 hormone by 2000% in the urine. This is key. Its not
just HGH, but also every other beneficial substance that your body makes all
increase by a large amount. The amounts are different per substance and each individual situation. Bearing in mind that there are still an unknown number of
substances made by the body that are as yet unidentified by science. These
substances are made by your body for your body and haven’t yet been named or
even identified, but they are all in your urine. You can trust your body, you don’t
even need to know the names or what they are for, just trust your body. One final point about what you can trust and what you can’t. Can you really trust
any pills or other substances you are taking into your body. No you cannot. But
you can trust your urine. Can you trust any water source you drink into your
body.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's experience with omad and orin looping?,
A: The author claims that omad and orin looping has changed their life in a profound way, allowing them to overcome serious health problems, including gastrointestinal issues and chronic pain, and experience immense happiness and enjoyment from food.
Q: What is the author's view on juice fasting?,
A: The author is opposed to juice fasting, stating that it is not a true fast and does not provide the same benefits as omad and orin looping.
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of urine in health and wellness?,
A: The author strongly advocates for the use of urine, stating that it is a valuable resource that can be used to heal the body and improve overall health.
Q: What is the author's advice on the importance of attitude and stress?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and not getting stressed, as this can affect the quality of the urine and the body's ability to heal and regenerate.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the role of insulin in weight loss and aging?,
A: The author explains that insulin is the hormone that tells the body to store fat, and that consuming anything other than pure water or urine during a 23-hour fasting period will cause insulin to increase, leading to fat storage and lethargy.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Yes if your studying for exams then go on
omad orin looping programme. Even if your not studying for any exams then
eating once a day and looping all your orin will improve your memory and help
your brain become younger and better. You also need less sleep. It is absolutely true. The more you eat the more sleep you need. On omad you
really do actually need less sleep. Your body is not pushing all that food through
you, just a smaller amount once per day. The body can get on with cleansing and
healing the rest of the time. You have a lot more energy and less need for rest
and sleep. It really is true the more you eat the more you need to sleep. If you
eat once per day you can get by on less sleep and still feel fully rested. When it comes near to your eating window, have your last big loop 20-30 mins
before you eat. This is the last one of the day. After your meal don't loop it, start
saving it for tomorrow morning. This will help you digest your meal, and give
your kidneys a rest at night time, and help you sleep without needing to pee in
the night so much, or at all so you can get good quality sleep. So when it comes near to your eating window about 20 mins after your last loop
if like me you choose 5pm or whenever you decide to be your eating window. First prepare your one beverage, which will be a large fruit based smoothie. Pour
into your blender mixed frozen fruit, or freshly picked if you can get them, in the
summer and as far as possible into autumn pick bags of fresh berries, fruit and
you should also include edible greens in your smoothie. Going out and Picking
some wild nettles, dandelions and goose grass just before your eating window
and including them in your smoothie. Also some edible mushrooms and fungus if you can, try to include many different
edible plants, mainly fruits and berries don’t always use the same ones, variety every day, a few mixed nuts and some raw whole hive honey. I also sometimes
add some rolled oats, as long as they are raw. Then a spoonful of unpasteurised
pure blackstrap molasses. Then add handfuls of sprouted seeds and beans. This
is the ultimate, because when they are sprouted the goodness of seeds goes up
thousands of percent. So instead of putting in dried seeds or beans, just sprout
them and the goodness and nutrient content really does go up over 10x,
sometimes more than 20x. Mix it up and consume slowly making sure to mix each mouthful with lot of
saliva. Chew any lumps, don't just swallow them too quickly, there are hormones
in the saliva that are an important part of the digestion process. If you take any
supplements now is the time, for example some super greens  like moringa and
maybe some protein or other powder in your smoothie. I also add some amla
powder which improves blood flow as well as other benefits. This bit is the most controversial but I also include live insects in my smoothie. I
have live insect traps called bug hotels and also breed my own meal worms for
this purpose. These are so full of nutrition you wouldn't believe. And once you
wiz them up in your smoothie maker you can't tell what you are consuming
anyway. Not that it's a problem for me to eat live insects, which I include in my
one beverage quite frequently. This is such nutrient dense food. Then about 10-15 mins later eat and enjoy your one plate meal in the remaining
45mins. This can be absolutely anything, but try to make good choices. A
balance of all food groups over time. Chew everything very well before
swallowing. It’s important to get enjoyment from your food, you have been
waiting all day for this moment. I close my eyes and concentrate on the
enjoyment the tastes and the experience. Your enjoyment goes up a hundred
fold on this protocol, you can have a very good relationship and appreciation of
good food. As time goes on your plant based smoothie can get to be a larger percentage of
the overall meal. I'm now at the point where the smoothie is over 50% of my one
meal, meaning that the one plate meal is smaller than the smoothie. But I'm a
flexaterian, so mix things up occasionally. Variety is the spice of life. Don’t rush anything at this stage. Take your time for your meal to go down and
digest. And when finished you may well have cravings for more of something,
but just wait. There is a delay between what you have just swallowed to your
stomach telling your brain that you are full. You can eat simple salads as much
as you want after if you really feel you need more of something. Just as long as
it's within your 1 hour window. Many times include living sauerkraut or other pro biotic foods with your one plate
meal. Other examples are Japanese miso, or natto. Raw fruit is easy to digest but
raw vegetables are harder to digest than fermented veggies. As it turns out, the
body is able to access more of the precious nutrients available in plants when
they are fermented. Some pickled food is fermented but not all. But apple cider
vinegar can be very good for you in its own right. For example I include a few pickled green walnuts in ACV every now and then. These are not fermented but
still have lots of goodness, it's the only way to eat the green outer shell of the
walnut. We simply digest foods with more ease when they are fermented or in
some cases pickled. Fermented Foods Build a Strong and Resilient Inner
Ecosystem. For the main course, Japanese food like sushi is high on my list. But you want
variety, all food groups. Keep meat to a minimum, not too much, mostly plant
based. Seafood including seaweed as often as possible. Avoid food like
substances, try to stick to real food. Anything your great grandparents would not
recognise as food should be avoided. If you are eating with somebody else then take time to sit around the dinner
table and talk, don’t be in a rush to clear everything away. Mealtime is a great
time or families to talk, so never have TV or any other distractions on. As long as
you finish your last mouthful within your one hour slot from the time of your first
mouthful of your smoothie you can take your time chewing. Then it’s important
to move slowly and not do too much while your one meal digests. Don’t be
tempted to lay down too soon. Best to sit down so gravity helps with the
digestive systems for a couple of hours after your one meal. Rest to digest,
which is why early evening is the perfect time for you omad. But not too near to
when you go to sleep, you want a good few hours resting and digesting before
you go to sleep. After your one meal in the evening from then on any elixir should not be looped
but collected in a large enough container. Make sure the top can breathe, keep it
by your bedside in case you need to fill it in the night. I use a


 that we are in charge of things or
have the capacity to change them. Let us surrender to the
Power that is always in control of things, which is the love
that lies in our own deepest heart. Surrender is the quickest way to go beyond all our
problems. Yet this is not surrender to a person or belief. It
is surrender to the inherent beneficence and consciousness
of life that we all sense when we are free of selfish motives. Such surrender wins all things. However, surrender gener-
ally requires a form. We may have to surrender to the
Divine through the medium of a friend, a teacher, or a
form of God. The Hindu greeting "Namaste" itself means
"I give reverence to our surrender to the Divine in you. " Ayurveda and the Mind
Compassion
Devotion and compassion are two sides of the same
higher feeling capacity which is the right usage of emo-
tion. We should feel devotion to the Divine and to those
individuals who embody divine qualities, like our spiritu-
al guides. We should feel compassion for all creatures, par-
ticularly those who are less fortunate than we are. Compassion, however, is not pity, which is a debilitat-
ing and arrogant emotion. Compassion is feeling together
or having a common feeling, regarding the other as one-
self. It is not merely trying to help others, but recognizing
that the sufferings and joys of others are also our own. Without compassion for other creatures, devotion to
God may become a personal fantasy. To be devoted to God
means to feel compassion for all creatures, including those
who may worship God differently or may not worship God
at all. Compassion is a recognition of the Divine presence
in all beings. On the other hand, without devotion, com-
passion tends to become arrogant. We as individuals can-
not save the world, particularly if we have not already
saved ourselves. To try to help others without first know-
ing ourselves is like trying to save other people in the
water while we ourselves are drowning. Yet, at whatever stage we are at in life, we can always
do service to others, recognizing the limitations of what
we may know and letting a higher grace work through us. The highest form of compassion is also devotion. It is to
seek the descent of Divine grace for the benefit of all. Forms of Devotion
God or the Creator is the primal teacher, the supreme
guru and also the original doctor or healer of all the uni-
verse. We can acknowledge him in whatever form we like. Spiritual Therapies
as he takes whatever form is dear to the individual, but we
will not find inner healing without his grace. The Divine can be worshipped in many different names
and forms. In fact, we should worship God in a form per-
sonal to us or our relationship to him will not be direct. We should choose the relationship with the Divine that is
easiest for us to follow — father, mother, friend, brother,
sister, or beloved. The mother, being the most primary and
intimate of all relationships, is generally the easiest. God is perhaps best worshipped in the feminine form of
the Divine Mother. She contains within herself all love,
beauty, joy and grace. Her power works through Nature,
as the great beauty and delight of creation and as the evo-
lutionary force that causes us to seek spiritual growth. God
can also be seen as the Divine Father and Nature as the
Divine Mother. Nature in this regard is not gross matter
but the creative intelligence shaping and guiding it. Devotion to God is part of the seeking to know who we
really are, which is God. Once we gain knowledge of our
inner Self, we transcend both Nature and God (the Cre-
ator) as realities outside ourselves. We become one with
the Divine and with the pure consciousness behind the
universe. Developing Devotion
The best way to develop devotion is to choose a partic-
ular form of God to worship. Devotion works easiest if it
begins with the use of a form. After all, it is attachment to
form that is the basis of our mind's functioning and its
problems. There are certain pointers we can follow. The
main thing is to have a specific form of the Divine that we
worship on a regular basis. 70 Ayurveda and the Mind
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                  Higher Powers/Self-Aware/self-love
            , thus enhancing capacities/intelligence/imagination/

