MMS in the mouth may be the best general
method to get it quickly into the blood, in addition to clearing the head spaces. After using 6 activated drops this way and keeping it in
the mouth for about 20 minutes I now always have a pink tongue on rising in the morning while before it used to be partly coated. A
fragile elderly woman who was afraid to swallow it just kept a few activated drops in juice in the mouth for a few minutes and then
spat it out. After doing this twice she had much better mobility. This shows that the chlorine dioxide went quickly into the circulation.
Keeping it in the mouth is not too unpleasant, and the taste buds soon stop complaining. However, it is advisable to nearly neutralise
the solution with bic


 the proper
understanding of the condition of the ailing person. As a matter of
face even diagnosis in unnecessary. But it is essential that the
vitality of the patient, local climate, the quantity of urine to be used,
the method of application, the diet before, during and after the
treatment etc., should be fully considered beforehand. The follower
of this treatment should be careful in his general behaviour also
because mental attitude also plays an important role in the physical
health.
A Treatment with Self-restraint: The accounts of the most of the
cases which I have received have one common purpose and that is
people want to survive somehow by v1hatever means it may be
possible. Moreover it has been our habit not to do anything
methodically or rationally. But this would not be allowed in this
treatment. otherwise it would bring discredit to this therapy. One
should not take up this treatment if one lacks inself-restraint,
moderation in food and lacks patience.
I have to put a question to such half-hearted patients who have
been benefited in sptie of their being unrestrained. But what would
they have said if the results were unfavourable? Would they have
boldly admitted that it was only due to their own faults that harm
had been done to them? l·do not think such would have been their·
reaction if the result was not good. Naturally persons with selfish
motives would have given an odd name to urine therapy to achieve
their own selfish ends. Hence I do not have the slightest hesitation
in warning the patients that they should not practise this therapy I l.. ~ 172 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
unless they can observe all the necessary instructions repeatedly
tressed in this book.
Control of the Tongue: I feel irritated when I see recipes in the
local daily papers. Citrous, sour, bitter and sweet articles of food
produce vaat, pitta and cough and have strange tastes and effects.
Thus nutritious food materials are converted into poison. The
house-wives adept in preparing such varied recipes think
themselves to be very clever. But they never realize that preparing
such foods in only a waste of time and money. Such foods affect
the health of the family members very adversely. It is a crime
against ·humanity and nature to destroy the natural nutritive
elements in the foodstuffs in making them more palatable. Gandhiji
has said. "One who has conquered his senses has conquered the
world." He has rightly added, "One who has conquered the tongue,
has coAquered all the senses."
I wish to point out that one should take up this treatment only on
the basis of information given in this book and should fully observe
all the warnings given therein. If he does accordingly, there is not
the least doubt that he will be fully benefited. On the other hand if
the patient beromes careless, he will not only invite danger for
himself but also bring a bad name to this therapy.
A Boon to the Poor : The method of urine treatment invariably
gives great relief to aiL Rich people may adopt expensive
conventional methods of treatment to get rid of their troubles but the
poor are no longer able to afford modern modes of treatment. Thus
this novel method of treatment has proved to be a boon to the
poor. 1. know that many }loung men start ~r study of 'Medkine in
ordeF to Sel\'e'th:e poor and' the sick. &it very heavy expendittll1e
· for their medical studfes beeomes a ·great burden to them. So to
meet their expenses and maintain their standard of nfe, they
become prof-essionats and look at their practice only from the
busif'l€Ss point of view and thus the mission for the servke of the
poor is thwarted. In urine therapy, however, there are no such
temptations because there in every patient is a doctor for himself. It CONCLUSION : 173
reserve his. even an illiterate person can p.
is a technique by which this own disposal quite freely.
health by the natural menas a a well planned
S iptures mean. Proof Self-revealed :... ~rc. ::md experiences of savants. It IS
compendium of great thoug.knowledge to adopt a. generous and
essential for the progre~ ~f ld answer all the quenes and dou~ts
open-hearted attitude an s ou t the same time with a searchmg
on the basis of the scriptures ~nd ado matically and cond~mn. those
mind To stick to onels own views ~ lead to the falsification of
of others repeatedly would necessan ·~dedness in the field of ·ews Such narrow ml. one1
S own ~1
• er to knowledge itsefl.
knowledge bnngs dang d any eXternal proof as
· lso does not nee k h s The power of auto-unne a. h the author of Chara a
its utility is self-re~:ale_d. That ~r:S ~nly, I.e., it is anti-poison and
mmed up its qualitieS m two w than this. It deserves all the
~~a tonic. No savant would.sayhmorervice of human health. gaged m t e se · f attention of persons en 'b the properties of urine o
Great Supports : Ayurve~a d~:c;~o:~ animals may be beneficial
eight types of animals. Th~fi u~n: Charak but it is worthy of research
to human beings as, speo le y h ·r own urine on their systems.
to have findings of the eff~cts ~f t el et rid of the disease once for
They instinctively use the•r. ur~e ~~s; of human being and human
all The same holds good m t e be as Ayurveda describes hot,
uri.ne too. The urine of a p.erson m::or but it is so only to another
bitter, bile-increasin~ a~d •:fl~m:e to ~se the urine of other person
rsolt I do notthmk It a ~·sa tall rescribed in urien threapy. :d it is notscientific too. It ~s ".ot,:ant/ auto-urin~ therapy. atp~r
That is why urine therapy IS ldn I in exceptional cases I e
. n be use on Y. bl 1 uch rare person Is unne ca I urine is not ava•la e. n s..
k bite etc. when one s own.. I It means that the
~~:e;-it c;n be used in extern~! a~~~c;~~~~ne~~~ally and in drinking
urine of a healthy person c~n e kue-bite or so..
t'onally as m sna d' g only very excep 1
• ft a mere cursory rea m
I b · n to opme a er Most of the peop e eg•
U.T.-14 174 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
of the book and without having full deliberation the subject. But on
the basis of my own and others' experience, I can say with all the
emphasis at my command that human urine is harmless and always
beneficial. Used methodically and in proper doses, it is efficacious
in all diseases. I say this not as an authority but on the basis of
experiences of a number of patients from India and abroad. The
statement of the well-known Vaidya like shri Bapalalbhai and a
writer on Ayurvedic subjects, cannot be doubted when he
unreservedly supports urine therapy. He has written on the
experiments which he had carried out as true and enquiring Vaidya.
Similarly. the d~scription of two T.B. patients cured by Dr.
Gunanidhi Bhatt by means of urine therapy is no doubt genuine.
All the descriptions of the cases in this book are genuine facts based
on self-experience. There is absolutely no exaggeration in the
presentation of all these cases.
Must B.e Made Universal : The problem is how to make it
universally useful. A number of friends have advised me to start
hospitals where patients can be treated ·exclusively on urine therapy
but I am against it, as I believe that it should become a household
treatment. Every mother should be an adept in it and use it like
homely medicenes. The urine therapy does not require any
expenditure nor does it require any storage. The message of urine
therapy should reach every home and village. It will surely be
evolved into a scientific systme automatically. The intelligentsia can
very well further its progress and can work out a thorough scientific
method. All attempts in this direction are quite well come.
Our tl'lis much will not suffice. We shall have to make more and
more experiments and establish a definite system. We shall have to
regularize it and put some restrictions also on its haphazard use.
Urine is beneficial in its pure and natural state. I doubt if its efficacy
can be improved through any mixture with it. Yet if someone tries to
increaie effic;:acy of utility through natural methods, I have no
objection. But one should be careful in such an attempt as it would CONCl


 see it washing away any constricting
grey or black waste matter or calciﬁcations. Then see the joint in a perfect shape and condition, have a look at an anatomical picture
to know what a healthy joint should look like. Finally, see yourself in a mental movie exercising, working and using the diseased joint
and also the whole body in a normal way or as you would like to use your body.
Other Aspects
There are various other aspects, which may have either a positive or negative inﬂuence on your condition. I want to mention brieﬂy
just some of them. Keep warm during cold nights. It may be beneﬁcial to sleep in a natural ﬁber sleeping bag during cold periods. A
featherbed, on the other hand, may aggravate symptoms due to static electricity generated between feathers. Have a pillow of some
natural material and preferably the same for the mattress. If you want to continue sleeping on a foam rubber mattress, put several
natural ﬁber blankets on top.
Do not sleep or work for long periods  close to operating high-powered electric appliances, avoid being exposed to ﬂuorescent lighting
for long periods – see Electromagnetic Pollution. Do not sleep with the head resting on an arm or sit with your knees crossed. Do not10/30/24, 3:31 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Arthritis & Rheumatism
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living and work areas.
Minimize wearing glasses, frequently  look without glasses at the blue sky and green surroundings; be outdoors as much as possible.
Walk barefoot on moist grass. As an elderly male restrict semen loss from sexual activity until much improved. Females should avoid
strenuous activity during period time, which may suppress menstruation and worsen arthritis. However, it is ﬁne for the period to stop
due to a vegetarian or raw food cleansing diet.
Have any dead teeth removed and  osteitis  in the jawbone curetted. Preferably have also amalgam ﬁllings replaced with
biocompatible composite ﬁllings, if in doubt ﬁnd a therapist who does electro-acupuncture testing, also called electro-dermal
screening.
Try reﬂexology, it is very effective; see the article on Reﬂexology. Also stimulate the skin with alternating hot and cold showers and
with vigorous skin brushing, especially over stif f areas.
Low back pain is often due to problems in abdomen and sexual organs. An excellent therapy for low back problems, beside yoga
exercises, is to hang upside down. Special inversion equipment is available from sporting goods stores. However, if you are
sufﬁciently adventurous, you may also hang from a ﬁrmly secured ladder. Cushion two upper rungs, sit on the lower of these and let
the torso hang down, the feet ﬁnd safe support behind the upper cushioned rung. Have a helper for support.
CONCLUSION
As you can see there is so much you can do to help yourself that you may not know where to start. Begin with the 3 most essential
items: The Ultimate Cleanse, borax and DMSO. In addition use diet improvement, alkalizing, basic supplements and cleansing. In
most instances these should normalize conditions. If necessary experiment with other recommendations. Your reward will be
proportional to your ef forts. For a more detailed program see  OVERCOMING ARTHRITIS.
