 calm down and chew very very well each mouthful.
It's not a race.
If you are just starting out on OMAD orin looping or even if you've been doing it a
while, remember to calm down and relax during your 1 hour slot. This is a very
special time of the day to be really enjoyed and savoured.
It's important to remember that good health is not all about diet. A joyful heart is
the best medicine so says the Bible. Relationships with those most important to
you have a huge impact on your health and happiness. This is all part of the
omad orin looping programme.A large part of the omad orin looping experience is finding more enjoyment out
of life. Cutting something down or even out altogether can bring you more joy
which is the best medicine.
The same as what you stop putting into your body benefits you, and also what
you stop filling your time with, to cut out non-essential time wasting even toxic
things benefits you. Then you will have more time for more important things in
your life. Spending time with loved ones.
Share your omad orin looping experience online and with friends and family.
They will soon notice you are looking slimmer and younger. Get joy out of self
improvement.
Treat yourself to new slim fit clothes, and get pleasure out of seeing your new
slim reflection or shadow. This is hard to understand until you experience it, but I
know the feeling of being fat and unwell. I now appreciate being fit in great
shape and full of energy. This feeling should be savoured and if you are not there
yet then use this as an incentive to keep going with your omad orin looping.
One final point in this chapter, most people in developed lands eat because they
think it’s time to eat not because they are really truly hungry. They have always
done this and don’t really enjoy it anymore. This is true in so many cases, that
people don’t really enjoy their food all that much anymore, because they are
eating too much, too frequently and they are not really hungry every time they
eat.
Most people think they are supposed to eat breakfast before they leave home in
the morning. Then they feel they should go and eat lunch just because this is
what people do. And then they always eat dinner just because this is what they
have always done. Not because they are genuinely hungry. Plus they eat snacks
because they think they feel ‘peckish’ through the day. It’s often boredom or just
because they want that feel-good feeling. It’s an addiction just like smoking or
any other harmful vice.
This is especially true for tea and coffee related drinks. It’s a silent addiction that
is hardly ever talked about and is in nearly all cases in denial. These drinks are
full of pesticides and toxins. Same as glasses of wine or beer, they are full of
harmful things these days. Once you embrace orin looping you soon discover this
is the only drink you crave. I get at least the same enjoyment  if not more so from
my beautiful elixir than any expensive wine or another exotic drink. This is
absolutely 100% true.
If you gave somebody living on a desert island all their life a cup of tea or coffee,
or a glass of wine or beer for the first time ever they would not like it at first. But
they soon develop a taste for it. The same for your own living water taken from
your blood.Many people are alcoholics without really admitting it. They may not have a
serious alcohol problem but they frequently partake of wine, beer or other
alcoholic drinks. Omad orin looping can help you get away from these addictions
by replacing with a far better drink, your own plasma ultra-filtrate.
Less serious but my opinion is most people in developed lands are genuinely
addicted to tea or coffee related drinks throughout the day but will never really
admit it. I have personally seen this first hand with people I have helped go on
Omad Orin looping protocol. They didn’t realise how much they were addicted to
these drinks until they try to go without them.
I have seen people tell me they are not addicted and they genuinely believe it
themselves that they are not addicted. It could be addiction to snacks, chocolate
or simply tea or coffee related drinks. They are adamant they are not addicted to
these eating times and drinks. But then they are so intensely craving to get a hit
of their addiction but will not admit that they have an addiction, they just make
excuses saying no I just feel like it now but it’s not an addiction. But when they
start getting the withdrawal symptoms they slowly realised they did have a
problem after all.
Be honest with yourself. Are you addicted to tea or coffee drinks? Do you eat
every day because you are really truly hungry, or is it because you think it's time
to eat? Or do you have snacks for the feel good feeling? Real hunger is not just a
mental craving for something; real hunger is from deep down in your stomach.
When you start Omad you will soon learn what real genuine hunger is. Starting
maybe a few hours or so before your eating window. You can tell yourself how
much you are going to enjoy your one meal soon, and then when the time comes
your joy will be increased a hundred fold. You are not feeding your addiction you
are eating because you are genuinely hungry.
This principle can apply to anything enjoyable in life that you do too much of.
Entertainment  or enjoying sports, whatever it is. Less is more, and this especially
applies to eating. What I’m saying here is that the advantages of omad are not
just about physical health benefits. The mental aspect involves enjoying your
food more, and this spills over to other aspects of life and Omad Orin looping
increases your general happiness and joy all round.
Finding balance in your eating helps you balance the rest of your life. Showing
self-control with 23:1 Omad Orin looping gives you confidence in yourself and
your abilities. You feel so good about yourself and others notice this about you.
Omad Orin looping is the ultimate act of self-love. The way you carry yourself,
the way you are so comfortable in your own skin wherever you are. Yes the
benefits of Omad Orin looping go way beyond just your physical health, your
mental health and well-being improve dramatically.
Chapter 7Exercise.
H.I.T or abbreviated training has been found to be even more effective than
spending lots of time working out.
The best overall exercise is the burpee, or sometimes called life salutes. Life
knocks you down and you get back up.
From standing position – squat down and jump your feet backwards into a plank
position (like the start of a push-up).  If you want, for added difficulty, touch your
chest to the ground by doing a push-up.  Jump your feet back to your hands and
stand up.  Or, you can jump up to add another element of difficulty. Burpees for
a few mins intensive hurt an awful lot but in a good way. They can be done
anywhere without any equipment. You can do in a prison cell, on a boat or
absolutely anywhere.
If you have a day without much activity then add say 3-4 mins of burpees just
before your eating window.
So everyday just before you eat have a think about how much exercise you had
that day. If you had a very active day then no need, but if you were not moving
that much and exerting yourself vigorously throughout the day then do 3 mins
intense life salutes just before your eating window.
I know it doesn't sound much, but seriously try to do as many full burpies as you
can in 3-4 mins without pausing, you will see how intensive it is. I put on one of
my favourite music tracks on for example chemical brothers Galvanise, and just
keep going right to the end of the track. You will want to collapse, but as you get
fitter and stronger your recovery will improve.
The next step after a long time on the OMAD orin looping protocol is one meal
every other day, or even 2 days fasting one day eating. You then don't need to
do the internal enema on the mornings that you didn't eat the previous day/s.
23:1 intermittent  fasting is very healthy long term, you don't need to go any
more advanced. But occasionally if you want to take it to the next level then 48
hours fasting and one hour eating or similar can really strengthen your mind and
body to the next level. You could try prolonged 47:1, eating every other day.
If there is no need for longer fasts then just stick to intermittent  a day or two a
time. But if there are health problems that need correcting, or the body needs
cleansing and healing then consider longer fasts.
Around three weeks or about 21 days is a very good goal to start with. Then after
several months of nutritious OMAD orin looping you could consider another 40-60
day fast. More than this can be dangerous if your body is not used to it, but I'm
confident in myself that I could go longer just looping my orin because I've been
doing progressively longer fasts every year for a long time.If there is a situation where there are food or water shortages I now know I could
go a long time only looping my orin. If there wasn't much food or drink available I
could give my portion to my family and friends because I have


