 the organism causes deceleration
in the growth of microorganisms. It becomes
easier for the immune system to track down and
kill anything alien and modified. If neither food,
nor dead, heavy water enters the organism, then
our blood actually doesn’t receive numerous
harmful substances, and the blood is constantly
cleansed by our organism, that is, blood with
practically the same composition is going to be
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over again, which mean s the blood is going to be
just about perfectly clean. During dry fasting the
blood is cleansed from all the unnecessary mat-
ter, and blood plasma becomes crystal clear, eve-
rything is harmonized, including coagulation
factors.
In this respect, dry fasting cleanses the blood
more thoroughly than hemodialysis or hemo-
sorption — mechanical blood purification.
Therefore, all the blood -related processes in our
organism are carried out almost perfectly. It’s all
very simple — that’s why our immune system
will get a magnificent rest.

Day 5. All our chronic illnesses, even those we
were unaware of, start to flare up.
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eases manifest through pain, and you have to be
prepared for that. You need to thank your or-
ganism for su ch a good healing job. If nausea ap-
pears, it helps to massage the abdomen and place
something cold on the liver area. If it’s difficult
for you to go for a walk, it’s better to lie down in
a calm cool place and listen to good classical mu-
sic. Due to the organism’s fight against ailments,
body temperature increases, and you may feel fe-
verish. Blood pressure may increase or decrease,
depending on the individual bodily characteris-
tics. You can take a cold shower, and spend more
time outside wearing lightweight  clothes or even
no clothes at all, regardless of the weather. If
there’s snow, you can walk on it barefoot.
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your blood pressure may fluctuate. Generally,
the weight loss during dry fasting varies from 1
to 2 kg, depending on the person’s initial weight
before the fast and on their physical activity. Of
course, every person is unique in their own way.
Dry fasting may pass in very different ways, but
I tried to describe the manifestations that I had
observed in the majority of patients.
Abdominal and spinal self -massage, cupping
massage is mandatory. From day 5 on, auto -di-
gestion processes start intensifying. Auto -diges-
tion is a property of biological subjects that al-
lows them to hydrolytically break down their
own structures with enzymes and phagocytes.
Fasting cases provide many examples of con-
trol that the organism exercises over the auto -
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pear proportionately to their usefulness — first,
fats and pathological grow ths, with other tissues
to follow. Every living being — from worm to
man — demonstrates that different organs and
tissues are very different in their weight loss ca-
pacity. Usually the liver loses twice as much
weight as the other body parts, especially dur ing
the initial period, due to the loss of glycogen and
fat. The lungs lose almost nothing, the brain and
the nervous system — even less. Vital organs
feed at the expense of accumulated reserves and
less important tissues, so that abstinence from
food coul d only do harm after all the reserves of
the organism are depleted.
The body has an ability to move its chemical el-
ements, with many wonderful examples
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tion of the bodily elements, which is observed in
living beings when they’re deprived of food; di-
gestion and redistribution of reserves, excesses
and secondary tissues, observed in all animals in
case of forced fasting, are, in the author’s opin-
ion, some of the most marvelous phenomena in
biology. The organism is capable not only of cre-
ating tissue, but also of destroying it. Not only
can it distribute its nutrient reserves, it can also
redistribute them, and it’s auto -digestion that
makes redistribution possible. The auto -diges-
tion process can be turned to great  practical ad-
vantage and made to serve us in our pursuit of
getting rid of tumors and other growths in the
body. In order to minimize the expenditures, the
least valuable substances are always the first to
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cal growths  — ovarian cysts, fatty tumors, be-
nign tumors, prostate adenoma, abscesses —
rapidly decrease in size and often disappear
completely as a result of strict and long absti-
nence from food and fasting. Many of those who
practiced fasting got rid of th eir tumors with the
help of auto -digestion (see Herbert Shelton’s
books).

Day 6. Thirst increases substantially, you may
want to rinse your mouth, moisten it, and make
the process somewhat easier for yourself. Sleep
time can decrease to 2 hours. Reactions  slow
down.
The desire to stop fasting arises. Now it’s really
important to understand how much your
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set goal. The crucial thing here is your determi-
nation to continue fasting. It’s important to un-
derstand th at you will obtain priceless experi-
ence, and feel your self -respect growing with
every day. You have to feel happy about yourself.
Even if you don’t make it all the way to the end,
this experience will enrich you. Your spirit
grows stronger, your lust for life increases. On
day 6, your sense of smell becomes more acute.
The smells you haven’t paid attention to before
become vivid and accessible.  You may experi-
ence pains in the sacrum and the small of the
back. Also, your eyesight may deteriorate.  Dif-
ferent  salts are excreted abundantly with the
urine, and it becomes darker in color. Don’t be
afraid of that, it indicates a real ongoing healing
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natural treatment goes through an exacerbation.
The most difficult thing on this day of fasting
isn’t the inability to drink or eat, but the lack of
sleep. For a successful result, you need to de-
velop and conduct relaxation procedures, which
lead to sleep. You need to conduct cupping mas-
sage, abdominal and spinal self -mas sage in the
evening. Weight loss amounts to 1 -2 kg.
Dry fasting intensifies apoptosis processes.
Apoptosis is programmed cell death, an energy -
dependent, genetically controlled process, which
is launched by specific signals and rids the or-
ganism of weakened, useless or damaged cells.
About 5% of cells in the organism undergo
apoptosis, and are replaced by new cells daily.
During the apoptosis process, a cell vanishes
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apoptosis is one the main mechanisms of p re-
venting benign tumors, cystic growths and on-
cological diseases.
In case of its pathological increase, aplasia, de-
generative processes, and certain tissue defects
and deformities occur, while a decrease launches
autoimmune processes, tumors and premature
ageing of the organism. There are, for example,
fairly convincing reasons to believe that such se-
rious diseases as aplastic anemia, rheumatoid ar-
thritis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer
disease, AIDS, etc., are linked to pathologically
increased apoptosis. A universal process takes
place during fasting - on the one hand, physio-
logical apoptosis intensifies


diet. Rarely does more than a pound or so of this weight loss actually represe nt a loss of fat. As a rule, rapid weight changes always
represent water weight losses or gains. Under no circumstances can anybody lose a pound of fat per day, on any diet.
Programs that promise we will “lose up to 10 pounds in the first 48 hours”  are deceptive. It is possible to lose ten pounds of water
in just a few hours, but only an extremely active person could realisti cally lose much more than a pound of fat per week.

Sudden Weight Loss in New Raw Fooders
Several notable experiences are quite common when people start eating  raw foods, especially when they switch to a diet that is
exclusively raw from one that was primarily cooked. The first dramatic  change that people frequently notice is a rapid and dramatic
loss of weight. This does not always happen, but it happens more often than not. U sually, people perceive this as a good thing,
because they have excess weight to lose. After they lose the initi al water weight in the first week or two on the raw diet, many
people find that they continue to lose weight, though much more slowly. It i s likely that this subsequent weight loss represents a loss
of fat. Of course, at some point, even these losses must be brought to a stop, or the  person will simply fade away.
 “I Thought I Had More Muscle!”
Most folks, after a few weeks or months of raw eating, are certain that th eir diet is causing them to lose muscle. They have never
seen themselves so thin. What actually happens during weight loss i s that we lose much of the padding (fat) around our muscles and
also the fat marbled within our muscles. In addition, on a raw diet, we begin t o lose the water that we once retained to dilute toxins.
This water also added to the appearance of inflated muscles. Many people mis take this excess fat and water as part of their muscle.
Often, people tell me that in a week or two on a raw diet they lost all their m uscle. This is an absolute physiological
impossibility. In spite of what we have all heard, no diet of any kind resu lts in (any detectible) muscle loss—or muscle gain, for that
matter. If there were a diet that resulted in muscle gain, bodybuilders  would be found in the kitchen, instead of the gym. We lose or
gain muscle due to variations in our physical fitness programs, not thr ough dietary shifts. In spite of what we have all been told,
consuming protein (or any other nutrient) will not assist in the mus cle-building process. 70  If you believe such hype, you have been
sold a bill of goods.
If they understood body composition, and were honest with themselves, the se people would more accurately say, “I thought I
had much more muscle than I actually do. Then when I lost the excess wa ter that was inflating my muscles, I was forced to accept
the reality that I am not as well muscled as I thought I was.”

Dehydration and Body Weight
Dehydration is considered a contributor to more diseases of lifestyle tha n any other single factor except fat. When our toxin-
to-water ratio is skewed in the direction of toxins, cellular function i s compromised. This toxicity affects virtually every function in th e
body. Correcting dehydration oftentimes remedies weight-loss difficul ty, as organ function and energy levels greatly improve.
The dehydration coin has two sides: is it literally a state of “not enoug h water” or is it a condition of “too much toxin”? The
correct answer is, “both.” When a man is about to die from dehydration, the t oxins within his body have become too concentrated
for his body to cope with. The amount of toxins do not increase; they are simply l ess diluted, and therefore, more concentrated.
Few people would argue that dry-cooked foods (those not steamed or boiled) are low in w ater. After all, if we put toast
through a juicer, no liquid comes out. If we put a pot of water in the oven at 400 degr ees for an hour, most if not all of the water
evaporates off. The same thing happens to the water in food when it is dry-c ooked (and to a lesser extent when wet-cooked). The
oven works just like a dehydrator. Most of us just don’t realize how critic al this issue is for our health.