Disclaimer: The aim of this web site is to provide information on using natural healing methods to aid in the treatment of illness and health improvement.
The author cannot accept any legal responsibility for any problem arising from experimenting with these methods. For any serious disease,
or if you are unsure about a particular course of action, seek the help of a competent health professional.
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Natural  Vitamin E Prevents, Reverses Lung Cancer
Your "Pharmaphilic" Media Botches Another Story
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor
(OMNS Jan 31, 2014) Yet another media hatchet job on vitamin E is, predictably, getting lots of attention.
This particular attack is just one more in an embarrassingly long series. It is based on a recent study
procl aiming that vitamin E promotes cancer. (Sayin et al. Antioxidants accelerate lung cancer progression in
mice. Sci Transl Med 29 January 2014: 6: 221 http://stm.sciencemag.org/conte nt/6/221/221ra15  )
Well, with a highfalutin' study like that, they might at least have used real vitamin E.
They didn't.
I have searched the original paper. They mention "vitamin E" over and over and over again. However, the
words "d -alpha tocopherol," or "mixed natural tocopherols," do not appear in the paper, at all, except in one
reference citation. Why? Because that is what natural vitamin E is called. If the researchers had taken the
trouble to use natural  vitamin E, it would likely have reduced can cer. For example:
 Taking 300 IU of natural vitamin E per day reduces lung cancer by 61%.  (Mahabir S, Schendel
K, Dong YQ et al. Dietary alpha -, beta -, gamma - and delta -tocopherols in lung cancer risk. Int J
Cancer. 2008 Sep 1;123(5):1173 -80.) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18546288
Of Course Synthetic Vitamin E is Less Effective
With a careful search through a lot of jargon, you will discover that the negative study used DL -a-
tocopheryl acetate, a synthetic pseudo -vitamin E. However, real "vitamin E" is actually eight different
biochemical forms, alpha -, beta -, delta - and gamma tocopherols, and alpha -, beta -, delta -, and gamma -
tocotrienols. The much -touted "vitamin -E-causes -lung-cancer" study ignores this. I believe that the authors
were so embarrassed that they selected synthetic vitamin E, which almost anyone knows to be inferior, that
they quietly stated only once, in their entire paper, what kind of "E" they used. If I am wrong,  let them prove
otherwise. OMNS invites and will publish their rebuttal to this editorial.
And, the authors utterly ignored tocotrienols. Look for that word in their study condemning vitamin E. Look
really hard. It is not there. The word tocotrienol  does not appear in the paper. Not once.
Why? Because gamma tocotrienol is known to destroy cancer stem cells.
 Research published in the International Journal of Cancer  has shown that gamma -tocotrienol, a
cofactor found in natural vitamin E preparations, actua lly kills prostate cancer stem cells.
These are the very cells from which prostate cancer develops. They are or quickly become
chemotherapy -resistant. And yet natural vitamin E complex contains the very thing to kill them. Mice
given gamma -tocotrienol oral ly had an astonishing 75% decrease in tumor formation. (Sze Ue Luk1,
Wei Ney Yap, Yung -Tuen Chiu et al. Gamma -tocotrienol as an effective agent in targeting prostate
cancer stem cell -like population. International Journal of Cancer, 2011. Vol 128, No 9, p 2182 -2191.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.25546/abstract  )
 Gamma -tocotrienol also is effective against existing prostate tumors.  (Nesaretnam K, Teoh HK,
Selvaduray KR, Bruno RS, Ho E. Modulation of cell growth and apoptosis response in human
prostate cancer cells supplemented with tocotrienols. Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 2008, 110, 23 -31.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejlt.200700068/abstract. And: Conte C, Floridi A, Aisa C
et al. Gamma -tocotrienol metabolism and antiproliferative effect in prostate cancer cells. Annals of
the New York Academy of  Sciences, 2004. 1031: 391 -4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15753178?dopt=AbstractPlus
Set Up to Fail
Synthetic vitamin E was selected. It did not work. Natural vitamin E was not used. Tocotrienols were not
used. I challenge any scientist or journalist to try to explain these omissions away.
Based on USDA data ( http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infoc


 honey or jaggery/palm jaggery.
Tuber Paste in Boils, Corn and Swelling
Matured tubers are taken and crushed well to make into ne paste.
While making paste little Chuna (dehydrated calcium/lime powder) is
also added. is paste is applied over the swelling and the corns and
even on warts, daily for 4–6 weeks time.
In case of rheumatoid arthritis, ne paste is made with ginger juice
and applied.
Precaution
Pregnant women must avoid large amount of this tuber. Also few who
experience allergic reactions, should avoid it.1.
2.106. 6 Eucalyptus Home
Remedies: Headache, Sore
Throat, Joint Pain
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
e tender shoots of Eucalyptus provide remarkable nutritional support for
wildlife. e essential oils extracted from eucalyptus leaves are appreciated well
for potent analgesic and anti inammatory properties.
Botanical name: Eucalyptus radiate or Eucalyptus globulus.
Common name: Neelgiri
e leaves, stem and leaf oil have several medicinal values and being a home
remedy, it is  used worldwide. Few of the home remedies are:
Eucalyptus Leaf Paste Application in Partial Headache
Fresh leaves of the plant are collected and ne paste is made; if
necessary little water can be added. is is applied to the aﬀected side
in cases of partial headache. Within 15–20 minutes signicant relief
can be found.
Stem Bark Decoction in Chronic Ulcers and Itching Skin Lesions
One piece (20–30 grams) of the fresh bark is made into decoction (30
grams + 300 ml water, boil and reduce to 150 ml, lter). is
decoction is used to wash the wounds. is relieves itching and pacies
swelling.3.
4.
5.
6.Eucalyptus Oil in Hot Water Inhalation for Cold and Congestion
Few drops of Eucalyptus oil is put into hot water and steam is inhaled
(the head and neck are covered with a towel for maximum steam
exposure to face). is is well known remedy to relieve nasal
congestion, rhinitis, cold and head ache.
Eucalyptus Oil Mouth Gargling in Sore roat and roat
Irritation
2–5 ml of eucalyptus oil is added to warm water and mouth gargling is
carried. If necessary, slight rock salt and turmeric powder can also be
added. It subsides recurrent complaint of sore throat, tonsillitis, throat
irritation, pharyngitis etc.
Inhalation of Eucalyptus Oil – Put on Hand Kerchief/Towel in
Nausea
Few drops of the oil are put on a hand kerchief or towel. During
motion sickness, nausea, vomiting, headache, fatigue, anxiety etc this is
inhaled.
Nilgiri Oil Application and Hot Fomentation in Body Ache and
Joint Pain
A pinch of rock salt is added to Neelgiri oil and slightly warmed. is
is applied over the body parts or over the joints. Later hot fomentation
is given. is relieves pain and swelling.107. 6 Flax Seed Remedies
for Cholesterol, Lactation,
Wasp Sting
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Flaxseed/linseed is known to Indians since 2,500 years. Ayurvedic classical
literature refers use of Atasi in the form of vegetable as well as the oil.
Its botanical name is – Linum usitatissimum.
It is high in protein and help in strengthening the nerves and building the
muscles. It is also found to be good for the proper functioning of the heart,
brain, skin, and reproductive system.
e scientic studies have shown that the Atasi is useful to reduce pain,
swelling, cough, weak digestion, urination diﬃculties, high cholesterol, blood
sugar, constipation and fat.
It is a very good anti oxidant and helps to expel out phlegm.
e axseed is considered to be a condent drug in the treatment of several
diseases like Atherosclerosis, Backache, Constipation, Piles, Fistula, Cough,
Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Gonorrhoea, Gout, Rheumatism, High Cholesterol,
Obesity etc.
Some of the important home remedies and its health benets are referred
here below –1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.Atasi Seed Soaked in Water in Urinary Disorders
1–2 teaspoons of Atasi seeds are soaked in a cup of water for overnight.
Next day it is macerated well and ltered. is is consumed before
food for the treatment of burning urination.
Linseed Oil Added to Warm Water in Obesity and Hyper
Cholesterol
Early in the morning 2–3 ml linseed oil is added to a cup of warm
water and taken in empty stomach. is helps to reduce the total
cholesterol, and to reduce the mass in case of obesity.
Linseed, Cumin Seeds and Fenugreek Mixture for Increasing the
Breast Milk
Equal amount of seeds of Linseed, cumin seeds and fenugreek are
taken and ne powder is made. is is mixed thoroughly and taken
twice a day in the dose of 5 grams along with milk. is improves
lactation.
Linseed Leaf Juice in Wasp Sting
Fresh, mature ax leaves are crushed to obtain fresh juice. In case of
emergency, as a rst aid this is applied over the wasp sting area. is
quickly relieves burning sensation and pain.
Flower Paste of Linseed in roat Pain
2–3 fresh owers are collected and added with a pinch of salt it is made
into ne paste. is is applied around the throat. is pacies throat
pain in signicant way.
Linseed Soaked in Butter Milk (Paste) in case of Arthritis
One stful of seeds are soaked in sour buttermilk. On proper
moistening this is made into ne paste and applied over the joints. isrelieves joint pain by one or two weeks.
 108. 6 Shatavari Home
Remedies: Aphrodisiac
Urine Infection, Fatigue
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
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Shatavari is a very useful, safe and much researched Ayurvedic herb. It is a
coolant, tonic, aphrodisiac and also improves lactation.
Common name – wild asparagus, Indian Asparagus
Botanical name – Asparagus racemosus.
Shatavari is used in Ayurveda to balance pitta and vata dosha. So excess intake
may provoke Kapha dosha.
It can be found in the tropical areas of Asia, India, Australia, and African
countries. e tender leaves and owers are so beautiful that many plant this
herb in their garden without being aware that it has tremendous health
benets!
e steroidal saponins of the plant are commonly known as shatavarins.
Flavonoids such as quercetin and rutin are also resent in Shatavari fruits and
owers.
