irta,
Eup-p.,Merc-c,Mercs.,Nats.,Phos.,
Ver-a.
coldfood:Phos.,Puis.
fat/fattyfoods:Nit-ac
fruit:Pho-ac,Ver-a.
ham,salami,smokedfoods:Caust.
hotdrinks:Ars.,Bry.
hotfood:Ars.,Bry.
ice-cream:Phos.,Ver-a.
ice-colddrinks:Phos.,Ver-a.
milk:Phos.,Rhus-t.
refreshingthings:Pho-ac,Ver-a.
salt,saltyfoods:Nat-m.,Phos.
sourfood:Heps.,Ver-a.
spicyfood:Chin.,Phos.,Sul.,Nux-v.
sugar:Arg-n.
sweets:Arg-n.,Chin.,Lye,Sul.
vinegar:Sep.
Lips
Cracked:Ars.,Nat-m.,Sul.
Blue:Cupr.,Lach.
Dry:Ant-c,Ars.,Bry.,Puis.,Rhus-t.,Sul.Licks:Ars.
Red:Sid.
Lively(seealsoExcitable)Coff.,Lach.,Nat-c.,
Op.
LonelyPuis.
LoquaciousseeTalkative
LumbagoseeBackache
MastitisseeBreastfeedingproblems
MeaslesAco.,Ap.,Bell.,Bry.,Euphr.,Gels.,Puis.,
Sul..
Onset:
slow:Bry.,Gels.
sudden:Aco.,Bell.
Skinrash:
burns:Aco.,Bell.,Sul.
hot:Bell.
itches:Aco.,Bell.,Sul.
maddeningly: Sul.
red:Bell.,Sul.
slowtoappear:Ap.,Bry.,Sul.
With:
commoncold:Euphr.,Puis.
cough:Aco.,Bell.,Bry.,Euphr.,Puis.,Sul.
eyeinflammation: Ap.,Bell.,Euphr.,Puis.
fever:Aco.,Ap.,Bell.,Bry.,Gels.,Sul.
headache:Bry.,Gels.
Worseforheat:Sul.
Melancholic Calc-c.
Memoryweak/^rg-n.,Caust.,Cocc,Colch.,Con.
MigraineseeHeadache,one-sided
Mild,gentleCocc,Sil.
Moody(changeable) Ferr-m.,Ign.,Lye,Puis.,
Sul-ac,Zinc.
Morose(seealsoDepression;Despondent) Bry.
Mouth
Burning:Ars.
Darkred:Bapt.
Dry:Ars.,Bry.,Mercs.,Nat-m.,Puis.
withthirst:Bry.,Nat-m.
withoutthirst:Puis.
MouthulcersLye,Mercs.,Nit-ac.
Ulcers:
edgesoftongue:Nit-ac.
gums:Merc-s.
mouth:Merc-s.
painful:Nit-ac.
onthetongue:Mercs.
underthetongue:Lye
Pains:
stinging/throbbing: Merc-s.
MumpsAco.,Bell.,Carb-v.,Jab.,Lach.,Lye,Merc-s.,
Phyt.,Puis.,Rhus-t.
Glands(parotid):
hard:Merc-s.,Phyt.
swellingmovesfromtherightsidetothe
left:Lye
INTERNALREPERTORY Onsetofcomplaint •189
swollen/painful: Bell.,Carb-v.,Jab.,Lack.
Lye,Mercs.,Phyt.,Puis.,Rhus-t.,Sil.
Onsetsudden:Aco.,Bell.
Painsspreadtobreasts,ovariesortesticles:
Carb-v.,jab.,Phyt,Puis.
With:
facered:Jab.
fever:Aco.,Bell.,Lye,Merc-s.,Puis.,
Rhus-t.
headache:Bell.
copioussaliva:Jab.,Merc-s.,Phyt.
profusesweating:Jab.,Phyt.,Merc-s.
sorethroat:Bell.,Lach.,Lye,Phyt.
Better:
heatRhus-t.,Sil.
Worse:
blowingnose:Merc-s.
night:Merc-s.
ontheleft:Lac/i., Rhus-t.
ontheright:Bell.,Merc-s.
cold:Rhus-t.,Sil.
NauseaAnt-c,Ant-t.,Cocc,Colch.,Ip.,Nux-v.,
Petr.,Phos.,Puis.,Sep.,Tab.
Constant:Ant-c,lp.,Nux-v.
Deathly:Tab.
Intermittent:Ant-t.,Tab.
Persistent:Ip.
Violent:Ip.,Tab.
duringpregnancy:Ant-c.
Appetite:
lost:Cocc,Colch.
Belching:Ant-c,Cocc.
empty:Ant-c,lp.
sour:Phos.
tastingoffoodeaten:Ant-c.
Belly/stomach feels:
bloated:Colch.
empty:Cocc,Phos.,Sep.
Pains:
gnawing:Sep.
Taste:
metallic:Cocc.
With:
dizziness:Petr.
faintness:Cocc,Colch.
facepallid:lp.
retching:lp.
copioussaliva:lp.
vomiting:Colch.
Better:
forbelching:Ant-t.
aftereating(temporarily): Sep.
freshair:Tab.
forvomiting:Ant-t.
Worse:
afterdrinking:Cocc,Puis.aftereating:Ant-c,Cocc,Colch.,Ip.,Nux-v.,
Puis.,Sep.
afternoon:Cocc
beforebreakfast:Sep.
coughing:Puis.
eatingacidicfoods:Ant-c.
eatingbread:Ant-c.
eatingstarchyfood:Ant-c.
freshair:Petr.
hotdrinks:Phos.,Puis.
milk:Calc-c,Nit-ac,Sep.
morning:Puis.,Sep.
morninginbed:Nux-v.
movement:Cocc,Ip.
pork:Sep.
puttinghandsinwarmwater:Phos.
sightoffood:Colch.
sittingupinbed:Cocc.
smelloffood:Cocc,Colch.,Ip.
stuffyroom:Tab.
sweating:Nux-v.
tobacco:Ip.,Nux-v.
thoughtoffood:Cocc,Colch.
water:Phos.
Causes:
ice-cream:Puis.
pregnancy:Nux-v.,Sep.,Tab.
richfood:Puis.
travelling:Nux-v.,Tab.
NervousseeAnxious
NettlerashseeHives
Nose
Childpicksconstantly:Cina
NosebleedsAm.,Carb-v.,Ferr-m.,Ham.,Lach.,
Phos.,Sul.
Blood:
brightred:Phos.
dark:Carb-v.,Ham.,Lach.
persistent:Phos.
thin:Ham.
Children:Ferr-m.
With:
sweating:Phos.
Worse:
beforeamenstrualperiod:Lach.
blowingnose:Phos.,Sul.
morning:Ham.,Lach.
atnight:Carb-v.
Causes:
blowingnose:Lach.
injury:Am.
menopause:Lach.
ObstinateseeStubborn
Onsetofcomplaint
Slow:Bry.,Gels.
Sudden:Aco.,Bell.
1
190•Overconscientious INTERNALREPERTORY
Overconscientious: Ign.
Oversensitiviry seeSensitive
Pains
Absent:Op.
Appearsuddenly:Bell.
Appearsuddenlyanddisappearsuddenly:Bell.
Kali-b.,Nit-ac.
Bones:Eup-p.,Mercs.,Nit-ac,Pho-ac,Ruta.
Burning:Ap.,Ars.,Phos.,Rhus-t.,Sul.
Cramping:Calc-c,Cupr.,Mag-p.,Nux-v.
Flyingaround:Nit-ac.
Glands:Am.,Bell.,Lye,Mercs.,Phos.
Needle-like:Arg-n.,Heps.,Nit-ac.
Partslainon:Puis.,Pyr.,Ruta.
Pressing:Canth.,Mercs.,Rhus-t.,Sep.
Shooting:Bell,Hyp.,Rhus-t.
Shootupwards:Phyt.
Sore/bruised:Arn.,Bry.,Chin.,Cimi.,Eup-p.,
Ham.,Pyr.,Rhus-t.,Ruta.
Splinter-likeseeNeedle-like
Inaspot:Kali-b.
Stinging:Ap.,Sil.
Stitching:Bry.,Kali-c.
Throbbing: Bell.
Unbearable:Aco.,Cham.
Wandering: Kali-b.,Kalis.,Led.,Puis.
Withscreaming:Aco.
Palpitations Aco.,Arg-n.,Ars.,Calc-c,Lach.
Panic(seealsoAnxious;Fearful)Arg-n.
Periodproblems
Belly:
bloated:Cocc.
Bleeding:
duringdaytimeonly:Puis.
Blood:
brightred:Bell.
darkred:Calc-p.
clotted:Bell.,Calc-p.,Cham.
Breasts:
lumpybeforeperiod:Con.
painfulbeforeperiod:Con.
Pains:
aching:Nux-v.,Puis.,Sep.
colicky:Mag-p.
cramping:Cocc.,Mag-p.,Nux-v.
cutting:Lach.
draggingdown:Sep.
dull:Puis.,Sep.
gripping:Cocc.
lowerback:Nux-v.
pressing:Sep.
severe:Cocc.
sore,bruised:Sep.
stitching:Con.
tearing:Lach.
violent:Bell.wandering:Puis.
Better:
crossinglegs