Four Ways We Become Dehydrated
Hydration is an important factor in all aspects of our health, and even our  weight. When using a bioimpedance scale to
measure body fat, we must consider our level of hydration to obtain accurate  readings. Both dehydration and water retention skew
our readings. Hydration also goes beyond the amount of water we consume, sinc e dehydration occurs for a variety of reasons.

Increased Toxic Load
The most common way that we become dehydrated is when our toxin intake rise s relative to our intake of water. Cooking produces
many toxins that cause the body to require additional water. Among the mos t virulent of these are the acrolein produced by deep
frying and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons released during barbecu ing and other cooking methods that blacken or char our
foods.
Two common products found in most households may in fact, be the most toxic substa nces popularly consumed. Plain table
salt is so toxic that even when extremely diluted, as it is in sea wat er, it is still deadly. All sailors know that if they drink seawater the y
will die of dehydration. Salt must be greatly diluted with water before th e body can tolerate it. Alcohol, the second deadly household
poison, has a similar toxicity. It acts as a diuretic and causes substan tial water loss. Few substances dehydrate and impair us as
effectively as alcohol.

Low Water Intake vs. Toxic Load
The second way that we can become dehydrated is when water intake is low r elative to toxin intake. If we are to (correctly) assume
that the necessary amount of water is in our fresh plant foods before we c ook them, we can be certain that an insufficient quantity is
left after we cook them.
Cooking removes water from food. This explains why a baked potato weighs so much l ess than the same potato when it was
raw. (Granted, cooking can be utilized as a method of hydrating dry foods, as is th e case when we boil rice or lentils,  but this is the
exception, not the rule.) By driving off water, cooking effectively chan ges the water-to-toxin ratio in food to favor toxins, while also
raising the level of toxins in the food. So cooking food results in a double wham my—not only does it remove water, but a great
many toxins are created in the process, increasing our need for water.
Unfortunately, it is not part of human nature to drink water; we must le arn to do so. Let me explain. In nature, at various times
throughout the day, many animals will visit the “water hole” to drink. S ome animals, especially the grazers, are notorious for drinking
huge quantities of water. The anthropoid apes, however, (biologically, huma ns are classed as anthropoid apes) are rarely observed to drink water, but they can do so if necessary. Their tongues are not design ed to lap water the way carnivores do, so they have to
suck water if they must drink. Imagine the position they would have to ass ume in order to drink: essentially, they would be blinded to
enemies as they held down their heads and shoulders while vulnerably e xposing their private parts.
Drinking water is simply not necessary for the anthropoids. Except for hu mans, they do not cause their own thirst. They do not
participate in the activities, nor do they eat the foods, that result in t hirst. Remember, these animals live in the tropics, often in intense
heat, where we would expect that they would need to drink copious quantities of  water. It is certain that the anthropoids get plenty
of exercise and are quite fit; we have all seen films of them climbin g straight up and down trees and vines effortlessly. In fact, pound
for pound, they are about five times stronger than humans. They spend most of  their day in the shade. They rest during the midday
heat. They eat a low-fat raw diet composed primarily of whole, fresh, ripe, org anic, fruits and vegetables. (About 1% of the
anthropoid diet is composed of insects, small reptiles, and other flesh foods.)

Increased Endogenous Toxin Production
The third way we become dehydrated is when our “endogenous” toxin produc tion rises relative to our water intake. Every cell in the
body produces toxic waste products as a result of its own metabolism, and many ti ssues, glands, and organs also produce toxins as
a result of their metabolism. These internally produced toxins are ref erred to as endogenous toxins. (In contrast, toxins that come
from outside the body are referred to as exogenous toxins. These are the ones  that come from our food, the air, and other aspects
of our environment.)
As our levels of physical activity or stress rise, so does the quantity of  endogenous toxins we produce, as cellular output
increases. This is one of the reasons that we are


 essential amino acids, argenine andornithine and certain vitamins such as C and B
6. But having the precursors present
is not enough. Growth hormone is only manufactured under certain, specificcircumstances: for about one hour immediately after going to sleep and then only if
the blood supply is rich with argenine and ornithine but contains few other amino
acids; it is also manufactured during heavy aerobic exercise that goes on for morethan thirty minutes; and growth hormone is produced at an accelerated rate whenfasting. (Pearson and Shaw, 1983). I did not know this when I was fasting John,but now, I would give argenine and ornithine to someone with a serious infectionas well as massive quantities of vitamin C.
Chronic Back Pain
Barry was a carpenter who couldn’t afford to lose work because he was
unable to bend or twist or lift. He frequently had bouts of severe back pain thatmade working almost impossible. Upon analysis by biokinesiology I found that hehad a major problem with large intestine weakness and secondarily, adrenalweakness.
Constipation frequently causes back pain. The muscles of the back have nerve
pathway connections to the large intestines; weakness in the intestine causesweakness of the back and makes it prone to injury. But the problem is theintestine, not the back. And the only way to make the back stay better is to healthe intestine. Many athletes have very similar problems. For example, they getknee injuries and think there is something wrong with their knee. Or they getshoulder injuries and think their shoulder is weak. These people are only half right.Yes, their knee or their shoulder is weak. But it could become strong and almostuninjurable if the underlying cause of the weakness is corrected.
The knee for example, has nerve pathway connections to the adrenal glands
and kidneys. The shoulder has similar connections to the thyroid. The foot isweakened by the bladder. The treatment should first be on the weakened gland ororgan and secondarily, on the damaged muscle tissue. I have solved numeroussports-related knee problems with protomorphogens for the adrenals andelimination of food allergies that make the adrenals work overtime. I have fixedbad shoulders by rebuilding the thyroid.
In Barry’s case, it was the intestine. I asked him about his bowel function and
he said that he was never constipated, had “a daily bowel movement without a lotof straining.” But having given some 6,000 colonics, I knew better. There shouldhave been no straining; Barry was trying very hard to be regular—he should nothave had to effort. Fortunately, it struck him as true that he needed to detoxifyand I managed to convince him to water fast. He probably figured, why not sincehe couldn’t work anyway. Barry was a tall, skinny man to start with and youwould think he hardly carried any fat at all, but he fasted on water for 30 days,receiving a colonic every day, while I did bodywork on his damaged back. Hesure was constipated and couldn’t deny the evidence that floated by through thesight tube of the colonic machine. By the end of the fast his colon was fairlyrepaired and free of old fecal material. And Barry had become a tall, gaunt-looking guy who had lost about 20 pounds you wouldn’t think he had to spare.
After a few weeks of careful weaning back on to food, Barry felt pretty good,
terrific even. He had no back pain and found out for the first time what not beingconstipated meant. It no longer took “not very much effort” to move his bowels;they moved themselves. That was ten years ago. A few months ago, Barrylooked me up, just to say thanks and to let me know that he had not had anymore back problems and had generally felt good because he had more or lessstayed on the improved diet I had instructed him about during his fast.
Painful Menstruation
Elsie was twenty. She came to see me because I had helped Elsie’s mother
overcome breast cancer many years earlier. Elsie began to have very painfulperiods with profuse bleeding and abdominal pain. Her nutrition had beengenerally good because her mother couldn’t survive on the average American dietand had long ago converted her family to vegetarianism. And like her mother,Elsie had been taking vitamins for many years.
A medical doctor diagnosed Elsie as having endometriosis, meaning, the lining
of her uterus had migrated to the fallopian tubes, where it continued to bleedregularly into the abdominal cavity, following the same hormonal cycle as theendometritial tissue that lines the uterus. The doctor offered to try hormonalmanipulation and if this proved unsuccessful, offered a hysterectomy. That wouldcertainly eliminate the symptoms!
But Elsie did not wish to eliminate her ability to have children and preferred not
to risk throwing her hormones off balance. So she came to me. My analysisshowed that she had weak ovaries and weak uterus. These were secondary to atoxic colon, toxic because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas thatreduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined Organic,vegetarian legume-rich diet into toxemia. Checking her foods for allergies Idiscovered the normal pattern: Elsie was intolerant to dairy, wheat, eggs, corn,soy and concentrated sugars.
Being no stranger to fasting (her mother had fasted at length ten years
previously) Elsie undertook a 30 day cleanse on vegetable juice with dailyenemas, taking vitamins in powdered form. After the fast I put her onprotomorphogens for her reproductive organs and pancreas. The gall bladder hadhealed by itself during fasting—gall bladders usually heal easily. Her maintenancediet included using pancreatic enzyme supplements when eating vegetable proteinsand Elsie eliminated most fats so her gall bladder would not be stressed. Thefasting also overcame her allergic reactions to corn and wheat but she was stillunable to handle soy products, eggs or dairy. After six months Elsie no longerneeded protomorphogens, had no abdominal pain and her periods were normal.
You may well be wondering how or why detoxification of the bowels allowed
the body to repair the uterus. The large intestine is a sort of nest that cradles thereproductive organs, including the ovaries, uterus, and in the case of the male, theprostate gland. A toxic colon is like having one rotten apple in a basket, itcontaminates the whole batch. Many problems in the abdominal area are caused
by a toxic colon, including chronic back pain, ovarian cysts, infertility, birth
abnormalities, bladder infections and bladder cancer, painful menstruation,fibroids and other benign growths as well as malignant ones, and prostatitis orprostate cancer. Detoxing the body and cleaning out the colon should be a part ofthe healing of all of these conditions.
Irritable Bowels
Some peoples’ lives don’t run smoothly. Jeanne’s certainly didn’t. She was
abandoned to raise three little kids on welfare. Her college diploma turned out tobe useless. Jeanne used to help me at Great Oaks in exchange for treatment.During those early years she had done a 30 day juice fast with colonics. Twentyyears later at age 60, having survived three children’s growing up, surviving theprofound, enduring loss of one who died as an adult, after starting up and runninga small business that for many years barely paid its way, and experiencing anuninsured fire that took her house, she began to develop abdominal pains thedoctors named “irritable bowel syndrome” or “colitis.” The MD offeredantibiotics and antispasmodics but Jeanne had no insurance, the remedies wereunaffordable. She also retained considerable affinity for natural medicine.
Prior to these symptoms her diet had been vegetarian, and had included large
quantities of raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains. But the bran in breadwas irritating to her bowels, she could no longer digest raw vegetables or mostraw fruit.
Jeanne’s vital force was low; her healing took time. She started on a long fast
supported by powdered vitamins, vegetable broth and herb teas, but after threeweeks was too weak to do her own enemas at home and could not shop forvegetables to cook into broth. So she had to add one small serving of cookedvegetable per day, usually broccoli or steamed kale. This lasted for one moreweek but Jeanne, having no financial reserves, had to return to work, and neededto regain energy quickly. Though not totally healed, she progressed to a
maintenance diet of cooked grains and vegetables and food supplements, very
much like a Macrobiotic diet. She felt better for awhile but wore down again afteranother stressful year.
Her abdominal pains gradually returned though this time she noticed they were
closely associated with her stresses. About one year after ending her first fast, assoon as she could arrange to take time off, she began another. This time to avoidextreme weakness, she took vegetable broth from the outset, as well as smallamounts of carrot juice and one small serving of cooked vegetable a day for threeweeks. Again, this rest allowed the digestive tract to heal and the pain went away.She returned to her Macrobiotic diet with selected raw foods that she could nowhandle without irritating her bowel.
She was now healthier then she had been in many years. With improved
energy and a more positive attitude, Jeanne returned to University at age 65 andobtained a teaching certificate. Now she is making good money, doing work sheenjoys for the first time in 35 years. I


