 disease characterized by
a high fever (above 38°C) and it lasts over 3
weeks. Only y our doctor can diagnose pneumo-
nia, since the respiratory sounds and noises dur-
ing chest auscultation (examination) are very
specific. If you suddenly feel sick and have a sore
throat and runny nose, start fasting immediately
without delaying it even for an  hour. Viruses are
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in the past, but then they acquired a simpler
structure in the process of evolution. A virus is
just a DNA chain (there are also RNA -contain-
ing viruses) surrounded by a shell that makes  it
much easier for it to survive. A virus secretes
special enzymes that dissolve the nasal mucosa
and penetrates it. After penetrating the mucous
membrane, a virus inserts its DNA into the mu-
cosal DNA. As a result, the previously normal
cell starts synthe sizing viral DNA instead of its
own DNA. In the end, it dies and a large number
of viruses are produced and penetrate other
cells.
The reaction develops like an avalanche, and it
is very fast. Therefore, it’s necessary to start
treatment without delaying i t for a day or even
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frfor an hour. Dead cells secrete biologically active
substances or BASs. Together with viral toxins,
biologically active substances cause the inflam-
mation that loosens cell membranes and con-
tributes to the further and more rapid spread o f
viruses. After affecting the nasal cavity and the
development of such unpleasant symptoms as
runny nose and sneezing, trachea and bronchi
are affected and such symptoms as cough, chest
pain, and others develop. Initially, inflammation
is viral, but then bacteria start multiplying in in-
flamed tissues. Under normal conditions,
they’re incapable of parasitizing inside the body,
which is why they are called conditionally path-
ogenic. In this case, after getting to the tissues
weakened by a virus, they develop vigorously,
just like viruses. Microbial inflammation starts
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a long time after viruses are eliminated from the
body.
An acute respiratory disease causes so much
stress to the body that microbleeds remain in the
brain even after a complete recovery. That's what
an acute respiratory disease is, although it seems
harmless at first glance. Dry fasting is definitely
an invaluable help in treatment. The combina-
tion of fasting with an acute infection helps the
body to detox quickly and rest from the damag-
ing effects of external factors.
The best option is to start fasting after the first
signs of disease appear. If you feel even mild
symptoms of a disease, stop eating and drinking
at once. In this case, 1 -3 days will be sufficient
for you to eliminate it.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.frIn reality, there are only a few  people who are
this attentive to their health. Therefore, most pa-
tients undergo fasting only when they encounter
severe signs of respiratory infection, so treat-
ment requires more time.
They'll have to fast for at least 5 -7 days, which
makes it pre -crisis fasting. It’s better not to over-
work and avoid hydrotherapeutic procedures,
enemas, and drugs. The best option is bed rest
with gradual expansion as you begin to feel bet-
ter. The crisis occurs sooner if you have acute in-
fections (in most cases, on the 2 -3rd day), but
you need to fast until the symptoms of the dis-
ease disappear. Otherwise, you may need a pro-
longed treatment course. The body temperature
is normalized in the first two days of illness. In-
stead of antifebrile drugs, you can apply cold
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(your groin and axillary cavities) and wrap your
body in wet cloth.
When I’ve only started my work on dry fasting,
I fell through ice while fishing on Baikal. It was -
30 degrees Celsius, and I had to ride a motorcy-
cle for about twenty kilometers. After this bath,
I started having terrible pains in my forehead.
The X -ray confirmed that I had acute frontal si-
nusitis. I couldn’t even lower my head due to the
pain, and I had a fever (38°). It’s obvious that I
didn’t have any appetite at all. I understood that
liquid is always connected with swelling and in-
flammation, so I also stopped drinking water.
My body temperature was normal on the third
day, pain in my forehead was relieved on the
fifth day, and I came out of fasting  on the sixth
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and I underwent dry fasting whenever I con-
tracted influenza or acute respiratory disease.
I’ve had no influenza or acute respiratory dis-
eases for ten years.
In the past, when I got sick, I immediately un-
derwent dry fasting for two or three days until all
the symptoms of the disease disappeared, but
these terms were usually sufficient. My immune
system seems to be so well trained that I don’t
get sick in the midst of any epidemic, and neither
do my patients who underwent a dry therapeutic
fasting course and no longer contract any respir-
atory diseases.

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cer or duodenal ulcer, chronic pancreatitis,
cholecystitis, colitis, etc.
What causes this therapeutic effect?
• Inflammation can’t exist without liquid. Any
inflamed area swells (swells with liquid). Mi-
croorganisms, such as microbes and viruses,
can multiply only in sufficiently humid condi-
tions. Shortage of water is extremely harmful
for inflammation. It’s worth mentioning that,
according to modern data, the cause of ulcers
is infectious.
• Of course, the gastrointestinal tract has more
rest than other organs during fasting. As it has
been said, no food means no problems. There’s
no need to excrete digestive juices, push food
through all the sections of the intestines, spend
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excrete all of those substances that enter the
body with food. Now, all the forces can be used
to recover, including the restoration of the or-
gans involved in digestion.
• During fasting, the gastric and duodenal mu-
cosa is balanced and restored. It’s manifested
through a decrease or complete disap -pear-
ance of such symptoms as pain, nausea, heart-
burn, and vomiting. New ulcers are cicatrized
and cicatricial changes in gastric and duodenal
walls disappear. As mentioned above, experts
from the Moscow Institute of Gastroenterol-
ogy found that new stomach cells with light
protoplasm appear in patients after a 28 -day
calorie restriction diet, and these are gradually
transformed into mucoid cells within 20 -30
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apy RDT30. These cells secrete mucus and sub-
stances that protect the stomach from damage.
After repeated RDT courses, the stomach be-
comes very strong and capable of digesting any
food even in patients with gastro -intestinal
problems.
• Fasting greatly improves liver function. It
causes a mild choleretic effect and restores
liver cells. Patients with gallstone disease in-
stinctively resort to fasting, which relieves pain
and normalizes liver and gall bladder function.
The liver is detoxified naturally: unwanted

30 RDT – this term was introduced in the 1960s by Professor Yuri
Nikolayev (Razgrzochno -Dieticheskaja Terapiya - or fasting dietary
therapy. See introductory article). Recently, RDT often indicates
Russian Diet Therapy to


 and fill with sliced strawberries. Ar m yourself with a spoon and enjoy!

Course Two: Celery Orange Soup
8 oz. celery
8 oz. red bell peppers
8 oz. Valencia oranges
Directions: Blend the celery, orange, and ¾ of the red pepper. Pour into a b owl and decorate with the remaining red pepper,
finely chopped.

Course Three: Orange Red Pepper Salad
1 lb. red-leaf lettuce
4 oz. oranges
2 oz. red bell peppers
1 oz. Brazil nuts
Directions: Tear the lettuce into a bowl. Use the pulse setting on your  blender to turn the oranges, bell pepper, and Brazil nuts
into a chunky dressing.

Spring Menu Plan: Day Five

BREAKFAST
Sweet-Tart Delight
16 oz. fresh-squeezed orange juice
8 oz. ataulfo mangos
8 oz. strawberries
Directions: Blend everything and try not to drink it too fast… it’s that g ood!

LUNCH
Just Bananas!
2 lbs. bananas
DINNER
Course One: Fresh-Squeezed Orange Juice
16 oz. fresh-squeezed orange juice

Course Two: Spinach Red Pepper Soup
8 oz. spinach
8 oz. red bell peppers
8 oz. oranges
Directions: Blend all of the ingredients and pour into a bowl.

Course Three: Orange Pistachio Salad
8 oz. baby spinach
8 oz. red-leaf lettuce
4 oz. oranges
1 oz. pistachios
Directions: Chop the spinach and lettuce into a bowl. Blend the oranges an d pistachio, and dress your salad!

Spring Menu Plan: Day Six

BREAKFAST
Spring Fruit Salad
1 lb. sweet oranges
1 lb. strawberries
8 oz. kiwi
Directions: Cut all the fruits into chunky bite-size pieces, toss, an d savor the flavor!

LUNCH
Ataulfo Strawberry Salad
2 lbs. ataulfo mangos
1 lb. strawberries
Directions: Dice the mangos and slice the strawberries into a bowl.

DINNER
Course One: Papaya
1.5 lbs. papaya

Course Two: Papaya Gazpacho
1 lb. papaya
8 oz. tomatoes
2 oz. fresh basil
Directions: Deseed the papaya, peel, and cut it into small chunks, or blend it, if you prefer. Dice the tomato and finely chop the
basil. Add them both to the papaya mixture. Enjoy!

Course Three: Papaya Salad Wraps
1 lb. butter lettuce
1 lb. papaya
juice of 1 lime
Directions: In a bowl, cut the papaya into small chunks. Mix it with the l ime juice until it all melds together. Use the lettuce
leaves as wrappers, and use your papaya-lime blend as a filling.

Spring Menu Plan: Day Seven

BREAKFAST
Strawberries
3 lbs. strawberries
† If you are looking to get a little extra greens, or to save time, you can eat  the tops to the strawberries. They do change the
texture a bit, but they also add a little green flavor. If you enjoy eating  greens with your fruit, then this is a complete package.

LUNCH
Banana Romaine Smoothie
2 lbs. bananas
8 oz. romaine lettuce
Directions: Blend into a smoothie.

DINNER
Course One: Orange Kiwi
1 lb. oranges
8 oz. kiwi
Directions: Peel the oranges, then cut them into chunks and place in a  bowl. Peel the kiwi and cut into slices. Stir into the
oranges.

Course Two: Cauliflower Tomato Soup
8 oz. cauliflower florets
1 lb. tomatoes
Directions: Blend cauliflower with ¾ of the tomatoes. Dice the remain ing tomato and stir it into the soup or place on top for
garnish.