 rheumatic, and arthritic problems. Celery is a good cleansing, diuretic herb, and the seeds are used specifically for arthritic complaints where there is an accumulation  of waste products. The seeds also have a reputation as  a carminative with a mild tranquilizing effect. The stems are less significant medicinally.
 QCautions Do not take celery seed during pregnancy or
if suffering from kidney disease. Do not use seeds sold for
cultivation in medicinal preparations. Do not take the essential oil internally except under professional supervision. Divided
toothed leaves
are aromatic
Stem Chopped
stem
Seeds Seeds  contain
volatile oil and
are the main part used medicinally. Stems are eaten as a nourishing
vegetable and made into juice.
Tincture of seeds (to make, p. 292).
For rheumatism, take 30 drops 3 times a day.Infusion of seeds (to make, p. 291). For gout and arthritis, take
3⁄4 cup
(150 ml) daily. Remedy As a cleansing drink, take
3⁄4 cup (150 ml) of
organic carrot and celery juice a day.
Powder of seeds. For arthritis, mix 1 tsp with food each day.
US_064-065_Apium_Artium.indd   64 26/02/16   3:58 pm65 key medicinal plantsArctium l AppA
Arctium lappa  (Asteraceae)
Burdock, Niu Bang Zi (Chinese)
Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in
both Western and Chinese herbal medicine. It is used
to treat conditions caused by an “overload” of toxins,
such as throat and other infections, boils and rashes,
and chronic skin problems. The root and the seeds help
to cleanse the body of waste products, and the root is
thought to be particularly good at helping to eliminate
heavy metals.
Habitat & Cultivation
Native to Europe and Asia, burdock
now grows in temperate regions
throughout the world, including the U.S. Burdock is also cultivated in
Europe and China and is propagated
from seed in spring. The seeds are
harvested in summer and the whole
plant is unearthed in high summer.
Related Species
A. minus  and A. tomentosum  are
related species that are used in
a similar way to burdock.
Key Constituents
■ Bitter glycosides (arctiopicrin)
■ Flavonoids (arctiin)
■ Tannins
■ Polyacetylenes
■ Volatile oil
■ Inulin (up to 45%)
■ LignansBurdock
A biennial, with
stems that grow to 5 ft
(1.5 m), reddish-purple
flower heads, and
hooked bracts.
Key Actions
■ Detoxifying
■ Mild diuretic
■ Antibiotic
■ Antiseptic
■ Anti-inflammatory
Research
■ Antibiotic  Studies in Germany
(1967) and Japan (1986) showed
that the polyacetylenes, especially
within the fresh root, have an
antibiotic effect.
■ Other research  Burdock has
antibacterial and antifungal properties,
and diuretic and hypoglycemic
(lowering blood-sugar levels) effects.
It also seems to have an anti-tumor
action. Recent studies suggest
the seeds are anti-inflammatory,
antioxidant, and hepatoprotective.
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ History  Burdock was a
traditional remedy for gout, fevers,
and kidney stones. In the 17th century,
Culpeper wrote, “The seed is much
commended to break the stone and
cause it to be expelled by urine.” Burdock in its first year produces a rosette
of large leaves.
Infusion  of seeds (to make, p. 291). Use as a wash for acne and boils. ■ Cleansing herb  Burdock is used
in both Western and Chinese herbal
medicine as a detoxifying herb. The
seeds are used to remove toxins in
fevers and infections such as mumps
and measles, and the root helps the
body to eliminate waste products in
chronic skin and arthritic conditions.
■ Skin problems  Burdock’s
diuretic, antibiotic, and mildly bitter
actions make it helpful for skin
disorders, especially where toxicity
is a key factor, such as in acne,
abscesses, local skin infections,
eczema, and psoriasis.
■ Combination remedies
Burdock is rarely used on its own
in remedies. It is generally mixed with
herbs such as dandelion ( Taraxacum
officinale, p. 141) or yellow dock
(Rumex crispus, p. 264). These help
the body to remove accumulated
waste products drawn out of tissues
by burdock’s detoxifying action. Use
of burdock alone can cause a flare-up
of skin conditions such as eczema.
Self-help Uses
■ Acne & boils, p. 305.
■ Skin rashes, p. 303.
Cautions Very rarely can cause contact dermatitis.Parts Used Key Preparations & Their Uses
Fruit is covered
in hooked bracts
Dried root  is
most used to aid
detoxification.
Seeds  have
cleansing
and diuretic
properties.
Dried leavesFresh leaves
SeedsLeaves and fruit  (containing seeds)
are harvested in late summer.
Remedy  For pimples, make
a decoction ( see p. 291) with
2 tsp burdock root and 5 tsp
dandelion root. Drink 3⁄4 cup
(150 ml) twice a day. Dandelion
Burdock
Tincture  of root (to make, p. 292).
For arthritis and skin disorders,
take 20 drops diluted with water
2–3 times a day for up to 4 weeks.
Decoction  of root (to make, p. 291) is an alternative to tincture for
arthritis and skin disorders. Drink 7 tsp once a day for up to 4 weeks.
Poultice  of leaves (to make, p. 295). Apply to abscesses and boils.
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66ArtemisiA  A bsinthiumKey medicinal plantsArtemisia absinthium (Asteraceae)
WormwoodWormwood
A perennial reaching  3 ft (1 m), with gray-green stems and feathery leaves, both covered in fine hairs.
Wormwood is strongly aromatic
and was used to flavor many alcoholic drinks.
Habitat & Cultivation
Wormwood is a wayside plant, native to
Europe. It now grows wild in central Asia and in eastern parts of the U.S. It is also cultivated in temperate regions worldwide. Wormwood is propagated from seed in spring or by dividing the roots in autumn. The aerial parts are harvested in late summer.
Related Species
Artemisia species with a medicinal  use include A. abrotanum (p. 172);
A. annua (p. 67); A. anomala;
A. capillaris and A. cina (p. 172);
A. vulgaris and A. dracunculus (p. 173).
Key Constituents
■ Volatile oil containing
 sesquiterpene lactones (artabsin,   anabsinthin); thujone; azulenes
■ Flavonoids
■ Polyphenols
■ Lignans
Key Actions
■ Aromatic bitter
■ Stimulates secretion of bile■ Anti-inflammatory
■ Eases stomach pain
■ Mild antidepressant
■ Antimicrobial
■ Antiparasitic
Research
■ Bitter herb Research into
wormwood, mostly during the 1970s, has established that a range of
the constituents within the plant contributes to its medicinal activity. Many are very bitter, affecting the bitter taste receptors on the tongue which sets off a reflex action, stimulating stomach and other digestive secretions.
■ Gut inflammation A German
clinical trial in 2007 found that wormwood helped in treating Crohn’s disease (an inflammatory bowel disorder). Wormwood prevented the return of symptoms in 90% of those taking it, and reduced required dosage of powerful steroid drugs taken to control inflammation. Patients also experienced lower levels of depression.
■ Other research Constituents
within wormwood, notably the essential oil, are thought to have wide-ranging therapeutic effects, including neuroprotective, antidepressant, antibacterial, antifungal, and antimalarial activity.
Traditional &
Current Uses
■ Absinthe Wormwood is the
source of absinthe, an addictive
drink favored in 19th-century
France. Flavored with wormwood essential oil, absinthe was toxic due  to its high level of thujone. This is  a nerve stimulant that is safe at low dosage but is toxic in excess.
■ Digestive stimulant
Wormwood is an extremely useful medicine for those with weak and underactive digestion. It increases stomach acid and bile production and therefore improves digestion and the absorption of nutrients, making it helpful for many conditions, including anemia. Wormwood


