 through it uninterruptedly and we can FEEL
it."
End of quote.
When cravings are still strong even after you finished your one meal, or when
you want to relax and enjoy something, instead of food or drink (apart from orin)
then vape cannabis soon after your meal. Never smoke anything, the high
temperatures are very bad for your lungs, but vaping can be good for you if done
the correct way. I’m not talking about the harmful vapes e-cigarettes with nasty
chemicals, I’m talking about real pure cannabis vaping or juicing.
Animals eat it, Dopes smoke it, the enlightened juice or vape it.
Vaporization with cannabis is a technology designed to deliver cannabinoids
while at the same time avoiding the hazards of smoking by heating cannabis.
You still produce therapeutically active cannabinoid, but below the point of
combustion where noxious pyrolytic byproducts are formed.
Smoke is bad and causes deadly symptoms in the lungs and respiratory system.
Burning cannabis (or anything for that matter) creates smoke, which contain
toxic carcinogens harmful to the lungs. Vaporizers, in a nutshell, extract the
moisture in the cannabinoids by heating them, thus creating a vapor that can be
inhaled. The essential elements of the plant (THC) are consumed and nothing
else. Vaporizing makes for more flavorful taste, and creates very little smell. No
(second-hand) smoke is released into the atmosphere.
But remember, It does need to be processed by the body so do it inside or at
least very near to your eating window unless on splurge days when you can have
some alcohol as well. If you do something that needs to be processed by the
body while on OMAD but at a different time to your eating window, then you won't get the 2000% increase in beneficial hormones in your elixir of life. So
vape your cannabis just after your one meal and one drink. Then collect all your
water of life for the next morning. Some of the excess beneficial substances in
the cannabis will be in your elixir of life.
Same with any special mushrooms you consume. This is why shamen often get
others to eat the special shrooms and they then drink their urine. The bad stuff
gets taken out and all the good stuff goes to the water of life. Its far better to
drink orin from somebody who has eaten magic mushrooms than to eat them
yourself. The good things that the body decides are good for you go into the orin,
and the toxic parts that make you sick go out of the excretion channels.
Interestingly THC in good quality cannabis is decided by the liver to go to the
excretion channels so hardly any is in your orin, only homeopathic amounts. But
many other good things in the cannabis are decided by your body to be good for
it and are not filtered out of the blood to be excreted but go on in the clean blood
to go into your orin.
To say your fasting 23:1 on omad isn’t really true. If you swallow your last
mouthful at 6pm on the dot, it doesn’t mean you are immediately in a fasted
state right then. For the next hour or two you will be digesting what you have
just eaten. You will still hopefully be in a fasted state for more than about 20hrs.
So vaping your good quality weed for a few hours after your one meal is
absolutely fine. This doesn’t need to be digested as the same as what you
swallow. You are not taking your body out of a fasted state immediately after
your one hour eating window, because your body isn’t in a fasted state right
after. This is why I like to vape some good quality pure weed sometimes right
after my one meal.
So by vaping good quality cannabis right after your one meal, you are not
prolonging the time that your body is not a fasted state. It’s not the same as
eating something. Your body will be processing it while you are resting to digest
your one meal anyway.
Take home point, whatever you are taking or consuming, your liver will take out
anything the body decides is bad for you and sends all that the body decides is
good for you to your orin. So whatever you take or use, you can get the benefits
again and again by looping your water of life. If you are on medication then you
may find you need less and less of it as you loop your orin. You hopefully will be
able to get off all medications eventually depending on your situation. At the
very least you will be able to cut down, if not cut right out altogether; depending
on what you are taking and how much makes it through the liver and is in your
water life.
Chapter 9
This is perhaps the most important part of the protocol that needs to be
understood. You will get even more enjoyment out of life, than you did before
starting omad orin looping. This will increase the quality of your orin which means you get even more enjoyment out of it and then it gets even better again
and son on. The Bible says that a joyful heart is the best medicine, and applying
this protocol means you get much more joy out of eating than you did before you
started omad orin looping. The happier you are (as well as your diet and other
factors) the better quality your orin will be. This is key. You need to meditate on
this fact.
Don't worry if your orin is still unpleasant, this is the case with most people
nowadays. Mine used to be yucky before I cleaned my body with omad orin
looping.
My long term overall goal is to improve my orin to be the best it could ever be,
which means improve myself to be the best version of myself.
To say your goal is to improve yourself is the same as saying you want to
improve your orin. It is liquid you.
Your orin is liquid you, this is why the medical industry values orin so highly, they
can tell everything they want about you from your liquid version of you. It's a
snapshot of you.
My personal goal is to increase the quality of myself in every way. How can I tell
I'm doing well? By the quality of my liquid self.
Everything I do, everything  I feel and most importantly everything I consume
mentally and physically will affect how much I improve my liquid me.
The end goal is high quality orin, which is the exact same as saying high quality
you.
If your urine is unpleasant and yucky then there is something wrong. Get
yourself clean so your liquid you is beautiful again, just as it was when you were
a baby.
Remember it's a cocktail of the ingredients you put into it. Everything I consume,
before I put it in my mouth I think carefully how it will affect my liquid me.
You can ruin an otherwise truly great cocktail by putting something bad in there.
It's the same with your liquid you. If you put in mostly raw, plant based fruit, veg,
nuts and sprouted seeds the quality goes up.
If you put in processed foods, trans fats, msg, preservatives, colours and agents
then you lower the quality of your liquid self.
When you constantly loop and drink yourself you have a clear picture of how
you’re doing throughout the day.
If you consume or do something that's bad for you then your liquid you will soon
show you that the quality of your liquid you had gone down so you can avoid that
in the future.Two key points to remember are the happier you are the better quality your orin
will be. The second is that what you consume will be ingredients in your blood
plasma. Choose foods that you enjoy that increase the quality of you and your
orin. Fruit and plant based are best, but you can find many other foods that
produce good quality orin for you and that increase your enjoyment and
happiness which in turn increase the quality of your orin even more.
Omad orin looping will bring more joy and happiness to your life, the longer you
do it the more benefits you will see. The secret is from waiting all day, even if
cravings are very very strong then say to yourself out loud, I'm going to eat this
later and enjoy it a hundred times as much.
The truth is you can get far more enjoyment out of food than you did before
starting this protocol.
If you fail to show self-control and break then don't give up. Use it as a learning
experience. If you look back and feel regret for breaking omad, you probably feel
it wasn't as enjoyable as you thought it would be. But if you waited for your
eating window then you would have enjoyed it twice as much, and then you feel
really good about yourself. Remember a joyful heart is the best medicine.
If you decide to call it a spurge day then you will get tenfold the enjoyment
without feeling bad. I start looking forward to planned splurge days, several days
in advance. The excitement building as I get closer.
You can have as many splurge/cheat days as you like as long as you have at
least a 48hr fast later in the week for every one splurge day to make up for it. Or
you can have a few 48hrs fasts before your planned splurge days. So that you
make sure you eat less than 365 times in a year.
In fact splurge days are an important part of the protocol. When losing weight
you may hit a Platoa.


 every village
along the two thousand miles of the Incan empire. They
were swift messengers of almost inhuman endurance. They
ran barefoot, covering immense distances every day—at
times the equivalent of two or three Olympic marathons.
Some of their trails began at the height of a mountain peak
in the Colorado Rockies  and ascended more than a mile
higher.
It must have been these runners, the eyes and ears of the
emperor Atahualpa, who warned him of the approaching
Spanish. By treachery, Pizarro collected a fortune in
ransom when he kidnapped (and later murdered)
Atahualpa. One hopes the legends are true which say thatthe most priceless Incan  gold was secreted away in time.
(Pizarro, who was unusually greedy, even for a
conquistador, was himself murdered by jealous rivals in
1541.)
If you think of the human brain as the fortress at Machu
Picchu, then it too must have runners to carry its
commands to the farthest outposts of its empire—in this
case, the big toe. The physical routes are certainly visible—
the central nervous system runs down the spinal column,
branching out on either side at each vertebra in the
backbone; these major nerves then branch into millions of
tinier pathways that communicate to every region of the
body. The early anatomists saw the major nerves in the
sixteenth century, but the nervous system kept a secret.
Who were the runners that took the messages to and from
the brain?
Many people still think that the nerves work electrically,
like a telegraph system, because until ﬁfteen years ago,
that is what medical texts contended. However, in the
1970s, a series of impor tant discoveries began, centering
on a new class of minute chemicals called
neurotransmitters. As their name implies, these chemicals
transmit nerve impulses; they act in our bodies as
“communicator molecule s,” whereby the neuron s of the
brain can talk to the rest of the body.
Neurotransmitters are the runners that race to and from
the brain, telling every organ inside us of our emotions,
desires, memories, intuitions, and dreams. None of these
events are conﬁned to the brain alone. Likewise, none of
them are strictly mental, since they can be coded into
chemical messages. Neurotransmitters touch the life of
every cell. Wherever a thought wants to go, these
chemicals must go too, and without them, no thoughts can
exist. To think is to practice brain chemistry, promoting a
cascade of responses throughout the body. We have alreadyseen that intelligence, as know-how, pervades the
physiology—now it has acquired a material basis.
That gives away the plot of this chapter, but with none of
the drama. In truth, no other recent event in biomedicine
has been as revolutionary as these discoveries. The arrival
of neurotransmitters on the scene makes the interaction of
mind and matter far more mobile and ﬂowing than ever
before—far closer to the model of the river. They also help
ﬁll the gap that apparently separates mind and body, one of
the deepest mysteries that man has faced since he began to
consider what he is.
—
At ﬁrst, around 1973, it seemed that only two
neurotransmitters were needed, one to activate a distant
cell, such as a muscle, and the other to slow down the
activity. Two brain chemicals, acetylcholine and
norepinephrine, do just that; they are the “go” and “slow
down” signal s of the nervous system. They were considered
revolutionary at the time, because they proved that the
impulse sent from one nerve cell to the next was not
electrical but chemical in nature. All at once, the accepted
notion of tiny sparks jumping from neuron to neuron was
rendered obsolete. But the new chemical model at ﬁrst
continued to preserve the basic theory that only two signals
were necessary. Man-made computers operate using just
this kind of binary switch, and apparently so did the brain.
Then, as molecular biologists around the world began to
investigate more deeply, numerous new neurotra nsmitters
cropped up, each with a diﬀerent molecular structure and
apparently a diﬀerent message to deliver. Structurally,
many of them were related, being built up as peptides,
complex chains of amino acids of the same kind as those
which appea r in the proteins that make up every cell,
including brain cells.A great many riddles began to be solved, directly or
indirectly, as these discoveries emerged. If you take a
sleeping cat, remove a tiny portion of its spinal ﬂuid, and
inject it into a cat that is awake, the second  cat will
immediately fall asleep. This is becau se a cat’s brain puts
its body to sleep chemically, with its own internal sleeping
potion. In order for the animal to wake up again, the
opposite chemical, a wake-up signal, must be injected into
the spinal column.
In humans, where the same chemical mech anisms
operate, the body is awakened in the morning not by a rude
internal alarm but by a series of timed signals, at ﬁrst mild,
then progressively stronger, that lift us from deep  sleep by
stages. The whole process involves a gradual transition, in
four or ﬁve waves, from the biochemistry of sleep to the
biochemistry of wakefulness. If this process is interrupted,
you do not come as fully awake as you should—the
biochemistry of two distinct phases has been mixed. That is
why parents  of newborns, having to get up several times
during the night, feel that they are never quite normal
during the day. Alarm clocks also jolt us out of our natural
wake-up patterns, giving rise to grogginess that may
persist all day, until the next round of sleeping-and-waking
readjusts the mind-body chemistry.
Here is a related example. All camels exhibit an unusual
tolerance for high levels of pain—they can calmly chew on
thorns while  at the same  time being beaten with a stick by
an irate camel driver. Curious researchers examined
camels’ brain cells and found that they produce large
quantities of a speciﬁc biochemical that, if injected into
other animals, causes them to ignore pain, too. Sleep and
pain toleranc e, it is now known, thus depend on precise
chemical messengers produced in the brain.
One by one, various other functions that were once “all in
your head ” have been connected to speciﬁcneurotransmitters. Schizophrenics suﬀering acutely from
hallucinations and psychotic thoughts often improve
dramatically if put on a kidney dialysis machine, which
ﬁlters impurities from the blood. As we saw, brain
researchers have established that a neurotransmitter called
dopamine exists in abnormally high levels in the brains of
schizophrenics. Current chemical treatment of the disorder
entails using psycho-active drugs that suppress dopamine;
perhaps the dialysis machine is actually removin g it, or a
related by-product, from the bloodstream.
By the mid-1980s, barely ten years after the original
breakthrough, more than ﬁfty such neurotransmitters and
neuropeptides were known. All ﬁfty can be manufactured
on one side of the synapses between our neurons, and once
they cross the synapses, all ﬁfty can be received by the
receptor sites on the other side. This implies an incredible
ﬂexibility to communicate from cell to cell. The individual
neuron was now seen to be a producer of messages that did
not just say “yes” or “no,” as a computer does. The brain’s
vocabulary is far larger, encompassing thousands of
combinations of separate signals, with no end in sight,
since new neurotransmitters continue to be discovered at a
fast rate.
What kind of messages do nerve cells exchange with one
another? The answer is tantalizing, for certain segments of
our chemica l vocabulary  seem to be just as speciﬁc as
ordinary speech, while others are highly ambigu ous. Our
tolerance for pain, like the camel’s, depends on the class of
biochemicals discovered in the 1970s called endorphins
and enkeph alins, which act as the body’s natural
painkillers. The word endorphin  means “internal
morphine,” and enkephalin  means “inside the brain.” And
that is their story: they are like a version of morphine
produced by the brain itself.This hitherto  unknown ability to make internal opiates
proved very exciting. It was already suspecte d that the
body must be able to regulate the sensation of pain.
Although insistent, pain does not always register on our
awareness. Strong emotions, for example, can override
pain signals from the body, as when a mother rushes to
save her child from a burning house or a wounded soldier
ﬁghts on, ignoring the pain of his injuries. Under more
ordinary circumstances, all of us to some extent can take
our attention away from a minor pain—we don’t  notice a
sore throat, for instance, if we are talking to someone with
intense interest.
Despite this


