 circumstances the
only way forward is juicing, since almost every patient is able—and normally willing—to drink
a freshly prepared glass of organic juice every hour. Once that routine is established, the nutrients
the body so desperately needs are in constant supply.
A few extremely debilitated patients, who cannot cope with the usual hourly 8-ounce glass of
juice, are given 4- or 6-ounce portions at the beginning of the treatment. To their surprise, after
only a few days of juicing and intensive detoxification they are able to eat three full vegetarian
meals a day, prepared from fresh organic produce, and drink 13 standard size glasses of juice,
besides snacking on fruit. Once they reach that stage of hyper-alimentation, each patient consumes
approximately 20 pounds of food a day.
Critics of the Gerson Therapy, who find the hourly preparation of fresh juices onerous, (which
it certainly is!) often suggest the use of vitamin and mineral supplements instead. What they
don’t realize is that the sick body is unable to assimilate and utilize pharmaceutically prepared
substances; which would simply pass through the organism without doing any good. Only live,
fresh, raw vegetables and fruits are absorbed, and exclusively in the form of juice, which bypasses
the digestive process and is immediately assimilated.
Detoxification : As soon as the body is being flooded with live nutrients, these are rapidly
absorbed and force accumulated toxins from the cells into the blood stream, which in turn
transports them to the liver, the body’s chief organ of detoxification. However, the patient who
embarks on the Gerson Therapy after a lifetime of living on a so-called normal modern diet has
already accumulated considerable amounts of food additives, residues of pesticides and other
agrochemicals, plus toxins from many sources that block his or her liver. As a result the liver is
unable to deal with the newly arriving toxins, driven from the tissues by the live nutrients.
Unless quickly shifted, this logjam of toxins could lead to life-threatening self intoxication
and liver coma; hence the vital role of the rapidly detoxifying frequent coffee enemas which
are a cornerstone of the Gerson treatment. There are several cancer therapies which use various
methods to kill tumor tissue, but without removing dead toxic material from the liver. In order to
allow the liver to discard its toxic load slowly and gradually, the treatment has to be interrupted,
which diminishes its impact. However, the Gerson method with its constant regular detoxification
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www.thegersonway.comis able to work continuously, which explains its effectiveness—and also why the coffee enemas
are an indispensable part of the protocol. Without them, the additional load of newly released
toxins could even cause new liver damage. Whoever wants to embark on the Gerson Therapy
must include the required practice of coffee enemas.
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www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 8
Why Does The Gerson Therapy Work?
So far so good. The basic principles of the Gerson protocol are simple and clear and
obviously its practice has been yielding remarkable results over more than sixty years. But the
question remains: is there any current scientific research to confirm the methods Dr. Gerson
developed partly intuitively, partly through constant study and clinical observation, but without
sophisticated research facilities, all those decades ago? Putting it simply: has anyone discovered
just why this therapy works?
The answer is yes. Since Dr. Gerson’s death in 1959, a series of eminent scientists and
researchers have made discoveries that confirmed one or another of Dr. Gerson’s insights and
methods. It is the sum total of these piecemeal discoveries that explains why his protocol, used
in its entirety, is so effective. In the following we present a sample of the most striking scientific
endorsements.
In the late Seventies the physicist, mathematician and biophysicist Dr. Freeman Widener
Cope, M.D., wrote in a paper, “the high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson therapy has
been observed experimentally to cure many cases of advanced cancer in man.”1 In another paper
he stated that in cell damage of any kind, the same responses may occur in cells throughout the
body: “First the cell will lose potassium, second the cell will accept sodium, and third, the cell
will swell with too much water (cellular edema). When the cell has swollen with too much water,
energy production is inhibited, along with protein synthesis and lipid (fat) metabolism. Gerson
was able to manipulate tissue damage syndrome, which he recognized clinically in the 1920s,
by his dietary management, eliminating sodium, supplementing a high potassium diet with
additional potassium amendments and finding a way to remove toxins from the body via
the liver.”2 (Added emphasis.) This is a remarkably concise justification of all of Dr. Gerson’s
methods, including the strict restriction of protein and fat, which the damaged cell cannot handle,
the reason for increased potassium intake, and the need for liver detoxifi cation.
In 1988, Patricia Spain Ward, Ph.D., campus historian of the University of Illinois, Chicago,
presented an excellent monograph on the Gerson Therapy, under contract to the US Office of
Technology Assessment (OTA). Although her study is not based on new research, it is worth
including for its thoroughness and clarity.  Describing Dr. Gerson as “ a scholar’s scholar and a
superlative observer of clinical phenomena,” Dr. Ward reported his observation that patients
on a high potassium, low sodium diet excreted enormous amounts of sodium in their urine, and
that by eliminating animal protein from the diet, this amount was increased.  She added, “ The
medical insistence on large quantities of protein, Gerson showed, was wrong and he stopped
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www.thegersonway.comthe administration of dietary animal proteins for at least six to eight weeks.”3
Important research justifying Dr. Gerson’s withholding of animal protein from his cancer
patients was carried out by Dr. Robert A. Good, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota and
known as “the father of modern immunology.” He set up a guinea pig experiment, feeding one
group of animals protein-free lab chow, while the other group received the normal variety of food.
Dr. Good expected to see failure of the animals’ immune system on the protein-free regime, but
the opposite happened. The guinea pigs’ thymus lymphocytes became tremendously active and
remained aggressively so for a long time. Dr. Good realized that he had stimulated immunity
by the dietary restriction of animal protein, thus confirming the rightness of the Gerson
protocol’s identical insight.
Perhaps this is the place for pointing out that Gerson patients do receive adequate amounts
of easily absorbed plant proteins contained in the fresh vegetable juices, potatoes and oatmeal
that are essential parts of their diet. It is a widespread mistake to believe that only animal foods
contain protein. On the contrary: food animals, such as cattle, pigs and sheep are vegetarians!
The Canadian scientist, Dr. Harold D. Foster,4 of the University of Victoria, British Columbia,
approached the problem of cancer mortalities from the angle of mineral deficiencies in soils
and water supplies. He also carried out an initial computer analysis of 200 cases of so-called
“spontaneous” regressions of a wide variety of cancers, spontaneous regression having been
defined as “a partial or complete disappearance of a tumor in the absence of treatment capable
of producing a regression.” The result of Professor Foster’s painstaking research was that far
from being “spontaneous,” most of the regressions were due to a combination of conventional
treatments with drastic lifestyle changes and various complementary therapies. Of 200 patients,
10 followed the Gerson diet, and many more used parts of the Gerson protocol, e.g. raw
juices and detoxification.  Further dietary regimes mentioned in the sample were partly
or largely based on the same protocol, raising the percentage of those whose recovery was
to some  extent due to the Gerson treatment. The most important conclusion Professor Foster
was able to draw from his research was that cases of so-called spontaneous regression were far
from being spontaneous; and were only categorized as such by orthodox medicine because
they were the results of unconventional—alternative and complementary—therapies.
One of the most important techniques of the Gerson Therapy is detoxification via the liver/bile
through the use of coffee enemas. Dr. Gerson knew that these dilute the bile ducts, thus allowing
the liver to release toxic accumulations. His discovery was confirmed more recently by three
scientists, Wattenberg, Sparmins and Lam, from the Department of Pathology, University
of Minnesota, who showed that rectal coffee administration stimulates an enzyme system—
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	of	meaning.
In	the	afterlife	the	creative	possibilities	are	enormously	expanded.	Instead
of	asking	one	question—
What	is	the	voice	on	the	tape	saying
?—the	mind	has
a	host	of	questions	to	ask:
Where	am	I?	What’s	happening	to	me?	Who	have	I
become?	What	lies	ahead?
In	the	afterlife	the	mind	is	multidimensional.	Akasha	takes	us	out	of	all
time-space	limitations.	In	truth	we	always	were	multidimensional,	only	we
were	so	convinced	by	inhabiting	the	material	world	that	we	conformed	to	its
rules.	Now	we	need	to	adapt	ourselves	to	Akasha,	where	there	is	structure
without	rigid	rules	and	creative	possibility	without	cultural	dogma.7
T
HE
	I
NVISIBLE
	T
HREAD
TO	TELL	THE
	truth,	the	things	that	Ramana	had	told	Savitri	didn’t	come	as	a
total	surprise.	She	had	been	raised	to	believe	in	the	soul.	She	had	heard	about
how	the	higher	self,	the	“inward	dweller”	as	Lord	Krishna	called	it,	was
immortal.	But	these	lessons	had	seemed	remote.
“How	do	I	know	I	have	a	soul?”	she	asked.
“You	cannot	know	by	seeing	it	or	touching	it,”	Ramana	said.	“Your	soul
might	whisper	to	you,	but	even	then	you	could	just	be	hearing	echoes	of	your
own	voice.”
“So	the	soul	may	be	a	fiction?”	Savitri	asked,	with	a	sinking	feeling.
“The	soul	isn’t	a	fiction	just	because	it’s	invisible,”	Ramana	said.	“Look.”
Suspended	in	a	shaft	of	light	was	the	outline	of	an	intricate	spiderweb
anchored	between	two	bushes.	It	gleamed	and	rippled	with	the	slightest
breeze.
“A	spider	made	this	web,”	said	Ramana.	“You	see	his	work	but	you	don’t
see	the	spider.	He	holds	a	tiny	thread	that	tells	him	when	anything	lands	in	the
web.	Where	has	the	soul	gone?	It	doesn’t	matter	as	long	as	the	connection
exists.”
Savitri	couldn’t	help	being	stubborn.	“I	still	may	be	imagining	I	have	a
soul.”
“Ah,	but	that’s	the	wonder.”
Ramana’s	face	was	suddenly	aglow	with	inspiration.	“Nature	imagines
spiders.	Big	ones	were	imagined	and	small	ones,	smooth	ones	and	hairy	ones,
those	that	live	in	the	air,	water,	and	earth,	those	colored	white	and	black	and
every	shade	in	between.	Think	of	baby	spiders	that	fly	on	gossamer	threads	in
the	spring	while	giant	water	spiders	dive	to	the	bottom	of	a	pond	and	catch
fish.	We	are	foolish	to	think	the	spider	is	a	thing.	It	is	a	shifting	whirl	of
qualities,	ever	changing	and	fascinating.	The	soul	is	like	that,	too.	However
you	imagine	it,	it	will	take	on	that	quality	and	still	have	infinite	potential	left
over.	When	you	ask,	‘Where	is	my	soul?’	the	answer	isn’t	a	place	but	a
potential.	The	soul	is	wherever	it	is,	has	been,	and	will	be.”
Ramana’s	eyes	remained	fixed	on	the	web	rippling	in	the	sunlight,	and
through	his	fascination	Savitri	began	to	be	fascinated,	too.	She	couldn’t	know
for	certain	if	the	spider	that	made	this	web	was	white,	yellow,	or	red,	big	orsmall,	male	or	female,	yet	that	didn’t	stop	her	from	knowing	that	it	was	real.
She	had	no	idea	of	what	her	soul	looked	like,	either,	or	what	lay	across	the
boundary	of	death.	All	she	had	was	an	invisible	thread.	Would	it	be	enough?
“Yes,”	Ramana	said.	“You	have	listened	well	today.	You	are	learning.”
Savitri	smiled	a	bit	doubtfully.	Suddenly	she	was	quite	tired.	She	sank
down	on	a	billowy	bank	of	moss	and	closed	her	eyes.	Her	mind	slowed	down,
bit	by	bit,	until	she	forgot	where	she	was	or	the	dangers	she	faced.	It	was
enough	just	to	sleep.
A	WEB	OF	WORLDS
The	Akashic	field	has	been	interpreted	by	every	culture	to	make	it	meaningful
to	that	culture.	In	and	of	itself,	the	field	is	pure	potential.	But	the	great
spiritual	guides	of	the	past	wanted	to	reassure	their
followers
	that	space
wasn’t	the	same	as	a	void.	We	know	this	because	our	own	inner	silence	isn’t	a
void.	It	doesn’t	take	dying	to	go	beyond	thoughts	and	images.	When	someone
meditates	deeply	enough,	thoughts	disappear	and	leave	only	the	experience	of
silence.	One	could	say	that	this	silence	is	nothing,	emptiness,	but	the	Vedic
sages	tell	us	that	it’s	a	very	rich	silence	indeed.
We’ve	been	following	the	soul’s	journey	into	the	highest	stage	it	can
attain,	which	is	the	Akasha	itself,	the	source	of	creativity.	Different	spiritual
traditions	envision	this	end	point	in	different	ways.	Here	are	seven	versions
that	continue	to	shape	how	people	experience	their	spiritual	journey:
Paradise
The	Godhead
The	Spirit	World
Transcendence
Transmigration
Awakening
Dissolution
These	are	seven	settings	for	the	soul,	and	each	possibility	is	self-created.
A	dream	begun	on	earth	continues	until	it	reaches	its	conclusion.	Its
ingredients	are	taken	from	the	mind’s	invisible	structure,	then	combined	in
such	a	way	that	makes	sense	of	the	Akashic	field.
SEVEN	DESTINATIONS	FOR	THE	SOUL1.
Paradise:
	Your	soul	finds	itself	in	a	perfect	world	created	by	God.	You
go	to	paradise	as	a	reward	and	never	leave.	(If	you	are	bad,	you	go	to	Satan’s
home	and	never	leave	it.)
2.
The	Godhead:
	Your	soul	returns	to	God,	but	not	to	any	particular	place.
You	discover	the	location	of	God	as	a	timeless	state	infused	with	His
presence.
3.
The	Spirit	World:
	Your	soul	rests	in	a	realm	of	departed	spirits.	It
rejoins	your	ancestors	and	those	who	passed	on	before	you,	who	are	gathered
with	the	great	Spirit.
4.
Transcendence:
	Your	soul	performs	a	vanishing	act	in	which	this
expression	person	dissolves,	either	quickly	or	gradually.	The	pure	soul	rejoins
the	sea	of	consciousness	from	which	it	was	born.
5.
Transmigration:
	Your	soul	is	caught	in	the	cycle	of	rebirth.	Depending
on	your	karma,	your	soul	moves	from	lower	to	higher	life-forms—and	even
may	be	reborn	in	objects.	The	cycle	continues	eternally	until	your	soul
escapes	through	higher	realization.
6.
Awakening:
	Your	soul	arrives	in	the	light.	It	sees	with	complete	clarity
for	the	first	time,	realizing	the	truth	of	existence	that	was	masked	by	being	in
a	physical	body.
7.
Dissolution:
	Eternity	is	nothingness.	As	the	chemical	components	of
your	body	return	to	basic	atoms	and	molecules,