pregnancy. External use may cause irritation of
the skin. Do not take essential oil internally.
orthosiphon aristata (Lamiaceae)
Java Tea
Description  Shrub growing to about 3 ft (1 m).
Has pointed leaves and lilac-colored flowers with
very long stamens.
Habitat & Cultivation  Java tea is native to
Southeast Asia and Australia. Now cultivated as a
medicinal plant, it is picked as required throughout
the year.
Part Used  Leaves.
Constituents  Java tea contains flavones
(including sinensetin), a glycoside (orthosiphonin),
a volatile oil, and large amounts of potassium.
History & Folklore The plant’s Dutch
Indonesian name, koemis koetjing  (cat’s whiskers),
probably derives from its long whiskery stamens.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Java tea is
listed in the French, Indonesian, Dutch, and Swiss
pharmacopoeias (official documents containing a list
of drugs and their medicinal uses, preparations, and
dosages). It is thought to increase the kidneys’ ability
to eliminate nitrogen-containing compounds. The
herb is much used as a diuretic and as a
treatment for kidney infections, stones, and poor
renal function resulting from chronic nephritis. It
is also used to treat cystitis and urethritis.
Research  Java tea’s diuretic activity has been
confirmed in scientific experiments. Extracts
significantly increase potassium levels in the urine.Medicinal Actions & Uses  Though little used
in contemporary European herbal medicine, Peony
is greatly valued within Unani herbal medicine
from the Middle East. It has anti-inflammatory,
antispasmodic, and sedative activity, and is
prescribed for conditions as varied as nervous
debility, epilepsy, and high blood pressure, and as a
heart tonic. The root has also been taken to treat
whooping cough, and suppositories are made of
the root to relive anal and intestinal spasms.
Related Species  Chinese peony ( Paeonia
lactiflora, p. 117) is much used in Chinese
herbal medicine.
 QCautions  T ake peony only under professional
supervision. Do not take during pregnancy.
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244PaPaver rhoeasOther medicinal plantsConstituents  American ginseng contains
steroidal saponins, including panaquilon.
History & Folklore  Native American peoples
may have considered this herb a means to increase
female fertility. From the mid-18th century, the collection of the herb for export to China became a virtual goldrush, with so many Native Americans out harvesting American ginseng that settlers reported finding villages almost deserted. The Ojibwa people always planted a seed to replace  the herb, but this was not universal practice. American ginseng became rare toward the end
of the 19th century.
Medicinal Actions & Uses  The action of
American ginseng is presumed to be similar to,  but milder than, that of its Chinese cousin, ginseng  (P. ginseng, p. 118). American ginseng increases the ability to tolerate stress of all kinds. In traditional Chinese medicine, American ginseng is employed as a yin tonic, treating weakness, fever, wheezing, and coughs.
Related Species  See ginseng, nototginseng
(P. notoginseng, preceding entry), and Siberian
ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus, p. 94).
Caution  Do not take American ginseng
during pregnancy.Chiefly employed as a mild pain reliever and as a treatment for irritable coughs, red poppy also helps reduce nervous overactivity. The herb may be used in the treatment of insomnia, general irritability, coughs—especially paroxysmal coughs—and asthma, and is generally given as a syrup.
Related Species  See also opium poppy
(P. somniferum, following entry), Mexican poppy
(Argemone mexicana, p. 171), and California poppy
(Eschscholzia californica, p. 207).
 QCautions  Use only under professional
supervision. All parts of red poppy except the seeds are potentially toxic if eaten.
Papaver somniferum
(Papaveraceae)
Opium Poppy
Description  Thick-stemmed annual growing
to about 3 ft (1 m). Has many dull green leaves,
solitary pink, purple or white flowers, and globe-shaped seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation  Native to western
Asia, opium poppy is now cultivated commercially around the world as the source of morphine and codeine, and as an illegal crop for the production of opium and heroin. During the summer, the seed capsules are cut and the white latex that exudes is gathered the next day and dried.
Part Used  Latex.
Constituents  Opium poppy contains more
than 40 opium alkaloids, including morphine  (up to 20%), narcotine (about 5%), codeine
(about 1%), and papaverine (about 1%). It also contains meconic acid, albumin, mucilage, sugars, resin, and wax. Many of the opium poppy’s
alkaloids have a well-established therapeutic
action. Morphine is one of the most powerful analgesics of all, used extensively in conventional medicine to relieve pain, especially in terminal illness. Codeine is a milder analgesic used for headaches and other pain, and in the symptomatic treatment of diarrhea. Opium’s strongly addictive nature is well established.
History & Folklore  Cultivated for its
medicinal properties for at least 4,000 years,
the opium poppy was introduced to Greece about 3,000 years ago, and from there spread throughout Europe. It was unknown in China
until the 7th century ce, and in Japan until the 15th century. It is mentioned in the Assyrian herbals (c. 1700 bce), and the Greek physician Dioscorides (40–90 ce) wrote that “a decoction of the leaves and flowerheads if drunk and bathed on the head is unrivaled in inducing sleep. The mashed heads, mixed with flour, make a useful plaster in inflammations and St. Anthony’s fire [erysipelas, a bacterial infection of the skin].”Medicinal Actions & Uses  Opium (the
dried latex) is a potent narcotic, analgesic, and antispasmodic, and has been taken to relieve pain of various kinds. In all the main herbal traditions it is regarded as a powerfully “cold” remedy, reducing physical function and sedating or suppressing nervous activity, pain, and coughs. In view of its addictive nature, opium is mainly used after other less powerful analgesics have failed to bring relief. It is also an effective remedy for acute diarrhea and severe coughs. Pharmaceutical drugs produced from opium poppy include morphine and codeine.
Research  Much research has been done,
confirming most of the uses of opium poppy  listed above.
Related Species  See also red poppy
(P. rhoeas, preceding entry), Mexican poppy
(Argemone mexicana, p. 171), and California
poppy ( Eschscholzia californica, p. 207).
 QCautions  Use opium poppy only under
professional supervision. It is subject to legal restrictions in most countries.
Opium poppy’s seed
capsules contain a
latex that is the source
of morphine.Papaver rhoeas (Papaveraceae)
Red Poppy
Description  Delicate hairy-stemmed annual
growing to 3 ft (90 cm). Has basal rosette of
lance-shaped leaves and deeply incised stem
leaves, 4-petaled red flowers with black anthers, and small rounded seed capsules.
Habitat & Cultivation  Red poppy is native
to Europe, North Africa, and temperate regions of Asia, and is naturalized in North and South America. It thrives on cultivated land and on
road verges. The flowers are picked in summer.
Parts Used  Flowers.
Constituents  Red poppy contains alkaloids
(including papaverine, rhoeadine, isorhoeadine, and many others), meconic acid, mekocyanin, mucilage, and tannin. The alkaloids are similar to those in the opium poppy (P. somniferum, see following entry), but are much milder.
History & Folklore  According to Agnus
Castus, writing in the 14th century, “If a man hawe ony peyne aboutyn his eyne or if a man hawe a mygreyn tak this herb and stamp it and nedle it with oyle de olywe and anoynt ther-with the forhed and it schal amende the syth and slake
the peyne and distroye the mygreyn.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses  Red poppy
flowers are mildly analgesic and sedative, and
have long been used in European herbal medicine, particularly for ailments in children and the elderly. Flowerhead
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 will get dirty in
less than 30 days — A filter should be changed ever y 30 days even if your water supply
is clean.
4.  If a coffee enema makes a person jittery, shaky, ne rvous, nauseated, or light-headed, the
coffee solution is too strong. The amount of coffee  can be adjusted from 1 teaspoon to 4
tablespoons per quart of water as tolerance level p ermits.
5.  The high, retention coffee enema should consist of 1 quart of coffee, held for 15 minutes.
Some people, children especially, can take and reta in only a pint (2 cups) of enema solution at a time. If this is the case, one must t ake 2 enemas each time, one right after the
other, and hold each for 15 minutes as directed.
6.  Upon rising each morning plug in the coffeepot for a few seconds to bring coffee to body
temperature; unplug and take the morning coffee ene ma.
How To Take A Coffee Enema
A.  Before the enema do some form of mild exercise if p ossible, such as walking briskly. If
one is extremely debilitated and weak, this step wi ll of course need to be omitted until
strength returns.
B.  Attempt a normal bowel movement. The enema is much more effective if the colon has
been evacuated. One should not become disturbed, ho wever, if there are no regular bowel
movements, or very few, during Metabolic Medicine’s  Cancer Cure Program. In many
cases, not enough bulk collects to instigate a norm al bowel movement. When no normal
bowel movements are forthcoming, the enema cleans t he colon adequately.
C.  Bulk formers such as Metamucil™ (or other brands of  Psyllium Husks obtainable at drug
or health food stores) taken as directed, or 2 tabl espoons of miller’s bran with each meal
(obtainable at the health food store) are quite hel pful in forming stools and thereby
creating more normal bowel movements for those who take daily enemas.
D.  After the normal bowel movement, if one is forthcom ing, or before taking the coffee
retention enema, most people find that taking an en ema with 1 quart of warm RO filtered
water or distilled water is very helpful (do not re tain this enema). This procedure begins
the cleansing of the colon, removing large particle s of residue and most of the gas. When
it is completed, the coffee retention enema may be taken. The warm water enema is
optional and does not need to be taken if the coffe e enema can be retained for the desired
period.
E.  Place 1 quart of coffee in your enema bag or bucket. You may use a Fleet enema bag,
which is a disposable large volume plastic bag, an over-the-counter item from the local
pharmacy or hospital supply outlet. This enema bag lasts about 2 years.
F.  The enema tip on the end of the hose is not adequat e to give a "high enema." Place a
colon tube (DAVOL) size 24 French or 26 French or 2 8 French on the opposite end of
the plastic tube from the enema bag. This colon tub e is a soft flexible rubber-like tube
around 30 inches in length. It follows the curves a nd flexure of the colon. The colon tube
is usually inserted about 12 to 20 inches into the rectum. (Editor’s Note: It is difficult
today to find a colon tube. However, a plastic rect al catheter or tube about 18 inches long
may be ordered from your pharmacy as an over-the-co unter item.)
G.  Next, allow the coffee to flow to the end of the co lon tube, thus eliminating any air in the
tube.
H.  The colon tube should be lubricated with natural cr eamery butter, Vitamin E cream or
other lubricant that doesn’t contain additives or c hemicals.
I.  Insert the tube 12 to 20 inches into the rectum, if  possible. This should be done slowly, in
a rotating motion that helps to keep the tube from "kinking up" inside the colon.
J.  The enema bag should not be over 36 inches higher t han the rectum. If it is placed too
high, the coffee runs into the colon too fast and u nder too much pressure, causing
discomfort.  K.  There are several positions that can be used while inserting the colon tube. Squatting is
one. There is also the knee-chest method, with ches t and knees on the floor and buttocks
in the highest position possible. Most people, howe ver, find it easiest to lie on the left
side until the solution is out of the bag or bucket. The enema should never be taken while
sitting on the toilet or standing.
L.  Some people’s colons have kinks or turns in them th at may prevent the tube from being
inserted even 18 inches. Often, if a little bit of the solution is allowed to flow into the
colon as the tube is being inserted, one may comfor tably get past these kinks.
M.  If a kink bends the tube too much and stops the flo w of liquid, then the tube can be
inserted only as far as it will go, still allowing the liquid to flow freely.
N.  Sometimes, if one hits a kink that stops the flow o f the liquid completely, the tube can be
pulled out slowly just to the point where the solut ion is felt flowing again. Frequently, the
tube can be pushed back in, past the turn that prev iously stopped the liquid.
O.  Because of the shapes and formations of some people ’s colons or of course if a child is
being given the enema, it will be possible to inser t the tube only a few inches.
Occasionally, this is a permanent situation. Often,  however, as the colon is cleaned and
healed, the tube can eventually be inserted further.
P.  The tube should never  be forced when discomfort occurs.
Q.  After the flow of the solution is completed, one ma y remove the colon tube, although it
isn’t necessary to do so. Regardless of the positio n used up to this point, one should now
lie on the left side for at least 5 minutes, then o n the back for another 5 minutes, then on
the right side for at least 5 minutes.
R.  Those who have excessive gas may leave the tube in the colon with the hose clamp open.
This allows gas to escape through the enema contain er. Frequently, the coffee will go in
and out of the enema bag or bucket until the gas is  relieved.
S.  After the enema is retained for 15 minutes or longe r, it may be expelled.
T.  One is now ready for the rest of his daily routine clean and refreshed!
Helpful Hints
1.  If you find you have a lot of gas and it is difficu lt to retain the enema, try putting 2
tablespoons of blackstrap molasses into your coffee  solution.
2.  If you get a sudden gas bubble causing an urge to e xpel the solution, breathe very fast
through your nose using your abdominal muscles like  a bellows. This usually helps the
colon wall break up the gas bubble.
3.  If you find that a little coffee leaks out, place a n old towel under your buttocks.
Intestinal Obstruction
Occasionally, the intestinal tract will become obst ructed. Usually under these circumstances, no
food or feces will come through. After a few days, one becomes extremely nauseated and starts
vomiting. He or she will be very sick and will norm ally run a high temperature. This should be
watched quite carefully, for in such cases immediat e emergency treatment is absolutely
necessary. One should never allow themselves to become extreme ly toxic. But, in order to distinguish
between a healing toxic reaction and an intestinal obstruction, as soon as nausea or vomiting
develops and no food is passing through, all supple ments and food should be stopped for 5 days.
Water and juice may be taken during this time.
If there is no vomiting, food is passing through, a nd the temperature remains below 100 degrees,
the diet and normal routine may be resumed, as one may assume there is no obstruction.
A point to remember is that one shouldn’t fail to c ycle off the supplements routinely before
reaching such a state of toxicity!
If, during the 5 days off the supplements with no s olid food intake, one begins to vomit and has
abdominal pain with high temperature, the physician  should be consulted so that he or she can
check for intestinal obstruction.
Cleansing The Kidneys
The kidneys are vital organs of detoxification. The y filter approximately 4,000 quarts of blood
daily. The metabolic wastes, largely urea, are elim inated and the acid/alkaline balance
maintained. Many drugs are eliminated through the k idneys, especially the common pain-killing
drugs that can be extremely damaging to these organ s. Such drugs include aspirin, phenacetin
and acet


less in the face of what Life brings next.
So make peace with knowing very little.  About Love.
About Others.
About how life should  be.
Make amends wit h how things are.
Not knowing a thing,
walk with gentle knees,
ready to drop to them, at any moment
that Life dictates it.
Keep an empty hand
so that it can be brought to your heart
when a grief arrives.
Make up a bed that you can fall into
as your own, comforting arms.
_______
We come to find that Life is mostly quiet.
It asks us to live by our Knowing, while
surrendering  that very same thing.
It vibrates easily around us,
candid and benevolent.
You see, it’s only
when we root ourselves solid in some knowing again,
that Life seems to have to shout —
rises,
lovingly,
from Its whisper.
—‘Life Is Mostly Quiet’  © 2007 Em Claire  12.
WHERE OUR TRUTH COMES FROM
I HOPE THAT YOU  noticed that all I was doing in the process I just shared with you was
simply e ncouraging that lady to start her thinking at a new Point of Origin. She was invited
to place her Apparent Truth, rather than her Imagined Truth, at the beginning of her
thought process.
When I screamed in her face she actually had Three Brands of Truth to  select from as
she formed her thought about what was going on. By choosing one of those truths she
formed a thought which created an emotion which produced her reality. First she produced
a Distorted Reality. Eventually she elevated her experience to the Observed Reality. She did
it all by simply changing her mind.
Do you see what else “workshop lady” was doing just then? She was doing what we are
all doing all the time. She was creating her own reality. Reality is not what’s happening, it’s
what we think  is happening. We don’t experience what’s going on outside, we experience
what’s going on inside  about what’s going on outside.
Many people think that “you create your own reality” is a spiritual doctrine. Yet this
business of creating one’s own reality is not something that is done at what most people
think of as a spiritual level. It is done at a psychological level. It is a function of the mind. It
has to do with the Mechanics of the Mind.
Now that you understand exactly how this happens, you will be able  to make  it happen.
At will. And then... you’ll be free. Free of emotional turmoil, free of anguish and frustration
and anxiety and fear —the unwelcome emotions that so often accompany unwanted change
and life disruptions.
When I was a kid in the fifth g rade there was this bully who would not leave me alone.
Every day he’d find a reason to bump me in line or on the stairs or in the lunchroom or
wherever. And every day I’d say something like, “Stop it! You’d better stop it.”  And I can
remember to this day him sneering at me and saying, “Yeah? Whaddya gonna make of it,
huh... huh? ”
Of course, he was being very wise. Without knowing it, but very wise nonetheless.
Because he was asking the quintessential question of all of life, and about every change that
occurs within it. What are you going to make of it?
This is life’s inquiry every time something happens on the outside of our mind. Every
time any event occurs. Every time something goes down. Whatever it is. It doesn’t matter. It
could be that a relative dies. It could be that you’ve lost your glasses. It could be that your
spouse is in a bad mood. Or in a very good  mood. It could be that you’ve just been laid off.
Or just been hired. Always, always, the question from Life is the same:
What are you going t o make of it?
Your answer creates your experience.  Most of us don’t see it that way, but that’s exactly what’s going on every moment of our
lives. We are receiving incoming data from the outside world and we are creating our
reality out of it.
We are creat ing that reality quite literally out of thin air. We are creating it out of pure
thought, and that thought emerges from the truth  that we hold in our mind. All of which
leads us to the next logical inquiry. Where does that truth come from?
First we asked, where does reality come from? And the answer was: it emerges out of
our experience. Then we asked, where does our experience come from? And the answer
was: it emerges out of our emotion. Then we asked, where does our emotion come from?
And the answer was: it emerges out of our thought. Then we asked, where does our
thought come from? And the answer was: it emerges out of our truth. Now we ask, where
does our truth come from? And the answer is: it emerges out of our data.
And where does our data come from? W ell, it is generously supplied to us by many
sources. Our parents. Our family. Our friends. Our neighbors. Our teachers. Our models. Our
culture. Our religion. Our entertainments. Our games. And all of our own previous actual
“on-the-ground” encounters wit h life —all of which have, in turn, been affected by all of the
above.
Then  we ask... what stimulates, what causes, the “bringing forward” of all this past data
to our awareness? And the answer is: an Event. A happening. An occurrence outside of your
min d. All events call up Past Data.
And THEN we ask: What causes The Event?  And the answer is: Our Reality.
In other words, one thing leads to another. In still other words, the whole thing is a circle.
Are you getting  this? That straight line... the Line of Causality?... that line is not
straight at all. It is a circle.
There are no straight lines in the universe. They only look straight. All lines ultimately
curve in on themselves. Ever look “as far as the eye can see”? You’re looking into thin air!
The earth is curved. Beyond the horizon, it curves. Everything is curved. Time. Space.
Everything, not just the horizon. What I am referring to now is what is called the Event
Horizon.
Okay, here again is our Line of Causality...
event+data+truth+thought+emotion=experience=reality
Now, in your mind’s eye, bend this line around  so that the two ends meet in the back, like
a watch band. Then you will see the truth. Events touch Realities which touch Events which
touch Realities which touch Events which touch Realities which...
They butt up against each other.
Oh, boy... this is doing more than bending the Line of Causality. This is mind bending.
Whew.
Okay... I need a little break here. I really do. I mean, I’m writing  this an d I need a little
break. How must it be on your  end...? So...  Let’s take a short break.
Breathe into what you’ve just read, maybe review it a time or two... then, put it on the
back burner and let it simmer.
Only if you’re ready to go on, drop do wn to...
WHAT DO WE HAVE TO GO ON?
Are you able to see yet how any of this could apply to you? Are you starting to put
together how your experience of what is happening right now in your life could be changed
dramatically by understanding —and then using —the mechanism I’ve been describing
here?
All you have to do is change your innermost truth about what is happening. Begin your
thinking in a new place. Yet here is a new challenge....
There is no clean starting point. No fresh perspective.
Someone once  said, “Within human life no fresh perspective is possible after Day One.”
That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the point is clear. We are almost always coming
from Prior Data when considering any given moment. How else could it be? We have
nothing to  go on  except what’s been going on.
Or do we...?
What creates your thought is the “truth” you buy into. And what determines the truth
you buy into —Apparent Truth or Imagined Truth —is which past data you look at.
Here we go, deeper and deeper down the r abbit hole. Soon the Mad Hatter will appear,
swearing to us that what is so is not so, and that what is not so is so. Here we go, deeper
and deeper into the Matrix. Soon the Man in the White Suit will take us to the White Room
with all the television scree ns and explain it all to us....
What we will learn is not only that it is from your Past Data that your innermost truth
emerges, but from the choice you make  of the Past Data you select to look at.
During the truth -creation process (yes, your mind creat es the truth, it does not observe