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Q: What are the three biological humors, and what colors do they respond to?,
A: The three biological humors are Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and they respond to different colors. Vata responds to warm, moist, and calming colors, Pitta to cool and calming colors, and Kapha to warm and stimulating colors.
Q: How can one use color therapy in Ayurveda?,
A: One can use color therapy by applying the principles of the three biological humors, using colors that are harmonious and not overly stimulating. It can also be used by meditating on specific colors or using them in one's environment.
Q: What is the primary method of treating the mind in Ayurveda?,
A: The primary method of treating the mind in Ayurveda is through mantra therapy, which is a powerful tool for psychological healing.
Q: What is the difference between a Sattvic and a Rajasic mantra?,
A: A Sattvic mantra is subtle, pleasant, harmonious, mild, and natural, whereas a Rajasic mantra is bright, loud, flashy, and artificial.
Q: Can one use mantra therapy to heal psychological problems?,
A: Yes, mantra therapy is a powerful tool for treating psychological disorders and can be used to heal the mind and restore balance to the mental field.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Choose a particular relationship to cultivate with
God as father, mother, beloved or friend, as the
creator, preserver or destroyer of the universe,
whatever is closest to one's heart. 2. Choose a particular form to worship like Shiva,
Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Kali, Tara, Kwan Yin,
or the Madonna, whatever is most inspiring. Such
a form may be an image of God, male or female,
or that of a great teacher or avatar. The figure of
a great guru or teacher can also be used. 3. Take the Divine name or mantra of the form of
Divinity to repeat like Om, Ram, Namah Shiv-
aya, Hare Krishna and so on. 4. Do daily rituals, offerings and prayers to this cho-
sen Deity. Meditate on the Deity as your true Self. Rituals
Rituals are important for consecrating our healing
practices. They are major healing practices in themselves
and part of the spiritual therapy of Ayurveda. They put us
in the proper frame of mind to receive the energies of our
deeper consciousness. Rituals are the basis of most devo-
tional practices, which should, however, go beyond them
to meditation. Rituals are important in psychological treatment
because they bring the body and senses of the patient into
the healing process. They serve to provide positive impres-
sions to nourish and heal the mind. Very helpful are fire
rituals71 in which psychological negativity is offered into
the Divine fire for purification. Standard Hindu puja or
devotional worship consists of offerings for all the five
senses: a fragrant oil like sandalwood for earth, liquid food Spiritual Therapies 251 A
for water, a ghee lamp for fire, incense for air and a flower
for ether. It is a well-organized ritual for purifying the
body and mind. Rituals are the most basic devotional prac-
tices. We should offer them to God in whatever form we
choose to worship. They set the stage for all other prac-
tices. Prayer and Mantra
Prayers are supplications to the Deity for help, love or
guidance. We should learn to communicate with God,
who, after all, is our own inner Self. We should develop a
line of communication not only with God but with all cre-
ation, honoring the Divine consciousness inherent in all
that exists. We can pray to the Divine and ask for help in
dealing with our psychological or physical problems. God
never refuses any sincere request, though he does not
respond to mere ego desires. The Deity also possesses a name or mantra. The name
is the most important factor in devotional worship. We
should resort to repeating the Divine Name whenever our
minds become agitated or upset. If we make the Divine
Name our constant companion, nothing can


 pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a
hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. That’ s relativity.”
Joy speeds up the illusion of time while sadness appears to slow it down. Faster ener gy is spirit. Joy is spirit, and it is this fast spiritual ener gy that
will nullify the slower ener gy of sadness. Most of us tend to be drawn to
those who have a positive, joyous outlook. Y ou acquire that attitude by
becoming conscious of the many blessings life has given you. Be a person
with a joyous attitude and you will become someone who radiates this
faster positive joyous ener gy which will dispel sadness everywhere you are. Before you can send joy where there is sadness, you must first work on
your personal ener gy patterns. Resolve to live in the faster ener gy of joy
with yourself. This is accomplished most readily by feeling purposeful in
all that you do as frequently as possible. MOVING T O PURPOSE
Moving toward purpose in your life is like bathing yourself in joy. It is a
simple way to move up to the faster frequencies of spirit. Abraham Maslow
described the ladder of self-actualization as moving up from the basic needs
for food, drink, and shelter to a sense of belonging and beauty appreciation. At the top of the self-actualization pyramid is a deep sense of purpose and
meaning in your life. This is where spiritual joy is experienced. T ime
disappears and you are in communion with the highest aspect of yourself, or
what I call God consciousness. Here at the apex of the pyramid, joy is your
constant companion. This state of bliss depends exclusively on the quality of your thoughts. It
means letting go of your concerns about how you are being perceived by
those around you, it means detaching from the results you produce and,instead, immersing your entire being into the activities of your life. It means
refusing to pursue  happiness and instead bringing  happiness to all that you
undertake. In short, perfect joy is found in the absence of striving for it, and
instead realizing it is within you. A sense of purpose is not about what you do or about going on your ideal
vacation. It is not realized by anything or anyone external to you. Purpose is
found by being willing to suspend your ego, knowing that you are eternally
connected to God, and surrendering the little mind to the big mind. The true
joy of living is in allowing the higher ener gies of spirit to guide your life. In
this state of awareness you never have to ask what your purpose is or how
to find it. Instead, you feel purposeful in everything that you do, and you
bring that kind of joy to all that you encounter. It will not matter whether
you are weeding your garden, reading a novel, shoveling snow, creating
your own symphony, driving through traf fic, or meditating in the silence of
your bedroom. Y ou will be the bringer of joy because you are in harmony
rather than in conflict with God. And the irony is that you will find that the
surest way to get to that state of inner joyful purpose is by giving it all
away. FINDING JOY BY GIVING IT A WAY
Perhaps the surest way to find happiness and joy for yourself is to devote
your ener gies toward making someone else happy. If you make an ef fort to
search for joy you will find it elusive, lar gely because you will become
engaged in the search itself. Y our life will be about striving and your life
experience could be expressed in the sardonic saying that “Life is what
happens while you are making other plans.” However, if you try to bring
happiness to someone else then joy will come to you. You come into this life with nothing and you leave with nothing. The only
thing you can do with your life is give it away. This is the true essence of
feeling purposeful. This is the way to have joy in the face of sadness. Y ou
experience joy when you attempt to bring it to others. This is what Saint
Francis understood to be the goal of life.The entire second part of the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi is a testament
to the truth that we find joy by giving it away. And in order to give it away,
we must possess it ourselves.... grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
And he concludes:
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. I have found that most of the times that I am engrossed in sadness due to a
problem it is because of something that someone else has said or done, or
failed to do. So this is the “problem.” I am sad because of the actions or
inactions of others. Now, of course, this is an illusion; something that I have
created in my thoughts. It is in my mind that I am experiencing the
“problem.” So, what is the spiritual solution? It is always so simple that I
often conk myself on the head for not realizing sooner. The spiritual solution is to attempt to bring some joy to someone else, and
my sadness disappears instantly. And then it reappears in my thoughts again
as I go through the mental dialogue of agonizing over someone else’ s
conduct, and back I go to providing some joy to someone, and the cycle
repeats itself until I finally get the real answer. Send some joy to the people
whom I per ceive to be the sour ce of my sadness. But that seems so dif ficult. After all, my ego reminds me, they are wrong and I am right and my ego
would much rather be right than happy. But I tame my ego, and change the thoughts I have of being wronged to
thoughts of joy for those who I perceived have annoyed me. Instantly and
permanently my sadness dissolves like magic. By sending joyful lovingthoughts to others, particularly to those whom I have perceived to be the
source of my sadness, I end the problem, which only existed in my mind to
begin with. As you get better at finding joy by giving it away you will find that another
shift takes place. First you were working with your thoughts only, which is
where you experience sadness. As you transform those thoughts of sadness
into joy, your emotions will follow. You will experience a shift in your
sense of physical well-being and begin to feel better. You will feel lighter,
more comfortable, and healthier. Your feelings of despair, anger and
depression will begin to dissolve, and then your behavior will change to
follow the path of joy. You will reach out to those who have “wronged
you,” with for giveness and extend a helping hand to those who used to be
classified as your enemies. From thoughts to feelings to behaviors, your entire life shifts away from
problems when you find your purpose by giving joy away. You may be wondering, at this point, if I am suggesting that you should
never allow yourself to feel sad, which would be a form of denial. Of
course you will experience sadness, and I do not advise you to pretend to be
happy and joyful when you are not. So, how do you resolve the obvious
paradox? HANDLING YOUR OWN SADNESS AND THE SADNESS OF
OTHERS
There is a powerful quote from A Course in Miracles  that addresses the
issue of sadness or negative emotions such as despair, darkness, hatred,
injury, and doubt, which have been the subject matter of this book. Nothing real can be threatened
Nothing unreal exists,
Herein lies the peace of God. Yes, you will feel sad at various times in your life. No, you should not deny
those feelings and pretend to be joyful. Y es, it is healthy to express these
feelings, to honor them and not to feel guilty when you do experience them. But go back to this idea that I have been hammering at from the opening
pages. If it is not of God it is not real, and everything is of God, and all that
is of God is good. W e can all agree that sadness, despair, disease, and hatred
are not good. It cannot exist if it is not real, yet you do feel the existence of
the sadness. But it is only a thought created by a mind that feels separate
from God, therefore it is an illusion. When you understand the nature of your sadness you can acknowledge it,
accept it, honor it, and do anything else with it that you choose, including
paying homage to it and building a shrine to it. But in the end, when you
want to dissolve it, bring in the faster/higher ener gy of joy and you can give
it a big, wet kiss good-bye as it floats out of your life. Sadness simply
cannot survive simultaneously with the ener gy of joy. Why? Because it is
unreal, and therefore cannot exist except in your ego-mind’ s eye. God’ s
love is real. Joy is God’ s love. And joy can never be threatened. When you understand this fundamental truth about sadness, that it is unreal
and an illusory product of your mind you will no longer feel such a strong
need to defend your right to be sad. Y ou’ll realize that when you ar gue for