Course Three: Orange Tahini Salad
8 oz. romaine lettuce
8 oz. baby spinach
4 oz. oranges
1 tbsp. raw mechanically hulled tahini
Directions: Tear greens into a bowl. Blend orange segments with tahi ni, and dress.

Appendix B. Frequently Asked Questions

What are raw foods?
There are different definitions of raw foods, depending upon whom you ask. For our pu rposes, we will define raw foods as
those foods that are whole and fresh and have not been subjected to cooking of a ny type. Raw foods are Nature’s finished
products; they are ready to be consumed, as is. Like the raw materials that  construction workers use to build a house, raw foods
become the building materials that our bodies use to maintain and reconst ruct themselves.
 “Raw” is a relative term. Some people would argue that dehydrated or powdered foods are still raw, even though they are
not whole. (Water is a profoundly important essential nutrient; once wa ter has been removed from a food, it should no longer be
considered “whole.”)
There is no need to argue, and there is room for the occasional exception. Wha t you do most of the time will have a big
impact in your life. What you do rarely should be considered exceptions. The im pact of exceptions does not accrue like the impact
of that which you do with regularity. Nonetheless, whole, fresh, raw plan t foods with all of their original components intact, including
water and fiber, are by far the most healthful.

What is a raw food diet?
A raw food diet is one that is predominated by foods that have not been cooked. People who a dopt this diet are often
referred to as “raw fooders” or “raw foodists.” Those who eat only raw plant s are called “raw food vegans” or “raw vegans.”
The healthy raw food diet that I recommend in this book is made up of whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic plant foods. It is
predominated by fruits and allows for all the greens that you care to eat, pl us small quantities of nuts, seeds, and fatty fruits.

What about an all-fruit diet?
I do not recommend an all-fruit diet. In my experience, we must eat veget ables, especially dark leafy greens, in order to
experience optimum nutrition and ideal health. I recommend that 2 to 6% of our  total calories consumed, on average, come from
greens. In terms of volume, this would mean somewhere between 1 and 4 hea ds of lettuce, or ¼ to 1 pound of kale, or ½ to 2
pounds of spinach, per day (depending on how many calories you normally consume).

Are all raw food diets the same?
No, there are many approaches to eating a raw diet. Although for some it in cludes raw meat and other animal products, I do
not recommend the consumption of animal-derived foods of any kind (including h oney and milk), for reasons of health, ecology, and
compassion.
Most raw food diets obtain a high percentage of daily calories from fats, by in cluding oils and significant amounts of avocado,
nuts and seeds, and sometimes coconut meat and olives. These diets tend to be u nsustainable, since too much fat, even raw fat,
causes health problems and results in the underconsumption of carbohydra tes. In a vain effort to compensate for the nutritional
insufficiencies of these diets, people often resort to the use of suppleme nts and stimulants.
We cannot succeed eating primarily vegetables (even when we incl ude substantial quantities of green drinks), because even
impossibly huge amounts do not contain nearly enough calories to fuel us. A sustainable raw food diet, therefore, draws the great
bulk of its daily calories from fruits, which are relatively high in c alories, along with liberal amounts of vegetables for their high mine ral
content, plus a (very) small amount of nuts and seeds.

What about individual differences?
A huge amount of misinformation is being taught in holistic healt h circles about metabolic typing. “Experts” tell us that peopl e
are born as either “fast” or “slow” metabolizers (sometimes call ed “fast or slow oxidizers”), and that the rate of your metabolism
determines the foods that are best suited for you to eat.
Fast metabolizers, so they say, burn through fuel more rapidly than slow m etabolizers, making them relatively more efficient at
digesting their food.
Actually, the opposite is true. Using an automobile analogy, it’s ea sy to understand that the car that gets more miles to the
gallon is more efficient than the car that gets fewer miles to the  gallon. Similarly, the person who uses the least fuel to accomplish any
particular task, i.e., the slow metabolizer, is the most efficient.
As the “wisdom” of this line of thinking goes, if you are a fast-metaboli zing raw fooders, you must consume an exceptionally
high percentage of your total calories (60–80%) as fat in the form of nuts, see ds,  oils, avocados, olives, and the like. Fruits, it is said,
are insufficient for fast metabolizers in terms of fuel density, l eaving them constantly hungry, causing them to fall off the raw “w agon,”
and to suffer from the maladies (mistakenly) associated with the over consumption of fruit sugars. By eating more fat, it is implied that nutrition will be enhanced.
Only the very slowest metabolizers, they teach


 bacteria never develop resistance to
garlic extract. During WWI it was known that soldiers who chewed garlic cloves rarely
contracted typhus.”
Ginger • Mary Dan Eades, MD – “Ginger contains about a dozen antiviral compounds. This herb
relieves cold symptoms by reducing pain and fever, suppressing coughs, and enhancing
rest and sleep.”
• Bottom Line Personell – “Cold. Try ginger tea. Both an antiviral and anti-inﬂammatory
remedy, it helps prevent chills and reduces the buildup of phlegm.”
Apples • Jean Carper - “Reduces cholesterol, contains anti-cancer agents. Has mild antibacterial,
antiviral, anti-inﬂammatory, estrogenic activity. High in ﬁber, helps avoid constipation,
suppresses appetite.”
• Barnet Meltzer - “Apples also have antiviral  properties and help to prevent colds and
upper respiratory ailments such as bronchitis and laryngitis.”
Seaweed (kelp) • Jean Carper – “Antibacterial and antiviral activity in brown Laminaria type seaweed known
as kelp.”
• Sheldon Saul Hendler, MD, PhD – “Showing great promise as detoxiﬁers, wound healers
and as anti-cancer and anti -viral substances.”
Strawberry • Jean Carper – “Antiviral, anticancer activity. Often eaten by people less likely to develop
all types of cancer.”
• Rebecca Wood – “Strawberries are an excellent spring tonic, beneﬁcial to the spleen-
pancreas, and used to break down excess toxins in the liver. They increase the appetite and are moistening and lubricating. Strawberries have clinically proven antiviral properties.”
Beat the Bird Flu Virus
11Clove • Medical Economics – “Clove is antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, spasmolytic
and a local anaesthetic.”
Pear • Dr. James A. Duke – “Pear juice is rich in antiviral caffeic acid.”
Chilies • Ralph T. Golan, ND - “They have actions similar to those of the trinity roots. In addition,
they are exceptionally antiviral—the best broad-spectrum, widely available, well-tolerated
antiviral around. Jalapenos appear to be particularly antiviral for some reason.”
Yogurt • Jean Carper - “Yogurt has antiviral activity, for one reason, because it spurs activity of
natural killer cells diat are particularly vidous in attacking viruses.”
Barley • Jean Carper – “Has antiviral and anticancer activity.”
Blueberry • Jean Carper – “Also antiviral activity and high in natural aspirin.”
Broccoli • Jean Carper – “Has antiviral, anti-ulcer activity. A super source of chromium that helps
regulate insulin and blood sugar.”
Cabbage • Jean Carper - “Contains anti-ulcer compounds; cabbage juice helps heal ulcers in
humans. Has antibacterial and anti -viral powers”
Corn • Jean Carper - “Anticancer and antiviral activity, possibly induced by corn’s content of
protease inhibitors.”
Cranberry • Jean Carper - “Also has antiviral activity.”
Red Grapes • Jean Carper -”Red grapes are antibacterial and antiviral in test tubes.”
Pineapple • Jean Carper – “It is also antibacterial and antiviral and mildly estrogenic.”
Plum • Jean Carper – “Antibacterial. Antiviral. Works as a laxative.”
Raspberry • Jean Carper – “Antiviral, anticancer activity. High in natural aspirin.”
Soybean • Jean Carper – “Soybeans are die richest source of potent protease inhibitors which are
anticancer, antiviral agents. In many human tests, soybeans lower blood cholesterol
substantially.”
Carrot Juice • Gary Null - “Vegetable juices are a third health-giving detoxiﬁer. You will get the beneﬁcial
effects of vitamin A, which has been shown to be an antiviral vitamin; it protects against viruses.”
Clariﬁed Butter • Paul Pitchford - “According to Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., clariﬁed butter contains butyric
acid, a fatty acid that has antiviral and anti-cancer properties, and which raises the level of the antiviral chemical interferon in the body. Butyric acid also has characteristics found to be helpful in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Brassica-Genus Vegetables• Paul Pitchford – “These contain dithiolthiones, a group of compounds which have anti-
cancer, antioxidant properties; indoles, substances which protect against breast and colon cancer; and sulphur, which has antibiotic and antiviral characteristics.”
Coconut Oil • Bruce Fife - “Coconut oil is, in essence, a natural antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and
antiprotozoal food.”
Beat the Bird Flu Virus
12Vitamin C • LEF.org – “Vitamin C in doses of 5,000-20,000 mg has been used by many people as a
natural antihistamine and antiviral therapy to treat common colds.”
• Phyllis A. Balch, CNC & James F. Balch, MD - “A powerful antiviral agent. Studies show
improvement quickly with high doses.”
• Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D. - “Although vitamin C has been shown to be antiviral and
antibacterial, its main effect is via improvement in host resistance. Many different
immunostimulatory effects have been demonstrated, including enhancing lymphoprolif-
erative response to mitogens and lymphotrophic activity and increasing interferon levels,
antibody responses, immunoglobulin levels, secretion of thymic hormones, and integrity of
ground substance.”
• Donald R. Yance, JR. – “Vitamin C ascorbate has an antiviral effect on the Rhus sarcoma
virus and human immunodeﬁciency virus. It is possible that vitamin C has an effect on virus production in infected cells and also extracellularly.”
• Sheldon Saul Hendle and Davis Rorvik - “Vitamin C has antioxidant activity. It may
also have anti-atherogenic, anticarcinogenic, antihypertensive, antiviral, antihistaminic, immunomodulatory, opthalmoprotective and airway-protective actions.”
• Thomas Bartram - “The vitamin is an anti -viral and immune system modulator without
unwanted side-effects.”
• Gale Maleskey - “Although there’s not much evidence to indicate that vitamin C can do the
same in humans, it’s still considered a powerful antioxidant that possesses antiviral properties.”
• Earl Mindell - “Vitamin C is one of the few known antiviral substances. It helps form
the collagen (glue) between cells, which helps prevent viruses from piercing cell walls. Viruses can multiply only after they have entered a cell. In addition, vitamin C is a boon to allergy sufferers.”
• Michael Jansen – “In addition to enhancing interferon production, ascorbate also has its
own antiviral properties, having been shown to kill some viruses if the tissue concentration is high enough. This is probably the basis for the successful use of intravenous vitamin C for viral illnesses such as hepatitis, mono-nucleosis and inﬂuenza.”
Vitamin A • Gale Maleskey – “It battles viruses and bacteria in two ways. By keeping the cells healthy all
along your respiratory tract, it provides a barrier that resists microorganisms. If some invading microorganisms manage to breach the barrier, you want to have antibodies and lymphocytes ready to destroy them. Vitamin A helps your body provide those reinforcements.”
• Joseph Pizzorno, MD – “Vitamin A has also demonstrated signiﬁcant antiviral activity and
has prevented the immune suppression induced by adrenal hormones, severe burns,
and surgery.”
Vitamin E • Sheldon Saul Hendle and Davis Rorvik - “Vitamin E has antioxidant activity. It may also
have anti-atherogenic, antithrombotic, anticoagulant, neuroprotective, antiproliferative, immunomodulatory, cell membrane-stabilizing and antiviral actions.”
• Alice Feinstein – “Like selenium, vitamin E has antiviral and antioxidant properties, so it
may help protect the heart against infection and toxins”
Pantothenic Acid
(Vitamin B5)• Sheldon Saul Hendle and Davis Rorvik - “Pantothenic acid may have antioxidant and
radioprotective activities. It has putative anti-inﬂammatory, wound healing
and antiviral activities”Antiviral Vitamins
Beat the Bird Flu Virus
13Zinc • Ralph T. Golan, ND – “Lozenges also bathe and saturate the whole respiratory area with
this antiviral mineral. Studies show that zinc shortens colds and reduces symptoms,
theoretically by preventing viral replication, stimulating immune activity, and/or stabilizing
cell membranes.”
• Joseph E Pizzorno, ND – “Zinc also has a protective effect against beta-cell destruction
and has well-documented antiviral effects.”
• Sheldon Saul Hendle and Davis Rorvik - “Zinc may have immunomodulatory activity.
It may also have antioxidant activity. Zinc has putative antiviral, fertility-enhancing and
retinoprotective activities