 if you are inebriated by caffeine then please do not quit coffee quickly. Take a week or two to quit if you are drinking over a dozen cups a day, and a week if you are drinking less than a dozen. Then drink coffee only as you need it. One cup of weak coffee (you might
call it Brazilian Tea-you can see the bottom of the cup) is very good for people over forty.
"Throw away the frying pan," is a half-truth that is put out as fact.
This came about over 100 years ago when the only thing they had to fry foods in was hog lard, or shortening. There is no such thing as vegetable shortening. It is either ve getable oil or hog lard. Hog lard is
shortening, and if the label reads VEGETABLE SHORTENING, it simply means some vegetable oil and a lot of hog lard. So don't be
fooled by reading the label (they forgot to put in a comma).
Even Crisco, which is supposed to be 100% all vegetable has
"shortening" written on the can, s imply because some people don't
know what shortening is, and therefore that word should be removed from the label. Crisco is pure vegetable oil.
We need to use more oils and more fried foods than we have been
taught to use, but use the better grade of vegetable oil. If there were more oil (corn oil) used today in our cooking, especially in the steam-ing of vegetables, and in casseroles there would be less constipation problems. I highly recommend the use of  corn oil, or a high quality ol-
ive oil, for frying or cooking because it is easier to digest than any other oil. A high quality olive oil is tasteless, and if it tastes strong it 114 should not be used. Corn oil does not have the amount of preserva-
tives in it to hurt anything.
The vegetable oil that requires a very low solvent, such as corn oil
and olive oil is very easily digested. In the liver they form gelatin, which prevents the undigested foods from sticking to the lining of the
intestines and makes elimination easy. Now don't expect the first time you use vegetable oil to get a perfect elimination. This is something that takes weeks and months to get your system to really synchronize to manufacture a sufficient amount of gelatin to afford the body to give a good, clean elimination. If more vegetable oils were used in cooking today there would be much less diverticulitis.
There are other vegetable oils like Wesson Oil (peanut oil), Sesa-
me Oil, that are very good if you are very healthy, but if you're not healthy you should use oils using the least amount of solvent possible. Safflower oil is one of the more difficult oils to digest; however, a lit-tle bit of safflower mixed with lemon juice makes a very good salad oil dressing.
In the cooking of most meats I suggest using one tablespoon of
Manichewitz medium dry grape wine to each pound of beef, lamb, or venison, and one teaspoon in cooking chicken. Also, in cooking chicken use some thyme when it comes to a boil (or use the thyme in the water in which the blood is soaked out of the chicken before cook-ing). Thyme takes away the animal taste.
We recommend chicken and fish once or twice a week; beef and
lamb once a week for those who are meat eaters.
Meat should be soaked in salt water 12 hours (using twice the
amount of salt that you'd use if you were salting the meat for cooking) to get the blood out, and then to soak it in fresh water 24 hours. If meat is good, it will be better wit hout the blood, and if it's not good,
taking the blood out won't make it any worse. Soaking will not tough-en the meat. Adolph's Papaya Meat Tenderizer is excellent to use. Pa-pain from the papaya is a white powder (an enzyme in the juice of the green fruit of the papaya and apparen tly intermittent in action between
pepsin and trypsin) and tenderizes the meat, making it much more di-gestible. 115 The only difference in the chemistry of raw and cooked meat is
that the cooked meat gives up the moisture, and as it gives up the
moisture the tissues become tenderized. Meat should be cooked until well done. Medium rare and rare meat should never be eaten if you want to be healthy. They are much more difficult to digest.
There is the idea that fertile eggs are better for you than eggs that
are not fertile. There is only one cell difference in the fertile egg. For it to make any difference you would have to use at least 2,400 eggs at one breakfast.
These facts can be substantiated by laboratory tests and only those
facts that can be substantiated by laboratory tests are of any lasting value. It is very important to st udy foods and food chemistry, and also
to read the labels when you buy foods. However, the labels are written by chemists for chemists, and mo st housewives and people who buy
foods are not chemists, and, therefore, they should use dictionaries more to find the meaning of the words on the labels.
Certain foods slow down digestion in most people. Such as
cheese, which not only slows down the digestion, but also is constipat-ing. However, if you have loose bowels, cheese is an excellent food. If you have a constipation problem and poor elimination, you should go very light on cheeses.
One should not eat over two slices of bread a day. If you eat more
bread than that you are threatening the nutrients and minerals found in other foods. It should be toasted for best nutrients, and it makes it eas-ier to digest.
There are people who need a little wine, or Zest Tonic with their
food. Not before or after, but with their food. People who have cold hands and cold feet all the time should have a little white wine with their food. Zest Tonic is the nearest product ever made to the exact enzymes that are made by the pancreas and is better than wine. Every-one has a built-in whiskey still, or gin factory, so to speak. It turns the excessive sugars into alcohol, and it is the alcohol that determines our
body temperature. I'm not speaking of fever, I'm speaking of a normal body temperature (98.6° F). Generally people over 40 years of age are 116 troubled with cold hands and cold feet, or are cold all over. This is be-
cause their pancreas is not manufacturing alcohol.
It is not the use of alcohol that is bad, but it is the abuse of the use
of alcohol, and also the using of the wrong type of alcohol. The RBTI tests will indicate which, and how much, of the four kinds of alcohol is the best for your body chemistry. It is recommended that you use 1 teaspoon of Zest Tonic in four ounces of grape juice after meals and sip it (sit down and do absolutely nothing) slowly for 30 minutes, or
until your feet and hands become warm. After a few weeks you will notice that each time you do this ther e is a mild headache that will fol-
low. Do not quit using the Zest T onic because of the mild headache;
however, cut the amount in half and when a ½ teaspoon full, sipped
for 30 minutes, after dinner and supper, if it gives a headache, cut it down to ¼ teaspoon, and when that gives you a headache, use only a drop or two, and when that gives you a headache discontinue it com-pletely. The pancreas will again be working perfectly.
Some people go to a doctor and he says, "No salt. I want you to
have a bland diet," so people buy salt substitutes, which is just as bad as salt itself because salt substitutes simply means it is not sodium chloride (which is ordinary table salt [Na Cl] ). Other salts can be magnesium chloride, iron chloride, ammonia chloride, potassium chloride, carbon chloride, etc.
There are salts that do not contain chlorides in them whatever. Some are ammonia salts, nitrogen salts, and a number of carbonate
salts.
All of the salts cause the blood vessels to dilate, and also the intes-
tines to form diverticulos areas in them, and generally upsets the body. Some people, before they taste the food, empty a salt shaker and yet their salts are perfectly normal in the tests because their body chemis-try is perfect enough that it throws out  the salt and does not retain it.
There are other people who do not use any salt, or salt substitutes, and
yet their salt is dangerously high. Sometimes high enough to cause or bring about an angina heart attack. It is not how much salt you use, it's
how much salt your body retains. 117 Sea salt is the worst of all salts for people to use. In many people it
causes a dry, hot tongue and it dries up the saliva glands and the
mouth is always dry because sea salt contains seven kinds of salt and only the healthiest log rollers (or a man doing heavy muscular work) can use it, and they should use it sparingly. Just because it comes from the sea does not mean that it is better.
Some people are so afraid of food additives until the fear of the
food additive does them more harm than the additive itself. "Perfect love casts out all fear," and there is nothing in the life to fear but fear itself.