It is a known Adaptogenic eﬀect and an excellent anti oxidant.
Eﬀective Shatavari Remedies1.
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5.Shatavari Medicated Milk in Breast Feeding Mothers
1 or 2 fresh or dry roots of asparagus is added to a cup of milk and it is
cooked for 5–10 minutes. Filtered. It is given to the new mothers, early
in the morning to improve breast milk production.
Even in cattle, this practice is found where the veterinary doctors
advice to administer raw Shatavari to the cattle.
Shatavari Root Powder Remedy for Fatigue, Lethargy, Loss of
Libido
3–5 Grams of root powder of Shatavari is administered along with
powdered sugar candy, twice a day. is relieves work exhaustion,
numbness, neuritis, fatigue, lethargy, loss of libido etc.
Root Powder with Honey in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
5 Grams of the powder of Shatavari if consumed regularly during night
time recurrent UTI, spermaturia, haematuria and backache are cured
successfully.
Asparagus Cold Infusion in Burning Urination and Bleeding from
Urethra
Fresh asparagus is cut into small pieces and soaked in water or else the
5–10 grams powder is added to 300 ml water and kept for a while.
is is macerated and


 to the dandelion plant, and their chemical
constituents are more or less alike. Endive however, has food elements
of which the optic system is constantly in need.
The addition of endive juice to that of carrot, celery, and parsley,
we furnish nourishment to the optic nerve and muscular system, which
bring amazing results in correcting many eye defects. One or two
pints daily of this combination has frequently corrected eye trouble
in the course of a few months to the extent that normal vision was
regained, making the use of glasses unnecessary.
One of the most outstanding cases which has come to our attention
is that of a lady whose home was in West Virginia, south of Pittsburgh.
Cataracts took away her eyesight completely, and for nearly three
years no hope whatever was given to her that she could ever see again.
She heard that in Pittsburgh there was a very efficient plant in
operation that made fresh juices daily from a large Triturating and
Hydraulic press. It had been said that miracles were happening as a
result of fresh, raw vegetable juice therapy and she decided to give it
a try.
She followed rigidly the necessary cleansing regime of colonic
irrigations and enemas to remove all interference by waste matter in
the body; she ate only raw vegetables and fruits with no concentrated
starches or sugars; she drank daily:
One pint of carrot, celery, parsley, and endive juice,
One pint of carrot juice,
One pint of carrot, celery, parsley, and spinach juice,
One pint of carrot and spinach juice.
She recovered her eyesight sufficiently in less than one year's time so
that she could read newspapers and magazines with the aid of a
magnifying glass!
Endive is one of the richest sources of Vitamin A among the
green vegetables.
Carrot, celery, and endive juices combined, are most helpful in
asthma and hay fever, provided the cause of these conditions has been
permanently removed from the diet. The cause, naturally, is usually
milk and the concentrated starches and sugars.
In combination with celery and parsley, endive is very helpful in
anemia and in functional heart trouble (when this is not the result of
gas in the intestines), and as a blood tonic. It is also very beneficial in
conditions involving the spleen.
39 Endive juice in almost any combination promotes the secretion
of bile and is, therefore, very good for both liver and gall bladder
disfunctions.
FENNEL (Finocchio) JUICE
There are two varieties of fennel—the common garden or sweet
fennel, which is used mostly as condiment and flavoring, and Florence
Fennel usually known as Finocchio and used on a very large scale by
Italians and other Latin races.
The former is classified mainly as an herb and is not suitable for
use in juice form except under the care of an expert on the use of
herbs.
The Florence variety, however, makes an excellent juice. The plant
belongs to the celery family, but its juice is much sweeter and more
aromatic than celery juice. In fact, the plant is sometimes known
erroneously as anise celery, but the Italian name, Finocchio
(pronounced Finokkio), is more generally used.
Fennel juice is a very valuable blood builder and is, therefore, of
the utmost benefit in menstrual disorders. It has been used successfully
alone or in combination with carrot and beet juice in this connection.
GARLIC JUICE
Metaphorically speaking, garlic itself is bad enough but garlic
juice by itself may cause devastating social ostracism for the one who
drinks it. It is very beneficial, if one has the mental fortitude to
overcome social handicaps, and the intestinal fortitude to endure the
general discomfort which accompanies the more or less rapid house
cleaning of one's system.
Garlic is rich in mustard oils and this, in conjunction with the
combination of cleansing elements composing it, has a most beneficial
effect on the entire system, from stimulating the appetite and the
secretion of gastric juices, to the promotion of peristalsis and diuretic
action.
The ethers in garlic juice are so potent and penetrating that they
help to dissolve accumulations of mucus in the sinus cavities, in the
bronchial tubes, and in the lungs. They help the exudation of poisons
from the body through the pores of the skin, until we wonder whether
the effluvium of the fragrance is any better than the dormant poisons
within us.
Garlic juice has proved very effective in helping to eliminate
intestinal parasites. Dysentery can be most effectively helped with
40 this juice, and Amoebic Dysentery responds to it no less than other
kinds. Parasites and germs, however, whether amoeba or any other
kind cannot live unless there is nourishment for them to thrive on. If
the eliminative organs are filled with putrefactive waste matter
naturally germs will be present by the million, and if more waste
matter is added cumulatively by the daily ingestion of meat, other
inorganic foods, and drugs, such germs and parasites are in their
element, and they propagate and multiply. This is wonderful for the
germs, but disconcerting to the victim. Thus, garlic juice helps to
eliminate much of this condition, but to remove the cause we find
that we have to go much farther. Intestinal bathings by means of colon
irrigations and enemas have been found to be essential until the waste
matter has been thoroughly cleaned out. The diet then has been so
planned that the food was assimilated as completely as possible with
the least liability of waste retention in the body. This has been
successfully achieved with an ample supply and sufficient variety of
fresh-raw vegetable juices supplementing a well-balanced raw food
diet.
To make garlic juice, however, almost precludes the use of the
juice machine for any other juices, because once the machine has
been so used, it is almost impossible to eradicate the aroma for several
days, and any juices subsequently made on that machine may be
flavored with that bouquet!
HORSERADISH SAUCE
We do not use the juice of horseradish, it's ethers are quite potent
and powerful enough when the horseradish is finely ground or
triturated (pulverized). The effect of taking one half a teaspoonful of
the triturated (pulverized) horseradish will leave an indelible
impression on the memory and a dissolving reaction on the mucus in
the sinus cavities. Once this has been tried in pulp form, this impression
and this reaction will no doubt solve the question of why we do not
use it in juice form.
The pulp from freshly triturated (pulverized) horseradish mixed
immediately with lemon juice and taken twice a day at a dose of one-
half teaspoon between meals, has effectively helped to dissolve
mucous. This is true not only in the sinus cavities but also throughout
the body and without damage to the mucous membranes themselves.
It acts as a solvent and cleanser of abnormal mucus in the human
system.
41 Used judiciously, as indicated, mixed only with lemon juice, we
have found that it does not irritate the kidneys, the bladder, nor the
mucous membranes of the digestive tract.
In addition to the value of the ethers in dissolving mucus,
horseradish sauce is a valuable diuretic, particularly beneficial in
dropsical conditions.
The horseradish sauce should be prepared fresh and should not
be used when it is more than one week old. It must be kept cold in a
closed bottle or jar although its potency is increased if allowed to
warm up to room temperature when using it. It should be moistened
with plenty of lemon juice.
Horseradish sauce when taken as suggested, one-half teaspoonful
in the course of the morning and one-half teaspoonful during the
afternoon, daily, may at first cause a copious overflowing of tears,
depending on how much mucus is packed in the sinus cavities and
other parts of the system. Except for the lemon juice mixed with it,
nothing else should be taken to dilute it, nor should anything be taken
to drink for a few moments after eating it. This procedure has been
followed for weeks or months if necessary, until the horseradish sauce
could be eaten without any sensation resulting from it. It then indicated
the practically complete dissolution of the mucus. For any condition
of sinus mucus, this has been found a very effective natural means to
help remove the CAUSE of this annoyance.
As a rule, the most satisfactory results are obtained when the
mixture is comprised of the juice of two or three lemons to one-fourth
pint of triturated (pulverized) horseradish, making the mixture the
consistency of a thick sauce.
See the section covering Radish Juice.
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE JUICE
This vegetable, when properly triturated (pulverized) and pressed,
can furnish 3 pints of juice from 4 pounds of the vegetable itself. It is
rich in alkaline mineral elements, particularly potassium, which
represents more than 50% of all the


 been diagnosed with AIDS. According to
this definition, anyone suffering from a few common and non-spec ific symptoms,
like weight loss plus diarrhea and itching, is declared an AIDS patient (without
blood tests, and thereby without HN antibody tests).12 13 In poor countries like in
Africa, where today a third of the population is undernourished, these symptoms are
a well known mass phenomena.
In comparison, in wealthy countries like the USA and German y, people are
declared to be AIDS patients if they have tested positive in an antibody test, and
simultaneously suffer from at least one of 26-likewise well known-diseases,
including the vascular tumor called Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), Hodgkin's disease,
herpes zoster (shingles) or tuberculosis. If a patient has a negative antibody test and
KS, they have KS. If, on the other hand, a patient tests positive and has KS, they are
an AIDS patient. But this type of definition is misleadi ng-it is circular, since it is
based on dubious, doubtful, unproven assumptions that HN exists; that HN can
cause AIDS (or a disease like KS or herpes zoster); that a positive antibody test
proves the existence of HN, and so on. 14
Wher e Is the Proof of HIV?
This HN is said to belong to a certain class of viruses called retroviru ses. In order
to prove, then, that HN is a specific retrovirus, it would first be necessary to have
HN as a pure virus available, so that it can be imaged in a purified form with an
electron rnicrosco pe.15 But all electron micrographs of so-called HN taken from the
mid-80s on, come, not from a patient's blood, but from "souped-up" cell cultures. In
some cases the cells have been cooked up for a week in a lab Petri dish. So-called
AIDS experts didn't even try to make scientif ic sense of their co-culturing techniques
until 1997, when Hans Gelderblom, of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, took a
stab at it.