 a scientific reason that proves the explanation of these words to be accurate.
Where the Lord spoke to Peter about the "unclean meats" and told
him to eat thereof, Peter said, "But, Lord, am I to eat the unclean meats?" And God said for him to eat. God was telling Peter to take the message of salvation to the Gentiles. The Gentiles were looked upon then by the Jews  as the black people were by some Americans 40
years ago. Jews  felt that they were so much better than the Gentiles
and that the message of salvation was for the Jew only. This vision was to tell Peter to take the message of salvation to the Gentiles, and does not refer to food. 146 If you take Scripture out of context you can prove anything you
want to prove. But there is no way that you can eat the unclean meats
without reaping a premature grave, and also have a rather sickly jour-ney in so doing. A sick gentile in the New Testament is just as sick as Jew in the Old Testament.
In Isaiah 66: 17 we read: "They that sanctify themselves, and puri-
fy themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together saith the Lord." "For they that sanctify themselves," is like saying: "Many people do it and if they do it, I can too." In other
words, they justify themselves.
This also speaks of our leaders, they are spoken of as being a tree.
In Psalm One we are told "He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers
of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." Psalm one is speaking of a man who is happy be-cause he has not listened to the counsel of the ungodly, has not sat in the seat of the scornful, and that he has found favor with God. He is classified as a tree.
A weak person says, "Because this great man eats pork it’s all
right for me." Maybe he's the preacher of the church, a.Sunday school teacher, or a Sunday school superintendent. Holiness means absolute obedience, and sanctification means that  I will walk in the steps of Je-
sus regardless of what it means to me. I will walk a little closer to Him today than I did yesterday so that I may be my brother's keeper.
I love my country and I'll die for it if necessary to preserve the lib-
erty of America. I will not be th reatened by the devil worshippers. I
will do everything I can to keep th e devil worshippers from taking my
children. I will not be threatened by the homosexuals in all of their or-ganizations demanding civil rights. I will do everything I can to keep homosexuals from being school teachers. I will do everything I can to protect the very foundations of the Constitution of this country.
Unless you believe that a religious nation and the Bible are insepa-
rable, you are being deceived. The devil says separate the church from government. If you separate the church from the government then you can control the government and the government can control you and 147 close all the churches. It is impossible to close the churches, separate
the principles of the royal law from the government and retain our lib-
erties.
Let us now stand firm in the faith. Let us now stand firm for liberty. Stand firm for a referendum of all our laws, and obey the rules,
regulations and suggestions given in this chapter.
This chapter does not deal dir ectly with the Reams Biological
Theory of Ionization. However, it has everything to do with your di-gestive system because if you will stand each day for the rights and liberty of yours and others, then your food will digest better. You will become stronger because of the problems that God has given you, and you have laid them at His feet and He has handled them for you, or you will become weaker from running from the problems, and the more you run from the problems the more you will worry about the problem. Worry is found cancerous in all souls.
The Bible says "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matt. 7: 14). Are you. willing to be among the few, or are you going to be among the masses of lukewarm Christians that will be spewed out of His mouth? When the Lord comes, are you going to be the one who says, "Lord, did I not do this for You?" He is going to say, "Depart from me you cursed, I never knew you." Unless you are ready now to stand up and be counted as a follower of God and proclaim Him before all men, He will not proclaim you before His Heavenly Father (Luke 12:9).
You might ask, "Why do you continue in this field of the healing
arts in the field of diet? Why do you care whether America lives or dies? At your age, does it really matter to you? What IS your motive in defying those people that you say falsely accuse you? What do you hope to gain?"
,Jesus has commanded us to be fishers of men, not only for men s
souls, but for their faith, for their works and for better health. He also said to "show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." This I do, to the best of my knowledge. Also, Jesus said, to seek to know the truth and 148 "the truth would make you free." Then, too, He said in Luke 10 and in
other places in the Bible, "to heal the sick." So this is why I do what I
do. This is why I enjoy the persecution, because I am obeying my Lord and Master. I will serve Him as long as I have breath. If I have liberty I will serve Him wherever I am. If I am confined to a prison then I will start a revival meeting and preach to the lost and serve them with whatever I have. Even though I be persecuted, I will not hate. For I know that those who pers ecute me do not know what they
are doing. There is not enough gold in Fort Knox for me to trade shoes with them. The Bible says, "if they persecute you in one place, flee to another."
Jesus did not have a place to lay His head, neither do I except as
friends offer me a place here and there.
I will do everything in my ability to make America the healthiest
nation on earth, to keep our children from being sick, and from having unnecessary operations. There is a time for operations, but the opera-tions should be a means of last resort.
• Do you not know that all illnesses are caused by a mineral defi-
ciency? The cells simply begin to decay because there are not enough minerals to replace those cells that are worn-out.
• Do you not know that heart attacks are caused because the worn-
out cells are not washed out of the system and the salt within the sys-tem is turning it to urea, which causes the heart to beat too hard and sometimes causes pain in the left arm,  in the chest, and then ends in a
pectoris heart attack? (The word PECTORIS is a Latin word which means pain in the chest. However, I am classifying the word pectoris to mean only a heart attack because of too much urea in the system.)
• When our bodies retain too much salt, the blood vessels lose
their ability to expand and contract and cholesterol forms in them, and it causes the intestines to lose their ability to expand and contract and they form pockets or diverticulitis. Nature is robbing from one part of the intestines to supply mineral for another part.
• This is also the cause of cancer of the bone. There is not enough
mineral to supply the other elements so nature will rob a bone here and there in order to supply the mineral to maintain life. 149 • Women lose their teeth in pregnancy because there is not enough
mineral to supply the bone of the fetu s, so nature takes from the moth-
er in mineral and puts it in the fetu s; consequently, there are cavities.
• Bones break down because the mineral in Our foods are deficient
today.
• A number of diseases today are attributed to lack of minerals and
lack of exercise. We cannot take the roughness and exercise that our forefathers and fathers took. We ride everywhere we go, and conse-quently we do not take enough exercise. Hysterectomies could proba-bly be omitted if women did more walking. Their menopause condi-tions could possibly be prevented in a large measure if there was more walking.
• Cancer of the prostate could like ly almost be eliminated if people
did more walking. By walking we get more minerals from our foods. The more we walk, the more energy we use. If we do more walking than we take in minerals, then walking could do us harm.
• Many of the above mentioned items  have to be under supervision
and under the guidance of instruments that are available to us today. IT IS EASY TO BE WELL!
At the present the RBTI test has not been approved by the drug es-
tablishment. However, there are no laws that say that anything has to be approved by anyone. If there is such a law then we have lost our liberty. However, there are dangerous drugs, insecticides, and chemi-cals