 your attempt to  speak of the unspeakable. It does not do a
very good job.
No, My son, the evolut ionists are not right.
I created all of this —all of this —in the  blink
of an eye; in one holy instant —just as the
creationists have said. And...it came  about
through a process of evolution taking
billions and billions of what you call  years,
just as the evo lutionists claim.
They are both “right.” As the cosmonauts
discovered, it all depends on how you look
at it.
But the real question is: one holy
instant/billions of years —what’s the
difference?  Can you simply agree that on
some of the questions of life the mystery is
too great  for even you to solve? Why not
hold the mystery as sacred? And why not allow the  sacred to be sacred, and leave it
alone?
I suppose we all have an insatiable need to
know.
But you already know! I’ve just told you! Yet
you don’t want to  know the Truth, you  want
to know the truth as you understand it. This
is the greatest barrier to your
enlightenment. You think you already know
the truth! You think you already  understand
how it is. So you agree with everything you
see or hear or read tha t falls  into the
paradigm of your understanding, and reject
everything which does not. And  this you call
learning. This you call being open to the
teachings. Alas, you can never  be open to
the teachings so long as you are closed to
everything save your own  truth.  Thus, will this very book be called
blasphemy —the work of the devil —by
some.
Yet those who have ears to hear, let them
listen. I tell you this: You were not meant  to
ever die. Your physical form was created as
a magnificent convenience; a  wonderful
tool; a glorious vehicle allowing you to
experience the reality you have  created
with your mind, that you may know the Self
you have created in your soul.
The soul conceives, the mind creates, the
body experiences. The circle is complete.
The soul then kn ows itself in its own
experience. If it does not like what it is
experiencing (feeling), or wishes a different
experience for any reason, it simply
conceives of a new experience of Self, and,
quite literally, changes its mind.  Soon the body finds itself in  a new
experience. (“I am the resurrection and the
Life” was a magnificent example of this.
How do you think Jesus did it anyway? Or
do you  not believe it ever happened?
Believe it. It happened!).
Yet this much is so: the soul will never
override the body or the mind. I made you
as a three -in-one being. You are three
beings in one, made in the image and
likeness  of Me.
The three aspects of Self are in no wise
unequal to each other. Each has a function,
but no function is greater than another, nor
does any f unction actually precede
another. All are interrelated in an exactly
equal way.  Conceive —create —experience. What you
conceive you create, what you create you
experience, what you experience you
conceive. That is why it is said, if you can
cause your body to experience something
(take abundance, for example), you will
soon have the feeling of it in your soul,
which will conceive of itself in a new way
(namely, abundant), thus presenting your
mind with a new thought about that. From
the new thought spri ngs more experience,
and the body begins living a new reality  as
a permanent state of being.
Your body, your mind, and your soul (spirit)
are one. In this, you are a microcosm of
Me—the Divine All, the Holy Everything,
the Sum and Substance. You see now ho w
I am the beginning and the end of
everything, the Alpha and the Omega.  Now I will explain to you the ultimate
mystery: your exact and true relationship to
Me.
YOU ARE MY BODY.
As your body is to your mind and soul, so,
too, are you to My mind and soul.
Therefore:
Everything I experience, I experience
through you.
Just as your body, mind, and spirit are one,
so, too, are Mine.
So it is that Jesus of Nazareth, among the
many who understood this mystery,  spoke
immutable truth when he said, “I and the
Father are One.” Now I will tell you,  there
are even larger truths than this to which you
will one day become privy. For  even as you are the body of Me, I am the body of
another.
You mean, You are not God?
Yes, I am God, as you now understand
Him. I am Goddess as  you now
comprehend  Her. I am the Conceiver and
the Creator of Everything you now know
and experience, and you are My
children...even as I am the child of another.
Are You trying to tell me that even God has
a God?
I am telling you that your perception of
ultimate reality is more limited than you
thought, and that Truth is more unlimited
than you can imagine. I am giving you  ever-
so-small a glimpse of infinity —and infinite
love. (A much larger glimpse and you  could not hold it in your reality. You can barel y
hold this).
Wait a minute! You mean I’m really not
talking with God here?
I have told you —if you conceive of God as
your creator and master —even as you  are
the creator and master of your own body —
I am the God of your understanding.  And
you are talking wi th Me, yes. It has been a
delicious conversation, no?
Delicious or not, I thought I was talking with
the real God. The God of Gods. You
know —the top guy, the chief honcho.
You are. Believe Me. You are.
And yet You say that there is someone
above You in thi s hierarchal scheme of
things.  We are now trying to do the impossible,
which is to speak of the unspeakable. As I
said, that is what religion seeks to do. Let
Me see if I can find a way to summarize
this.
Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is
longer than Forever. God is more than  you
imagine. God is the energy you call
imagination. God is creation. God is first
thought. And God is last experience. And
God is everything in between.
Have you ever looked down a high -
powered microscope, or seen pictures o r
movies  of molecular action, and said,
“Good heavens, there’s a whole universe
down there.  And to that universe, I, the
now-present observer, must feel like God!”
Have you  ever said that, or had that kind of
experience?  Yes, I should imagine every thinking person
has.
Indeed. You have given yourself your own
glimpse of what I am showing you here.
And what would you do if I told you that this
reality of which you have given yourself  a
glimpse never ends?
Explain that. I’d ask You to explain that.
Take the smallest part of the universe you
can imagine. Imagine this tiny, tiny  particle
of matter.
Okay.
Now cut it in half.
Okay.
What have you got?
Two smaller halves.  Precisely. Now cut those in half. What
now?
Two smaller halves.
Right. Now again, and again! What’s left?
Smaller and smaller particles.
Yes, but when does it stop? How many
times can you divide matter until it ceases
to exist?
I don’t know. I guess it never ceases to
exist.
You mean you can never completely
destroy it? All you can do is ch ange its
form?
It would seem so.
I tell you this: you have just learned the
secret of all of life, and seen into infinity.  Now I have a question to ask you.
Okay...
What makes you think infinity goes only
one way? —
So...there is no end going up, any more
than there is going down.
There is no up or down, but I understand
your meaning.
But if there is no end to smallness, that
means there is no end to bigness.
Correct.
But if there is no end to bigness, then there
is no biggest. That means, in the largest
sense, there is no God!
Or, perhaps —all of it is God, and there is
nothing else.  I tell you this: I AM THAT I AM.
And YOU ARE THAT YOU ARE. You
cannot not be. You can change form all you
wish, but you cannot fail to be. Yet you can
fail to know Who You Are —and in this
failing, experience only


