 State Religion? Various  suggestions
have been put forward.  One is that homoeopathic  medicines  are very
inexpensive.  Also a homoeopath  does not require  the services, except
very rarely, of all or any of the assistants  towards diagnosis  to whom
the allopath nowadays  resorts.  All t his means that less money  is spent
by the patient under  homoeopathic  treatment  than under  allopathic  134
 treatment.  Nor do homoeopaths  advocate large  scale "preventive"
iAeasures.  They  do nct say: "As any one might  possibly catch small pox,
diphtheria,  typhoid, tetanus, scarlet fever, or what not, he or she must
take homoeopathic  prophylactics  against one or all of these diseases,"
for hotmoeopaths  know  that the best  preventative  against all such
diseases is a heai'hy body.  Moreover,  it is 'time enough to talk  about
prophylactics  when people have actually been in close  contact  with
smallpox or whatever  it may  be. Thus, if homoeopathy  became  the
State Medical Creed,  serum  manufacturers  would no longer be able to
buy an old horse for eighteen pounds and  make thousands  of pounds
profit  out of the unfortunate  animal.
And where will it all end? It began with smallpox vaccines, and  then
vaccines for other diseases were also boosted, and so on it may go until
"preventatives"  are advocated  for almost every imaginable  type of
ailment. But what state the human  blood  will be in after it has been
inoculated  with all these poisons does not bear thinking about. Sir
Almroth  Wright, a pillar of the orthodox Medical Profession,  stated that
the entire "belief in serum therapy  rests on a foundation  of sand. "Dr.
Benchetrit  even went so far as to say that he considered  vaccines and
sera  to be chiefly responsible  for the increase, of those two really
dangerous  diseases, cancer and  heart disease.  And what is more,  he
added: "I have been for a long time a serologist,  and  I know  what I am
talking about." As for Dr. Beddow Bayly,  he wrote: "So great is the
almost mystical veneration  in which antitoxic sera are held by medical
science,  and  so powerful the commercial  interests which  benefit by
their extended  use,  that it has come to be regarded as a breach of
medical etiquette  to criticise adversely  this form of treatment,  or to 135
 report untoward  results of it. " What extollers of the vaccine treatment
omit  to mention when they  triumphantly  assert that smallpox was
practically  wiped  out in the West by this  means, is that smallpox is a
dirt‐disease, and  that the science of hygiene has vastly improved  since
the days when it was rampant.
Even so, the great Dr. Sydenham,  who pooh‐poohed vaccination,  said
that smallpox was  quite a simple illness to cure,  provided  the patient
was properly nursed.
In view of all this, we may  well  ask whither  Medicine?  " Is the law going
to force the public to submit  to alleged‐to‐be immunisations  against
this or that disease when the medicos themselves  are not even agreed
that such measures  are right, or dare  not agree that they  are wrong?
And presuming  that immunization  does not actua'ly become
compulsory,  that is not going to prevent the authorities  from
persuasively  warning an innocent  public against the "dangers " of not
submitting  to it. At one time The Church persuaded  innocent people
that if they did not bow down to her, they  would have to burn in Hell
for an eternity! But though the autocracy  of the clergy is now more  or
less  a thing of the past, unless we are very firm in asserting our
democratic  rights, we may  be faced  with an even worse  form of
autocracy,  and  that is the autocracy  of what goes under  the name of
Science. And I say advisedly  "goes under  the name," because whilst
true Science  endeavours  to understand  the Laws of Nature,  false
science tries to improve upon Nature  under  the assumption  that man
knows better than Dame Natur'  herself. Thus not only is our  soil
interfered  with but  also the human  body.  Dogmatic  surgeons  have
declared that tonsils, the  appendix and  even the gall‐bladder are 136
 useless organs, and therefore  should be extirpated  in order to prevent
them from  becoming  diseased!  It is only a comparatively  short  time ago
that medical "scientists"  told us that  the pineal  gland and  the pituitary
bony were also useless organs‐and this, merely  because they  had as yet
found no special reason for their existence  in the  human  brain.
Fortunately  for man, they  could not be Excised  without  killing the
patient!
 And yet, are the doctors entirely to blame  for the existing state of
affairs? Certainly a large  number  of individual  doctors find themselves
in a difficult position, Rot many of them admit that they  do not believe
in filling their patients with "pills and potions." But so much has the lay
public been influenced  by prevailing  fads  and  fashions that its all too
ignorant members  demand  "the latest  and most up‐to‐date


body under tougher conditions than water  fast-
ing. The survival -related processes in the body
are much deeper during dry fasting. Not only
does the body have to readjust to a different level
of energy and reserves expenditure, but also to
combat dehydration. Also, during dry fasting we
work through both our fears of living without
food, and of living without water. As a result, we
penetrate much deeper into our inner worlds,
making contact with our deep -seated fears. Con-
sequently, the transformation of our inner world
is much deeper.
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little as 18 -20 hours changes in the blood com-
position and the state of the mucous membranes
become apparent. Healthy body cells begin tak-
ing both nutrition and water from the weak, sick
and alien cells. It’s as if the sick, low -quality cells
dry out and are rejected. Besides, when there's
no aquatic environment, various viruses, bacte-
ria and even helminthes cease to reproduce, and
if fasting lasts for several day s, they leave the
body by themselves or die. This is only a small
part of the processes happening inside us. Dur-
ing dry fasting the mucus accumulated in our
body is destroyed, accordingly, it stops being a
nutrient medium for different pathological mi-
croor ganisms.
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noticeably and very fast. During dry fasting, the
processes aimed at considerable renewal start in-
side our bodies. The renewal begins as soon as
we complete a dry fast. The whole body is re-
newed and rejuvenated. During dry fasting, the
vessels are efficiently cleansed. The mucous
membranes of the stomach and the intestinal ca-
nal, as well as the mouth cavity are well cleansed
and renewed.
A special mood is important for dry fasting. For
the majority of people, it’s psychologically
harder to endure it. Although for many people
who dared and gained such an experience, it is
dry fasting that they switch to in their practice.
Enemas are contraindicated when dry fasting.
Even if the bowels don’t work, they  quickly and
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acceptable to do a small series of enemas before
fasting, especially if you feel that your body is full
of toxins, if you tend to have headaches.
Let’s return to the two kinds of dry fasting.
The first method entails complete giving up of
any contact with water from the inside and from
the outside. The organism is put under the hard-
est critical conditions and activates its hidden in-
ternal reserves for survival. The body begins to
dry out very slowly. The first things that dry out
are our diseases, mucus, viruses, tumors, and
edemas. They dry out because the organism's
cells take nutrition and fluids away from them.
As a result, the cells become strong and very
alive. The consumption of water and fluids de-
creases. The breath is altered. The lungs are
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or more, your sensitivity increases incredibly.
You will start to sense smells acutely, feel fine en-
ergies, people’s states, it will be hard to be in en-
ergetically contaminated spaces and, conversely,
very pleasant to be in clean ones. You begin
dreaming about bodies of water, streams. Some-
times you drink water in your dreams and
quench your thirst. Your mouth, lips, throat,
skin, all get dry. A major ad vantage of this kind
of fasting in particular is the renewal and rejuve-
nation of the skin and the mucous membranes.
The second kind of dry fasting entails giving up
drinking water, but not giving up contact with
water from the outside. Porfiry Ivanov was a  fol-
lower of this method. He advocated dry fasting
every week for 40-42 hours, and showering with
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same time. He  himself fasted in this manner for
long periods of time. Some people, while dry
fasting for several  days, sit in the bathtub for
hours, wash their faces often, and wet their
heads. The external contact with water makes it
easier to endure the fast, making it easier to fast
for longer periods of time. Every contact with
water cleanses the pores, refreshe s, invigorates.
Granted, quite often you’re thirstier afterwards.
The effects of the internal cleansing during the
second kind of fasting are practically the same,
perhaps, a bit weaker. If we gargle with water,
then the mucous membranes are also more
poor ly cleaned. When we come in contact with
water, our skin absorbs the water. Skin feeding
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contact with clean water is desirable.
Based on this state, there is also a combined
type of fasting: dry plus water. Dry fasting for a
day or several, then ending the dry fast, then fast-
ing on water. Fasting on water after dry fasting
is easy and pleasant. I want to stress that water
fasting comes after dry fasting and not vice
versa!! This kind of fasting allows the cells to be-
come imbued with moisture, extending the
cleansing effects. It’s an exotic method, and I
recommend it only to those people who have
fully mastered water fasting and dry fasting, have
extensive experience with these practices.
Dry fasting is limited in duration to a maxi-
mum of 11 days. However, there’s a record in
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fasting.