 elements are lighter than
iron, and thus were produced by the burning of commonplac e stars. We
know all of this as fact, not theory. Scientists have studied stars at all stages
of the stellar life cycle, and we know what they are made of. Regardless,
some people ask, “Don’ t these scientific facts challenge my belief that God
is the creator of the universe? ” An appropriate response would be, “Of
course not. They  merely show you how God created all the structures in the
universe.”
The stars are the furnaces that were used to create the universe. Every
single atom you interact with was created in the stars, and at this very
moment billion s and billions of stars are forging more elements. In
Pittsbur gh we have steel furnace s that are so hot we can forge steel. We use
that material to build our giant skyscrapers. Likewise, the stars are the
furnaces that have forged the atoms we interact with every day. Hopefully,
you will never again look up at the stars in the same way.Chapter 9.
The Power of Creation
Now that we’ve  seen how ordinary stars create the lighter elements of our
world, we can move on to an even more fascinating topic: how the heavier
elements on the periodic table are created, like gold, platinum, and silver.
The heavier elem ents are all those with an atomic number greater than iron
(26). Iron forms the dividing line because it absorbs more heat than it
releases during fusion. As such, iron doesn’ t emanate enough heat energy to
stop a star from  collapsing. Unless the original star was except ionally large
to begin with (a “red super giant”), it will finally die when it gets to an iron
core.
What happens during the death  of a red super giant star is one of the
most amazing events in the known universe, and it provides the energy
source needed to create the heavier elements. If the star is large enough
before its collapse, the intensity of the collapse can actually crush the atoms
in the core. Instead of fusing the iron atoms together, this tremendous force
pushes their electrons into the nucleus itself. Since electrons are negatively
charged and the protons in the nucleus are positively charged, they attract
each other and form neutrons, which have no charge. Once this happens, all
that is left of the iron core is a mass of tightly packed neutrons. There are no
atoms left—no electrons and no protons. The intensity of the collapse of this
large star down to just neutrons  has destroyed the structure of matter as we
know it.
What is left is a neutron star, and it is tiny in size but enormous in
mass. Neutron stars are physically about the size of a city but have a mass
that is more than three-hundre d-thousand times heavier than the planet
Earth. The density of a neutron star is so great that if you brought a teaspoon
of it down to Earth, it would weigh twelve trillion pounds.The amount of energy released  by the collapsing of the star’s core
down to just neutrons is so powerful that it creates a colossa l explosion
called a supernova. This explosion is so enormous that a single supernova
emits more light than the combined light of all the billions of stars in its
galaxy put together. It is the brightest, most powerful explosion we have
discovered in our universe.
As it turns out, the enormous energy force generated during a
supernova explo sion is precisely what is needed to create the rest of the
elements we interact with each day. What the force of gravity was unable to
do durin g the creation of the lighter elements, the massive explosion of a
supernova is able to do—fuse the heavier elements. The next time you look
at your gold wedding ring, or open a tin can, reflect on the fact that these
elements requir ed the combined power of billions of stars to come into
existence.
You are surrounded by the myriad objects you interact with each day.
There are giant skyscrapers and tiny paper clips that effortlessly come in
through your senses. At their root, every single one of these objects is made
of atoms. You have just taken the time to understand where all these atoms
come from and how you did not create them—they were created  in the stars.
This should serve to humble you and leave you in awe of the power of
creation manifesting before you. Hopefully, this deep sense of humility and
awe will assist you on your spiritual journey toward freedom and liberation.Chapter 10.
It’s Not Personal
We just explored  where the world  around you comes from. It began with the
big bang, and then all the different types of elements were created through
the process of atomic fusion. When stars explode at death, all the matter that
built up in their outer shells gets blown out into interstellar space. Carbon,
oxygen, silicon, gold, and silver were all floating around as clouds of
elements in space, then gravity  pulled them together to form the planets.
This is how the planet Earth formed with its ninety-two natural elements, all
of which were forged in the stars. This process has gone on for over thirteen
billion years, and everything you interact with each day is composed of this
“star dust,” inclu ding your body. This is the truth, and we shoul d remember
and contemplate it regularly.
Let’s come back to where we started this discussion. W e began with the
fact that there is always a moment in front of you. Just open your eyes, and
there it is. Where did it come from? Now we know. The momen t in front of
you came from the stars. The atoms were baked together in the solar
furnaces, then pulled together into this mass we call Earth. You studied what
happened next in science class. The elements joined together to form stable
molecules, such as H 2O, based on the laws of electromagnetism. Because of
the interaction of these laws, there’ s water in the oceans. As other more
complex molecu les formed, they created the primordial soup from which
living organisms formed. Every part of every cell in your body is composed
of elements created in the stars, billions of years ago.
This explains where your body came from, but it does not explain
where You came from. You are not made of atoms; you are the
consciousness that is aware of the objects that are made of atoms. Y our body
may be the result of the long process of Darwinian evolution, but what
about you in there? Where did you come from, how did you get in there, andwhy is it the way it is in there? The natural sciences may explain the
outside, but what about the inside? This is exactly what we will be exploring
in the coming chapters.
What science has discovered about reality should give you more
respect for creation, not less. The fact that we are able to explain these
phenomenal events that took place should leave you with a sense of awe.
Just look at how it ended up after 13.8 billion years. Dare to look at what’ s
in front of you in this light. Now that you know where it all came from, pay
attention. What’ s in front of you is a very holy thing, all of it.
Now consider whether this process of creation had anything to do with
you. Were you around causing any of this to happen? Will you be around for
the next billion years causing all that is going to happen to take place—
everywhere? Of course not. The universe is a phenomenal system of cause
and effect. Wha t was, causes what is; what is, causes what will be. This has
been happening from the beginn ing of time throughout the universe. Every
single moment in front of you took billions of years with everything
happening exactly like it did to manifest as it is.
To fully understand what this means, it helps to look at a simple
example from your family history. If your great-great-great-g randmother
didn’ t meet your great-great-g reat-grandfather, you’re not here. That’ s
simply the truth. Let’s take a moment to tell a story of how they met so you
can see how dependent everything is on everything else. The story begins all
the way back with the dinosaurs. After a fierce storm in what is now South
Central Florida, there was a big dinosaur lumbering around. When this
dinosaur put its big footprint down into the wet soil, it caused a gigantic
imprint in the mud. Over time, rainwater accumulated in this deep imprint,
and the earth began to erode around it. Eventually, the water area grew so
large it became what we now call Lake Okeechobee.
Millions of years later, the Mayaimi tribe settled by that lake because
of the fresh water, fish, and other animals. Centuries passed, and Spanish
settlers built a small town on the edge of the lake. Your great-great-great-
grandmother was a descendent of the Mayaimi, and your great-great-great-
grandfather was visiting the small Spanish settlement. One day while it was
pouring rain around the lake, your great-great-great-grandfather was
drinking in the local saloon. He was so drunk when he stepped out of the
saloon, he never noticed your great-great-great-grandmother walking by
sopping wet. Just as he stumbled down the stairs falling drunk to theground, your great-g