But Gelderblom's article, published in the magazine Virology, leaves out the
purification and characterization of a virus (merely the protein p24 was found),
which does not prove that the particles are HN. The second image of patient's blood
came from the American National Cancer Institute. But the particles made visible
(proteins, RNA particles) did not have morphology typical of retroviruses (let alone
of a specific retrovirus). Addition ally, proteins like p24 and p18, which, according to
the opinions of mainstream AIDS researchers, are supposed to be specific to HN,
and are also used as HN markers (surrogate markers), were found in a number of
so-called "uninfected" human tissue sarnples.16
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Even Luc Montagnier, called the discoverer of HN, admitted in an interview with
the journal Continuum in 1997 that even after "Roman effort," with electron
micrographs of the cell culture, with which HN was said to have been detected, no
particles were visible with "morphology typical of retroviruses." 17
If even retrovirus-like particles cannot be recognized in these electron micrographs
(let alone particles that match a retrovirus or a very particular retrovirus), this must
logically mean that HN-alleged ly, a very specific retrovirus-cannot be detected.
"Indeed, HN has never been detected in a purified form," according to many
renowned experts, including Etienne de Harven, the previously mentioned pioneer
in electron microscopy and virology, 18 and AIDS researchers Eleni Papadopulos and
Val Turner of the Australian Perth Group.1 9
Nonetheless, in 2006, it was proudly reported once again that "the structure of
the world's most deadly virus had been decoded" 20 and that HN had been
photographed in a "3-D quality never achieved before."21 But a close inspection of
the British-G erman research team's paper (published in the journal Structure),22
shows that it doesn't live up to its promises:
-Firstly, it must be noted that the study was supported by the Wellcome Trust,23
· and that the lead author, as well as one additional author, work for the Wellcome
Trust, 24 a pharmaceutical giant that makes multibillion dollar revenues from AIDS
medications like Combivir, Trizivir and Retrovir (AZT, Azidothymidine).25 These
researcher s-involved in conflicts of interest-will hardly be able to say that HN
has not been proven to exist. 26
-Of 75 particles, the paper said that five had no well-defined core, 63 had a single
core, three had a complete core plus part of a further core, while four particles
had two cores; the particles with two cores were larger than those with only one.27
"For one thing, one notices that no double-cores can be seen in the printed
pictures," writes Canadian biologist and AIDS expert David Crowe, "and for
another, the question arises: how can a virus have two cores at all? That would be
something absolutely new!"
-In the majority of"single-cored" particles, the core was cone-shaped (morphol ogy);
in the remaining 23 particles, on the other hand, the cores were "tube-shaped"
(cylindrica l), triangular or simply shapeless. 28 Here as well, it is difficult to
comprehend that all these particles with such different appearances could all
belong to a very particular type of retrovirus (for that is what HN is supposed to
be).
- Particles were of a great variety of sizes: the diameters measured by Briggs et al
ranged from 106 - 183 nanometer (one billionth of a meter). Is it advisable to
classify all the particles as being one and the same particular type? People, for
94 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillion-Dollar Business
example, vary in size. Let's say we were comparing men and assumed that the
average man is 1.78 meters or 5.84 feet tall. If the margin measured by Briggs et
a! (106 -183 nanometers) were carried over, we would get heights ranging
between 1.30 and 2.25 meters (4.27 and 7.38 feet). This would hardly permit us
to believe that we were dealing exclusively with full-grown males. It also speaks
against the assumption that the particles of such various sizes, which originate
from one cell culture, are all of the same virus type.
-AIDS researcher Val Turner of the Australian Perth Group re-measured the
diameters of the particles that were visible in diagram 1A of Briggs et al's paper.29
This revealed that two of the particles (also called virions, which gives the
impression that they belong to a virus that had invaded from outside) had
diameters of even less than 100 nanometer s.30
-The Structure article's authors themselves conceded that both printed images
(which originated from one image) are "not representative" of the entire sample, 31
but that begs the question: what shapes and sizes are the particles in the pictures
that were not shown? This information was not provided even when requested.
-In this context, according to relevant sources, the diameter of retrovirus particles
(HN is supposed to be a retrovirus, after all) are quoted as 100 -120 nanometers, 32
33 34 something that clearly deviates from the 106 - 183 nanometers measured by
Briggs et a!.
-"It would have cleared up a lot in this context if scientists had undertaken a
complete purification and characterization of the part icles," as David Crowe
remarks, "but this apparently did not happen." The researchers themselves say
that only particles with "minimal contamination" were available.
-Not once is a virus purification method described in the Structure paper; in this
regard, let's refer to an article by Welker et al, published in the Journal of Virology
in 2000.35 36 They first say, remarkably, that, "it is important to have pure HN
particles" available, which confirms how important virus purification is for virus
detection. However, they did not demonstrate that pure HN had been extracted;
·it was also said "the ele ctron microscopic analysis showed that the core
preparations were not completely pure."
-And even if the particles were pure, the problem still arises that even after the
purification process, cell components (known as microves icles, microbub bles,
and material of cellular origin) could be present, which even from an orthodox
perspecti ve are non-viral, although they may have the same size and density as
so-called HN. Thus we read in a paper published in the journal Virology:
"Identification and quantization of cellular proteins associated with HN-1
particles are complicated by the presence of nonvirion-associated cellular proteins
that co-purify with virions."37 3s
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HIV =AIDS?
Is HN the cause of AIDS? Let's allow


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Hummus: Almost all store-bought hummus will contain either olive oil
or tahini, or both. Two varieties that can be oil and/or fat free are SaharaCuisine Original Hummus and Or ganic Roasted Red Pepper. However,
most grocery stores don’ t carry them. Your best bet is to whip up your own
on Sunday and store your homemade hummus in air -tight containers. It will
keep for a week.
Nut butters: Nut butters go in the pantry until opened, but then need to
be stored in the refrigerator. Some good peanut butter brands are Arrowhead
Mills, Laura Scudder ’s, and Smucker ’s Natural Chunky. At E2 we also like
MaraNatha, which contains no trans fat, hydrogenated oils, or preservatives.
MaraNatha also comes in other varieties such as almond, cashew, and
macadamia.
Ground flaxseed meal: In order to get the benefit of flaxseeds, you
must either grind them yourself, or buy preground meal at the store. Either
way, be sure to refrigerate or freeze to keep from going rancid.
Nutritional yeast: This low-fat, low-sodium, deactivated yeast can be
used instead of cheese in many recipes.
Herbs: Fresh parsley, cilantro, mint, dill, and arugula are my personal
favorites.
Undr essed salads:  I highly recommend keeping prewashed greens in
the fridge for easy access and availability: baby spinach, mustard greens,
collard greens, romaine lettuce, and other bagged, ready-to-eat packaged
greens.
Raw nuts and seeds: Stock walnuts, cashews, almonds, pistachios,
peanuts, and pumpkin and sesame seeds—but avoid roasted and salted
varieties containing added oil and sodium. Keep your nuts in the fridge or
freezer. Personally, I keep mine in the side compartment door of the freezer.
Even though nuts are nutrient dense, they are also dense in fat—almost 80
percent—and are little calorie bombs. Therefore, limit your nut intake to
half a handful a day if you’re trying to lose weight or drop your cholesterol.
Your favorite fr esh vegetables, gr eens, and fruits: Not only are they
all great for you, but they put a rainbow of color in your refrigerator!
All your  wonderful E2 leftovers!
E2-APPROVED FOODS TO KEEP  IN YOUR FREEZER
Fruits and vegetables:  A fail-safe backup to fresh! I’ll typically keep
several bags of berries, peaches, blueberries, mangoes, corn, peas, bell
peppers, broccoli, and spinach.Meat substitutes:  Boca Bur gers, Gardenbur ger Chik’n Grill, Yves Hot
Dogs, and all meat crumbles.
Breads: Personally, I like to store most of my bread products in the
freezer, such as whole grain pitas, bagels, English muf fins, pizza crusts,
waffles, and tortillas. They all thaw in a jif f and toast up nicely in a matter
of two minutes. (Certainly plenty of people keep their breads in the
refrigerator as well.)
Tofu, drained: I like to keep one or two blocks of tofu in the freezer
when I want some variety in the taste and texture in my tofu. Be sure to take
it out the night before and let it thaw in the refrigerator.
Frozen hash br own potatoes:  These are great in breakfast tacos, as a
snack, or added to a casserole. Some brands I like are Bel-air, Cascadian
Farm, 365, and Pacific Valley Foods Fat-Free French Fry potatoes.
Sorbet: If you want a cold dessert, sorbet is a much healthier choice
than most other frozen desserts. It contains plenty of sugar, but a little
sorbet after a meal can be refreshing and tasty. Some brands I suggest are
Cascadian Farm, Dole, Ben & Jerry’ s, Häagen-Dazs, Real Fruit Co., and
Turtle Mountain’ s Sweet Nothings popsicles. My mother, Ann, is
particularly fond of the fruit-sweetened Soy Delicious brand frozen yogurts.
Soy Delicious also makes a wonderful Mint Chocolate Chip frozen
nondairy ice cream.
E2- NOT -APPROVED FOODS TO REMOVE FROM YOUR
KITCHEN
I’m not saying you have to throw these foods out—but I’ve found that if
bad foods are in sight, you’re more likely to eat them. So I recommend that
if you don’ t want to toss them, at least store the nonperishables in a closet,
ask a neighbor to hold on to them, or donate them to a worthwhile
organization. Keep in mind the old adage: Out of sight, out of mouth.
The foods you’ll think about tossing are all the animal-based products,
oils, and canned and packaged goods that contain more than 2.5 grams of
fat per 100 calories.
All food (canned, boxed, frozen) containing more than 2.5 grams of
fat per 100 calories.
Meat: All foods containing meat, animal fat, or meat stock.Dairy: All foods containing dairy, including cheese, milk, yogurt,
butter, ice cream, sour cream, and cof fee creamers.
Cheese substitutes: They contain too much fat and sodium, and many
include casein, a dairy protein.
Oil: All foods containing oil, including mayonnaise, salad dressing,
olive and canola oils, and sauces.