 freedom,
immigrants, Germany, Nazism, Hitler, World War II, an d so  on.
Notice t hat the flow of words  spreads out on its own, going in any
and every direction. By a sim ple exercise in word association, you
have woven one strand of the web that creates the known world.YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 13

The mind has entangled us in a virtual reality of our own
making.
In creation myths around the world, God or gods stand apart,
looking down on the world th ey created. For humans, however, we
created virtual  reality and then stepped into it. The pu rpose of
virtual reality was to allow us  a double role, as both the authors of
our own stories and the actors who play them out. The two roles
are mind-created, and keeping them separate is confusing. When
trouble arises, people ask themselves, “Did I do this to myself?”
without being able to answer.
Entangled in virtual reality, w e find it easier to simply go along
and pretend we play only one  role, the actor. Yet the role of author
is fa r more im portant. Unfortunately, how to be an author has
been lar gely forgotten. Life is too confusing already. By waking up,
you clea rly see  your role in the creative process. You are no longer
helpless or a victim, any mor e than Romeo and Juliet are  victims
of Shak espeare. They came to life in their author’s awareness, as
you come to life every day in yours.
For Today
Put yourself back at the creat ive center of things. The next  time
you order food or ask to s ee something in a store, fra me the
situation this way: I had the thought that put this situation in
motion. I put the thought into words. The words caused another
person to undertake a new action. That action prompts another
action by the cooks in the kitchen (or the manufacturer who
made the goods in a store), who are earning a living to create
their ow n stories, and the sum total of these stories is humanhistory. Therefore, at every  moment, my thoughts are at the
creative center of history.
This is more th an a new way  to frame a commonplace act ivity.
It is the truth. You are the creative center of things, ever and
always.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 14

The body, mind, and world, when seen directly and
without interpretation, are actually one activity.
Even though we busy oursel ves with a thousand things a  day,
seeing the world as one th ing comes naturally. To a devout
believer, the one thing is Go d’s creation. To most scientists, the
one thing is the physical u niverse. But these are conditioned
responses. Believers cannot consult God to confirm their belief,
and scientists cannot confirm where time, space, matter, and
energy come from. What if you look at the world directly, without
a co nditioned response? Yo u would see that the one thing is
awareness constantly modifying itself. Body, mind, and world are
experiences in consciousness. This alone can be verified.
Experience is the touchstone of reality. When you wake up, it
becomes the only touchston e you need. You join the play of
consciousness and revel in it.
For Today
The play of consciousness embraces all of creation. Today you
can join the game as an enjoyable experience. Take a moment to
do s omething that makes yo u happy—it could be lunch with a
friend, appreci ating the trees and sky, watching children on the
playground. If  your enjoyment comes from eating ice c ream at
midnight, that ’s perfectly fine. Whatever you are doing, re lax into
your en joyment and notice it. Enjoyment is the easiest w ay to be
here no w. Just by noticing yo ur enjoyment, you have put yourself
into the eternal play of consciousness.YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 15

Upon close examination, no external world or physical
body can be found independent of our perceptions.
We are so used  to living with  a divided self that it is a big step
to see beyond it. The divide d self tells you that you live in two
worlds, one “in here” and on e “out there.” But if reality is a single
thing, t his view is mistaken. Consciousness is the one thing. It
unfolds as one reality. Know ing this, you have firm gr ound to
stand o n—your own awareness. The conditioned mind corrupts
and dis torts awareness. It colors your perceptions, forcin g you to
accept t he division between the inner and outer worlds. Waking
up c larifies the truth. All wor lds are experienced in consciousness.
There is no need to prove the existence of the physical world or
not to prove it. You are here now, and that is enough.
For Today
It’s not difficult to merge the  inner and outer worlds into one.
Find a photo of yourself; it can be your driver’s license or a
snapshot. Holding the photo  in your hand, look at yourself in the
mirror. Then look at yourself in the photo, and finally, see yourself
in y our mind’s eye. As you m oved from seeing your physical body
reflected in a m irror, capture d on film, and inside your mind, each
was an experience in conscio usness. On that basis, there w ere not
three different experiences. There was one experienc e being
modified in three ways. Everything in life stands on the same
ground, as experiences that are modified consciousness.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 16

Since there is no independent physical world, everyday
reality is a lucid dream taking place in the vivid now.
Dreams aren’t  all cut from the same cloth. Some dream s are
vague, b arely more vivid than having a fleeting memory when you
are awake. At the opposite extreme are so-called lucid dreams.
When you’re having a lucid dream, you have no clue tha t it is a
dream. You are fully immers ed in it and, when you wake up, it’s
hard to acknowledge that the dream wasn’t real. Likewise, virtual
reality is a fu ll-immersion experience. There are few clues to
suggest that you are not fully awake.
For that reason, glimpses of  clarity, moments of joy, creative
insights, and the experience of meditation are precious. They
suggest that you are immersed in a vivid, lucid dream. Waking up
will come as a  surprise—for many people, it’s a shock to  realize
that they’ve been asleep all th eir lives. Every passing moment was
like experiencing the vivid now. Once awake, however, now
becomes a window into pure consciousness. It doesn’t matter what
fills the now. What matters is that you are fully awake to it.
For Today
Moments when  you see through the spell/dream/illusion often
happen sponta neously—they come upon you by surprise. There’s
no set way to bring about such glimpses; the closest you can come
is throu gh meditation. Still, you can prepare the ground today for
the seed of metareality experience. At any time, take a look
around, smile to yourself, and say, “Imagine, this is all a dream,
and I am th e dreamer.” The smile is important. It’s likeanticipating Christmas as a child. You know something good is
coming and, by reminding yourself, you open the way.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

 DAY 17

Now isn’t a moment in time that can be grasped and held.
Now is the rise and fall of awareness.
If you want to  know who enforces the rules of virtual re ality,
the cloc k is a good place to st art. The tick-tock of clock tim e slices
life into segments of secon ds, minutes, and hours. Once you
identify with clock time, your life passes in seconds, minutes, and
hours. Such an existence is m echanical and routine. Breaking out
of virtual reality, now has to become a state of awareness, not a
slice of bread. When you wake up, now is a presence; it is the
unbroken experience of being here.
Experiencing this presence, you witness how the stream of
consciousness delivers a se quence of fleeting sensations and
perceptions. Dividing this stream of activity into seconds, minutes,
and hou rs is a mental construct only. When you are awake, you
pay more attention to the presence of awareness than  to the
fleeting events taking place in the mind.
For Today
Mental activity is very clingy. You have a stake in the thou ghts,
sensations, images, and feelings that pass through your mind. But
you do n’t have to have a stake in those thoughts, sensations,
images, and feelings. Imagin e that you are sitting on a co mmuter
train looking out the window. As the scenery rushes by, you don’t
see it by picking out each building, tree, car, or person. It’ s all just
the passing scenery. If you ha ppen to notice something that stands
out, it passes just as quickly as the things you don’t noti ce. Now
instead of windows, substitute your eyes. You are sitting behind
them watching the passing scenery.