1
In the 1800s dentists originally used gold in a careful way to fill painful teeth with cavities. But gold
was too expensive for most people to afford; imagine, for example, paying the equivalent of $10,000
for one filling today. Since dentistry was unaffordable for many people in the 1830s the Crawcour
brothers made their way from France to the United States to popularize a low cost gold alternative –
Bells putty. With Bells putty, which consisted of a melted silver coin mixed with mercury, they could
fill teeth in two minutes, and no drilling was required.
2
 While effective in the short term, the mercury
was very toxic and many teeth discolored or died
3
 not to mention the other side effects that were
caused by mercury exposure. Dentists who placed mercury fillings were called quaks (or quacks)
after the old Dutch word for a noisy peddler selling mercury-containing “health” potions and salves:
Quacksalber
.
Dental Fact
In 1845 the American Society of Dental Surgeons banned the use of mercury fillings because of health
concerns.
4
The economics of mercury fillings instead of gold triumphed and the American Society of Dental
Surgeons fell apart by 1856. In 1899 the American Dental Association came into existence to promote
the use of mercury-laden fillings.
5
 In 1896 the fate of our teeth changed forever with the work of
dentist G.V. Black. He reformulated mercury fillings making them less toxic and longer lasting. He
also developed new drilling protocols which are summarized by the principle of “extension for
prevention.” In other words, drill a bigger hole (extension) to give more time before the tooth needs
to be retreated. This technique, although changed to some degree in modern times, is the foundation of
modern dentistry. G.V. Black’s “innovations”

included drilling away all the discolored toothstructure, and then creating a wedge shape within the tooth in order to place a mercury filling that
would remain secure. In plain words, dentists are taught to drill big holes in teeth, because that is
what works best with mercury fillings. This procedure became enshrined in the curriculum taught in
dental schools, and dentists have been enthusiastically drilling parts of our teeth that are not decayed,
or that can remineralize, for the last hundred years. The problem with “extension for prevention” is
that we lose healthy tooth structure. A dental student from India wrote to me explaining this dilemma:
As a dental student I drill teeth every week. I'd rather say that I have to do this to pass
my exams. When I see my patients sitting on the dental chair with their eyes closed, I feel
for them as they are losing their tooth structure forever.
Tooth Filling
Once there is a large hole in your tooth something needs to be put in its place. Alzheimer’s disease
6
,
Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, lupus, and some forms of
arthritis all have one thing in common – mercury.
7
 Mercury is considered hazardous waste in
fluorescent bulbs at the amount of 22 milligrams. A normal mercury filling has approximately 1000
milligrams of mercury. In watching a video teaching mercury filling placement, I saw myself the
messy process of installing mercury fillings as hundreds of shreds of hazardous mercury are spread
all over the mouth.

When a foreign substance, particularly a metal, is implanted in the body, the body
can mount an immune system reaction. This toxic substance can cause or contribute to diseases such
as those just mentioned. The book
Whole-Body Dentistry
by dentist Mark Breiner describes dental
immune reactions in children. For example: one child became sick and unable to walk from mercury
fillings and stainless steel (nickel) crowns, and another child developed leukemia from these same
dental materials.
8
It isn’t just mercury amalgams that are toxic. While less toxic, white composite fillings made up of
ground glass and plastic still cause immune reactions on average in 50% of patients. One of the most
popular composite fillings caused negative immune reactions in 90% of those who received them.
9
Conventional dentists do not check filling compatibility with your body. Composites of plastic and
glue can contain toxic chemicals like bisphenol A. Modern fillings last on average 5-12 years
depending on the material. In the case of amalgam fillings even with all the extra drilling, only 25%
will last 8 years or longer.
10
 While there are some good composites on the market, with such a short
life span, the typical filling is not a long lasting solution for tooth decay.
After the drilling and filling comes our least favorite part – billing.
Drilling, filling, and billing
 is the
model of conventional dentistry and it is also a business model. The dentist with lots of medical
school debt, a family to support, staff to pay and so forth, needs to make a lot of money to stay in
business and enjoy a comfortable lifestyle. The more teeth that are drilled and filled, the more money
is made. There isn’t much incentive in this system for curing and preventing cavities because without
the drilling and filling business model it becomes more of a challenge to turn dentistry into a
profitable career. Because many alternative dentists are afraid of being sued or losing their license,
they don’t want to practice dentistry that is beyond the accepted drilling and filling protocol. The
incredibly strong profit motive has many dentists blinded by dollar signs. People know most dentists
are in business for the money because they can see it and feel it. It is easy for a conventional dentist toget greedy and recommend the least conservative (as in most profitable) approach to treating cavities.
As a result, many people have lost faith in dentistry; with each new dentist they try, the profit-
motivated dentist continues to fail to put the patient’s needs first. Even dentists have lost faith in their
profession. Dentist Marvin Schissel wrote a chilling commentary on the shoddy dental work
performed by dentists trying to maximize profits called
Dentistry and Its Victims
, and dentist Robert
Nara wrote
Money by the Mouthful
, exposing how easy and common it is for dentists to make money
by pushing unnecessary dental treatments.
With all the toxic materials put into people’s mouths causing immune system responses, the short life
span of fillings, the damage caused by high speed drilling, and unnecessarily prescribed filling
treatments, the conventional dentist doesn’t really offer his patients true health care, or a permanent
solution to tooth decay.Micro-organisms
In ancient times, when people were afflicted with various types of ailments and diseases, they
commonly blamed evil spirits. The belief was that the evil spirit had invaded the person’s body and
then caused disease. If one could placate these spirits or induce them to leave then the disease would
be cured.
Many people around the world still maintain this same belief today, except that these evil spirits now
have been identified. Dentists, scientists, doctors, and government officials have decided that
disease-causing “evil spirits” are now real, in the form of micro-organisms (viruses, bacteria, etc.).
The prevalent and accepted theory is that these viruses and bacteria are the basic or primary cause of
disease – including tooth decay. This theory of disease, labeled the germ theory, became cemented in
our minds thanks to the work of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) who is famous for the invention of
pasteurization. Mr. Pasteur proposed a theory of disease that is now the basis of most forms of
modern medicine. This theory projects the idea that pathogenic bacteria exist outside the body and
that when our body’s defenses are lowered bacteria can invade the body and cause disease. Pasteur’s
“science” has remained the status quo despite a large body of evidence showing that bacteria don’t
invade people, but rather that they evolve and change based upon their environment. The effect of Mr.
Pasteur’s contribution to medical thought has led us to our modern system of dental care in which we
attempt to cure cavities by killing the evil invading force - bacteria.
Conventional Dentistry’s Losing Battle Against Bacteria
When disease like tooth decay is our enemy then we must fight it. We create war and thus inner and
outer conflicts. Conventional dentistry is engaged in fighting this war. Bacteria are the enemy and
your mouth is the battleground. Yet no matter how much money you spend on dentistry, the war
against bacteria never seems to be won.
The modern system of dentistry has evolved from the combination of beliefs that tooth decay is
caused by bacteria (identified as
Streptococcus mutans
) and the belief that bacteria eat foods in the
mouth and produce acid that causes teeth to decay. Dentistry then aims to control bacterial growth in
the mouth for treatment and prevention of tooth cavities. Dentistry’s war against bacteria can be
summarized as follows:

1
.
You must brush your teeth all the time to eliminate these “disease causing” bacteria.
2
.
You must rinse your mouth with chemicals to eliminate more “dangerous” bacteria.
3
.
You must floss to eliminate the remaining bacteria and food particles.
4
.
When those three tactics do not work, you must pay a dentist to remove the bacterial infestations
with drilling.
5
.
When a dental