—whether morphine, Valium, digitalis, or almost
anything else—it must be the key that ﬁts some precisely
chosen receptor on the cell wall and no other.
The hormones, enzymes, and other biochemicals
produced by our bodies  have superb knowled ge about
which receptors they should ﬁt into. The molecules
themselves actually seem able to pick and choose among
various sites—it is uncanny to follow their tracks under an
electron microscope as they make a beeline to where they
are needed. Also, the body can release hundreds of
diﬀerent chemicals at a time and orchestrate each  one with
regard to the whole.
If you hear a hot rod backﬁre on the street outside your
window and jump in your chair, your insta ntaneous
reaction is the outcome of a complex internal event. The
trigger for the event is a burst of adrenaline from your
adrenal glands. Carried into the bloodstream, this
adrenaline signals reacti ons from your heart, which starts
to pump blood faster; from your blood vessels, which
contract and force up your blood pressure; from your liver,
which puts out extra fuel in the form of glucose; from your
pancreas, which secretes insulin so that more glucose can
be metaboliz ed; and from your stomach and intestines,
which immediately stop digesting food so that more energy
can be shunted elsewhere.All this activity, happeni ng at a furious pace and with
powerful eﬀects everywhere in your body, is coordinated by
the brain, which uses the pituitary gland to guide many of
the hormonal signals just described, not to mention various
other chemical signals that go racing down your neurons to
focus your eyes, prick up your ears, jerk your back muscles
upright, and swivel your head in alarm.
To make this whole react ion happen and then to make it
go away again (for the body, unlike a man-made drug,
knows how to reverse every one of these processes just as
neatly as it began), the same key-in-the-lock mechanism is
employed everywhere. It is all so deceptively simple, yet if
you attempt to duplicate this event with a drug, the results
are nowhere near as precise, orderly, and beautifully
orchestrated. In fact, they are chaotic. Injecting adrenaline,
insulin, or glucose separa tely into the body gives it a crude
jolt. The chemicals immediately ﬂood all the receptor sites
without coordination from the brain. Instead of talking to
the body, they assault it with single-minded insistence.
Even though the chem ical make-up of adrenaline is
identical no matter where it is derived, the critical
ingredient of intelligence must be present; other wise, the
drug’s action is a mockery of the real thing.
Here is a related example to show the complicated
results of giving a drug that seems simple. Hypertension
patients are generally told to bring down their elevated
blood pressure with diuretics—drugs that take water from
the cells and pass it out of the system through urination.
This is exactly what the kidneys do all the time as they
delicately monitor your blood chemistry to make sure that
the balance of water, waste products, and the necessary
salts, or electrolytes, is precisely maintained. A diuretic,
however, has only one idea in mind, and obsessed with that
one idea, it careens through the body, demanding, “Water!
Water!” from every cell it meets.The result is that the ﬂuid tension in the blood vessels is
reduced, which is what the doctor wants to happen, but the
water level everywhere else is aﬀected at the same time.
The brain may be forced to give up some of its water, which
under normal conditions it does only in the direst
emergency, causing the patient to feel dizzy and drowsy. In
many cases nothing more  serious happens, but sometimes
other brain functions may also then be thrown oﬀ,
especially in older patients: if they happen to drink alcohol,
even in moderation, these people can become so confused
that they forget to drink  enough water or to eat properly.
This can lead to malnutrition combined with severe
dehydration. In the view of some endocrinologists, the
dehydration induced by diuretics in the presence of alcohol
or tranquilizers is the leading cause of death among older
Americans.
All of these consequences, whether mild or severe, are
usually called the undesirable “side eﬀects” of diuretics,
but that is not an accurate name. They are just its eﬀects—
the good and bad ones necessarily come together in the
same package. A diuretic basically work s by latching onto
sodium atoms, causing the body to discard excess  salt, and
this in turn indirectly brings down the water level in the
tissues, since  water is bound up with salt in our bodies, just
as in sea water. The diuretic cannot help it if too much salt
is taken where water is still needed. Since potassium is
close to sodium in its atomic structure, the diuretic also
causes it to be depleted, leading to weakness, fatigue, and
leg cramps. (Less-adverse eﬀects are generally noticed by
the leaching  of other trace elements, such as zinc and
magnesium.) Besides these common signs of potassium
deﬁciency, there can be other complications—digitalis, the
drug commonly given to heart patients to strengthen their
weak heartbeat, becomes more toxic if the body is low on
potassium. Ironically, a potassium deﬁciency is nowsuspected to be a causal link in high blood pressure, which
means that the diuretic may be promoting the very
condition it was meant to cure.
The frustrating reality, as far as medical researchers are
concerned, is that we already know that the living body is
the best pharmacy ever devised. It produces diuretics,
painkillers, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, antibiotics, and
indeed everything manufactured by the drug companies,
but it makes them much, much better. The dosage is always
right and given on time; side eﬀects are minimal or
nonexistent; and the directions for using the drug are
included in the drug itself, as part of its built-in
intelligence.
—
Thinking about these well-known facts has led me to three
conclusions. First, that intelligence is present everywhere
in our bodies. Second, that our own inner intelligence is far
superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.
Third, that intelligence is more important than the actual
matter of the body, since without it, that matter would be
undirected, formless, and chaotic. Intelligence makes the
diﬀerence between a house designed by an architect and a
pile of bricks.
For the moment, let’s keep our deﬁnition of the word
intelligence  as simple and practica l as possible. Rather
than referring to the intelligence of a genius, which may
seem both exalted and abstract, I deﬁne it simply as “know-
how.” There is no doubt, whatever you think about
intelligence in the abstract, that the body must be credited
with an immense fund of know-how.
The body’s inner intelligence is so powerful that when it
goes awry, the physician is faced with a truly formidable
antagonist. Every cell in the body is programmed by itsDNA, for example, to divide at a certain rate, producing
two new cells after the mother cell splits in half. Like
everything else regulated by our inner intelligence, this
process is not purely mechanical. A cell divides in response
to its own internal need combined with signals generated
from the cells around it, the brain, the faraway organs that
are “talking” to it via chemical messages. Cell division is a
carefully considered and well-thought-out decision—except
in the case of cancer.
Cancer is wild, anti-social behavior, whereby a single cell
reproduces itself without check, heeding no signals from
anywhere except, apparently, its own demented DNA. Why
this occurs, no one know s. It is a good bet that the body
itself knows how to reverse the process, but for some
reason, equally unknow n to science, it doesn’t always
succeed. It is only a matter of time, once the process
begins, before the cancer cells overwhelm a vital organ,
crowd out its normal cells, and cause death. When the ﬁnal
crisis comes, the cancer  cells perish with the rest of the
body, doomed by their ungoverned appetite for self-
expansion.
Medicine has so far not ﬁgured out a way to send a
message to the cancer cells in time to ward oﬀ the tragic
fate they have created. The chemicals a physician might
use against cancer are not at all eﬀective on the level of
intelligence. Cancer is endowed with mad genius, while
drugs are simple-minded. So the oncologist resort s to a
much cruder assault, a form of poisoning. The anti-cancer
drug that is administere d is generally toxic to the entire
body, but because cancer cells are growing at a much
faster rate than normal cells, they ingest more of the
poison and die oﬀ ﬁrst. The whole strategy is a calculated
risk


,	overdoing	it	can
be	aging.	There	are	other	types	of	movements	that	more	effectively	support
your	overall	energy	and	beauty	while	delaying	the	aging	process.
There	are	other	benefits	to	strategic	movements.	In	a	study	of	people	who
wanted	to	lose	weight,	one	group	was	put	on	a	running	program,	another	on	a
jogging	program,	and	a	third	group	was	simply	asked	to	walk.	The	walking
group	lost	the	most	weight.	They	demonstrated	the	fact	that	muscles	stop
burning	oxygen	during	heavy	activity,	and	therefore	the
metabolism	that	burns
fat	is
shut	down.	Some	studies	show	markedly	improved	health	and	longevity
among	people	who	stand	more	than	13	hours	a	day,	compared	with	workerswho	stand	less	than	2	hours.	We	recommend,	as	do	many	experts,	that	you
stand	up	and	move	around	briefly	at	least	once	an	hour.
If	you	move	in	a	strategic	way,	you	will	not	only	see	the	tangible	results	of	a
sculpted,	lithe,	strong	body,	but	you	will	also	optimize	the	flow	of	energy
throughout	your	joints,	spine,	and	entire	being.	This	stimulates	your	endocrine
and	other	glands	and	keeps	your	body	more	energetically	open	so	it	can
function	at	its	peak.
When	you	stop	moving,	energy	stagnates,	and	illness	and	sickness	can	build
up.
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	Body	tension	is	created	by	the	resistance	to	the	flow	of	energy	and	a	lack	of
oxygen.	As	your	body	stiffens,	so	can	your	mind,	and	you	can	become	resistant
to	change.	There	is	an	uninterrupted	flow	of	energy	between	the	emotional,
mental,	and	physical	aspects	of	your	being,	and	properly	moving	your	body
affects	each	part	equally.	In	this	pillar	you’ll	learn	which	types	of	movements
age	you	and	which	ones	are	the	most	beneficial	in	terms	of	making	you
Radically	Beautiful.SHIFT	16:
Incorporate
Fluid	Movement
Throughout	Your	Day
Your	Movement	Affects	Your	Entire	Life
Experience
The	foods	you	eat	cannot	adequately	be	reduced	down	to	a	series	of	numbers,
and	the	same	is	true	for	how	you	move.	The	sole	utility	of	your	workouts	isn’t
the	number	of	calories	or	the	amount	of	fat	you	burn.	Moving	affects	your
overall	life.	Here	are	just	some	of	the	many	ways	that	moving
benefits	you:
•
Increases	energy
•
Makes	you	feel	strong	and	powerful	in	your
body
•
Helps	you	create	and	maintain	a	healthy	weight
•
Lowers	cholesterol,	triglycerides,	and	the	risk	of	high	blood	pressure
•
Builds	healthy	bones
•
Reduces	inflammation
1
•
Promotes	better	sleep
•
Releases	“feel	good”	chemicals	called	endorphins	to	improve	mood	and
combat	depression
2
•
Increases	focus,	memory,	and	sharper	thinking	and	learning
3
•
Improves	circulation
•
Increases	longevity
•
Works	on	a	cellular	level	to	decrease	the	toll	of	stress	on	your	aging	process
4
•
Improves	self-esteem	and	body	image	(critical	to	being	beautiful	is
feelingbeautiful!)
And	while	it’s	been	well	documented	that	moving	and	exercising	in	general
improve	your	mood,	the
types
	of	movements	that	flow	through	your	body	affect
your	overall	mentality,	your	emotions,	and	your	state	of	being.	Try	to	recall	the
last	time	you	were	at	a	party	or	a	wedding	and	danced	in	a	free-form	way,	just
feeling	the	music	and	having	fun.	Afterward	you	probably	felt	free,	alive,	and
exhilarated.	This	feeling	of	freedom	is	magnetic	and	beautiful,	and	translates	to
an	outwardly	joyful	energy	that	is	very	attractive.	This	is	a	perfect	example	of
how	your	bodily	movements	have	a	profound	impact	on	the	state	of	your	mind
and	your	overall	beauty.
If	you	only	move	in	a	linear,	straightforward,	and	rigid	fashion,	such	as	on	a
treadmill	or	stair	climber,	you	may	start	to	become	more	linear	in	the	way	you
think	and	feel	in	your	body.	In	contrast,	incorporating	flowing	movements,
such	as	dance	or	yoga,	can	help	inspire	creative	thinking.	But	it’s	not	just	the
actual	movements	your	body	makes	that	have	an	impact—the	environment	in
which	you	move	your	body	also	makes	an	enormous	difference.
Surfing	the	dynamic	waves	of	the	ocean	can	make	you	feel	connected	to	the
natural	world	around	you	in	a	way	that’s	impossible	when	slugging	it	out	on
weight	machines	or	even	on	a	simulated	surfing	machine.	Hiking	on	uneven
terrain	in	the	fresh	air	can	help	you	feel	more	vigorous	and	free	in	your	body
than	doing	the	same	incline	level	on	a	treadmill.	If	you	live	in	an	urban
environment,	trekking	up	some	local	hills	in	neighborhoods	with	sidewalks	or
nearby	parks	would	also	allow	you	to	gain	the	benefits	from	much-needed	time
outside	and	away	from	indoor	buildings.
Your	mind	and	body	are	fused	together,	and	one	closely	affects	the	other.	It’s
not	that	any	particular	forms	of	movement	are	necessarily	“bad”	and	should	be
avoided	altogether,	and	factors	like	the	weather,	convenience,	and	your	schedule
might	mean	that	the	gym	is	your	only	option	on	certain	days.	That’s	fine.	But
we	encourage	you	to	balance	the	movements	in	your	life	and	incorporate	free-
form,	natural	movements	outside	in	the	elements	whenever	possible.	This	will
help	keep	your	energy	circulating	in	the	most	dynamic	and	free	way,	which	is	a
key	component	to	Radical	Beauty.
RADICAL	BEAUTY	EXERCISE	GUIDELINES
•
Weave	activity	and	movement	into	your	daily	life.
•
Strive	for	around	an	hour	of	movement	at	least	five	days	a	week.
•
According	to	the
Physical
Guidelines	for	Activity	for	Americans	put	out	by	the	USgovernment,	at	least	2.5	hours	a	week	of	moderate-intensity	aerobic	activity	is
recommended	for	adults.	For	more	extensive	health	benefits,	increase	aerobic
activity	to	5	hours	of	moderate	intensity	weekly,	and	include	two	days	or	more	a
week	of	muscle-strengthening	activities.
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•
Make	an	effort	to	get	out	in	the	fresh	air	and	nature	as	much	as	possible—ideally
weekly.
•
Remember	that	smaller,	shorter	activities	throughout	the	day	add	up!
•
Find	forms	of	movement	that	you	enjoy	and	will	stick	with.
•
Mix	circular	and	nonlinear	forms	of	movement	into	your	weekly	routine.	Try
Vinyasa	yoga,	dance	classes	or	free-form	dance,	rock	climbing,	various	kinds	of
team	sports	(like	volleyball),	or	other	outdoor	activities	you	can	try	in	your	area.
•
Another	option	if	you	are	crunched	for	time	is	high-interval	training,	which	is	a
short,	intense	workout	for	a	few	minutes	that	requires	recovery	time.
6
	These
types	of	exercise	may	compact	the	time	for	working	out	due	to	their	more
vigorous	nature,	but	they	may	feel	too	depleting	for	some,	so	listen	to	your	body
and	stick	to	the