15.1. Interesting facts: Secrets of Japanese
monks
During the process of aging, the reserve capa-
bilities of all our organs and systems dwindle
with every year. Therefore, in order not to age,
you need to train your reserves, more precisely,
your adaptation reserves. To train means to use
regularly, and they are used, first of all, when
there is something lacking. The organism may
lack food, water, oxygen, and information. Their
conscious, artificial limitation stimulates the use
of the reserve capabilities. If we limit the intake
of food, we’ll get an excellent method of bodily
renewal known since the earliest times —
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food. The aim of such fasting is switching to in-
ternal feeding, i.e. using the reserves. If you stop
the intake of water, too, you will get dry fasting
— an even more effective method of cleansing,
renew al and rejuvenation.
In case of lack of oxygen, for example, in the
conditions of highlands, hypoxia (i.e. oxygen
deprivation) arises. In such a case, a powerful
anti-hypoxic system is mobilized, and its stimu-
lation affects the organism in the most benefi cial
way. As for information, nature provided for pe-
riodic information hunger in the form of night
sleep. It’s hard to overestimate the role of a good
night’s sleep for health and longevity.
If we combine the methods based on re-
striction, then it turns out  that the perfect
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sleep during absolute fasting high in the moun-
tains.
But ‘ There is nothing new under the sun! ’ In an-
cient times in Japan there lived the Yamabushi
monks. It’s the most mysterious of all the s ects
that have ever existed in Japan. Their services
were used by Ninjas — the famous medieval Jap-
anese ‘Special Forces’.
After they had mastered incredible abilities of
walking on the ceiling, fighting with and without
weapons, seeing in the


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People thrive on the raw diet, often telling others how it has improved the ir health and their lives. When people integrate a
proper raw diet with other healthful living practices, they rarely, i f ever, develop weight-control problems or chronic (or even short-
term) illnesses. Health becomes a fact of life.
For millions of years, most humans, and their ancestors, lived a gathere r lifestyle in a tropical environment where large amounts
of easy-to-pick fruit were readily available to meet their nutrition al needs. The human diet was likely entirely plant based and eaten
without the application of fire or heat. Accordingly, the human digesti ve and eliminative tracts developed to process raw fruits and
vegetables for fuel and growth. We are biologically designed to obtain our nu trition from uncooked fruits and vegetables.
Only within the last 10,000 years has cereal agriculture allowed huma ns to trade their frugivorous diets for cooked grain-
based fare. 83  People’s bodies remained the same, but the food they chose to eat beg an to vary for the worse. The human body has
not had sufficient time, evolutionarily speaking, to alter its digesti ve system to meet this fundamental dietary change. The likelihood of
doing so is slim at best, as heated foods are of lower nutritional quality, and c ooking introduces toxic elements. Hence, the
adaptation would be a downward one, and would be technically considered a devolution.

Will eating raw make me healthy?
A proper raw diet will result in improved health, but I must emphasize tha t the body, not food, creates health. Food does not
build; the body builds. Food does not cleanse; the body cleanses. Good health, after al l, is the result of a healthy lifestyle.
The raw diet is but one component of healthful living. Adequate rest and s leep, regular, vigorous physical activity, plenty of
fresh air, sunlight, a positive outlook on life, and many other factors are a lso essential to creating good health.

Why didn’t the 80/10/10 diet work for me? People come to me at times having tried this method of eating unsuccess fully. Upon examination, I have found almost
invariably that they were not actually doing what I recommend. As I t ruly desire to see people succeed, I want to mention here
several key factors that people often overlook when adopting the 80/10/10  lifestyle.
You are not following 80/10/10 if:

Less than 2% of your total calories come from vegetables and leafy green s. For true health, I recommend consuming 2 to 6%
of calories from leafy greens. For 4% of your calories to come from vegetable s on a 2000-calorie diet, you would have to eat
roughly a pound of greens per day.
Your caloric intake is insufficient to maintain your desired body weigh t.
You burn less than 40% of your total calories through physical activity ( at least 800 calories per day if you average 2,000
calories).
Y our habitual sleep pattern doesn’t meet your body’s needs.
You eat all day long rather than one to four meals a day.
You lack emotional poise (your lifestyle is sufficiently stressful  to cause your system ongoing adrenal exertion).
You expose your fully (or substantially) unclothed skin to moderate sunli ght less than 30 minutes per day. (Our bodies require
approximately 15 minutes of sunlight exposure per day to produce sufficient  vitamin D. I would consider 30 minutes a day a
healthful minimum… remember, our species wasn’t designed to live i ndoors.)

Why do people “fail” on the raw diet?
The most common reason for lack of success with the raw diet is the overal l poor health of the new raw fooders who
unknowingly obtains most of his or her daily calories from raw fat sources. This occurs even as they eat what they consider a
tremendous amount of vegetables, because vegetables contain so few cal ories.
The components of fatty foods are not a match for human nutritional needs. E ating a high-fat diet paves the way to a wide
variety of health issues that have their basis in nutritional in sufficiency.
Eating sweet-fruit carbohydrates in insufficient volume to produce  a feeling of satiation results predictably in carbohydrate
cravings and disordered eating behaviors. Almost every raw fooders who goe s back to eating cooked foods find himself eating
cooked carbohydrates—bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, corn, lentils, and bean s—time and again, until they figure out that they simply
are not eating anywhere near enough fruit. If they don’t go back to cooked s tarches (and the fats that make them taste good), they
are generally driven to eating concentrated and refined carbohydrate s such as candy, chocolate, alcohol, pastries, cookies, or dried
fruits. This same scenario—caused by underconsuming the whole- food simple sugars in fruit—is equally true for people on the
cooked standard American diet who find themselves suffering from crav ings and disordered eating.
The other significant reason that people fail on the raw diet is emotion al. Here, I discuss two common variants on the
“emotional eating” theme. The first involves using food to suppress our  ability to feel. The second involves using food to evoke
certain feelings.
Let’s take the “numbing out” scenario first. Cooked food does not really comfor t us, as we are led to believe, but it certainly
does numb us from feeling. Rather than making us feel good, it inhibits our a bility to fully feel anything at all.
Unconsciously, we have learned to push down our emotions with heavy foods tha t require too much nerve energy to allow for
both digestion and intense emoting to occur simultaneously. W e are not just imagining things: this process of “numbing out” is very
real, in a physiological sense. With the exception of strenuous physica l activity, the two most energy-expensive tasks our bodies
commonly undertake are breaking down foods in combinations that have a high di gestive demand and processing intense emotions.
In general, we must do one or the other.
We have all had the experience of completely losing our appetite because  of an intense emotional upset. This occurs when the
emotional component edges out the digestive task. Conversely, when digest ion takes priority (which occurs almost every time we
eat heavily), we experience an emotional numbing, a lack of feeling. In  a world full of emotional pain and physical discomfort,
numbness can easily be misinterpreted as comfort.
This might occur when a person gets into an argument and then drowns hi mself in a pint of ice cream because he is so filled
with anger and frustration. A raw fooders in the same scenario may tu rn instead to nuts and dried fruits, but in both cases what really
needs to happen is to bring out and accept these emotions.
As one lightens the digestive load by switching to raw foods, the body suddenly  has more nerve energy to conduct emotions,
and emotions suppressed over the years begin to emerge. This unexpected ch allenge proves overwhelming for many people. Until
people learn to properly deal with their emotional baggage, it is likely tha t eating raw foods will allow uncomfortable emotions to
surface. They will find themselves going back to eating cooked foods for th e emotional “comfort” that they bring.
Emotional acceptance means that without distraction from televisi on, books, friends, music, food, etc. we sit quietly and
actually feel the emotion with full intensity where it lies wit hin our body. When instead we try to hide or distract ourselves from painful thoughts and feelings, we only suppress them more deeply, to be felt  (generally with greater intensity) at a later date. It is
important to realize that without the “negative” emotions, we could e xperience no “positive” emotions, as they are two sides of the
same coin. They are a part of us like all other parts, and by rejecting them  we only turn away from an aspect of ourselves that is
demanding our undivided attention.
The second type of emotional eating involves felt attachments to speci fic cooked foods. Such attachments often originate from
an attempt to recreate a past event or moment in our lives that we reme mber as positive and yearn to experience again. People often
find these emotions very difficult to overcome.
In the same way that drug addicts never successfully duplicate th e unique “high” of their first drug experience, no matter how
many times they try, eating cooked food never quite generates that speci fic emotional experience we are looking for. Instead, we get
disappointed, and then we eat more cooked food to numb our awareness of the disappointme nt.
It takes a lot of insight to understand that although those emotions are i mportant and the experiences were valuable, eating
cooked food will not bring them back. We must let them go and generate new positiv e experiences in the present moment.
People who are emotionally attached to cooked foods aren’t actually addicte d to them, since it is physiologically impossible to
be addicted to something that is harmful to us. The body simply is not put togeth er that way. It is designed to thrive and cannot
become addicted to a harmful substance. The human psyche, however, can becom e very much addicted to the shift in perception
that occurs after we ingest certain substances. A yearning for t hat shift in perception is the ever-present illusion that lures