, glioblastomas, melanomas, and prostate and colon cancer when combined with conventional cancer therapeutic agents, these reports remain unconfirmed by strategic clinical trials.
These controversial findings suggest that DMSO may have an important role in
anticancer chemotherapy. However, further research is needed, particularly on a larger population that can be studied long term in randomized clinical trials.
CANCER AND RADIATION
Radiation is a well-established carcinogen for humans, and 10% of invasive can -
cers are related to radiation.38 A study was conducted that used high linear energy
transfer (LET) particles, which are used in radiotherapy, to irradiate a human bron-chial epithelial cell line, a stepwise neoplastic transformation of these cells occurred together with a consistent downregulation of the tumor suppressor TGFBI  gene.
39
The irradiated cells showed fragmentation and shrinking of mitochondria, which was 128 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
accompanied by a reduction in mitochondrial functions. The reduced mitochondrial
functions were seen as lowering of cytochrome C oxidase, superoxide production, as well as succinate dehydrogenase activities when compared with nonirradiated con-trols.
39 Cytochrome C oxidase is the last enzyme in the respiratory electron transport
chain of mitochondria and is important in the synthesis of ATP, the energy fuel of all cells. DMSO exposure of the irradiated epithelial cells was able to control the super -
oxide production and the damage caused by this free radical on the mitochondria.
39
A combination therapy using DMSO and sodium bicarbonate infusion was
recently reported by Hoang et al.40 DMSO and sodium bicarbonate were mixed into
a solution and infused daily for 6 months to nine patients suffering from advanced nonresectable biliary tract carcinoma, a highly fatal malignancy that has a poor response to chemotherapy. The treatment was well tolerated by all nine patients, and no adverse effects were recorded. The combined DMSO–sodium bicarbonate infu -
sion was seen to improve pain control, blood biochemical parameters, and quality of life for the patients. Notably, this treatment led to a 6-month period of progression-free survival for all nine patients in the trial, a finding the authors consider signifi -
cant of further research and application for the palliative care and extended survival of patients with this condition.
40
These findings add fuel to the conclusion that more research is needed using anti -
cancer agents mixed in DMSO solutions, a procedure that may provide more effec -
tive penetration and effectiveness in cancer suppression.
Onyx EMBOLIZATION
Onyx is composed of ethylene–vinyl alcohol copolymer dissolved in DMSO and sus -
pended with micronized tantalum powder to provide contrast for visualization under fluoroscopy. Onyx liquid is used as an embolic agent of the vascular endothelium for a number of conditions including carotid-cavernous fistulas and cerebral arteriove -
nous malformations (A VMs).
41,42 Embolization of these vessels may prevent lethal
hemorrhage if they burst or leak.
Onyx has been used with radiosurgery where it was successful in 80% of patients
treated for A VMs, showing safety and efficacy with a low rate (5%) of clinical com -
plications.43 Radiosurgery involves a single high-dose fraction of radiation directed
stereotactically at an intracranial region of interest.44,45
The flow-directed catheters used to deliver the liquid Onyx for embolization can
be coated with DMSO to prevent early polymerization within the catheter.46 It has
not been investigated whether DMSO may serve a secondary role during emboliza -
tion in stabilizing A VMs besides being a vehicle for the copolymer.
Transvenous occlusion of the cavernous sinus in dural arteriovenous fistula
using Onyx embolization has been tried on patients with some success.47 Onyx with
DMSO was injected through the superior pharyngeal branch of the ascending pha -
ryngeal artery where small transosseous feeders to the fistula arising from the supe -
rior pharyngeal branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery could be occluded by this approach especially when more conventional approaches cannot be achieved.
47
Arteriovenous fistula of the spinal dura is also amenable to Onyx endovas -
cular embolization. Although vascular malformation of the spinal cord is a rare 129 DMSO in Malignancy
clinical condition, it occurs when congestion of the spinal cord medullary venous
plexus results in edema and neuronal ischemia.48 If not repaired, axial or radicular
back pain, gait imbalance, weakness of the lower limbs, numbness, and bladder or bowel disturbances can result.
49
Onyx has been tried in order to embolize the abnormal communicating vessels to the
dura and relieve the spinal cord edema that develops with a relatively high rate of suc -
cess.49 However, the neuronal ischemia is not always improved in arteriovenous fistula
of the spinal dura using Onyx, and it is only speculative whether a high dose of intrave -
nous DMSO separate from the Onyx embolization could aid control of this condition.50
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 conditions. Although they are now heavily influenced by the Western way
of life and have lost much of their plant lore, they continue to employ many indigenous plants medicinally. The stem of the seaweed Ecklonia maxima,  for example, is roasted, mixed with petroleum jelly, and rubbed into wounds and burns, while Hoodia currori, a low-lying cactus, is stripped of its thorns and outer skin and eaten raw to treat coughs and colds.
 Throughout Africa, thousands of different wild and locally grown
medicinal plants are sold in the markets. Some are prescribed as medicines for home use. Others, such as kanna (Membryanthemum spp.) and iboga Africa
In Africa there is a greater variety of herbal traditions
than on any other continent. During the colonial period, native herbal practices were largely suppressed, but today, in a marked turnaround, practitioners of conventional medicine often work closely with traditional healers.
Devil’s claw
(Harpagophytum
procumbens, p. 103)
is anti-inflammatory,
and is now widely
used in the West.Visnaga seeds
Visnaga leaves
Devil’s claw
rhizome
Devil’s claw chopped rhizome
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Kola nut powder
Senna decoction
Senna podsKola nut (Cola
acuminata, p. 192) is
taken in western and
central Africa to
relieve headaches.
Grains of paradise
(Aframomum melegueta )
are used as a condiment
in Africa and are taken
medicinally as a warming
remedy for nausea.
Pellitory (Anacyclus
pyrethrum, p. 166)
has an acrid, irritant
root that stimulates
the circulation when
applied to the skin.
Senna (Cassia senna, p. 75)
contains anthraquinones—
constituents that cause
the bowel to contract—
hence the plant’s laxative
effect. The plant’s first
recorded medicinal use was
in Arabia in the 9th century.
Aloe vera (Aloe vera,
p. 60) contains two
medicinal substances,
each with a markedly
different use. The clear
gel from the center of
the leaf speeds the
healing of wounds. Juice
from the base of the leaf,
known as “bitter aloes,”
has laxative properties. (Tabernanthe iboga ), are chewed to combat fatigue, and are taken as
intoxicants in religious ceremonies. According to local accounts in the
Congo and Gabon, iboga’s stimulant effect was discovered when observers
saw wild boars and gorillas dig up and eat the roots, and subsequently
become frenzied.
Traditional & Conventional Care
Conventional Western medicine is well established
throughout Africa, but in rural areas, far from
medical and hospital services, traditional medicine
remains the only form of health care available.
Even in urban areas conventional health care
services can be limited, and in this situation
traditional providers of care such as spiritualists,
herbalists, and midwives are the main
source of treatment available for
the majority of the population.
The World Health Organization
aims to achieve a level of health
care that will permit all people
to lead socially and economically
productive lives. In an attempt to
meet this, African countries have
pioneered the training of traditional
medicine practitioners in simple
medical techniques and basic
hygiene procedures. In one center
in Mampong, Ghana, conventionally
trained medical staff work hand
in hand with traditional herbal
practitioners, encouraging the
safer use of herbal medicines and
researching them in detail. In nearby Kumasi, the university now offers a
BS degree in herbal medicine. This represents a remarkable change in
attitude. In the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, colonial governments
and Christian missionaries viewed traditional herbalists as witch doctors,
whose practices were best suppressed.
The Discovery of New Herbal Cures
Along with encouraging the safer use of herbal medicines, medical centers
are researching their use in detail. The benefits of pygeum ( Pygeum africanum,
p. 260) have been conclusively established. This tree is traditionally used in
central and southern Africa to treat urinary problems. Today, it is regularly
prescribed in conventional French and Italian medicine for prostate problems.
Of the plants under investigation in Africa, Kigelia ( Kigelia pinnata, p.
225)—a sub-Saharan tree, and Sutherlandia ( Sutherlandia frutescens )—a
small South African shrub, are of particular interest. Kigelia has a marked
ability to prevent and heal skin lesions, including psoriasis, while
Sutherlandia is an adaptogen with anticancer activity.
 The reevaluation of traditional herbal medicine in Africa may result in
the acceptance of additional plant-based medicines. Today, the opportunity
exists to combine the best of traditional practice with conventional medical
knowledge, for mutual gain.This Nigerian divination bowl was used by traditional
healers in the diagnosis of illness via the interpretation
of magical signs.
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46THE DEVELOPMENT OF HERBAL MEDICINE
Opium
poppy seeds
Kava rootOpium poppy (Papaver somniferum, p. 244) is cultivated commercially in Australia. It is used extensively in both conventional and herbal medicine  as a sedative and  is a very potent painkiller.
Australian wattle  (Acacia decurrens, see  A. nilotica, p. 159) is
a strongly antiseptic
herb used to treat conditions where
the skin or mucous membranes need tightening or protecting.
Vervain (Verbena
officinalis, p. 149) was brought to Australia by early British settlers. It is a tonic and restorative  for the nerves  and digestion.The cradle of the oldest continuous culture on earth, Australia is also
the home of an ancient herbal tradition. The Aborigines, believed to
have settled in Australia over 60,000 years ago, developed a sophisticated
empirical understanding of indigenous plants, many of which, such as eucalyptus (Eucalpytus globulus, p. 96), are unique to Australia. While much of this knowledge has vanished with its keepers, there is currently  a high level of interest in native herbal traditions.
Aboriginal Herbal Medicine
The Aborigines probably had a more robust health than the early European
settlers who displaced them. They had very different ideas of health, disease, and illness, in which the influence of the spirit world played a major role. In common with other hunter-gatherer societies, the Aborigines devoted much time to ritual, which reinforced the sense of place and purpose in the lives of each individual. They used healing plants and the laying on of hands
in a complex weave of culture and medicine. The influx of Europeans in the 18th century was disastrous for  the Aborigines. They were exploited and driven off the land, and their population was decimated by killings and infectious Western diseases.  Not only did the Europeans fail to discern any value in native customs,  but much of the orally based herbal tradition was lost through death  of the elders and the dispersal of tribal groupings. Nevertheless, a little is known of Aboriginal medicine. Aromatic herbs, such as eucalpytus, were crushed and inhaled to treat many common illnesses, including respiratory diseases such as flu. Without metal technology, water could not be boiled, but decoctions were made by heating water with hot stones. These were drunk or applied externally. Skin eruptions, such as boils and scabies, were common and were treated with acacia (Acacia spp., p. 158), while acute diarrhea was treated with eucalyptus or
kino (Pterocarpus marsupium, p. 258). In Queensland, fever bark (Alstonia
spp., p. 165) was used to treat fevers.
Indigenous & Foreign Herbs
Over the past 200 years, many native Australian plants have become
popular around the world. Research into fever bark resulted in the discovery of the alkaloid reserpine, which markedly lowers blood pressure. The substance is now prescribed by herbalists and conventional practi-tioners alike. Eucalyptus and tea tree ( Melaleuca alternifolia, p. 112) yield
essential oils that are employed worldwide as antiseptics. Other native Australian plants are now used in Australian herbalism because of their Australia and
New Zealand
Regrettably, much of the herbal knowledge of the Australian
Aborigines was lost after the arrival of the Europeans. The predominant strains of Australian herbalism today derive from  the West, China, and, increasingly, from other countries on the Pacific Rim.
Kava (Piper
methysticum, p. 122) forms an important part of ceremonial activities among the peoples of Melanesia and Polynesia. It is taken for herbal calming and urinary infections, and is used as a wash to treat rheumatic pain.
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have shown that phyllanthus works effectively in
treating hepatitis B, but overall the evidence
