that you can try at home –
Make a paste of besan powder (gram our) along with turmeric and
apply, leave for fteen minutes and remove. Turmeric is used in Indian tradition, by females to apply over the
cheeks, because of its hair removal property. A mixture of gram our, turmeric and mustard oil is used for
scrubbing. Paste of milk with turmeric, over a period of time, helps. Make a thin watery paste of wild turmeric. Rub it and apply it on face
for 15 minutes. Wash oﬀ. en make a paste of alum and rose water
and apply it. W ash oﬀ after 30 minutes. Do this once or twice a week. Does applying turmeric after epilation retard the facial hair growth? Yes, after epilation or hair removal treatment, it is good to apply turmeric
powder over face and leave it for at least 10–15 minutes before washing oﬀ. Apart from delaying facial hair re-growth, it also heals the skin lesions that may
be caused during epilation.To some extent, it is useful in retarding further facial hair growth, or at least
delaying the same. In ancient times, women used to apply turmeric over face, daily for the same
purpose.•
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•158. Licorice Milk Recipe
for Gastritis, Stomach
Ulcers, Heartburn
By Dr. Y.S. Raghuram MD (Ayu)
Y
Licorice milk is very easy to prepare remedy for gastritis. It is explained in
Ayurveda as Yastimadhu Ksheerapaka. Kseerapaka is a formulation prepared
using milk. e herb is processed (paka) in the milk and the resultant
preparation is called Ksirapaka. Ingredients of Licorice Milk Remedy
Yastimadu – Coarse powder of Liquorice – 3 g rams
Ksheera (Milk) – 25 ml
Jala (Water) – 100 ml
How to prepare? In this context we shall discuss the quantity of Ksheerapaka to be prepared,
enough for single dose consumption. Coarse powder of Licorice bark is taken in the quantity of 3 grams
(approximately half a teaspoon) in a vessel. To this, milk is added in a quantity of 25 ml or approximately 8 times
the quantity of Licorice churna (powder).•
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•Now water is added in a quantity of 100 m l i.e. approximately 32 times
the quantity of licorice powder (or 4 times the quantity of Milk). Before adding water to the vessel roughly note down the level of milk. Now the vessel with the required ingredients is kept on a stove and
processed in moderate heat. e contents are heated until only milk remains. is means to tell
that the process is carried on until all the water which has been added
at the beginning of the preparation evaporates leaving behind the milk
which we had taken i.e. 100ml of water evaporates during this
processing and nally 25 ml of milk remains. is procedure enables the medicinal qualities of Yashtimadhu to get
imbibed into the milk. is also reduces the irritating and nauseating
property of Yashtimadhu and enables easy consumption of the
medicament. Next the contents are ltered to separate the coarse powder of
Yashtimadhu from the milk. e resultant milk is consumed hot or warm. Dose
25ml in the morning (depends on the severity) – should be decided by the
doctor. In children below 12 years of age, 5–10 m l, once or twice a day is the dose. In conditions of Gastritis and Stomach related ailments it is preferred to be
consumed before food. is formulation can also be given after food. e
decision should be taken by a qualied Ayurvedic physician after thoroughly
examining the disease and the diseased. How long to take? It can be taken safely for a period of 2–8 w eeks, based on doctor’s advice.•
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•Shelf Life
Every time the preparation shall be made fresh. It should neither be preserved nor refrigerated nor reused after a long time
following its preparation, because by then it would have lost its medicinal
properties. Benets of Liquorice Milk Recipe
Useful remedy for Gastritis and other stomach ailments, Reduces stomach acid
levels,
Prevents ulcer formation
Useful in Gastric Erosions and Peptic Ulcers
Research studies have shown that the chemicals in Liquorice decreases
swelling of the mucous membrane in inammatory stomach conditions (and
in lung congestions), thin down mucus secretions and increases chemicals in
our body that heal ulcers. It is also useful in relieving H Pylori infection. Aids digestion, cures indigestion
Good remedy for GERD/Reex oesophagitis/Acid Reex/Heartburn
Relieves spasm of digestive tract and thus relieves colic/tummy pain
Heals Liver damages, It enhances bile ow, aids digestion, decreases
cholesterol levels
It acts as a nutrient and helps in lowering stress
Milk and Liquorice – both are good rejuvenators and geriatric
medicines, the compound is even more wholesome
Probable Mode of Action in Healing Gastric Ailments – an Ayurvedic
PerspectiveMilk is said to be a Nitya – Rasayana (Rejuvenator which can be consumed on
a daily basis) and Yashtimadhu is of course a good Rasayana. Rasayana means that which is highly benecial for all the tissues in the body,