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the surface.
92. Slick Your Snow Shovel
Clearing heavy, wet, clumping snow can be backbreaking work, especially when it clings to your shovel,
building up and weighing it down. To keep the snow sliding effortlessly off your shovel, rub a thin layer of
coconut oil over it. Reapply as needed-usually 1-2 times a week, depending on how often you’re shoveling.
If you have a toasty heated garage, keep the shovel some place cooler to prevent the oil layer from simply melting off.
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I grew up trying to climb the old pine tree in my backyard which, naturally, got me covered in sap. It was my
Dad who first showed me that mayonnaise could magically get that pesky sticky sap off your hands, and it only
made sense when I learned that coconut oil could do the same. I am not sure why, but rubbing the sappy spot
with coconut oil and then rinsing with warm soapy water does wonders!
94. Unstick a Zipper
It’s a problem when you can’t get your pants zipper up before an important meeting, nor is it fun being stuck yanking on your toddler’s stubborn jacket zipper while they look at you like “aren’t you supposed to be able to
solve all the problems in the world? What’s taking you so long?” Avoid both of these unfortunate situations-
apply a bit of coconut oil on the jammed zipper, rub it in a bit, and it should glide with ease.
95. Grease a Bicycle Chain
If you want to try “green grease” try a little bit of coconut oil on your bike chain to keep it running smoothly. A thick layer is not needed, as coconut oil solidifies temperatures under 76 degrees Fahrenheit, and you don’t
want to gum up your chain.
96. Shape Your Beard/’Stache
If you’re going to for a sleek, styled look, use a little bit of coconut oil to shape your beard or mustache into
your desired look.
97. Cheekbone Highlighter
Highlighting your cheeks gives you that little extra glow that people can’t quite place, but definitely notice. Apply a small amount of coconut oil the same as you would another cheekbone cream to give yourself a
naturally beautiful glow.
98. After Wax Moisturizer
Since it works so well to moisturize after shaving, it only makes sense that applying coconut oil after waxing
would help prevent those pesky bumps and potentially ingrown hairs.
99. Preserve Eggs
Paint a thin coating of coconut oil over the eggshell to preserve quality and extend shelf-life. The oil prevents degradation from exposure to oxygen, and studies have found that the oil coating maintained an AA grade up
to 3 weeks after storage, as opposed to when a glycerol coating was used. The grade refers to the Haugh unit,
which measures the quality of the egg protein in the white.
100. Maintain Lawn Mower Blades
Apply a thin layer of coconut oil over clean lawn mower blades to prevent grass clumps from sticking and jamming the mower.
Get a FREE 15oz Jar of Organic Coconut Oil - just pay $1.95 S&H!101. Grease Baking Pans
There’s nothing like slaving over a beautiful baked good and then watching it crumble as you try to take it out
of the pan. Avoid this heartbreak by greasing pans lightly with coconut oil first.
102. Clean Makeup Brushes
Preserve your delicate make up brushes by cleaning them with coconut oil. Simply melt down some of the oil in a glass and dip the brush into the liquid, coating it thoroughly. Then gently swirl the brush on a paper towel
or wash cloth until the color or product is gone. Rinse under warm water, and dry. Any bit of residue tends to
make the bristles quite soft, but you can also use a mild soap and water to remove it if you find it bothersome.
103. Eyelash Enhancement
Long thick eyelashes are something many people desire, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to come by. To get those luscious upturned ‘lashes, apply a little bit of coconut oil to your eyelashes nightly. The proteins can help
encourage growth and seal in moisture, preventing brittleness and breakage.
104. Lubricate Kitchen Appliances
Rub a thin layer over the blades of kitchen appliances to keep them running smoothly. Be sure to store in a
cool place so the layer stays firm.
105. Mane & Tail Conditioner
Like you, horses can benefit from coconut oil as well. A thick, healthy, flowing mane and tail are wonderful to behold but for those with horses, well, we know it’s not always an easy thing to achieve that look. They get
dirty, rubbed out, and downright ratty looking. Coconut oil can help get you closer to that luxurious tail, but
things will get worse before they get better. Clean the tail/mane thoroughly and run in a very liberal amount of coconut oil. It will look greasy and, quite frankly, unappealing. Do this for 5-7 days, and then rinse clean with
shampoo. Prepare for a shiny, silken, soft mane and tail. It can also help ease irritation from things like sweet
itch that may cause your horse to rub.
106. Target Eczema and Psoriasis
Eczema and psoriasis, while not the same thing, are both generally red, irritated, often times chronic skin diseases, and both are uncomfortable. Use coconut oil to target patches of your body that are being affected,
and rub on a thin layer to keep the area moisturized and healthy, while also fighting off fungus or bacteria that
could set in as a secondary infection if you’ve been scratching.
107. Reduce Dandruff
If you suffer from true dandruff (as opposed to just dry scalp) it is possible that you have an overgrowth of a common fungus on the scalp. Use coconut oil 2-3 times a week to provide some anti-fungal action to help keep
the itching and flakes at bay.
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* * *Chapter 5
Nutrition Protocols that Remineralize and Repair
Cavities
Hippocrates believed in
vis medicatrix naturae
 – Nature’s innate ability to heal. Weston Price also
acknowledged this same principle, concluding that “Life in all its fullness is this mother nature
obeyed.”
1
 All you need to do to heal cavities is understand Nature’s rules for health, and then follow
them. When you follow these rules, the built-in ability for your teeth to heal will take over. Dr.
Price’s tooth decay prevention protocol has shown a success rate of over 90%.
2
 To heal your teeth,
align yourself with this subtle natural force, and change how you eat.Nature’s Rules for Healing Teeth
Let us review some key points of the book thus far to help you align with and understand the
principles that govern the functions of your body and teeth:

Tooth decay is caused by environmental forces such as food; you have complete control over
your diet.
“Dangerous” bacteria are not the cause of cavities and do not randomly attack innocent victims.
Our modern diet is deficient in fat-soluble vitamins and minerals needed for healthy teeth and
bones.
Tooth decay occurs when your body chemistry falls out of balance and your body sends
hormonal signals that tell your teeth to stop remineralizing. The imbalance is caused by blood
sugar spikes and a disruption in your calcium and phosphorous metabolism. Eating plenty of
vegetables, limiting your sugar intake, eating enough proteins and a diet that includes plenty of
fat-soluble vitamins usually resolves this imbalance.
Dentists are surgeons who treat the symptoms of dental disease with surgery. Dental treatments
usually provide only short term results. Dentistry has never promised to remineralize cavities or
to prevent future cavities.Remineralize Your Teeth with Diet
In the previous chapter I presented detailed dietary instructions on what to eat and why in order to
remineralize your carious teeth. We learned about Nature’s health principles by examining the diets
of indigenous peoples across the globe. I will now compile several highly effective dietary programs
based upon decades of research performed by some of the world’s best dentists including Weston
Price and Melvin Page. I will also draw upon the lifetime of dental experience of dentist George
Heard, and the decades of controlled feeding experiments by doctors Edward and May Mellanby. In
addition these programs are brought together using volumes of research from dental and nutritional
publications as well as from my personal experience of five years in helping people remineralize
their teeth with diet.
Each program presented here may have new tips, tricks and ideas for you to learn. You will also find
meal ideas and recipes in the next chapter. Nothing in this chapter is meant to replace your innate
knowledge. If something does not feel right, or does not work for you, then please change these
guidelines to fit what feels the best for you. I will offer a basic program that is easiest to follow, a
balanced program designed for most readers, and an advanced as well as a vegetarian program.
Each program involves several important aspects to heal tooth decay. I want you to understand the
structure so you can cr
eat
e the type of diet you want.