is positive, with some trials showing significant
improvement in measures of infection. In
laboratory experiments, phyllanthus inhibits
RNA replication of the hepatitis B virus.
 QCaution Use on professional advice only.
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248
other medicinal plantsPicrasma excelsa
as a poultice for skin diseases, sores, ulcers, and
tumors. It was also given internally to relieve  pain and to induce vomiting.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Pokeweed is
taken internally as a tincture in small amounts  to treat rheumatic and arthritic conditions.
The root has also been used to treat respiratory  tract infections, such as sore throats and tonsillitis, as well as swollen glands and chronic infections. The herb is sometimes prescribed for pain and infection of the ovaries or testes, and as a lymphatic “decongestant,” stimulating the clearance of waste products. As a poultice or ointment, it is applied  to sore and infected nipples and breasts, acne, folliculitis, fungal infections, and scabies.
 RQ Cautions The plant is highly toxic in
overdose. Use only under professional supervision. Do not take during pregnancy.Constituents Allspice contains volatile oil
(about 4%, mostly eugenol—up to 80%),  lignins, and terpenoids.
History & Folklore Used as a spice in the
Caribbean before the arrival of Europeans, allspice is now an ingredient in many well-known sauces, chutneys, and condiments.
Medicinal Actions & Uses A digestive
stimulant, allspice is taken to relieve flatulence and indigestion. It may also be used to treat diarrhea. Allspice is often combined with herbs that have a tonic or laxative effect. The herb has an action that is similar to that of cloves (Eugenia caryophyllata,  p. 97); both are stimulant, stomach-settling, and antiseptic. Allspice essential oil is markedly antiseptic and analgesic.
Research T aking a lead from allspice’s use in
Costa Rica as a menopause remedy, scientists found that the berries have a strong estrogenic activity. A 2009 paper suggested that allspice  may well help with menopausal symptoms.  Studies also indicate that allspice lowers high  blood pressure.
Cautions Do not take essential oil internally
without professional guidance. Do not take allspice as a medicine during pregnancy.Picrorrhiza kurroa
(Scrophulariaceae)
Picrorrhiza
Description Hairy perennial with serrated
elliptical leaves and white or lilac flowers growing
in spikes.
Habitat & Cultivation Picrorrhiza is native
to the mountains of India, Nepal, and Tibet. The rhizome is gathered in autumn.
Part Used Rhizome.
Constituents Picrorrhiza contains the bitter
glycoside kutkin (composed of picrosides I to III  and kutkoside), iridoids, cucurbitacins, and apocynin. Apocynin is powerfully anti-inflammatory and reduces platelet aggregation.
History & Folklore Picrorrhiza has been used
in Ayurvedic medicine as a laxative and bitter tonic since the earliest times.
Medicinal Actions & Uses In India,
picrorrhiza is used as a bitter tonic, equivalent in many respects to gentian (Gentiana lutea, p. 99), and given for a wide range of digestive and liver troubles, such as indigestion, constipation, jaundice, and hepatitis. In China, it is chiefly employed to treat chronic diarrhea and dysentery. Picrorrhiza also helps treat asthma, acute and chronic
infections, conditions where the immune system
is compromised, and autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis and vitiligo. The herb’s
traditional use for liver disorders is well founded,
and picrorrhiza may play an important role in treating liver disease.
Research In 1992 Indian trials, extracts of
picrorrhiza were shown to boost immunity, and to have a specific action against Leishmania donovani, which causes the tropical parasitic disease known as leishmaniasis. Indian research also indicates that picrorrhiza is of therapeutic value in the treatment of autoimmune disease.
 QCaution T ake picrorrhiza only under
professional supervision.Picrasma excelsa syn. Picraenia
excelsa (Simaroubaceae)
Quassia
Description Deciduous tree growing to
100 ft (30 m). Has smooth gray bark, compound
leaves, small yellow flowers, and pea-sized
black fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to tropical
America and the Caribbean, quassia grows in forests and near water. It is cultivated mainly for medicinal use. The bark is harvested throughout the year.
Part Used Bark.
Constituents Quassia contains quassinoid
bitter principles (including quassin), alkaloids, a coumarin (scopoletin), and vitamin B
1. Some of
the quassinoids have been shown to have cytotoxic (cell-killing) and anti-leukemic actions.
History & Folklore Quassia bark was first
introduced into Europe from Surinam, then a Dutch colony, in 1756. The herb is named after Quassi, a native healer, who told Europeans of
its therapeutic value.
Medicinal Actions & Uses The strongly
bitter quassia supports and strengthens weak digestive systems. It increases bile flow and the secretion of salivary juices and stomach acid,  and improves the digestive process as a whole. Quassia is commonly used to stimulate the appetite, especially in the treatment of anorexia.  Its bitterness has led to it being used for malaria and other fevers, and it is given in the Caribbean for dysentery. The bark has been used in the  form of an enema to expel threadworms and other parasites. A decoction of the bark may  be used as an insect repellent and to treat headlice.
Cautions Excessive doses may, in some cases,
cause digestive irritation and vomiting. Do not  take during pregnancy.Pimpinella anisum (Apiaceae)
Anise
Description Erect annual growing to 2 ft
(60 cm), with feathery leaves, umbels of yellow flowers, and ridged, gray-green seeds.
Habitat & Cultivation Anise is native to
the eastern Mediterranean, western Asia, and North Africa. It is widely cultivated for its seeds, which are used for medicinal purposes and as a flavoring in cooking.
Parts Used Seeds, essential oil.
Constituents Anise contains a volatile oil
(comprising 70–90% anethole, together with methylchavicol and other terpenes), furanocoumarins, flavonoids, fatty acids, phenylpropanoids, sterols, and proteins. Anethole has an observed estrogenic effect, and the seeds as a whole are mildly estrogenic. This effect may substantiate the herb’s use as a stimulant of sexual drive and of breast-milk production.
History & Folklore After examining the
records of Cyprus hospital monastery, historians discovered that anise was used to treat plague  and cholera during the Ottoman Period  (1571–1878 ce).
Medicinal Actions & Uses Anise seeds are
known for their ability to reduce gas and bloating, and to settle digestion. They are commonly given to infants and children to relieve colic, and to
people of all ages to ease nausea and indigestion. Pimenta officinalis
(Myrtaceae)
Allspice
Description Aromatic evergreen tree growing
to 39 ft (12 m). Has leathery oblong leaves, clusters
of small white flowers, and tiny green berries that turn brown as they become ripe.
Habitat & Cultivation Allspice is native to the
Caribbean and to Central and South America.
The berries are gathered before they are fully  ripe because the volatile oil content reduces as they mature.
Parts Used Berries, leaves, essential oil.
US_246-265_Pergularia_Extensa_Salvia_Sclarea.indd   248 26/02/16   12:47 pm249 other medicinal plantsPiPer angustifoli a
Pinguicula vulgaris
(Lentibulariaceae)
Butterwort
Description Insectivorous perennial growing
to 4 in (10 cm). Has fleshy leaves in a basal rosette
and double-lipped, purple-blue flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to northern
and western Europe, butterwort grows in moorland
and on mountains. The leaves are gathered
in midsummer.
Parts Used Leaves.
Constituents Butterwort contains mucilage,
tannins, benzoic acid, cinnamic acid, and valeric
acid. Cinnamic acid has antispasmodic properties.
History & Folklore Butterwort was much
used in Welsh herbal medicine as a purgative.
In Norway, the plant has been used to curdle
reindeer milk, and medicinally, to treat wounds
and ringworm.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Butterwort is
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you	could	call
them	the	motto	for	this	book.
To	see	a	world	in	a	grain	of	sand
And	a	heaven	in	a	wild	flower,
Hold	infinity	in	the	palm	of	your	hand
And	eternity	in	an	hour.You	Won’t	Believe	Your	Eyes
W
e’ll	never	find	anything	invisible	if	you	believe	your	eyes,”	said	Baba.
“Most	people	do	that	all	the	time.	Its	a	bad	habit.”	He	pointed	to	a	rock	lying
beside	him	on	the	ground.	“Even	though	this	is	really	an	energy	cloud,	a	rock
looks	very	solid	and	heavy,	doesn’t	it?”
“Yes,	because	it	is.	A	cloud	wouldn’t	hurt	if	you	dropped	one	on	your	foot,”	I
said.
“Ah,	you	do	trust	your	five	senses,”	said	Baba.	“Why	shouldn’t	you?	After
all,	the	world	is	flat,	just	the	way	your	eyes	see	it.”
“Well,	no,	that’s	something	I	couldn’t	trust,”	I	said.
“Oh,	but	the	sun	moves	across	the	sky	and	sets	in	the	west	at	night,	doesn’t
it?”	said	Baba.
“No,	it	only	looks	that	way,”	I	admitted.
“So	you’re	already	in	the	habit	of	not	trusting	your	eyes,”	said	Baba,	smiling
a	certain	way.	I	came	to	call	this	his
I	know	a	secret
	smile,	and	one	could
never	quite	tell	when	it	was	coming.
“Maybe	I	can’t	trust	my	eyes	all	the	time,	but	how	can	I	rely	on	what	I	can’t
see	at	all?”	I	asked.
“Here’s	a	clue	wrapped	in	a	story,”	said	Baba.	“One	night	while	you	were
asleep,	your	body	started	talking	to	itself.	The	heart	spoke	up	first.	Tm	sick	of
pumping	blood	all	day	for	the	stomach.	Why	should	I?	I	should	be	working
just	for	myself.’
“When	it	heard	this,	the	stomach	replied,	‘You	should	talk.	I	digest	food	all
day	for	the	brain.	It	takes	whatever	I	give,	and	frankly,	I	should	be	working
just	for	myself	too.’
“When	the	brain	heard	this,	it	said,	‘I	think	all	the	time	about	what	to	put	in
the	stomach.	Do	you	realize	how	easily	it	gets	upset?	If	anybody	should	be
working	just	for	themselves,	it’s	me.’“You	can	see	why	this	argument	is	silly,”	said	Baba.	“In	reality	every	part	of
the	body	works	for	every	other	part.	How	do	you	see	that?	In	your	mind.
Knowledge	goes	beyond	the	senses.	I	will	teach	you	to	see	with	your	mind’s
eye.	Then	you’ll	have	no	trouble	seeing	invisible	things.”
W
HAT
	I	L
EARNED
To	be	spiritual	you	have	to	believe	in	something	invisible.	Baba	taught	me
this	at	the	very	beginning.	First	you	have	to	stop	trusting	that	only	your	five
senses	are	right.	It’s	a	hard	habit	to	break,	because	common	sense	says,	“I
want	to	see	it,	touch	it,	taste	it—then	I’ll	know	it’s	real.”	But	I	can	make	you
taste	something	right	now	that	is	totally	invisible.
Close	your	eyes	and	see	a	bright	yellow	lemon	in	your	mind’s	eye.	Now	see	a
knife	cutting	the	lemon	into	slices,	and	then	see	yourself	biting	into	one	slice.
Did	you	notice	that	your	mouth	started	watering?	This	happened	exactly	as	if
you	were	biting	into	an	actual	lemon.	All	it	took	was	a	mental	picture,	which
you	produced	out	of	nowhere,	and	suddenly	your	body	went	into	action.
Millions	of	cells	in	your	brain	formed	the	image;	a	signal	was	sent	along	the
network	of	nerves	inside	your	head	to	your	mouth;	your	salivary	glands
received	the	message	and	began	to	flow.
Here	are	some	amazing	facts	that	follow	from	this	simple	experiment:
There	was	no	picture	of	a	lemon	inside	your	head
.	When	you	thought	of	a
lemon,	your	brain	cells	didn’t	paint	an	image	or	project	one	on	a	screen.	Your
brain	is	as	dark	as	the	blackest	cave—there’s	no	light	or	color	inside	it.	So
where	did	that	picture	come	from?
There	was	no	taste	of	lemon	in	your	mouth
.	You	didn’t	actually	experience
real	lemon	juice.	Your	salivary	glands,	which	you	may	think	need	food	to
react	to,	here	needed	nothing	at	all.	So	where	did	the	sourness	come	from?
Someplace	mysterious.	Some	place	Baba	was	leading	me	to,	step	by	step.Everything	Is	Connected
N
ow,	let’s	say	you	believe	there	really	is
something
	in	the	universe	that	you
can’t	see,”	said	Baba.	“What	does	it	do?	If	it	had	nothing	to	do,	even	if	you
called	it	God,	our	lives	would	stay	the	same	as	they	are.	People	probably
wouldn’t	bother	looking	for	it	in	the	first	place.”
“Probably	not,”	I	said.
The	sun	was	rising	higher	in	the	sky,	and	we	were	comfortable	sitting	in	the
cool	shade	of	the	tree.	Every	once	in	a	while	I	felt	a	darting	worry	about
missing	school,	but	as	long	as	I	kept	listening	to	Baba,	even	this	worry	was
far	away.
“So	it’s	a	fine	puzzle	to	figure	out	what	this	invisible
something
	could	be
doing.”	Baba	took	in	a	big	breath	of	air.	“Go	ahead,	do	that,”	he	said.	“The
answer	is	right	here,	waiting	to	be	noticed.”
I	took	a	deep	breath.	“I	don’t	notice	anything,”	I	said.	“Isn’t	there	something
in	the	air?”	asked	Baba.	“Spring.
	You	can’t	miss	it.	When	the	birds	start
singing	and	the	buds	come	out	on	the	trees,	when	hearts	flutter	and	you	see
lovers	holding	hands	in	the	park,	isn’t	spring	in	the	air?”
“Sure,	but—”
“Well,	why	is	it	spring?	There’s	no	reason	for	it.	The	earth	tilts	a	few	degrees
on	its	axis—so	what?	Yet	in	the	arctic	snow	a	polar	bear	knows	that	it	is	time
to	come	out	of	hibernation.	Flowers	know	that	it	is	time	to	sprout	without	fear
of	dying	in	the	frost.	Locusts	buried	seven	years	in	the	ground	know	that	it	is
time	to	creep	forth.	How	can	all	this	happen	from	a	little	tilt?”
Before	I	could	hazard	a	guess,	he	said,	“I’m	going	to	show	you.	Imagine	that
you	are	a	bird.	You	don’t	think	about	spring;	you	don’t	think	in	words	at	all.
How	do	you	know	that	it’s	time	to	fly	north	again	and	mate?”
“Spring	fever?”
“Good	enough,”	said	Baba.	“Let’s	call	it	an	impulse	that	happens	only	in	the
spring.	One	impulse	seems	to	strike	every	creature.	The	locust,	the	polar	bear,the	flower,	and	the	bird	live	far	apart,	but	they	feel	the	same	impulse	in	their
own	way.	Even	in	the	darkest	depths	of	the	ocean,	where	sunlight	never
reaches,	the	horseshoe