would also like to take this chance to apologize to those whose letters I have
not had a chance to answer. For these people, and others who wish to know
more, I have written another book that will answer the many questions and
satisfy the many appetites for knowledge. To let the reader know about the
supplementations of a great many more healing techniques and new con
cepts and corrections to the old text, I have changed the title from The Book
of Internal Exercises to The Complete System of Self-Healing. Instead of
showing only one room, the new book opens the door to the entire house. I
have devoted forty years of intensive research, experience, and meticulous
selection to make sure that the techniques within this book are:
* Absolutely true Taoist teachings (such as the principle of mind and
body unification).
* Absolutely scientific.
*Proven to possess great healing value.
* Absolutely natural (equipment, which causes bodily imbalances, is
not needed).
*Absolutely safe (no side-effects) and free from time or space
limitations.
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I hope you will enjoy this book more, gain more riches in health and
knowledge from it, and help more of those who are suffering with the aid of
it.
Stephen T. Chang An Important Note To The Reader
This book was written only to introduce the Internal Exercises of
Taoism as a gesture of goodwill. Since certain exercises, special
techniques, and teachings which are introduced may be new to certain
societies, since human beings are complicated and delicate in constitu
tion, and since every individual is diff erent, please consult your
physician before you try any of the contents of this book, for your own
protection.
The author and the publisher specifically disclaim liability for any
loss or risk incurred by the use or application of any of the contents of
this book. Table of Contents
FOREWORD.................................... 7
IN'TR.. ODUCTION................................ 13
PART I UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES
1. TAOISM................................... 19
The Tao of Philosop hy......................... 21
The Tao of Revitalization....................... 21
The Tao of Balanced Diet....................... 22
The Tao of Forgotten Food Diet.................. 23
The Tao of Healing Art........................ 25
The Tao of Sex Wisdom........................ 25
The Tao of Mastery........................... 26
The Tao of Success........................... 27
2. THE ENERGY THEORY....................... 29
The Nature of Energy.......................... 30
Energy and the Human Body..................... 31
3. THE CIRCULATION THEORY................... 35
4. THE SEVEN GLANDS THEORY................. 39
5. THE NERVE THEORY......................... 45
PART ll LIVING WITH THE WHOLE BO DY
6. THE INTERNAL EXERCISES.................... 49
Five Elements Theory................. •........ 51
Five Animal Exercises......................... 54
Eight Directional Exercises...................... 63
Twelve Zodiac Exercises........................ 79
Deer Exercise for Men......................... 87
Instructions for the Male Deer Exercise............ 89 The Deer Exercise for Women.................... 93
Instructions for the Female Deer Exercise........... 95
Prone Position for the Deer Exercise............... 99
Crane Exercise.............................. 100
Instructions for the Crane Exercise.............. 103
The Standing Crane.......................... 106
Solar Plexus Exercise......................... 107
Turtle Exercise............................. 113
Instructions for the Turtle Exercise.............. 114
Combining the Deer, Crane, and Turtle Exercises...... 115
Sitting Position............................. 117
Standing Position............................ 119
w al.king.................. •............... 120
Sleeping Position............................ 120
Head Rubbing Exercise........................ 121
Eye Exercises.............................. 122
Nose Exercise.............................. 127
The Ear Exercise............................ 128
Mouth Exercises............................ 130
Tongue and Saliva Exercise................... 130
Gum Pressure Exercise....................... 131
Tee th Clicking Exercise...................... 132
Face Rubbing Exercise........................ 132
Thy roid Exercise............ o •••••••••• o • • • • 133
Techniques for Relieving Pain................... 134
Hand, Arm, and Upper Body Exercises............. 135
Ann and Hand Pressing Exercise................ 135
Hand and Arm Exercise.............. o o • • • o • • 136
Lung Exercise...................


, green foods for some animals, together with extensive vaccination
and other medical procedures, tend to produce adverse
reactions in animal health in many instances. As a rule,
however, the liberal use of raw foods tends to offset, to some
degree, these factors, and farm animals as a whole are less affected by disease than are humans. According to Furnas, in
reference to domestic breeds, "it takes at least a dozen
average animals to have as much ill-health as a single
human." The animals usuall
y live several times as lon g as the period of growth. If they were as  ill as man, we would need
more than 150,000 veterinarians in the United States to take
care of them.

HEALTH IN WILD NATURE
   Within all branches of the wild animal kingdom, the
exclusive use of raw foods is the norm of existence.
Accordingly, a study of wild animal life might be expected to reveal the effects of a raw food diet. While many of the features of wild animal health are doubtless directly attributable to nutritive habits, this is not true in all cases.
There are often adverse factors in nature which are largely or
entirely absent in civilization. Thus, while the wild animal is receiving excellent nutrition when food is available, it is
starving when food is not available. When the animal is
thirsty, it must drink from sewage-polluted water if no other
source of water exists. If the animal lives in an area which has
been subjected to treatment with insecticide sprays, much of its food supply may be poisoned. If ticks carrying tulmaria
and other transmissible diseases are active, no means of
defense are available. When injury from predators or
accidents occurs, no special care of the animal is possible.
When heavy snow and severe cold strike, there is no
protection against excessive exposure.
   In consideration of all of these facts, it would be far too
much to expect to find a condition of perfect health existing
throughout wild nature. The wonder is not that wild animals
are subject to some disease; the wonder is that they are able
to survive at all. The fact that they do survive and also
maintain a high level of physical excellence in many respects is important to us. Certainly much of the good health that
does exist in wild nature may be attributed to the use of raw
foods, and if good nutrition during times of food availability did not exist, it is doubtful that the animal could be carried
through many periods of intense stress, exposure, and food
scarcity. The use of raw food in nature gives health and vigor
to all biological life. If only cooked foods were available, it is
certain that life could not exist on its present scale, and the
extinction of many species would be probable.

I
NFECTIONS
   Biologists have often reported the existence of infectious
diseases in wild animals. It cannot be said that such diseases
are especially common, but they do occur. The reasons
behind the e pizootics which occasionall y spread throu gh animals of a particular area are not as yet fully understood. It
is known that most wild animals carry ticks which can
produce disease. When a particular species has multiplied
beyond the normal carrying capacity of the land, and sufficient food is no longer available, the ticks multiply in
number and their hosts may succumb to disease. Careful
studies of wild animal life have shown that cyclic reductions
in the numbers of certain species occur after a peak in
numbers has been reached, which exceeds the toleration point of range capacity. The causes of disease under such
conditions are not ascribed to malnutrition, although they can
be due in part to undernutrition, due to insufficient quantity of
food.
   Parasites are abundant in wild nature, but they seldom
seriously affect their host and their presence is of little
importance. In nature a live-and-let-live compromise—a mutual modus vivendi— has been established between
parasites and animals, and the presence of thousands of
parasites does not necessarily produce disease or cause death.
Most wild grouse, for instance, harbor thousands of minute
threadworms, but this has no noticeable ill-effects upon the health and vigor of the bird. It is only when the normal
conditions of animal life are altered, usually by human
interference, that parasites will gain the upper hand and
enfeeble their hosts. Continuous bad weather, a lack of food,
or close inbreeding within a stock may also tend to lower animal vigor and allow parasites to multiply enormously and
bring about fatal results. Fortunately, such conditions are not
sufficiently frequent or severe to produce a significant
amount of disease in wild animal life.

W
ILD ANIMAL DENTITION
   The real superiority of wild animal health—and this may be
attributed very largely to the use of uncooked food—is shown
by the almost complete absence of dental decay, and the very
low rate of parodontal disease, in all animals living under
natural conditions. The most complete study of wild animal
dentition ever undertaken was that of the British scientist, Sir Frank Colyer. A total of 18,365 wild animal skulls were
examined, covering all major groups of mammals. The
percentage of skulls showing traces of decay was less than
one-fifth of one per cent in all groups except the primates,
and in the latter the percentage was only 1.4 per cent. There was also remarkable freedom from infection in teeth which
had been injured in battle or accident. Even in the case of
severe injury, when teeth had been split through the pulp,
healin
g usuall y took place without su ppuration. Parodontal disease, involving localized bone destruction in the tissues
surrounding the teeth, was enti rely absent in some animal
groups and extremely rare in others. Hypoplasia, a condition
involving pitting of the teeth, was seldom noted in wild animal skulls, and was of a mild type in the few discovered
cases. Likewise, abnormal positions of teeth were noted in
wild animals, but only in a small percentage of cases and
involving slight irregularities of the dental arch.
   Colyer also studied the skulls of large numbers of captive
animals, and he found the presence of much dental decay,
parodontal disease, hypoplasia, and variation in tooth position in many of the specimens. The great contrast between the
near-perfect condition of wild animal dentition and the many
defects of captive animal dentition was always apparent.
Parodontal disease was the most severe affection of the
captive animals. Colyer stated that "The disease is caused by an alteration in the character of the diet of the animal, either
of a physical or chemical nature—in other words, by a
departure from natural diet and conditions." Other dental
defects in captive animals were also attributed to the feeding
of artificial foodstuffs which would not be consumed in wild nature. Colyer's important research is strong evidence for the
value of raw foods in maintaining excellent dentition with high immunity to all forms of oral pathology.
   Superior wild animal health is also manifested in other
ways. Sexual pathology is considered extremely rare in
nature. Degenerative diseases doubtless exist, but they are not
common. Dr. Herbert Fox, the famous veterinarian of the Philadelphia Zoological Garden, has made the most extensive
of all studies on the health of wild animals. He reports finding
less disease in recently captured wild animals than in those which are reared under zoological conditions. Concerning
neoplasms, Dr. Fox states that "there is an impression of their
extreme scarcity among wild animals." Dr. Fox found
arthritis in wild specimens but only in an extremely small
percentage of cases. Parasites were common, but they did not appear to lower animal vigor or act as an important cause of
disease.