1
.
Add fat-soluble vitamins A, D and Activator X to the diet.
2
.
Consume portions of protein throughout the day to balance blood sugar.
3
.
Avoid or reduce modern denatured foods.
4
.
Eat foods to increase mineral intake, particularly broth, dairy products and vegetables.
For simplicity’s sake I will consistently recommend Green Pasture’s™ products in these programs.
You can use the guidelines in chapter two to find substitute sources of fat-soluble vitamins to your
liking. Green Pasture’s™ products can be purchased at:
codliveroilshop.comBalanced Tooth Decay Remineralizing Program
Food Intake Suggestions

½ teaspoon two or three times per day of Green Pasture’s™ Blue Ice™ Royal Blend
2-4 cups of raw, whole-fat dairy per day in the form of milk, kefir, whey, yogurt, clabber, or
buttermilk. You can substitute about two ounces of cheese for every cup of fluid dairy. Also
consider an eggnog smoothie as described in the next chapter.
2-4 ounces of raw cheese
1-2 cups of homemade gelatin-rich bone broth per day from any animal including beef, chicken,
and fish.
6-18 ounces of high quality animal protein throughout the day and prepared for maximum
digestion including stews, or raw, seared or marinated variations. Beef, chicken, pork, fish,
lamb, eggs and so on. Have some protein with every meal. Divide your ideal weight by 15 for
your minimum daily protein requirement in ounces.
Plenty of cooked vegetables including but not limited to beet greens, kale, chard, zucchini,
broccoli, celery, and string beans. These can be consumed as soups. I provide a mineral-rich
recipe for an Ayurvedic Green Drink in the next chapter.
At least once per day have something fermented such as kefir, yogurt or sauerkraut.
1 teaspoon or more of healthy fat with every meal. The fat can be raw or cooked. Grass-fed
butter or ghee is preferred. Other animal fats like lard or tallow are also good choices.
Twice per week eat a comfortable amount of liver from any animal.
Twice per week choose one shellfish or other organ of land animals. Here are some suggestions:
Oysters, clams, crab or lobster (consumed with innards), whole crayfish
Fish eggs
1 – 3 tablespoons of bone marrow
Animal tongue or kidneys from any animal
You might want more carbohydrates in this type of diet. If you need more see if sweet potatoes or
yams work for you. You may also use phytate-free grains like sourdough bread made from unbleached
flour (bran and germ removed). If your diet includes grains that are soured to remove phytates, please
review the grains section in the previous chapter to make sure you are using grains mindfully.
Foods to Avoid in All Protocols
Even with a healthy diet, some foods on this list will cause a tooth disaster. Other foods may not be
that bad for your teeth if consumed on occasion. The details on these foods were discussed in the
previous chapter. The more you avoid these foods, the more completely your teeth can remineralize.
I have received some complaints that the food protocols presented in the previous edition of this book
are too strict or complicated to follow. My job is to share with you my best understanding of Nature’s
principles for health so that you can activate your body’s natural tooth and gum healing abilities.
Please do not interpret this as me dictating to you what you can and cannot eat. You are always free to
do whatever you want with your life including eating foods that can be toxic to your body. If youcannot follow the recommendations on this list, or believe that I have made mistakes, or feel that you
deserve to eat foods on the “avoid” list, then know that such a decision may affect your ability to heal
your teeth. The more disciplined you are in avoiding foods that cause or aggravate deficiency states in
your body the more successful you will be in healing cavities quickly. How you translate that teaching
into action is totally your choice. I suggest giving these guidelines your best attempt, and then judge
how you feel.
Avoid sweets and foods sweetened with these items
 – white sugar, cane sugar, evaporated cane
juice, xylitol, agave nectar, jams, dried fruit, candy bars, health food bars, yacon syrup, erythritol, lo
han, palm sugar, coconut sugar, stevia extract, glycerin, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, inulin,
fructooligosaccharides (FOS), brown rice syrup, malted barley and grain sweeteners, maltodextrin,
sucrose, dextrose, sucralose, aspartame, and saccharine. If you do not know what the sweetener is
then avoid it.
Acceptable sweets
 – Unheated honey, organic maple syrup (grade B preferred), real cane sugar
(Heavenly Organics™ or Rapunzel’s), stevia (actual herb only; no stevia extracts), whole fruit
including dates or fresh squeezed fruit juice but not fruit extracts or concentrates


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, where the temperature did not drop to below 0 ° C. otherwise
If cells are irreversibly injured tissue formed
the freezing of ice crystals. Crayfish, completely unaware of
the kind of strong reaction in people cause their peaceful winter
rookery, burrow into the mud at the bottom of ponds. Males usually hibernate
groups in the deep wells at the bottom, while females - one at a time in burrows.
True, this loneliness will not name because of their short
legs of females bonded with 50 to 500 pieces of fertilized eggs
of which hatch in early summer, crustaceans the size of an ant.
If the sludge is frozen, crawfish do not perish and come to life during thawing. Not
they fear and a long stay without water, gradually replacing
it in the gills of the air with a characteristic sound (which is why they say that
out of water crayfish whisper, as if saying goodbye to each other).
There in the mud spend the winter water snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Land
snails after the accumulation of essential nutrients
dig burrows, where several wintering could together
"Nap" deep underground at a temperature of 7-8 ° C. Well
cork shelter, they descend to the bottom of the hole and lie
shell up, which, however, also delayed the mucous
substance. With a significant cold snap snails burrow more
deeper, forming a new film and airbags, which play a role
excellent insulator. All metabolic processes are dramatically during
month decay to reach the minimum at which
animal runs almost in a state of suspended animation with subtle
vital functions. and so from October until early April.
16
16Insect attack of the winter season catches at different stages of their
development: in the form of eggs, larvae, pupae or adults. Each
form has developed its own approach - at what stage is better to "sleep off".
For example, the ladybird and the anopheles mosquito overwinter only in the
adulthood, and aphids - in the eggshell. But there are those
that any form of hibernation for good. That's at least home
flies - they spend the winter in the form of larvae and pupae in the form (in warm
dung piles) and in adulthood. Duration of sleep
also different: the butterfly peacock eyes in a state of suspended animation
five and a half months at a temperature of about 6 ° C, and mulberry
moth to a month longer at 8,6 ° C.
Ever since the first signs of cooling off insects
find it convenient to shelter under rocks, bark of trees, fallen
foliage, in soil, where after a snowfall remains moderately
low and uniform temperature. At 0 ° C metabolism of these
slows to a crawl: respiration is suppressed, the rate of oxidation
processes is reduced by 10-15 times. To survive such wintering
preceded by some preparation: accumulate stocks
fat (they go up to 18% of body weight), the body as much as possible
dehydrated (larva Galician water content drops from 65 to
20%). Some species of insects capable of carrying very low
temperature, such as the meadow moth caterpillars, which
keep the spark of life to minus 30 ° C! But this is the exception rather
and not everyone is on the shoulder. Bees, for example, do not fall
into a prolonged hibernation, the stock of accumulated fat does not exceed
1,5-2%. Still, at temperatures from 0 to 6 ° C otsepenevayut in this
state may be 7-8 days. At lower temperatures
they die. Unfortunately for many lower animals, nature does not
provided them with tracking mechanism, and a poor choice
wintering numbness often goes into its logical
continued.
Strangeness of the black fish.
Peculiar reaction to a sudden drop in temperature
water, some species of fish - they fall into a state of shock. After
brief excitement phase cease to breathe, swim and look
as dead. Enough, however, that the water warmed, and they quickly
alive. Detrimental to fish was cooling, resulting in
to the formation of blood and tissues of ice crystals, damaging
walls of blood vessels. Back to life, they can only
in that case, if the freeze applied only to
superficial tissues. When the fish some time living from
supply of oxygen in the swim bladder (the assumption that
frozen fish breathe with gills, it was insolvent).
One of the most adapted to a cold fish - the so-called black
Fish - lives in rivers, lakes and peat bogs of Alaska and Chukotka.
Severe climate allows her to recover for a short summer
period, which she uses for breeding. The rest of the
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17, the fish and freeze in burrow into the mud. If the temperature of liquid
the body does not fall below - 0,3 ° C, with slow thawing, they
alive. If the blood is frozen - fish die. Local people
uses the fish as food for dogs. They say that if the dog
swallow whole frozen fish, then shortly after that she
Defrosting in the stomach and begins to irritate his wall.
in such cases, the dog usually burps fish, and if she gets
in water, then immediately floats serenely.
From freshwater fishes in November in hibernation fall
Carp, ruff, perch, catfish and others. When water temperature drops below
8-10 ° C, these fish move to deeper parts of the reservoir, the so-
called wintering holes, buried in large groups
in the mud and remain in a state of torpor throughout the winter.
this time in the carp heart rate slows down instead of the normal
25-30 beats per minute to 2-3, and his breath - up to 3-4 breaths per minute.
An interesting device has a sturgeon, starlet and beluga -
their bodies upon the occurrence of extreme cold enveloped with mucus,
protecting from adverse effects of environmental
environment, and they fall into hibernation. Some species
herbivorous fish (grass carp, silver carp) are also over-winter
groups covered by a thick layer of mucus. Part of the marine fish, too
tolerate severe frosts in a dream state. Herring in the autumn
close to the coast of the Arctic Ocean, to sleep on
the bottom of a small creek. Even the Black Sea anchovy
moves to the southern regions - Georgian coast and the adjacent coast
Asia Minor, at which time the fish is weakly active, and food does not use.
Salamander from the eternal ice.
Amphibians are prepared in advance for winter, summer accumulating
nutrient stores. And in the fall with a decrease in daytime
temperature to 8-12 ° C, and night to 3-5 ° C are sent to places
next winter, sometimes breaking a few miles. One
Most of them overwinter under water, the other - on land. Under water winter
lake, grass, quick, long-legged frog. Going
groups of 10-20 eggs (sometimes up to 100) of different sex and age as well
sometimes even different species, and buried in mud or submerged hollow.
With such a group wintering level of metabolism in frogs almost
40% lower than in the wintering alone. During hibernation
frogs breathe only through the skin, heart rate slows, but still, even though
and extremely slowly, amphibians grow and their sex cells
ripen. And dream they have shallow, and under adverse
conditions, they may move to another place in the same pond.
The main thing is to happen on time, because the most significant
danger for them lies in the lack of oxygen. For very severe
winters happens even mass mortality of amphibians, especially when
ponds in which they overwinter, freeze to the bottom. Therefore,
they prefer fast flowing rivers and creeks, streams, canals
and lakes with rivers flowing into them, that is, choose water,
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18oxygen-rich. during hibernation in amphibians sharply
increases the diameter of blood vessels in the skin, through which
they breathe.
On land, spend the winter green and gray toad, common
tree frog, spadefoot toad, yellow-bellied Bombina bombina, salamanders. They
hibernate in large groups at the foot of the cliffs, in crevices of rocks
and among tree roots, in holes dug by other animals,
under a thick layer of leaves and moss. Some species are even capable of
burrowing into the ground.
Newts different species overwinter on land and under water. The first
usually arranged under rotten stumps and fallen tree trunks
trees, and if you do not find such comfortable apartments, is being met
cracks in the soil. Of particular interest are the Siberian
Triton - salamander inhabiting the vast territory of the Kamchatka
and Sakhalin Island to the Urals. This is the only caudate amphibian
north of the Arctic Circle. Even at 0 ° C, it can still move,
and some individual whales salamander tolerate cooling
(Of course, in a state of torpor) to -37 ° C. Geologists and builders
newts were found, frozen into ice