 primarily  oriented  towards  finding  strong,
monetarily profitable chemical "bullets" to knock out specific diseases – and not
towards discovering natural medicines which augment the body's natural capacity
to heal. 68Secondly, most medical researchers work for pharmaceutical companies and many
are contractually bound not to reveal the results of their research until the research
can be applied as a profit-making medical therapy that can be patented by the
company who funded the research. Also, medical researchers tend to devote their research to extremely specialized
branches of medicine, and these separate departments of medicine don't generally
communicate their findings to departments outside of their own research fields. So
the urologists, for instance, who discovered that urine can prevent and heal urinary
tract infections might publish their findings for other urologists, but a doctor in
general practice would probably not come in contact with these studies on the
importance of urine in bladder or kidney infections. The public and most practicing doctors today consider urine to be nothing more
than a body waste. But many medical researchers know that in reality, urine is an
enormously comprehensive and powerful medical substance. Now you get to read
what many scientists and doctors know, but haven't told us about the amazing
curative effects of urine therapy. The research studies and articles selected for this chapter are each nurnbered and
presented in chronological order to present a broad overview of how consistently
and intensively urine has been researched during the twentieth century. You'll be amazed and astounded by these studies on the medical use of urine. As I
was reading over these reports, and looking at all of the other many studies on
urine therapy, I couldn't help exclaiming "Why didn't anyone ever tell us?". More About Urea
As  an  added  note,  many  of  these  research  studies  were  done  using  the  urine
extract, urea, which is the primary organic solid of urine. Urea, an organic salt
formed in the liver,  is the result of the body's use, or synthesis, of protein. The
body eliminates excess nitrogen which is produced during protein metabolism in
the form of urea. Urea is also used by the body to help in the mechanism which
determines how concentrated the urine is, or in other words, how much water is
excreted from the blood. Urea was discovered centuries ago, in 1773, when it was
69first  separated  from  urine;  later,  in  1828,  natural  urea  was  synthesized  or
chemically "copied" in the laboratory. The discovery of urea was one of the most important events of modem chemistry
and biochemistry because it was the first organic compound to be separated in a
relatively pure state. Urea, which is critical to our body's use of protein, also
provides innumerable profound keys as to how our bodies work and function. For this reason, chemists have been fascinated for years by urea and its amazing
and diverse applications in the fields of science and medicine:
"More scientific papers have probably been published on urea than on  any other
organic compound..."
— Journal of the American Medical Association
July 1954, "De Urina"
Urea has so many beneficial properties that it was used historically, and  is still
used today, in a wide variety of medical applications – for reducing excess fluid
pressure  on  the  brain,  as  a  remarkable  skin  treatment  for  eczema,  dry  skin
disorders, and fungal infections; as a moisturizer in cosmetic creams, as a safe and
effective diuretic, and as an anti-bacterial, antiseptic treatment for healing serious
wounds. People who have heard of the term "uremia", or uremic poisoning, often assume
that urea itself is toxic and is therefore excreted in the urine. But this is not the
case. Excess urea becomes toxic to the body only when the filtering mechanisms of
the  kidneys  are  damaged  or  impaired,  and  the  urea  level  of  the  blood  is  not
properly regulated But in this case, excessive amounts of other benign substances
like wáter and sodium become toxic also if the kidney is unable to regulate them in
the blood. As you'll discover in the research studies in this chapter, urea is not only
not toxic, but in reality has tremendous medical and physiological value, and can
be safely used even in large quantities. Urea is on the FDA list of approved drugs for medical use and many products
made from urea are listed in the Physician's Desk Reference, (which is the book
70that  doctors  refer  to  in  deciding  what  drug  to  prescribe),  and  in  the  U.S.
Pharmacological Index. However, as wonderful as urea has proven to be in medicine, I want to  stress that it
cannot and should not be used to replace or supersede natural urine as a healing
agent. As the research in this chapter proves, whole urine contains hundreds of
known and unknown medically important elements that clearly and definitively are
not found in urea alone. Also, as medical studies have unequivocally shown, each person's urine contains
antibodies, natural 'vaccines' and many other critical physiological elements that
are carried in the blood that are specific to each individual's health condition. These elements in whole urine are not found in either natural or synthetic urea
alone. For instance, if you have an allergic reaction to wheat, your body produces a
complex of antibodies to deal with the allergy and those antibodies are found in
your urine. Medical studies have demonstrated that when you reintroduce these
urine antibodies into your system by ingesting or injecting your own urine, that the
allergy can be corrected. But urea alone would not contain these allergy-fighting
antibodies. In using your own urine to heal yourself, you're getting medicinal elements that
your particular body has produced in order to deal with your specific, intricate and
often undetectable disturbances in your body's functioning. You could be exposed to polio, for example or tuberculosis and not even realize it
until acute symptoms appear – but, as medical research has proven, your urine can
contain antibodies to those diseases even if acute symptoms are not appearing. So
regular use of urine therapy can most definitely provide extremely comprehensive
therapeutic treatment that goes far beyond urea or other medicines. This is not to say that other therapies are not useful and effective, they are, of
course, but urine therapy, correctly applied, should be the foundation for our health
regimens and medical treatments and should definitely be used routinely in illness
and preventive health care. 71I recently read a magazine article about a 12 year-old girl in the Midwest who was
admitted to the hospital with a high fever, lassitude, and drooling heavily from the
mouth. Doctors tried frantically but unsuccessfully to diagnose her condition but
she deteriorated and died several days later. Only after her death was it discovered
that she'd died of an undiagnosed and therefore untreated case of rabies. This is a good example of why urine and urea therapy should be incorporated into
all types of medicine. In this girl's case, urine therapy could have been invaluable. In the first place, urea itself has been scientifically proven to dissolve or destroy
the rabies virus, so it could most definitely have aided this little girl. Additionally, the rabies antibody would have been present in the girl's urine, so she
would  have  gotten  the  benefit  of  both  the  urea  and  the  rabies  antibody  after
ingesting  her  urine. Her  doctors  couldn't  diagnose  her  illness  –  but  her  body
already had, and if she'd been given her urine orally, or by injection with perhaps,
added urea, it might well have saved her life. And the real tragedy is that there is absolutely no downside risk here – absolutely
none!. Urine is free, it's backed by almost 100 years of medical testing, and in
every single study ev r done on urine and urea's medicinal use in humans, no
toxicity ha ever been reported. So what did this young girl have to lose by being
treated with them? As hundreds of people have experienced, and as research has shown,  urine is
undoubtedly an amazing natural medicine that can give you health benefits beyond
any other natural or chemical substance in existence. The  information  on  the  medical  uses  of  urine  most  definitely  deserves  public
recognition and frankly, if we don't routinely take advantage of this incredible
natural remedy, we can't honestly say that we're doing all that we can to preserve
and regain our good health. Sometimes  it's  hard  to  believe  that  even  with  all  our  medical  knowledge  and
technological genius, we still don't have strong, healthy, disease-resistant bodies –
but the fact that widespread, crippling health disorders still abound should tell us
that we're doing something wrong and overlooking something important. Let's not overlook this simplest and yet most useful of natural medicines. 72RESEARCH AND
CLINICAL STUDIES
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Report # 1
TITLE: PLEOMORPHISM, AS EXHIBITED BY BACTERIA GROWN  ON
A MEDIA CONTAINING UREA, 1906