and ev erything
else in the field of technology for the next forty millennia).Eventually, h uman beings got lost in the complexity,
bewildered and yet fascinated  by everything the mind can do. That
includes the darker side, for we have inherited the mind’s capacity
to make  us violent, afraid, depressed, sad, and conflicted—all the
traits of the divided self. Living with the divided self has been the
source of profound sorrow an d sometimes a deep wish to start all
over ag ain. The re’s a reason t hat every culture has a myth  about a
golden age or a  lost Garden o f Eden. We are disappointed in how
we turned out, and the tug of  nostalgia leads us back to a pristine
time when we were more innocent and better.
If w e drop the mythic trapp ings, however, what humans lost
was the  connec tion to our so urce—or pure consciousness. But we
have a path back to Eden that isn’t mythical. Somewhere in the
evolution of the human min d, at a time unreachable f rom the
present, Homo sapiens  bec ame self-aware. Was this  a momentous
shift or a gradual development? No one knows. Early humans
started to go beyond everyday thinking, which is largely
utilitarian, dev oted to the busyness of daily duties and demands.
Going beyond became solidified, we might say, in God, a
superhuman fashioned in our own image. At other times,
however, goin g beyond meant contemplating the na ture of
awareness. We can call this the awareness of being aware. We
thereby gained access to our source. Only when you know  that you
are conscious can you begin to explore where consciousness comes
from.
S a v e d — a n d  C u r s e d — b y  R e a s o n
Throughout history, this search for consciousness has been
haphazard and hazardous at the same time. Being human
encompasses a culture of nonviolence in Buddhism and early
Christianity, b ut also warrior cultures like the Mongols and the
Vikings. Traits we take for gr anted, like romantic love, didn’t exist
in m any early societies in the  Mediterranean Basin, including the
Greeks and the Egyptians; chivalry toward women was unknown
outside noble circles until th e rise of courtly knighthood in theMiddle Ages. Children were not considered exemp lars of
innocence as a matter of course—in medieval Christian doctrine,
sin arrived at birth, and under English common law a child was
treated as a fat her’s property, or chattel. Human dignity itself was
betrayed by the practice of slavery.
What th is dismal history indicates, if we look for a common
denominator, is that the human mind knew itself in fra gments,
which accumulated into shared stories built up over time. For
example, the first life account of the Buddha, who lived in the
sixth century BCE, wasn’t written until around four hundred years
after hi s death, and it was very brief, being included in an account
of the twenty-five Buddhas who preceded Gautama Buddha. The
first tru e biography was an epic poem, dating to the second
century BCE, written by a m onk called Ashvaghosha, under the
title of Buddhacarita  ( Act of the Buddha ). Understandably, myths
and miracles are interspersed with facts that may be reliable
accounts—the important thing was to amass from many fragments
a saintly life suitable for worship and veneration. Likewise, the
New Testament comes from  many sources—principally, it is
thought, the various early churches scattered throughout the
Roman Empire—and very big differences crop up between the four
Gospels.
All the stories that became w oven into civilization were created
collectively, even when it is traditional to refer to a single author
like Homer or a Gospel writer. The original texts  always
underwent alt erations later. Some stories became inspiring.
Others became  part of a people’s identity or their way of worship.
Against these positive effects, every story has severely lim ited our
infinite potent ial. Metareality has no story because it is outside
time and therefore outside hi story. Unlike the mind, which leaves
a trail of events behind it that historians can study, consciousness
has no beginning or end.
At present the dominant story, collectively speaking, is
scientific, and one aspect of the mind is given credit for advancing
human evolution: rational thought. If we pity our forebears for
their di fficulty in getting past superstition and myth, the future
may pity us for glorifying the rational mind and neglecting the
whole mind.In his 2018 book, Enlightenment Now, the widely read
Harvard psych ologist Steven Pinker takes 450 pages to fu lly extol
the triumph of reason in rece nt cultural history. Pinker makes “the
case for reason, science, humanism, and progress” (the book’s
subtitle), much as it would have been made in France during the
eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment. In fact, he look s to that
period as the turning point in Western civilization.
For the vast majority of peop le in the West, Pinker is preaching
to the choir when he characterizes enlightenment  as secular, free-
thinking, rational, and dedic ated to progress. I know this in my
role as an MD  trained in scientific medicine. Rationality has few
greater triump hs, and the ris e of modern medicine was p art of a
much l arger campaign to wipe out the scourge of i gnorant
superstition.
As a  prime example, no one  in the fourteenth century h ad a
rational explanation for the horrors of the Black Death, which
killed perhaps a third of Europe’s population, around twenty
million people,  between 1347 and 1352. Supernatural expla nations
became widespread, and ther e was a rash of persecutions of Jews
and witches. Three centuries  later, you would think society would
have learned its lessons and  realized how superstitious they had
been. No such luck. When William Harvey in the seve nteenth
century scientifically confirmed that the heart pumped blood to
every part of the body and  back again, many still bel ieved in
witches. It is e stimated that more were executed in the century
after Shakespeare’s death in 1616 than in the previous century.
Harvey himself visited women suspected of witchcraft and
became a prominent and skeptical opponent of such superstitious
thinking. In one of these visits, he took a toad, which one  woman
thought was her familiar sent by the Devil, and dissected it before
her eye s to prove that nothing supernatural existed  in the
creature.
Pinker praises  the rise of enlightened reason with fervor and
confidence:
What is enlightenment? In a 1784 essay with that
question as its title, Immanuel Kant answered that itconsists of “humankind’s emergence from its self-
incurred immaturity,” its “lazy and cowardly”
submission to  “dogmas and formulas” of religious or
political authority. Enlightenment’s motto, he
proclaimed, is “Dare to understand!”
This is such a  widely accepted view of enlightenment that
there’s little that’s daring abo ut it. A secular, scientific cul ture not
only tak es pride in rationality, it worships rationality with a faith
as a bsolute as the religious  dogmas Kant wanted humanity to
escape. What would be dar ing is to find a way to esc ape the
unfounded exaltation of reason. For rationality has wreaked as
much havoc as unreason—medieval monks, wedded to the “lazy
and cowardly” dogmas of Catholicism, as Pinker describes them,
didn’t drop the atomic bomb, invent chemical warfare and
biological weapons, or desp oil the environment to the point of
humanity’s self-destruction.
Reason has certainly created many good things, but in
Pandora’s box there was diabolical creativity, too. When freedom
of thought became widespread, there was nothing to stop
diabolical creativity from devising newer means of mec hanized
death, w hich h as proceeded apace since the Roman catapult and
the crossbow in the Middle A ges. Reason hasn’t been able to curb
its own creations, pursued in every case with the backing of
rational explanations for why horrific weapons were necessary to
develop.
Bypassing this fatal flaw, Pinker’s optimism paints a picture of
progress on many fronts. The  core of Enlightenment Now  i s a set
of seven ty-five charts illustrating the advance of humankin d up to
this mo ment in history, countering the popular notion that the
world is falling apart. The range of topics illustrated by these
charts covers everything from the tone of the news people read,
life expectanc y, and child mortality to malnourishme nt and
famine deaths; from Gross World Product and global income
distribution to American leisure time and the cost of jet travel.
It’s an impressive summing up of what rationality and progress
have achieved. But Pinker’s overview leaves consciousness for verylate in the game. The word is  barely present in the book, and the
main references, beginning on page 425, are skeptical and
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compromising	health	at	many	levels.	In	working	to	optimize
your	personal	health	equation,	you	need	to	be	aware	of	the	ways	in	which
modern	medical	“care”	actually	can	damage	your	health	along	any	of	the	other
pathways.	Chapter	10	about	the	medical	pathway	describes	more	specifically
medicine’s	capabilities	and	its	limitations.
A	New	Theory	for	a	New	Millennium
During	the	last	century,	modern	industrial	society	has	brought	fundamental
changes	to	human	existence;	we	are	developing	and	changing	the	world	much
faster	than	our	biology	can	adapt.	Today,	nutritional	intake,	toxic	exposures	and
stress	levels	bear	little	resemblance	to	those	of	even	our	most	recent	biological
ancestors.	Every	cell	in	our	bodies	is	adversely	affected	by	these	profound
changes,	which	is	why	our	society	has	suffered	more	and	more	chronic	disease.
Disease	is	the	catastrophic	result	of	decades	of	inadequate	nutrition,	toxic
exposures,	sedentary	lifestyles,	familial	and	social	disruptions	and	a	dependence
on	drugs	(prescription,	over-the-counter	and	recreational).
In	this	chapter,	I	have	attempted	to	outline	the	complexity	and	confusion	that
surround	disease	in	our	society.	I	offer	a	new	theory	of	health	and	disease,	a	new
way	to	look	at	these	concepts:	There	is	only	one	disease,	cellular	malfunction,
and	only	two	causes	of	disease,	deficiency	and	toxicity.	Six	pathways	can	lead	to
health	or	disease.	Our	confusion	arises	because	cells	malfunction	in	many
different	ways.	Modern	medicine	categorizes	the	symptoms	created	by	these
various	malfunctions	as	different	diseases,	even	though	they	have	common
causes.	Achieving	victory	over	disease	requires	removing	the	causes.	Eliminate
deficiency	and	toxicity,	allow	the	body	to	self-repair	and	self-regulate,	and
disease	will	go	away.4
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HOOSING
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EWALTHY
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HELLS
“Cells—in	the	skin,	the	muscles,	the	lungs,	the	liver,	the
intestines,	the	kidneys,	the	blood	vessels,	the	glands,	the
heart	and,	crucially,	the	nerves	and	brain—must	be	well
nourished	if	we	are	to	lead	long	and	healthy	lives.
Contrarily,	if	these	cells	are	undernourished,	disabilities	and
diseases	of	every	description	will	ensue.”
Roger	J.	Williams,	Ph.D.
Nutrition	Against	Disease
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et	us	take	a	trip	together	to	the	front	lines	of	the	daily	battle	between	health
and	disease:	your	cells.	Cells	are	the	building	blocks	of	your	body.	They	build
your	tissues,	and	these	tissues	make	up	your	systems.	Because	malfunctioning
cells	are	the	one	disease,	learning	to	care	for	cells	is	fundamental	to	healthy
living.	Come	with	me	on	a	tour	of	the	systems	that	keep	your	body	healthy	or
that	make	you	sick.	The	struggle	for	life	itself	occurs	within	every	cell.	The
vitality	of	a	person	can	only	be	as	strong	as	the	cells	of	which	they	are	made.
The	basics	of	caring	for	your	cells	are	as	follows:
•	Supply	cells	with	all	the	raw	materials	they	need.
•	Avoid	the	damaging	effects	of	toxic	chemicals.
•	Build	healthy	cell	membranes,	the	cell’s	first	line	of	defense	against
disease.
•	Learn	how	to	prevent	and	reverse	disease	by	understanding	how	cells
work	and	how	they	malfunction.
•	Choices,	rather	than	genetic	inheritance,	are	key.
Lost	Along	the	Way
Before	we	leave	our	homes	to	travel—particularly	if	our	destination	is
unfamiliar—we	usually	spend	time	reading	brochures,	studying	maps,	or
researching	local	customs,	currency,	and,	perhaps,	health	precautions.	We	rarely
give	that	kind	of	attention	to	our	own	bodies	and	to	our	health,	yet	what	could	be
more	important?
Most	people	expect	that	their	bodies	generally	take	care	of	themselves,provided	they	don’t	smoke,	drink	to	excess,	or	fall	prey	to	some	unstoppable
virus	or	some	predetermined	genetic	disease.	Most	people	believe	that	as	long	as
they	avoid	“fattening”	foods,	they	are	eating	a	healthful	diet.	On	all	counts,	these
people	are	wrong.
One	of	the	most	important	things	you	need	in	order	to	fight	disease	and	to
encourage	your	own	health	is	knowledge.	This	chapter	teaches	you	how	to
prepare	and	what	to	pack	for	a	healthy	journey	through	the	rest	of	your	life.	The
small	amount	of	time	you	will	spend	reading	this	chapter	will	be	an	investment
worth	making:	It	may	save	your	life.	Knowledge	is	power,	and	you	are	about	to
plug	into	a	tremendous	energy	source.
A	cabinet	stocked	with	medicines,	a	list	of	doctors	to	call,	and	a	head	filled
with	commercial	endorsements,	medical	studies	and	drug	warning	labels	does
nothing	to	give	you	what	you	really	need:	a	true	understanding	of	what	makes
you	sick	or	how	to	get	well.	Without	that	understanding,	you	can	be	caught	up	in
a	whirlwind	of	medical	procedures	and	pharmaceuticals	that	suppress	or
surgically	remove	the	symptoms	of	what	are	labeled	as	thousands	of	different
diseases.	In	reality,	these	drugs	and	surgeries	do	not	cure	disease,	and	they	may
actually	kill	you.	Despite	the	confusion	out	there	about	how	disease	occurs	and
the	different	health	plans	that	seek	to	promote	health,	real	success	can	only	come
if	you	keep	your	cells	working	right.	This	chapter	teaches	you,	simply	and
clearly,	how	your	body	works	at	its	most	basic	level:	your	cells.
The	Cell
A	cell	is	much	more	than	a	combination	of	molecules	and	atoms.	A	cell	is	a
miraculous	reality—life	itself.	A	single	cell	may	be	a	life	form,	such	as	a
bacterium.	A	human	being,	on	the	other	hand,	is	made	of	about	75	trillion	cells,
including	about	two	hundred	different	kinds	of	specialized	cells	with	specific
functions	throughout	the	body,	such	as	in	the	brain,	the	blood,	the	muscles,	the
liver	and	the	eyes.
Cells	are	created	and	maintained	by	extremely	complex	actions	and
interactions,	but	nature	takes	care	of	that	complexity.	Your	job	is	rather	simple:
Make	certain	that	your	cells	obtain	what	they	need.	Choosing	health	means
learning	how	to	supply	your	cells	with	what	they	need	while	keeping	them	free
of	what	they	don’t	need.	Cells	have	great	powers	to	take	care	of	themselves	and
to	repair	themselves—to	stay	healthy—unless	they	are	overwhelmed	by	poor
diets,	unhealthy	habits	or	environmental	hazards.
Your	daily	choices	determine
whether	your	cells	stay	healthy	or	get	sick.We	are	ready	to	begin	our	journey	through	the	cells	of	your	body.	Picture	that
we	have	traveled	to	the	largest	industrial	park	you	can	imagine.	Around	the	park
is	a	security	wall	designed	to	keep	out	intruders,	to	prevent	the	loss	of	essential