 (arctiopicrin)
■ Flavonoids (arctiin)
■ Tannins
■ Polyacetylenes
■ Volatile oil
■ Inulin (up to 45%)
■ LignansBurdock
A biennial, with
stems that grow to 5 ft
(1.5 m), reddish-purple
flower heads, and
hooked bracts.
Key Actions
■ Detoxifying
■ Mild diuretic
■ Antibiotic
■ Antiseptic
■ Anti-inflammatory
Research
■ Antibiotic  Studies in Germany
(1967) and Japan (1986) showed
that the polyacetylenes, especially
within the fresh root, have an
antibiotic effect.
■ Other research  Burdock has
antibacterial and antifungal properties,
and diuretic and hypoglycemic
(lowering blood-sugar levels) effects.
It also seems to have an anti-tumor
action. Recent studies suggest
the seeds are anti-inflammatory,
antioxidant, and hepatoprotective.
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ History  Burdock was a
traditional remedy for gout, fevers,
and kidney stones. In the 17th century,
Culpeper wrote, “The seed is much
commended to break the stone and
cause it to be expelled by urine.” Burdock in its first year produces a rosette
of large leaves.
Infusion  of seeds (to make, p. 291). Use as a wash for acne and boils. ■ Cleansing herb  Burdock is used
in both Western and Chinese herbal
medicine as a detoxifying herb. The
seeds are used to remove toxins in
fevers and infections such as mumps
and measles, and the root helps the
body to eliminate waste products in
chronic skin and arthritic conditions.
■ Skin problems  Burdock’s
diuretic, antibiotic, and mildly bitter
actions make it helpful for skin
disorders, especially where toxicity
is a key factor, such as in acne,
abscesses, local skin infections,
eczema, and psoriasis.
■ Combination remedies
Burdock is rarely used on its own
in remedies. It is generally mixed with
herbs such as dandelion ( Taraxacum
officinale, p. 141) or yellow dock
(Rumex crispus, p. 264). These help
the body to remove accumulated
waste products drawn out of tissues
by burdock’s detoxifying action. Use
of burdock alone can cause a flare-up
of skin conditions such as eczema.
Self-help Uses
■ Acne & boils, p. 305.
■ Skin rashes, p. 303.
Cautions Very rarely can cause contact dermatitis.Parts Used Key Preparations & Their Uses
Fruit is covered
in hooked bracts
Dried root  is
most used to aid
detoxification.
Seeds  have
cleansing
and diuretic
properties.
Dried leavesFresh leaves
SeedsLeaves and fruit  (containing seeds)
are harvested in late summer.
Remedy  For pimples, make
a decoction ( see p. 291) with
2 tsp burdock root and 5 tsp
dandelion root. Drink 3⁄4 cup
(150 ml) twice a day. Dandelion
Burdock
Tincture  of root (to make, p. 292).
For arthritis and skin disorders,
take 20 drops diluted with water
2–3 times a day for up to 4 weeks.
Decoction  of root (to make, p. 291) is an alternative to tincture for
arthritis and skin disorders. Drink 7 tsp once a day for up to 4 weeks.
Poultice  of leaves (to make, p. 295). Apply to abscesses and boils.
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66ArtemisiA  A bsinthiumKey medicinal plantsArtemisia absinthium (Asteraceae)
WormwoodWormwood
A perennial reaching  3 ft (1 m), with gray-green stems and feathery leaves, both covered in fine hairs.
Wormwood is strongly aromatic
and was used to flavor many alcoholic drinks.
Habitat & Cultivation
Wormwood is a wayside plant, native to
Europe. It now grows wild in central Asia and in eastern parts of the U.S. It is also cultivated in temperate regions worldwide. Wormwood is propagated from seed in spring or by dividing the roots in autumn. The aerial parts are harvested in late summer.
Related Species
Artemisia species with a medicinal  use include A. abrotanum (p. 172);
A. annua (p. 67); A. anomala;
A. capillaris and A. cina (p. 172);
A. vulgaris and A. dracunculus (p. 173).
Key Constituents
■ Volatile oil containing
 sesquiterpene lactones (artabsin,   anabsinthin); thujone; azulenes
■ Flavonoids
■ Polyphenols
■ Lignans
Key Actions
■ Aromatic bitter
■ Stimulates secretion of bile■ Anti-inflammatory
■ Eases stomach pain
■ Mild antidepressant
■ Antimicrobial
■ Antiparasitic
Research
■ Bitter herb Research into
wormwood, mostly during the 1970s, has established that a range of
the constituents within the plant contributes to its medicinal activity. Many are very bitter, affecting the bitter taste receptors on the tongue which sets off a reflex action, stimulating stomach and other digestive secretions.
■ Gut inflammation A German
clinical trial in 2007 found that wormwood helped in treating Crohn’s disease (an inflammatory bowel disorder). Wormwood prevented the return of symptoms in 90% of those taking it, and reduced required dosage of powerful steroid drugs taken to control inflammation. Patients also experienced lower levels of depression.
■ Other research Constituents
within wormwood, notably the essential oil, are thought to have wide-ranging therapeutic effects, including neuroprotective, antidepressant, antibacterial, antifungal, and antimalarial activity.
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Absinthe Wormwood is the
source of absinthe, an addictive
drink favored in 19th-century
France. Flavored with wormwood essential oil, absinthe was toxic due  to its high level of thujone. This is  a nerve stimulant that is safe at low dosage but is toxic in excess.
■ Digestive stimulant
Wormwood is an extremely useful medicine for those with weak and underactive digestion. It increases stomach acid and bile production and therefore improves digestion and the absorption of nutrients, making it helpful for many conditions, including anemia. Wormwood also eases gas and bloating and, if the tincture is taken regularly, it slowly strengthens digestion and helps the body return to full vitality and wellness after a prolonged illness. Parts Used
Key Preparations & Their Uses
■ Worms Wormwood is commonly
used by herbalists and naturopaths  to treat parasitic infections of the gut, such as worm infestation, amebic dysentery, and Shigella infection.
■ Traditional insect repellent
Wormwood is a good insecticide and insect repellent.
■ Other uses The anti-inflammatory
action of wormwood makes it useful for infections, and it has occasionally been given as an antidepressant.
Self-help Uses
■ Anemia, p. 301.
■ High fever, p. 311.One of the truly bitter plants—absinthium means
“without sweetness”—wormwood has a strong tonic effect on the digestive system, especially on the stomach and gallbladder. It is taken in small doses and sipped, the intensely bitter taste playing an important part in its therapeutic effect. In the past, wormwood was one of  the main flavorings of vermouth (whose name derives from the German for wormwood).
 RCautions T ake only under professional supervision. T ake only in small doses,
generally for no more than 4 –5 weeks at a time. Do not take during pregnancy.Aerial parts contain
bitter substances and have a wide range of medicinal uses.
Aerial parts
are used as
an insect
repellent
Fresh
aerial parts
Fresh leaves Dried aerial parts
Infusion made from wormwood can be
taken in small doses to stimulate appetite.Tincture is used to treat
chronic digestive infections.
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Infusion  is strongly bitter. Herbalists
use it to treat headaches and fever.Tincture  is prescribed to prevent malaria.
It is also used to treat the illness itself.Artemisia annua  (Asteraceae)
Sweet Annie, Qing Hao
Until the 1970s, sweet Annie was regarded as just another
Artemisia, though one used in traditional Chinese medicine
for treating malaria. After extensive research, sweet Annie
and its key constituent artemisinin were shown to have
powerful antimalarial activity and few side effects.
Artemisinin rapidly became the key treatment for severe