 they have suppressed;
they are terrified that they will be swamped and overwhelmed by it. People
will say, “If I were ever to start crying, I would never stop”; “There is somuch grief in the world, grief in my life, grief in my family and friends”;
“O, the untold tragedies of life! All of the disappointments and smashed
hopes!” Suppressed grief is responsible for many psychosomatic conditions
and health-related complaints. Instead of suppressing the feeling, if it is allowed to come up and be
relinquished, we can quickly jump from grief to acceptance. The continuing
grief over a loss is due to the resistance to accepting that state and allowing
the grief to expend itself. The persistence of a feeling is due to the
resistance to allowing it to be relinquished (e.g., “Cry me a river”). Once we
accept the fact that we can handle grief, we are already up into pride. The
feeling of “I can do it” and “I can handle it” brings us to courage. W ith the
courage to face our inner feelings and let them go, we thus move on to the
levels of acceptance and eventually peace. When we let go of a lot of grief
we have been holding over the years, our friends and family will notice a
change in our facial expression. Our step will be lighter and we will look
younger. Grief is time-limited. This fact gives us the courage and willingness to
face grief. If we don’ t resist the feeling of grief and totally surrender to it, it
will run out in about 10–20 minutes; then it will stop for variable lengths of
time. If we keep surrendering to it every time it comes up, then it will
eventually run out. W e just allow ourselves to experience it fully. W e only
have to tolerate an overwhelming grief for 10–20 minutes, and then all of a
sudden it will disappear. If we resist the grief, then it will go on and on. Suppressed grief can go on for years. In facing grief, we often have to acknowledge and let go of our shame
and embarrassment about having the feeling in the first place. For men this
is especially so. W e have to relinquish our fear of the feeling and our fear of
being swamped and overwhelmed by it. It helps to realize that letting go of
the resistance to the feeling moves us quickly through it. T raditionally,
women have said out of their own experience and wisdom: “A good cry
makes me feel better.” Many a man has been surprised when he learned the
truth of this. Experientially, there was the surprising and almost immediate relief
from a pounding headache as soon as the grief about a past situation was
allowed to come up. As the grief surfaced, there was the sentence, “Men
don’ t cry.” After letting go of the masculine pride about crying, then up
came a fear that the crying would never stop once it was allowed to start.As soon as that fear was gone, then there was anger. It was anger at a
society that forces men to suppress their feelings, and anger at the notion
that men are not even supposed to have feelings. W ith the letting go of that
anger, the level of courage was reached, and then the needed crying could
be allowed. Not only was there relief from the headache but, when the
torrent of sobs subsided, a profound peacefulness settled. Henceforth, the
subject did not have to be avoided. Once a man has fully let the grief come up and totally freed himself
from that suppressed ener gy, he is peaceful and his view of his own
masculinity changes. He realizes that his masculinity is now more
complete. He is still just as much of a man, but now he is a man who can
also be in touch with and handle his own feelings. Consequently, he is more
adequate, more capable, more well-rounded, more understanding, more
mature, more capable of relating to and understanding others, more
compassionate, and more loving. The psychological basis of all grief and mourning is attachment. Attachment and dependence occur because we feel incomplete within
ourselves; therefore, we seek objects, people, relationships, places, and
concepts to fulfill inner needs. Because they are unconsciously utilized to
fulfill an inner need, they come to be identified as “mine.” As more ener gy
is poured into them, there is a transition from identifying with the external
objects as “mine” to being an actual extension of “me.” Loss of the object
or person is experienced as a loss of our own self and an important part of
our emotional economy. Loss is experienced as a diminution of the quality
of ourselves, which the object or person represented. The more emotional
ener gy invested in the object or person, the greater will be the feeling of
loss and the greater the pain associated with the undoing of the bonds of
dependence. Attachment creates a dependency, and dependency, because of
its nature, intrinsically carries with it a fear of loss. W ithin each person, there is the child, parent, and adult. When grief
comes up, it is rewarding to ask, “W ithin myself, is it the child, parent, or
adult that is the source of this feeling?” For example, the “child” within a
person is scared that something will happen to a beloved dog. It wonders,
“How will I make it?” The inner adult also feels grief, but the adult accepts
the inevitable. The little kitty or doggie is not immortal. The adult in us
regretfully accepts that impermanency is a reality of life. W e accept that ouryouth is not permanent, that many romantic relationships are not life-long,
and that our dog will one day die. Handling Loss
Because of the nature of attachment, the first state preceding the actual
experiencing of loss is that of fear of loss. This is usually defended in one
of two ways. One is to increase the intensity of the attachment by ever -
persistent attempts to strengthen the bonds. This approach is based on the
fantasy that “the greater the bond, the less likelihood of loss.” However, this
is the very maneuver that often precipitates loss in personal relationships,
because the other person struggles to be free of the possessive attachment
and the amount of restrictive control they feel being placed upon them. Thus, because what we hold in mind tends to manifest, the fear of a loss
can, paradoxically, be the mechanism of bringing about that loss. The second way that fear of loss is handled is by the psychological
mechanism of denial which is, in common language, called “playing
ostrich.” W e see this around us every day in its various forms of refusing to
face the inevitable. All the warning signs are there, but the person does not
take heed. Thus, the man who is obviously in the process of losing his job
tends not to notice. The partners in a marriage that is going down the drain
take no corrective action. The person with a serious disease ignores all of
the symptoms and avoids medical attention. The politicians fail to look at
social problems, hoping they will go away. Whole countries are oblivious to
the precarious state of existence (e.g., 9-11 attack). The motorist ignores the
ominous warning signals of a misbehaving engine. W e have all experienced
regret that we didn’ t pay attention to the warning signals of trouble ahead. T o handle the fear of loss, we have to look at what purpose the external
person or object serves in our life. What emotional need is being fulfilled? What emotions would arise were we to lose the object or the person? Loss
can be anticipated, and we can handle the various fears associated with the
sense of loss by disassembling the emotional complexes that they represent,
and letting go of the individual component feelings. Let’ s say, for example, that you have a pet dog to which you have been
attached for many years. It is obvious that old Rover is getting older. Y ou
find that you don’ t like to think about his advanced age, feeling
uncomfortable at the prospect of his death and putting it out of mind. As
you catch yourself doing this, you realize that these feelings are warningsignals and that you are not handling the emotional situation. And so, you
ask yourself, “What purpose is the dog serving in my life? What is his
emotional service to me?” Love, companionship, devotion, amusement, and
diversion. “W ill losing the dog leave these personal emotional needs
unfulfilled?” In looking at this, some of the fear can be acknowledged and
relinquished. Once the fear is let go, you don’ t have to resort to denial and
pretend to yourself that Rover will live forever. Another emotion associated with grief and mourning is that of anger. The loss of that which is important frequently brings up a feeling of rage,
which may be projected onto the world, society, individuals and, ultimately,
God, who is held to be responsible for the nature of the universe. Anger
results from prior refusal to accept the fact that all relationships and
possessions in this life are transitory. Even the physical body, which is our
biggest attachment, eventually has to be relinquished, as everyone is aware. W e feel that what has become important or comforting to us is a
permanent attachment. Consequently, when that illusion is threatened, there
is anger, resentment, and self-pity, feelings which can result in chronic
bitterness


. This is because urine therapists believe
it is important for urine therapy to be acknowledged
as a valid method of treatment: doctors should be
well-informed about the effects of this therapy so
that as many people as possible can benefit from it. Since members of the medical world demand an
explanation, the interest in scientific research has
grown. Another reason for this growing interest is that
a number of'mainstream' doctors have also had
positive experiences with urine therapy, which is
reason enough for them to investigate how and why
it works. This is not a recent development: in the
1930s, for example, the German paediatrician Mar
tin Krebs successfully treated many patients with urine therapy, and subsequently published there
sults (see bibliography). As a physician, he was con
vinced that urine therapy was an effective method
of treatment, but he also realised that other doc
tors would not readily accept this fact since it con
flicted with the scientific dogma which formed the
foundation of their profession. In order to be able to acknowledge urine therapy
as an effective method of treatment, a number of
doctors within the medical world are now inter
ested in how it works. Discovering how it actually
works, however, will not be easy. Random, double
blind, cross-over research could be useful, but is dif
ficult to execute. It requires that several groups of
'test patients' are involved in the research, and that
neither the patients nor those executing the treat
ment know whether 'the remedy' (urine) is being
used -only those leading the research know this. This type of research is perfectly easy to conduct
with pills (since all pills look alike), but is some
what more difficult with urine. Although double
blind, cross-over research is considered to be the
most valuable way to discover if a certain method
of treatment is effective, there are also other reli
able research methods. One of these is to observe
and document urine therapy treatments, and to
Medical and Scientific Aspects of Urine Therapy 69 conduct more research into the benefits of urine as
a therapeutic substance, both in terms of its sepa
rate components and as a total entity. Some people doubt the effectiveness of urine
therapy and therefore do not yet acknowledge the
value of this research. A relevant point here is that
the highest placebo-effect, i.e. the positive effect of
a treatment solely because the patient believes it
works (even if it does not), is 30%.1 If the treat
ment produces a much higher percentage of im
provement, the therapy should be given the benefit
of the doubt. This certainly seems to be the case with tHine
therapy. The literature reveals that the majority of
people who use urine therapy consistently and 'ac
cording to the rules' ·believe they have benefited
from it. It is true that the literature on urine therapy
is often written by el).thusiastic urine therapists. It
is therefore important to be critical of the often
expressed opinion that urine therapy, if correctly
applied, has never caused negative side effects. This
applies likewise to the assertion that very few pec:i
pl~ have experienced no noteworthy improvement
from practising urine therapy. Taking this into ac
count, however, the percentage of positive results
still seems to be far above 30%, sufficient reason to
give urine therapy the deserved benefit of the doubt
and to conduct further research. As stated above, a good deal of research has al
ready be~n conducted within the medical world into
the composition of urine and its separate compo
nents. The researchers Free and Free published a
report listing two hundred substances found in
urine. They point out that these are only the most
70 A Natural Pharmacy significant substances, and that urine probably con
tains thousands of components.2 Several substances
found in urine seem to be of value q.s medication,
some of which have already been processed and
used:
A number of substances found in urine are briefly
discussed in this chapter. References to the relevant
research articles can be found in the notes at the
end of this chapter. Since this book is not intended
to be a scientific publication, many references have
simply been reproduced in good faith from other
publications. The references should be seen mainly
as a starting point for those who wish to conduct
further research into this material. The fact that certain individual components of urine
are effective does not prove that urine therapy is
effective. Conversely, however, it can be assumed j
that the components which have a particular ef-1
feet as an individual substance, have the same ef-l
feet when taken as a component of urine. In certain I
cases it could be imagined that the combination ofj
these substances with other components of urinej
reduces or cancels out the effectiveness, but this is I
· not the most obvious conclusion. We can, there-~
fore, reasonably assume that if an individual sub-j
stance displays a certain characteristic, it will also! have this characteristic as a component of urine. :
The more individually effective substances foundi
in urine, the stronger the argument that urine as ~
total entity has a therapeutic effect.! A condition of this argument is that urine as J
I total entity does not contain substances with an
obviously harmful effect: as yet there is no evidence to suggest that such substances have been found in
urine. The small amounts of poisonous substances
which can be found in urine largely seem to have a
positive effect on the immune system (see below). If urine did contain extremely harmful substances,
it would be impossible to explain how many peo
ple (myself included) who drink their own urine
every day for years could still be in exceptionally
good health. So research has not yet been conducted on urine
as a total entity which can be therapeutically ap
plied. Still unanswered are questions regarding how
and why urine therapy works, since urine is used
here as a total entity. A number of hypotheses have,
however, been suggested which can serve as the
basis for further scientific research. According to Dr. Bartnett, applying urine therapy
using self-produced urine can be considered to be
an extension of the methods of Jenner and Pasteur.3
An important task of the immune system is to rid
the human body of diseased or unusable substances
that have developed during the course of an illness. When these substances reach healthy tissue, the
serum or blood becomes stronger, the activity of
leucocytes (white blood cells) increases, and the
patient probably recovers. This phenomenon is
known as auto-inoculation or self-vaccination and
can be seen as mother nature's method of healing
an illness without external intervention. Urine therapy can also be seen as a form of self
vaccination: certain bodily substances which have
been removed from the body, some of which may
have been produced as a result of illness, are re-in
troduced into the body in small amounts. These substances are re-absorbed into the blood through
either the intestines or the skin. According to this
hypothesis, the immune system is tlien given the
chance to react appropriately. The doctors Remington, Merler and Uhr have
demonstrated that a particular part of urine-pro
tein is able to eliminate certain pathogens.4 This
discovery supports the assumption that urine
therapy can be used to treat or prevent certain ill
nesses. In the early nineteenth century, Dr. Charles
Duncan conducted research into therapies with self
produced substances, including urine therapy.5 He
demonstrated that patients suffering from
gonorrhoeic urethritis (infection of the urinary tube
as a result of the venereal disease gonorrhoea)
anus ·· mouth
~drinking intestinal canal
bloqdstream ::II... \ massage 1
absorption
through
skin
...,._Kion
Urine therapy: a form of self-vaccination. Vital substances
are re-absorbed by means of drinking massage, injection, etc. Medical and Scienti(t·c Aspects of Urine Therapy 71 produce their own medication in the form of their
own discharge. Auto-therapy was applied here by
placing a drop of a patient's discharge directly on
the tongue, in order to stimulate the body's natural
powers. This method had a strong healing effect at
every stage of the illness: if applied at an early stage,
it could cause the gonorrhoea to disappear. Auto-therapy is based on the principle that the
body can use all fresh, self-produced, unaltered dis
eased tissue substances which originate from the
micro-organisms causing the illness. Seen in this
light, patients have their own medication in exactly
the form constructed by nature to heal their condi
tion. The results of Dr. William D. Linscott's research
suggest that auto-therapy strengthens and stimu
lates the immune system, in particular with regard
to the T-cells. The T-cell population of several pa
tients who initially displayed a low T-cell count
increased after treatment with urine therapy.6
5.2 Several Hypotheses
A number of possible explanations (hypotheses) as
to how and why urine therapy works are presented
in the literature. In the book Amaroli of Dr. S.S.
Saraswati (see bibliography),