 the clearance of TMP from serum and increased TMP serum concentration, a finding that had no immediate explanation.
27
These findings add to the unsettled controversy of how and what molecules
DMSO is able to help penetrate the blood–brain barrier. However, it is clear that penetration of DMSO itself through the intact blood–brain barrier occurs and has been shown to use magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
28
DMSO has been shown to enhance the killing activity of certain bactericidal such
as peroxynitrite, whereas other hydroxyl radical scavengers cannot. Macrophages and other cells able to produce nitric oxide can generate the formation of peroxyni -
trite, a strong and versatile oxidant and the reaction product of nitric oxide and 105 DMSO in Basic Microbiology
superoxide, which are not strong oxidants themselves.29 Peroxynitrite is highly bac -
tericidal, killing E. coli  in direct proportion to its concentration.30 Three hydroxyl
radical scavengers mannitol, ethanol, and benzoate did not significantly affect the
killing potential of peroxynitrite on E. coli  cultures, but 100 mM DMSO did enhance
peroxynitrite-mediated killing. DMSO is a more efficient hydroxyl radical scavenger than the other three scavengers and increases the formation of nitrogen dioxide to enhance the killing power of peroxynitrite.
30
Helicobacter pylori  is a spiral, intragastric bacterium that can be found in at least
a third to half of people worldwide, most of whom have no symptoms. The frequency of H. pylori  infection varies from country to country with 70%–90% of adults har -
boring the microbe in underdeveloped countries to about 50% in the United States found carrying the bacterium in 60-year-olds.
31
H. pylori  can help the human body by helping to regulate the level of stomach acid
secreted, and as it does, it creates a beneficial environment both for itself and its host. When this regulation of acid secretion is disturbed, a series of molecular changes in the stomach can occur where H. pylori  strains become harmful to its host.
When that happens, the dark side of H. pylori  is revealed as the causative organ -
ism in peptic ulcer disease and chronic gastritis. The H. pylori  pathogenic strain is
also linked to the development of duodenal ulcers and distal stomach adenocarci -
noma. The discovery of H. pylori  as the cause of peptic ulcer disease came about
after Freedberg and Baron
32 found in 1940 spirochetes in about 40% of gastric biop -
sies. Even thought there were sporadic reports occasionally appearing in the medical literature about the association of H. pylori  and peptic ulcers, the great majority of
gastroenterologists believed that these ulcers arose principally from lifestyle factors or from physical and emotional stress due to acid secretion. The fact that H. pylori
was capable of living in the acidic environment of the stomach was a major reason for most gastroenterologists to dismiss its potential pathogenicity because no one could envision how a bacterium could survive for long in such an environment.
Until 1984, anyone training in medicine was taught the axiomatic golden rule,
“no acid, no ulcer,” the intention being that peptic ulcers can occur only when the stomach secretes acid.
33 This long-standing and erroneous principle supported by no
solid evidence of any kind became an unchallenged medical dictum in the teaching and management of gastric ulcers. The “no acid, no ulcer” rule also led to a finan-cial boom for many pharmaceuticals that manufactured a hodgepodge of antacids. However, in 1983, a year before the continued pursuit of antacids for the treatment of ulcer disease, two Australian physicians, Robin Warren and Barry Marshall,
34 boldly
and correctly identified and later successfully treated peptic and duodenal ulcers with antibiotics despite violent opposition by the medical establishment at the time. Their work not only cured a serious gastroduodenal disorder that afflicted millions of
patients worldwide but also prevented a highly lethal cancer of the  s tomach. Marshall
and Warren shared the Nobel Prize in 2005. The Warren–Marshall  d iscovery has
generated over 50,000 scientific publications to this date and has resulted in a signifi -
cant decline of gastroduodenal ulcers in most Western countries.35
H. pylori is presently treated with a triple therapy consisting of two antibiotics,
clarithromycin and amoxicillin, and a proton-pump inhibitor omeprazole.36 This
regimen has considerable side effects. Moreover, the increase in antibiotic resistance 106 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
by this bacterium has led to the search for new therapeutic strategies, including anti-
inflammatory agents and hydroxyl radical scavengers.
Searching for other options to treat H. pylori, an in vitro  study removed H. pylori
strains  isolated from antral biopsy specimens and cultured these pathogens on sheep
blood agar.37 An agar diffusion test was used to screen the antibacterial effect of 10%
DMSO and 1% allopurinol. It was found that therapeutically administered concen -
trations of DMSO and allopurinol had no growth-inhibiting effect on H. pylori in
vitro.37 No zones of inhibition were produced by either drug.37 This study concluded
that neither DMSO nor allopurinol at the doses used is suitable for H. pylori eradica -
tion treatment. A cautionary note was added to these negative findings by pointing out the limits of in vitro  testing since it could not be ruled out that DMSO may work
to interfere with adherence factors of H. pylori and, in this way, block this microbe
from recolonization of the gastroduodenal epithelium and prevent duodenal ulcer relapse.
37
The role of oxyradicals in the process of acute and chronic duodenal ulceration
in the rat was examined by administering allopurinol and DMSO by gavage. To produce chronic duodenal ulceration, all rats received intramuscular reserpine injec -
tions (0.1 mg/kg) every day for 6 weeks. Pretreatment was given with dose-dependent DMSO and allopurinol. At least 70% of rats were protected against ulceration with 5% or 10% solutions of DMSO, and similar concentrations of allopurinol protected
all  a nimals. Neither agent was seen to protect rats from influencing the hyperchlor -
hydria.38 These findings appeared to indicate that oxygen-derived free radicals
played an important role in the formation and development of gastric ulcers and led to translationally examine DMSO and allopurinol in a clinical setting in patients diagnosed with H. pylori.
38
In a randomized, controlled clinical study on 146 patients, cimetidine, placebo,
and the free radical scavengers allopurinol and DMSO were tested to see their effects on H. pylori  duodenal ulcer relapse, which is believed to be mediated by oxygen-
derived free radicals.
38 DMSO was given orally at doses of 500 mg four times daily,
allopurinol at 50 mg four times a day, and cimetidine 400 mg at bedtime to patients who had shown endoscopic healing from gastric mucosal infection with H. pylori.
38
Treatment of these agents continued for 1 year. During the follow-up endoscopy at 6 and 12 months, the cumulative relapse at 1 year was placebo 47%, cimetidine 24%, allopurinol 6%, and DMSO 6%. In the patients who relapsed, ulcer recurrence tended to occur early in those patients taking a placebo or cimetidine, while ulcer relapse tended to be evenly distributed over the year for the patients treated with DMSO or allopurinol. The conclusions from this study suggest that oxygen-derived free radicals are involved in the relapse of duodenal ulceration in patients infected with H. pylori.
38
P. aeruginosa  is a common opportunistic pathogen of humans, animals, and
plants. This bacterium can colonize the respiratory tract in hospital-acquired infec -
tions particularly in immunocompromised or mechanically ventilated people.39
Because it thrives on most surfaces, this P. aeruginosa  can colonize medical
equipment, including in-dwelling catheters, causing cross-infections in hospitals and clinics. It has been shown that several P. aeruginosa  virulence factors, both
cell-associated and extracellular products, are potent inducers of proinflammatory 107 DMSO in Basic Microbiology
mediators, such as the interleukins, a large group of cytokines mainly produced
by PMNs and leukocytes during inflammation. In particular, interleukin-8 (IL-8) overexpression has been shown to induce ulcer formation in the cornea through neu -
trophil recruitment.
40 Interleukin-8 is often associated with inflammation. IL-8, also
known as neutrophil chemotactic factor, has two primary functions. It induces che -
motaxis in target cells, primarily neutrophils but also other granulocytes, causing them to migrate toward the site of infection,