S
ENILITY
   As many wild animals are victims of predation, accidents,
deep snows, sub-zero cold, etc., it cannot be said that their
average duration of life is especially long. Yet some wild
creatures doubtless do reach the natural termination of their
existence, and this is accomplished with fewer signs of aging than are seen in civilized man. The biolo
gist, Sir J. Arthur Thompson, has often referred to the healthfulness of nature as
being manifested by the absence of senility and the rarity of
more than mild senescence. He states that man has "a
monopoly of senility" and in wild nature "there may be indications of senescence or normal aging, but there is no
senility." It is difficult to tell the age of some mature animals
without examining the teeth for wear. After maturity is
reached, the aging process is very slow, and all animals look
very much alike. A decrepit animal is so rare that few naturalists, hunters, or trappers ever see one. As Thompson so
well points out: "Nature has much more to teach man than he
has yet learned, and it would be well, indeed, if man could
come closer to wild nature's standard of positive health and prolonged youthful-ness."

H
EALTH OF THE PRIMATES
   In the animal world, the primates are man's closest relative
from the standpoint of comparative anatomy and physiology. Their excellent example of health and longevity while living
on raw foods in their natural habitat is of special importance
to us. According to the naturalist, Barnes, the gorillas live in
nature a "life


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alarmedbythewhooping fits.
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coughing-thechildneedstocoughtogetthe
mucusup.
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•yoususpectyourchildunderoneyearoldhas
whoopingcough.
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Coldsores
Minorattacksofcoldsoresofthemouthrespondwell
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•thereisnoimprovement afteraweekof
self-prescribing.
•thesoresbecomeinfected,withswelling,redness
andpus.
Colic
Colicsimplymeanssharptummypainsorcramps.
Homeopathictreatment ishighlyeffectiveinthetreat-
mentofsimplecolic,whetherininfants,childrenor
adults.Themothersofbreastfedbabieswithcolic
shouldexperimentwiththeirowndiet,asmanyfoods
areknowntoaffectsomebabies;theseincludedairy
products,alcohol,tea,coffee,peppers,onions,garlic,
cabbage(especiallyraw),orangesandgrapes.Agood
breastfeedingcounsellorwilladvise(seeBreastfeed-
ingproblems).Somebottle-fedbabiesareallergicto
cow'smilkandwillusuallydowellonsoyamilk
althoughthatcanbetooacidicforsome-again,seek
adviceifthishappens.
Colicorstomach-ache inchildrenandadultsneeds
carefulmonitoringincaseitiscausedbyarumbling
appendix.
DO
•givesmallmealsofbland,easilydigestiblefoods.
•eliminatesuspectfoodsfromthedietofababy
whohasjuststartedonsolids.
•trytorelaxwhenbreastfeeding acolickybaby.
SEEKHELPIF
•symptomspersist(especiallyinyoungchildren
whocontinuetoscreaminconsolably).
DISEASESYOUCANTREATUSINGTHISBOOK Cornsandbunions •211
•severepainisnotquicklyalleviatedbyhome
prescribing.
•painisaccompaniedbypersistentvomitingor
diarrhoea.
•painisaccompaniedbyconstipationorabsenceof
urine.
Commoncold
Acoldisoftenthebody'swayoflettingusknowwe
arealittlerundown,andthatourimmunesystem
needsrecharging. Ifyoucan,takealittletimeoff,have
someearlynightsanddealconstructivelywithsome
ofthestressinyourlife.Neglectedcoldsoftenturn
intomoreseriouschestinfections,socatchthemearly.
DO
•getplentyofrestifyouhavebeenoverdoing it.
•drinklotsoffluids.
•cleartheairwaysfrequently,butgently.Teach
yourchildrentocoughupphlegmandtoblow
theirnosesinsteadofsniffingthemucusand
swallowing it.(Putyourfingeroveronenostriland
tellthechildtobreatheinthroughthemouthand
breatheouthardthroughthenosekeepingthe
mouthshut.Repeatwithothernostril.Keepa
tissuehandy!Youcangraduatetoholdingatissue
overthenoseoncetheyhavegotthegeneralidea.
Eventuallybothnostrilscanbeblownatonce!)
•usesteaminhalationstodislodgestubbornmucus.
Sitoverabowlofjust-boiledwaterwithatowel
overthehead(supervisechildrentoavoidany
possibilityofanaccidentalburn).Orrunahotbath
togetthebathroomsteamedup,oruseavaporiser
(filledwithplainwater-don'taddany
decongestant).
•eatplentyoffruitandvegetablesandavoiddairy
products,sugar,junkfoodsandtoomuchbread,
whichallincreasemucusproduction.
•avoidtobaccofumes.
•takesomegentleexerciseinthefreshairtoseeif
thishelps(andusetheresponseasasymptomto
repertorise).
DON'T
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membranesandmakemattersworseassoonasthe
effectwearsoff.
SEEKHELPIF
•yousufferfromfrequentcolds,asyouwillbenefit
fromconstitutionaltreatmenttoboostyour
immunity(seepage14).
•yourcoldseemsundulysevereandyouhaveany
ofthesymptomslistedunderCauseforConcern
(page203).
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Ihaveincludedafewremediesforuseinanacute
situation,butgenerallyspeakingthisisnotacom-
plaintforhometreatmentbeyondfollowingthe
commonsenseDosandDon'tslistedbelow.Ageneral
tendencytoconstipationrequiresprofessional treat-
ment.Therecommendations belowwillhelpacuteor
long-termconstipation.
DO
•makesurethereisplentyoffibreinthedietby
addingmorefruitandvegetables.
•cutoutbreadandwheatproductstemporarilyas
theglutencanhaveacloggingeffect.
•drinkplentyofwater.
•eatstewedprunesinthemorningwitha
tablespoonofmolassesdissolvedinhotwater.
•useoatbran(organicallygrownifpossible)for
occasionalconstipation;branshouldonlybetaken
regularlyontheadviceofaprofessional.
DON'T
•addwheatbranonadailybasis.Itcanirritatethe
bowelsandinterferewiththeassimilationof
vitaminsandminerals,andyourbowelscan
becomedependentonit.Oatbranissolubleand
muchkindertothebowels.
•takelaxativesregularly,particularly ifyourdietis
ofmainlyrefinedandjunkfoods.
SEEKHELPIF
•therehasbeennobowelmovementfor
twenty-fourhoursandthereissevere,unusual
pain.
•thereisdifficultyinpassingastoolandthestools
aregreyorwhite.
•theskinoreyesareyellow.
•thereisasuddenandinexplicablechangeinbowel
habit.
•thereisalternatingdiarrhoeaandconstipation.
•thestoolsareextremelydark,almostblack.
Convulsions
Ihaveincludedsomeremediesforthetreatmentof
convulsionsinchildrenasitispossibletotreatthis
complaintasanemergencymeasureatthesametime
ascallingforhelp.Itisessentialthatyougetprofessional
adviceshouldthiseventoccuratanytime.
Cornsandbunions
DO
•usetheappropriateinternalandexternal
homeopathicremediestohelpalleviatethepainsif
theyaresevere.
•useafeltpadifthebunionisinflamed.
•wearsensibleshoesthatdonotpinchorapply
pressuretothecorns.
•seektheadviceofagoodchiropodist.
212•Cough DISEASESYOUCANTREATUSINGTHISBOOK
Cough
Somechildrencancoughtheirwaythroughtheir
teethingyearsandotherswillsufferfromrepeated
coughsandcoldsforthefirstyearortwoatschool
whiletheirimmunesystemadapts.Youcanusefirst-
aidprescribingforthesecoughsprovidingyouare
havingagoodresponseandthemoodsandenergyof
thechildremainhigh.Ifthecomplaintsrecurinspite
ofcarefulfirst-aidprescribingthenyouneedtoseek
professionalhomeopathic help.Coughsandcolds
thatrecureverywinterarealsomostlyacaseforthe
professionalhomeopath.However, ifyouspotyour
ownchild'sconstitutionalremedypicturefromthe
picturesinthisbookthenyoumayfindthatyour
first-aidprescribinghasthesideeffectofpreventing
therecurrenceoftheseacuteepisodes.
DO
•followalltheDosforCommoncold.
•rest.
•drinklotsofliquids;theywillhelptoloosenthe
mucus.
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youngchildrentocoughupphlegmassoonas
theyareableto.
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 of this is B-vitamins, which are created by intestinal flora
action upon starches. Generally your intestines are colonized by nonharmful
organisms which aid digestion and the breakdown of foodstuffs into other
nutrients. However, there are many destructive parasites that can flourish in
the intestines. This is especially true in the case of meat consumption, which
can perpetrate the formation and growth of all types of worms (pin, hook,
tape, etc.) and proteolytic (protein-splitting) microorganisms. It is important
to clean the intestinal walls and heal the inflammation at the same time that the
elimination of toxic substances is taking place.
A healthy diet will create a bowel movement approximately thirty
minutes after you eat. It is important to move your bowels two-to-three times
per day. If your bowels become sluggish, this will cause additional
fermentation and putrefaction of your foods. We absorb these toxins and gas
particles directly into our blood stream. This can cause headaches, cloudy or
foggy thinking, bloating, abdominal pain, and even heart arrhythmias. I’ve
known people to go thirty days without moving their bowels. Don’t miss
even one day!
Diarrhea is just as bad as constipation— moving your foods too quickly
through the GI tract is just as bad as holding your foods too long. Some say
diarrhea is just another form of constipation. The former creates lack of
proper breakdown of your foods, yielding poor absorption; and the latter
causes fermentation and putrefaction of your foods yielding alcohol, acidosis,
gas and inflammation. Both create starvation within the body.
FOUR WAYS TO CLEANSE THE BOWELS