	Being	the	best	you	can	be	appeals	to	you,	and	this	turns	into	a
strong	motivation	spiritually.	Although	others	may	see	you	only	in	worldly
terms,	you	can	surprise	them	by	being	selfless,	generous,	and	willing	to	serve
others.
A	way	of	life	that’s	naturally	compatible	with
understanding
	is	drawn	to	the
truth.	There	is	a	constant	need	to	know	more.	A	high	value	is	placed	on	living
your	own	truth,	which	you	associate	with	integrity	and	honesty.	You	trust	your
mind	to	guide	you	forward.	You	have	no	time	for	secondhand	opinions	and
conventional	wisdom.	You	look	up	to	people	who	have	insight	and	can	impart
it	to	others.	Your	streak	of	skepticism	keeps	you	from	following	anyone	who
hasn’t	earned	your	respect	for	telling	the	truth.	In	your	mind,	you	distinguish
between	appearances	and	reality.	There	are	moments	when	reality	seems	quite
mysterious	to	you.	The	material	world	doesn’t	tell	the	whole	story.	You	want	to
go	beyond,	or	transcend.	The	way	you	do	this	is	primarily	by	going	deeper	into
your	personal	understanding	and	self-awareness.	At	your	best,	you	feel	secureenough	to	open	new	doors	that	take	you	into	the	unknown.
The	Awakening	Process:	Finding	Your	Beauty	in
the	Light
A	beautiful	transformation	begins	to	take	place	when	you	see	that	you	belong
in	the	light.	When	people	successfully	find	a	way	to	live	in	the	light,	their
experiences	on	the	path	turn	out	to	be	very	similar,	because	there	are	certain
stages	that	apply	to	almost	everyone.
Stage	1:	First	Signs	of	Awakening
Stage	2:	Opening	the	Door
Stage	3:	Dedication	to	the	Path
Stage	4:	Resting	into	Existence
Stage	5:	The	True	Self	Becomes	the	Only	Self
Radical	Beauty	is	universal.	These	are	stages	of	awakening	experienced	for
thousands	of	years	in	every	culture.	Even	though	social	roles	have	changed
dramatically	and	society	has	become	much	more	secular,	you	will	discover	that
your	personal	journey	will	repeat	the	same	soul	journey	that	was	undertaken	at
the	time	of	the
Buddha,
Jesus,
Saint	Teresa,	and	anyone	alive	today	who	lives	in
the	light.	Let’s	look	more	closely	at	how	the	five	stages	unfold.S
TAGE	1:	FIRST	SIGNS	OF	AWAKENING
Being	beautiful	means	seeing	yourself	that	way,	and	for	this,	you	must	be	wide
awake.	Because	the	light	of	awareness	exists	in	everyone,	it’s	hard	to	imagine	a
life	that	doesn’t	contain	moments	of	awakening.	But	many	other	things	happen
during	a	typical	day,	and	it’s	quite	common	not	to	notice	the	first	signs.	Let’s
say	that	you	wake	up	one	day	and	there’s	a	sense	of	lightness	and	ease	as	you
begin	your	day.	The	lightness	stays	with	you	and	even	increases	instead	of
fading.	You	may	think	to	yourself,	“I’m	having	a	good	day.”	People	smile	at	you
more	than	usual;	the	things	you	need	to	accomplish	are	done	more	easily—it’s
as	if	all	the	gears	are	lubricated,	with	minimal	friction.	You	go	to	bed	feeling	a
sense	of	ease	and	fulfillment,	yet	when	you	wake	up	the	next	morning,
everything	has	gone	back	to	normal.	You	face	a	day	of	duties	and	demands	that
feels	like	every	other	day.	The	memory	of	your	very	good	day	quickly	vanishes.
Yet	what	you	actually	experienced	that	day	was	a	sign	of	awakening,	giving
you	a	clue	to	the	inner	beauty	you	could	be	radiating	all	the	time.	We	said	that
when	you	are	struck	by	something	beautiful	outside	yourself,	you	are	actually
communicating	with	your	own	inner	beauty.	Likewise,	when	your	existence
feels	lighter	and	easier,	that’s	your	inner	beauty	also	being	reflected.	You	are
glimpsing	the	truth	of	who	you	really	are,	because	beauty	and	truth	cannot	be
separated.	They	are	qualities	of	pure	consciousness,	pure	being.
At	this	early
stage,	terms	like
pure	consciousness
	and
pure	being
	hardly	seem
relevant,	because	they	are	too	foreign	to	your	daily	experience.	Even	so,
everyone’s	life	contains	glimpses	of	beauty,	love,	joy,	and	fulfillment	that
register	on	the	emotional	level.	The	problem	is	that	we	need	to	do	more	on	the
mental	level.
We	need	to	recognize	that	a	sign	of	awakening	has	appeared.
We	need	to	give	significance	to	this	experience.
We	need	to	value	and	pursue	it.
People	get	stuck	in	everyday	existence	and	accept	as	normal	a	life	where
there’s	no	expectation	of	waking	up.	Glimpses	of	the	light,	however	striking,
don’t	propel	them	into	a	new	kind	of	normal,	which	is	higher	and	better.	But	if
you	mentally	notice	what’s	happening	to	you	and	give	it	significance,	instead	of
saying	to	yourself,	“I’m	having	a	good	day,”	you’ll	say,	“I’m	being	touched	by
the	light.”	This	simple	shift	is	enough	to	reframe	your	whole	experience,
making	it	a	clue	to	higher	consciousness.Please	glance	back	at	the	list	on
this	page
	that	outlined	the	most	common
signs	of	awakening—each	is	a	moment	in	the	light.	Keep	noticing	such
moments	and	pause	to	let	them	sink	in.	Turn	inward	and	relish	what	is
happening	instead	of	simply	letting	it	pass.	Let	every	image	of	beauty	you	see—
from	those	you	love,	from	children	at	play,	from	glorious	nature—really	sink	in.
Savor	the	moment	as	a	precious	gift.	You	are	venturing	into	the	experience	of
communing	with	your
true	self.	The	more	you	do	this,	the	more	you	will
naturally	want	to	pursue	these	beautiful	experiences.	You	are	beginning	to	wake
up	to	your	spiritual	beauty.S
TAGE	2:	OPENING	THE	DOOR
Once	you	taste	beauty,	you	want	more.	At	a	certain	point,	once	you	notice	and
value	the	signs	of	awakening,	you	feel	the	desire	to	explore	what’s	happening	to
you.	There’s	a	sense	of	curiosity	about	what	your	life	might	be	like	if	it	changed
in	unexpected	ways.	You	might	also	feel	restless	and	dissatisfied	with	how	things
are	going	presently.	At	this
stage	people	make	a	conscious	decision	to	let	in	the
light.	A	major	decision	involves	being	kinder	and	more	compassionate	to
yourself.	Let’s	look	into	this	shift,	which	brings	in	much	more	light	the	more
you	experience	it.
When	we	are	kind	to	other	people,	we	let	them	know	that	they	are	good	and
lovable	just	as	they	are.	Self-compassion	is	saying	the	same	thing	to	yourself.
Pause	for	a	moment	here.	Do	you	love	yourself	just	as	you	are?	The	way	that
people	answer	this	question	reveals	a	great	deal	about	themselves,


 and adjust the central psychic channel
which runs through the spinal cord, the sushumna nadi.
Displacement of the spinal vertabrae is detrimental to the
flow of prana through the sushumna, and causes disorders in
the nerves and internal organs - as well as the nadis and
chakras - controlled by them. The asanas in this second 54
group are designed to correct vertebral displacements, thus
helping to purify the sushumna. This is an indispensable
preparatory step for arousing the kundalini and awakening
the chakras.
(1) Tadasana
Stand erect with your feet four to six inches apart. Gaze at
an object directly in front of your eyes. During inhalation
raise the arms overhead with the palms facing upwards, and
look up at the hands. Lift the heels and stretch the whole
body as if it were being drawn upwards. Hold the breath for
one or two seconds and then, during exhalation, return slow
ly to the starting position. Repeat 10 times.
Tadasana Hasta uttanasana 55
Benefits: Tadasana develops and stretches the rectus ab
dominis (stomach) muscles, and promotes proper spinal
bone growth. It clears up congestion around the inter
vertebral foramina, and also protects the nerves emerging
from these foramina from undue pressure by correcting ver
tebral displacements. Walking 100 steps in tadasana after
drinking six cups of water can clear non-chronic intestinal
blockages.
(2) Hasta uttanasana
Stand with the trunk erect and the arms at the sides. While
inhaling, raise the arms above the head at shoulder width
and bend the head and trunk backwards slightly. Concen
trate on the vishuddhi chakra for one or two seconds, then go
into pada hastasana.
(3) Pada hastasana
Exhaling, bend forward from the hips until the palms or
fingers touch the toes, or grasp the backs of the ankles and, if
possible, place the forehead against the knees. In the final
Pada hastasana 56
pose, breathe out completely, drawing in the lower ab
domen, and concentrate on the svadhishthana chakra for
one or two seconds. Raise the trunk slowly and move back
into hasta uttanasana. Keep the legs straight throughout the
movement. Practice these two asanas in alternating succes
sions 10 times.
Benefits: Hasta uttanasana stretches the abdominal viscera
and improves the digestion. It also removes excess abdomi
nal fat and exercises the arm and shoulder muscles. All the
vertebral joints are stimulated and the spinal nerves toned.
The functioning of the lungs is improved through the expan
sion of the alveoli (lung compartments).
Pada hastasana benefits the digestion and the blood cir
culation, and is an effective treatment for constipation and
gastro-intestinal disease. Surplus fat in the abdominal region
is reduced. The spinal nerves are toned and the spine is
made supple.
(4) Yoga mudra (Psychic union pose) 57
Sit in the lotus position (padmasana) and close the eyes.
Hold one wrist behind the back with the other hand and
relax. Slowly bend the trunk forward until the forehead
touches or nearly touches the ground, relaxing the whole
body as much as possible in the final position. Slowly return
to the starting position. If necessary, beginners may place
padding under the buttocks while performing this asana.
Breathing: Breathe normally, relaxing the body. Inhale.
slowly and deeply in the starting position, and then exhale
while bending forward. Breathe deeply and slowly in the
final position for five or more minutes, and inhale as you
return to the starting pose. Repeat the asana a few times.
Concentration: On the manipura chakra.
Caution: Do not strain the back, ankles, knees, or thighs by
stretching more than their flexibility permits.
Benefits: This asana massages the abdominal organs and
helps to counteract malfunctions there, including constipa
tion and indigestion. The individual vertebrae are separated
from each other and the spinal autonomic nerve fibers pass
ing through the intervertebral foramina are gently stretched
and toned. These nerves connect the entire body with the
brain and improvement of their condition contributes to
overall health. This asana is also very effective in awakening
the manipura chakra.
(5) Paschimottanasana (Back-stretching pose) 58
Sit on the floor with the legs extended, arms on thighs, and
relax the whole body, especially the back muscles. Slowly
bend the upper torso forward, sliding the hands along the
legs to grasp the big toes with the fingers and thumbs. If this
is impossible, hold the feet. If even this is difficult, as is often
the case with beginners, hold the ankles or the legs as near to
the feet as possible. Again consciously relax the muscles of
the back and legs. Keeping the legs straight, pull the trunk a
little lower toward the legs, using the arms rather than the
trunk muscles. This should be a gentle process without any
sudden movements or excessive strain anywhere in the
body.
If possible, touch the forehead to the knees. As this is
usually difficult for beginners, bending forward as far as
possible is sufficient. Do not use force under any circum
stances. Some weeks or months of regular practice will
enable the forehead and even the chin to touch the knees. Re
main in the final pose for a comfortable length of time, relax
ing the whole body, and then slowly return to the starting
position.
Note: The knees must not bend, as one aim of this asana is
to stretch the posterior muscles of the leg. These will
elongate in time.
Breathing: In the sitting position breathe normally; then ex
hale slowly, bending the trunk forward to grasp the toes. In
hale while holding the body motionless and exhale when
pulling the trunk further forward with the arms. In the final
pose breathe slowly and deeply, and inhale when returning
to the starting position. If it is impossible to hold the final
pose for long, simply hold the exhalation.
Duration: Adepts can comfortably maintain the final pose
for five minutes or more. Beginners, however, should repeat
the abbreviated asana several times. The spiritual benefits
are considerable if the final position is held with complete
relaxation for extended lengths of time. 59
Concentration: On the svadhisthana chakra.
Limitations: People who have displaced intervertebral
discs should not attempt this asana; nor should those suffer
ing from sciatica, chronic arthritis, or sacral infections.
Benefits: The hamstring muscles are stretched and the hip,
sacroiliac, and lumbar vertebral joints are loosened. Flatu
lence, constipation, backache, and also excess fat in the ab
dominal region are effectively removed. All the abdominal
organs are toned and abdominal disorders, such as diabetes,
may slowly improve. The kidneys, liver, pancreas, and
adrenal glands are activated. As the pelvic organs are also
toned, this asana is especially useful for relieving gynecolo
gical complaints. It also improves the flow of fresh blood to
the spinal nerves and muscles. Paschimottanasana is tradi
tionally regarded as a very powerful asana for spiritual
awakening and is highly praised in ancient yoga texts.
(6) Pada Prasarita Paschimottanasana (leg-spread variation)
Sit with the legs spread as wide as possible (180° is ideal)
and breathe normally, relaxing the whole body, especially
the back muscles. Exhale slowly, bending forward, and place
the hands on the floor with the fingertips touching. Try to
touch the forehead to the back of the hands. Breathe slowly
and deeply in the final pose for several minutes, then return
to the starting position. 60
Concentration: On the svadhishthana chakra.
Benefits: The same as paschimottanasana, but this pose is
more effective in loosening the lower back and the hip joints.
(7) Bhujangasana (Cobra pose)
Lie on the stomach with the legs extended and place the
palms on the floor underneath the shoulders. Rest the
forehead on the ground. Relax the whole body. Slowly lift the
head and shoulders off the floor, pulling the head back as far
as possible. In performing this movement, raise the
shoulders with the back muscles, not the arms. The whole
back is slowly bent back as far as possible until the arms are
straight. Keep the navel close to the floor.
Breathing: Inhale while raising the trunk. Breathe normal
ly in the final pose, or, if the final pose is held for only a short
time, the breath can be held inside.
Duration: Keep the final pose as long as is comfortable, and
repeat five times.
Concentraton: On the vishuddhi chakra.