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 birth
of osteopathy (a system of healing
based upon the manipulation
of bones) and chiropractic
(a similar system primarily
involving manipulation of
the spine).
Western Influences on
Asian Medicine
Across the world in
China, Thomson’s
practices might have
been looked on with
a measure of surprise,
but they would have
been familiar. In Chinese
medicine, there has
always been a debate
as to what degree
illness arises from
cold, and to what
degree it arises from heat.  The Shanghanlun (On Cold-Induced Maladies), written in the 2nd
century ce, and revised and reinterpreted in commentaries
over the last 1,800 years, recommends the herb cinnamon
(Cinnamomum spp., p. 81) as a principal remedy when the
patient “shivers with fever, breathes heavily, and feels
nauseous.” In the 14th century, Wang Lu distinguished
between cold-induced illness and febrile illness, and treated
them in different ways, and this distinction was elaborated in
greater and greater detail by different Chinese herbalists right
up to the 19th century.
 During the early 19th century, the influence of Western
biomedicine was beginning to affect traditional practices in both
China and India. This was certainly beneficial in many respects.
The judicious incorporation of scientific principles and methods
into traditional herbal healing offers the possibility of greatly
refining the effectiveness of treatment.
 But in India under British rule, Western medicine eventually
became the only alternative. Ayurveda was seen as inferior to
biomedicine ( see India & the Middle East, p. 39). Western
practice was introduced not as a complement to traditional
medicine, but rather as a means to supplant it. According to
one authority, “before 1835 Western physicians and their
Indian counterparts exchanged knowledge; thereafter only
Western medicine was recognised as legitimate and the
Eastern systems were actively discouraged” (Robert
Svoboda, Ayurveda, Life, Health and Longevity, 1992).
 In China, the influx of Western ideas was less traumatic.
Increasing numbers of Chinese medical students studied
Western medicine, but this did not stop the continuing
development of traditional herbal practice. By and large,
each tradition was recognized as having both advantages
and disadvantages.
Herbalism Outlawed 1850–1900
In Europe, conventional medicine was seeking to establish
a monopoly for its own type of practice. In 1858, the British
Parliament was asked to impose legislation banning the
practice of medicine by anyone who had not been trained in
a conventional medical school. Fortunately, this proposal was
rejected, but in countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, and
in some states of the U.S., it became illegal to practice herbal
medicine without an orthodox qualification. Herbalists were
forced to risk fines or imprisonment simply for providing
herbal medicine to patients who had sought their help.
 In Britain, concerns such as these, combined with a desire
to establish Western herbal medicine as an alternative to
conventional practices, particularly in the industrial cities
of the North of England, led to the formation in 1864 of the
National Institute of Medical Herbalists, the first professional
body of herbal practitioners in the world. Its history is an
example of how tenacious herbal practitioners have had
to be simply to retain their right to give safe, gentle, and
effective herbal medicines to their patients.Ginseng  has been used
as a tonic remedy in
Chinese medicine for
at least 5,000 years.
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The developmen T of herbal medicine20th Century Onward
For most of us, modern medicine is exemplified by drugs such as antibiotics and highly technical
methods of diagnosis and treatment. However, many might be surprised to discover that,  for much of the last century, herbal medicines have been the primary form of treatment,  even in Western countries.
Even as late as the 1930s, around 90 percent of medicines
prescribed by doctors or sold over the counter were herbal in origin. It is only during the last 70 years that laboratory-produced medicines have become the norm. During the  First World War (1914–1918), for example, garlic (Allium sativum, p. 59) and sphagnum moss (Sphagnum spp.) were used by the ton in the battle trenches to dress wounds and
to treat infections. Garlic is an excellent natural antibiotic,
and was the most effective antiseptic available at the time,
and sphagnum moss, gathered from the moorlands, makes  a natural aseptic dressing.
Science & Medicine
The development of new medicines in the laboratory—either extracted from medicinal plants or synthesized—stretches back to the early 19th century, when chemists first isolated constituents such as morphine, from opium poppy (Papaver somniferum, p. 244), and cocaine,
from coca (Erythroxylum coca, p. 206). From that time onward, scientists made tremendous progress in understanding how isolated chemicals affect the body, as well as how the body works in health and disease. From the 1860s, scientists—most notably Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)—began to identify the microorganisms that were ultimately responsible for causing infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria. Naturally enough, the first aim of those engaged in medical
research was to seek out medicines that would act as “magic bullets,” directly attacking the microorganisms concerned and ridding the body of the threat. This eventually led to the
discovery, or, more accurately, the rediscovery of penicillin  by a number of medical researchers, most notably Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) in 1929. However, while 20th-century scientists were the first to scientifically evaluate antibiotics as medicines, they were not the first to employ them in healing. Antibiotic molds had been grown and used to combat infection in ancient Egypt, 14th-century Peru, and in recent European folk medicine. In the decades following the Second World War (1939– 1945), when antibiotics first came into use, it seemed as though a new era had dawned in which infection could  be conquered, and life-threatening diseases such as syphilis, pneumonia, and tuberculosis would cease to be major causes of death in the developed world. Modern medicine also provided other highly effective drugs such as steroid anti-inflammatories, and it seemed as if it was simply a question  of time until cures for most illnesses were found.
Ascendancy of Biomedicine
As Americans and Europeans became accustomed to medication that led to an almost instant short-term improvement in symptoms (if not in underlying health), herbal medicines came to be seen by the public as outmoded and ineffective. Increasingly, the practice of herbal medicine was outlawed in North America and most of Europe, while the wealthy in developing countries abandoned herbal medicine in favor of the new treatments available. This was in no small part due to the medical profession itself, which saw herbal medicine as a throwback to the superstitions of the past. From the late 19th century onward, the aim of organizations such as the American Medical Association and the British Medical Association had been to monopolize conventional medical practice. Herbal medicine thus neared extinction in many countries, especially
in the U.S. and Britain. In Britain, for example, from 1941 until 1968 it was illegal to practice herbal medicine without medical qualifications.
The Tide Turns
Although there were spectacular successes with modern chemical medicines,
there were also horrific disasters, most notably the thalidomide tragedy in 1962 in Britain and Germany, when 3,000 deformed babies were born to mothers who had taken the drug for morning sickness during pregnancy. This event marked a turning point in the public’s opinion of chemical medicines. Louis Pasteur was a pioneer in the
identification of bacteria.
An electron micrograph of the parasite Plasmodium. Transmitted to man by infected mosquitoes, it causes the disease malaria.
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People began to realize that a serious cost could accompany
the benefits of treatment with modern pharmaceutical
drugs. This, and the factors described below, have brought
about a sea change in public perceptions of the value of
herbal medicine.
The Chinese Example
Herbal medicine experienced a major gain in fortune in
1949 in China, when Mao Zedong and the Communist
Red Army gained control of the country.
 Traditional Western medicine by that time was well
established in China, but most of the population had little
hope of access to modern hospitals, let alone to new drugs.
Out of necessity, traditional Chinese medicine—essentially
herbal medicine and acupuncture—once more began to
be used alongside Western conventional medicine. The
authorities aimed to provide the best of both worlds. Five
teaching hospitals for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
were established, where it was taught on a scientific basis.
In addition, great efforts were made to improve the quality
of plant medicines.
 Contrary to the trend in conventional Western medicine
that makes the patient ever more dependent upon the
doctor and high-tech machinery, TCM, like other forms
of complementary medicine, stresses the patient’s personal
responsibility for his or her own cure


idiflora), of New
Caledonia, has properties similar to those of cajuput. See also tea tree (M. alternifolia, p. 112).
Cautions  T ake internally only under
professional supervision. Do not use during pregnancy. Cajuput essential oil is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.
Self-help Use  Chest coughs & bronchitis,
p. 310.
Melilotus officinalis
syn. M. arvensis (Fabaceae)
Melilot
Description  Biennial herb growing to about 3 ft
(1 m). Has 3-lobed leaves, spikes of yellow flowers,
and brown seedpods.
Melilot is an
effective remedy for
venous disorders.Habitat & Cultivation  Melilot is native to
Europe, North Africa, and temperate regions
of Asia, and is naturalized in North America. It grows in dry and open areas. It is harvested in
late spring.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Melilot contains flavonoids,
coumarins, resin, tannins, and volatile oil. If allowed to spoil, the plant produces dicoumarol, a powerful anticoagulant.
History & Folklore  The Irish herbalist
K’Eogh reported in 1735, “a gentlewoman of my acquaintance … had a swelling for a year or more on her right side, which was cured by three or four times rubbing the grieved part with an oil made of this herb.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses  As with horse
chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum, p. 58), long-term use of melilot—internally or externally—can help varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Melilot also helps reduce the risk of phlebitis and thrombosis. The plant is mildly sedative and antispasmodic, and is given for insomnia (especially in children) and anxiety. It has been used to treat flatulence, indigestion, bronchitis, problems associated with menopause, and rheumatic pains.
Cautions  Do not take melilot if using
anticoagulants. If harvested from the wild,  melilot should be dried or used immediately,  as the spoiled plant is toxic.Alfalfa has been cultivated for centuries for its nutritional
and medicinal properties.
Mentha haplocalyx (Lamiaceae)
Bo He (Chinese),
Corn Mint
Description  Perennial herb growing to 2 ft
(60 cm). Has a square stem, oval toothed leaves,
and whorls of pale lilac flowers growing from  the leaf axils.
Habitat & Cultivation  Bo he is native to
temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, and is widely cultivated in China. Harvested 2–3 times a year, the best crops are in early summer and early autumn.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Bo he contains a volatile oil
comprising mainly menthol (up to 95%) with menthone, menthyl acetate, camphene, limonene, and other terpenoids.
History & Folklore  Bo he was first mentioned
in Grandfather Lei’s Discussion of Herb Preparation  (c. 470 ce). A 15th-century Chinese prescription recommends bo he for dysentery with blood.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  In Chinese
herbal medicine (see pp. 40 –43) bo he is a popular treatment for colds, sore throats, sore mouth and tongue, and a host of other conditions ranging from
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toothache to measles. Like peppermint ( M. x piperita,
p. 114), it helps to lower the temperature, has
antimucus properties, and may be taken for
dysentery and diarrhea. The juice has also been
used to treat earache. Bo he  is often combined
with ju hua  (Chrysanthemum x morifolium,  p. 78)
to treat headaches and bloodshot or sore eyes.
Related Species The Japanese variety of bo he
(M. arvensis ) is widely cultivated as a source of
menthol. The closely related spearmint ( M. spicata )
native to Europe and Asia, is used mainly as a
flavoring and culinary herb. See also peppermint
(M. x piperita, p. 114) and pennyroyal ( M. pulegium,
following entry ).only distantly related, has constituents similar
to those of pennyroyal. American pennyroyal is
traditionally used as a remedy for colds, headaches,
and delayed menstrual periods.
Cautions  Do not use the essential oil, which
is highly toxic. Do not take pennyroyal during
pregnancy, or if menstrual periods are heavy.
Self-help Uses  Digestive headaches &
biliousness, p. 309; Nausea with headache, p. 306
Menyanthes trifoliata
(Menyanthaceae)
Bogbean
Description  Perennial aquatic plant growing
to 9 in (23 cm). Has trefoil leaves and spikes of
pink and white flowers with fringed petals.
Habitat & Cultivation  Bogbean is native
to Europe, Asia, and America. It is found in shallow
fresh water. The leaves are picked in summer.
Parts Used  Leaves.
Constituents  Bogbean contains iridoid
glycosides, flavonol glycosides, coumarins, phenolic
acids, sterols, triterpenoids, tannin, and very small
amounts of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. The iridoids are
strongly bitter and stimulate digestive secretions.if there is abdominal discomfort. This herb is also
used as an aid to weight gain. Bogbean is thought
to be an effective remedy for rheumatism, especially
when this condition is associated with weakness,
weight loss, and lack of vitality. Mostly, bogbean is
prescribed in combination with other herbs such
as celery seed ( Apium graveolens, p. 64) and white
willow ( Salix alba,  p. 129).
Cautions  Do not take if suffering from
diarrhea, dysentery, or colitis. Excessive doses
may cause vomiting.
Bogbean  leaves are gathered in summer, after the plant
has come into flower.
History & Folklore  Long used as a folk remedy
for rheumatism and arthritis, bogbean has also been
taken to treat fluid retention, scabies, and fever. In
the past, because of the herb’s pronounced
bitterness, it was used as an adulterant of, or a
substitute for, hops ( Humulus lupulus, p. 104).
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Bogbean is a
strongly bitter herb that encourages the appetite
and stimulates digestive secretions. It is taken to
improve underactive or weak digestion, particularly Mentha pulegium (Lamiaceae)
Pennyroyal
Description  Powerfully aromatic perennial
growing to 16 in (40 cm). Has oval, toothed leaves
and whorls of lilac flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Pennyroyal is native
to Europe and western Asia, and has become
naturalized in the Americas. It thrives in damp
areas and is gathered when in flower in summer.
Parts Used  Aerial parts.
Constituents  Pennyroyal’s volatile oil contains
pulegone (27–92%), isopulegone, menthol, and
other terpenoids. Pennyroyal also contains bitters
and tannins.
History & Folklore  The Roman natural
historian Pliny (23–79 ce) wrote that pennyroyal
was considered a better medicinal herb than roses,
and that it purified bad water. His contemporary,
Dioscorides, stated that pennyroyal “provokes
menstruation and labour.” In 1597, John Gerard
wrote that “a garland of pennie royal made and
worne about the head is of great force against
the swimming of the head, and the pains and
giddiness thereof.” The name pulegium derives
from the Latin word for flea, referring to
pennyroyal’s traditional use as a flea-repellent.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Similar in many
respects to peppermint ( M. x piperita, p. 114),
pennyroyal is a good digestive tonic. It increases
the secretion of digestive juices, relieves flatulence
and colic, and occasionally is used as a treatment
for intestinal worms. It makes a good remedy for
headaches and for minor respiratory infections,
helping to check fever and reduce mucus.
Pennyroyal powerfully stimulates the uterine muscles
and encourages menstruation. An infusion of
pennyroyal can be used externally to treat itchiness
and formication (a sensation of ants crawling over
the body) and rheumatic conditions including gout.
Related Species  See peppermint ( M. x piperita,
p. 114) and bo he  (M. haplocalyx, preceding entry ).
American pennyroyal ( Hedeoma pulegoides ), while Mitchella repens (Rubiaceae)
Squaw Vine