Herbal Bowel Formulas
A good bowel formula (a preparation of herbs that you take on a daily basisduring your cleanse) will help break down mucoid plaque, kill only the
destructive parasites, remove the inflammation and strengthen intestinal walls.
When I designed my stomach and bowel formulas, I wanted ones that
would gently move you. A formula that would be anti-inflammatory
(removing the inflammation), and would clean the mucoid plaque off the
walls, as well. My formulas would also clean out the pockets (diverticulum)
that were formed from impactions.
I wanted a formula that would also
strengthen the GI tract, eliminating these pockets, as well as the ballooning
and/or the spastic conditions that we all suffer with. The problem with most
bowel formulas is that they have heavy Cayenne Pepper, Aloes, Buckthorn or
other stimulating and habit-forming herbs that cause gripping, cramping, or
excessive mucus production. These types of formulas can cause a great deal
of abdominal discomfort and are oftentimes hard to regulate. Many intestinal
formulas can become addicting; that is to say, the body becomes dependent
upon these as it does with other stimulants, leaving the opposite effect when
you stop taking them—constipation.
A good bowel formula will not be addicting. It will gently move you,
clean you, remove the inflammation, and strengthen—all at the same time.
Additionally, it will stimulate lymph flow and circulation within the intestinal
wall tissues themselves. (See
Chapter 8
,
Module 8.3
 for herbal formulas for
the stomach and bowels; also see Resource Guide for companies that make
good bowel formulas.)
Colonics
Colonic therapy may also be used to assist the cleansing of the colon (large
intestine). However, the small intestine must be cleaned and cared for as well
—which is why an herbal bowel formula is also recommended. Colonics are
like a “high” enema, but have a “washing” effect upon tissue. Colon
therapists, who are generally licensed massage therapists, perform colonics.
(In my opinion, every Emergency Room should have a colonic machine and
a trained colon therapist on staff.) Colonics are great at removing impactions
of the large bowel, aiding in relief of acidosis, distention of the abdomen,
lower back pain, sciatic pain, kidney pain, headaches and fevers, to name a
few conditions. They can also help clean out diverticula or bowel pockets.
Colon therapy is a gentle procedure, yet it can have aggressive results, as
it can break loose plaque that has been impacted upon the colon wall for
years. I’ve seen impactions removed by colonics that have been in the bodyfor fifty years or more.
Many years ago, a chiropractor-friend of mine had a registered nurse on
his staff, who performed colonics. One of the nurse’s patients, who had gone
home when the colonic was finished, started feeling pain in her sigmoid
bowel a short while later. The patient waited several hours until she felt she
needed to determine what was causing her discomfort, and finally went to the
Emergency Room. There they discovered that she had cancer of the sigmoid
bowel. The colonic did not cause this, of course, her lifestyle did. However,
the colonic did expose the cancer. This was a good thing because the woman
then could do something about it. If she had not had the colonic the cancer
could have spread throughout her body without her knowing it, until it was
too late to achieve an effective cure.
Exposing inflammation, such as happened in this case, can be painful and
yield some discomfort. Generally, this is why I prefer to recommend a good
intestinal (bowel) herbal formula that is designed to be anti-inflammatory and
restorative, not laxative. Herbal restorative bowel formulas will slowly loosen
and remove the plaque that has impacted upon the walls. They will also
reduce the inflammation behind this plaque and heal the bowel wall. In this
way, your healing experience becomes much smoother and less traumatic.
Colonics are great for colon obstructions, as long as they’re not tumors
or adhesions. Colonics are good for the large bowel. My preference in terms
of the administering of colonics? I personally recommend Dr. Jensen’s
Colema Board® concept as the best option. I’ve seen some real success
through this process with eliminating the mucoid plaque build-up in the GI
tract. The Colema Board is designed to fit over your toilet at one end, with the
other end resting on a
chair or stool. By lying on this board (while at the
same time using a five-gallon bucket of skin temperature water), you give
yourself a high enema. However, this procedure is much more relaxing than
an ordinary enema, because you just lay there and allow the water to slowly
and gently clean you out.
Dr. Jensen has created a whole bowel management program that can’t be
beat (see his book,
Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management,
 1981).
His procedures help to clean the small bowel as well as the large bowel,
whereas professional colonics only affect the large bowel. With some self-
discipline, the Colema System can be done at home with the purchase of a
Colema Board. For information about his program, and for purchasing and
using a Colema Board, see
www.colema-boards.com
.I’m not against professional colonics. To maximize the benefits, change
your diet to a 100 percent raw food program and add intestinal restoratives
for a month or so before your start your colonic regime. Three to five
colonics should be sufficient.
Enemas
Enemas are another great way to help yourself out in time of need, or to assist
in colon-rectal conditions such as hemorrhoids or cancer. There are many
types of enemas that one can use to help clean and open this channel.
LOW ENEMAS
 — These generally clean and strengthen the descending,
sigmoid and rectal areas of the large intestine (colon). They require about
one-half to one quart of skin temperature water in an enema bag (these are
available in most pharmacies; oftentimes they are labeled as “enema/hot-water
bottle,” or “enema/douche/ hot water bottle” combination).
Any number of the following herbs can be made into tea, strained, and
used in place of plain water in the enema bag. These herbs will clean and
strengthen the colon walls: Cascara Sagrada, Marshmallow Root, Slippery
Elm Bark, Plantain Leaf, Comfrey Root, Burdock Root, Gentian, etc. See,
How To Do An Enema,
 instructions below.
HIGH ENEMAS
 — A high enema is necessary to achieve results higher up
in the colon, e.g. in the transverse, ascending and cecum portions of the large
intestines. What distinguishes the high enema from the low enema is often a
function of the way it is applied and the amount of water/mixture used, which
determines how far the water/mixture will go up into your colon. The same
herbs can be used as stated above. In cases of debility where extreme fatigue
is involved, high enemas can be given using fresh green juices like wheat
grass, spinach, kelp, alfalfa, barley, etc., instead of water or herbal tea. These
juices are readily absorbed through the colon wall and are electrifying to the
body, bringing much needed energy into the system. Chlorophyll is another
constituent that can be introduced into the colon via the enema method to
assist the healing and cleansing process.
COFFEE ENEMAS
 — Many people use coffee enemas as these are very
stimulating to the bowels and liver. However, I never recommend them
unless your colon is