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necessary to go beyond the zone of public improvements and follow quite primitive trails.
Fortunately this was possible because it was the dry season. Even then many streams had to be
forded, which would have been quite impossible at other seasons of the year. We were able to
average approximately a hundred miles of travel per day for eighteen days, visiting twenty-five
districts and making examinations of native Maori families and children in native schools,
representing various stages of modernization. This included a few white schools and tubercular
sanitariums.
    Since over 95 per cent of the New Zealanders are to be found in the North Island, our
investigations were limited to this island. Our itinerary started at Wellington at the south end of the
North Island and progressed northward in such a way as to reach both the principal centers of
native population who were modernized and those who were more isolated. This latter group,
however, was a small part of the total native population. Detailed examinations including
measurements and photographic records were made in twenty-two groups consisting chiefly of the
older children in public schools. In the examination of 535 individuals in these twenty-two school
districts their 15,332 teeth revealed that 3,420 had been attacked by dental caries or 22.3 per
cent. In the most modernized groups 31 to 50 per cent had dental caries. In the most isolated
group only 2 per cent of the teeth had been attacked by dental caries. The incidence of deformity
of dental arches in the modernized groups ranged from 40 to 100 per cent. In many districts
members of the older generations revealed 100 per cent normally formed dental arches. The
children of these individuals, however, showed a much higher percentage of deformed dental
arches.
    These data are in striking contrast with the condition of the teeth and dental arches of the skulls
of the Maori before contact with the white man and the reports of examinations by early scientists
who made contact with the primitive Maori before he was modernized. These reports revealed
only one tooth in 2000 teeth attacked by dental caries with practically 100 per cent normally
formed dental arches.
    My investigations were made in the following places in the North Island. The Pukerora
Tubercular Sanatorium provided forty native Maori for studies. These were largely young men and
women and being in a modern institution they were receiving the modern foods of the whites of
New Zealand. Their modernization was demonstrated not only by the high incidence of dental
caries but also by the fact that 90 per cent of the adults and 100 per cent of the children had
abnormalities of the dental arches.
    The Hukarera College for Maori girls is at Napier. These girls were largely from modernized
native homes and were now living in a modern institution. Their modernization was expressed in7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 125/250the high percentage of dental caries and their deformed dental arches.
    At the Nuhaka school an opportunity was provided through the assistance of the government
officials to study the parents of many of the children. Tooth decay was wide-spread among the
women and active among both the men and children.
    The Mahia Peninsula provided one of the more isolated groups which showed a marked
difference between the older generation and the new. These people had good access to sea foods
and those still using these abundantly had much the best teeth. A group of the children who had
been born and raised in this district and who had lived largely on the native foods had only 1.7 per
cent of their teeth attacked by dental caries.
    The other places studied were Raukokore, Tekaha, Rautoki, Rotarua, Tehoro, Waiomio,
Teahuahu, Kaikohe, Whakarara, Mautauri Bay, Ahipara, Manukau, Rawena, Ellerslie, Queen
Victoria School at Auckland and Waipawa.
    New Zealand has become justly famous for its scenery. The South Island has been frequently
termed the Southern Alps because of its snow-capped mountains and glaciers. Of the 70,000
members of the Maori race living in the two islands, about 2000 are on the South Island and the
balance on the North Island. While snow is present on many of the mountains of the North Island
in the winter season, only a few of the higher peaks are snow capped during the summer. Most of
the shoreline of the seacoast of the South Island is very rugged, with glaciers descending almost to
the sea. The coastline of the North Island is broken and in places is quite rugged. The approach to
the Mahia Peninsula is along a rocky coast skirting the bay. The most important industries of New
Zealand are dairy products, and sheep raising for wool.
    The reputation of the Maori people for splendid physiques has placed them on a pedestal of
perfection. Much of this has been lost in modernization. However, through the assistance of the
government, I was able to see many excellent physical specimens. In Fig. 69 will be seen four
typical Maori who retained much of the tribal excellence. Note their fine dental arches. A young
Maori man who stands about six feet four inches and weighs 230 pounds was examined. The
Maori men have great physical endurance and good minds. Many fine lawyers and government
executives are Maori. The breakdown of these people comes when they depart from their native
foods to the foods of modern civilization, foods consisting largely of white flour, sweetened goods,
syrup and canned goods. The effect is similar to that experienced by other races after using foods
of modern civilization. Typical illustrations of tooth decay are shown in Fig. 70. In some individuals
still in their teens half of the teeth were decayed. The tooth decay among the whites of New
Zealand and Australia was severe. This is illustrated in Fig. 71. Particularly striking is the similarity
between the deformities of the dental arches which occur in the Maori people who were born after
their parents adopted the modern foods, and those of the whites. This is well illustrated in Fig. 72
for Maori boys. In my studies among other modernized primitive racial stocks, there was a very
high incidence of facial deformity, which approached one hundred per cent among individuals in
tuberculosis sanatoria. This condition obtained also in New Zealand.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 126/250FIG. 69. Since the discovery of New Zealand the primitive
natives, the Mann, have had the reputation of having the
finest teeth and finest bodies of any race in the world. These
faces are typical. Only about one tooth per thousand teeth
had been attacked by tooth decay before they came under
the influence of the white man.
FIG. 70. With the advent of the white man in New Zealand
tooth decay has become rampant. The suffering from dental
caries and abscessed teeth is very great in the most
modernized Maori. The boy at the lower left has a deep scar
in his upper lip from an accident.
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gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 127/250FIG. 71. Whereas the original primitive Maori had reportedly
the finest teeth in the world, the whites now in New Zealand
are claimed to have the poorest teeth in the world. These
individuals are typical. An analysis of the two types of food
reveals the reason.
FIG. 72. In striking contrast with the beautiful faces of the
primitive Maori those born since the adoption of deficient
modernized foods are grossly deformed. Note the marked
underdevelopment of the facial bones, one of the results
being narrowing of the dental arches with crowding of the
teeth and an underdevelopment of the air passages. We
have wrongly assigned these distorted forms to mixture of
racial bloods.
    Through the kindness of the director of the Maori Museum at Auckland, I was able to examine
many Maori skulls. Two views are shown in Fig. 73. The skulls belong in the pre-Columbian
period. Note the splendid design of the face and dental arches and high perfection of the teeth.7/29/13 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html#toc 128/250FIG. 73. The large collections of skulls of the ancient Mann of New
Zealand attest to their superb physical development and to the
excellence of their dental arches.
    One of the most important developments to come out of these investigations of primitive races is
the evidence of a rapid decline in maternal reproductive efficiency after an abandonment of the
native foods and the substitution of foods of modern civilization. This is discussed in later chapters.
    It was particularly instructive to observe the diligence with which some of the isolated Maori
near the coast sought out certain types of food in accordance with the tradition and accumulated
wisdom of their tribes. As among the various archipelagos and island dwellers of the Pacific, great
emphasis was placed upon shell fish. Much effort was made to obtain these in large quantities. In
Fig. 74 (lower), will be seen two boys who have been gathering sea clams found abundantly on
these shores. Much of the fishing is done