 up of epithelial tissue; a
fibroma
 or fibroid is composed of
fibrous tissue, etc. Being constituted of the same tissue as the normal structures of the body, when
they are broken down, they yield up the nutritive material contained in them.
A woman was told that she had a fibroid tumor of the uterus about the size of a lemon, and that it
should be removed at once. This meant that her womb would be removed and that during surgery
reasons might be discovered for removing her ovaries.
But this would not restore health. She would still be a sick woman. Operations remove no
causes. There would probably be a recurrence of tumor. She would also be a physiological
cripple. Cutting into the ovaries is like cutting into the brain. The patient rejected the operation and
resorted to the fast. Soon the tumor was absorbed and her organs were saved.
One case that I cared for was a woman who had a uterine fibroid about the size of a medium
sized grapefruit. Complete absorption of the tumor was brought about in twenty-eight days. This
was an unusually rapid rate
of absorption and I have never seen it take place so rapidly in another
138case.
I have seen tumors in the breast, on the womb, in the abdomen, on the feet and elsewhere
absorbed while fasting, and some of these absorptions have been rapid while others have been
slow. One man who had a large tumor in the right lower abdomen, which had been diagnosed, by
means of a biopsy, as “giant cell sarcoma” (cancer) lost all of his sarcoma in seven days of
fasting. Of course he didn’t have cancer, but he did have a diagnosis.
For reasons that are not yet fully understood, some tumors are not affected by the fast, but
thousands of tumors, some of them of considerable size, have been completely and permanently
removed by fasting. I have had the pleasure of saving hundreds of women from mutilating
operations for the removal of the breast, and many more from desexing operations for removal of
uterine fibroids. The process is identical with the removal of stores of fat in the tissues. There is
nothing mysterious about it.
The layman who can understand how it is possible to reduce weight, losing large quantities of
fat in the process, by fasting, should have no difficulty in understanding how the body may also
free itself of other organized accumulations of structural materials while abstaining from food.
Just as fat on any part of the body may be autolyzed and taken up by the lymph stream to be
mingled with the blood and used in nourishing the vital tissues of the organism while no food is
being taken, so other tissues may be digested in the same manner and used as food. Muscular
tissue, glandular tissue, and other tissues may be called upon to supply nutriment for the more vital
tissues, those that have to carry on the most essential functions of life.
In like manner, the tissues that make up a tumor (neoplasm) are digested and absorbed, the
usable portions employed in nourishing the vital tissues, the non-usable portions excreted.
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Sterility in Women
The pattern of the case was simple and familiar: A young Italian woman had been married for five
years to a virile young man, also Italian. Both wanted children and had avoided all efforts at birth
control in the hope that pregnancy would take place. It did not.
She consulted several physicians who assured her that her sterility was permanent. Her father-
in-law told her of the fast and of the possibility that it might help her. She consulted a
Hygienist
.
“Will a fast enable me to become pregnant?” she asked. It was explained to her that there are
different reasons for sterility and that some of them yield to the fast, others do not. After
interrogation, she was told that the probability was that a fast would enable her to become
pregnant.
She underwent the fast. A few weeks after the fast was broken, she conceived and later bore a
bright, healthy boy.
This is one case out of many of similar nature. Fasting has enabled many women to conceive
after years of sterility. Many of these women give a history of menstrual irregularities, profuse
flow, severe cramps that send them to bed each month, large clots, soreness of the breasts and
similar symptoms that indicate endocrine (ductless gland) imbalance, inflammation of the ovaries
or womb and nervous difficulties.
Others give a history of metritis (inflammation of the lining of the womb) with a more or less
chronic vaginal discharge. In these latter cases, the discharge is often highly acid, sufficiently acid
to destroy the sperm.
These are the types of cases that are most readily corrected and that are restored to health by a
period of physical, mental and physiological rest. Few cases of female sterility are absolute; most
of them are the outgrowth of conditions of disease and are remediable. Great numbers of women
have found the ability to conceive restored by a restoration to good health, and a large part of these
women have found the fast of inestimable value in the clearing up of conditions that prevented
conception.
In passing, it may be well to mention that in those many cases of women who readily conceive,
but who abort, being unable to carry their baby to full term, a restoration of good health will
enable them to give birth to normal babies. A clearing up of the toxic state followed by greatly
improved nutrition enables them to avoid abortions.
The most spectacular case of this kind that has come under the author’s observation was that of a
woman who had previously had twenty-eight spontaneous abortions. After a fast of ten days and a
period on a greatly improved diet, she became pregnant and at full term gave birth to a healthy boy.
Delivery was normal.
The length of fast required in cases of female sterility varies with the condition of the woman. I
recall the case of a comparatively young woman who had been married for ten years and had not
conceived, although no attempt had been made to avoid it. She suffered agonies with each
menstruation, going to bed every month and relieving her pains with drugs.
A fast of ten days was sufficient to permanently end her menstrual difficulties and shortly after
the fast, she conceived for the first time, subsequently giving birth to a healthy baby boy. Another
woman much less vigorous and sick for a number of years, took several short fasts before she
140conceived. Her previous period of sterility was also of about ten years duration. The young Italian
woman whose story was recounted at the beginning of this chapter had a fast of thirty days.
Absolute sterility is a comparatively rare condition in both men and women and fasting can do
nothing in such cases. When sterility is due to conditions of disease, rather than to defects of
development, there is reason to think that both men and women can almost always profit by a fast
of sufficient duration to enable the body to clear its abnormal states.
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Fasting in Pregnancy
When the rational mind recognizes that pregnancy is a normal biological process, it at once
realizes that it should be unaccompanied with any pain, discomfort or abnormal condition. It is
observed that animals in their natural state do not suffer with nausea and vomiting during
pregnancy. The condition is said to be unknown among so-called primitive women. Only about
half the women in civilized life so suffer.
All the evidence points to the conclusion that nausea, “morning sickness” and vomiting are not
essential developments during pregnancy. Mild and evanescent in the majority of the cases, severe
and lasting in some cases, perhaps leading even to the artificial ending of pregnancy “to save the
mother’s life,” the cause is still a matter of much debate.
If it can be understood that disease is the outworking of natural law, we may understand that
under certain states of the organism of woman, when pregnancy occurs, there is an urgent need to
put the physiological house in order.
It is common to say that the nausea is a “reflex” and that it is a “reaction,” but these words
explain nothing. It is necessary that we understand the nature and cause of the condition that gives
rise to the “reflex” or to the “reaction.”
Nature plays no favorites, is no respecter of persons. If a woman suffers with nausea and
vomiting during pregnancy, this is because she has built her suffering by a way of life that has laid
the foundation for trouble. Her suffering is not due to the fact that she is pregnant, but to the fact
that she is toxemic.
While we recognize that pregnancy is a normal physiologic state, we must
also recognize that, in
modern life at least, there is much that is not physiologic associated with the whole reproductive
process and that these conditions of abnormality have the same general causes that are responsible
for other structural and functional abnormalities of the body.
In her efforts to promote life and its highest welfare, in her never-ending effort to endow each
new form of life with the finest that can be given, nature tries to give each child that is born the
best that life affords. She is, therefore, interested in the environment of the unborn child and
especially in its nutrition.
The unborn child feeds upon substances supplied by the mother. If her blood is physiologically
suitable to the highest interests of the evolving embryo her pregnancy will be comfortable and even
pleasurable. If she is toxemic, there must evolve a process designed to prepare a better source of
nutriment for the embryo. The physiological house