Refined sugars and high-fructose corn syrups: mixes, sauces, sodas,
candy, and cookies.
Processed grains: white flour, white rice, and white pasta.
TOOLS TO KEEP  IN YOUR KITCHEN
The items below can be found very af fordably at your local next-to-new
shop.
Knives: butcher, paring, and tomato
Serrated spoon
Spatulas—one for flipping pancakes and tofu, one for scraping
mixing bowls
Wooden stirring spoons
Soup ladle
Salad tongs
Long-handled tongs (just the thing for tortillas and roasting peppers)
Potato masher
Garlic press
Citrus squeezer (handheld)
Grater/zester (microplane)
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Cutting boards
Colander
Sieve (perfect for smaller grains such as quinoa)
Steamer
Three mixing bowls: small, medium, lar ge
Canisters (for storing rice, oats, cereals, and legumes)
Storage containers (T upperware and Ziploc-type bags)
Nonstick pans with lids (lar ge skillet, soup pot, saucepan)Baking sheet
Casserole dish
Muffin tin, nonstick
Loaf pan, nonstick
Rice cooker
Blender
Cuisinart-type food processor
Mini-Cuisinart (optional for small jobs and easy cleanup)
Immersion blender (for soups—inexpensive and well worth it)
Toaster oven (for bread, sweet potatoes, wraps, corn in the husk)
HANDY  E2 KITCHEN TIPS
Cutting, Slicing, and Chopping
Leave the skins on your vegetables for maximum nutrition. Most skins
are edible and delicious, but make sure to scrub them first to remove dirt,
wax, and pesticides.
Chop and slice vegetables, onions, and root vegetables into dif ferent
shapes for a more interesting presentation and varied taste. Beets, for
example, can be sliced into thin or thick circles, diced into cubes, or
shredded raw for salads and garnishes.
Smaller shapes cook more quickly. For example, take care not to cook
shredded carrots for as long as you would carrot circles.
Stir-Frying
Stir-frying is the process of cooking food quickly in a superheated skillet
or wok. Ingredients are added in rapid succession, with just a few stirs after
each one. The finishing touch is either Bragg Liquid Aminos, low-sodium
tamari, or a homemade mirin sauce. At E2 we are really crazy about our
mirin sauce as superb enhancement to our stir -fries. To make it, use a few
tablespoons of mirin (a Japanese sweet wine); a tablespoon of low-sodium
tamari mixed with a tablespoon of citrus juice; a teaspoon of sweetener; and
a few teaspoons of cornstarch.
Combine these sauce ingredients in a small bowl and add them to the
cooking vegetables just a minute before you remove the vegetables from the
heat. Cook and stir for a moment or two until the al dente (slightly firm)
vegetables are coated with the thickened, savory sauce.Sautéing
Engine 2 foods are not sautéed in the traditional way (in a pan swimming
with olive oil or butter). At the firehouse we always start with a good
quality nonstick skillet or seasoned cast-iron skillet. A few quick shots of a
cooking spray will allow food to cook without sticking. We also like to skip
the spray and sauté with vegetable broth, orange juice, carrot juice, or
simply water. At home, Jill and I also like to use wine and beer (the station
is alcohol-free).
Steaming
Steaming means you don’ t boil all the nutrients and fiber out of your
vegetables! Buy a little steamer basket. Place it in a soup pot or lar ge skillet
and fill with enough water to barely reach the bottom of the steamer basket.
Once the water


 just to turn a page!
What is on the hands that you don't want to eat but can't see?
Bacteria  and viruses  from coughing and sneezing into your
hands! And cysts! Cysts are the “eggs” made by parasites. Cysts
are so tough not even bleach  kills them. They hide under our
fingernails when we wash our hands. Then we eat them along
with our food. This is called oral-fecal route. They hatch in the
stomach and go to the intestine to live.
To stop reinfecting yourself the little cysts under the nails
need to be killed. Food grade alcohol solution kills them. Buy
EverclearTM or Protec (potable) alcohol and make a 5% solution
(add ¼ cup of 95% alcohol to a quart of water). Keep it in a
small pump bottle at the sink. After using the bathroom and
washing your hands, treat your fingernails with alcohol. Pump
alcohol into one palm. Put the fingernails of the other hand intoTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
398it. Scratch a bit. Pour it into the other palm and do the remaining
fingernails. Rinse.
•Don't  eat with your hands! Use a fork.
•Never  eat food off the floor!
•Always  wash hands after petting an animal!
•Never  touch the bottoms of shoes! Keep shoes off couch or
bed or chair.
•Always  cough or sneeze into your clothing or a tissue, not
your hands.
•Keep  your fingers out of your mouth. Don't lick your fin gers
to turn pages or open plastic bags.
Sick persons need a 50% alcohol solution. Add ½ cup 95%
alcohol to ½ cup cold tap water or buy plain vodka, 80 to 100
proof. Pour the vodka into the pump bottle. Be careful that no-
body tries drinking it. If there are teenagers in the house, add a
hefty dose of cayenne  to it.
Lugol’s  iodine  will also sterilize your hands. However most
commercial Lugol’s is polluted with isopropyl alcohol. Ask your
pharmacist to make it from scratch for you (there are only two
ingredients and water, see Recipes ). Then make a solution to
wash in (1 tsp. to a quart of water). This can stain some things.
Do not use “tincture of iodine.”
Better Laundry Habits
Boil your underwear. In long-ago days, all sheets, towels,
table cloths, and underwear were separated  and boiled.
With the convenience of our electric washing machine, we
tend to overlook the fact that underwear is always  contaminated
by fecal matter and urogenital secretions and excretions. Mixing
these with socks and towels and dishcloths is all right if you areEASY LIFESTYLE IMPROVEMENTS
399going to kill everything anyway. But if you don't kill them, as in
cold water washes, you are mixing the yeast, parasite eggs,
bacterial spores, and fungus from underwear with all the other
clothing you and your family wear. An enlightened system would
be to add an antiseptic  to the wash or rinse cycle. Lime water
(calcium  hydroxide) or iodine  based antiseptics seem ob viously
simple methods to accomplish this. In the absence of this
protection, use dryer heat to do your sterilizing. Underwear
should be dried until too hot to handle.
Bleach can kill a lot, but doesn't kill Giardia  spores and  a lot
of types of fungus. Don't rely on bleaching. Besides, your skin
absorbs it from clothing, it is quite toxic to you, and can cause
mental effects.
Commercial detergents are polluted with PCBs and have
cobalt  added. Both of these are easily picked up through your
skin. Use washing soda  and borax  in the wash cycle. They do
not clean quite as well as modern detergents, but there is less
static cling, eliminating the need to put more chemicals in your
dryer. For spot removal use homemade bar soap.
Better Kitchen Habits
Once a day, sterilize the sponge  or cloth you use to wipe
up the table, counter tops and sink. This little piece of contami-
nated cloth is the most infectious thing in the house, besides the
toilet. It's more dangerous than the toilet because you do not
suspect it. Sometimes it has a slight odor at first, which may
warn you, but most pathogens do not have an odor! As we wipe
up droplets of milk, we give the milk bacteria, Salmonellas  and
Shigellas, a new home to multiply and thrive in. We add crumbs,
picking up molds this way. We add dust, picking up parasite eggs
and stages. They all feed on the milk and food residue.THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
400As the counter and table and stove get wiped “clean” a film
of contamination is left everywhere. A few varieties may die but
most of them don't. The general moisture in the kitchen is enough
for them to survive. The cloth or sponge recolonizes the kitchen
and dining room table several times a day.
No doubt, the last thing you do before leaving the kitchen is
squeeze it dry with your hands. Now all the pathogens are on
your hands!
Where do your fingers go? To your mouth to remove a hull or
bit of something from your teeth. Or to eat a last bite of
something. Or to turn a page of the telephone directory. You have
just eaten a culture sampling from your own kitchen sponge. In
two hours they are already multiplying in the greatest culture
system of all: your body! You have given yourself your next sore
throat, or cold or headache. The worst possible habit is to wipe a
child's face  and hands with the kitchen cloth. Or to have a handy
towel hanging from the refrigerator handle.
To sterilize the sponge: drop it into a 50% solution of grain
alcohol  at the end of each day. Keep a wide mouth glass quart jar
handy just for this. Keep the jar tightly closed and out of the
reach of children. Dunk your sponge and plop it onto the sink. If
you stand it on end in the sink it will partly dry over night.
Another way to sterilize the sponge or cloth is to micro wave
it, after wetting it, for 3 minutes. Any shorter time simply warms
and cultures  the pathogens and multiplies them. Or boil the cloth
like our grandparents did. Drying out the dish cloth helps kill
many–but not all–pathogens. It takes three days of drying to kill
all! Another strategy is to use a fresh cloth  or sponge each day,
putting the used one to dry until laundry day.
During the day, set the sponge on end to start drying and slow
down culturing.EASY LIFESTYLE IMPROVEMENTS
401Don't eat food directly off the counter top or table top.
You wouldn't slice a tomato or egg directly on the counter top. It
would pick up something: some little particle of dust or dirt.
Treat bread the same way. Always on a new clean surface, such
as a plate. The counter and table top have on them whatever is in
the kitchen dust and on the wipe cloth. Dust is always falling!
And the sponge is always culturing. Don't eat the dust!
Keep the cutting board sterile like dishes.  Wash it the same
way and keep it in the cupboard.
Keep food containers closed.  Milk or water glasses are
picking up dust as soon as you set them  out. Dust is every where.
Every step on the carpet sends up a puff of dust. Vac uuming
sends up a hurricane of dust and distributes bathroom dust to the
kitchen and kitchen dust to the bedrooms. So if one person has
brought in a new infection, the whole family is ex posed to it in
hours via the dust.
It is very helpful not to eat  the new infectious pathogen.
Breathing it is not so damaging. Our noses collect such patho gens
and we blow them out again. Touching the infected person is not
very damaging either; the pathogens can't get through our skins
and since we wash hands before eating we are not at great risk of
infection this way. But eating  the pathogen is 100% ef fective in
infecting us. The new pathogen is in the dust. The newly
contaminated dust drops into your ready and waiting glasses on
the table and the open foods. Of course, there is no defense if
somebody should cough or sneeze at the table.