alsy (facial
paralysis). Nux vomica is a common
homeopathic remedy prescribed
mainly for digestive problems,
sensitivity to cold, irritability,
and melancholia.Research  In a Chinese clinical trial, a paste
made from nux vomica seeds was applied to
15,000 patients with Bell’s palsy. The treatment
was reported to have been effective in more
than 80% of the cases.
Related Species  Many Strychnos  species are
equally potent and have been used as arrow poisons.
 RCautions  T ake nux vomica only in
homeopathic preparations. This herb and strychnine
are subject to legal restrictions in most countries.
Styrax benzoin (Styraceae)
Benzoin Gum
Description  Shrubby deciduous tree growing to
30 ft (9 m). Has pointed oval leaves and clusters of
white, fragrant, bell-shaped flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to Southeast
Asia, benzoin grows in tropical rainforests. It is
also cultivated for its gum, which exudes from
incisions made in the bark of trees that are at
least 7 years old.
Part Used  Gum.
Constituents  Benzoin gum contains variable
quantities of cinnamic, benzoic, and sumaresinolic
acid esters, free acids (such as benzoic acid),
benzaldehyde, and vanillin.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Benzoin gum is
strongly antiseptic and astringent. It may be used
externally on wounds and ulcers to tighten and
disinfect the affected tissue. When taken internally,
benzoin gum acts to settle cramping, to stimulate
coughing, and to disinfect the urinary tract. Benzoin
gum is an ingredient of Friar’s Balsam, an antiseptic
and expectorant steam inhalation for sore throats,
head and chest colds, asthma, and bronchitis.
Nux vomica  is used in
homeopathic preparations.Seeds
Swertia chirata  (Gentianiaceae)
Chiretta,
Chirayata (Hindi)
Description  Annual, growing to about 3 ft
(1 m), with a much-branched stem, smooth,
pointed, lance-shaped leaves, and numerous
purple-tinged, pale green flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation  Chiretta grows at
high altitudes in northern India and Nepal. The
whole herb is harvested while in flower.
Parts Used  Whole herb.
Constituents  Chiretta contains xanthones,
bitter iridoids (including amarogentin), alkaloids,
and flavones.
History & Folklore  Chiretta was a
common treatment for malaria, until Peruvian
bark ( Cinchona  spp., p. 83) became readily
available in Europe and Asia. Stillingia sylvatica (Euphorbiaceae)
Queen’s Delight
Description  Perennial growing to 1.2 m (4 ft).
Has leathery leaves, yellow flowers without petals,
and 3-lobed fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation  Queen’s delight is
native to the southeastern U.S., where it prefers
sandy soils. The root is unearthed in autumn.
Part Used  Root.
Constituents  Queen’s delight contains
diterpenes, fixed oil, volatile oil, resin, and
tannins. The fresh root is considered to
be most active.
History & Folklore  Queen’s delight
was used by Native Americans as a
purgative, a treatment for skin eruptions,
and a remedy for venereal disease.
Creek women who had just
given birth took a decoction
of the root or were bathed with
an infusion. Queen’s delight was
included in the Pharmacopoeia of
the United States  from 1831 to 1926.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Queen’s
delight appears to promote general detoxification.
It is taken internally to help clear constipation,
boils, weeping eczema, and scrofula (tubercular
infection of the lymph glands of the neck). The
root is also taken to treat bronchitis and throat
infection. Externally, it is applied as a lotion to
hemorrhoids, eczema, and psoriasis.
 QCautions  Use only under professional
supervision. Queen’s delight is emetic and
purgative in large doses.
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274
other medicinal plantsSymplocarpuS  foetiduS
and bronchitis. The root was also employed as
a poultice to draw splinters and thorns, to heal wounds, and to relieve headaches. It was much used in America in the 19th century.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Skunk cabbage
continues to be used primarily as an expectorant, treating cases of asthma, bronchitis, and whooping cough. It is also taken for upper respiratory problems such as nasal congestion and hayfever. Less commonly, skunk cabbage is used as a treatment for epilepsy, headaches, vertigo, and rheumatic problems, and to stop bleeding.
Cautions  Handling fresh skunk cabbage may
cause the skin to blister. Excessive doses can bring on nausea and vomiting, headaches, and dizziness.
Syzygium cumini (Myrtaceae)
Jambul
Description  Evergreen tree growing to 33 ft
(10 m). Has lance-shaped leaves and green-yellow flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation A native of southern
Asia and Australia, jambul is now also found in tropical regions of Africa. The tree is cultivated commercially for its fruit and is propagated from seed or semiripe cuttings in summer. It requires well-drained soil and plenty of sun. The fruit is harvested when ripe.
Parts Used Fresh and dried fruit, seeds.
Constituents  Jambul contains triterpenes,
anthocyanins, flavonoids, and volatile oil.
History & Folklore  Jambul is a typical
example of a medicinal plant that is both food  and medicine. The fruit when ripe has the scent and taste of a ripe apricot and is eaten as a preserve. While both fruit and seed have a  tonic and astringent effect on the digestion,  the seeds have long traditional use in Ayurveda  as a preventative and treatment for diabetes.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Following
traditional use, jambul continues to be employed for a wide variety of health problems. The powdered seed is commonly taken to treat diabetes and the frequent urination that accompanies it, as well as a remedy for mouth ulcers, stomachache, diarrhea, dysentery, and worms. Case reports over the last 100 years and more recent pharmacological research supports the use of jambul for diabetes and poor blood glucose control. It is thought to lower blood-sugar levels by about 30%.
Related Species  Many other closely related
species have notable therapeutic activity. Cloves  (Eugenia caryophyllata, p. 97) are taken for digestive problems and to treat infection. Syzygium gerrardii from South Africa and Luma chequen from Chile are used to treat coughs and congestion.Medicinal Actions & Uses  A strongly bitter
herb, chiretta is powerful medicine for a weak stomach, especially when linked to nausea, indigestion, and bloating. It is taken in small, frequent doses to improve appetite and digestive function. For hiccups, small, frequent doses are taken with honey. Like most bitters it reduces fever, cooling the body and increasing blood flow to the liver. In Ayurvedic medicine the herb is used for pitta (fire) conditions, and is best known as the major herb in mahasudarshana churna—a standard mixture of more than 50 herbs prescribed for fevers such as malaria, liver problems, gallstones, and indigestion. Recently it has been used with other herbs to treat allergies.
Research  The xanthones are thought to be
antituberculous and antimalarial. Amarogentin  has a protective action on the liver.
Caution  Avoid in digestive hyperacidity.
Symplocarpus foetidus (Araceae)
Skunk Cabbage
Description  Unpleasant-smelling perennial
plant growing to 30 in (75 cm). Has a thick tuberous rootstock, cabbage-like leaves, and  small purple flowers on a hooded spike.tamarindus indica (Fabaceae)
T amarind
Description  Evergreen tree growing to 80 ft
(25 m). Has fine compound leaves, clusters of orange-yellow flowers, and brittle gray-brown  seed pods (fruit) containing up to 12 round seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation  While native to
Madagascar, the tamarind is now cultivated in  many of the world’s tropical regions, including  the Caribbean, India, Southeast Asia, and China.
Parts Used Fruit, leaves, seeds.
Constituents  T amarind contains
16–18% plant acids (including nicotinic acid—vitamin B
3), a volatile
oil (with geranial, geraniol, and limonene), sugars, pectin, 0.8% potassium, and