ither	for	digestion	or	exercise.
Space	your
meals	and	workouts	out	so	you	have	energy	for	your	beauty-
building	movement	practices.	Ideally,	heavy	foods	should	be	consumed	at	least
2	hours	before	exercise	to	allow	for	enough	energy	to	break	them	down,
although	as	discussed	previously,	a	gentle	15-minute	walk	after	eating	is	highlyrecommended.	Here	are	some	specific	tips	for	workouts	at	various	times	of	the
day.
MORNING	WORKOUTS
BEFORE:
	Depending	on	how	early	your	workout	is,	it	might	feel	better	on	an
empty	stomach	(especially	for	a	yoga	practice).	Or,	if	you	need	something	in
your	stomach,	a	banana,	some	berries,	or	a
Glowing	Green	Smoothie	(see	recipe
on
this	page
)	are	light	choices	that	digest	well.	Fruit,	an	easy-to-digest	carb,
consumed	prior	to	exercise	could	be	beneficial	and	would	not	limit
fat
burning.
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AVOID:
	Anything	very	heavy	like	a	big	breakfast	of	eggs	and	bacon	right
before	a	workout	requires	a	great	deal	of	energy	to	digest.	You’ll	have	a	less-
than-efficient	workout	and	less-than-efficient	digestion.	Beauty-wise,	you	lose
out	on	both	sides.
AFTERWARD:
	If	you	didn’t	have	it	before	working	out,	this	is	a	great	time	for
your	Glowing	Green	Smoothie.	If	you’re	still	hungry	after	the	GGS,	follow	it
with	some	oatmeal	or	a
Power	Protein	Smoothie	(see
kimberlysnyder.
com
	for
recipe).	If	you	did	a	high-resistance	workout	and	are	interested	specifically	in
building	lean	muscle	tone,	follow	your	GGS	with	a	simple	mix	of	coconut
water,	banana,	and	spirulina.	This	is	low	in	fat	but	provides	the	carbs	and
amino	acid	spectrum	needed	for	recovery.	Since	spirulina	is	an	algae	that	breaks
down	and	digests	easily,	you	could	also	add	spirulina	to	your	Glowing	Green
Smoothie	(though	concentrated	protein	powders	are	not	recommended	in	your
GGS;	save	them	for	shakes	later	in	the	day).
AFTERNOON/EVENING	WORKOUTS
BEFORE:
	Get	fuel	in	the	form	of	carbohydrates	and	protein	during	the	day.
There	is	research	indicating	the	importance	of	consuming	amino	acids	and
carbohydrates	before	resistance	exercise	to	help	build	muscle.
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	Try	having
some	quinoa	for	the	carbs	and	protein	at	lunch	or	some	mushrooms	or	baked
veggies,	an	avocado	or	sunflower	seed	kale	salad,	soup,	or	a	protein	shake,	or
chia	seed	pudding	so	you’ll	be	fueled	up	and	ready	to	go	a	couple	hours	later.
The	Glowing	Green	Smoothie	would	also	fill	this	need	as	a	snack,	as	greens	are
high	in	amino	acids	and	the	banana	and	other	fruit	in	the	recipe	supply	some
carbs.
AVOID:
	Eating	heavy	foods	within	2	hours	of	your	workout,	whatever	time
that	might	be.	If	you	end	up	getting	really	hungry	and	needing	something,	a
banana	or	another	Glowing	Green	Smoothie	are	two	good	ideas.AFTERWARD:
	If	you	are	hungry	before	dinner,	a	banana	can	also	be	good
post-
workout,	as	it	has	complex	carbs,	potassium,	and	fiber.	Having	some	protein	is
important	to	rebuild	your
muscles	after	a	strengthening	workout,	so	a
Power
Protein	Smoothie,	veggies	and	hummus,	nuts,	seeds	(chia	seeds	are	especially
beneficial),	protein-rich	veggies	such	as	Brussels	sprouts,	or	some	legumes	like
lentils	are	good	choices,	if	eaten	3	to	4	hours	before	bed.
AVOID:
	Don’t	eat	a	late,	heavy	dinner	at	all	costs.	If	you	do	have	to	exercise	in
the	evening,	a	light	kale	salad	with	some	avocado	(remember,	greens	have
protein,	too)	or	a	smoothie	are	two	great	choices.
ALL	DAY:
	Hydrate	well	before	and	after	exercising	to	prevent
de
hydration.
Drink	adequate	liquids	between	meals	so	you	aren’t	tempted	to	drink	a	lot
during	meals,	which	would	dilute	your	digestive	enzymes.	If	you	sweat	a	lot
during	your	workouts,	coconut	water	is	a	great	natural	sports	drink.
DO	YOU	NEED	MORE	PROTEIN	TO	BUILD	MUSCLE?
There’s	a	general	belief	that	if	you	are	an	athlete	or	even	someone	who	wants	to
increase	strength	and	muscle	tone,	you	need	to	eat	more	protein.	Is	this	true?	And
when	exactly	should	you	consume	it?
Research	from	the
Journal	of	Sports	Sciences
	shows	that	even	elite	athletes	in
training	need	only	about	0.59	to	0.82	grams	of	protein	per	pound	(or	1.3	to	1.8
kilograms)	of	body	weight	for	optimum	performance.
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	So	a	male	weighing	180
pounds	in	training	would	not	need	much	more	than	106	grams	of	protein	a	day
(remember	more	protein	is
not
	necessarily	better;	see
this	page
).	This	amount	is
easily	obtainable	with	a	vegan	protein	shake,	nuts	or	seeds,	and	a	moderate
protein-containing	meal,	plus	a	variety	of	other	whole	foods	during	the	day—and	of
course	if	you	are	not	an	elite	athlete	and	weigh	less	you	would	need	less.	If	you	are
a	woman	and	are	not	an	elite	athlete	in	training,	40	to	60	grams	of	protein	a	day
should	be	plenty	for	your	daily	needs	and	keeping	toned.	This	can	easily	be
acquired	from	a	plant-based	diet	that	includes	some	seeds,	nuts,	legumes,	lots	of
veggies,	especially	green	veggies,	and	protein	shakes.
PROTEIN	INTAKE	IN	A	DAY	(IN	GRAMS)	WITH	A	PLANT-BASED	DIET
With	these	two	sample	meal	plans,	you	can	see	how	easy	it	is	to	get	the	average
daily	protein	requirements	for	women	with	a	plant-based	diet.	For	men,	larger
portion	sizes	or	some	extra	nuts	and	seeds	would	also	easily	fulfill	protein
requirements.
(Approximate/estimated	grams	of	protein	for	foods	listed;	some	variations	may
occur.)
SAMPLE	MEAL	DAY	#1
MORNINGHot	water	with	lemon:	0	grams
16	ounces
Glowing	Green	Smoothie	(
this	page
):	6	grams
Steel-cut	oatmeal	(¼	cup	dry)	made	with	water:	4	grams
LUNCH
Large	kale	salad	topped	with	¼	cup	sunflower	seeds:	13	grams
Collard	green	wraps	with	nut	pâté	(see
this	page
):	11	grams
SNACK
Chia	pudding	(
this	page
):	5	grams
DINNER
1	cup	of	cooked	quinoa	with	1	cup	of	broccoli;	side	of	green	salad:	11	grams
1	ounce	dark	chocolate	(at	least	72%	cacao):	1	gram
DAILY	TOTAL:	51	GRAMS	OF	PROTEIN
SAMPLE	MEAL	PLAN	#2
MORNING
Hot	water	with	lemon:


 the energy flow along these pathways and balance the energies
within the body. The mind, body, and spirit are comple tely integrated, and
the individual is comple tely enlivened.
Acupuncture and acupressure techniques, which originated from Merid
ian Meditation, are used to help others, whereas Meridian Meditation is
used to heal oneself.
The third category of Internal Exercises concerns energy breathing
techniques. Through these techniques, energy can be absorbed through the
acupunctur e points which lie atop the meridians which traverse the body.
Energy breathing is a vital step in self-healing and in forming an indivisible
link with the energy permeating the universe.
THE TAO OF BALANCED DIET
The acid-alkaline balance of our food is very important. Foods that are
pH-balanced will not corrupt quickly, and the eater will be able to extract
the maximum amount of nutrition available from those foods. If the food
we eat is not pH-balanc ed, it becomes corrupt as soon as it enters the
digestive tract. The body, instead of benefiting from the nutrients in the
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food, absorbs the poisons resulting from the corruption. (If one ever goes to
the back door of any restaurant, one will find food corrupting in garbage
cans. Not long ago, this food was served to customers. So the only thing
separating the front and back of the restaurant is a wall and a few hours'
time.) We would not purpose ly eat garbage because we know we will
become sick from ingesting its poisons. Yet, we do eat garbage every time
we eat without a thought for pH balance. (A telltale sign of food corruption
in the stoma ch is bad breath.) For a complete study of the Tao of Balanced
Diet, please refer to the Tao of Healing Diet: Secrets of a Thin Body.
THE TAO OF FORGOTTEN FOOD DIET
We rely on our regular diet for enjoyment and satisfaction: we take
pleasure in the appearance, smell, and taste of our daily meals. But regular
foods do not provide enough nutrients to maintain a continuous state of
health. They must be suppleme nted with stronger foods, or herbal foods,
which constitut e the second level of diet, or Tao of Forgotten Food Diet.
Over the ages, Taoists thoroughly studied the healing compos ition of
herbs and became highly proficient at the use of herbs. For example,
several thousand years ago, surgeons were able to anesthetize their patients
for six hours witl,tout side-effects just by using an herb tea. (Surgery was
very popular at that time. The surgeons often removed the organs of the
patient, washed them in herbal solutions, and reorganized them inside the
body. This practice eventually died out as these doctors came to realize that
it was an inefficient and incomplete treatment for illness es and that the final
answer lay in illness preven tion. They realized that any illness. including
tumo rs, was the result of a particular lifestyle; constant surgery could not
prev ent the recurre nce of tumors, whereas a change in lifestyle could
prevent the recurrence of tumors.)
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Herbs have many properties that modem science has yet to discover. The
Academy of Sciences currently estimates that there are approximately one
million plant varieties in the world. As yet, only an insignificant portion
has been examined by modem means of analysis.
The food we buy in the supermarket is the weakest food available. The
selection there is very limited if one considers the varieties of food actually
available in the world. God created leaves, branches, trunks, and roots for
our consumption, but they were completely overlooked by most people.
Called ''forgotten foods'' by Taoists, herbs were forgotten because they
were eliminated from our ancestors' diets through a process of selection
which, over the course of thousands of years, rejected foods that were
unappealing to the eyes, nose, or mouth. When man learned to cultivate his
own food, he naturally chose to cultivate only those foods that appealed to
his senses. As the saying goes, we are what we eat. If we eat stronger foods,
we become stronger ourselves. If we eat better foods, our health improves.
But, if we eat weak foods, we become more vulnerable to diseases. When
we compare a magnolia tree to a bunch of celery, we will see that the tree is
much stronger than the little clump of celery. Investigating further, we will
find that the tree is of greater medicinal value than the celery. In fact, the
various properties of the magnolia tree build up the stomach tissues and
strengthen the female sexual organs. Ginseng is another example of a
strong food. It grows in cold and harsh mountainous regions, yet it can
survive for more than a thousand years. Imagine what such great vitality
could do for your body. (Please use discretion when ingesting ginseng. It
must be balanced with other herbs, since it produces strong side-effects as
well as benefits.) In sharp contrast, a carrot grows only in tempera te
climates and its lifespan is about three months. If you do not unearth it
within three months, it will decay and disappear. Herbs give everlasting
strength, whereas regular foods give only temporary strength.
The foods we commonly eat and love are also eaten and loved by the
germs in our bodies. They utilize this food (organic or junk) to maintain
their lives just as we do. Fortunately, herbs do not nourish germs and
human beings equally. Human beings, exercising their will power, are able
to ingest sometimes distasteful herbs. Germs, not being blessed with will
power, are simply repelled by herbs. When human blood is permeated with
herbal nutrients, the germs in the body will starve to death, and the human
body will be naturally cleansed and purified. The cleansing and purifying
qualities that allow herbs to last for years without rotting are the greatest
benefits to be gained from herbal diets.
24 Taoism
THE TAO OF HEALING ART
Like the Tao of Revitalization. the Tao of Healing Art adjusts, balances
and elevates vital energy. Unlike the Tao of Revitalization, which is
primarily a means for self-healing, the Tao of Healing Art is utilized for
healing others.
The Tao of Healing Art, also called Tui-Na, is basically a form of
massage that follows the body's energy pathways, anatomically known as
meridians, to regulate the body's vital functions. By using the sixteen
different handling or manipulating techniques of Tui-Na, one can also
reposition disarranged internal organs. In conjunction with these tech
niques, which were designed to adapt to various parts of the body, appro
priate mediums can also be used. These can be any of the five fundamental
elements: earth, metal, water, wood, or fire. Acupuncture needles (used to
channel energy into the body) and moxibustion are two of the best known
metal and fire mediums in the West. Acupuncture and moxibustion are
derivations of Tui-Na principles and methods. For more information,
please refer to The Great Tao, Chapter 5.
THE TAO OF SEX WISDOM
25 Taoism
Taoism was the first philosophy to take human sexuality fully into
account, to present it in such a way that people could use their sexual
energy to transfonn themselves. Taoist Sexology directs people so they can
enjoy sexual play without depleting themselves, explains how to strength
en the sexual organs and use sexual energy to cure specific ailments,
strength ens the bond of love, elucidates various positions of therapeutic
intercourse, provides natural methods of family plannin g and eugenics,
even includes ways of selecting the sex of your child. For a complete study
of The Tao of Sex Wisdom, please refer to the book The Tao of Sexology.
THE TAO OF MASTERY
The Tao of Mastery provides us with tools to help us gain insight into
ourselves and others, bend surrounding energies to our nature and purpose,
and become masters of ourselves.
In order to facilitate personal and working relationships and reduce
stress, the ancient Taoists developed a collection of different methods:
I. PERSONOLOGY reveals the current abilities, attitudes, personal
traits, and health conditions of an individual. Instinctive anticipation
of forthcoming events is reflected in some of the I 08 locations of the
face, constituting a recognizable warning system.
2. FINGERPRINT SYSTEM reveals the inherited part of personal
ity and health tendencies. Also, fingerpri nts are changing delinea
tions of our naturally developing per sonal and professional potentials
and are warning signa ls of our inherited weaknesses, which we must
be aware of in order to conquer them.
3. TAOIST NUMEROLOGY gives precise insights into our life
patterns and circumstance s.
26 Taoism
4. NORTH STAR ASTROLOGI CAL SYSTEM-more compre
hensive and scientific than Western astrology-reveals our destinies
and financial prospects; describes the phys ical, mental, and spiritual
attri butes of our spouse and children; and unveils all other facets of
our lives.
5. DIRECTIONO LOGY is the study of the surrounding physical
laws of nature, especially those of electromagnet ism. A


 given heat-processed milk showed thin and fragile bones, abnormal mineral deposits, narrow chests, and
underdeveloped dental arches.
   Dr. Kirkpatrick ascribes the development of enlarged
hearts, with valvular involvement, in many cases to the use of
pasteurized milk. Some of the children are said to rapidly
recover if raw milk is substituted for the pasteurized milk.
"Without raw milk, recovery does not occur" declares Dr. Kirkpatrick "and those who reach the age of 10 or 15 will,
upon examination, show chronic heart diseases which are
usually diagnosed as rheumatic fever; so the patient usually goes through life a semi-invalid. I personally know of many
children, who were suffering from heart complications, who
have made complete recovery in a few months by drinking
raw milk along with other wholesome food, and with no direct treatment to the heart."
   Contrary to popular belief, raw milk affords greater
resistance to both undulant fever and typhoid fever than does pasteurized milk. Undulant fever is today more common in
large cities where pasteurization is a requirement than in rural
areas where some raw milk is used. Madsen of Denmark has
indeed stated that "no case (undulant fever) has ever been
observed in the hospitals and asylums for children in Copenhagen or elsewhere where raw milk is used in large
quantities." The famous epidemic of typhoid fever in
Montreal during 1927, in which there were 5,353 cases and
400 deaths
, was restricted entirel y to families who purchased milk from the Montreal Dairy and its associated National
Dairy Company, both of which distributed only pasteurized
milk.
   Tuberculosis is also more prevalent in areas requiring the
pasteurization of milk products. An interesting example of
this is afforded by a letter printed and signed by eight members of parliament in England, in which important
statistics on this question are referred to. The letter states:
"May we here adduce certain facts relating to a single county
as recorded in the last report of  the Medical Officer of Health
for Hertfordshire: This county has a population of 420,000 souls, and all the milk drunk by them is produced in the
county. During 1932 there were 45 deaths in all from surgical
tuberculosis, of which 33 were children under 15. In 13 rural
districts, where the whole supply is in the hands of small
retailers of raw milk, there were no deaths at all during the year from surgical tuberculosis. The highest death rate was in
an urban area where the population lives under model
conditions and practically all the milk supply is pasteurized."
A further study of the relationship between milk and
tuberculosis was made by Dr. MacDonald, Medical Officer to Dr. Barnardo's Homes in England. Dr. MacDonald reported
that, among 750 children who were given pasteurized milk
along with other food for a period of five years, 14 cases of
tuberculosis developed. Another 750 boys were given raw
milk for an equal period of time, with the other conditions, including the rest of the diet, the same as with the other
group. During this time, only one case of tuberculosis
developed, which represents a 1,400 per cent advantage for the unpasteurized group. It was also reported that chilblains
were absent among the boys of this group, whereas they were quite common among those receiving pasteurized milk.