ers, because of the extraordinarily high amounts of cholesterol. Now
we point to the fact that blubber contains newly discovered omega-3 fatty
acids, which are said to thin the blood and prevent dangerous clots from
forming in the coronary arteries.This ostensibly explains why Eskimos manage to enjoy a heart-attack rate
that is 3 percent  of that in the continental United States. But does it really?
Other indigenou s people related to the Eskimos are not eating omega-3 fats,
yet they are just as protected. Although they live in different worlds, each
people has found a healthy balance with nature, both inner and outer.
Can we say the same for oursel ves? There is nothing intrinsic to modern
life that means we must succumb to the epidemic of heart disease afflicting
the United States and almost every other industrialized country. Ayurveda
would say that we simply need to shape our inner world to match the outer
one we have built for ourselves.
The ultimate significance of the twenty-five gunas is that they extend
human nature beyond the confines of the body. As a collection of cells, a
human being stops at the frontier of his skin; as a collection of gunas, he
blends into nature as a whole. For example, Kapha dosha is cold and moist,
so on a cold, damp, December day, Kapha imbalance becomes much more
likely. People might become more depressed on such days, as in fact they do.
There is even a specific synd rome, the much-publicized SAD (seasonal
affective disord er), that affects certain people by making them extremely
depressed in the winter.
The cause of SAD, from a Western perspective, is a deficiency of sunlight
reaching the pineal gland, causing elevated levels of the hormone melatonin.
How the pineal gland realizes that winter is here remains  a mystery,
however, since it is buried deep  inside the skull and has no access to light.
Ayurveda would  use a simpler principle to explain SAD: When Kapha
increases outside, it also increases inside. Certain people— those vulnerable
to Kapha imbalance—will become sick from this added Kapha, leading to
depression. All of us will be affected by the increase, though, because we all
have Kapha within us.
In Ayurveda, there is no mystery : A sliding scale of effects takes in every
person, healthy or ill. The challe nge is not how to fight winter depression but
how to flow with the change of seasons. Nature has given us this challenge,
and it has given us the ability to meet it. Every day nature asks, “Is your
ecology in balance?” and every day you have to come up with an answer. Inthe final analysi s, whether you are healthy or sick is nature’ s verdict on your
ability to remain in balance with the world, with the constan t play of the
gunas. Balance is flexibility in the face of change; perfect balan ce is perfect
flexibility in the face of constant change.
THE FIVE ELEMENTS
How did Ayurveda figure out that Vata is dry, Pitta hot, Kapha heavy? The
answer is fascin ating, for it reveals a complete and profound view of nature.
Vata, Pitta, and Kapha are the body’ s fundamental principles. As such, they
are abstract, even though they take material form in blood, bones, stomach
linings, heartbeats, and breathing.
The idea that everything we see in nature—stars, trees, lions, roses—is
basically abstract at first seems foreign. Yet, since Einstein derived his
famous theorem  E = mc2, establishing that matter can also take the form of
energy, the abstract-ness of nature has gradually become accepted.
Conversely, the most abstract concepts in physics are being discovered to
have physical form. The force of gravity, which is the Western equivalent for
the guna called “heavy,” is currently discussed in terms of physical particles
(gravitons) that can be moved and stored like bricks, at least in theory.
In the West we are comfortable saying that nature is founded on two levels
of abstraction, matter and energy. Energy is more abstract than matter in our
scheme, but it can still flow from place to place, increase or diminish, and be
stored (as electricity is stored in batteries). In the Ayurvedic scheme, there
are also two levels of abstraction, and they too agree with the senses,
although in a slightly different way. One level contains the three doshas; the
other contains a set of principles called the five elements.
The five elemen ts have something of both matter and energy in them. In
order from most subtle to most gross, they are:These elements correspond to “real” earth, air, fire, water, and space, but
they are also abstract. Asked what the five elements represent, an Ayurvedic
sage wouldn’ t point to the wind or a burning log or a brook. The five
elements are a code for shapes of intelligence that make up man’ s mind and
the world he perceives through  that mind. By mixing different  pairs of the
five elements, one arrives at the three doshas:
Vata is composed of air and space.
Pitta is composed of fir e and water.
Kapha is composed of earth and water.

The connection between Vata imbalance and cold, windy weather is
clearer now, because Vata is the “airy” dosha, and too much air, in the form
of wind, creates too much Vata. A Vata person typically complains of gas in
the intestines, showing that Vata and air are linked in another way. Air is
subtle, penetrating, and light, as is Vata.
A Pitta person generally feels warm, showing his fire, and may be prone
to sweating, showing the wateriness that is also in Pitta. Fire is aggressive,
energetic, and mobile, as is Pitta.A Kapha person is typically “down to earth” and prone  to chest
congestion, blocked sinuses, and other mucus problems, which are directly
related to too much water. Together, water and earth are sluggish, viscous,
and half-solid, half-liquid, as is the Kapha dosha.
The element of space, which seems odd in the company of the four
elements you can see and feel, plays a unique role in the Ayurvedic system,
because it allows the existence  of sound, which needs space  in order to
travel. Sound is the basis of all existing things, according to Ayurveda, not
audible sound like thunder but subtler vibrations that resonate in our silent
awareness. Ayurveda uses such sounds to heal the body by moving its
“vibrations” in various ways, which will be discussed more fully later.
After you spend a while using this new code, you will find that it is
completely natural. All twenty-f ive gunas can be contacted by sight, touch,
taste, and the other senses. The same cannot be said for enzymes, hormones,
neurotransmitters, and the other building blocks of Western medicine. How
many people do you know who can tell you the basic properties of insulin,
for example? Yet in an hour you can easily learn the qualities of Kapha, the
dosha which is most involved in balancing insulin.
GETTING DOWN TO DET AILS—THE SUBDOSHAS
For the sake of completion, I want to mention that each of the three
doshas is broken down into five subdoshas, which make diagnosis and
treatment more precise. All the subdoshas have their own locations in the
body, giving rise to specific disorders when imbalances occur there. The
most important subdosha of Vata, called Prana Vata, is situated  in the upper
chest and head, for example. It regulates the movement of breath and nerve
impulses and therefore has a profound influence on every function in the
body.
All three doshas have a subdosha sitting in the heart, which is an
important crossroads for all physical and emotional activity in the body.
Such detailed knowledge is essential for an Ayurvedic physician to know; it
is optional for the patient. (For a complete description of the fifteensubdoshas, see the reference pages at the end of this chapter.) To show you
how all this information about the doshas adds up, let’s look at a case
history.
Ann Holmes began to experience menstrual pain in her early  teens; it
became increasingly severe in adulthood. For nearly a week every month she
was incapacitated by cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea. For a few days prior to
her period she was nervous and upset in anticipation of what was coming;
the week  following left her feeling exhausted. Altogether, she was unable to
work for as much as two weeks every month.
Her attempts to solve this problem ranged far and wide. One doctor
recommended megadoses of vitamins. “My periods simply stopped coming,”
she recalls. “I was relieved to be free of pain, but I didn’ t feel that this was a
cure. When I went back and told my doctor, he reduced the vitamins, but
then the problem returned almost as bad as before.”
Over a two-year  period Ann saw several more specialists. A gynecologist
put her on heavy  doses of Motri n, a non-narcotic pain reliever that alleviated
her symptoms somewhat. Other doctors agreed that she should