	to	get	to	Earth.
	Do	you	feel	far	away	from	that	galaxy?	Youreyes	say	that	you	are,	but	beneath	the	surface	there	is	no	distance	at	all.
Physics	tells	us	that	a	single	electron	cannot	vibrate	without	making	the	whole
universe	shake.	Every	particle	is	part	of	a	single	field	that	stretches	to	infinity
in	all	directions;	this	field	feels	and	senses	every	single	event	instantly,	no
matter	where	it	happens.	As	one	witty	physicist	said,	“If	you	tickle	the
universe	over	here,	it	laughs	over	there.”
Imagine	a	small	compass	with	its	needle	pointing	north.	It	has	no	idea	that	a
huge	magnetic	field	is	causing	this,	because	the	field	is	invisible.	But	if	you
move	the	compass,	the	field	will	pull	the	needle	back	in	line	without	a	pause.
There’s	no	need	to	send	a	signal	to	the	magnetic	North	Pole	and	then	receive
one	back.	The	field	has	sensed	the	compass	and	changed	it;	and	in	return	the
compass	has	changed	the	field,	because	no	tiny	part	can	shift	without	shifting
the	whole.
You	are	part	of	the	cosmic	field.	Your	body	flows	with	magnetism,	just	like	a
compass,	along	with	chemical	and	electrical	energy.	So	your	every	thought	is
taking	place	not	just	in	your	head,	but	in	the	field.	Your	mind	is
eavesdropping	on	the	universe.
Spirituality	is	a	step	ahead	of	science	in	one	small	way:	It	believes	that	the
field	is	alive	and	intelligent.	The	whole	universe
thinks
.	There	are	some	hints
at	this.	Several	years	ago	a	colorful	experiment	was	conducted	using	nonsense
words.	Children	from	Japan	were	shown	a	poem	in	Japanese	and	other	words
that	formed	nothing	but	nonsense.	They	could	easily	pick	out	which	one	was
the	poem.	Then	the	same	words	were	shown	to	Western	kids	who	only	spoke
English.	Strangely,	they	also	showed	an	ability	to	pick	out	which	words	were
a	Japanese	poem	and	which	ones	were	nonsense.	How	did	they	do	it?	It	was
as	if	they	picked	this	knowledge	out	of	thin	air—or	as	we	would	say	out	of
the	field.
Does	the	field	know	Japanese?	Maybe	it	knows	a	lot	more.	Albert	Einstein
himself	said	that	when	he	plunged	deep	into	the	laws	of	nature,	he	was	trying
to	figure	out	how	God’s	mind	worked,	which	is	the	same	as	saying	that
creation	has	a	mind.	I	think	it	does,	and	so	did	Baba.	Your	intelligence	is	the
same	as	cosmic	intelligence.	The	eye	keeps	fooling	you	into	thinking	that	the
world	is	huge	and	you	are	small.	But	Baba	never	stopped	trying	to	get	me	to
stop	believing	my	eyes.
There	was	once	a	great	teacher	who	had	many	devoted	followers.	One	day	a
young	man	came	to	him	feeling	very	dejected	and	said,	“You	are	so	far	aboveme	that	I	can	never	rise	that	high.	Lying	in	bed	at	night,	I	think	of	Jesus	and
Buddha	and	all	the	great	masters.	How	can	anyone	as	weak	as	me	find
enlightenment?”
The	teacher	thought	for	a	moment	and	said,	“You	see	yourself	as	small	and
weak	because	you	look	with	physical	eyes	and	not	the	eyes	of	the	soul.	I	see
the	light	in	you,	and
	it	is	the	same	light	that	was	in	Jesus,	Buddha,	and	all	the
saints.	Today	it	may	be	a	small	light,	but	its	size	doesn’t	matter.	Your	light
makes	you	one	with	the	enlightened.	Just	keep	working	until	your	full	glory
fills	the	world.”Out	of	My	Way!
B
aba	was	serious	about	taking	me	on	a	search.	It	was	starting	to	feel	like	a
safari.	We	trudged	uphill	and	down	without	saying	a	word.	I	got	the	idea	that
he	wanted	me	to	think,	so	I	ruminated	until	I	got	sick	of	that.	“What	are	we
doing?”	I	blurted	out.
“What	do	you	think	we’re	doing?”	he	asked.
I	wiped	the	sweat	from	my	eyes	and	looked	up	at	the	blazing-hot,	clear	blue
sky.	“We’re	not	looking	for	a	rainbow,	that’s	for	sure.”
“Don’t	get	irritated,”	said	Baba.	“Let’s	look	for	something	easier.	How	about
God?”
“God?”	That	was	a	word	Baba	hardly	ever	used.	“Why	do	you	think	God	is
easy	to	find?	Most	people	think	just	the	opposite,”	I	said.
“That’s	because	God	has	done	such	a	good	job	of	obeying	us.	Long	ago
people	turned	to	God	and	said,	‘Get	out	of	our	way,	we	know	how	to	run	the
world,’	and	so	he	did.	God’s	not	getting	in	the	way	anymore.”
“Baba,	you’re	saying	particularly	strange	things	today,”	I	said.	“You	think
God	left	because	we	asked	him	to?”
“Without	a	doubt.	I	told	you	that	you	could	change	the	world.	God	wouldn’t
have	left	the	scene	if	that	weren’t	true.	He	would	have	stayed	around	and	run
things	himself.”
“So	he’s	really	not	here?”
“I	didn’t	say	that.	It	was	almost	impossible	for	him	to	find	a	way	to	leave.
Then	he	came	up	with	something	clever.	He	vanished	without	vanishing.”
Instead	of	marching	on,	Baba	came	to	a	halt.	He	produced	a	small	clay	jar
filled	with	water.	He	handed	it	to	me	and	watched	while	I	gulped	it	down.
“Don’t	you	want	any?”	I	asked.
“No,	I	want	the	jar	empty.”	Baba	took	it	from	my	hands.	“Take	a	closer	look.You	see	the	clay	walls	of	this	jar?	And	you	see	the	space	inside?”
Suddenly	he	took	a	rock	clenched	in	his	other	hand	and	smashed	the	jar	to
bits.	“Have	I	smashed	the	space	inside?”	he	asked.
“No.”
“Now	you	see	where	God	went.	He	may	have	erased	the	visible	evidence	that
he	was	ever	in	this	world,	but	he	is	just	as	present	as	the	space	inside	this	pot.
Everywhere	you	look	is	a	space	for	spirit.	God	is	letting	us	make	all	the
decisions	because	nothing	we	do	can	take	his	spirit	away.”
“Do	people	have	to	believe	in	God?”	I	asked.
“It’s	a	choice,”	said	Baba.	“We	all	want	to	keep	running	our	own	lives,	and
some	people	feel	better	with	God	by	their	side,	while	others	feel	better
thinking	they	are	totally	on	their	own.	But	that	doesn’t	mean	you	made	God
disappear.	He	just	disappeared	for	you.	The	divine	plan	could	be	working	just
fine,	but	you	wouldn’t	know	it.”
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
Baba	was	showing	me	something	about	who	runs	the	world.	If	God	is	running
it,	he	must	be	doing	it	with	us	or	without	us.	If	without	us,	then	there’s
nothing	for	people	to	do,	really,	but	worship	the	Almighty	and	hope	to	please
him	(or	her).	But	if	God	is	running	the