G
ENERAL RAW FOOD EXPERIENCES
   The effects of consuming heat-processed fruits, vegetables,
nuts, honey, eggs, meat, and other foods are probably as
pronounced, if not more so, as those of consuming
pasteurized milk. The heat used in the pasteurization process ranges from 145 to 160 degrees F. for regular milk, and up to
186 degrees F. for homogenized milk, which is a lower
degree of heat than is used in treating many other foods. Nor
does the application of heat extend for a longer period of time
than is so applied in different cooking methods. Thirty minutes is the period of time in pasteurizing milk at 145
degrees F., and homogenized milk is pasteurized by the flash
method. The frequent losses of minerals into cooking water
(then discarded ) in ve getable cooker y are perhaps even more damaging to the respective foods than pasteurization is to
milk.
   So we may expect to find that the use of cooked foods of all
kinds induce physical impairment, corresponding in
accordance with quantity of intake, to those of pasteurized
milk. Likewise, we may expect the use of raw foods of all kinds to give physical benefits, corresponding in accordance
with quantity of intake, to those of raw milk. Examples of this
in actual practice are found in non-institutional medical cases
and in various human experiences not associated with direct
medical supervision. They are also found in a number of scientific institutions and medical clinics and sanitariums
where raw foods are used in the treatment of specific
diseases.
   The non-institutional cases involving the exclusive use of
raw foods are relatively few in number but important. Over a
hundred years ago Sylvester Graham of America called
attention to the advantages of raw foods, and he stressed the fact that, "the artificial process of cooking is decidedly and
often exceedingly inimical, not only to the physiological
interests of the alimentary organs, but also to the whole
human system." The many thousands of followers of Graham
in the eighteen-thirties and forties did subsist largely upon raw foods, and their complete freedom from cholera during
the widespread cholera epidemics of that time is of peculiar
historical interest. Since the days of Graham, the raw food
diet from time to time has found enthusiastic advocates in the
persons of Thomas, Drews, Christian, Estes, Richter, Gibbon, and others, who arrived at the same conclusions through
empirical observation that we now do through scientific
analysis. At one time (1900) there were estimated to be three thousand people in Chicago living upon the raw food regime,
and during a later period a special cafeteria operated in Los Angeles which served only foods in the uncooked state.
   Many years ago Prof. Jaffra, of the University of Southern
California, made a study of a number of families, who, for
religious, ethical, and scientific reasons, subsisted almost
entirely upon raw fruits and raw nuts. Prof. Jaffra found these people to be in excellent health, with unusual freedom from
colds and other ailments. Both children and adults were
below average in weight, and in addition the children were
below average in height. This was attributed by Prof. Jaffra to
the limitation of food types consumed, in particular to the complete lack of all animal food products. Subsequent
observations of families living upon raw foods have indicated
much the same. Many have reported a rapid improvement in
health after ado
pting the raw diet, with the remed y of severe and long-standing diseases. Height and weight of children, as
well as the dental condition, have appeared to depend upon
the number of food types being consumed; when these have
been adequate, favorable results in every particular have been
the common rule.
   A raw food experience of worthy note is that of the
scientist, Dr. Ferd L. Stone, who conducted research into the
mysteries of anabolism in his strange laboratory near the
Scottish village of Wick on the North Sea. Dr. Stone stated
that "biological constructive metabolism changes by which
staple food becomes complex living material in a cell" are ended, with rapid nutritive losses, when the flesh of animals
is exposed to oxygen through cooking and storage. He
believed that man's health would improve if he consumed
only flesh from animals instantly after their slaughter. Using
his own body for experimental purposes, Dr. Stone lived exclusively upon the raw flesh of animals for over 25 years to
determine its effects upon his own constitution. In his
laboratory he obtained his flesh from live goats, sheep, dogs,
lion cubs, and other animals which were clamped to cutting
blocks. Moving later to a jungle area of Kenya province in Africa, he subsisted upon the raw flesh of lions, giant hogs,
and other wild animals which abounded in this region. At one
time he visited Nairobi for a medical examination, and some
ten years later he appeared in Voi to check up on his weight
and general physical condition, where he was found to be a "fine physical specimen in spite of his advanced years." Dr.
Robert Gunther, the examining physician, declared: "The
remarkable thing about Dr. Stone is that, although he is now approaching 70, he has the youthful and robust health of a
chap of 25 or 30." Dr. Stone's unique experiment came to an
end in 1943, when he was fatally wounded by wild animals
during a hunting expedition. Another instance involving the
exclusive use of raw foods over a long period of time is seen in that of an African boy who subsisted for 13 years in wild
nature upon raw foods, and then lived 6 years in civilization
"on raw vegetables and fruits, raw fish and eggs, and such
flies and bugs as he catches and eats alive." The press report
of December 7, 1930, described the individual, then a young man


hayfeverindicatesanunderlying
weaknessthatneedsconstitutionaltreatmentand,
thoughthereareafewfirst-aidremedieshereforacute
hayfever,homeopathsprefertotreatahayfever
suffererthroughthewintermonthsinorderto
strengthenresistancetopollenandotherallergens.
DO
•wherepossible,avoidpollen,animalhairorother
substances(tobacco,dust,flowers,etc.)towhich
youknowyouareallergic,andkeepdustlevels
lowinthehome.Usefoampillowsandduvets
filledwithsyntheticfibres.
•bathetheeyesiftheyareitchyandinflamed(see
page33).
DON'T
•takeantihistamines ordecongestants ifyoucan
avoidit.Thesesuppressthebody'sdefencesand
cancauseareboundeffectsothatthesymptoms
returnmorefiercelythaneverastheeffectswear
off.
Headache
Occasionalminorheadachesthatresultfromobvious
stressessuchasoverwork,alcohol,lossofsleep,etc.,
i
218•Headinjuries DISEASESYOUCANTREATUSINGTHISBOOK
canbetreatedwithfirst-aidhomeopathy.Aswellas
findingtheappropriateremedy,identifythecauseof
yourheadacheandtakeappropriateaction:remove
thecausetemporarilyinthecaseof,say,alcohol,or
rebalanceyoursystemwithagoodnight'ssleepifyou
areexhausted.
DO
•restandrelax;checkyourposturefortensionand
spendtenminutesrelaxingandbreathingdeeplyif
yoususpectyouhaveaheadachestarting.
•getsomefreshairifyou'vebeeninastuffyroom.
•haveyoureyestestedtomakesurethecauseisnot
poorsight.
•seekcounsellingorpsychotherapy ifyouareunder
alotofemotionalstress.
•haveamassage.
•takealong,hotbath.
•eatregularmeals,andcutdown(orout)on
smoking,drinkingtea,coffeeandalcohol.
•takeanap.
•maketimetoseefriendsorpursueahobby.
DON'T
•smoke.
•takepainrelieversandcarryonunlessyoureally
havetoandcanseeatimeaheadwhenyoucan
rest.
SEEKHELPIF
•aheadacheisverysevere.
•yousufferfrequentorsevereheadaches,
particularly ifyoureyesightisdeteriorating.
•aheadacheisaccompaniedbyastiffneck.'
•thereisahighfever.
•thereisanyvisualdisturbance.
•thereisanyweaknessorlackofco-ordination.
•thereisanydizziness.
•aheadachelastsmorethanthreeorfourdays.
Headinjuries
Recentminorknocksandfallscanbesafelytreated
withinternalandexternalhomeopathicremedies.
Givetheappropriateremediesforshockandbruising
butregardallheadinjuriesaspotentiallyserious.
Keepacarefulwatchforanyofthesymptomsbelow,
someofwhichmayonlydevelophoursorevendays
aftertheinjury.Osteopathycanbehelpfulafterahead
injury(dependingontheseverityortheeffect)tohelp
anystressthespineitselfmayhavesufferedasaresult
ofafall.Somechildrencontinuetofallafteronebad
injuryandarelabelled'clumsy'whentheirbodies
havesimplybecomemisaligned.Osteopathy is
thereforeusefulasapreventivemeasure.
DO
•gotohospitalforanX-rayifthefallwasserious
(andespecially ifthebackoftheheadwas
injured).GiveArnicaonthewaytothehospitalbutifthishelpsdonotbedeceivedintothinkingyour
patientisfineandgohome-byalleviatingshock
andpain,theseriousnessofaninjurycaneasilybe
masked.
DON'T
•letsomeonewhohassufferedafallorblowgoto
sleepimmediatelyafterwards;thiscanhide
concussionandthepatientmayfallintoacoma.
SEEKHELPIF
•thereisanydrowsinessorconfusion.
•thepersonisunconscious.
•Thepupilsdonotrespondtolightorareirregular
insize.
•thepersonfeelsfaintorisunusuallythirsty.
•thepersonissweatyorpale.
HeartburnseeIndigestion
Hives
This'nettlerash'maybecausedbyanallergicreaction
tosomefoods-forexampleshellfish,eggsorstraw-
berries-ortodrugs,anditmaydevelopatanytime,
whennopreviousreactionhasbeennoted.Useboth
aninternalandexternalremedytoreduceitchingand
discomfort.
SEEKHELPIF
•swellingissevereandtheitchingunbearable.
•themouthortongueisswollen.
•thereisanydifficultybreathing.
Hotflushes
Ihaveincludedremediestorelievethedistressinghot
flushesthatoftenaccompanythemenopause,butitis
desirableduringthistransitiontohaveconstitutional
treatmenttorebalancehormonelevelsandprovide
morelong-lastinghelp.
DO
•talktoyourfriendsandfamilyandtellthemwhat
youaregoingthroughsothatyouarenotisolated,
especially ifyoursymptomsareunpleasant.
•eatwell.
•takesomesortofregularexercise;adailywalkis
justfine.
•beespeciallynicetoyourselfduringthistime.
•seekhelpfromacounsellororpsychotherapist
whoisconversantwithhelpingwomenthrough
themenopause.
DON'T
•assumeyoucannolongerfallpregnantuntilyour
menopause iscomplete!
DISEASESYOUCANTREATUSINGTHISBOOK Jointpain•219
Indigestion
Discomfortaftereatingisoftencausedbyeatingor
drinkingtoomuch,solookatyourdietandhow
youeataswellastakingtheappropriateremedy.
Indigestionandheartburnarealsocommoninlate
pregnancy,whenthefoetusputspressureonthe
stomach.SeealsoFlatulence.
DO
•eatslowlyandchewyourfoodthoroughly.
•makesureyourelaxbeforemeals.
DON'T
•eattoomuchatonesitting.
•takeantacids-theseonlyupsetthebalanceof
acidityinthestomachevenfurtherinthelongrun.
SEEKHELPIF
•symptomsareaccompaniedbyacough,lossof
appetiteorlossofweight.
•thereissevereabdominalpain.
•paindoesnotrespondtotreatmentwithintwoor
threehours.
•painbeginsaroundthenavel,thenmovestothe
lowerrightabdomen(thismightbeappendicitis).
Injuries(cuts/wounds)
Usetheappropriateexternalremediestocleanse
wounds,andtakeinternalremediestostopbleeding
andpromotehealingwhennecessary.
SEEKHELPIF
•bleedingisveryprofuse.
•thereisanynumbnessortinglingneartheinjured
part(whichcouldindicateinternaldamage).
•theedgesofthewoundcannotbeheldtogether
withplasters(inwhichcasestitchesmightbe
needed).
•thewoundisontheface(theseoftenneed
stitchingtoavoidscarring).
•thewoundisnotsuperficialandisonthepalmof
thehand(whereitisparticularlyopento
infection).
•thereisdeeplyimbeddeddirtoraforeignbody
thatyoucannotremove(glassisparticularlytricky
toremove).
•theinjuryissevere.
•yoususpectafracture(seeBrokenbones).
•thewoundisnearavitalorgan(heart,lungs,etc.).
Insomnia
Weallhaveverydifferentsleeprequirements.Aswe
growolderweneedlesssleepandwemaygenerally
needlesssleepthanwethink.Ifyouareinsomniac,
repeattoyourselfbeforegoingtosleepthatyouare
goingtosleepdeeplyandwakerefreshed,insteadof
panickingaboutnotsleepingenoughandexpectingtofeelawfulinthemorning.Amazinglythisreallyhelps.
Ifyoursleeppatternhasbeendisturbedbysickchil-
drenornightwork,trytohaveadaytimenap,orcatch
upbyhavingareallyearlynightbeforeyoufallintoa
patternofsleepingbadly.
DO
•takegentleexercise,suchasawalkaroundthe
blockoranexerciseroutinebeforebed.
•relaxinawarmbath.
•readveryboringbooks/magazines inbed.
•wearearplugsandaneyemasktocutoutnoise
andlightifnecessary.
•makesureyourmattressisrightforyou(nottoo
hardortoosoft).
•developaregularbedtimerelaxationroutine,
includingdeepbreathing,andperformthistwice
beforegoingtobed.
•situpandmakealistofallworriesandfrustrations
ifyoucan't