Nature, Vol. 25, 20 Sept 1974), there is no shortage of protein for the poor peoples of the world as long as there is enough cheap cereal available. To attempt to fill the so called protein gap by increasing the availability of animal protein at the sacrifice of
primary food production is illogical. P. V. Sakhatme (Nature, Vol.
248, March 1974), claims that protein standards are in excess by nearly 60 per cent. In a recent study in New Guinea, good health was found to be maintained, on essentially vegetable foods, 53 per
cent less than the standards usuall y considered necessary. Fish was
plentiful, but was not sought or eaten by the inhabitants (New
Scientist, Monitor, 25 June 1973). Dr D. McLaren also criticizes the nutritionists attempts to make available more animal protein at the expense of primary cereals (Lancet, 1974). The conclusion that the fantastic creative pilgrimage of cosmic
evolution has mind as its destiny, finds support from scientists, as in Nature, Vol. 249, p. 208, 17 May 1974. See also W. H. Thorpe's
Biology, psychology and belief (Cambridge 1962). For a
combination of science and sensitivity in an approach to nature, see V. F. Weiskopf's brilliant little book, Knowledge and Wonder
(London 1964).
Still unique as a document by a biologist, running against the
popular views of bestiality and promiscuity, is H. S. Jenning's, The
Biological Basis of Human Nature (London 1930). It is an
incrimination against science and civilization that the facts, and the theme presented, have not been s ubsequently developed. For a more
recent account of society, without the usual lip service to the hoof and claw mentality, see Lawrence D. Sahlin's, Origin of Society,
Scientific American. 207, 48, p. 76, September 1960.
For the effects of cortical (i.e., social) conditioning on sexual
behaviour, see G. S. Ford and F. A. Beach, Patterns of sexual
behaviour (London 1965). In his Comparative Study of Human
Reproduction (Yale 1945), C. S. Ford provides statistical evidence
for a more specific affective human sexual pattern, especially in
matters affecting reproduction a nd breeding, which is where one
would expect any genetical directiv es to have the most relevance.
The lie to the popular (and financially rewarding) supports for
man's natural aggressivity, is ably called by the anthropologist Ashley Montagu, in his, The Direction of Human Development
(London 1957). Although the Bestial as opposed to the Arcadian
vision of man was backed by most scientists in the past, today it is largely promoted by the popularizers of science, who have found a lucrative market, and an enormous  journalistic support, for thus
justifying the public's bestialiness, as in Robert Ardrey and
Desmond Morris. The fact that this success depends on a biased
sifting of facts, an often blatant extrapolation from insufficient data or from animal data inapplicable to man, as well as in a skilled misinterpretation for effect, has not been missed by the majority of
serious scientists. For a discussion, see J. Lewis and B. Towers, Naked Ape or Homo Sapiens? (London 1972). This book also
brings out the interesting suggestion that the apparent 'nakedness' of
the human body is due to a transformation of the skin into an extremely sensitive emotional route, which concurs with the erotic transfiguration of the entire human body through beauty and sensitivity for the purposes of sexual love.
Quastel's work on the possibility of mind-disturbing substances
formed in the human gut, is to be found in a book edited by Joseph Needham, Perspectives in Biochemistry (Cambridge 1937), the
more recent work by S. S. Kety and others is in an article, New
perspectives in psychopharmacology, in Beyond Reductionism,
edited by Arthur Koestler, P. D. McClean's, The paranoid streak in
man, on which Koestler based his notions  of a faulty evolution of
the human brain, is to be found in the same book.
Kuru, a fatal disease of the Central Nervous System in humans,
now known to be spread by the eating of brains by some cannibalistic tribes in New Guinea, is caused by a'slow virus'. It has
been suggested that as mental diseases are' seasonal (especially
schizophrenia), and as they are much more frequent in the prosperous communities, with a high standard of living, there could be a nutritional factor as well as a genetic one in mental disease
(See New Scientist, Monitor, 12 July 1973).
V. Branfenbrenner's, Origins of Alienation (Scientific
American, p. 53, August 1974) is a good account of the break
between the young and the old, with its attendant social disturbances, due to disturbances in family life. The following are still worth reading, W. M.S. Russell, The Wild Ones (Listener, 5
Nov 1964) and his The Affluent Crowd (Listener, 12 November
1964).
A. Koestler, The Ghost in the machine (London 1967), a
fascinating discourse on man's mental predicament, although his inferences are faulty. For a reappraisal of the meaning of mind in its highest aspects, see Altered States of Consciousness, edited by C. T.
Dart (London 1958). The benefits of food restriction in mental
diseases are recorded by Y. Nikolay ev in Soviet Weekly, reported
by New Scientist, 414, 22 October 1964. Fifteen years of starving psychiatric patients for upwards of a week resulted in dramatic improvement, even in schizophrenics. After a period of total abstinence, fruit juice, grated carrots, sour milk, nuts, vegetables,
bread and honey are given. Animal foods are ruled out. A
confirmatory letter regarding results in a clinic in the UK is in New
Scientist, 24 December 1964.
The Nobel prizewinning biochemist, L. Pauling, is largely
responsible for the flare-up of interest in vitamin C, in his much advertised claim that his family were kept free of colds by large
doses of vitamin C. But Pauling has failed to sense, or admit, the
wider implications of his claim, namely, that the fact that such large doses are without any toxic effects, must mean that man is perfectly adapted to them, which in turn can only mean that he is essentially a
fruit-eater.
But Pauling's orthodoxy has not prevented him from being
repeatedly attacked for claims regarding vitamin C usually considered as sensational. As with amply proved phenomena like telepathy, scientists, lacking an adequate world-view, find themselves emotionally compelled to deny. But man is not unique in such large vitamin C needs. The guinea-pig, a frantic gobbler of
fresh green tasties, requires as much as man on a body weight
basis—a child, for instance, would need 1500 milligrams daily, instead of the 200 officially recommended. (Man Li Yew. National Academy of Science, USA, Vol. 7, p. 964, 1974.)
The ever increasing wonders of vitamin C now includes claims
for counteracting the cancer-inducing nitrosamides, for reducing
heart attacks, for alleviating diabetes, and, latest of all, for mitigating hang-overs! See New Sc ientist, 12 April 1973, and 18
April 1974.
Coffee drinking doubles the risk of myocardial infarctus ('heart
attacks'). No affect appeared to be associated with tea drinking (up
to six cups a day). Lancet, Vol. 2, p. 1278, 1972. That does not
mean that tea drinking is health y—only that it is less harmful!
The food crisis is focussed in the Commentary in New Scientist
(18 July 1974), 'Will Britain starve?' with the following conclusion: 'Perhaps the most important of all, the public must get used to the
idea that it can get by with a great deal less food than it usually
consumes, and that edible protein is  too valuable to feed to farm
livestock.' For the disasters of pollution, of dwindling natural resources, of
overcrowding, see G. Rattray Taylor's, The Doomsday Book
(London 1970).
Rats, made to fast for one to three days a week, live longer,
with a lower incidence of all cau ses of death, including cancer. Dr
Alec Comfort concludes that by eating less, humans should be able to increase their present lifespan by 20 per cent to 40 per cent (New
Scientist, 30 March 1972).
Given a wide choice and abundan ce of foods, rats, with much
more native instinct than man, nonetheless fail to pick the right
foods. On the contrary, they have a singular ability, owing to an equivalent of human greed, to pick the pattern of eating most likely to induce cancers and the other di seases of age (Nature, Vol. 250,
July 1974).
A recently discovered long-living community