the mind and senses, provides good health and immunity apart from healing
and curing the diseases. us Yashtimadhu Ksheerapaka provides a double
dose of Rasayana. Being Rasayana the combination also covers the healing process in the entire
body (and mind) but since we are discussing the role of Ksheerapaka in Gastric
ailments and digestive disorders we will just have a look at the probable mode
of action of Yashtimadhu Ksheerapaka in the mentioned conditions. Licorice is a known Rasayana herb of Ayurveda, used since the time of
Charaka and Sushruta. Milk has taken the properties and qualities of Yashtimadhu after the
processing and it will be Yashtimadhu which will be predominantly acting in
these conditions. Milk is a media and a conveyer of medicinal properties of
Yashtimadhu to the cells. Also the processing with milk nullies the irritant
and nauseating nature of Yashtimadhu. e stomach and its functions are predominantly monitored by Pachaka
Pitta, Kledaka Kapha and Samana Vayu. ough they will get help from other
sub-types of Doshas it would be irrelevant to discuss that in this context. When the mentioned sub-types of Doshas are in equilibrium the activities
pertaining to digestion take place in an undisturbed way. e imbalance between these sub-types of Doshas, especially the
hyperactivity  of Pachaka Pitta supported by disturbed Samana Vayu will lead
to production of excessive Pitta (acids?) which in due course of time will
damage the Shleshmadhara Kala (Gastric mucosa) of the stomach causing
inammation in its layers. e local Kapha which acts as a buﬀer or protective
layer in the stomach is thus imbalanced. is inammation in due course of
time will lead to conditions like Ajeerna (indigestion), Amlapitta (Gastritis,
GERD etc.) etc.In the later stages this excess Pitta will further damage and burn the
Shleshmadhara Kala and Mamsadhara Kala (Gastric musculature) leading to
Gastric erosions and ulcers (Annadrava Shoola and Parinama Shoola). is
condition is a painful one. e pain is associated with nausea, hyperacidity,
sour belching, heartburn, vomiting and many other symptoms. Yashtimadhu Ksheerapaka by the virtue of its properties like Madhura Rasa
and Vipaka, Sheeta Guna, Snigdha Guru Gunas will buﬀer the excess Pitta and
balance it. is happens due to the antagonistic action of Yashtimadhu
Ksheerapaka on Pitta and Vata – which are the prime culprits in the causation
of Gastric ailments. e medicine also helps in healing the erosions and ulcers, prevents excess
acid formation and being a mild laxative owing to its Snigdha and Guru Gunas
will ush the excess Pitta out of the stomach and intestines. It also corrects the
metabolism and aids in proper digestion and absorption of food. is further
energizes the cells and restores


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A: The lack or deficiency of certain minerals, salts, and vitamins in our customary diet
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A: To provide the body with the essential elements it lacks, which can be digested and assimilated quickly and efficiently
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starches and sugars were avoided altogether and when colonic
irrigations and enemas were used regularly to cleanse waste matter
from the system. CABBAGE JUICE
Duodenal ulcers have responded almost miraculously to the
drinking of cabbage juice. The only drawback is the frequent
generation of excessive gas. In any case, plain carrot juice has been
used with equal success and most people find it more palatable. Cabbage juice has wonderful cleansing and reducing properties. Sometimes it has a tendency to cause distress because of gas forming
in the intestines after drinking it. Such gas is the result of waste
putrefactive matter present in the intestines being broken up by the
cabbage juice, which causes a chemical reaction to set in and may
form gas. This is a natural condition—sulfuretted hydrogen, a foul
smelling gas, being the outcome of the cleansing elements in the juice
acting on and dissolving the waste matter. Enemas and colonic
irrigations help to remove both this excessive gas and the waste matter
causing it. 25 The most valuable properties in cabbage are the high sulphur and
chlorine content and the relatively large percentage of iodine. The
combination of the sulphur and chlorine causes a cleansing of the
mucous membrane of the stomach and intestinal tract, but this only
applies when cabbage juice is taken in its raw state without the addition
of salt. When excessive gas or other distress is experienced after drinking
raw cabbage juice, either straight or in combination with other raw
vegetable juices, it may be an indication of an abnormal toxic condition
within the intestinal tract. In such case it has been found advisable,
before much of the juice is used, to cleanse the intestines thoroughly
by drinking carrot, or carrot and spinach juice daily for two or three