 muscles and
skeletal system. Nuts and seeds are structural foods.
The more raw, uncooked and unprocessed food you eat, the more vital
you become. Challenge your self-discipline. Try a 100 percent raw food
program, which is to say, nothing cooked. It makes a huge difference in the
level of vitality you can achieve. One should at least consider eating 80
percent raw foods and 20 percent cooked.
Here are a few things to keep in mind as you begin this process:
1
.
I do not recommend any kind of animal products at all, due to their huge
toxicity and acidic factors. They cause disease instead of rebuilding your
body. If you are going to eat meat, you should not eat it more than three
times a week, and only at lunch. This will allow the bulk of the digestive
process, which is acidic, to take place. Some believe that the body
doesn’t produce hydrochloric acid after 2:00
P.M.
 I personally have
never seen any scientific evidence to support this theory. However, light
alkaline meals in the evening will give you more energy, better sleeping,
and better healing potential.
2
.
Never eat meat with a starch. If you enjoy that heavy feeling, I suggest
you replace meat with a baked potato. You can use real butter, or natural
oils like olive oil, but no salts, sour cream or cheese. A baked sweet
potato would be preferable to an ordinary potato.
3
.
If you just want something hot, I would suggest a cup or bowl of
homemade vegetable soup (no tomatoes), steamed vegetables, or stir-fry
vegetables, along with a salad. (See our recipe section at the end of this
chapter for various soups you can make.)
4
.
Demand organic, vine-ripened foods that are chemical-free and
irradiation-free. We cannot allow the destruction of our foods or we will
all die. In a world where cancer is soon to be in every other person, it is
time for every individual to stand up and take charge of their own health.No one else will.
5
.
The focus for the first two or three months of detoxing should be on
low-protein, or “no-protein” type foods. This includes avoiding meat,
beans and nuts. Nuts, of course, are your best source of amino acids, and
would be my choice if you felt that you needed this type of food.
ONE DAY AT A TIME FOR FIVE DAYS

Take each day as it comes. Try to eat all raw fruits and vegetables that day.
The next day, try again. Keep trying each day until you have eaten all raw,
uncooked fruits and vegetables for five days straight. Feel the difference
between all raw and just some cooked foods. The difference is like night and
day.
Some days you may only want to eat fruits, which is great. Fruits have
the greatest cleansing power of all foods. Their high energetics makes them
an unmatched nerve and brain food.
Another method I’ve found to be successful is to eat all raw foods from
Monday through Friday. Then on Saturday and/or Sunday, if you must, have
your cooked vegetables with rice, etc. Get a cycle going for yourself. Your
body loves cycles. It loves habit. It actually depends and functions better on
routine.
As time goes on you may want to incorporate some fasting into your
program. This will accelerate the detoxification process. Give fasting your
best shot. The longer you last, the healthier you will get. Recondition yourself
by retraining your eating habits.
I designed this menu in our “Getting Healthy” program to be easy and yet
effective. Enjoy the clean feeling and the sense of vitality that raw foods
offer. You will never regret this journey into vibrancy, longevity and
spirituality.
HOW MUCH FOOD AND HOW OFTEN?

There has always been the question of: “How much and how often should a
person eat?” It is my personal opinion that we should eat only one-to-three
different foods at a time, and eat as often as we like, but only when we arehungry. Our society recognizes eating only three times a day: breakfast, lunch
and dinner. Because of this, we tend to overeat and combine many different
types of foods at the same meal. This only serves to overwork the GI tract
and digestive organs, causing mal-digestion and malabsorption of our
nutrients. Thus, people in our culture “five” mostly on fermentation and
putrefaction by-products.
Lack of Funds? Make Food Your Medicine
Lack of funds is a common problem that most of us have experienced. My
answer to this is simple: “You must always eat.” But
what
 you eat has
everything to do with your health. Instead of buying meats, which can be
expensive, spend that money on fruits and vegetables. Your goals and
priorities should always include your health.
Disease can be extremely expensive compared to getting healthy. A good
example of this was a young man who came to me with stomach cancer. He
had just been diagnosed at a cancer center in Tampa, Florida. The oncologists
there told him that they needed to remove two-thirds of his stomach. He also
needed some chemotherapy, and I believe radiation therapy as well. The cost
would be somewhere around $100,000 for all of this, after which he had a
twenty-five percent chance to live. They charged him $5,000 just to diagnose
him and report their findings. It took me fifty-nine days to help him cure
himself of stomach cancer, at a cost of $1800.00. So if you think natural
health is costly, think again.
Instead of buying items of desire, buy only out of necessity. Use any
funds you have left for good quality herbs or herbal formulas that will help
you achieve your health goals. Disease can leave you penniless; health will
leave you rich.

MODULE 7.5
The Detox Vitality Menu

This menu is set up for a four-week transition from heavy toxic food to pure,
more alkaline food, leading to detoxification and regeneration of your
system. While this menu is designed for beginners in this process and for“social eaters,” meaning those who eat out a lot, it is not necessary to use the
cooked vegetable and grain alternatives that are offered. Instead, for those
who want to engage this process more dynamically right from the beginning,
or those who are under the care of a health professional for particular medical
conditions, including cancer, MS, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injuries,
Alzheimer’s, and other conditions, this menu can simply be replaced at any
time with the choice to eat only raw fruits and vegetables (See Menu for the
Bold, which follows). Remember, you have the freedom to make your life
what and how you want it. OK, now let’s have fun and eat.
TODAY’S SPECIALS

Always feel free to eat only fresh, raw fruits and/ or vegetables in place of
this menu for greater detoxification and regeneration.
Breakfast
Choose one.

1
.
Fruit
2
.
Melon
Pick any single or combination of fruits or melons that you like. Some
dried fruit or coconut may be added to the fruit meal.

Between Meal Juice
Drink an 8 oz. to 10 oz. glass of freshly juiced vegetable or fruit juice.

Lunch
Choose one.

1
.
Large Salad, with a side of:
**
Vegetables, steamed or raw Vegetable soup, no tomato Stir-fryvegetables
2
.
Fruit
3
.
Melon
Between Meal Juice
Drink an 8 oz. to 10 oz. glass of freshly juiced vegetable or fruit juice.

Dinner
Choose one.

1
.
Large Salad, with a side of:
**
Vegetables, steamed or raw Vegetable soup, no tomato Stir-fry
vegetables
2
.
Fruit
3
.
Melon
Snacks
In between meals, snacks must consist of fresh fruits, dried fruits and
fruit or vegetable juices only.

**
 Do not mix starches and proteins at the same meal. Pick one or the other.

MODULE 7.6
The Detox Menu for the Bold
 This menu is for the serious-minded individual who truly wants to achieve
dynamic health and vitality. This menu should also be followed by those with
chronic and especially degenerative conditions or injuries, like cancer,
diabetes, MS, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injuries, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Try to acquire organic foods if possible. If not, wash, wash, wash your
produce! Place two capfuls of hydrogen peroxide and the juice of two fresh
lemons in about a sinkful of water. You could also add a pinch of salt. Let
your fruits or vegetables soak for about five minutes, then rinse. You may
scrub them if you wish with a vegetable brush.
Be happy when you eat, and relax. Try not to drink when you eat. Keep
your eating simple and fun.
TODAY’S SPECIAL

Breakfast
Choose one.

1
.
Fruit
2
.
Melon
Pick any single or combination of fruits or melons that you like. Some
dried fruit or coconut may be added to the fruit meal.

Between Meal Juice
See
 recommended juices.

Lunch
Choose one.