YURVEDIC FESTIVALS FOR
EACH OF THE FIVE SENSES
According to Ayurveda, the baby’ s five senses develop one month at a time
over five consecutive months of pregnancy. Traditionally, Ayurveda calls
for a celebration during each one of these months, in which the focus of the
party is to bring extra attention to nourishing the specific sense that is
developing. As mama’ s senses are engaged, baby develops a keen sense and
the ability to perceive through it clearly. THIRD MONTH: SENSE OF SIGHT
In the third month, the baby’ s sense of sight is developing. During a
celebration of this new sense, we want everything mama sees to be
aesthetically pleasing and beautiful! To this end, you can decorate for the
celebration using lots of color, or perhaps host the celebration in a beautiful
garden. Have extravagant floral arrangements and lots of candles. For
activities, do art projects such as painting watercolor images for baby’ s
room, tie-dyeing onesies, or painting squares to put together as a quilt. FOURTH MONTH: SENSE OF TASTE
In the fourth month, the baby’ s sense of taste is developing. During this
celebration, we want to have foods that are pleasing to mama’ s palate. Perhaps have mama create a list of her favorite foods and host a potluck,
with each guest bringing one dish. Make sure all six tastes are available in
the potluck (sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent). Have
different tables with dif ferent types of items so that the presentation feelssuper abundant! You might have one table with cut-up fruits and fruit
drinks, another table with all the desserts, another table with savories, and
so on! This could also be a good time to start talking about plans for a
postpartum meal train—where people deliver home-cooked meals to mama
and family after the baby is born—and educating guests about what will be
needed postpartum for mama (and start a sign-up list!). FIFTH MONTH: SENSE OF SMELL
In the fifth month, the baby’ s sense of smell is developing, and the
celebration will be one that indulges mama’ s sense of smell! One possibility
is to have a warm fresh meal prepared so that the aroma fills the house. Light aromatic candles and have multiple dif fusers on with mama’ s favorite
essential oil blends. Make beautiful teas, have aromatic flowers all around,
and bring mama gifts of all-natural and aromatic soaps, teas, and oils. SIXTH MONTH: SENSE OF HEARING
In the sixth month, the baby’ s sense of hearing is developing. In the
celebration for this month, we want to infuse the atmosphere with uplifting
and supportive sound vibrations. This is a perfect month to host a kirtan at
your home! If you do not play instruments, you can play your favorite
songs and sing along, as well as dance together. A sharing circle can also be
a part of the celebration, with each guest sharing blessings for the new baby
and family.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        The following foods and spicesare deemed to nourish reproductive tissues, increase ojas, and support
fertility (provided that they are digested well):
Spices:  saffron, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger,
cumin, ajowan, turmeric
Dairy:  ghee (clarified butter), raw butter, cream-top milk, yogurt,
paneer (fresh cheese)
Sweeteners:  dates, honey, maple syrup, sucanat (unrefined whole
cane sugar), jaggery (unrefined brown sugar)
Nuts and seeds:  black sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, soaked
almonds, soaked walnuts
Grains and beans:  urad dal (black gram dal), mung dal, whole grains
Produce:  fresh, local organic juicy fruits and vegetables
In the months prior to conception, avoid consuming substances that
diminish ojas: for instance, foods that are highly starchy, antibiotic- and
hormone-laden meat and milk, nonfat or low-fat milk, canned foods, foods
containing preservatives and other chemicals, artificial sweeteners, MSG,
artificial flavoring and coloring, alcohol, caf feine, tobacco, soda, nicotine,
trans fats, and refined carbohydrates. You can also reduce your estrogen
load by avoiding commercial beauty and oral care products. Build the plasma and blood. These are the life-giving and nutrient-
giving tissues of your body, to the extent that the blood volume increases by
almost 50 percent during pregnancy. [*2] Ensure you’re staying well-
hydrated in a healthy way by consuming juicy fruits, cream-top milk, herbal
teas, mineral water, and electrolytes. Eat or ganic and local foods rich in
nutrients. Most women are underfed, undernourished, and overworked. Not
eating enough will create hormonal imbalances, increase stress hormones,
and down-regulate the thyroid. You can supplement your diet with calcium,
iron, vitamin B12, and folate as needed. An or ganic food-based multivitamin
is the easiest source. Prioritize mineral intake. Minerals are what make your cells run and are
the foundation in which your body works. They are the catalyst for your
hormones, and without them thousands of enzymatic reactions are
compromised. When you don’ t have adequate levels of certain minerals,
specific physiological responses become compromised (like hormone
regulation, thyroid function, and digestion). Prioritize your major minerals:
magnesium, potassium, sodium, and calcium. A vata-pacifying diet and lifestyle (as described on this page  in chapter
1) should be honored preconception to ensure that you will feel nourished,
grounded, and ready to receive this new life. (W ithin the first days of
pregnancy, when rapid internal movement begins to take place, a vata-
pacifying diet and lifestyle preconception will assure stability in the midst
of so much change. ) For women, it is always important to take care of yourself during
menstruation and particularly during the preconception months. Follow the
Ayurvedic guidelines for that time: avoid traveling; avoid skipping meals;
eat foods that are warm, nourishing, and easy to digest; and take real rest as
needed during your menstrual cycle. The following herbs can help of fset the ef fects of stress in the busy
lifestyles of today, as well as nourish the deeper tissues of your body:
Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is a highly rejuvenating herb that both
promotes semen production and strengthens the uterus. Its name
refers to the strength of a horse, and it acts as a natural aphrodisiac. Brahmi. In Ayurveda, brahmi  is considered the feminine essence of
Universal Consciousness. This herb, also known as water hyssop,
promotes fertility and supports implantation. It balances all three
doshas and all seven tissues in the body, but it is especially known
for supporting brain functions and helping to pacify anxiety. Brahmi is
beneficial in preconception and pregnancy because it brings the
quality of sattva (purity) into your mind and body and relieves
symptoms that may be coming from excess pitta. During thepostpartum period, it helps in clearing brain fog, otherwise known as
“mama mind/milk mind. ”
Chyavanprash. Chyavanprash  is a delicious traditional Indian
nutritional jam made from around forty dif ferent herbs, ghee, and
honey. The main ingredient is amalaki  (Indian gooseberry, also
known as amla), a powerful antioxidant. It has been used in India to
promote immunity, strength, and fertility. Shatavari. Shatavari  (Asparagus racemosus, a type of asparagus
root with many uses in Ayurveda) is a powerful fertility-enhancing
herb whose name means “she who has a hundred husbands. ” It can
be taken to strengthen the uterus without altering the estrogen
balance. Note:  shatavari is contraindicated for any woman who has a
history of any estrogen imbalances, such as cysts, fibroids, or
reproductive cancers. In such cases, guduchi  (Tinospora cordifolia,
or heart-leaved moonseed) can be used. Shilajit. Shilatjit  is rich in fulvic acid which helps to improve your
ability to absorb essential nutrients and minerals from food. It also
improves digestion, boosts immunity, reduces inflammation, and
increases energy levels in your body. Apart from this, shilajit also
contains essential minerals (such as iron, selenium, zinc, and
calcium). Triphala. Triphala  is a blend of three fruits: amalaki, bibhitaki
(Terminalia berecilla ), and haritaki  (Chebulic Myrobalan ). Along with
being a powerful immune enhancer, triphala is considered a
rasayana —that is, it is a rejuvenator that nourishes all the tissues in
the body. Triphala is also used as a detoxifier, as it cleans out the
g