Teach children to cough and sneeze into a suitable col-
lecting place like a tissue, not their hands. Pathogens live
bountifully on hands. Hands not only provide moisture but often
food from the last meal. Hands are second only to the dish cloth
in contamination level. If you must cough or sneeze and a tissue
is not within reach fast enough, use your clothing! That's what
clothing is for—to protect you. Cough and sneeze into your own
clothing; this protects the cougher and sneezer, as well as eve-THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
402rybody else. A sleeve is handy for


 money, or at
the very least security and comfort. Love gets left behind because it won’ t
bring material rewards, at least not as clearly as unloving tactics will.
Money and power require toughness, the willingness to fight for what you
want. You are better off having  a killer instinct, not a loving heart, if you
pursue these things. Security and comfort also require looking out for
number one. In this case one has become two; nothing else has changed.
Undoubtedly mutual ego needs  have a place in every relationship. The
real problem occurs when they obliterate the tender growth of love in its
spiritual aspect. Long before we fall in love, we know more than enough
about our needs. Acquiring an ally to fulfill them isn’t the same as getting
free from  them.  Only love can free us, because its truth is an antidote to
fear. The cynical claim that what people really want is money, power, and
security falls apart once we look deeper. The exhilaration of falling in love
is an escape from ego, its sense of threat, and its selfishness. This escape is
what we really  want. Whatever rewards it brings, the ego cannot do two
things: it cannot abolish fear, since ego is founded on fear; and it cannot
create love, since ego by definition shuts out love.
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you
cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you
follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
You will have to surrender to another person, and the ego prizes its own will
above anyone else’s. Love will make your feelings ambiguous, and the ego
wants to feel the certainty of right and wrong. Many other experiences that
cannot be comprehended by ego apply to love—a lover is confused,
spontaneous, vulnerable, expose d, detached, carefree, wondrous, and ever
new.Love’ s journey would be terrifying if we didn’ t have passion to give us
courage—the blind courage of lovers, it is often called. It would be truer to
call it the blind wisdom of lovers, because the ego’s certainty is an illusion.
Uncertainty is the basis of life.
OceanofPDF.comLOVING  PRACTICE
Unpeeling the Layers of Love
ONE OF THE most valuable things you can learn about yourself is what you
mean by the words “I love you.” The meaning you impart is complex
because it contains you. Your past associations with love, your childhood
imprints, your unspoken expectations and beliefs are all packaged in
language. Thus “I love you” expands into
“I love you the way my father loved my mother before they got divorced.”
“I love you as long as you don’ t get too close.”
“I love you more than Romeo loved Juliet, but please don’ t ask me to die.”
“I love you the way the high school football captain didn’ t love me.”
Words become more personal the more emotional they are. Since “I love
you” is the most emotional phrase in our language, it includes many
feelings that you might never openly refer to, particularly painful ones. The
meanings that get overlooked in everyday speech can be brought to the
surface through the technique of association, which is the basis of this
practice.
PART ONE
Sit down with a pencil and paper and record your answers to this question.
What’ s the first name that comes to mind when you think of each of the
following words?
Saintly
Passionate
Kind
Adventurous
Beautiful
Courageous
Tender
LoyalHandsome
Selfless
Strong
Funny
Genius
Innocent
Admirable
Talented
Generous
Adorable
Naturally no two people produce anything like the same list of answers,
but there are definite profiles of how lists are formed. Out of eighteen
possible choices
If mor e than eight of your r esponses wer e fictional, you have a strong
fantasy component to your definition of love. This also holds true if
movie and TV stars figure prominently on your list. Y ou probably see
a “perfect” lover as unattainable but intensely desirable. Y ou look for
external beauty before intrinsic qualities. Y ou probably do not see
yourself as beautiful, fascinating, or very worthy of the attention of
people you admire.
If mor e than eight of your r esponses wer e people you’ve never met,
you have a strong streak of idealism in your definition of love. Y ou
may be dependent on hero worship to give you strength; you
unconsciously see a lover as a rescuer, provider, tower of strength,
father figure, or authority.
If mor e than five of your r esponses ar e your father or mother, you have
not formed a strong sense of love on your own but look to childhood
models.
If mor e than five of your r esponses ar e “me,” you are not honestly
answering the quiz, indicating fear or insecurity about being loved.
If mor e than five of your r esponses ar e the same name, you are
probably in love with that person.
If your spouse doesn’ t appear in your answers at least thr ee times, you
haven’ t fully confronted your doubts about your relationship. Opening
new lines of communication is in order.
PART TWOAssociation is a remarkably telling thing. In a classic experiment from the
1920s, a Russian filmmaker named Lev Kuleshov projected some simple
images—a bowl  of soup, a coffin, and a baby playing with a teddy bear—
and after each image the blank face of a man looking at the camera. When
this sequence was shown, audiences “read” all kinds of meaning into the
man’ s expression. When it appeared after the bowl of soup, they thought he
was hungry; after the coffin, he was afraid of dying; and after the baby, he
felt love. These interpretations show just how powerful association can be.
The way your mind ties things together by association is often just as
misleading. The fact is that we rarely see people for who they are; we see
them by association with people from our past. For exampl e, we carry
around in our heads the physical images of our parents and match them to
everyone we meet. Too close a resemblance provokes associations, good
and bad, that have nothing to do with these new people and everything to do
with our own mental processes.
I mentioned earlier that false love operates by projection, displacing your
own feelings upon another. In the Kuleshov experiment, if a viewer of the
film said that the man with the blank face hated the baby, proje ction was at
work. But there is also a different kind of projection, based on your own
desires. You might see someone as trustworthy, for example, because you
need him to be that way (a reflection of having been betrayed in the
formative past), and no matter how many times that person proves that he
cannot be trusted, you will continue to project your need upon him.
Jealousy involve s extremes of projection and is difficult to dispel, since an
innocent look or an innocent word can so easily be misinterpreted.
If you resort to projection a lot, you will tend to exhibit the following
behavior:
You finish people’ s sentences for them.
You act defensive before being accused.
You use verbal formulas such as “He’ s the kind of person who” and “I just know she’ s going to.”
You ask someone’ s opinion and then get angry if it disagrees with yours.
You have a hard time reading other people’ s faces.
You frequently feel misunderstood.
You see threat in the faces of authority figures like policemen, or feel that your boss secretly
dislikes you, even though she has never said so.
You believe that when your spouse looks at another man (ot woman), sexual interest is being
shown.
You harbor extreme likes or dislikes for people you barely know.Getting rid of projection is critical if you want to be able to tell true love
from false, as either the giver or the receiver.
Projection always hides a feeling you don’ t want to look at.
If you examine any negative trait you insist is present in anothe r person,
you will find the same trait hidin g in yourself. The more you deny this trait,
the more strongly you will have  to project it. Thus if you habitu ally defend
yourself before being accused, you feel guilty. That guilt needs  to be faced
in order to stop the projection. If you feel that the man or woman you love
is consta ntly looking at others with sexual interest, you are the one who
cannot be trusted. If you think your boss secretly hates you, look at the
possibility that you have hidden rage against authority. The following
exercise is a good step toward honest self-evaluation.
Make a list of three people whom you intensely dislike, disapprove of, or
have had strong  conflicts with. Put down four qualities for each that you
find most of fensive. A typical list might look like this:
Father -in-law:  arrogant, greedy, small-minded, bullheaded
Boss : unfair, temperamental, unappreciative of my work, inef ficient
Hitler:  sadistically cruel, hateful, prejudiced, fanatical
Now look at the list, and for each trait say, “I acted like that when I...”
Finish the sentence with an example of your own behavior. When were you
arrogant? When  were you greedy


i tries
to clear a path for feeling, removing “unnecessary things ” from his
mind so that he can actua lly experience the bedrock of inner
satisfaction that all the ancient scriptures declare to be our
birthright. Whenever a person succeeds in joining head and heart,
that is Yoga. The reward of this union is immense: every moment
will become the best in the person’s life.
A yogi balance s the qualities of intellect and feeling, but I often
think of him as a protester on behalf of the heart. Surrounded by
people (even in India) who pursue achievement without gaining
fulllment, he chooses fulllment rst. He will not let the mind rob
him of the subtle feelings of joy that come as freely as leaves blown
by the wind and are as easily swept away.
The Mystery of Elaine
I sat on the edge of the emergency stretcher looking down at
Elaine in baement. It was midnight, and we had just had her
rushed from our clinic to the hospital with uncontrollable vomiting
and severe abdominal bleed ing. The crisis had erupted with little
warning.
When Elaine became my patient two weeks earlier, her complaint
had been menorrhagia, or excessive menstrual bleeding. This
condition, which caused acute pain during her periods and lasted
for as long as fteen days a month, had persisted for more than a
decade. There was also a secondary complaint, which, combined
with the rst, made her mysterious in my eyes. Althoug h she had
never given birth, Elaine spontaneously secreted milk from her
breasts, a condition called galactorrhea.
Medically speaking, these two symptoms are contradic tions of
each other. A particular pituitary hormone, prolactin, could have
caused her milk secretions, but another major eect of prolactin is
to stop the period. To compound matters, Elaine’s tests failed to
reveal any abnormalities in her hormone levels. I had beenpondering various explanations for her condition when she suddenly
suered this midnight attack.
The young Indian doctor who was on call at our clinic that night
had sounded panicky when he phoned me, reporting that Elaine had
vomited twenty times in less than three hours. He notice d a droop
in her left eyelid and a slight facial tic, which made him fear some
kind of brain incident. He guessed that a tiny tumor, probably in the
pituitary, was beginning to hemorrhage, and he therefore had had
no choice but to get her into an ambulance as fast as possible.
Now Elaine was no longer in pain and lay on the stretcher
sedated. Her symptoms had receded as unexpectedly as they had
begun, and a CAT scan, much to my relief, disclosed no sign of a
brain tumor. Incredibly, her entire sheaf of test results still indicated
that she was perfectly healthy. Nothing made any sense.