 of this is a material  process.
Saying such things is quite ruthless. Krishnamurti’s
audiences frequently found themselves squirming under his
barbed challenges. Perhaps it was futile for someone who
had arrived at the freed om and clarity of Location 4 to
explain what he saw to people who hadn’t even
experienced Location 1. Yet in the simplest everyday words,
he wanted them to see what was really happening:
“thought has created the architecture and everything
inside the building.”
If we are aware of this, he says, we must move in a totally
diﬀerent direction. The past is constantly being repeated in
the present. Tradition, however noble, oﬀers no help. “If we
accept tradition, it makes the mind extraordinarily dull.”
Imagine the shock to audiences who thought that
Krishnamurti himself belongs to the tradition of Hinduism
and gurus and enlightened sages—he swept all of that
away. With so much pain, disorder, and chaos in the world,
he says, how can we simply turn to tradition? He even
torches the sacred Bhagavad-Gita: Reading it is repetitive
and convenient, but meanwhile the brain becom es dull,
routine, and stupid.
So what was his totally diﬀerent direction? Taking the
mind to its source in the timeless. This begins by observing
your own actions and behavior. In a word, Krishnamurti
asks his listeners to stop looking at the content of their
consciousness and instead at consciousness itself. In the
Gita, Lord Krishna declares, “Curving back on myself, I
create again and again.” To understand this passage, youmust substit ute “pure consciousness” for “Lord Krishna,”
and then a seemingly religious statement makes universal
sense. The whole of creation is consciousness working
within itself. It never stands apart from its creation. How
could it? There is nowhere else to go.
This realizat ion, the very foundation of Eastern wisdom
traditions, has recently become a hot idea in cosmology,
under the name of panpsychism, which holds that the
universe is conscious. If you accep t panpsychis m, you no
longer have to explain how matter learned to think. You
aren’t limite d by the notion that consciousness is a late
arrival in the cosmos, coming on the scene only when the
human brain  evolved. A host of dilemmas is solved when
mind is everywhere. But a nifty theory that has caught
everyone’s fancy doesn’t meet the challenge posed by
Krishnamurti: How do we deal with a world in chaos and
disorder?
There must be peace at every level—body, mind, and
world—for healing to be complete. When you’re sick,
getting well isn’t theoretical. The same holds true in a
Middle East battle zone or in a conﬂicted soul. “Is love, is
compassion, the product of thought?” Krishnamurti asks at
the end. By implication, it isn’t, but he wants every listener
to look inside and discover this truth on their own.
Accepting it blindly amounts to no more than another nod
to tradition, which dulls the mind. Every spiritual tradition
extols love and compass ion, but we don’t live in a world
where they’ve taken root to defeat hatred and discord.
For the truth to set us free, it must happen one person at
a time, through a journey of self-awareness. The gurus,
sages, and seers cry, “Wake up!” with one voice. But they
can’t walk the path for us. Since the appearance of
Quantum Healing  I believe I’ve witnessed a wave of
interest in waking up, and it continues to swell.
Krishnamurti wasn’t optimistic, however. “I’m afraid thatlove doesn’t exist in this country,” he mourns, referring to
India. When asked  if there was a spiritual revival in the
New Age, he conceded only that perhaps there were more
good beginners.
The problem  with love, he pointed out, is that “the word
is not the thing….That which is the product of time, of
thought, which is not the material process is the mind.” If
this one idea seizes hold of people, one at a time, there is a
way out of our distress and the chaotic world produced by
the worst in human natur e. The brain can be trained in any
direction, for better or worse. Healing results when it is
trained for better. But only by ﬁnding our source in the
timeless will we reach the level where all solutions emerge.
If you need to be inspire d by the prospect of waking up,
look as I do, to the poets. I’ll let Rumi,  then, have the last
word.
Oh God,
I have discovered love!
How marvelous, how good, how beautiful it is!
I oﬀer my salutation
To the spirit of passion that aroused
and excited this whole universe,
And all it contains.
* https://www.youtube.com/ watch?
v=FqGXEFhsjtA&list=UU88A5W9XyWx7WSwthd5ykhw
OceanofPDF.comTo Gautama, Mallika, and Rita for their unconditional love
and acceptance of all I do.
To Carla Linton for her dedication to create a better
world.
To Muriel Nellis, who inspired my conﬁdence as a writer
from the very beginning.
To Toni Burbank, whose editing brought clarity to my
thinking and improved every chapter of this book.
And especial ly to Huntley Dent—our deep friendsh ip, the
insights we shared together, and his literary guidance were
all evolutionary experiences for me.
OceanofPDF.comI felt that readers would appreciate a short list of highly
readable books on the major subjects I refer to in this book:
physics, mind-body medicine, and Veda. I enthusiastically
recommend the following nine books, all of which entered
into my own education on these fascinating subjects.
Davies, P aul. God and the New Physics. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1984.
Dossey, Larry, M.D. Space, Time, and Medicine. Boston:
Shambhala, 1982.
Franklin, Jon. Molecules of the Mind. New York: Atheneum,
1987.
Hawking, Stephen M. A Brief History of Time. New York:
Bantam, 1988.
Kaku, Michio, Ph.D., and Jennifer Trainer. Beyond Einstein.
New Y ork: Bantam, 1987.
Locke, Steph en, M.D., and Douglas Colligan. The Healer
Within. New Y ork: Dutton, 1986.
Murchie, Guy. The Seven Mysteries of Life. Boston:
Houghton Miﬄin, 1978.
Smith, Anthony. The Body. New Y ork: V iking, 1986.
Wilber, Ken, ed. Quantum Questions. Boston: Shambhala,
1984.
OceanofPDF.comThe literatur e devoted to every topic in this book, once
scarce and scattered, has ballooned into something vast. As
the era of the Internet dawned, numerous websites and
blogs arose to address mind, body, and spirit.
I bega n to write books  that focused on topics ﬁrst
addressed in Quantum Healing. Here are some selected
titles.
Perfect Health  (1990 ) oﬀers a practical guide to Ayurveda,
adapted to the daily needs of modern life in the W est.
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind  (1993) explores the mind-
body connection as the best way to prevent premature
aging and reverse the eﬀects of the aging process.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success  (1994) is a pocket
guide to the principles of yoga, adapted for everyday
use.
The Book of Secrets  (2004) goes deeply into the teachings
of Vedanta and the wisdom tradition of consciousness.
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul (2009)
describes the process of self-transformation from the
deepest level of consciousness, the soul.
In the intervening years since Quantum Healing
appeared, I eagerly embr aced these new opportun ities. You
will ﬁnd extensive, updated discussions atwww.deepakchopra.com  and wide-reaching sites like
www.huﬀingtonpost.com, wher e I’ve contributed weekly for
several years. These posts are completely indexed,
although not divided into topics yet.
The most comprehensive cataloging of spontaneous
remissions is also available online. It was compiled by
Caryle Hirschberg and Brendan O’Regan for the Institute
of Noetic Sciences, with literally thousands of references.
Available in hard copy, the text is online at the institute’s
website, http://noetic.org/ library/ publication-books/
spontaneous-remission-annotated-bibliography/.
Finally, as my exploration into quantum healing
deepened, I felt that I should coauthor papers with
credentialed scientists who understood the implications of
the mind-body connection as applied to medicine, biology,
genetics, and physics. Following is a list of collaborations
with one of my most admired and widely published
colleagues, physicist Menas Kafatos, in the form of peer-
reviewed articles. I’m enduringly grateful that he and the


No records were kept either by Dr. Tanner or Dr. Moyer of the phenomena of this fast. The only data extant deal with the prom pt
and general relief of  symptoms of distress, all of which vanished by the tenth day of fasting, and there is mention made that Dr.
Tanner had no passage from the bowels from the 15th of July until the 31st of August, an interval of 47 days. To carry out a fast
today in this man ner would be deemed a bid for disaster, hence the record made by Dr. Tanner in this, his first essay into
prolonged abstinence from food for health's sake, is thus rendered the more remarkable.

The fast in question was commenced with a view of relieving an inflammation of the stomach, and it was continued after the active
symptoms had subsided in order to test the worth of scientific teachings as to the time a human being might live without food. No
plan had been arranged, for, as stated, decision to fast  came suddenly; neither was there any intention of bringing the matter to
public attention.

But the outcome of Dr. Tanner's experiment was so surprising and so successful from the therapeutic viewpoint that Dr. Moyer
was unable to remain silent, and he t old a few of his friends, among whom was a reporter of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. This
virtually necessitated a public statement of the facts, which called wide -spread attention to Dr. Tanner, and newspapers throughout
the country were soon publishing art icles and interviews, many of which attempted to throw doubt upon the doctor's veracity.
Medical men especially, almost to a man, when questioned upon the subject, stated that such a fast was a physical impossibili ty,
and medical journals published such st atements as scientific facts.

These attacks upon Dr. Tanner's probity he believed were likely to affect his professional reputation, and he thereupon deter mined
to speak for himself. This he did through the columns of the Pioneer Press in an article iter ating what has been related, together
with other announcements and arguments that need not here be quoted.

For some time after publication of this communication considerable interest was shown, especially in the Middle West, upon th e
subject of fasting, not, however, because of its therapeutic possibilities, but because of the doubt that a human being might emulate
the Christ and perform in the flesh a miracle. For Christ's fast of forty days and nights was then as now by orthodox believe rs
numbered among  miraculous events.

Dr. Tanner went further than this in later years, and, as he says in a letter to the author of date February 23, 1912: "My se cond fast,
publicly given, was called the 'Great American Sensation', and its novel incidents were wired to t he ends of the telegraphic world.
My advisers planned for me wisely. My object was not money, but to relieve myself of the odium unjustly heaped upon me by the
medical enemies of all righteousness. Right triumphed, and the very javelins of hate hurled at m e, in their recoil held up the
medical profession to the derision of the world. Every prediction of failure was nullified, and I came off conqueror and more  than
conqueror, in spite of the medical Goliaths arrayed against truth."