psin to do its job properly.
The most studied proteins in connection with GAPS conditions, particu
larly autism and schizophrenia, are gluten and casein. In these patients the
digestive system converts them into opiate-like substances, called caso
morphin and gliadomorphin, which are thought to find their way to the
patient's brain and block a lot of normal brain activity and development.
The digestion of casein and gluten, just as digestion of all other proteins,
starts in the stomach. In a child or an adult with low stomach acidity this
digestive process goes wrong from the beginning, which sets up the scene
for the formation of casomorphin and gliadomorphin. DrW. Shaw, in the
revised edition of his book Biological Treatments for Autism andPDD, gives
an interesting example of a child, who had a very severe withdrawal re
action, when casein and gluten were taken out of his diet, with violent
behaviour and refusal to eat or drink. Indeed withdrawal of opiates in drug
addiction can be extremely dramatic. But in this child the withdrawal
symptoms were temporarily relieved by regular administration of Alka-
Seltzer Gold. Now why would simple bicarbonate Alka-Seltzer Gold have
such an effect? Maybe the answer is that by neutralising whatever little
stomach acid the child had, Alka-Seltzer Gold interfered with the digestion
of other dietary proteins with production of other opiate-like peptides,
which were giving this child a temporary "morphine fix", reducing the
withdrawal symptoms? As a result of low stomach acid production the whole process of protein
digestion in the body goes wrong from the very beginning. The
maldigested protein then passes through into the small intestine. The
intestinal wall and pancreatic enzymes, which accomplish further steps in
the protein digestion, expect the protein to arrive from the stomach in a
particular form in order to do their job properly. It is like a conveyer belt or
an assembly line in a factory. If the first person does a poor job, then no
matter how well the rest of the people in the line may work, the end pro
duct is likely to be of a poor quality. However, what happens in the body is
even worse. The problem is that in the body "the rest of the line" cannot
work properly either, because it is regulated by the "first person". This first
person is the stomach acid. Stomach acidity is the major regulator of pan
creatic and liver ability to respond to arriving food. In a normal situation
food coming from the stomach into the duodenum has to have a pH of 2 or
below to stimulate production of two very important players in the whole
digestive process. These players are two hormones, produced by the walls
of the duodenum, which get absorbed into the blood and carried to the
pancreas, liver, stomach and many other organs in the body. These hor
mones are secretin and cholecystokinin. The first hormone, secretin, gives
the stomach a command to stop producing its juices, stimulates the liver to
produce bile and lets the intestinal lining know that food is coming, so it
makes enough mucous to protect itself. But the most important thing that
it does is to stimulate the pancreas to produce alkalising bicarbonate solu
tion to neutralise the acid in the food, which has just arrived from the
stomach, because normally the duodenum and the rest of the small intes
tine have a far more alkaline pH. This alkaline pH is essential for pancreatic
enzymes to do their job of digesting proteins, fats and carbohydrates. By
stimulating production of bicarbonate secretin prepares the food for the
digestive enzymes coming from the pancreas.
To produce these digestive enzymes the pancreas needs the command
of the second hormone - cholecystokinin. If cholecystokinin is not made
by the walls of the duodenum because of too little acid coming from the
stomach with the food, then the pancreas will be sitting there idly and not
producing its digestive enzymes to deal with that food. In addition, chole
cystokinin tells the stomach to stop its activity, makes the gallbladder
empty its bile into the duodenum, ready to digest fats, and opens the gates
for pancreatic juices to flow and start digesting arriving food (F1G.7).
These two hormones are so important in normal food digestion that
without them this digestion simply cannot happen. Unfortunately, in a person with low stomach acidity that is exactly what happens. The food
comes from the stomach not acid enough to trigger the production of
secretin and cholecystokinin. So, the pancreas does not produce its juices
and bile is not secreted to work on the fats. Maldigestion and malabsorp
tion follow. Partially digested proteins, like casomorphin and gliadomor
phin and many others get produced and absorbed through the damaged
leaky intestinal wall, acting as opiates in the brain. Other maldigested pro
teins cause allergies and autoimmune reactions, draining an already com
promised immune system even further. A lot of essential vitamins, amino
acids and minerals do not get absorbed, causing nutritional deficiencies.
Maldigested carbohydrates get consumed by abnormal flora, which con
verts them into alcohol, acetaldehyde and a whole host of other toxins. Fats
do not get digested, which makes the person deficient in extremely impor
tant fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, essential fatty acids, and gives the
person pale floating stool or diarrhoea. Undigested food simply rots in the
digestive tract, poisoning the whole body.
Secretin has received a lot of publicity in autistic circles since some cases
of great improvements were seen after injecting autistic children with
secretin. Soon homeopathic forms of this hormone became available.
Cholecystokinin is available as a supplement in the USA and some parents
who tried it with their children apparently reported similar to secretin
effect. Unfortunately, the majority of autistic children show very little or no
response to this treatment, because secretin is only one factor in a very
complex digestive process. Normalising stomach acid production is a far
more important intervention in order to put the whole digestive process
right from the beginning.
Apart from literally ruining the whole digestive process, lack of acid in
the stomach has other serious implications.
Stomach acid is the first barrier for huge numbers of microbes arriving
with every bit of food or drink we put into our mouths. If the stomach is not
acid enough, these microbes have a good chance of getting into the
intestines, which they would colonise and cause trouble. They even start
growing in the stomach itself! Normally the stomach is the least-populated
area of the digestive system due to its extremely acid environment.
However, in a person with hypochlorhydria all sorts of pathogenic and
opportunistic bacteria and fungi can grow on the stomach wall, such as
Helicobacter pylori, Campylobacter pylori, Enterobacterial Candida,
Salmonella, E. coli, Streptococci, etc. The most research in this area has been
done in stomach cancer patients, the majority of which show low levels of FIG. 7 Regulation of digestive process by the stomach acid. stomach acid production. Microbes, which populate low acid stomach play
a very important role in causing stomach cancer, ulcers and gastritis.
Of course, most of these microbes love to eat carbohydrates, particularly
the processed kind. The digestion of carbohydrates starts in the mouth with
the action of saliva. When the food arrives into the stomach in the normal
situation stomach acid stops this digestion. So, carbohydrates have to wait
until they arrive at the duodenum to be digested. But in the stomach with
low acidity overgrowing microbes start fermenting dietary carbohydrates,
often with the production of various toxins and gas, which can make it very
uncomfortable for the GAPS child or adult and make them refuse food.
So, what do we do?
I believe that GAPS patients need supplementation with stomach acid.
The most physiological preparation available on the market is Betaine HC1
with added Pepsin. One capsule usually provides 200-300 mg of Betaine
HC1 and loomg of Pepsin. It should be taken at the beginning of each meal.
The capsules usually contain an adult dose. However, I find that children as
young as eight can take this dose without any trouble. To determine the
right dose for your child start from a small pinch of the powder added to
the first spoonfuls of the meal. In two to three days increase to two pinches
and so on. For children from 18 months to 24 months one pinch is usually
enough. For two to three year olds two to three pinches. For four to six year
olds half a capsule is enough. For six and older from half to a full capsule.
Children older than 10 and adults may need two capsules at the beginning
of each meal. A lot of parents report great improvement in their child's
stool in just a few days from starting Betaine HC1 with Pepsin. Make sure
that you do not give probiotic to your child together with Betaine HC1 as
the acid is likely to destroy the prob