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dark bilious fluid evacuated until about the thirtieth day of the fast. Loss in weight was not exceptional, totaling, as it d id, but 20
pounds. When it is  considered that the patient weighed but 85 pounds at the beginning of the fast, it is seen that, proportionally
speaking, this loss conforms with results tabulated later in the text. Dates are also of interest in this case, which was under treatment dur ing the winter of 1907 -8. The woman died of pneumonia early
in 1923. In the interim of full fifteen years, she was able to get about in a wheeled chair, was in good general health, and conducted
a business of her own, the only inconvenience she suffered be ing that incident to her incurable paralysis. Another instance is that of a woman twenty -eight years old in whom poor nutrition and what is called a bilious temperament
occasioned a condition of disease that was expressed in periodical headaches and in m elancholia with a tendency toward mania. But for the care and devotion of an older sister, the patient, long before coming under observation, would have been placed i n an
institution for the insane. In fact, it was because the physician last consulted had recommended that she be restrained that her
relatives in despair resorted to the fast. Examination discovered a pulse continually at 128 or thereabouts with temperature varying from above to below normal by sever al
degrees. Diet had consisted largely of meat and its extracts, this being at once changed to vegetable broths. Daily enemas were
thoroughly administered and at first hot towel packs were used upon the spine in order to control circulation and to steady t he
fluctuating pulse, but these were disco ntinued shortly as heart action made constant improvement from the beginning of treatment. Dark, foul -smelling discharges that did not cease until the latter portion of the fast formed the bulk of the liquid in the return from
the enemas. This patient al so showed extraordinary vigor and vitality throughout a period of forty -two days of abstinence from food, and she
Page 16 of  72 daily walked a distance of several miles, underwent manipulative treatment, and returned to her home without undue fatigue. Towards the end of  the fast she was able and desirous of increasing the amount of exercise, and her mental condition exhibited
improvement from the inception of the work. On the thirtieth day of the fast and thereafter the young woman performed her
portion of the housework well and cheerfully. Hunger returned on the forty -first day, and the fast was broken at the end of the
forty -second. Two weeks later the sisters sailed for their home abroad, and letters written by the patient since their arrival show  a
mind in every respe ct rational. Tuberculosis of the lungs is a symptom of disease that needs to be uncovered and treated in its early stages if recovery is t o be
hoped for, and the case of a woman thirty -two years old is cited to illustrate the treatment of a consumptive, the outcome of whose
case proved a cure. This patient abstained from food for twenty -four days, but preparation, the fast, and the period of dieting after
the latter was concluded, covered full six months. When first under observation, the sputum contained  the bacilli typical of the
symptom; both lungs were affected; the characteristic cough, high temperature and pulse, were present; in fact, the case disp layed
all of the signs that distinguish the symptom. The fast was begun after usual preparatory diet, a nd was continued as noted for
twenty -four days, during which no unfavorable symptoms occurred. However, from the latter part of the preparatory period there
was excessive discharge of sputum, but during the fast this showed daily diminution in amount, and there was also pronounced
decrease in the number of bacilli at the several periodical examinations made. The enemas were charged with bilious products and
old feces, these toxic disturbers disappearing only during the last week of abstinence. Fever had van ished as had also the cough by
the fourteenth day, and, when the sputum was examined on the twenty -second day of fasting there were no traces of bacilli
tuberculosis. To anticipate successful issue, the treatment of tuberculosis of the lungs should be un dertaken before the stage of excessive
structural break -down of lung tissue has been reached. If the treatment outlined is begun at this time a cure is altogether probable. Otherwise, the case classes itself with that of advanced organic disease, which, in  the light of previous discussion, bars remedy. Medical diagnosis of the next instance, a man thirty -eight years old, pronounced it a case of valvular heart disease, and medical
prognosis gave no hope of recovery. There was severe pain in the regions of the heart, the stomach, and the liver, and at times in
the abdomen. Heart -beats were most irregular; and, in view of the very apparent seriousness of the condition, a fast was begun
without preparation. Large amounts of dark bilious fluid came away with ev ery enema, and excruciating pain and nervous
excitement were experienced until the twentieth fasting day when at least a teacupful of gall -stones was evacuated. Great relief
followed, but gall -stones singly and in small numbers were passed with the exereta  until the thirtieth day of abstinence. The fast
was broken on its thirty -fifth day, when the weight of the patient was 174 pounds, this showing a reduction of 20 pounds within
the period given. In the early part of this fast there were slight sub -normal t emperature and much fasters' chilliness, but
temperature and heartbeat as well reached normal by the twentieth day. Before this the pulse had been at times above, at time s
below register, according to the degree of activity of circulating poison. After bre aking the fast all functions became and continued
normal; weight was gradually gained and soon reached 185 pounds; and from the completion of treatment general health was
excellent. An interesting addendum to this case is found in its later history. The patient, after strictly adhering to the rules prescribed as to
diet, exercise, and general care of the body for at least a year and a half after his restoration to health, lapsed and fell into laxness
in eating and in drinking, with the result that, two ye ars subsequent to the crisis already related, an abscess formed upon the fioor
of the stomach, and the case again came under observation and treatment, undergoing this time a fast of forty -five days. The man
suffered great pain until the ulcer discharged, which occurred about ten days after the fast began, and was evidenced by the
passage of blood and pus from the bowels. The patient hovered between life and death for several weeks, but absence of food
prevented irritation of the ulcer, which rapidly healed, and, since hunger was in evidence, the fast was broken on the forty -sixth
day. It is the fixed opinion of the author that in no instances is the medical theory of "feeding to keep up strength" so palpably  in error,
as in cases of the kind just cited. W hether the ulcer is located in the stomach, in the duodenum, or in any other portion of the
alimentary tract, non -irritation is a first essential to healing, and non -irritation may be had in the alimentary tract only through the
omission of the ingestion o f food. And, more, while it is true that food is never essential in disease, the application of the method
outlined herein to a condition such as was exhibited in the second siege of illness undergone by the ease just noted is so pl ain in
exposition and so  beautifully reasonable and convincing in argument that no unbiased mind should read this description without
being satisfied of its truth and in consequence of the efficacy of the method itself. A short description of a fast for chronic digestive distur bance is presented in the following case, that of a man of forty -five years of
age. The fast itself covered a period of forty -nine days, and from its beginning until the forty -fifth day the patient was confined to
his bed. This is a striking example of the  extreme toxemia that sometimes occurs during fasting when the organs of elimination are
called upon to cope with an accumulation of waste that taxes them to the utmost Because this material is liquefied in form, b oth in
consequence of the body secretions and of the water of the enemas, it is more easily absorbed from the walls of the intestines, and
in this instance, the weakness in evidence was directly occasioned by this sort of self -poisoning. But the condition gradually
improved as the eliminative orga ns became equal to their tasks, and on the forty -fifth day, hunger returned and with it strength. Page 17 of  72 The fast was broken on the morning of the fiftieth day and afterwards the patient walked several miles on the city pavements with
but little fatigue. There we re no unusual symptoms other than the toxemia mentioned, and from the breaking of the fast,
improvement was constant and permanent. In another instance the fast was undertaken by a woman forty -one years old for the purpose of correcting heart irregularit y caused
by functional disease and obesity. The patient who was under height weighed 200 pounds, and she gave no medical history
excepting that some years previous she had been operated upon for chronic inflammation of the fallopian tubes. The


 the
atom of an inorganic mineral and a
molecular structure
 known as a ligand. The mineral chelate is an
element while
 the ligand is a molecule. For the
ligand to form a molecule
, it
 must be attached to the mineral in two
separate
locations rather
 than just one. So much for the broad definition of
a “
chelate.” This is where it starts to get interesting. As life
is fraught
 with
variation, so are chelate
s.

A ligand
’
s size and characteristics are not defined by a chelate
’
s
definition. Learning this fact is important since there are a
number of
 molecules that
are ligands. There are also some ligands
toxic enough
 to the environment
that they are controlled
by government
 regulations. Some are required to
be broken
up before
 they can be absorbed since they are too large; and
even then
, they still are not able to be absorbed. The Size of Ligands

Glycine is an amino acid which comes in a string
of nitrogen, oxygen
,
hydrogen and carbon. A
higher absorption
 rate of
a ligand
 is dependent
upon the chain
’
s length and size. Yet if
the chain
 and size get too big, it
cannot be absorbed by the cell. It
is possible
, however, that the oversized
chelate molecule could
be broken
 apart in the colon, reducing the mineralto a
functional size
. In this instance, it can then be re-chelated for
possible
absorption
. However in this case it will more than likely
pass completely
through the digestive tract, never being absorbed. Glycine Amino Acid

The Manufacturing Process
It
’
s not a simple process to produce or manufacture an effective
, highly
efficient mineral chelate. Prior to the manufacturing step
, there
 are variants
in mineral chelates and ligand choices to
be taken
 into consideration prior
to determining which of the
four manufacturing
 processes to use. Various Mineral Chelate Production Processes