This statement was made by Dr. Tanner thirty -two years after he underwent his famous second fast in the City of New York. The
fast began on June 28,1880, and ended at noon, August 6,1880, full forty days.

To go into the controversies that this public demonstration occasioned wo uld be futile here. It is sufficient to say that Dr. Tanner
Page 4 of  72 successfully vindicated his cause, and that he proved his contention that mere man might refrain from eating for forty days a nd still
live. In addition, he showed that the physical state of his bo dy was materially improved by his experience, and that the therapeutic
value of abstinence from food was an established fact. As a result of this test Dr. Tanner's name became a household word, an d to
this day in works not allied at all to the subject refe rences are met with the good old doctor as their theme.

Dr. Henry S. Tanner was born in England in 1831. He died in San Diego, California, in comparative obscurity in 1919. Eighty -
eight years of life, most of which was devoted to contending with the orth odox members of his profession! Yet he never lost his
mental poise nor his well developed sense of humor. Nor did he ever descend to the meannesses of petty controversy, although
outspoken to the end. Throughout his practice, and he was always actively eng aged in the work of his profession, he decried the
use of drugs, depending entirely upon natural therapy. When his purse was full, his funds were at the disposal of those in ne ed, and
his whole personality was one that carried with it and expressed the Gol den Rule.

Dr. Tanner, from 1877 on, employed the fast in his practice. He slightly antedates Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey in this regard, bu t he
did not, as did Dr. Dewey, make of his knowledge the basis of a cult, the foundation of a school.

When in 1911 t he author was persecuted by the political members of the orthodox branch of medicine, and was accused of having
caused the death of one of her fasting patients by starvation, Dr. Tanner rose to the occasion, as evidenced in the following  letter:
"Our local  papers have published matter in regard to you professionally. As I am the father of fasting, I'm an interested party in
your welfare. If I can be of service, command me, and to the extent of my ability to help, I will cheerfully respond."

One could not ask for more than this, yet Dr. Tanner did more. Testimony from witnesses not directly connected with the case was
barred at the trial by a prejudiced judge, so it was not possible to take advantage of the doctor's offer at this time. But l ater, while
the case was pending in the higher courts, Doctor Tanner came to Seattle, and he and the author appeared many times jointly on
the platform to the great good of the cause of therapeutic fasting. He was then eighty -one years of age and in possession of all of
his faculties, save that he was slightly deaf. Upon his return to Los Angeles, where he then made his home, he continued pract icing
"natural methods" under medical license.

Dr. Tanner died of sheer old age in 1919 at San Diego. It is a sad resection upon those who should have felt the obligation, that the
last days of this gentle but firm -principled man should have been spent in the County Hospital. The author had been absent abroad
for nearly four years and had lost touch with the doctor, only to discover  on her return to this country after his death the facts as
here recorded. Eighty -eight years of existence, forty -two of which were devoted to the advancement of that method of healing by
which his own life had been saved and prolonged, and devoted as well  to teaching others the natural way to health, with what far
reaching effects none of us may ever know! In that he advocated and practiced fasting and other natural therapeutic measures for
the long space of forty -two years, and that he was first to attrac t public attention to the possibilities of the fast as a curative means,
to Dr. Henry S. Tanner is justly entitled the first place among the pioneers of therapeutic fasting.

Just about the time that Dr. Tanner in Minneapolis discovered for himself the wo rth of abstinence from food as a therapeutic
measure, another medical physician in Meadville, Pennsylvania, by what may be called pure accident, was given a revelation of
the power of nature in disease along lines similar to the Tanner experience. Wonder i s occasioned at the coincidence in time and in
circumstance. Dr. Tanner says definitely that his first trial of the fast was a personal and experimental one, and that he be gan his
initial experience on the 17th day of July, 1877. Dr. Edward Hooker Dewey, o n page 48 of his True Science of Living, states: " On
a hot day in July, 1877, I entered a home to assume charge of a case of typhoid fever that was to arouse every possible facul ty as
by an electric charge." The doctor began to treat this case in orthodox  medical manner, and in order to support strength and vital
power, from the medical viewpoint it was his duty to enforce feeding. But, fortunately for the patient and for the future of
scientific fasting in disease, every dose of drugs or of food, every dr ink of water, was instantly rejected by the stomach, and this
condition persisted for over three weeks. In this connection Dr. Dewey remarks: "I was a very surprised physician, for, even
without food, I found the tongue cleaning and a manifest gain in both  mental and physical strength that became even marked at the
time, when, to my continued surprise, food might be borne. I, however, determined to let nature continue to have her way, and
from the end of the third week I watched, without trying enforced fee ding, until the thirty -fourth day, when my patient, with
natural hunger in evidence, began to eat and to


 rinse
your mouth, and gargle morning and evening.  It helps with thrush and to
prevent colds and other infections, and also tooth decay. With vaginal
thrush douche twice daily with suitably diluted hydrogen peroxide, keep
it inside for some time, and f ollow up by applying some probiotic.
Probiotics
This leads us to the next step: replacing the decimated pathogenic
microbes with desirable lactobacilli. This is best done in a big dose 30 -
60 minutes after each flush; otherwise,  the unwanted microbes may just
grow back to full strength after the next meal.
Acidophilus culture is used to repopulate the freed -up spaces at the walls
of the small intestines, while bifidobacteria are the protective inhabitants
of the colon or large intestines. There are also other lactobacteria
naturally residing in our intes tinal tract. These bacterial cultures are
available from health food shops or the Internet and best refrigerated
before and after sale.
It is difficult to find a good culture. As a general rule look for a product
that
▪ has been grown on seeds and vegetabl es rather than on milk,
▪ has a large variety of different bacterial strains, and…
▪ has been produced and is used at temperatures from 3 6 to 40°C.
However, dry cultures are dormant and inactive as compared to bacteria
in fresh or live ferments. Therefore,  you may experiment with making
your own ferment. Initially you may use dry cultures as starter or buy
fresh ferments over the Internet. F or recipes  and supplies using kefir
grains  see: users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html  or for grain and 58
 vegetable ferments:  www.agmfoods.com. I do not recommend
commercial yogurt to sanitize the intestinal tract.
Caution:  Some individuals with Candida are highly sensitive to all
fermented foods.
Fermented liquids, such as Kefir or Kombucha, tend to be rather acidic
and this can cause overacidity problem s in sensitive individuals. You can
reduce this problem by partly neutralizing the acidity with sodium
bicarbonate, magnesium carbonate, magn esium oxide or dolomite
powder.
Prebiotics
Prebiotics or the food that we provide for our intestinal flora is usually
even more important than the relatively few probiotic bacteria that we can
supply as supplements. These nutrients determine which microbial
species will thrive and which ones will n ot do well. The easily digestible
carbohydrates from sugar and grain products favour Candida and other
yeasts but can also lead to overgrowth of various bacteria in the small
intestines.
The most suitable microbes for intestinal sanitation are on the skin s of
fresh raw organic vegetables and berries, and these also provide the
perfect nutrients for their microbes to keep growing in our intestinal tract.
This is how we evolved. You may clean the leaves in water but do not
add any microbicides. Best puree (w ith energised water) in a high -speed
blender and also use fresh veggie salads.
Commercially available soluble but indigestible fibre, called FOS or
fructosoligo -saccharides, helps to stimulate the growth of beneficial
intestinal bacteria. While preferable to simple carbohydrates for our
intestinal flora, FOS can also be used by some pathogenic bacteria in
the colon.
Legumes  are high in a type of soluble fibre, raffinose, that is only broken
down in the large intestines. It is an excellent food for bifidoba cteria.
Raffinose  is also found in members of the cabbage family, asparagus
and other vegetables.  59
 As a side -effect, legumes tend to produce wind or flatulence which can
be reduced by sprouting or soaking overnight and  replacing the water
before cooking. T his also improves the absorption of minerals by
reducing the amount of phytic acid in the seeds. Lentils and peas cause
fewer problems than beans but  sprouted mung beans are also good.
When soaking beans add a few drops of Saturated Solution of Potassium
Iodide or SSKI to inactivate an enzyme inhibitor that causes increased
wind.
Inulin  is another supplement to feed bifidobacteria in the colon. It i s a
fine white powder with a slightly sweet taste. The usual intake of inulin is
from 5 to10 grams or 1 to 2 teaspoons once or twice daily. Increase
gradually as it may cause loose bowels and increased wind or flatulence.
This cannot be entirely avoided bu t experiment to keep it in acceptable
limits. Also,  the amount of inulin needs to be adjusted according to the
amount of legumes used which can create an additional gas problem.
Inulin is widely distributed in vegetables, and especially their roots. The
highest amounts are in Jerusalem artichokes, chicory roots, onions,
leeks, artichokes and dandelion leaves.
Very beneficial is resistant starch or RS. It feeds mainly the microbes
in the colon, good for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel diseases
and colon cancer. You get RS by adding a small raw potato (avoid any
with green skins) when blending vegetables. To make isolated RS blend
some peeled potatoes and refrigerate. After a short time,  the RS granules
accumulate at the bottom and you can pour off t he liquid. 100g of raw
potato provides a recommended daily amount of 25g RS.
For a good article on RS see Resistant -Starch  at
www.gestaltreality.com/2014/02/27/resistant -starch -a-concise -guide/
Increased wind is a common drawback with all prebiotics. This can be
minimized by only slowly increasing the amounts of prebiotics and  using
psyllium before breakfast and possibly other m eals. Psyllium reduces
wind by removing toxins and excess microbes.
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 Chapter Five
MICROBES & PARASITES
Eliminate Harmful Microbes & Parasites