weeks and taking enemas daily. It was found that once the intestines
were able to assimilate cabbage juice, it was invaluable as a cleanser,
particularly in the case of excessive adipose weight. When raw cabbage juice is added to raw carrot juice, it forms an
excellent source of Vitamin C as a cleansing medium, aiding
particularly where infection of the gums is present resulting in
pyorrhea. When boiled or dehydrated with excessive heat, however,
the effectiveness of the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and salts is
destroyed. One hundred and twenty pounds of cooked or canned
cabbage could not furnish the same vital organic food value that is
assimilated from drinking one-half pint of straight raw cabbage juice
when properly prepared. Cabbage juice has been used very effectively to help the relief of
ulcers and constipation. As constipation is usually the primary cause
of skin eruptions, these have also been cleared up with the judicious
use of this juice. The addition of salt to cabbage or its juice not only destroys its
value, but is also harmful. RAW CARROT JUICE
Depending on the condition of the individual, raw carrot juice
may be taken indefinitely in any reasonable quantities—from one to
six or eight pints a day. It has the effect of helping to normalize the
entire system. It is the richest source of Vitamin A which the body
can quickly assimilate and contains also an ample supply ofVitamins
B, C, D, E, G, and K. It helps to promote the appetite and is an aid to
digestion. It is a valuable aid in the improvement and maintenance of the
bone structure of the teeth. 26 Nursing mothers should drink plenty of raw carrot juice, properly
prepared, to enhance the quality of their milk, as a breast milk diet
may under certain circumstances, not provide sufficient vital foods. During the last months of pregnancy, raw carrot juice, taken in
sufficient quantities, tends to reduce the possibilities of puerperal
sepsis at childbirth. One pint of carrot juice, daily, has more
constructive body value than 25 pounds of calcium tablets. Raw carrot juice is a natural solvent for ulcerous and cancerous
conditions. It is a resistant to infections, doing most efficient work in
conjunction with the adrenal glands. It helps prevent infections of
the eyes and throat as well as the tonsils and sinuses and the respiratory
organs generally. It also protects the nervous system and is unequalled
for increasing vigor and vitality. Intestinal and liver diseases are sometimes due to a lack of certain
of the elements contained in properly prepared raw carrot juice. When
this is the case, then a noticeable cleaning up of the liver may take
place, and the material which was clogging it may be found to dissolve. Frequently this is released so abundantly that the intestinal and urinary
channels are inadequate to care for this overflow, and in a perfectly
natural manner it is passed into the lymph for elimination from the
body by means of the pores of the skin. This material has a distinctly
orange or yellow pigment and while it is being so eliminated from the
body will sometimes discolor the skin. Whenever such a discoloration
takes place after drinking carrot or other juices, it is an indication
that the liver is getting a well-needed cleansing. It is NOT the carrot juice itself nor the carotene that comes through
the skin, as this discoloration will take place even if the juice is filtered
to the point of clearing it of all color pigment. It is just as practical an
impossibility for the carrot pigment itself to come through the skin as
it would be for the red pigment of the beet to turn the body red or the
chlorophyll of the green vegetables to paint the skin green from within. In any case, is it not better to have a healthy satin-like skin, even
though it may be slightly on the carrot shade, than to have the pasty
complexion which, together with its pimples and other blemishes,
publicizes the unhealthy condition of the body? Instead of becoming distressed over the appearance of skin
discoloration, which will in any case eventually disappear, we should
be gratified that the disintegration of the liver has been stopped or
prevented by the use of these juices. 27 This discoloration, however, can be somewhat retarded by slowing
up the process of cleansing by changing or adding other juices to the
particular one that causes such a rapid cleansing activity. The lack of sufficient rest, sleep and overwork may also result in
a certain amount of skin discoloration. The endocrine glands, especially the adrenals and the gonads,
require food elements found in raw carrot juice. Sterility is sometimes
overcome by its use. The cause of sterility has been traced to the
continuous use of foods in which atoms and enzymes were destroyed
by cooking or pasteurizing. Dry skin, dermatitis, and other skin blemishes are due to a
deficiency in the body of some of these food elements contained in