1
.
Large Salad2
.
Fruit
3
.
Melon
Salad may


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how  Great  the Blessing  is which  will  be yours.
I wish  to thank  every  one  present  and  at various  points
all over  America;  for the assistance  in releasing  the Power
from  the physical  octave,  which  has enabled  Us to accom-
plish  These  Wonderful  Things.  Then,  may  I ask you  to
do the same  thing  within  the  Individual?  Now  These
Achievements  have  been  accomplished,  do not let down!
Watch  It! Do not allow  your  outer  self to let down  or feel:
"Now  that  is accomplished,  we can ease  up."  You  know
what  the outer  self does—it  wants  to rest.  It does  not need
it! Say  to it: "Now  go right  on"!  Give  praise  and  thanks
for This  Accomplishment  and  say:  "'Mighty  I AM  Pres-209 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
cncc'  sweep  in and  accomplish  the next  thing  with  your
Infinite  Power."  Feel  your  Great  Joy and  Enthusiasm  in
the next  Accomplishment.  Oh,  Dear  Ones,  it is so wonder-
ful! It is so tremendous!  Once  you understand  what  is being
accomplished.
We have  Faith  in you,  in every  "I AM"  Student  in Amer-
ica! Will  you  not,  in Our  faith  in you,  stand  as One  Great
Pillar  of Light,  each  one of you  to all the others  and  have
all that  is required ?
My Love  and Blessings  enfold  you,  each  one,  always,  and
I say to those  who  have  come  so great  a distance:  What-
ever We can do to add to your  Freedom,  your  Supply,  your
Happiness,  shall  be done!
I thank  you. DISCOURSE  XV
MIAMI,  FLORIDA  November  21,
Tonight,  Beloved  Students,  let Me call your  attention  to
the Requirements,  in releasing  the Greater  Activity  of your
Life Stream  to bring  your  Heart's  Desire  in the use of
things  in the outer  world.
You have  thought  to gather  from  without,  the things,
the happiness  and  the conditions  which  you  thought  were
necessary  for your  success;  and  for all that  your  Heart  de-
sires;  but all have  found  it futile;  have  found  it a great
mistake.  They  have  not found  satisfaction,  because  there
was no place  of Permanent  Anchorage;  no Source  to which
they could  give  their  attention  and hold  it there  in a definite
focus.
Beloved  Ones,  hold  your  attention  for a moment  upon
Me, so I am able  to anchor  within  your  feeling,  the Reason
why  it is imperative  to have  an anchorage  for your  at-
tention;  to keep  it from  wavering  from  point  to point,  and
condition  to condition.  That  is why  you  have  your  limita-
tions  today;  because  you have  not known  any place,  upon
which  you could  fix your  attention,  in order  to have  a def-
inite  action.
Tonight,  if you will  be kind  enough  to follow  My Words,
you will  understand,  as you  come  to know  the Presence,
the "Mighty  I AM,"  is above,  you have  found  your  Source
187 188 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
of Life,  which  is the Individualized  Presence  of God.  It
is why  We,  as Ascended  Beings,  as Cosmic  Beings,  have
Our Freedom  today;  because  We  found  That  Presence!
We, like  the rest of humanity,  would  have  remained  in our
limitation;  if it had not been  Those  Who  were  Greater  than
We at that  time,  called  Our  Attention  to and assisted  Us, to
hold  our attention  upon  the Source  of Our  Life.
You of the South  have  not had  the direct  contact  with
the Messengers  which  many  of the other  students  have,  and
have  not had  many  of these  explanations.  I want  you  to
realize  tonight  when  you  cast  off those  bodies,  the body
lays there  with  all the organs,  of its physical  actvities.  Those
organs  are there  as they  were  before;  but where  did That
Intelligence,  That  Life,  That  Activity,  That  Light,  That
Power,  That  Substance  go? Why  does  the body  lay there
helpless ?
Behold  the Chart!  All the Life,  Intelligence,  Substance
and Activity  came  thru  that  Stream  of Life  from  the
"Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  into  the body  and  anchored
within  the human  Heart!  When  the  Life  Stream  with-
drew,  the human  form  was  helpless.  You  think  and  man-
kind  has been  so prone  to think,  in order  for something  to
exist,  one must  see something  out here.  People  think,  they
must  have  something  in their  grasp  to understand  that  it
was Real.  I tell you  everything  you  use,  which  is of any
Power,  is invisible  and  you  know  it. You  do not see the
energy  you  are using!  You  do not see the current  of elec-
tricity  which  goes  thru  those  wires  and brings  the Light  into DISCOURSE  VIII  189
the room;  but it is there  and  you  acknowledge  and  accept
its use.
Tonight,  I want  you to fix in your  mind,  whatever  power
you use, and the Intelligence  you have  used  for any achieve-
ment  in your  human  activity,  came  thru  That  Stream  of
Light  from  your  own  God  Presence  and  anchored  within
your  Heart!  It gave  Action  to the body  and  Life  to these
human  forms.  Without  That  Stream  of Light,  you  do not
have  action  of the form.
Until  mankind  understands  this  and  finds  the "I AM
Presence"  and  Power,  to which  it can anchor  the attention
and hold  it anchored,  there  is no way  or means  to release
Greater  Power  of Energy  than  people  are experiencing
today.  Steadily  and surely  have  they  drawn  themselves  into
the density  and  limitations  which  they  are experiencing
today,  and  by their  own  volition.  No one asked  them  to do
it, but they  kept  saying:  "This  is the authority,  and  this  is
the authority,  meaning  the outer  intellect,  and  in that  they
made  their  great  mistake."
Dear  People,  you  think  your  intellect  is the knower,  the
doer.  Where  is it, when  the body  lies helpless ? The  brain
is still  there,  but  it does  not  act!  Let  us look  at these
things  practically,  so you  can have  Our  Assistance  which
you need.  The  brain  no longer  acts.  Then  the Power  and
Intelligence  which  acted  thru  the brain  came  thru  That
Stream  of Light  and  Energy.  EVERYTHING  YOU  ARE
OR EXPERIENCE,  IS CAUSED  BY YOUR  FEELING
OR YOUR  SPOKEN  WORD! 213 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Tonight,  try to feel  in all the previous  understanding
you have  had,  from  every  source  of metaphysics,  you  were
taught  to govern  your  thought.  It is but a fragment  of the
cause  of conditions  in comparison  to your


 miles back to the ranch without food or salt tablets.
The doctors gave me a thorough examination and
found me in perfect condition! I am ready and willing torepeat this hike across Death Valley, California for any
scientific group that wants to do research on man’s
mythical “need” for salt. (
I get organic sodium from my food. )20
Ruts long traveled can grow comfortable.Historical Proof That Salt is Not Needed
Rommel’s German-Afrikan Corps swept across the
gates of Egypt, fought and lost a hard battle at El Alamein.
Then they retreated over miles of blazing desert. Yet,
when the war was over, the English found the capturedtroops in good physical condition, even though the
German soldiers were not supplied with salt tablets. This
story – just as my own Death Valley hike, which wasalso performed in the blazing desert sun – supports the
findings of many experiments performed on humans
with a non-salt diet under hot desert conditions.
What happens, according to the scientific studies, is
that: after the first few days of becoming acclimatized,
the subjects stop losing salt through perspiration.Apparently there is a normalizing mechanism at work
that conserves the sodium in the body. The comfortable
endurance during all weather conditions of people onrigid, salt-poor diets shows that the “need” for added
salt in hot weather has been greatly exaggerated.
There is enough naturally occurring sodium in most
vegetables, celery, soy beans, seaweeds and other foodsthat have not been processed or supplemented with
common table salt. These natural foods can supply the
needed organic sodium required by the body. Proof ofthis is also found in the past histories of many races
throughout the world who have never used salt.
The Native Americans knew nothing about salt when
the first explorers landed. Columbus and all the explorers
of the American continent found wonderful physical
specimens when they arrived. Sad fact – the physicaldegeneration of people often follows the introduction
of salt, alcohol, refined, fast foods and toxic chemicals!
I have made over
13 expeditions to the far corners of
the earth and I never found the inhabitants to be salt
users. Therefore, none of them suffered from high blood
pressure. In fact, regardless of age, they generally hadblood pressures of
120 over 70, which is perfect. They
did not suffer from kidney or heart diseases, either.21
I have found that distilled water is a sovereign remedy for my
rheumatism. I attribute my almost perfect health largely to distilledwater.  – Dr. Alexander Graham Bell,  Telephone InventorIt’s magnificent to live long if one keeps healthy and youthful. – Harry FosdickHow Much Salt Can the Body Tolerate Daily?
There’s been a great deal of research on salt tolerance.
The American Heart Association recommends that
healthy adults reduce their sodium intake to no more
than 2400  milligrams per day. But the body’s actual
physiological sodium requirement is less than 500 mg
daily. Unfortunately, the average American salt addict
actually consumes daily 2 to 5  times his sodium tolerance!
This extremely high salt figure Americans eat is due
to the excessive amount of “hidden salt” in most all
commercial and “fast” foods. It’s in breads, cheese,prepared meats (ham, bacon, lunch meats, etc.), frozen
and canned veggies, soups and hundreds of staple foods.
I was born and reared in Virginia and many of my
relatives suffered from high blood pressure. They died
early of strokes and kidney diseases because they were
heavy salt, pork, ham, sausage and bacon eaters. Highconcentrations of table salt were used at every meal. By
the time these people were
30 years old, they ached all
over with what they called the “misery”. Their jointswere cemented, and they hobbled around stiffly andwith great pain! I believe that the heavy salt diet of the
average Southerner brought on this “misery”.
The most dramatic wrongful death case against salt
occurred in a Binghamton, New York hospital, where a
number of babies died when salt was inadvertently used
in their formula. An overdose of salt can kill a babyquickly! The body needs natural, organic sodium – not
table salt, an inorganic chemical. You can obtain natural
sodium which Mother Nature provides in organic formin celery, beets, carrots, potatoes, soybeans, turnips, sea
vegetation, seaweed, kelp, watercress, etc. and many
other natural, healthy foods. Remember, only organicminerals can be utilized by your body’s living cells.22Fasting De-Salts The Body Cells and Organs
I have had over 70  years experience with the science
and use of rational fasting. And I have found that in 4
days of complete fasting we can de-salt the body. Theurine will reveal the story of salt. Take a
4 day complete
distilled water fast. Nothing must pass through yourbody for
4 days, except for distilled water and ACV drink.
Drink at least 8 to 10  glasses daily to flush the salt out.
Each morning take a sample of the first urine your
body passes. Put these urine bottles (labeled) on a shelfto settle for
3 weeks, then look at them in the sunlight.
You will see concentrated salt and toxic wastes in the
bottom of the bottle. When this salt is passed from yourbody notice how freely your kidneys will function.Notice how naturally moist your mouth is and how youhave no abnormal thirst. Notice your skin and muscletone. The first thing the body throws off during a fast issalt and the side effects – bloating and edema (dropsy)that goes with salt. Lumpy, waterlogged spots vanishand you become more streamlined. There is a thinnerand more youthful look to your body. Water-bloatingvanishes and you begin to see your natural figure again!
You can hardly believe your eyes! A wonderful
transformation is taking place during your fast. Thepowerful Vital Force that would otherwise be used tohandle your food is now being used exclusively to cleanout the debris, waste, and poisons that have been lockedin the body cells and vital organs. Rejuvenation is takingplace in every one of the billions of cells of the body!After the
4 days of de-salting the body, be sure to keep
salt out of your diet. It’s a difficult thing to do sincethere’s so much “hidden salt” in so many different foods.That’s where your weekly
24 – 36 hour fast helps continue
to de-salt and detox your body to keep you healthy!
We find it difficult in our world travels, lecturing and
doing research, to avoid “hidden salt” in foods, eventhough we always do request, “No salt, please!” inrestaurants, on cruise ships, airplanes and trains.However, our weekly cleansing fast of
24 to 36 hours
keeps any inorganic salt we ate flowing out of our bodies.23We never add salt to foods in the Bragg household!
We use natural seasonings that add zest to foods: herbs,
garlic, kelp, onion, lemon and our delicious BraggOrganic Vinegar and Bragg Aminos, a tasty all purposesoy seasoning that contains 16 amino acids. With fasting,you’ll soon see how much better you feel and look! Andwhat a sweet taste you will have in your mouth. Youwill note many changes for the better when you are
faithful with your fasting program and banishing salt!
Fasting is the Great Cleanser and Purifier
People are constantly asking and writing me, “Will a
fast cure my ‘this or that’ disease?” I want it clearly anddistinctly understood that I am not recommending
fasting as a cure for any disease! I don’t believe in cures
unless Mother Nature, God and your body do it! I canonly inspire you to fast to build more Vital Force to
overcome enervation and debilitation. Then as you build
up your body’s Vital Force it can then self-cleanse andself-heal. Read our Build Powerful Nerve Force  book for
more info on importance of building your Vital Force.
Enervation Explained
We live in a chaotic world. The demands for energy
in these hectic times are enormous. We all have astandard of living to maintain and an image to createand live up to for our relatives and friends. We eachhave many responsibilities. Every waking hour requiresgreat outputs of Vital Force to earn our daily living, tosupport our family, to drive a car in traffic, to beresponsible for a job, to maintain a house, to rear ourchildren, to perform social and civic duties. Plus thereare thousands of other daily activities that call for yourVital Force to perform continually in operating your
body. You need go-power and energy!
Energy is a precious vital ingredient; it cannot be
purchased in a bottle or can. Many misguided peoplethink they can get it from drugs, alcohol, tobacco,caffeine, sugar and colas. They can’t! Energy is a reward
for living as close to Mother Nature’s Laws as possible.24
When you live as God and Mother Nature
 intended you to live, you start to rejuvenate yourself!Almost every human malady is connected, either by
highway or byway, with the stomach. – Sir Francis HeadHumans Won’t Take Blame for Miseries
It’s because of your bad habits that things start to
break down and decay in your body! Your bad habits
enervate and