 and be
profited by it."
After this narration he took me to two persons who have been
benefited by his advice.
223 224 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
1, Rampyari of thirty years had irritation in her right fingers and
they had sepsis also. But a fortnight's urine-wash made her fingers
return to their healthy normal state.
2. Shri Ram Pratap is a carpenter aged 45 years. For the last
three or four yers he was suffering from cold and occasionally ran
temperature aslo. Even after a year's atlopathic medication, it could
not tender. him ac.y complete or lasting relief from his ailment. It
only aggravated constipation. So in 1974 he began to drink
autc-urine daily twice orthrice and within ten days or so he was
well. During tr.:Jtment he had given up smoking hukah. Now
occasionally v.'hen any comlaint is felt he takes urine. He thinks,
urine to be the most beneficial for strenght and energy.
-.:
-EDITOR
3. Thirty-year-old pain in legs : Shrimati Bhagavtiji, wife of the
famous Hindi writer and thinker, began to feel pain in her legs.
Gradually it" became so acute that it renderd her invalid and
crippled. For a year she was under homoeopathic and for a couple
of weeks or so electric.treatment. No discernible gain was registered.
On reading about urine therapy she adopted· it. Even with her first
drought.she felf a' return of strength.
For seven days she massaged for two hours daily with old urine.
Due to certain circumstances she could not proceed with her
treatment but she had already regained 70% of her old activity.
Whenever there is pain she manages with urine.
She invariably takes her morning constitutionals and eats only
bread made from self-ground flour. She has implicit faith in urine
therapy.
4. Sciatica : Shri i.~~lkiat Singh Gill is Sports Instructor at the
Central PubliC School of the Pherozepur Cantonment (Punjab). He
wa~ suffering fr6m nervous ailment of the hips and the thighs. He
was also· a patient of gastric congestion. He had very little appetite.
Nature-cure could not give·him complete relief. Urine therapist Shri SKIN DISEASES : 225
Vi jay Kumar Gupta, Advocate, treated him under auto-urine thE:rapy
and put him on a fast with urine. A fortnight urine intake and
massage cure) him of all his complaints.
5. Paralysis at:d Spindly Sl:2en : Miss Saraswati Janwade, 25,·
elder sister of Ashok Janwade of Indore (M.P.) is a teacher in a
Bhilai school. Mr. Janwade narrates how his sister was saved:
11My greate.;t achievement in the field of auto~urine therapy can
be the miraculous recovery of my elder sister. She was bed-ridden
for tbree months. Not to talk of getting up from bed she could ~ot
even,move her body below waist. Her left leg was slowly losing its ·
tone. Even touching her affected part would give excruciating pairi.
Some bedsores also had erupted. In this condition I massaged he~ for
two or three hours daily with urine, occasionally. even with fresh
urine. Giving up all medication she was given her urine twice or
thrice daily. Within a fortnight she was half way through recovery
and by the end of the month she could get up and move. Today she
is fully recovered.. lt is now only four months since she began her·.
t1eatment. Her left leg which was getting thinner Mas regained its
natural tonal shape and is ful.ly healthy.11
~-•
Ct:fAPTER VIII
SKIN DISEASES
1. Eczema :_(1) Shri lajjaram Chaudhuri who was them 75 years
old lived in Tikriwalan (DeHli). He had dedicated his life to the
service of his country since the Jallianwala Bagh episode. He was a
leader in the struggle for freedom. Nowadays he is engaged in rural
uplift.
About two years ago, he had suffered from eczema. He,massaged
himself with (stale) urine for 45 minutes and drank urine once. He
was cured within a month. Had he taken a fast with urine he would
have been we!l much earlier. He had also not observed dietatic
restrictions. I'' 226 : AUTD-URINE THERAPY
2. Shri Ravi Jain of 25 years lives in jammu. His right arm, back,
neck and forehead had been affected with eczema. Itching and
irritation was experienced all over the body. Pus and blood used to
ooze out of sores as large as a rupee coin.
Vaidyas' and doctors' treatment had some effect but on
discontinuing the treatment the disease would relapse. His family
members also were troubled;
Shrimati Kala Jain advised him to try Shivambu (urine therapy).
He drank it four-five times a day and mqssaged every day for an
hour. The sores were covered with urine-soaked earth packs
overnight and for two hours in the morning. His sores were cured in
a fortnight and he was free_from the disease within a month.
· There were several other cases of recovery from eczema.
2. Pyoderma. and Psoriasis : Shri Mavji Gokuldas Asar aged 50
'lives in Bombay. Here is in substance what he narrates in his letter to
Dr. Paragji Desai dated 1-3-1973 :
"I was. suffering from psoriasis and pyoderma for about five
years. I tried allopathic, homoeopathic, Ayurvedic and nature cu~e
treatments without any gain. I was so desperate due to my ailment
that I was planning to resign from my service and retire to my native
place in Kutch. But then my friend Kanji D. Vaidya inspired and
encouraged me to have recourse to urine treatment. I resolved to
take up this treatment till I am fully recovered. ·
I followed instructions given in the book Manav mutra regarding
urine intake and urine massage. In the beginning for a few days I
felt nausea, restlessness and weakness. One day while in sleep, I
passed urine in the bed. Its colour was like blood. I was frightened
and so consulted the Vaidya, who wa.s my well-wisher. He advised
and encouraged me to continue the treatment with faith and
patience I thereafter gradually recovered and by the end of fifth
month I was about 95% cured. Even now I continue to drink urine
twice daily, and take occasional massage with it. I am quite certain
that I shall be completely cured."
·~ ; SKIN DISEASES : 227
3. Rashes : Smt. Asha Mehta's (see Asthma and inflammation ef
lungs in Hindi, p. 135) son Anafsingh also has faith in urine
th-.rapy. Smt. Asha Mehta describes how her son cured his
colleague of his skin cisease:
"My son's class-mate used to get rashes on his body. My so~,
who was studying in the Engineering College of Patiala, used to
keep two or three-bottles filled with his urine. They were labelled
"Nectar of Life" 1, 2, 3. Whenever anyone had an injury he would
treat it with botte No. 1, which had urine several da(S old. Bottle
No. 3 contained fresh ·urine which he used.ln eye-trouble and
similar conditions.
"His class-mate came one day and said, 'You have some
medicine called nectar. Give me some. I am at my wit's end owing
to these rashes.' He gave some quantity from No. 1 and asked his
class-mate to apply it both in mornings and evenings. With a week's
application the rashes vanished."
4. Nine-year-old sore : Last year a Jain Mulli told me that Shrl
Satyendra Muniji propagates the urine therapy. In somana Mandi
(Punjab), I met him after Divali. He told me that at his instance
several people had been free from their respective ailments. He also
narrated his own case. He had cured but it turned into a sore.
Western and :ndigenous medicines, even the so-called "germscutter"
proved futile. He had to suffer from it for nine years. At last urine
massage and urine intake drove away the nine-year-old complaint.
-EDITOR
5. Pimples on the Face : ::hri Hansraj Choudhari studies at the·
agriculture college in Anc.1d (Gujarat). He was much troubled
with pimples on his face. At my suggestion. he began urine
treatment. With the massage of urine and drinking