 into the duo denum. It is these contractions
which account for the common 'hunger pangs', a pathological
demand for more food due to wrong  feeding, often exacerbated by
spices added to foods. Unlike a ppetite, this is not pleasant; relief
only comes, transiently, as more food is taken in, a vicious circle at times leading to a visibly pathological gorging.
The real reason why many people prefer cooked to raw food is
that it is much easier to overeat the cooked. Romans insisted on
over-cooked foods, for they were easi er to regurgitate. Hot food is
also easier to abuse of than co ld. When the overworked stomach
cries for mercy, and seizes up when given cold food, it will be induced to open out with hot food, one more device for fooling
nature. The insistence on 'piping hot'dishes is a sure sign that the
natural gastric functions have been thoroughly sabotaged, the stomach, an over-irritated, beaten, humiliated organ, capable of accepting any abuse. The association of ulceration and cancer with hot, particularly fried food, seems clear.
Boiling not only softens vegetable fibres and overcomes the
reek of raw animal food, but subtly alters proteins, dissolves out
minerals, and makes the starches and sugars more quickly absorbable, by no means an advantage, for the continuous flooding of the blood with too easily absorb ed sugars is probably the cause of
an ultimate breakdown of sugar meta bolism, resulting in diabetes, in
abnormal fat deposition in tissues, in blood vessel degeneration,
especially when combined with satur ated animal fats. But frying is
undoubtedly much worse, for heat forms extremely irritating substances, many of which are carcinogenetic. The oil used again and again in restaurant kitchens, in many fish-and-chip shops, is as
potent a cancer producing brew as one can find in any laboratory.
The art of cooking means replacing the natural flavours lost by
the action of heat, of solution, of dissipation and storage, and today, of intensive agriculture and the industrialization of food production. A battery of flavours, spices, condi ments is always ready to hand in
every kitchen. But it is salt which is the pivot of gastronomy, so
much so, that everyone accepts that salt is a natural and necessary
addition to food. Since the basal needs of salt arc no more than two or three grains, and most people add twenty to thirty times this amount to their daily foods, one is evidently dealing with a dietary perversion. Salt craving in man and in animals is probably the craving for minerals, due to a deficiency in the food, or disease,
when the body can waste phenomenal amounts of minerals. In
nature, animals drawn to the rare  saltlicks are invariably diseased.
Normal animals will not touch salt,  although salt hunger is common
in animals associated with man, no doubt due to mineral-defective food. In the human diet, mineral deficiency is most probably due to
losses in cooking. Raw foods often have a discernible mineral tang,
which is rapidly lost in cooking. Th ere is a further reason in the fact
that if salt is added to the food, the body is so disturbed as to become very wasteful of it, often overspilling large amounts of salt
in the urine and sweat. Animal foods are rich in salt, so that on a mixed diet, even without added salt, there is a mineral disturbance,
leading to salt craving. It is at last becoming realized that the
common, virtually universal abuse of salt is incriminated in a long list of diseases, more particularly involving the heart, the kidneys, changes in the lens of the eye, blood pressure and oedema.
Cooking has not only facilitated the eating of animal foods, but
has enabled the eating of many food articles which could not be
eaten in a raw condition, a fact which should make any such food
suspect in the first place, however palatable it may become after cooking and preparation. Take the case of the potato. Available in
Europe from the sixteenth century, it played a leading part in the
population increases. Not only is it unpleasant in the raw, but it
contains a poisonous alkaloid, wh ich is enormously increased
during the formation of the 'eyes' in storage. This alkaloid, solanin, reduces the oxygenerating capacity of the blood, blocks enzyme systems, and poisons the nerves. Recently it was discovered with considerable alarm, that foetuses could be permanently damaged if
pregnant mothers ate spoiled or germinating potatoes. Possibly all
members of the solatium group should  be considered suspect, for all
have alkaloids, some immediately fatal, such as deadly nightshade.
That the Aztecs ate large quantities of solanum vegetables is hardly
a recommendation.
In the case of spinach or rhubarb, cooking shows how
dangerous foods can be made so pa latable as to be eaten to excess.
Man is not ideally adapted to most  mature green leaves, but rather
to tender shoots, and in moderation, for shoots are not over-abundant in nature. Some shoots, ho wever, and many mature leaves,
have large amounts of oxalic acid, which the liver cannot efficiently
metabolise. When eaten, the aci d base balance of the body is
threatened, calcium mobilized and wasted. In the raw state, such
foods are unpleasantly acid, and no mo re than a bite would be taken.
Cooked, dressed with butter and bechamel, spinach becomes delectable and rhubarb delicious, good examples of the dangers of
gastronomy. Children, however, are often wiser, for in spite of such
subterfuge, they appear to have an innate aversion to such foods.
Many people would be prepared to defend the art of cooking
for the pleasure that it brings to  a usually boring and frustrated
existence. Unfortunately, these pl easures are transitory. After many
a good meal, the bodily disquiet is all too apparent, in the flushed
face and the beating heart. Only a few lucky people get away with it
for any time. Usually, the price is paid depressingly early, when one should still be in the prime of life, at fifty, sixty, young still for a creature evidently designed for a very long existence. The trouble is that most people cannot conceive that simple, natural foods can afford pleasure. Only an overall reform of life attitudes, a revival of
the meaning of purity, of beauty, can enable the sensing of the
arcadean joys to be had in natural eating.
Natural eating does not mean crude, unattractive, unimaginative
eating. On the contrary, the natural appeals of natural food can be enormously extended, if not by cooking, by presentation and
preparation. The raw components need not be limited and dull, and
with a minimum amount of cooking, a thoroughly satisfactory and humanly enhancing diet presents itself. The art of it remains, and has the beauty and purity which all art should bestow upon the
human. By comparison, the art devices of gastronomy are no different from the false beauty of lipstick and pancake makeup.

13. The Costs of Confusion

Living in an age when the human being is looked upon as an
accidental production of a Universe without meaning, subject to a
nature prone to catastrophe, man is  seen as no more than a cunning,
randy naked ape. It would seem re asonable that people should grab
for the immediate pleasures and sa tisfactions that existence can
provide, without asking too many questions, particularly those
involving right or wrong, good or bad. Philosophers themselves,
who in the past have preoccupied themselves with the ideal, have
come to the conclusion that only existence counts, that ideals are
one more manifestation of illusion.
For those who believe that ma n is naturally an idealizing
creature, however opportunistic and existentialistic he may appear,
the modern situation can only be interpreted as the crisis of blindness and atrophy brought about by long ages of confusion, originally initiated by nature's own hostilities in the trials of the Ice
Ages, but perpetuated ever since by an inability to feel and think
clearly again. After many thousands of years of endeavouring to find the lost wisdom of which every one feels his due, the modern age has come to accept the impossib ility of wisdom. It is a tragic
situation, all the more tragic in that science has come to confirm the
apparent futility of man.
Although most people do not like the effort involved in feeling
and thinking deeply about such problems, and prefer to take life as it comes, clearly the way out of the present confusions, with their
roots in the most distant past, can only be found by some very deep and passionate thinking indeed. In facing the problem examined in
this book—the question of right eating—a practical resolution it not
enough. To have any effect, it must be backed by belief that man has meaning, that essence is what primarily matters, for existence
can only have meaning when it complies with essence, with the rules set by nature for human existence, the opposite of the usual
opportunism.
The problem is a circuitous one; living existentially, one comes
to believe that only existence matters. In the case of food and feeding, it is simply not felt po ssible that there can be any ideal
pattern; like all things, food is an occasion for the natural
opportunist scramble. It is generally believed that the gory,