As Elaine slept, I looked down at her worn, drawn face. It
occurred to me that this was the most relaxed I had ever seen her. In
her rst oce visit she had presented herself as a secure, successful
businesswoman. She owned her own public relations rm, with
twenty employees under her (they were all men, she took pains to
inform me). Whatever lay beneath this condent persona, I wasn’t
going to nd it that night. I scheduled an oce appointm ent on her
chart and in the meantime called her family doctor in Houston to
see if he could clue me in. He was not encouraging.
“Elaine?” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with her, not that I
have ever been able to nd. She has had about sixty of these attacks
in the past ten years”—Elaine had neglected to tell me that when
she came up to Boston—“and I recently told her that there was
nothing more I could do.”
I asked him for his best guess at an accurate diagnosis. “Hysteria,”
he shot back. “No doubt in my mind. You’ll never be able to shake
her of this thing, but good luck trying.” With obvious satisfaction he
abruptly ended the conversation.
The next morning I asked Elaine about the previous attacks.
Looking embarrassed, she admitted that these had occurred o and
on for fteen years, dating from when she rst got married. Did she
have a happy marriage? She turned red and looked away. “I wasraised a strict Catholic, and I feel I have a duty to remain in this
marriage. Happy? My husband treats me very well, and I respect
him as a good man.” It turned out that because of a preexisting
organic condition, her husband had never been able to have
intimate relations with her. She described their current relationship
as caring and close but platonic.
“Do you know what your doctor in Houston thinks is wrong with
you?” I asked.
She answered angrily, “He thinks I’m hysterical, of course. I’m
sure he told you that.”
“Do you know  what is mean t by the term hysteria?” I asked. She
admitted that she had only a vague idea. “I’m not a psychiatrist,” I
said, “but in layman’s terms, an hysteric is someone who is the
victim of self-deception. He presents all the signs of a physical
illness and is completely convinced by them, yet no one else can
nd a ‘real’ cause for his symptoms. On the other hand,  deceiving
yourself can also be considered a real cause in its own way.”
Whereas the word “hysteric” had deeply oended her, I noticed
that Elaine looked interested in the line of explanation we were now
pursuing. “People nd numerous reasons for deceiving themselves,”
I continued. “You’ve already mentioned that your marriage lacks
certain types of normal fulllment, such as having sexual relations
with your husband and becoming a mother. Your doctor has
concluded that your symptoms are basically born out of frustration.
I don’t know how frankly you can talk to your husband, but I’m sure
you’ve made all these connections on your own already.”
She said nothing, which I took to be assent. She was extremely
startled, howe ver, by my next words. “You’re not an hysteric,
Elaine. I think there’s a aw in your doctor’s reasoning. The fact is
that you are quite conscious of what is missing in your life, which is
not true of a deeply deceived  person. I would feel more comfortable
if we dropped the psycholog ical jargon and looked at your problem
much more directly.”
“What do you mean?” she asked nervously.
“Let’s start with a very basic thing,” I replied. “How do you feel at
this moment?”“Right now?”
“Yes. What word would describe Elaine right now?”
“Empty,” she said without hesitation. “But I have lived with that
for a long, long time.”
“Why?” I asked.
She looked at me hard. “Do you think I have a choice? That’s just
the way I feel.”
“Does feeling that way make you happy?” I asked.
“You may not believe this,” she said, “but I think I’m basically as
happy as the next person.”
“Really?” I asked. “You just said you feel empty much of the time.
A lot of people  feel that way, or are afraid that they feel that way,
but a lot of people don’t.”
“How do you feel?” she asked.
“Can’t you tell?”
“Well, no. How could I?”
“I’m giving it o.”
“You are?”
“Sure,” I said. “In my tone of voice, the look in my eyes, and in
many other subtle ways, I give o feelings, just as you and all other
people do. We are having a conversation in feelings, though it may
be taking place below the verbal level. Right now I feel interested in
you. I am worried about why we can’t explain what is happening to
you, and at the same time I must admit that I am excited by
exploring your emotions. It’s an intimate moment.”
Elaine didn’t comment. “Can’t you sense those feelings?” I urged.
“Don’t you have much the same ones?” She nodded her head
reluctantly.
“Like an underground stream, the life of feeling keeps running
on,” I said, “even when the mind denies it. You aren’t empty, but
you have an idea that you are. This is the split that is causing so
much confusion. We know that you have a full range of feelings,
both powerful and subtle, because your body is expressing them as
symptoms. However, these feelings have not registered clearly in
your mind. Perhaps there is too much frustration for you to easilycope with, or on the other hand too much happiness. Have you ever
considered that?”
She looked completely disbelieving. “Too much happiness? Are
you joking?”
“The feelings we are told not to have as children become  lost on
us as adults. The child inside you could be roaring with laughter or
wild with ecstasy, but if you have learned that roaring and going
wild are not permitted, you won’t experience those feelings directly
—you will nd a substitute feeling that is more acceptable, like
being proud of your work.”
“But I am


. Someti mes that dark night of the soul teaches ussome very important things about ourselves—about who we’ve been, and
who we choose to be now; about where we got it right, and where we got it
wrong. Spiritually healthy peopl e are those who take responsibility for their
mistakes, atone for their errors, do what they can to make things right, and
allow for giveness and mercy to wash them clean.
If you’re  like the rest of us, of course you’ve screwed up royally at one
point or another. But it doesn’ t serve you, or anyone else, for you to beat up
on yourself continually. Have appropriate remorse? Yes. Grow  from your
mistakes and make things right as best you can? Yes. But stay stuck in the
mire of self-hat red? Absolutely not. We may have made mistakes in our
past, but we’re not bound by those mistakes in the present—as long as
we’re willing to think now as we did not think then, act now as we did not
act then, clean up in the present what needs to be cleaned up from the past,
and be now who we were not then.

WHEN WE TAKE full responsibility for the places where we know in our
hearts we underperformed in the past, or acted without integrity, or failed to
respect opportunities and abund ance that once were ours, we experience the
miracle of the Atonement. Atonement is a mental process throug h which we
correct our perceptions, thus changing the trajectory of probabilities that
unfold as a result.
Atonement is like a spiritual reset button. It is a gift from God, providing
us the opportunity to clear the karma of past mistakes by owning them,
taking responsib ility for them, admitting them, making amends for them,
and doing whatever is possible to change the patterns of behavior that
created the situation that now causes us shame.
We recognize past errors and pray, “I am willing to be different than I was
before. Please show me how.” The universe then corrects all limitations
caused by our wrong-minded thinking. Guilt dissolves from our mind as
thoughts of mercy and love replace it.
Buddha described the Law of Karma, or Cause and Effect: for every
action there is a reaction. Therefore, if we acted without wisdom, suffering
is to be expected. Jesus, some five hundred years later, revealed the
alchemy of God’ s mercy, which  posits that in a moment of grace, all karma
is burned, and all debts are paid and forgiven. From Catholics at confession,to Jews on the Day of Atonement, to people taking their moral inventory at
a twelve -step meeting, the notion of the Atonement is part of the wisdom
teachings of all the major religious and spiritual systems of the world.
Atonement can bring a profound level of humbling—as we sit before piles
of credit card bills and face the uncomfortable realization that we should
have been more responsible, or we think back on what got us fired and
know in our hearts that we ourselves were the problem. Perhaps we played
into the drunken maelstrom of financial headiness that characterized the last
few decades in our society. Perhaps we bought too much, saved too little, or
were otherwise cavalier about money or frivolous in how we dealt with it.
Atonement gives us the power to forgive ourselves; it gives us back our
self-respect. We’ve done whatever we could to right our wrongs, and the
tenderness of a merciful universe opens up for us in ways we might never
have imagined.
There is no mistake you’ve ever made that can’t be divinely corrected, as
long as you acknowledge whate ver mistaken thoughts led to the error and
surrender them to God.
In A Cours e in Miracles,  we’re told to go back to the moment when the
error occurred, admit that we didn’t allow God’ s spirit to guide our decision
at the time, but remember that we can choose again now. And that is what
we do: we place  that moment in the hands of God and know that we need
not feel guilty, because “He will undo all consequences of our wrong
decision if we will let Him.”
Miracles transce nd the laws of time and space. In the miraculous present,
mistakes of the past are undone.
The time it takes for the materia l world to reflect our shift from fear-based
to miracle-mind ed thinking is symbolized in the Old Testament by the forty
years it took for the Israelites, after fleeing their slave condition, to reach
the Promised Land. It is expressed in the New Testament by the three days
after the crucifixion before Jesus rose. In the biblical stories of both Moses
and Jesus, the mind of one close to God became a cond uit for the
reconstruction of the mortal world. We, too, through the power of our
thinking, can radically shift our experience of the world.
God loves us the same when we do the wise thing as when  we make
mistakes. His love for us is based not on our behavior but on who we are,
and He knows who we are—innocent within—because He made us thatway. When we make a mistake, it’s because in the moment we make it we
forget who we are, and His response to that is not to punish us but to correct
us.
This doesn’ t mean you don’t have to do anything to make things right; in
fact, any lesson you might have failed to learn before, you will have to learn
now. The mercy of the universe lies in the fact that you are given the
opportunity to do that. You might not get a bigger paycheck right away; you
might have to humble yourself and make do with less for a while. You
might not be Mr. or Ms. Big Shot in a new position; you might have to be
brought down a few notches before you can make your next big move up.
But you will see the handwriting of God in all of it, if you participate in—
rather than resist—the balancing of the spiritual scales. You will know in
your heart that this is a good thing, and you will be glad to earn your way
back into the abundant realm. Once you have reclaimed your inner
prosperity, the universe will begin the process of reclaiming it externally.
You are internal ly programmed to rise to your highest creative possibility.
Nothing you do can erase the yearning of your soul to achieve it, or the
yearning of the universe to give it to you. No deviation from love—on your
part or anyone else’s—can keep the universe from its divine intention that
your life be one of fullness and joy.