 hope and pray?” He replied,
“I don’ t know. It’s not my line.” Her ECaP  experience taught her how to
hope and pray, and Stephanie has altered the course of her disease,
exceeding expectations, and her doctor is now making notes about her
success. Later she wrote that this doctor, in mentioning hope and prayer,
“was actually prescribing the one medication that was going to cure me,
and he never even knew it.”
The reverse ef fect can even kill. Frances, a woman in her eighties, came
to me when she lost faith in her former physician because of his negative
attitude. Despondent because of repeated nagging illnesses, she reached out
to him for reassurance, and he asked her, “Well, how long do you want to
live, anyway?” She was smart enough to see what this outlook was doing to
her, and she left.
I remember one man who wasn’ t so lucky. Ellen, an ECaP  group
member, once called her husband, Ray, who was hospitalized with cancer,
to see how he felt. He said, “Fine.” Fifteen minutes later she arrived for a
visit, and he was dead. In the interim, Ray, who’d been in and out of the
hospital several times, had asked his doctor when he’d be able to leave.
After the reply, “Oh, I don’ t think you’ll make it this time,” he died within
minutes.
The physician’ s habitual prognosis of how much time a patient has left
is a terrible mistake. It’ s a self-fulfilling prophecy. It must be resisted even
though many patients keep asking, “How long? How long?” They want
someone else to define the limits of life instead of taking part in that
determination themselves. People who like their doctors and who are
passive often die right on schedule, as though to prove them right.
Physicians must stop letting statistics determine their beliefs. Statistics
are important when one is choosing the best therapy for a certain illness, but
once that choice is made, they no longer apply to the individual. All patients
must be accorded the conviction that they can get well, no matter what the
odds.
Exceptional patients have the ability to throw statistics aside—to say, “I
can be a survivor”—even when the doctor isn’ t wise enough to do so. Just
think of the courage it took for someone to conquer a certain type of cancer
that no one had ever conquered before. Hope instilled that kind of courage
in William Calderon, who achieved the first documented recovery from
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).* Calderon was diagnosedin December 1982. His doctors told him he would probably be dead in six
months. Understandably, he became depressed and hopeless. Almost
immediately Kaposi’ s sarcoma, the type of cancer that most often
accompanies AIDS, appeared and began spreading rapidly on all areas of
his skin and throughout his gastrointestinal tract.
Soon Judith Skutch, co-founder with astronaut Edgar Mitchell of the
Institute of Noetic Sciences and now President of the Foundation for Inner
Peace, arrived at Calderon’ s hair -styling salon for her regular appointment.
Noticing by his eyes that he had been weeping, she got him to tell her the
reason. Her next words turned out to be the key to saving his life. She said,
“William, you don’ t have to die. You can get well.”
Skutch described the Simontons’  work with cancer patients. With
unwavering love and support from her and from his lover, Calderon came to
believe in his own survival. By continuing at the job he loved, he refused to
give in to the disease. Instead he began meditating and using mental
imagery to combat it. He worked to restore strained relationships with his
family and achieved peace of mind by for giving people he felt had hurt him.
He loved his body with exercise, good nutrition, and vitamin supplements.
And from that point on his immune system showed increased response and
his tumors began to shrink. Two years after the diagnosis, Calderon showed
no signs of AIDS.
The exceptional patient often gets angry at a doctor ’s heavy-handed
pronouncement of doom. Linda, a nurse I know who refused chemotherapy,
was told by her M.D., “Y ou’ll be sorry. You’ll come crawling back here in
six months.” She kept thinking, “That S.O.B.! I won’ t die, just to prove he’ s
wrong.” She lived for over five years without his therapy, and then decided
to use it to live even longer.
I have a copy of a letter from a young woman named Louise to a “rock
’n’ roll doctor,” who had a radio show combining music with medical
advice and with whom she became close friends while she was in the
hospital. As a teenager Louise developed cancer of the ovary with
metastases to the lungs and abdomen. Her oncologist “gave” her six to
twelve months to live with chemotherapy. She told him only God could
decide when her number was up, and began to take her life into her own
hands. She left home because of stressful living conditions there, got her
own apartment, and spent her last ten dollars to place a newspaper ad,
looking for other cancer patients who needed her help. At one point heroncologist had refused her any further treatment because she was “too far
gone,” but six months after she had taken the path of her own choosing, all
her tumors had disappeared. Her doctor couldn’ t even tell her this out loud.
Instead, with tears in his eyes, he handed her a prescription form on which
he’d written, “Y our cancer has disappeared.” On the day she was sup posed
to be dead, Louise sent him a joking note asking, “Where should I send the
casket?”
The “rock ’n’  roll doctor” wrote to tell me that, if he hadn’ t happened to
hear me speak about exceptional patients, he probably wouldn’ t have made
the connection between Louise’ s “miraculous” recovery and her spiritual
growth. Instead, it made sense to him, and they both came to one of our
ECaP  meetings to share the experience.
Louise chose to love and give, making the kind of spiritual and
psychological changes that people who experience self-induced healings
always make. It takes enormous strength to do this when the voice of
authority is telling you you’re supposed to die. The problem is, exceptional
patients are a minority. If eight out of ten patients are not survivors, it’ s easy
to ignore the two who potentially are.
I’m trying to publicize such cases so that more doctors look for them
among their own patients. Then they will see that healing is not a
coincidence. When so defined, as in the phrase “spontaneous remission,” it
teaches doctors nothing and stimulates no inquiry into the causes behind it.
On the contrary, healing is a creative act, calling for all the hard work and
dedication needed for other forms of creativity.
I often get letters from doctors about patients I’ve referred. When a
doctor reports amazing improvements in a patient’ s condition, he or she
almost never mentions that person’ s beliefs and lifestyle, but when I
inquire, I find the patient always  has made some drastic change toward a
more loving and accepting outlook. The patient seldom tells an unreceptive
doctor about this, however.
Unexpected healing happens often enough that physicians must learn to
project hope at all times, even in what seem to be the final hours. Patients
are not looking for the results of a medical Gallup poll. They’re looking for
a success-oriented relationship. They’re looking for someone to say, “Hold
on, you can make it. We’ll help you”—as long as the patient wants to stay
alive. It is not for us to evaluate the worth of continued life for anotherperson. As long as my patients are living in a way that has value to them,
I’m there to help them continue.
However, if a patient has decided it’ s time to die, I see no contradiction
in aiding with that, too. I can help resolve conflicts that drain ener gy,
knowing that this resolution may initiate healing after all. Thus, although
telling people they will die by such and such a day is destructive and has no
place in medical practice, acceptance of death need not take away hope.
Paradoxically, preparation for death can promote the cause of life. One
cancer patient, for example, was looking awful one Friday, and told me she
wanted to die. I said, “T ell your children and your parents how you feel, and
then it’ s okay. They don’ t realize how bad you feel.” On Monday when I
returned to the hospital, she looked great; she was wearing her wig, a suit,
and makeup. I said “What happened?” She said, “I told my parents how I
felt and my kids how I felt, and then I felt so good I didn’ t want to die.”
And she was dischar ged from the hospital.
Despite the need for optimism, no part of the diagnosis should ever be
hidden. The truth can always be delivered with hope, since no one can be
certain of the future. Moreover, I can now accept illness and see my primary
task as helping patients achieve peace of mind. This puts the physical
problems in perspective. Getting well is not the only goal. Even more
important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace


 cold, cough, constipation, abdominal spasmodic pain etc.
Sanskrit name – Kusumbha beeja (Saﬄower seed) or Kusumbha taila
(Saﬄower oil)
Other English names – Parrot seed, Bastard saﬀron, False Saﬀron, Saﬀron
istle
Botanical name – Carthamus tinctorius Linn.
Saﬄower is not commonly used in Vata disorders. But is very useful in high
Kapha and Pitta disorders.
Saﬄower seeds and seed oil are laxative, diuretic and bitter tonics. But excess
intake increases the Pitta in the body due to its hot potency.
e textbook Bhavaprakasha proclaims its potent diuretic properties when
administered in decoction or hot infusion forms.
General method of preparation of decoction (kashaya) – 1 tablespoon of
powder is added with 2 cups of water, boiled and reduced to 1 cu p, ltered.Seeds and owers are used abundantly by the folk healers and cultivators of
saﬄower.
Few of the simple and eﬀective remedies of Kusumbha re explained here
below –
Dried Saﬄower Flowers in Obstructive Jaundice
1–2 Grams of the dried owers are taken and ne powder is made. is is
administered along with a cup of jaggery water (a teaspoon of jaggery dissolved
in a cup of water) or 30 ml of decoction of Bhumyamalaki (Phyllanthus
niruri).
10–12 days medication gives signicant benets.
Tender Leaf Curry or Fresh Juice for Cold and Rhinitis
Tender leaves are used as curry. Useful in cold, asthma, rhinitis, headache etc.
Seed Oil with Milk for Constipation and Haemorroids
2–3 ml of the seed oil is administered along with a cup of warm milk. is is
said to be very eﬀective in hemorrhoids and constipation. But excess intake of
seed oil is not encouraged.
Seed Powder with Jaggery for Constipation, Spasmodic Pain and
Abdominal Colic
1–2 Grams of seed powder is mixed with a teaspoon of jaggery and
administered early in the morning, preferably. is is eﬀective in constipation,
spasmodic pain, abdominal colic, cramps etc.
Poultice for Abdominal Pain During Pregnancy (False Pain)
e leaf and seed are made into poultice and applied below the naval portion,
in cases of repeated false pains caused during pregnancy.1.140. Senna Home
Remedies: Flatulence,
Constipation, Skin Diseases
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Indian Senna is one of the best natural laxatives. It is called Markandi in
Ayurveda.
Botanical name is Cassia angustifolia Vahl and it belongs to Leguminaceae
family.
Today we nd two more varieties of senna in the market –
Alexandrian senna – Cassia acutifolia Delile and
Italian senna – Cassia obovata (L)Collad.
In fact Indian senna is appreciated and used worldwide in large amount for
laxative benets.
e leaves are the main usable parts of the plant.
Senna Remedies
Senna Powder and Cumin Seeds for Flatulence, Distension of
Abdomen, Regurgitation, Constipation etc.
Both the drugs senna and cumin seeds are taken in 4:1 ratio and ne
powder is made. is is taken in dose of 1 gram twice daily. is2.
3.relieves atulence, distension of abdomen, regurgitation, constipation
etc.
In case of nausea and tastelessness small amount of rock salt can be
added.
Decoction of Senna and Raisins (Dry Grapes) in Heart Burn and
Blotting of Abdomen
e drugs Senna and raisins are taken in 1:10 ratio and decoction or
hot infusion is made. is is taken whenever needed. is helps to
reduce chest burning and blotting of abdomen.
General method of preparation of decoction (kashaya) – 1
tablespoon of powder is added with 2 cups of water, boiled and
reduced to 1/4 cup, ltered.
Hot Infusion of Senna with Honey in Chest Congestion (Phlegm)
and Chronic Cough
1–2 pinch of senna is added to half cup of hot water and kept for a
while. Later 1 spoon of honey is added to this and mixed well. is is
sipped repeatedly in the conditions of chest congestion and chronic
cough. It acts eﬀectively.
Senna, a well-known single laxative herb and hence most of the
Pharmaceutical preparations possess this as a master ingredient in their
anti atulent or laxative formulations. But care should be taken while
administering to kids, pregnant and old aged people as it may cause
mild colic pain in a few individuals. Also its single herb administration
is not well recommended in such suﬀerers. Proper adjuvant like sugar
candy, Indian liquorices, lemon juice etc helps to reduce the severity of
Senna.141. Sitaphal – Annona
squamosa Remedies:
Aphrodisiac, Head Lice
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu) Ph.D.
Y
Sitaphal is not only rich in taste, it is also rich in nutrients and medicinal
values. It is commonly known as Custard apple. Useful in head lice, dandruﬀ,
low libido etc.
Botanical name – Annona squamosa.
Family: Annonaceae family.
Part Used: Along with fruits, the leaves, bark and seeds are used for medicinal
purposes.
Medicinal Qualities
e fruit pulp is mild laxative.
It is a good aphrodisiac and bulk enhancer.
Leaves and seeds are anti-helminthic and anti spasmodic.
e stem bark is rich with wound healing properties.
Medicinal QualitiesFruits are sweet in taste, cold in potency and undergoes sweet biological
transformation (madhura vipaka).
e seeds are pungent mixed bitter and hot in potency.
e bark is pungent in bio-transformation and hot in potency.
Fruits balance Vata and Pitta. ey increase Kapha Dosha.
Sitaphal Home Remedies
Fruit Pulp with Jaggery and Cardamom for Sex Power
e naturally ripened (without the inuence of the chemicals/hormones) fruit
pulp is collected – 1/2 cup.
To this, quarter a cup of jaggery and 2 pinches of cardamom powder are
added and served daily for 15–20 days. is improves libido and acts as a good
aphrodisiac.
Seed Powder for Head Lice
Seeds are crushed well and made into ne powder. is is applied to the whole
scalp and then covered with a cotton cloth. After 1–2 h ours hair is washed.
is can be carried once in 2 or 3 days for a period of 1 or 2 weeks. is
helps in complete eradication of the lice and dandruﬀ.
Stem Bark Decoction for Wound Healing
e stem bark is collected in its fresh form and decoction is made. is is used
to wash the wounds. In chronic ulcers and wounds it has signicant benets.
General method of preparation of decoction (kashaya) – 1 tablespoon of
powder is added with 2 cups of water, boiled and reduced to 1 cu p, ltered.
Leaf Decoction for Dandruﬀ and Itching of the ScalpLeaves are used to prepare the decoction. is is added with little Tankana
bhasma and dissolved. is is used to wash the hair/scalp. 3–4 days regular
head wash or alternate day practice for a week helps to overcome the dandruﬀ
and itching of the scalp.1.
2.
3.142. Tea Benets, Remedies
for Headache, Vomiting, Eye
Care
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Leaves of tea plant are the main usable part. Some use the owers too. Based
upon the kind of processing the Tea is named vividly.
Tea Infusion for Headache and Bad Breath
One teaspoon of tea powder is added to a cup of warm water and kept
for a while. Later, half spoon of lemon juice is added mixed
thoroughly. If necessary little sugar can be added.