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in your  world!  While  the Messenger  is repeating  My Words 166 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
to you,  I stand  here  connecting  Myself  with  your  Heart,
every  one of you.  Will  you notice  I do not ask your  permis-
sion.  Then  I am enabled  to render  you  a Service  which  the
outer  could  not possibly  comprehend  at the moment;  but
THAT,  which  I do for you will continue  forever;  until  you,
thru your  own  Call  to the Presence,  set yourselves  Free.
Dear  Ones,  please  use the Terminology  which  We have
given  you.  The  Words,  "I AM,"  as written  in English  today,
have  come  down  from  the Beginning  of mankind's  appear-
ance  upon  the Earth.  In the Royal  Teton—on  your  map,
known  as the Grand  Teton,  there  are the Records  of these
civilizations—every  one  which  has ever  been  on Earth.  In
every  language  which  was  used  during  those  many  civiliza-
tions—the  Words,  "I AM"  as written  in English  today  are
there;  showing  Those  Two  Words  are the Power  of God.
Mankind  needs  to learn  to use Those  Words,  as We do.
In any  crisis,  if the Individual  did not think  of anything
else just for the moment,  and  would  say:  "I AM,"  "I AM,"
"I AM,"  It would  release  the Powers  of the Presence  into
action!  Ofttimes  it would  perform  a so-called  Miracle  for
him or her, then  and there!  That  is the Power  of those  Two
Words;  and  there  are no two  words  in the vocabulary  of
human  experience,  which  release  the Power  Those  Two
Words  do. The  Words,  "God,"  "Divine  Mind,"  "Divinity"
and all other  Terminology  used  to express  the Godhead,  do
not contain  the Power  the Words  "I AM"  do. That  is the
Reason  why  Beloved  Saint  Germain  has brought  This  Use
of the "I AM"  forth  to mankind  at this time.  It is the Power DISCOURSE  VIII  167
which  sets the people  Free!  Why?  Because  It is their  own
Life!
Your  "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  your  Individualized  Pres-
ence  of God  which  beats  your  Heart,  is your  Life;  and  your
Life contains  everything  which  is for your  Perfection.  Be-
loved  Ones,  in That  Stream  of Light  and  Energy  from  your
Presence,  is everything  required  for the Perfection  of you
and your  world  and  It is without  limit!  Only  as you have
felt limitation  from  the appearance  world,  have  you limited
yourselves!  It is not the Presence  who  has limited  you.  To-
day, you  are in a position  in This  Understanding  of your
Presence,  to set yourselves  Free  in a comparatively  short
time.
We have  gone  thru  the  experiences  of mankind.  My
Experience  of course  was  a long  time  ago.  Beloved  Saint
Germain  and  Those  who  have  more  recently  made  the
Ascension—for  instance  the Children,  Bob,  Rex,  Nada  and
Pearl,  have  been  able  to set themselves  Free!
The Beloved  Master,  Jesus,  left the Example  to mankind,
but who  believed  It? Who  was  willing  to try to fulfill  It?
Yet, He said:  "All  These  Things  I have  done,  ye shall  do"!
Beloved  Ones,  why  is Saint  Germain  the One  today,  Who
was chosen  by the Great  Cosmic  Light,  to bring  forth  This
Activity ? Because  the Seventh  Ray,  under  which  He is act-
ing, compels  Him  to be the One  to bring  forth  the Freedom
of mankind!  America  being  the "Crystal  Cup"  which  is the
Freedom  of the Earth,  compels  America  to be the Focal
Point  of That  Freedom  for the World.  It is not a matter 168 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
of any one's  choice.  It is a Law,  a Great  Cosmic  Law,  which
has made  Saint  Germain  the Active,  Individual  for Our
Freedom.  It is the Cosmic  Law  which  has made  America,
the "Cup"  to release  the Light  of the future!
Think  of it, in India,  where  so Great  a Light  has been
among  a few;  yet the great  mass  of people  in India,  are
bound  far worse  than  you are. Why ? Because  the teaching
which  has come  forth  in the past,  has taught  the people  of
India  meditation;  in which  hundreds  and  thousands  of
them  sit down  in a posture;  and  release  themselves  from
the body  and  go out into  Samadhi.  They  do go into  That
Exquisite  Realm  or Octave  of Light;  but  what  good  is it
doing?
The need,  today,  is to bring  Our  Perfection  dowrn  into
the human  octave—where  mankind  has  created  the dis-
cord;  and  to produce  Perfection  here!  Unless  mankind  un-
derstands  the "I AM  Presence,"  there  is no hope  of ever
bringing  That  Perfection  in Its Fulness  into  the physical
octave,  where  It is required  to set mankind  Free.
It is why,  today,  there  is no Knowledge  in the whole
world,  which  can do for mankind  what  the Understanding
of this  "Mighty  I AM  Presence"  can do for you!  I say to
you as the Messengers  have  said  time,  and  time  again:
"Whether  you ever  heard  of the Messengers  again  or not;  if
you will  give  your  attention  to your  own  God  Presence,
the 'Mighty  I AM,'  and  harmoniously  abide  within  It; by
the very  Power  of your  attention  to It, you  would  not need
anyone  in the world  to tell you  the Power  of Life;  or how DISCOURSE  VIII  169
to bring  your  own  God  Presence  forth  into  action!  It is the
ONLY  WAY  mankind  is to be Free  in this World"!
Today,  the Greatness,  the Power,  with  which  you  can
set yourself  Free  in This  Acknowledgment,  is unparalleled
in the history  of the Earth;  and  I say this,  as One  who
knows;  One  who  has followed  civilization  after  civilization
thru centuries  without  number!
Beloved  people,  I plead  with  you,  do not accept  for one
single  moment  more,  there  is such  a thing  as death  in this
Universe.  There  never  was  and never  will  be! What  seems
to be so, is but the change  of form.  When  the body  is cast
aside,  the Energy  which  comes  thru  the top of your  head
and anchors  within  your  Heart,  simply  disconnects  and
withdraws  into  the Higher  Mental  Body  of the Individual,
who  is reasonably  constructive.  Between  your  human  form
and your  God-Self,  your  "Mighty  I AM,"  is your  Higher
Mental  Body—a  Form  just as Tangible  in Its Own  Octave,
as your  flesh  body  is here.  It is your  Discriminating  Selective
Intelligence  which  acts  with  the Power  of the Presence!  It
knows  the Perfection  which  the Presence  is, and knows  the
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Body Signs of Potassium Deficiency (chart) .................. 236
Avoid These Processed, Refined, Harmful Foods (list)........... 237
The Miracles of Apple Cider Vinegar (list) ................... 238
Chapter 30: Mother Nature Knows No Mercy ......... 239
Mother Nature Wants Us Clean & Healthy ..................240Which Kind of Person are You? ............................240Alternative Health Therapies ......................... 241-244Boron – Miracle Trace Mineral for Healthy Bones .............246Miraculous Testimonials ............................. 247-249Index ............................................ 251-253Bragg Health Books (
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Contents
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I would
say books (Bible, etc.),  friends and nature; and the greatest, the most
constant and always at hand is nature. –  John BurroughsNature never makes any fuss, and yet it does everything. – Lao-tzuLiving in harmony with God and Mother Nature is living totally alive,
full of vitality, health, joy, power, love, and abundance on every level.xi
Throughout history and
in the Bible, fasting has long
been promoted as a spiritual
means for intensifyingprayer and your faith. You
can reap great spiritual
blessings with your fastingand prayer. Those who
knew the secrets and the
great benefits of fasting as avital dimension in God
include Jesus, Apostle Paul,
early church leaders, Daniel,Elijah, Ezra, Esther, Job,
David, Hannah, Isaiah,
Zachariah and many others.
Prominent fasters in Christian history include John Calvin,
Martin Luther, John Knox, John Wesley, David Brainard,
George Muller, and hundreds of church pioneers. Theydiscovered abstaining from food not only freed themto focus upon God with fresh intensity, but also opened
avenues of spiritual perception and understanding that
were not available during routine living. They found as theyfocused upon God with deliberate discipline and prayer,
God focused upon them with clarity of direction and
quickening of spirit.  They could partake of God more easilywhen all else was set aside. Fasting Brings Great Spiritual,
Mental, Emotional and Physical Health Miracles!Patricia Bragg is a 100%  dedicated Health
Crusader with a passion, like her father
and a living example of The Bragg Healthy
Lifestyle. She speaks on radio, TV and atconventions, prisons, schools, colleges,churches and seminars around the world.
The freedom and ease you experience during fasting enables you to
discover new undreamed of depths to the meaning of life. – Herbert SheltonFasting Brings Great Health Miracles!
A teacher for the day can be a guiding light for a lifetime!
Bragg Books are silent health teachers – never tiring, ready night or day
to help you help yourself to health!  Our books are written with love anda deep desire to guide you to healthy lifestyle living.  – Patricia Bragg
With fasting the head is clearer, the health is better, the heart
is lighter, the purse is heavier and the soul is renewed.
– Scottish clergyman on fasting, circa 1800.xii
Thou shall respect and protect thy body as the
highest manifestation of thy life.
Thou shall abstain from all unnatural, devitalized
foods and stimulating beverages.
Thou shall nourish thy body with only natural
unprocessed, live foods, that...
Thou shall extend thy years in health for loving,
sharing with others and charitable service.
Thou shall regenerate thy body by the right balance
of  activity and rest.
Thou shall purify thy cells, tissue and blood with
healthy foods, pure water, clean air and sunshine.
Thou shall abstain from all food when out of sorts
in mind or body.
Thou shall keep all thoughts, words and emotions
pure, calm, good, loving and uplifting.
Thou shall increase thy knowledge of Nature's Laws,
     follow them, and enjoy the fruits of thy life's labor.
Thou shall lift up thyself, friends and family by obedience
     to Mother Nature’s and God's Healthy,  Natural Laws of  Living.Visit Patricia & her Father & Bragg Books at their
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TEN HEALTH COMMANDMENTS
•  Read, plan, plot, and follow through for supreme health and longevity.
•  Underline, highlight or dog-ear pages as you read important passages.
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Open your eyes so you may behold wondrous things out of thy law. – Psalm 119:18and1
Note: My father and I wrote this book together. However, because my
father is both my mentor and the American Pioneer of Fasting – with long yearsof experience overseeing the fasting of thousands of students withmiraculous results – this text is mostly presented in his voice. – Patricia Bragg
“Yet even now”, says the Lord, “return to meI have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling
of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans!
– Novelist Upton Sinclair, a frequent fasterThe Miracle of Fasting
Helps You Enjoy a Super Charged,
Healthy, Happy Long Life
Every thinking person must at one time or another
say to himself, “Am I getting the most out of life?” Thegreat comedian, Ed Wynn said, “Without your health,riches, possessions and fame are all mud.” What is aman without health, even though endowed with richesand fame? Riches cannot buy health and happiness. Justbecause a person has achieved fame, it does not followthat he is healthy and happy!
I do not discredit success and riches! I think money
and possessions have a place in our lives. Physicalcomforts and luxuries are important to most people. Takeaway a man’s wealth and give him only health and hisfirst desire will be the return of his riches.
However with both achieved, a word remains which
we hate to utter; a thought we dread to contemplate; athing which gives sorrow, pain and grief. That word,that thought, that thing, is death! Even in cases wherelife appears a burden, how tenaciously does man clingto it! How the spirit recoils from a struggle with death!How fondly it retains its grasp on life! Man’s great desireis for health and long life on earth; “Man clings to theworld as his home, and would want to live here forever,
if he had health and long-lasting youthfulness.”Chapter 12
If you would imitate Nature, you should take her simplicity for your model.
– M. SendibogiusLife is Precious – It’s the Treasure of TreasuresBragg Motto – I Love Life and I Want to Live!
At our Bragg Health Crusade lectures, I often sing
my favorite song – called “I Love Life, and I Want to
Live”– for my students. These strong words express theinner desires of each one of us. Life in itself is a miracle!
And you and I who have precious life are holding this
miracle in the palms of our hands to treasure and protect.
Since Adam and Eve lived in that historic Garden of
Eden, the prolongation of human life has been and still
is mankind’s biggest challenge! The Persian and Greek
sages, in the centuries before Christ, summoned theirintellectual forces to solve it in vain. The scholars of the
Medieval Ages pursued it zealously, but again were
stymied. Today, in this fast-paced space age, everyintelligent person deep in their heart and soul wants to
live a healthy, long life. Most lack the proper health
knowledge – the true key to a long, active, healthy life!
By following my mentors – Mother Nature’s and
God’s Natural Laws, I invented the Bragg Healthy
Lifestyle. Follow it and you can live to a healthy, active,
advanced age! Every person owes it to himself, hisrelatives, his friends and his country to take care of his
health! This will make him a valued, active