All chronic diseases, including cancer and autoimmune diseases are
associated with a proliferation of pathogenic microbes and parasites.
Due to antibiotics, steroidal drugs, birth control pills and chemotherapy
our natural intestinal bacteria have been ba dly damaged, and pathogenic
microbes, especially fungi and mycoplasmas, are out of control.
Also,  microbes from childhood vaccinations may still be present, and
there tend to be infection foci in root -canal treated teeth and often in
scars from surgery. A ll of these greatly weaken our immune system and
allow pathogenic microbes to invade the blood and internal organs. Now
we become susceptible to frequent infections and immune disturbances
such as autoimmune diseases, allergies, diabetes, heart disease and
cancer.
This can only be reversed by keeping fungi and other microbes under
control to give the immune system a chance to recover. Therefore,
antimicrobial therapy is essential at the start of a holistic health program.
But fungi are very tenacious and ha ve ways to stay in hiding as spores
or protected by biofilms, and when we become careless or stressed, they
may try again to invade the blood. This means we need to continue for a
long time with a low -key antimicrobial maintenance program, and step it
up periodically, or whenever we are under prolonged stress or notice any
undesirable microbial activity.
INFECTIONS AND IMMUNE SUPPORT
Often casual viral or bacterial infections re -ignite conditions that were
previously under control, such as diabetes or autoimmune diseases.
Therefore, whenever there is an acute infection or a flare -up of a chronic 61
 problem, it is advisable to take strong antimicrobial action immediately.
Greatly increase the strength and variety of antimicrobial remedies, and
in addition use any of the following measures that seem to be
appropriate.
Fever  is a great help in fighting infections by killing heat intolerant germs
and strengthening the immune response. Keep it up with hot baths, hot
teas and sweating. Very high temperatures may be reduced with cold
packs around the calves, cool baths and blue li ght. If the fever is too
concerning seek professional help. During an acute infectious disease
use mainly a light diet with plenty of raw food as salads and juices.
Viral infections:  in addition to general antimicrobial methods also use  a
high intake of vitamin C, selenium and zinc. Take 5 x 2g of sodium
ascorbate or buffered vitamin C, 3 x 15 - 20mg of zinc, 200mcg of
selenium, up to 3 x 2g of L -lysine and up to 3 x 200mg of alpha -lipoic
acid. With hepatitis also add silymarin/milk thistle. In life -threat ening
situations try intra -venous vitamin C in addition to bowel tolerance
vitamin C and high doses of CDH (see below under MMS).
Bladder infections:  Take the simple sugar D -mannose, half to one
teaspoon in water every 2 to 3 hours; this eliminates infecti ons based on
E-coli within a few days. If it does not help then try 15 drops of a saturated
solution of potassium iodide (SSKI)


Thehomeopathicremedyismadefromthenative
sulphideofantimonybytrituration.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Complaintsfromover-eating.Cracksoncornersof
mouthnostrils.Eyes:sunken;dull.Lipsdry.
Sluggish.Thirstless.White-coatedTongue.
Worseforgettingoverheated;forsun;swimmingin
coldwater.
PeoplewhoneedAntimoniumcrudumareoftenglut-
tonswhoeatmorethantheyneed;theyconsequently
becomefat,sluggish,irritableandsick.Theydevelop
weakstomachsandtheirdigestivesystemscomplain
frequently.Thisremedycaninfactbeusedforanydigestiveupsetsarisingfromhavingoverloadedthe
stomach.Thirstlessness isanothergeneralsymptom
tolookoutfor;itisoftenpresentwiththenauseaor
indigestion.Akeysymptomofthisremedyisathick
whitecoating(likewhitewash)onthetongue,which
mustbepresentinanycomplaint iftheremedyisto
work.Thenostrilsandthecornersofthemouthmay
havecracks.
Antimoniumcrudumhassimilareffectstothoseof
Carbovegetabiliswithregardtooverloadedstomachs,
butaCarbovegetabilispersonhasmuchmoreflatulence
anddoesn'thavethewhitetongueofAntimonium
crudum.
Antimoniumcrudumtypesareverysensitivetothe
sun,orbeingoverheatedinanyway,whichcan
exhaustthemandcausethemtolosetheirvoicesorin
factaggravateanysymptom,thoughswimmingin
coldwatercanbringonacold.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Dislikesbeinglookedat;beingtouched.Irritable.
Sentimental.Sulky.
Sickchildrenneedingthisremedyarefoul;theycan't
beartobetouchedorlookedatandmayevenshout
'Goaway!'ifyougoanywherenearthem.Theydon't
wanttospeakorbespokento,andareangryifyou
givethemanyattention.Theycanbeasangryas
Chamomillatypes(butChamomillawillbedemanding
andwillwanttobetouchedorcarriedatleastfora
shortwhile).Adultsmayalsobehaveinasulky,
irritableway,notwantingtospeakorbespokento,
especially iftheyaresufferingfromgastricproblems.
Thiscanbeausefulremedyforsentimental,lovesick
teenagerswho'moon'overlostloves,whobecome
sluggishanddifficulttolivewith.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Chickenpox
Symptomswithcough.
Withtypicalemotional/mental andgeneralsymptoms
(seeabove).
Corns
SymptomsCorns:onsolesoffeet;undernails;in-
flamed;horny.Painspressing.
Cornsorhornypatchesmaybeinflamedandsoreand
willusuallybesituatedonthesolesofthefeet,atthe
tipsofthetoesorunderthenails,especiallyofthebig
toes,althoughfingernails,especiallydamagednails,
canhavethesehornygrowthsunderthem.Theycan
looklikewarts.
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Diarrhoea
SymptomsAlternatingwithconstipation inelderly
persons.Stools:withsmall,hardlumps;watery.
Worseforgettingoverheated.
Causesover-eating;sourwine.
Exhaustion
SymptomsWithsleepiness.
Worseinhotweather.
Fingernailssplit
Causesinjurytothenail.
Thisisforinjuredorcrushedfingernailsthatgrowin
splits(Silicaistheotherremedythathasthis).
Indigestion
SymptomsBelching:empty;tastingoffoodjust
eaten.Belly/stomach: bloated;feelsempty;feelsfull.
Nausea
SymptomsNausea:constant;duringpregnancy.
Belching:empty;tastingoffoodjusteaten.
Worseaftereatingacidicand/orstarchyfoods.
Thenauseamaybeaccompaniedbyaheadache.
Toothache
SymptomsPain:gnawing;indecayedteeth;spread-
ingtohead.
Betterfreshair(walkingin).
Worseaftereating;colddrinks/food; atnightinbed;
touchoftongue.
Vomiting
SymptomsVomiting:ofbile;ofcurdledmilk;during
pregnancyOccursinbreastfedbabies.
Worseafterdrinkingmilk7sourwine.
Causedbymeasles;sourwine.
Thisisaremedyfornauseaandvomitingduring
pregnancywherethereisthecharacteristicwhite
tongueandanintoleranceofmilkand/orbread.Babies
whovomituptheirbreastmilkafterafeed,whoget
crossandrefusethebreastthenexttimeitisoffered
willalsobenefit.
Antimoniumtartaricum (Ant-t.)
Othernames:tartusemeticus;antimoniipotasii-
tartras;tartaremetic
Antimony isapowerfulpoisonusedinthesixteenth
centuryasafast(andpainful)wayofcleaninganopen,festeringwound;itwasnotknownthattoxic
substancesareeasilyabsorbedinthiswayintothe
bloodstream,andsideeffectswereoftenfatal.
Itwasalsothefavouriteemetic(drugtocausevomit-
ing)ofoldentimesandwascalledthePrinceof
Evacuants'becauseevenverysmalldosescaused
severepurgingwithviolentvomitingandprofuse
sweating.Everlastingemeticcupsor'poculaemetica'
weremadeofantimony,andwineleftstandingin
themforadayortwoacquiredemeticproperties.
Unfortunately,vomitingdidnotalwaystakeplace
andthepoisonouspreparationthenremainedinthe
stomachandbowels,withsometimesfatalresults.Itis
becauseofthisthatitfellintodisreputeandhasnot
beenusedinorthodoxmedicineformanyyears.As
Paracelsuswrote,'Itdependsonlyuponthedose
whetherapoisonisapoisonornot.'
Thehomeopathicpreparation ismadebymixing
andthenheatingtogetheroxideofantimonandacid
potassiumtartrate.Oncecooledanddried,crystals
formanditisthispuretartaremeticthatisdissolvedin
distilledwaterandsuccussed.
GENERALSYMPTOMS
Exhaustion.Face:pale.Sweat:cold.Thirstless.
Tonguewhitecoated.
AntimoniumtartaricumandAntimoniumcrudumare
similarinthattheyarebotheffectiveatdealingwith
gastricupsets.Patientsaregenerallythirstlessand
theircomplaintsareoftenaccompaniedbyprofuse
coldsweat,mostlyduringthenight.Thefacelooks
verypaleandsunkenandmaygobluearoundthelips.
Itisaparticularlyusefulremedyforchildrenandmay
becalledforduringchickenpoxormeaslesifachest
infectionsetsin.Itisalsoaremedythatisoften
indicatedinchestinfectionsintheelderly,where
thepatientsfeelincrediblyweak,especiallywiththe
cough.
EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS
Theemotional/mentalsymptomsfromtheprovingsof
Antimoniumtartaricumarenotverystrongandthe
characteristhusnotverymarked.Typically,thechil-
drenareirritable,theywhineandcomplainandwant
tobecarriedbytheirmothers,buttheydonotwantto
betouchedorexamined.Theywillbelessangrythan
thoseneedingAntimoniumcrudum.Adultsmaybe
apathetic,anxiousanddespondent.
PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS
Chickenpox
Symptomsskinrashslowincomingout.Withsymp-
tomsofcough(seebelow).Thechildwillbebad
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tempered,withthetypicalwhite-coatedtongue.If
Antimoniumtartaricumisindicatedbutdoesn'twork,
andthechildisverybadtempered,giveAntimonium
crudum.Therashisslowtoappearorstartstocome
outanddisappearsagain.Thereisdrowsinessand
nausea.
Cough
SymptomsCough:loud;rattling;whooping.Breath-
ing:asthmatic;abdominal;difficult;fast,rattling.Dif-
ficultEXPECTORATION.WithSLEEPINESS;VOMITING.
Antimoniumtartaricumhasamarkedactiononchest