1. The most effective is spray-
drying
. At a specific time in
the reaction
 process, the formulated product is dried during
spraying
, guaranteeing
 a more viable, potent and effective
product. It requires
 expensive and sophisticated equipment. Precise variations
 in this process are intricately controlled
and
continuously
 mon
itored. 2. Air-drying a slurry mixture. This technique results in avariable finished
 product, but it is an inexpensive method and
therefore quite
 common. 3. D
ry blending and mixing of the mineral and agent. The
finished product is not chelated or reacted. The mixing process
is crude and fundamental, similar to mixing cement in a drum
mixer. The manufacturer
 advertises that these minerals will be
chelated in
the person’s
 digestive tract in a natural process. Some mineral processors use a combination of the second and third
methods, resulting in a certain degree of chelation in addition to
high levels
of inorganic or unreacted minerals.It is difficult for the average consumer to sort through all of
the options
,
manufacturing processes and claims in order to come to
a confident
conclusion and make the right decision on a healthy
and effective
 product
choice. You can start to see that there is much more to “minerals” than
meets the
eye. It is very understandable why the majority of people think  that the
water-soluble minerals found in water are healthy and  beneficial, not
realizing that these are responsible for many ailments,  maladies, diseases
and human suffering. Only chelated minerals
can be
 utilized by our bodies. That means it is a mineral that is attached
by a
 bond at two points by the
ligand, making it “fully reacted
and bonded
.”
When it comes to your health and
well-being
, don
’
t compromise on  quality
and purity for the sake of price. When it comes to minerals,
do your
homework and investigate the manufacturer
’
s claims
and production
processes. Regardless of a manufacturer
’
s claims,
the bottom
 line
remains whether their minerals are “fully reacted”
and whether
 they can
willingly and easily provide
indisputable confirmation
 and proof. CHAPTER 13
Carbon Filters: “Cheapest”
Water Treatment... But Are They Effective? This chapter will address the major health issues and maintenance
of the
popular and trusted
carbon water filters
. This is one of the most common
types of water purification systems used in homes. Although effective for
removing many harmful substances, they have a number of
disadvantages affecting the quality and chemistry of the filtered water,
which I will cover later. But first, there are several major reasons why
carbon water filters are the number one choice for cleaning up tap water
nationwide. Aggressive marketing - Low manufacturing costs - High profits
Carbon filters do remove many chemical and cancer-causing substances
and are relatively inexpensive compared to reverse osmosis, deionization
and distillation. Since there is a very high profit margin, this method of
water purification is preferable. Unfortunately, many of the manufacturers
and/or salespeople are not forthcoming in what a carbon filter can and
cannot do. Instead of mentioning what it can't do, they will amplify and
exaggerate the positive aspects of the filter. As a result, the consumer is
under the false impression that their “filtered water” is now healthy. Carbon filters are not complicated and are easy to install
Most people are looking for simplicity at a great price. It is not a
secret that
most municipal water supplies are polluted to some degree. However, the
average person is unaware of any details about these pollutants or what is
involved in removing them from water. If they are told that a carbon filter removes
dangerous
substances
, does
so more cheaply than any other method,
and that
 the water will taste and
smell better, that's good enough
for most
 people. Carbon filters do remove many chemicals and carcinogens

But what about the harmful toxins and substances filters they
do not
remove? Activated carbon filtration systems do not
remove microbes
,
sodium, nitrates,
fluoride
, hardness, inorganic
minerals that
 create kidney
and gall stones, lead and other heavy metals. The activated carbon removes most of the bad tastes and smells

Our senses of sight, smell and taste can be easily and
fatally deceived
! In
case you are unaware, most of the
dangerous chemicals
 and substances
found in tap water are colorless
, odorless
 and tasteless. As a
consequence, most people do not
get concerned
 as long as their water
taste okay, smells okay,
and looks
 clear. Most filter systems use replaceable cartridges

It is not a matter of how easily a filter can be changed, but
rather how
 often
to change it. Most contaminants in water
are measured
 in Part
per
 Million
(PPM). As these chemicals
pass through
 the filter they are attracted to
and absorbed by
the carbon
. As a result, they begin to accumulate in
larger
quantities than
 what are considered to be safe levels according to
the EPA. It is
 usually impossible to know at what point the filter is full
and
holding
 all the chemicals it can. This means that extremely large quantities of chemicals can
easily
be
forced loose by the pressure of the water passing by at
any moment
 when
the filter is full. This will allow high
concentrations of
 dangerous PPMs to be
released into your glass. Additional
Challenges with
 Filters

Clogging and Channeling

Carbon filters will clog in many places, forcing the water to go around
the
clog
. Undissolved solids usually
clog up
 the filter. These clogs will
reduce
the
 normal lifetime of the filter. If
your water
 has a sediment problem, you
will probably
 have to use
separate sediment
 pre-filter to keep clogs
from
ruining
 your carbon water filter. This continues until an unobstructed path through the filter
is found
. This
process is called channeling. Channeling provides
an unrestricted
 flow for
the water and pollutants to pass through
the filter
, totally negating the
carbon's ability to retain the pollutants. Unless there was a dramatic
change in the filter's flow, you
would not
 know there was a serious
problem, nor when to change
the filter
. Rate of Flow and Water Pressure Affect the Filter's Performance

A Case in Point: The most ineffective water filter on the market is the small
one that attaches to your faucet spout where you push a button for the
water to flow through it. The main requirement of a carbon filter is to be of a
size proportionate to the volume of water, rate of flow and water pressure
to allow the suspended pollutants to stay in contact long enough for the
carbon to attract and absorb them. That little filter does not contain enough
carbon for this to happen. The water speeds through in a fraction of a
second, giving up nothing to the carbon it passed through. Breeding Ground
for
 Mold and Bacteria

Another disadvantage of a carbon water filter is its susceptibility to mold.


 gross distortions of our structure
and character. Often our most obvious and dramatic symptoms are
located in the two Phases  along the control or ke sequence. For example, for an Earth  type, disturbances are likely to show up
in Water  (restrained by Earth ) and in Wood  (which restrains Earth ). Exaggerated Earth  oppresses Water  and antagonizes Wood. When the
Spleen  is dominant, Dampness  and the stagnation that occurs with it
inhibit the function of the Kidney  and Liver. An Earth  type might
experience a sore lower back, swollen ankles, and premenstrual
water retention, all indicatio ns of Kidney  disturb ances, along with
fullness in the head and pressure behind the eyes, which reect Liver
disturbance. When Dampness  in the Spleen  hampers the capacity of
the Liver to make decisions and initiate action, a person feels
obsessed with small changes  and decisions and reluctant to commit
to big decisions and their consequences. The eect on the Kidney  is
to create an unsettling feeling of doubt and insecurity, as if one’ssource or identity is never rmly grasped. Thus the characteristic
aability and gregariousness  of the Earth  type may be hemmed in
by an undercurrent of irritability and vulnerability. When diculty or trauma distort our true nature, disharmony
manifests as aberrations of character, disturbances of physiologic
function, and deformations of physical structure. This means that
the behavior of an exaggerated Organ Network  has overwhelmed and
oppressed others or that it has collapsed, its force dissipated,
creating an unstable vacuum. Signs of conict are likely  to appear
along the ke sequence in exaggerated  patterns and within the
predominant Organ Network  and its “moth er” and “child” along the
sheng  sequence in collapsed  patterns. If the predomin ant Organ
Network  is exaggerated, it needs to be subdued; if it is collapsed, it
needs to be nourished. Exaggerated  and collapsed  pattern s can and
often do coexist, as do excess  and deciency, Heat and Cold. Harmony is restored when appropriate therapeutic measures of
tonifying or purging, consolidating or dispersing, restore stability by
easing conict and correcting  inequities. The strategy of caring only
for the leader is not enough when the followers are in distress, nor
is aiding the followers enough to guarantee the prudent behavior of
the leader. Both must be supported or limited according to their
need and their role. When our motion is disturbed by external forces or internal
upheaval, our path becomes crooked and our movement wobbly. Allied with our organizing force, we navigate smoothly  along our
path, our inner gyroscope unperturbed. Spinning freely, we feel
aligned, at home in our body and right with the world. This
comfortable sense of t and freedom is what we recognize as health. Five Phases within Each PhasePowers of the Five Archetypes(see larger image)
Click  to download a PDF of Power of the Five Archetypes
Distortions of Five Powers(see larger image)
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Five Types: Anities and Aversions
Anities: Desires and Values(see larger image)
Aversions: Fears and Diculties(see larger image)
Click  to download a PDF of Five Types: Anities and Aversions
Five Types: Challenges, Contradictions, Knots
Earth :
Being at the still point—feeling stuck
Wanting to be full—feeling weighted down, overstued, and
overwhelmed
Seeking emptiness—fearing that there is nothing at the core
Desiring change—wanting things to stay the same
Wanting to be needed—wary of being absorbed, losing the self
Water :
Yearns for truth—fears exposureYearns for connection—intolerant of contact
Likes to be squeezed—scared of being squashed
Wants to penetrate inside—detests being absorbed
Enjoys being left alone—dreads being abandoned
Wood :
Wants to be in charge—misses the companionship of equals
Yearns to do, to act—subject to uncontrollable impulse
Makes rules—likes to break them
Demands freedom—needs to struggle
Feels invincible—fears vulnerability and loss of control
Fire:
Desires contact, intimacy—needs solitude
Loves sensatio n and feeling—fears being overwhelmed by
intensity
Loves to say yes—can’t say no
Yearns for fusion—dreads dissolution
Lives in the moment—dreads the future
Metal :
Wants relationship—needs distance
Knows what is right—accepts what is safe
Aspires toward beauty—settles for utility
Wants joy—fears spontaneityLikes creativity, ingenuity—intolerant of disorder, dissonance
SELF-ASSESSMENT  QUESTIONNAIRE
The following questionnaire is designed to help you map how the
Five Phases  act and interact within you. The letters (?–E) at the end
of each statement refer to each of the Five Phases. Mark the space at
the beginning of each statement according to the strength of your
response. If it strongly typies you, place a “3” in the space; if it
characterizes you somewhat, put a “1”; if you feel ambivalent or
indierent toward it, put a “0.” If you have a denite negative
response (“I’m not at all like this!”), put a “–2.”
When you are nished, total up the number of positive (+) and
negative (–) responses for each section according to the letter code:
total score for “A,” “B,” and so on. Do this before you look at the
code key so that you are not biased in your responses. Record the
number of positive and negative responses on the Five-Phase
diagram at the end of the questionnaire to plot your particular
patterns. Look at the Phases  with the highest positive scores and see
whether they are opposite or adjacent to each other: Wood  and Fire
and Earth  are adjacent, whereas Wood  and Metal, Fire and Water, are
opposite. Adjacent Phases  with high scores reect a strong
supporting (“sheng sequence”) relationship. Opposite Phases  with
high scores reect a strong conicting (“fee sequence”) relationship. Negative scores also suggest conict with an opposing Phase. In this
context, conict is not necessarily good or bad—it represents the
potential for movement and change as well as instability. If all the scores on the diagram look pretty much the same—that
is, if they dier by a value of only 1–3, you may need to go back to
the questionnaire, review your responses, and eliminate those that
are only a “+1.” This will help to accentuate the numerical contrast
between Phases. If there are still no signicant dierences, refer to
the charts at the end of each chapter on the ve types to determinethe set of characteristics with which you identify most strongly. How do these reactions compare with your responses to the
questionnaire? Also, answer the questions at the end of the
questionnaire and see if you can classify your answers as belonging
more to one Phase than another. Whether or not the pattern that emerges now reects your
primary type is a question that you may need to answer upon
further consideration. Eventually a pattern will reveal itself so that
you feel you have a sense of who you are within this paradigm. PSYCHOLOGICAL
It is typical of me (+) or unlike me (–) to:
___ be honest, even blunt, though not necessarily tactful or
diplomatic A
___ be cautious and sensible A
___ enjoy frequent periods of solitude and introspection A
___ enjoy indulging my imagination and curiosity A
___ keep my feelings, thoughts, and opinions to myself A
___ be content being anonymous or on the periphery of social events
A
___ be considered unusual or eccentric A
___ be involved in intellectual pursuits A
___ be content with a few good friends and minimal social activities
A
___ be content guring things out for myself A
___ be careful about what I reveal to other people A
___ be a stubborn defender of the truth as I see it A
___ be patient and persevering in spite of defeats or dead ends A
___ be objective and dispassionate A___ feel self-sucient in or out of a relationship A
___ choose privacy over intimacy, solitude over socializing A
___ be critical and skeptical while observing people and events from
a distance A
___ pursue my own interests regardless of what others consider
important A
___ enjoy projects that don’t involve other people A
___ remove myself from every day aairs and turn inward to quietly
reect upon the place of my life in the grand scheme of things A
___ feel condent and act assertively B
___ enjoy being competitive and ambitious B
___ feel powerful and invulnerable B
___ reluctantly acknowledge other people as my equals B
___ openly discuss my abilities and achievements with others B
___ be comfortable with conict or pressure B
___ enjoy being rst,