Instead of “I am” she felt, “Do I deserve to be here?”
Instead of “I am blissful” she felt, “I can’ t feel.”
Instead of “I will” she felt, “I can’ t.”
Instead of “I know” she felt, “I doubt.”
Instead of “I act” she felt, “I don’ t know what to do.”
Where did her Shakti go? The roots of powerlessness run deep. Some
people feel that they were stripped of power by their parents, by destiny, by
God. In actual fact we all disem power ourselves. It is impossible to exist
without desires,  which Shakti uses to guide us from one fulfillment to
another. If desire is denied, however, Shakti is rendered useless. It takes an
active ef fort to make desire seem to go away.
Passion doesn’ t fade. It must be suppr essed.
Boredom is just the passive face of this effort to keep desire out of sight,
the indifferent mask put on to hide a huge internal struggle. The belief that
you won’ t ever get what you want implies enormous hatred and judgment
against yourself. Keeping these feelings in control takes work, for even if
you sincerely believe that you do not deserve to have desires, the vitality of
life isn’ t going to be completely halted.
People who have cut themselves off from passion have switched their
allegiance to something else almost as strong. Because the flow of life
won’ t be stopped, a counterfo rce must be called in to oppose it—the
counterforce of fear. Fear of life is extremely common whenever someone
complains of ennui.
Fear at any level of the psyche makes it much more difficult to trust that
passion is safe. If my wife criticizes me, a warning voice that I hardly
notice will sap my desire for her. If my husband dislikes the way I keep
house, I will feel inhibition about fully expressing my sexual needs. Thus
existential issues are activated by everyday obstacles.
In relati onships where two people have allowed the under ground war
between fear and desire to go on too long, suppressing passion becomes anactual life goal. In fear’s warpe d value system, getting “too close” seems
like a problem instead of the solution. As nature created us it is normal to
seek pleasure; a fearful person avoids pain instead.
“Whether you can admit it to yourself or not,” I told Amy, “being bored
is your goal in life. Boredom isn’t happening to you; you are using it in the
pursuit of safety and security. Why don’t you tell Fred off or throw a vase at
him or break down and cry?” Amy looked stunned.
“I just wouldn’ t,” she muttered, her face strained by unwept tears.
I said more gently, “Bringing light to this dark dilemma is going to make
things better. Right now your stance toward the river of life is to stand on
the banks and try not to fall in. But can you survive without falling in?
“The spiritual answer to boredom is to open yourself to the very thing
you have feared —the constant flow of desire that wants to express itself at
every moment.”
We are enticed back into passion when we admit to having desir es.
The reason that falling in love is so passionate is simple: desire is no
longer a choice. Romance bursts the dam of inhibition. Its erotic power
proves too much for fear and repression to hold back. At the deepest level
people never fall in love accidentally. They simply grow tired of living
without passion, and having made this unconscious decision they open up
once more and allow themselves to receive love.
Without waiting  to fall in love, you can rekindle passion by imitating this
process. When the passion is gone from a relationship, both partners must
be honest in stating that they have desires. This of course can be difficult,
for if either partner is operating  under the belief “I’m bored with you,” it
will be doubly difficult to say, “I desire you.” The critical step is to
eliminate your partner entirely  as the cause of the problem and take
responsibility for your own feelings.
The essential issue is not “I am bored with you” but “I am bored.” By
taking blame out of the equation, you also remove threat. This is extremely
important, becau se you cannot help but fear anyone whom you are mentally
attacking.
“Your whole effort needs to be directed toward finding out what you
really want and then feeling you deserve to fulfill those desires,” I toldAmy. “The gap between yourself and your desires is like a buffer that
deadens feeling. Feeling your way out of boredom is the only solution.
“If you are hone st in your search  for your own feelings, you will hit upon
love, even if it is only the tiniest spark of attraction and desire. Some hint of
desire must be present no matte r how numbed a person may be. Instead of
deciding that these faint impulse s are too insignificant to act upon, take the
opposite tack. Put your newfound feelings at the feet of your beloved—
express kindnes s in the smallest  of ways, praise even the humblest quality,
smile outwardly when an inner smile flickers. In this way you encourage a
fragile new emotion to believe  that it is legitimate, that it has a right to
exist.”
For the first time in our talk, Amy looked encouraged. “Fred doesn’ t
really know that I still love him,” she said, sounding very vulnerable.
“And asking him to read your mind isn’t going to work,” I said. “The
web of tenderness that once connected you has been torn, but it can be
rewoven, I promise.”
From this starting point—“I love you”—the channels of passion
gradually open up. The relationship that seems to frustrate and kill desire
turns into the healer of desire.
“I have a specia l name for the kind of healing I’m asking you to try,” I
said. “It’s called ‘wooing the goddess.’ What you ultimately want isn’t Fred
or a better sex life. You want the return of spirit within you, which is the
return of God. The passionate side of God is Shakti, the goddess. Passion
was the wedding  gift she brough t when she married Shiva. It is also the gift
women bring to men today, for the female principle is desirable by nature. It
excites consciousness with arousal and yearning. It melts opposites into
union and makes chaos into a dance. It was your birthright  to be that
passion.”
“You make it sound like I could  be,” Amy said, actually laughing for the
first time.
“If you don’t feel at one with the goddess,” I said, “woo her back. Win
her before you try to win anyo ne else. Go into the fear and hurt; practice
letting go of your old beliefs; learn to forgive yourself; find moments when
you can be kind to your inner being; claim what is good about yourself and
not just what is bad; follow every enthusiasm wherever it leads you, since
the source of enthusiasm is always passion.“Spirit is waiting for you to rejoin her. She stands outside the boundaries
you have impos ed on yourself. There is no passion too great for her to
contain; you will never be lost reaching for the infinite. She is the tenderest
of infini ties, whose only desire is to protect you and carry you in her arms
from fear to love.”
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ECSTASY
WHA T WE HAVE discussed so far is how to ground a relationship in love
through surrend er, nonattachment, and the renewal of passion. When two
people have found such a basis  of lasting love, they are ready for the next
stage on the path, which we can call ascension. Ascension is based on
love’ s ability to expand beyond the world of limitations to the world of
boundlessness. Before ascension “I” refers to a single individua l isolated in
time and space. After ascension  “I” refers to a self that observ es time and
space without feeling trapped by them—you have slipped through a sliver
of time to find the timeless. Before ascension “you” meant someone who
could be loved but never merged with. After ascension “you” means a part
of oneself who is as close as breath. Before ascension “we” meant a couple
who met in mutual need. After ascension “we” has no meaning, since union
is complete.
Ascending is a process, like falling in love or being in relation ship. You
are not carried away into the “other world.” This world becomes
transformed into a heaven of fulfillment, ever at peace, ever in love. The
process of ascension doesn’ t call upon anything new from inside you other
than letting go and letting go until there is nothing more to let go of;
ascension is the final stage in relinquishing attachment to separation.
Someone who is ascended has achieved Christ’ s injunction to be in this
world but not of it.
As you ascend, your love will turn to ecstasy.
To feel ecstasy is the privilege of all who have walked the path to this
point, where ascension begins. If you have not yet come this far, ecstasy isnot within your normal range of feeling. You may know joy, delight,
exuberance, satisfaction, and happiness, but these are shadows of the
ecstatic state. It exists as


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FOR CONSTIPATION
If the stools have become very  hard it is best that he
should take cassia fistula. A nd here is the mode of its
preparation: oxtongue herb—f our drachmas; licorice,
cleaned and shelled, herba fontis, barberry seeds—three drachmas of each; althea seeds—five drachmas; moist
roses of seven petals, anethum—seven hearts. All should
be soaked in one and a half  liters of warm water a day
and a night, then it should be boiled and crushed and
strained over twenty drachmas  of cassia fistula, twenty
drachmas of almond oil and one ounce of sugar. He
should take it and wait until it completes its action and its
evacuation. He should then eat a boiled chicken. If it is
not the proper time for finding moist roses he should
place over it three ounces of st rained rose syrup. And I
know that one who reads this paragraph will wonder, and
say: It is not right to use barberry seeds, because they
have the character of preven ting the softening of stools
toward which you aim. One should know that barberry
seed has the property of prev enting the injury caused by
cassia fistula, of strengt hening the intestines and
preventing tenesmus. This is what the old practitioners
taught us. And the physicians also mention that oxymel of
roses causes softening. It is proper that my lord should
possess it also and should take it when it is very hot to
soften the stool.
Its mode of preparation: One should take a liter of very
strong vinegar and throw into it one hundred moist rose
leaves, which have been placed in the sun for one day.
Next morning one should remove the roses and place other rose leaves in the vi negar, the same number as
before. And one should not refrain from changing the
rose petals every day for fo rty days. And one should take
this vinegar and make of it a syrup, three pounds of sugar
for every three ounces of vinegar.
Ibn Zuhr compounded an oxymel syrup made of
raisins and it was very good when made during the
summertime. Its mode of preparation: The dark raisins
should have their seeds remove d. In one liter of vinegar
one should throw half a pound of raisins and soak them
for two days. Afterward he should put them on the fire
and boil them twice and purify them, making oxymel
vinegar. And this compound is made with great care
because the vinegar will withhold the white superfluity
and will prevent the formation of malodorous moistures
and nothing can be equal to it or  like it. It is of a very
subtle substance and has a cooling effect on the
temperament. The oxymel is of great help in all fevers.
But the vinegar hurts the liver very much, it irritates it
and shrinks it and causes its blood to become pale.