45 23 1.35 100 75.26.26 3.10
Garlic 295 30.85 128.90 20 100 1.30.45 2.35
Horseradish 348 14.50 78 1.50 0 500.38.02.05
Kale 410 8.60 30.45 45000 1100 • "5 1.45 12.25
Kohlrabi 408 20 26.80 200 350.25.21 1.65
Leeks 400 11.30 38 1.36 300 100 60.50 3
Lettuce 432 6.30 11.20 1.25 5000 76.38.36 1.72
Lettuce-Romaine 426 7 19 1.80 10000 115.38.52 2.30
Mustard Green 423 9.50 17.80 1.60 22220 308.34.70 2.70
Okra 410 10 32 1.30 3000 200.96 1.12 5.30
Onions 404 7.20 42 1.20 300 89.18.23 1.25
Parsley 387 16 70 37 3 40000 550.60 1.20 5.50
Parsnips 378 7.80 64 3.50 200 95.45.53 1.20
Peas 378 18 50 7 3850 165 1.62.78.05
Bell Peppers 422 5.40 22.60 500 600 38.38 2.30
Potatoes-White 359 9.50 84.60 15 132.63.26 8.15
Potatoes-Sweet 321 8 122 2.20 39000 200.62.43 3.96
Radish 426 5.40 22 45 75 176.21.20 1.65
Spinach 408 15 20 1050 48000 280.68 1.15 3.26
Turnips 414 15 65.50 40 200.29.42 2.95
Watercress 423 9.60 12.90 1.20 29000 471.51 1.09 4.60
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GRAMS
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on one pound
per category E
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Alfalfa 7.945 1.497 9.08 1.135 1.316 1.589.0007 1.271.681 131 262 2.50
Artichokes.14.12 1.95 57.20.16.01.16.44 121 242 1.60
Asparagus.056.051.706.157.053.0025.008.004.005 142 286 1
Beans-Kidney.21.12 1.70.41.52.01 01.09.13 126 66 252.34 3
Beans-Lima.20.50 4.75.92.43.02.02.07.66 103.34 206.66 6
Beans-String.54.45 2.30.47.92.01.01.51.13 133.34 266.66 1.68
Beets.32.18 1.94.62.32.05.40.46.46 133.10 266.20 1.22
Broccoli.46.11 1 75 73.68.05.10.25.43 135 270 2.63
Brussels Sprouts.13.13 1 70 1.10 1.93.03.01 •5 02 129.50 259 3.60
Cabbage 80.18 1 92 1.50 1.12.03.04.36.44 139 278 1.45
Cabbage-Savoy.21.63 2.65 1.45.81.17.47.78.99 139 278 2
Carrots.48 '8 1.56.54.27.04.10.20 91 131 262.85
Cauliflower.24 •5 1.75.80.50.04.15.14.23 138 276 2.05
Celery.64.22 1.54.47.21.05.14.57 2.10 143 286.90
Chard.367.271 2.295.163.058.0134.0312.063.613 139 278 1.80
Chives.95.24 1.50.68.56.07.01.19.19 136 34 272.66 2
Corn.08.41 1.25 1.29.58.01.08.16.50 114 228 2.50
Cucumbers •5.08.80.40.14.03.16.13.20 145 290 1
Dandelion Greens 1.70.70 3 30.67.17.07.61.23.80 129.40 259.6 2.12
Eggplant.10.14 1.30.32.15.03.02.22.10 141 282.91
Garlic.43.55 2.40 1.20 1.40.02.10.25.40 98.34 196.66 5.15
Horseradish.66.23 2.30.42 2.48.16 1.02 1.02.04 116 232 2.40
Kale.80.20 2.30 1 2.41.04 0'.29.15 •36 63 273.30 1.50
Kohlrabi.80.57 1.90.40.48.16.14.27.50 136 272 3.60
Leeks 1.08.02 2.75.34.30.44.30.35 133.34 266.66 1.90
Lettuce.70.30 1.80.45.18.25.39.37.36 144 288 1.05
Lettuce-Romaine.70.25 1.50.65.23.08.18.25 2.09 142 284 1.15
Mustard Green.581.086 1.197.159.62.0095.01.016.102 141 282 1.60
Okra.75.15 1.10.41.33.01.10 05.45 137 273 1.66
Onions.59.14 1.40.15.12.45.08.09 135 270 1.20
Parsley 1.65 40 3.50.75.90.03.17.19.40 129 258 2.80
Parsnips.40.20 2.70.82.63.02.76.84.08 126 252 1.30
Peas.17.30 1.60 1.20.58.01.01.15.12 126 252 3
Bell Peppers.30.54 2.10.75.30.07.15.14.17 141 282 1
Potatoes-White.13 25 2.90.85.32.05.10 17.15 120 239 1.60
Potatoes-Sweet.73.36 1.45 1.10.57.03 09.35.18 107 214 160
Radish.68.14 1.45.50.30.12.04.40.96 142 284.95
Spinach 2.15 1.15 3 1.81 1.25.11.82 1.14 640 136 272 2.50
Turnips.65.21 2.70.84.55.03.05.38.33 138 276 2.50
Watercress 1.25.31 1.60.80 1.92 02.01.28.61 141 282 1.60
83 FRUIT VALUE CHART
COMPOUNDS VITAMINS
Figures based GRAMS INTER. MILLIGRAMS
on one pound CO UNITS
per category
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fater £ o it


 scientist state that in medical science "no researcher
can assess a drug's effectiv eness with scientific certainty without testing it against a
placebo." Also, as outlined, it was not HAART, but the huge widening of the definition
of the disease as well as the drastic reductions in doses of AIDS drugs such as AZT
that made the death rate from AIDS come down in the rnid-1990s. Moreover, new
studies show that most of the medical industry's drug promises are false.
Pharmaceuticals hyped in glossy advertisements and TV commercials aren't
responsible for improving test patients' health-rather, this can largely be traced
back to the placebo effect. This is particularly worth noting when you consider that
131 Chapter 3
no expense is spared in bringing effective medications onto the market: expenditures
for pharmace uticals increased by 2,500% between 1972 and 2004-from $20 billion
to $500 billion annually.2 46 247
Moreover, two studies by the American Food and Drug Admini stration (FDA)
make a case for the general introduction of placebo controls. This makes sense,
since it is fully possible that proposed new drugs will have no effect at all. Or that,
compared to the placebo, they are harmful; something that is also very possible,
because medications are, as a rule, often connected with side effects-even fatal
ones sometimes. 248 249
What right does the medical industry have to preach about ethics when its own
human trials sweeps mortalities and physical damage under the carpet in the lust to
get authorization to market their medications to the general public? In the USA
alone, 3. 7 million people-mostly poor hispanic immigran ts-have registered to
participate in medical trials.
Lack of transparency and conflicts of interest continue to plague these drug trials,
which are sponsored by the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.250
Even our most vulnerable citizens aren't protected from the machinations of the
medical industrial complex, as revealed in 2004. Infants as young as a few months
old were experimented upon in US clinical trials, partly financed by pharmaceutical
firms like GlaxoSmithKline, involving cocktails of up to seven medications. They
were mostly black and Iatino children from the poorest of circumstances gathered
together under the auspices of institutions like the Incarnation Children's Center
(ICC) in New York; the ICC was even remunerated for supplying children for the
tests. "Stephen Nicholas, for example, was not only director of the ICC until 2002;
he also simultaneously sat on the Pediatric Medical Advisory Panel, which was
supposed to check the tests-which signifies a serious conflict of interest," criticizes
Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), a
medical industry watchdog organization.
These first-line Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials are associated with the highest health
risk because they are not meant to establish efficacy, so impact on the trial participants
is highly unpredictable. These early trials aren't meant to deliver an effective therapy,
but rather, figure out how toxic the substance is (Phase 1) in order to then estimate
if the active substance being tested has any effect at all (Phase 2). Biotechnologist
Art Caplan explained that the odds are typically stacked up against the drug: if
Phase 1 trials prove that a substance is useful for an individual, this would have to
be termed a "miracle. "251
"The children were suffering horribly from the side effects of the drugs tested on
them," according to journalist Liarn Scheff, who broke the story in early 2004, on an
alternative website. "And children who didn't want the substances were even forced
132 AIDS: From Spare Tire to Multibillion-Dollar Business
to take them. For this, plastic tubes were sewn through the abdominal wall by
surgeons, through which the substances can be directly injected into the stomach."
The result: brain and bone marrow damage, blindness, strokes-and "some children
also died," according to Scheff.252 The New York Post seized upon the story and ran
the headline: "AIDS Tots Used as 'Guinea Pigs"'25La term which the BBC also used
for their television documentary "Guinea Pig Kids."254
In 2005, an official investigation ultimately came to the conclusion that
"government-funded researchers who tested AIDS drugs on foster children over the
past two decades violated federal rules designed to protect vulnerable youths."255
This finally prompted the New York Times, which is otherwise always the first on
the scene on the subject of HIV I AIDS, to take up the highly explosive topic as well,
with a decidedly different spin. In an article, two pediatricians were quoted as saying
that, "to have withheld promising drugs from sick children just because they were in
foster care would have been inhumane," and "there is impressi ve evidence that [the
children] were helped [by the medications ]."256 Details on this evidence, however,
were never offered up. We even requested that authors of the Times article name the
studies that prove these statements-but there was no response.257
This might seem incredibly shocking, but it is all-too common in AIDS research.
"I have scoured the literature for evidence that the anti-HIV drugs actually prolong
the lives, or at least improve the quality of the lives, of the children given these
drugs-but I could not find any support for either possibil ity," says AIDS researcher
David Rasnick. "For example, the study 'Lamivudine in HIV-infected children� by
Lewis et a!, not only has no control group but the authors also acknowledge that the
[antiretroviral] study compound Lamivudine acts as a DNA chain terminator. And
there is no data in the paper showing that the drug does anything good for the
children. On the contrar y, among the 90 children in the study, '11 children had to be
withdrawn from the study for disease progression [in other words, it didn't work for
them] and 10 because of possible Lamivudine-related toxicity, and 6 had died."'2 58
But the AIDS orthodoxy continued along its own path, calling the clinical trials
involving children so "resounding" in their success "that the tests are now being
spread out to Asia and Africa," according to Annie Bayne, spokesperson for the
Columbia University Medical Center, which was also involved in the trials. This is
not unusual, for AIDS research often goes into poor countries to carry otit its
medication trials. This is also true for trials of the efficacy of so-called microbi cides,
which are said to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV, and from which so much
is promised.
"Marvelous microbici des: [the] intravaginal vaginal gels could save millions of
[human] lives," announced the Lancet in 2004, then qualifying their hopes by adding
that, "first someone has to prove that they work." Nothing has been proven at all, yet
133 Chapter 3
the miracle has already been announced far and wide. Experts, as the Lancet
continues, were of the firm opinion that "micro bicides will only reach everyone ·who
needs them [if] large pharmaceutical companies get involved. In the remotest part
of Thailand you can buy a bottle of coke. We want microbes to be available like
that."
This is all the more striking if you consider that the first microbicide tests of the
active substance nonoxy nol-9 (n-9) ended in catastrophe. At first, n-9 was also
glorified by researchers as a microbicide with "ideal potential microbicide because
in vitro [test tube] studies pointed to its effectiveness."259 900 "sex-workers" from
Benin, the Ivory Coast, South Africa and Thailand were selected for a clinical trial,
which involved smearing gel laced with n-9 into their vaginas. But the gel not only
had no medical efficacy, as UNAIDS admitted, 260 it also damaged the poor women's
epithelial cells. 261
AZT Study 198 7: A Gigantic Botch-Up
"If there is really doubt about whether a standard treatment is effective, the FDA
should require that clinical trials of new treatments have three comparison groups
new drug, old drug, and placebo," writes Marcia Angell, former Editor in Chief of
the New England Journal of Medicine.262 For AIDS research, this meant that placebo
groups had to be introduced to medication trials, for there were justified doubts that
the efficacy of AZT (the standard AIDS treatment) had really be proven with the
1987 Fischl study.
Journalist and Harvard analyst John Lauritsen, who has viewed the FDA
documents on the Fischl study, came to the conclusion that the study was "fraud";263
the Swiss newspaper Weltwoche termed the experiment a "gigantic botch-up" 264 and
NBC News in New York branded the experiments, conducted across the US, as
"seriously flawed"265-<:riticism which is not to be found in the rest of the mainstream
media either because the statements of the AIDS establishment are completely
trusted, or because, like the Neue Zurcher Zeitung's scientif ic editorial staff, one
simply does not know of even such a significant study as that of Fischl et al.266
The F