 and the other
digestive organs. If it be such material as the gastric juice will
not dissolve, then it must be disposed of by disintegration,
which starts with fermentation. This is the genesis of nearly
all indigestion and intestinal disorders. Fermentation changes food from a life- giving to a life-
destroying substance. It generates a poisonous gas which is
absorbed by the system and which preys upon the red
corpuscles of the blood, lowering the vitality of every organ
of the body. This is only one of the many evils that result from
imperfect mastication. A whole book could be written and the
subject not exhausted—in fact, a very admirable work has
been written by Mr. Horace Fletcher called "The A B Z of
Our Own Nutrition," devoted almost entirely to the subject of
mastication. Under the heading of "Some Pertinent
Questions" he suggests that the reader interrogate himself as
follows: "Were I an iron and steel automobile instead of a
flesh and blood automobile, which I really am, could I get a
license for myself as a chauffeur to run myself with safety,
based upon my knowledge of my own mechanism and the
theory and development of my powers. " Nature refuses to create and keep healthful any part of
the anatomy or member of the body which is not used. Allow
the arm to rest in a sling for a few months, and nature will
cease to feed it, and it will become feeble, emaciated and
almost useless. Nature is a perfect economist. If the teeth are not used,
she will refuse to keep them in repair; she will allow them to
decay. She presumes that you do not need them because you
have refused to put them to that use for which they were
created. So long as people subsist upon soft, cooked, mushy
foods, they cannot expect to have good teeth. This is one of
the greatest arguments against the baneful habit of cooking
and in favor of elementary foods. Nature produces no food that should be swallowed
without mastication, when eaten in its elementary state. She
produces no soup trees, gravy vines, mush plants or cook
stoves. Elementary food must be masticated. Thorough
mastication will develop numerous  flavors in foods that are a
revelation in enjoyment to those who live upon them. The majority of people cheat and dull the keenest sense
of taste and defeat the primary purposes of nature by doing as
others do, viz. : yielding to their hurried environment. The
most delicious flavors of foods are developed by long
mastication, which gives the saliva time enough to act upon their chemical properties and begin the process of changing
and digesting them. For instance, the changing of starch into dextrine and
grape sugar is the first process of digestion; if done by
mastication it develops a most delicious taste. If this most
important function is not performed in the mouth by the act of
mastication, the taste-buds are not only robbed of their rights,
but extra labor is put upon the stomach, and the process of
digestion much retarded and made more difficult. Perfect mastication is the surest means of avoiding the
habit of over-eating, which is  so disastrous to the health and
so common among civilized people. Every pennyweight of
food taken into the stomach more than is necessary becomes
at once a leaden load upon the body. It is converted into a
poison. It so over-burdens the excretory organs that they
become torpid and diseased and Bright's disease,
constipation, and the long train of evils that follow are the
result. Not long since, we dined with some friends whose
knowledge of the culinary art was very highly developed. From memory we made an inventory of the quantity of food
consumed by one of the most advanced disciples of French
cookery; and according to our best calculations if the same
quantity of material had been eaten in its elementary state and
thoroughly masticated it would have taken about thirty-one
hours' continuous chewing to have disposed of the cargo. The only excuse nature offers to man for creating him is
that she gives him liberty and the means of securing his
happiness and contentment. Yet nearly everything he does
with reference to his physical structure seems to be especially
designed to defeat this purpose. There is a great deal of pleasure to be gained from eating,
but when our highly civilized man comes to perform this very
important function, he shovels in the provender with one
hand while he makes out a mortgage or figures per cent. with
the other. The result is that he gets no happiness from the
mortgage or per cent., but a great deal of unhappiness from
the provender; therefore, at the age of forty the majority of
men stand dejected and defeated, while half the amount of
study bestowed upon themselves and the inexorable laws of
nature that they have given to the foibles of fashion or the
fight for food would have brought health and abundant
vitality up to and even beyond the century mark. Old age is the most valuable period of life. When the
strife and chase is ended we st and before our fellows with
accumulated knowledge, with no ambition to serve except the
common good, which should be given to the world in
exchange for what Mother Nature has given to us. FEEDING CHILDREN. THE first year of the baby's existence is the most trying and
hazardous period of its life. The frightful fatality among
children the first year after birth furnishes ample evidence
that something is wrong. The average mother or nurse knows
but little about the few simple la ws that nature has framed to
govern infant life. The greatest of all errors are made in
reference to feeding. The nurse or mother seems to think that
the least outcry or expression of disturbance is a demand or
evidence that baby must be fed, and straightway the place is
searched for something—something sweet —anything that
will temporarily give employment or divert the mind of the
child from its trouble, while in the great majority of cases it is
caused by too much or the wrong kind of food being given. For the first twelve months, or until all the molar teeth
have appeared, a child should take nothing but liquid food. Mother's milk if possible. If this cannot be supplied, then
whole, unsterilized cow's milk is the best substitute. The
practice of boiling or sterilizing milk is positively
mischievous. This subject is treated at some length in our
chapter on milk. Dried or powdered milk and all kinds of "infant foods"
should be religiously avoide d. Putting milk through the
drying process destroys the cellular tissues of the fat globules,
and the butter fat is set free and becomes very difficult of
digestion. Every mother should read Dr. Fischer's "Infant
Feeding," which treats this subject at great length in the most
frank and scientific manner. Dr. Fischer gives the analysis of
"Nestle's Food," which he term s "a farinaceous, dried milk
food. " He shows that this food has not quite one-sixth the
amount of fat, and only one-third the amount of proteids that
is to be found in mother's milk. Over one-half of the proteid
matter has been made insoluble by the drying process.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the primary reason for the invention of the telephone and telegraph?,
A: Not mentioned in the text, the text does not discuss the invention of the telephone and telegraph.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the use of condiments?,
A: The author believes that the use of condiments is unnecessary and even harmful, as it can lead to overeating and other health issues.
Q: What is the recommended method of preparing milk for consumption?,
A: The author recommends drinking milk in its natural state, without cooking or sterilization, as the digestive fluids in the body can handle any bacteria that may be present. They also suggest that it is better to start with small amounts and gradually increase as needed.
Q: What is the author's stance on the use of nuts as food?,
A: The author highly recommends the use of nuts as a food source, as they are rich in essential nutrients and do not require cooking, making them a healthy and natural choice.
Q: What is the recommended method for preparing vegetables?,
A: The author suggests that vegetables should not be cooked, but rather masticated (chewed) thoroughly to allow for proper digestion and absorption of nutrients.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>They contain elements that cannot be
secured elsewhere. When thoroughly masticated, in addition to their
nutritive value, they serve the body as an alimentary
lubricant. No meal can be made complete without some green
plant. CELERY. Wash, trim and scrape the stalks, selecting those that are
white and tender. Should be left in ice-cold water, until they
are wanted, which makes them very crisp. COLD SLAW. There is nothing more delicious or necessary than
shredded cabbage, usually ca lled cold slaw. It possesses
valuable food properties, occ upying the same place in human
diet that hay does in diet of the horse or cow. LETTUCE. Lettuce is undoubtedly the best of salads. Use the tender
leaves only, and put in cold water for at least twenty minutes
before serving, to make them crisp