 at the basic level  of enzymes and proteins. Brain  physiology
is also both silen t and active—billions of memories lie stored in the cortex,
emer ging one at a time as expressed memory. If you expand this to a cosmic
scale, you have Shiva, whose creative potential remains infinitely greater
than any of its expressions, even when those expressions take the form of
galaxies and whole universes.
Shiva brings pur e consciousness to a sacr ed marriage. It invisibly makes every action an action of
God.
What would an action of God be exactly? A miraculous intervention, a
voice from the mountaintop? Millions of people have waited for such signs
and received none. Despite my attempts to bring Shiva out of the realm of
abstraction, it would be easy to see him as a ghost, a spirit ual concept
without flesh and bones. Flesh and bones are demanded by the five senses.
When you pay attention to things “out there,” you judge their reality by
sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Yet in spiritual practice there is
something called  second attention, which attunes you to things your senses
cannot grasp.
Second attention  makes you aware of spirit. It works through intuition,
and it is sometimes called the sight or the gift, although these imply a
supernatural faculty. In reality spirit is constantly sending signals to all ofus, but because our second attention was never developed, we don’t take
them in. Intuition is as real as any other faculty, once you have developed it.
What kinds of signals is second attention looking for? Spirit is universal
and constant, like gravity, but has no physical constraints. Shiva reserves
for himself complete freedom to be what, when, where, and how he wishes.
Second attention  can detect all five actions that, according to the classic
Shiva texts, are characteristic of God when He communicates with the
world:
God creates.
God destroys.
God protects and maintains what has been created.
God covers or conceals His own nature.
God reveals or uncovers His own nature.
The Indian mind is not linear, and it finds no contradiction in making
Shiva the destroyer in one of his forms and the omnipresent creator -
maintainer in another. Shiva’ s five actions are the framework for any
spiritual experie nce you can have; they give it meaning and form. Since
meaning is completely personal, no two people have to agree on which
action has been manifested at any given moment—this is a private
communication between self and Self.
My own convictions in this area go back almost thirty years. When I
entered medical  school I saw plenty of cadavers but rarely saw anyone die,
and I looked ahead to that experience with trepidation.
One of my initiations into death occurred on the public wards of an
antiquated New Delhi hospita l. I was on rounds, doing the physical
workups assigned to second-year med students. It was very late at night,
and I had to wake my charge from a sound sleep—there was no other
choice, since the workup had to be done before surgery, which was
scheduled for 4:00 A.M. My patient was a bewildered villager from the
Punjab who endured my poking and prodding with unconcealed anxiety.
“Almost finishe d,” I assured him. I stood up, taking the cold stethoscope
from his chest. Instead of pullin g his gown back down, the man stared over
my shoulder, openmouthed. I whipped around and saw a woman, her face
white as chalk, swaying in the doorway. I’m sure the Punjabi villager
thought she was a ghoul. The woman tried to speak, but no words emer ged,only a sound somewhere betwee n a croak and a gurgle. I barely ran over in
time to catch her as she collapsed.
In moments like this a doctor ’s immediate reaction is to suspect a heart
attack. “Crash cart!” I yelled to the night nurse, who had appeared on the
scene. She ran back to the phone and called the intensive cardiac unit. In the
two minutes it took them to arrive, I held the woman, whose  eyes were
closed. Then her breathing stopped. In half a minute I began emer gency
resuscitation with my hands, but that gave me enough time to clearly see
she was dying.
Despite my controlled frenzy calling for assistance and stripping away
her gown to expose the chest, a calmness came over me—it was impossible
to tell if I was witnessing this calmness or it was witnessing me. There was
a faint but distinct feeling that something was passing in the air,
accompanied by a wave of peace. Before I could think about it, the whole
experience was swallowed up by frantic activity as the crash cart appeared.
A first-year resident armed with a fibrillator took over, more or less shoving
me out of the way.
As I stood up I saw two men hovering over my shoulder, the Punjabi
villager and another, older patie nt I hadn’ t seen before. “Please, go back to
bed. I’m sorry you had to be upset by this,” I said. The two men didn’ t
move, nor did they look at all upset. One mumbled to the other in dialect,
then the older patient said to me, “Don’ t worry, it was all right.” My
Punjabi patient mumbled again,  and the other man translated for me: “She
was grateful to you.”
“For trying to save her?” I managed to say.
“No, no. For holding her in your arms. It made her less afraid to leave.”
With this the two men turned back into the darkened ward and went to bed.
This incident remains unfor gettable to me as an example of the dictum
that behind every action is hidden an action of God. My perception of the
night’ s emer gency was primitive, but second attention, via my two patients,
told me what I needed to hear. Spirit wanted me to know that the
peacefulness of death is real.
Now that time has passed, I realize that the message was much deeper:
God is present in death. To have  this realization, I had to mature in second
attention and thereby learn the basic truth about Shiva: hidden within every
action is an action of God.To know  God is a process that unfolds over time. It isn’t a sudden
experience that is finished once and for all. One can never be finished with
God; moments of recognition only serve to draw you closer. Hidden in
every event of your life is a possible epiphany about love, as it
communicates to you from the source. As with Shakti there are some simple
verbal formulas to indicate what Shiva’ s actions are trying to impart:
Creation:  God’ s love is new.
Destruction:  God’ s love is beyond death.
Maintenance or pr otection:  God’ s love upholds.
Concealment:  God’ s love is beyond form.
Revelation:  God’ s love is in form.
Spirit never stops sending signa ls of its intent to us in the relative world.
If second attention is acute enou gh, you can be aware of spirit crossing your
path, descending upon you, uplifting you, or whispering truth many times a
day. These are all silent comm unications from Shiva, whos e nature is
silence. Compared with Shakti, Shiva is further removed from creation as
will or action, closer to pure creativity as a potential. But his five actions do
touch the world. Silence has a voice, which speaks in something like these
five ways.
Cr eation.
From my source in love I create situations that teach lessons. These are
always lessons about love. Nothing is created outside my spirit but only
from within it.
Destruction.
I destroy  the impurities that prevent you from perceiving love. There are
no obsta cles not created by myse lf, whatever appearances may say. Because
they originate inside me, obstacles are created out of love, and once you
find a deeper level of understanding, obstacles melt away.
Pr otection.
As long as any situation is needed for a spiritual purpose, I maintain and
protect it. Labeling a particular situation good or bad is not relevant to this
act—I protect life for its own sake, without judging it.Concealment.
I conceal who I am if that is what is needed for growth. If you already
knew yourself totally as spirit, there would be no path and no growth.
Therefore some  things remain hidden at certain times. In my role as
concealer I lay out the steps of the path.
Revelation.
I reveal myself as needed to open up new possibilities. Time and space
are constantly unfolding. If they simply unfolded more time and more
space, there would be endless repetition of the known. But time and space
are only curtains to the drama lying behind them. The drama is the
unfolding of spirit, which happens through revelation.
If you listen to the voice speak ing these lines, it is remarkable  how the
“I” can be interpreted as God, spirit, love, or simply your own nature. You
are simultaneously in touch with all these levels, although your mind, made
insensitive by its conditioning, may not let you see this. Shiva isn’t hiding,
since there is no place for the One to hide.
The gr eatest sign of God’ s love is that He wants to be known.
Now we come to our deepest


 of
health we learn: Just as body movement before partaking
of food is always good, so afte r partaking of food it is
always bad.

BUT NOT AFTER MEALS
And know that movement after partaking of food is
very injurious, whether shaking, or sex, or a bath, because
they are very damaging; especi ally great is the harm to
those whose blood vessels are narrow and thin by nature.
Yet it is desirable that one should exercise a little the
length of his house, so that his food may descend to the
lower part of the stomach and get warm in order that it
should be boiled. And sleep will help the boiling and
especially for one who has the habit of sleeping during
the day. The care of health requ ires that one kind of food
should not be brought in [the  body] over a previous food.
And one should eat only when  justified by a feeling of hunger, when the stomach is clear and the mouth
possesses sufficient saliva. Th en one is really hungry. A
man must not drink water unles s he is truly justified by
thirst. This means that if one feels hungry or thirsty he
should wait a little, as occasiona lly one is led to feel so by
a deceptive hunger and deceptive thirst. And the cause is
a bad moisture that irritates the mouth or the stomach and
when the irritation passes one should not partake of
anything, unless the hunge r or thirst be st rong; then he is
allowed to eat or drink. Drinki ng of water after a meal is
bad, as it interferes with di gestion, unless one is used to
it.

DRINKING OF WATER WITH YOUR MEAL
And it is not fit to drink, w ith your meal or after it
when it is still in the st omach, anything besides cold
water with no admixture. One of the good health habits is
not to retain superfluitie s under any condition and to
evacuate them in time of need. One should not partake of
food and then enter a bath or  engage in sexual activities
or go to sleep or do exerci ses unless he has examined
himself previously and tried to eliminate the superfluities.
And also after engaging in th ese five activities he should
examine himself well. It is part of the care of health to investigate the quality
of food and this is very useful. One must know the nature
of all foods of every kin d. And the physicians have
already written many detaile d books about it, and they
were justified in doing so b ecause it is very necessary.
We will therefore state helpful rules in the spirit of this
chapter and according to the many foods that are accepted
by us. The good foods that are to be prepared by those
who want good health are: wheat bread well prepared, the
meat of a goat and a one-year lamb, the meat of a chicken
and pheasant and pigeons and turtle doves, and the yolk
of a chicken's egg.

WHEAT IS GOOD FOR BREAD
And by bread well prepared I mean that it should be
made of wheat that is fully ripened, after its superfluous
moistures become dry and it is not old enough to begin
deterioration. The bread must  not be made of refined
flour, but after it is sifted  in the sieve its sourness-
producing parts should be made visible and enough salt
added to make it suitable. The bread should be made of
rough grain unchafed and unpolished and its leavened
part should become visible.  Its dough should be plentiful
while it is being kneaded in order to be baked in the oven. This is the improved bread of the physicians. And this is
the best of food.