According to A Course in Miracles,  any miracle you might have deflected
is “held in trust for you until you are ready to receive it.” The universe has
an inbui lt insurance policy. Whatever you have lost is programm ed to return
—in another form, in another situation, in another town, or with other
people, perhaps, but through the power of atonement, it will return.

Dear God,
I feel that I have failed.
I feel that all my efforts have come to naught.
I feel shame at the way my life has turned out.
I do not know what to do or wher e to go.
Please, dear God, r epair my heart,
Heal my mind, and change my life.
Pave a way for me out of darkness into light.
I atone for my err ors, and I pray for for giveness.Please do for me what I cannot do.
Thank you, God.
Amen.
OceanofPDF.comChapter 7
Facing Our Prejudice
Another way we deflect wealth is through the unrecognizable belief that
it’s not really okay  to have  money. Just as some  people are prejudiced
against the poor, some are prejudiced against the rich.
I suppor t the Occupy Wall Street movement, because over the last few
decades there has been a systematic dismantling of the appropriate
guarantees of economic justice in the United States. But I noticed, among a
few of the Occupiers I met, that their passion seemed to be less an
enthusiasm for the rights of all people to participate in the engine of
economic prosperity and more a knee-jerk criticism of anyone who does.
This then leaves the movement open to all kinds  of erroneous criticism—
that supp orters of Occupy are anti-rich, and so forth. That’ s hardly the case.
The message isn’t that people shouldn’ t be able to get rich in America; it’s
that the playing field should be so level that with enough hard work anyone
can! And money should be able to buy a lot of things in America; it just
shouldn’ t be able to buy our government.

As long as we’r e making money righteously, we’r e not
only r eceiving a blessing but also extending one to others.

No matter how much we strug gle for financial abundance, we’ll have a
hard time attaini ng it if we disapprove of those who have it. If we’re saying
one thing but thinking another, we’ll always end up with confused results.
Many people set themselves up to lose, working hard yet giving anambivalent message to the universe about whether or not they really want
money.
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cubes and place in a bowl.
2. Mix the orange and lemon juice together
and pour over the mango and
pineapple.
3. Peel, seed and halve the avocados.
Place on plates and scoop fruit into
each half.
4. Garnish with strawberries and serve.
Peri-Peri Chicken or Turkey
and Prawn Mango Salad
(Nigerian)I tried this for the first time at a friend’s
dinner party and I just had to include it
in this book.
Serves 4
 2 (200 g) chicken breasts (or turkey)
 225 g large king prawns
 Peri-peri sauce
 2 large mangos, firm and ripe
 2 large avocados, firm and ripe
 2 sweet red peppers (pimento)
 200 g cherry tomatoes
 Rocket salad
 ½ red onion
Dressing 2 tbsp olive oil
 1 lime, juiced
 1 bunch coriander, chopped
 Salt and pepper to taste
1. Cut the chicken into strips.
2. Marinate the chicken and prawns in
peri peri sauce.
3. Sauté the prawns until cooked.
4. Grill or bake the chicken until cooked
through, then set aside to cool.
5. Cut the mangos and avocados into
strips. Chop the red peppers and cut the
tomatoes in half.
6. Wash the rocket leaves and place in a
bowl. Add all the other ingredients.
7. Mix the olive oil, lime juice, coriander,
salt and pepper. Pour over the saladand toss.
Thai Tuna or Chicken Fruit
Salad
This salad is great with either tuna or
chicken. If your tastebuds cannot handle
chilli, use less or leave it out altogether.
Serves 4
 8 lettuce leaves (use different kinds)
 2 tbsp coriander, chopped
 2 tbsp fresh mint, chopped
 1 orange, peeled and sectioned
 1 can tuna or 1 chicken breast, cooked
and shredded 225 g red seedless grapes, halved
 ½ cucumber, sliced
 1 small red onion, thinly sliced
Dressing
 Zest of 1 lime
 Juice of 2 limes
 3 garlic cloves
 2 serrano chillies, halved, seeded and
cut into pieces
 1½ tbsp fish or soy sauce
 1 tbsp honey or agave nectar
 5 tbsp cashews, chopped
1. Place half the lettuce in a bowl or on a
platter. Tear the rest of the lettuce
leaves into bite sizes and add to thebowl or platter.
2. Sprinkle the coriander and mint over
the lettuce leaves.
3. Add the orange, tuna or chicken, grapes,
cucumber and red onion. Refrigerate
this while you make the dressing.
4. Grate the lime zest into a blender or
food processor. Add the garlic,
chillies, lime juice, fish or soy sauce
and honey or agave, and blend until
smooth.
5. Pour the dressing over the salad.
Garnish with cashews and serve.
Indonesian Rice Salad
Adjust the sweetness of the dressing to
your own personal taste.Serves 4–6
 250 g brown rice, cooked
 5 tbsp peanut oil
 3 tbsp sesame oil
 1 orange, juiced
 1 garlic clove
 ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
 2 tbsp soy sauce
 1 tsp salt
 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
 1 can pineapple, crushed
 3 spring onions, chopped
 1 celery stalk, chopped
 110 g bean sprouts
 110 g raisins
 110 g peanuts, chopped 110 g cashew pieces
 2 tbsp sesame seeds
 1 green pepper, chopped
 1 red pepper, chopped
 225 g water chestnut, minced
1. Put the cooked rice in a large bowl.
2. Add the oils, orange juice, garlic,
cayenne pepper, soy sauce, salt,
vinegar
and pineapple and mix well.
3. Mix in the spring onions, celery,
sprouts, raisins, peanuts, cashews,
sesame seeds, peppers and water
chestnuts.
4. Refrigerate for 1 hour, allowing the
salad to chill and marinate.
 Sesame-Spinach Salad
(Shigmchi Namul – Korean)
Use this salad as an accompaniment to
grilled chicken or fish.
Serves 2–4
 200 g bag of spinach
 1 litre water
Dressing
 ¼ tsp salt (optional)
 ½ tsp honey or agave nectar
 1 tsp soy sauce
 2 tbsp sesame oil
 2 tsp sesame seeds1. Wash the spinach and remove the stems.
2. Bring the water with a little salt to a
boil. Blanch the spinach in the hot
water and then remove to an ice water
bath.
3. Drain the spinach when cool and
squeeze it by hand to remove excess
moisture. Transfer to a cutting board
and chop with a knife.
4. Mix the salt, honey or agave nectar, soy
sauce and sesame oil in a bowl, and set
aside.
5. Toss the spinach and dressing in a bowl
and garnish with sesame seeds.
Asian Twisted Rice Salad
A nutritious Asian salad that can beserved hot or cold.
Serves 4
 250 g brown or Thai rice, cooked
 1 carrot, chopped or shredded
 2 spring onions
 2 celery stalks, chopped
 1 apple, cored and chopped
 110 g Chinese peas cut horizontally
into 1 cm pieces
 50 g peanuts, chopped
Dressing
 8 tbsp olive oil
 2 tbsp soy sauce
 1 lemon or lime, juiced 1 tsp dark sesame oil
 1 garlic clove, crushed
1. Put all the vegetables and fruit in a
salad bowl and toss with the cooked
rice.
2. Sprinkle with half the nuts, leaving the
rest for garnishing.
3. Whisk the olive oil, soy sauce, lemon
juice, sesame oil and garlic in a small
bowl.
4. Add half the dressing to the salad and
taste. You might require more dressing
depending on the type of rice used.
5. Garnish with the remaining nuts.
Indian Tomato SaladThe dressing for this salad gives a divine
taste of India.
Serves 2
 4 tbsp olive or grapeseed oil
 2 tbsp wine vinegar
 1 lime, juiced
 1 garlic clove, crushed
 1 tsp Dijon mustard
 ¼ tsp ground cumin
 ¼ tsp salt
 ¼ tsp ground black pepper
 5 sprigs fresh mint, chopped
 2 large tomatoes, sliced
 1 red onion, thinly sliced
 ½ cucumber, thinly sliced1. In a large bowl, whisk together the oil,
vinegar, lime juice, garlic, mustard,
cumin, salt and pepper.
2. Stir in the mint. Add the tomatoes,
onion, and cucumber, and toss gently.
3. Garnish with additional mint leaves.
Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 hours.
4. Serve as a side dish with any meal. It
goes very well with chicken or salmon.
Greek Salad
Greek salad is a salad bar staple. When
it is prepared with proper ingredients it
encompasses everything that is good
about the simple food of the
Mediterranean.Serves 2
 1 head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-
sized pieces
 1 red onion, sliced
 1 cucumber, sliced
 4 tomatoes, sliced
 Kalamata olives
 Feta cheese, crumbled
Dressing
 4 tbsp olive oil
 1 lemon, juiced
 2 garlic cloves, crushed
 1 tsp dried oregano
1. Whisk together the oil, lemon, garlicand oregano, and set aside.
2. Put all the vegetables in a bowl. Add
the olives and cheese.
3. Pour the dressing over the salad and
toss.
4. Serve with pita and humous.
Apple and Spinach Salad
I prefer to use gala apples for this, but
any type of apple is fine except Granny
Smith’s.
Serves 2
 3 apples, peeled, cored and diced
 3 spring onions, chopped
 3 celery stalks, chopped 2 lemons, juiced
 4 tbsp mayonnaise
 4 tbsp tahini
 2 tbsp honey or agave nectar
 1 bunch spinach, torn into bite-sized
pieces (or 1 100 g bag)
 4 tbsp sesame seeds
1. Put the apples, onions and celery in a
large bowl. Sprinkle with the juice of 1
lemon to avoid discolouration, and set
aside.
2. In a blender or bowl, blend or whisk
the mayonnaise, tahini, honey or agave
and the remaining lemon juice until the
mixture thickens.
3. Mix into the salad. Cover and
refrigerate until it is time to serve.4. Just before serving, toss in the spinach
and garnish with sesame seeds.
Greek Sweet Potato Salad
Use an additional lemon if required.
Serves 2–4
 4 sweet potatoes
 1 red onion, sliced
 4 tbsp olive oil
 1 lemon, juiced
 2 celery stalks, chopped
 Salt and black pepper to taste
 5 sprigs parsley, chopped1. Boil the potatoes until tender