, though I do not object to being called a vegetar -
ian.  Do you agree that, naturally, we are fruit-eaters?
Are W e Nut and S
eed Eaters?
In nature there is no doubt but that humans did consume some nuts.  Even so, our ability
to derive nuts from their hard shells is limited. We do not have razor sharp teeth and tons of pressure per bite or jaw-power as have squirrels.  Humans can crack certain nuts with their teeth.  Very few of today’s degenerated version of humans can do it, but most nuts
can be cracked with strong jaws and good teeth.  Even strong hands can crush nuts if at least two are taken and pressed against each other.
Most nuts are delicious to us in their raw state.
Unfortunately, our ability to handle nuts is rather poor—we’d need pointed, durable teeth, as rodents have, to gnaw through nut shells.  Nuts that we savor are in a storage form,
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Fruiticulturethat is, as fats, proteins and invert sugars or starches.  Digestion of nuts into fatty acids,
amino acids, and glucose is a long drawn out process, most often taking hours.  Whether we did or did not consume nuts in nature makes little difference to us today.  Most of us do consume nuts but disadvantageously as cooked fare.  Heated fats and proteins are quite pathogenic, yes, even carcinogenic.  Nuts should be eaten raw or not at all.
Technically and botanically nuts are fruits.  I do not buy that because the word fruit re -
ally means product or result.  Fruits are really the mesocarps of seed packages which
plants creat ed specifically as a pr
oduct to be consumed by a biological symbiont who
would incidentally discard and distribute the seeds.  Nuts and seeds were created by plants for broadcast and reproduction by other methods.  All nuts are seeds.  Most seeds are in a storage form to survive the vagaries of climatic and consuming elements so that they may be instrumental in reproducing and perpetuating their kind.  Nuts, however, have extra protection in that they have hard woody shells.  Seeds usually have only fi -
brous coatings as their protection.  Both seeds and nuts are heavily endowed with nutri-ents sufficient to initiate and sustain a certain minimum growth of their plants.  We can benefit from these nutrients.  But if w
e eat more than two or three ounces, we’re likely to
get more protein and fats than we can readily handle.
Certainly nuts and seeds were not created by plants for consumption but, rather, for
reproduction.  That some animals have adapted to their consumption has not been a two-sided affair as it has been with fruits where the love affair has been and still is mu -
tual.  There are many types of seeds: legumes, grains, weeds, nuts, and fruit seeds being among the most prominent.  I n their na
tural state humans can handle very few of these
seeds.  Nuts can be digested and used in very small amounts. Likewise, sesame, pump -
kin, squash, sunflower, pignolias, and some other seeds can be used.
We are primar ily car
bohydrate eaters, not fat and protein eaters.  I dare say you agree
with my assessment of nuts and seeds as human fare.Are We Fat Eaters?In nature there are very few fats we can get in any quantity without violating our biolog -
ical disposition.  Avocados, durians, olives, coconuts, nuts and seeds are heavy on fats.
Avocados and durians fur nish fa
ts in a predigested state when ripe.  Coconuts furnish
fats as monoglycerides/glycerols before they set their fats as triglycerides in a storage 63
Fruiticultureform.  Coconuts are, therefore, in the jelly-like state, easily digested. When matured and
hardened, it is almost impossible to digest them.
Broccoli and cauliflower have con -
siderable fatty acids in an easily us-
able state when eaten in the raw fresh condition.  How ev
er, they give
some unwanted toxic sulfur com -
pounds.  We get predigested fats ad-equate to meet our fatty acid needs from fruits. An oc casional a
vocado or
seeds and nuts are quite satisfying.  Those who subsist substantially on fats do not do well.  Eskimos are very short-lived.  They consume about 200 grams, about 1,800 calories, dai -
ly.  Their short-lived condition is probably more attributable to their heavy protein con-sumption than fats. They consume about 200 grams of protein daily incidental to their fat-ea ting and this plac
es a great burden upon their organs, especially liver and kidneys.
Because of the acid-forming properties of metabolized proteins, Eskimos lose their teeth at an early age and suffer severe osteoporosis.  Eskimos are eaters of animal fats and pro -
teins, primarily as derived from fish.  Be it noted that, during the berry-picking season, Eskimos are said to ea t only ber
ries during the short season they are ripening.
Biologically we are not a species of fat eaters, but incidental eaters of fats.  We do not need to store great quanties of fat, as do bears and sea lions.  Ripe fruits contain ad -
equate quantities of predigested fats in the form of fatty acids that are easily handled. Other forms of fa t r
equire hours for their digestion, quite atypical of fruits to which we
are most favorably disposed.  Fats may lie in the small intestine several hours before bile is secreted into it with which to emulsify them, thus exposing them to lipases which re -
duce them to monoglycerides (fatty acids) and glycerols.
I adjudge tha t we are not a species of fa t ea
ters except incidental to our fruitarian
disposition.
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FruiticultureAre We Protein Eaters?
To hear the exponents of the meat trust, you’d think we’re in imminent danger of disease
and death if we fail to eat meat three times a day.   The truth is that eating meat three times daily will cause the very conditions we’re taught to fear. We’re in no danger of pro -
tein deficiency unless we’re eating a 100% cooked food diet.  On the other hand, there are gra v
e dangers in eating cooked proteins.  At normal cooking temperatures, proteins
are coagulated, deaminated and largely oxidized.  The nitrogenous materials are soil for putrefactive bacteria.  The carbohydrate portions of cooked proteins are usable for ca -
loric values but still present the problems that cooked carbohydrates pose.
If we must eat pr ot
eins, we must eat them raw to
derive their full benefit.  But proteins, per se, are
not created as food.  They are created by plant and animal life as components of organisms, seeds, en -
zymes, ova, etc.  Most proteins of this nature have toxic prot ec
tive compounds.  The bean family have
anti-enzyme factors.  Eggs have avidin.  Nuts also have anti-enzyme factors.  Seeds of peaches, apples and many other fruits have hydrocyanide.  Humans do not secrete the enzymes to ne -
gate or break down these toxic substances.
From fruits we der iv
e as much protein as is present in mother’s milk for a growing baby!
Moreover, fruit proteins come to us predigested as do other ripened fruit components.
There are many alarmists who warn us about protein deficiencies of fruits and many other presumed deficiencies. If we developed in nature on fruits to our high state as an -
thropologists have found, then the real deficiencies are in the thinking of those who pro -
claim deficiencies.  Their evidence is usually based on researches with pathological spec -
imens, especially those whose metabolic and assimilative faculties are very impaired.  They base their thinking from a standpoin
t of disease rather than health, from a modality
and curing mentality rather than a correction of pathogenic practices.  In saying that our natural foods are deficient, they are simultaneously proclaiming improvidence in nature.  Or, in effect, saying: “God, you made a terrible mistake in providing for us and especially in giving us a sweet tooth. ” Advocating the consumption of proteins and yet more pro -
teins when those so advising know by their own researches and knowledge that the pro -
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Fruiticultureteins will be cooked and contribute to heavy pathology is nothing less than criminal.
One more consideration: If we ate only proteins in their raw state we’d quickly become
diseased and perhaps even suffer death!  Why?  Because various amino acids require from about 60% to 137% of their carbohydrate energy potential for their deamination and utilization. The net result would be starvation.  That’s one reason so much weight is lost by the obese on protein diets.  And the intoxication that results from putrefaction is the reason so many of these dieters become diseased with some dying.
Are we protein eaters?  Emphatically, no!Are We Starch Eaters?To test this question I will not ask you to do the impossible, i.e., take a handful of grass
seeds (presuming you could gather them in nature) and start chewing.  Or, try a spoonful of flour of any grain.  You’d choke up on the first spoon of it as your starch enzyme sup -


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A
AA (arachidonic acid) 176-180
ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis)
237-240
acesulphame 115
acetaldehyde 46-49
acidophilus milk 115
acrylamides 88
ADD (attention deficit disorder), see
ADHD
ADHD, see attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder
agar-agar 115
agave syrup 115
LNA (alpha-linolenic acid) 175-179
alcohol 46-49
algae 115
allergies 38-39, 56-58
almonds 111
aloe vera 115
aluminium 173,209
amaranth 115
amino acids 39, 51,81
aminoglycosides 32
amoxicillin 32
amphotericin 33
ampicillin 32
anaemia 23-24, 57-58
antibiotics 31-33,42
antibodies 25
antifungal antibiotics 33
artichoke French 111
artichoke Jerusalem 116
arachidonic acid, seeAA
asthma 5-7,25-30, 56-58
apples 111
apple juice 115
apricots 111
arrowroot 115
asiago cheese 111 asparagus 111
aspartame 89,115
aspirin 33,219-220
astragalus 115
attention deficit disorder (ADD) 5-7,
235-242
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) 5-7,21, 63,235-242
aubergine 111, 119,123
autism 1-13, 25-30,59-63, 235-240
autistic enterocolitis 12
autoimmune 21,48
avocado 111
B
bacteroids 15,37,39, 40
baked beans 115
baking power 115
baker's yeast 115
balsamic vinegar 115
bananas 111
barley 115
beans 105-106,111
bean flour and sprouts 115
bee pollen 115
beef 111
beer 115
beets or beetroot 111,119,124,129
berries 104,111
bicarbonate of soda 115
bifidobacteria 15-24,25, 31-36,167
bipolar disorder (manic-depression)
5-7, 63
bitter gourd 115
bhindiorokra 115
black eye beans 115
black radish 111
blue cheese 111
Bok Choym
bologna 115 chick peas 116
chickoryroot 116
chocolate 116
cholecystokinin 192-194
cholesterol 21
cholin 39,74,102
cholinolytic drugs 34
cinnamon 112
citric acid 112
Clostridia 15,32, 37, 40-42, 51
cocoa powder 116
coconut 112,183-185
coconut milk 112
coconut oil 112,183-185
celiac disease 63-66
coffee 112,116
colby cheese 112
colitis 11-12
collard greens 112
colon 11-12
complement 25
constipation 10,225-228
contraceptive pill 34,53-57
cooking oils 116
cordials 116
coriander 112
corn 116
corn syrup 116
cornstarch 116
cottage cheese 116
cottonseed 116
courgette 112
cous-cous 116
cream 116
cream of tartar 116
cream cheese 116
Crohn's disease 12,38
cucumber 112
cyanocobalamin, see vitamin B12
D
dairy products 95-99
dates 112
depression 5-7,21,49,63
detoxification 75,201-212
dextrose 116 bouillon cubes or granules 115
brandy 115
Brazil nuts 111
breast  milk  49-50,55-56
brick cheese 111
Brie cheese 111
broccoli 111
Brussels sprouts 111
buckwheat 115
bulgur 115
burdock root 115
butter beans 115
buttermilk 115
C
cabbage 111,119,125
Cade R.