BUT FOR NOTHING ELSE
And it is important that you should know that
everything prepared from wheat aside from this bread is
by all means not a proper food. But the following dishes
prepared from it are especially bad: unleavened bread,
boiled dough, such as noodles, macaroni, dumplings and
fried dough balls, fried pancakes covered with honey, and
bread soaked in olive oil or in  other oils. All these are bad
foods for every man. White bread or bread made of
refined flour and boiled wheat are not good foods either.
Only a stomach with great power to digest them can
derive much nourishment and good from them.
The types of meat which we  mentioned above are not
all of one nature and are not  of equally good quality. But
the best of quadruped meat is that of sheep in pasture one
year old and castrated steer of  average fatness. The best
part of their meat is in th e anterior of their bodies and
what is connected to bone. FAT MEAT IS BAD
Everything that is within the abdomen is bad and the
fat parts are all bad; they sa tiate but they are hard to
digest as they diminish th e appetite and produce white
moisture. And the heads of cattle have more superfluities
than the other organs, and the extremities of animals, i.e.,
their legs, lack superfluities  and their nourishment is not
bad. And the sheep is full of s uperfluities; there is nothing
good in it. But a suckling kid is good food and easily
digestible. The meat of fowl is  in general lighter than the
meat of cattle and is digested more rapidly. And the best
of the fowl meat are those we mentioned.
Milk, immediately after it is milked, is a good food,
provided it does not become sour in the stomach. It does
not absorb fumes and does not develop flatulence in the
lower abdomen. And it should be  taken with a little honey
and a grain of salt, as Galen suggested, in order that it
should not congeal in the st omach. And the best of the
milks and the most rarefied is the milk of a goat or a cow.
This offers good nourishment.
 AVOID MILK PRODUCTS
And any dairy product or additi ons to milk are bad; for
example, when it is curdled or boiled or when it has
something boiled in it, it is very bad. All types of cheese
are very bad and heavy, but cheese one day old, which is
white and sweet and not fat, is good. So states Galen who
recommends it as good to eat. But everything resembling
it is not good, especially old cheese with a lot of fat.
Butter, raw or boiled, is not at all bad as human food.
Honey is good nourishment for the old and bad for the
young and especially for those whose temper is warm,
because it turns rapidly into red bile.
And fish are mostly bad nourishment, particularly for
those who are phlegmatic and for the old, and especially
large-bodied fish and the salt ed kind. Those that come out
of polluted waters and the very fat are very bad and
increase the fluids. But small fish whose flesh is white,
hard and tasty and which come either from the sea or
from large bodies of fresh water, such as the salmon, is
not a bad food, but one should eat very little of it.
 WINE IS NUTRITIOUS
It is well known among physicians that the best of the
nourishing foods is one that the Moslem religion forbids,
i.e., wine. It contains much  good and light nourishment. It
is rapidly digested and helps to  digest other foods. It also
removes the superfluities from the pores of the flesh and
excretes urine and perspira tion. It has other virtues
besides these and is very usef ul, as the physicians tell us.
But this concerns something that we are not allowed to
make [from the relig ious viewpoint], which makes talking
of it superfluous and unnecessa ry, and therefore we will
not mention the various kinds and how they could be used
in the upkeep of health.

CHOICE OF VEGETABLES
But the vegetables that are bad for all men are garlic,
onions, cress, horse-radish, cabbage, and mad-apples. All
of these are poor food for one  who wants to be in good
health, but cucumbers and green melons are not so bad.
As to the yellow melon, if one  will eat it early in the day,
when the stomach is empty and without a bad fluid, and
the person is the possessor of a disposition that is not bad,
it will be well digested, cool  off the body a little, increase the output of urine, purify the [blood] vessels and provide
some nourishment that is not bad. We mention it, because
it is extensively eaten by many people.
Fresh fruits that grow on trees are bad nourishment for
men in general. Some of them are worse than others.
Among those that are bad ar e carob, nespole and sorb
apple, and some are less ba d and almost good, like figs
and grapes.

GALEN ACCEPTS FIGS AND GRAPES —
Galen said that figs and grap es are the princes of fruits
and are less injurious. But the blood that is formed from
those fruits is not good


 the key to preventing much  disease and needless surgery. Over -
consumption of refined carbohydrates, it is believed, is responsible for arteriosclerosis and diabetes, while absence of suff icient
fiber content allows increased pressure changes in the bowel which lead to colon disease s. Excessive refined carbohydrates
favor the growth of putrefactive bacteria in the bowel, alter bowel chemistry and invite ulcerative colitis, polyps and colon  cancer.

Dr. Burkitt apparently believes that low bulk in the diet and the excess intake of whi te sugar and white flour products contributes
to or causes many of civilization’s diseases. Bowel transit time for a Bantu native is more than twice as fast as that of the  average
Englishman, according to Dr. Burkitt’s research. The length of time food was tes remain in the bowel determines how putrefactive
they get, how much the undesirable bacteria multiply, how much fat is absorbed through the bowel wall and what sort of chemic al
toxins develop in and pass through the bowel. Dr. Burkitt pointed out that A frican natives who move to cities for work tend to
change their diets and get more diseases. They eat more white sugar and flour, less fiber -food, and the effects soon show up in the
bowel and elsewhere.

Sir Arbuthnot Lane, physician to the Royal Family in England earlier this century, also believed bowel conditions were related to
diseases elsewhere in the body. Lane was impressed by research he observed in the laboratory of Nobel prize winner Dr. Alexis
Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute in 1911. Carre ll was growing “live” tissue cultures on microscope slides, and as long as the
living tissue was fed every day and the wastes were washed away, the tissue thrived. If the cell wastes were not washed away,  the
cells gradually deteriorated and eventually die d within four days. Lane became convinced that much disease is caused by the
body’s response to its own toxic waste product particularly in the bowel. It is significant that surgeons and physicians are
beginning to understand the importance of bowel care i n the prevention of disease. We cannot have a healthy body without clean
blood, and we cannot have clean blood unless we have a clean bowel with good tone to move wastes along promptly. A toxic
bowel is the source of many health problems.

TESTIMONIES
NOTE : We have not treated nor do we claim to treat any disease in our tissue cleansing program. We claim only that it is an
effective means of cleansing the bowel. The following testimonies have been voluntarily submitted by persons who have taken t he
7-day cl eansing program.
Patient Donald Bodeen, DC, Poughkeepsie, NY
All my life I have been plagued with a sluggish colon and the constipation which attends it. On occasion, severe pain would o ccur
as spasms would come and go. I can’t begin to relate to anyone t he myriad of problems this has caused in my life. I feel it has
directly, and perhaps even greater, indirectly, been associated with more mental and physical anguish than I care to recall.
Not until the colon cleansing program, as taught by Dr. Jensen in h is book, TISSUE CLEANSING THROUGH BOWEL
MANAGEMENT, was accomplished was relief and healing made possible for me. I could not have hoped or dreamed for anything
better. It is now a part of my life, and has been incorporated into my daily practice in my chi ropractic office.

Patient Gerona Alderin, Breast Lumps
For years, I have been cleansing by various methods. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on colonies, medications, vitamins, seei ng a
lot of doctors and nutritionists with very little results. It wasn’t until I took my own health care into my own hands that recovery
started to happen. I had gallstones and kidney stones and got rid of them without surgery. Last summer I discovered lumps on my
breasts. January 13, 1982, was the most traumatic day in my enti re life when my entire body broke out in an extremely itchy rash.
Nothing alleviated it. I trembled inside and out, felt hot and cold, couldn’t concentrate or meditate and had no energy. I kn ew I had
to do more than I was already doing, which was a lot. Ea ch “expert” I spoke to advised another vitamin or supplement or
something to “try.” I had heard about Dr. Jensen’s books, Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management and The Doctor -Patient
Handbook, and was doing a lot of reading on self -healing. During the January 13 trauma, the only thing I could think to use was
the lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water cleanse which I did for one week while I was scurrying around getting a
colema board and making numerous phone calls to find out where to get the supplements for the cleanse. I had no one to advise me
on anything as no one in my home area knew anything about it. Needless to say, I learned the hard way. That 7 -day fast was
followed by a 7 -day intensive cleanse, than the usual maintenance program advised by Dr. Jensen. I couldn’t remember feeling so
terrific for a long time. My energy was great, the color came back to my skin and my eyes started to turn blue again. Rest is
advised during the cleanse but as I was self employed, I found those weeks t o be the busiest weeks of my entire career. I had so
much energy I just did not want to rest. I do Latin -American and ballroom dancing and on those three Saturday evenings during
the cleanse, I danced from 8 pm to 1 am non -stop. After the first week, I was  asked if I had been to Florida as people said I looked
so rested and had such good color. When I told my friends what I was doing, most panicked and were full of good advice as to
what I should or should not do. They said it wasn’t good for me to go witho ut food; I would get too weak; I would get too thin;
and I was even told I would die. They had to admit that I looked terrific, but still the pressure came forward. I had to be r eally
strong and know that I was doing the right thing. I have done six intens e cleanses (Jensen’s method) since January 1982. When I
start to feel lethargic and ache all over, I know I have another build up of toxins. I get bored of doing the cleanse (taking  the
supplements mostly) after the 6th day and want to stop, but when I see  what I am expelling, I am motivated to continue. If I can
get rid of lumps on my breasts, restore the color of my eyes to blue, have great skin color and tone, abundant energy and gen erally
feel great, anyone can.

Patient M.T., Male, Degenerative Bowel Condition
I began the tissue cleansing treatments on September 8, 1982, and have continued with one colema every day since that time. I
have had a degenerative bowel condition for some time, and the most spectacular result of the tissue cleansing has been the
unbelievable material I have passed from my bowel.

Patient R.D., Male, Psoriasis
Since 1971, I had has psoriasis of the head area. On the fourth day of my tissue cleansing program, about 80% of the scales c ame
off. This has never happened to me before. I was happy to have a small healing crisis during the 7 -day tissue cleansing program at
Dr. Jensen’s Ranch. When the fever, headache and eye aches began, I took a colema and passed much mucus and rubbery material.
I felt much better, but later it returne d. Another colema was taken, and this time about one or two quarts of rubbery fecal material
passed out, leaving me free of symptoms. That night I passed mucus from my eyes, with a slight eye ache, but no fever or
headache.

Patient A.M.B., Female, Rheumat oid Arthritis
When I began the tissue cleansing program, I could hardly use my hands. My left knee was so swollen I couldn’t move it. Durin g
the program, my hands became more flexible, and the swelling and soreness in the palm of my right hand improved. Th e swelling
in my knee decreased until I could walk without pain. My back is not aching all the time now and seems stronger. My feet aren ’t
so tender on the bottoms.

Patient V.P., Male, Heart Condition
Before I took the tissue cleansing program, I had had a stroke, and my left arm was paralyzed. I arrived at the Ranch in a car
driven by my wife. I was sitting in a reclining position from which I couldn’t get up without severe stomach pain, and my fac e was
pulling on one side as if stretching my mouth up. On ly a few days before, I would wake up in the morning upset because life just
didn’t seem worth facing. In four days I was able to climb into the shower by myself, put myself on the colema board and get off
unassisted. I was able to get around without my ca ne. I began to wake up happy in the mornings, able to get up from a reclining
position without pain. My legs seemed smaller, not as much swelling. It was hard for me to believe the stuff that was coming out