THE LIVER'S ROLE IN HEALTH
Galen has already explained that the preservation of
man's health lies in the health  of the liver; it colors the blood and increases its moisture s, but it increa ses its heat,
and if it does that too much, it may burn the blood. While
vinegar weakens his strength, raisins, that are congenial
to the liver, give it fats and nourishment. When the syrup
is compounded of vinegar and raisins as the venerated
[Ibn Zuhr] did, we get the bene fit of the vinegar and we
prevent injury to the liver. We thus obtain the benefit of
the raisins and we are saved from increased heat. This
syrup is so wonderful and good that it should be prepared.
Your servant has already compounded for his master
two syrups and an electuary for the occasions which he
mentioned. One of the syrups he should always take,
every time. Its function is to purify the blood, remove its
turbidity and cleanse it of the gases that come from the
black bile. It will expand the spirit and gladden it. It will
chase away evil thoughts and feelings.
And this is the mode of pr eparation: One should take
rose leaves—one pound; oxtongue —half a pound;
lavender—two ounces; Sodom's apple, fumaterra seed
and citron leaves—one ounce of each. He should soak all
of these in six liters of warm water a day and a night.
Then all of them should be boiled several times, crushed,
cleansed and strained through a sieve. Place them in six
liters of sorrel syrup and put over a small flame until they thicken into a syrup, perfuming it with a quarterweight of
myrrh.

TO STRENGTHEN THE HEART
Your servant has not found any syrup equal to it, to
gladden and strengthen the hear t and give it power. It is
mild and neither raises nor lowers the temperature and
therefore can be taken at any time. And the amount to be
taken is from two to three ounces, in cold water in
summertime and in warm water in wintertime.
But the second syrup which your servant saw fit to
compound will loosen the stool very much and will often
cause a bowel movement twice or three times, depending
upon the preparation. It strengthens the expelling force in
the stomach and in the in testines and removes the
moisture and the black and re d biles with ease, without
harming the organs of digestion. As to the amount to be
taken, that is from three to four ounces of warm water in
which anise has been boiled until it is changed in
appearance. One should not ta ke it constantly, but only
when he needs it to expel the retained superfluities. When
one has accustomed himself to taking it once a week, it
will strengthen the intestines and remove the factor that causes dryness of the stools. The stools will become soft
and return to their normalcy.
Its preparation: One takes shelled polypody, pistachio,
broken and crushed—two ounces; senna Mecca and
oxtongue—one ounce of each; crushed licorice and
crushed althea—half ounce of each; moist fennel—a
handful; and moist roses—twenty flowers. He should
soak all these in four liters  of warm water a day and a
night. In the morning he shoul d boil it, crush it and strain
it over thirty drachmas of ca ssia fistula, purified and
mixed with half an ounce of almond oil, strained and put
away separately. And he shoul d take myrobalan of Kabul
in a polished form and amilegium myrobalanus emblici—
ten drachmas of each. He should macerate the myrobalan
and soak it in a liter and a half of warm water a day and a
night. And in the morning he should squeeze the
myrobalan very well and purify it and add to what he
boiled, the cassia fistula which he prepared separately. He
should mix the two fluids and throw into them four liters
of violet syrup and place over a weak flame, and he
should suspend over it a bundle of soft flaxen cloth or
spikenard and mastic— two drachmas of each—and
crushed rhubarb— three drachmas. And he should not
forget to squeeze the bundle with his hand to bring out
the powers of the ingredient s which it contains. And when the liquid assumes a syrupy thickness it should be
removed from the fire and hidden in a clay vessel lined
with lead. In time of need one should proceed as I
mentioned.

DIGESTIVES, APHRODISIACS, SEDATIVES
The spice hinted by your serv ant is the great electuary
which was prepared by his servant beforehand. It helps
the triple digestion [in th e stomach, the liver and the
organs] and strengthens all th e organs in general and the
heart and brain in particular. It delays aging, liquefies the
white fluid, prevents fumes from rising to the brain,
strengthens the senses, rem oves their tension, helps sex
life and expands the soul.
And this is the mode of preparation: One takes
myrobalan from Kabul and India and belilegium—one
ounce of each; myrobalanus emblici —two ounces; citron
rind, oxtongue, lavender flower, bitter costus root and
aconite—one ounce of each; red rose flowers—one
ounce; ash, cunilla, aspara gus seed, pistachio seed,
hedge-mustard seed, white and red saw-leaved centaury
anise, mastic, balsam bark—half an ounce of each; cubeb,
cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, galingale, long pepper,
ginger, musk, doronicum, aloe wood—one-eighth of an ounce each; the heart of pistachios—three ounces. The
dry ingredients should be ground and sifted through a
sieve until the drugs and the pistachios are thinned out.
The myrobalan should be


 These are usually malignant cases.

    To look upon any of these symptom -complexes as a
distinct disease, requiring a distinct treatment, is to fall into
the diagnostic maze that now bewilders the profession and
renders treatment chao tic.

   It should be known to all discerning physicians that the
earliest stage of organic disease is purely functional,
evanescent, and never autogenerted so far as the affected
organ is concerned, but is invariably due to an extraneous
irritation (stim ulation, if you please), augmented by
Toxemia. When the irritation is not continuous, and toxin is
eliminated as fast as developed, to the toleration point,
normal functioning is resumed between the intervals of
irritation and toxin excess.

   For exampl e: a simple coryza (running at the nose —cold
in the head), gastritis or colonitis. At first these colds,
catarrahs, or inflammations are periodic and functional;
but, as the exciting cause or causes —local irritation and
Toxemia —become more intense and cont inuous, the
mucous membranes of these organs take on organic
changes, which are given various names, such as irritation,
inflammation, ulceration, and cancer. The pathology
(organic change) may be studied until doomsday without
throwing any light on the ca use; for from the first irritation
to the extreme ending —cachexia —which may be given the blanket term of tuberculosis, syphilis, or cancer, the whole
pathologic panorama is one continuous evolution of
intensifying effects.

   Germs and other so -called ca uses may be discovered in
the course of pathological development, but they are
accidental, coincidental, or at most auxiliary —or, to use the
vernacular of law, obiter dicta.

   The proper way to study disease is to study health and
every influence favora ble or not to its continuance. Disease
is perverted health. Any influence that lowers nerve -energy
becomes disease -producing. Disease cannot be its own
cause; neither can it be its own cure, and certainly not its
own prevention.

   After years of wanderi ng in the jungle of medical
diagnosis —the usual guesswork of cause and effect, and
the worse -than-guesswork of treatment, and becoming
more confounded all the time —I resolved either to quit the
profession or to find the cause of disease. To do this, it was
necessary to exile myself from doctors and medical
conventions; for I could not think for myself while listening
to the babblings of babeldom. I took the advice found in
Matt. 6:6. According to prevailing opinion, unless a doctor
spends much time in medic al societies and in the society of other doctors, takes postgraduate work, travels, etc., he
cannot keep abreast of advancement.

   This opinion would be true if the sciences of medicine
were fitted to a truthful etiology (efficient cause) of disease.
But, since they are founded on no cause, or at most
speculative and spectacular causes, as unstable as the sands
of the sea, the doctor who cannot brook the bewilderment
of vacillation is compelled to hide away from the voices of
mistaken pedants and knowing  blatherskites until
stabilized. By that time ostracism will have overtaken him,
and his fate, metaphorically speaking, will be that of the
son of Zacharias.

   An honest search after truth too often, if not always, leads
to the rack, stake, cross, or th e blessed privilege of
recanting; but the victim, by this time, decides as did the
divine Jew: “Not my will, but shine, be done;” or, as
Patrick Henry declared: “Give me liberty or give me
death!” The dying words of another great Irishman is the
wish, no d oubt, of every lover of freedom and truth:
   That no man write my epitaph; for, as no man
who knows my motives dares now vindicate them.
let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let
them and me rest in peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my mem ory in oblivion, until
other times and other men can do justice to my
character. When my country takes her place among
the nations of the earth, then, and not until then, let
my epitaph be written. (Emmet).

   The truth is larger than any man, and, until it is
established, the memory of its advocate is not important. In
the last analysis, is not the truth the only immortality? Man
is an incident. If he discovers a truth, it benefits all who
accept it. Truth too often must pray to be delivered from its
friends.

   I must acknowledge that I have not been very courteous
to indifferent convention; and the truth I have discovered
has suffered thereby. It has always appeared to me that the
attention of fallacy -mongers cannot be attracted except by
the use of a club or shillalah; and possibly my style of
presenting my facts has caused too great a shock, and the
desired effect has been lost in the reaction.

   That I have discovered the true cause of disease cannot be
successfully disputed. This being true, my e arnestness in
presenting this great truth is justifiable.

    When I think back over my life, and remember the
struggle I had with myself in supplanting my old beliefs
with the new —the thousands of times I have suspected my
own sanity —I then cannot be su rprised at the opposition I
have met and am meeting.

   My discovery of the truth that Toxemia is the cause of all
so-called diseases came about slowly, step by step, with
many dangerous skids.

   At first I believed that enervation must be the general
cause of disease; then I decided that simple enervation is
not disease, that disease must be due to poison, and that
poison, to be the general cause of disease, must be
autogenerated; and if disease is due to an autogenerated
poison. what is the cause of that autogeneration? I dallied
long in endeavoring to trace disease back to poison taken
into the system, such as food eaten after putrescence had
begun, or from poisoning due to the development of
putrescence after ingestion. In time I decided that poison ing
per se is not disease. I observed where poisoning did not
kill; some cases reacted and were soon in full health, while
others remained in a state of semi -invalidism. I found the
same thing true of injuries and mental shock. It took a long
time to devel op the thought that a poisoned or injured body,
when not overwhelmed by Toxemia. would speedily return to the normal, and when it did not, there was a sick habit —
a derangement of some kind —that required some such
contingency to bring it within sense -percep tion.

   To illustrate: An injury to a joint is often complicated
with rheumatism; the rheumatism previous to the injury
was potentially in the blood.

   Just what change had taken place in the organism which,
under stress of injury or shock of any kin d, would cause a
reaction with fever I could not understand until the
Toxemic Theory suggested itself to my mind, after which
the cause of disease unfolded before me in an easy and
natural manner. And now the theory is a proved fact.

   After years of pe rplexing thought and “watchful waiting,”
I learned that all disease, of whatever nature, was of slow
development; that without systemic preparation even so -
called acute systemic diseases could not manifest.

   In a few words: Without Toxemia there can be  no
disease. I knew that the waste -product of metabolism was
toxic, and that the only reason why we were not poisoned
by it was because it was removed from the organism as fast
as produced. Then I decided that the toxin was retained in
the blood, when ther e was a checking of elimination. Then the cause of the checking had to be determined. In time I
thought out the cause. I knew that, when we had a normal
nerve -energy, organic functioning was normal. Then came
the thought that enervation caused a checking o f
elimination. Eureka! The cause of all so -called diseases is
found! Enervation checks elimination of the waste -products
of metabolism. Retention of metabolic toxin —the first and
only cause of disease!

   Those who would be freed from the bondage of medi cal
superstition should study “Toxemia Explained.”

 Toxemia Explained

   NO ONE on the outside of the medical profession knows
so well as doctors themselves the great need of more
knowledge of what disease really is. Never in the history of
so-called medical science has there been so much research
work done as in the past decade; but with every new
discovery there follows very closely on its heels the stark
and stalking nemesis that chills the honest and earnest
researchers to the bone —the inevitable w ord Failure.  Why
inevitable? Because, back in the beginning