carrot juice. This is also a factor in eye trouble, as in ophthalmia,
conjunctivitis, etc. If properly extracted from fresh, clean, good quality raw carrots,
carrot juice is very rich in the vital organic alkaline elements sodium
and potassium. It also contains a good supply of calcium, magnesium,
and iron while the vital organic elements phosphorus, sulphur, silicon,
and chlorine balance perfectly with the former in their action and
reaction on the human system. As an aid to dissolve ulcers and cancer, raw carrot juice has proved
itself the miracle of the age. It was found essential, however, that it be
properly prepared and every vestige of concentrated sugar, starch and
flour of every kind be completely eliminated from the diet. One of the most insidious causes of ulcers and cancer has been
discovered in the victims nursing resentments for a long time, all too
often ever since childhood. Unless resentments are completely
dissolved, they can frustrate otherwise most effective attempts to help
the


 foot-roller technique 164
 foot self-help sequences 121
 foot sequences 90, 91
 golf-ball technique 171, 173, 177, 256
 hand self-help sequences 161
 hand sequences 132, 133
 high cholesterol 255
 maps 26, 27, 31, 264, 337
 low arches 312
low blood pressure 260, 263
low blood sugar 251, 271
lower back reflex areas children 212
 fibromyalgia 257
 fluid retention 239
 foot maps 26, 27, 28, 29, 272, 340
 foot-roller technique 165
 foot self-help sequences 114, 115, 116,
  117, 120
 foot sequences 95, 98, 99, 105, 106
 golf-ball technique 167, 173, 177
 hand maps 30, 31, 32, 33, 272, 340
 hand self-help sequences 156, 157, 160
 hand sequences 136, 137, 140
 lower backache 240
 musculoskeletal system 272, 274, 275
 swollen feet 301
lower backache, pregnant women 240
lung-press children 209 foot relaxer workouts 300
 foot sequences 85, 87, 89, 91, 99, 101,
  102, 103, 105, 106, 107
 mini-sessions 195, 199
 stress 224
 technique 81
lung reflex areas angina pectoris 263
 asthma 250, 280, 283
 babies 203, 206
 bronchitis 250, 280, 283
 children 211
 foot maps 26, 27, 28, 29, 280, 335
 foot-roller technique 163
 foot self-help sequences 111, 116, 117, 120
 foot sequences 88, 89, 98, 99, 104, 107
 golf-ball technique 172, 177, 283
 hand maps 30, 31, 32, 33, 280, 335
 hand self-help sequences 150, 151, 156,
  157, 159, 160
 hand sequences 130, 131, 136, 137, 139,
  140, 141
 respiratory system 250, 280, 281, 282
lymph glands reflex areas arthritis 223
 children 213
 fluid retention 239
 foot self-help sequences 116, 117, 120
 foot sequences 98, 99, 106
 hand self-help sequences 157, 161
 hand sequences 136, 137, 140
 maps 28, 29, 32, 33, 343
 swollen feet 301
lymphatic drainage 232, 239, 301, 308
lymphatic system 193
Maps & charts 18, 20
 body system charts see specific body
  systems (eg cardiovascular system)
 feet 23, 26-9, 35
 hands 24, 30-3
 zones & referral areas 22-4
men 55, 242-7, 284
menopause 55, 184, 237menstrual problems & PMS 51, 55, 221,
 236, 285
mid-back reflex areas 28, 105, 114, 115,   121, 164, 167, 212
mid-foot-mover 82, 93, 95, 97, 105, 107
migraine 54, 252, 253
mini-sessions 183-5
 see also  specific mini-sessions (eg
 comforting mini-sessions)
multiple finger grip 281, 308
multiple sclerosis 54, 279
musculoskeletal system 272-5
Nail-buffing
 golf-ball self-help sequence 177
 hand relaxer workouts 325
 self-help sequences 146, 155, 159, 161
 stimulating hair growth 247 technique 144
nails 69, 175, 177
 see also  nail-buffing
neck
 base of neck lateral marker 22, 23, 24
 neck pain 189
 neck strain 64
neck reflex areas Bell’s palsy 278
 bunions 46
 depression 219
 foot maps 26, 27, 28, 29, 272, 334
 foot self-help sequences 108, 109, 114,
  115, 116, 117, 121
 foot sequences 84, 85, 95, 96, 97, 102,
  103, 106, 107
 golf-ball technique 166, 170, 174, 176, 177
 hand maps 30, 31, 32, 33, 272, 334
 hand self-help sequences 146, 147, 154,
  155, 159, 161
 hand sequences 126, 127, 134, 135, 138,
  139, 140
 headaches & head pain 189, 252, 253
 musculoskeletal system 272, 274, 275
 skeletal reflex areas 35
 sore throat 259
texting thumb 220
nervous system 193, 276-9
Ovary/testicle reflex areas
 children 213
 endocrine system 268, 269, 270
 foot maps 29, 268, 284, 340
 foot-roller technique 165
 foot self-help sequences 118, 119, 121
 foot sequences 100, 101, 107
 hand maps 32, 33, 268, 284, 340
 hand self-help sequences 156, 157, 161
 hand sequences 136, 137, 140
 impotence 246
 infertility 234, 235
 menopause 237
 pregnant women 241
 puberty 217
 reproductive system 284, 285
 Pain 34, 64, 65, 188-9
 see also  specific pains (eg headaches)
palm-counter-mover
 golf-ball self-help sequence 176
 hand relaxer workouts 324
 hand self-help sequences 146, 151, 158,
  160, 161
 relaxation mini-sessions 197
 techniques 125, 145
palm-mover
 golf-ball self-help sequence 176
 hand relaxer workouts 319, 324
 hand self-help sequences 146, 151, 158,
  160, 161
 hand sequences 129, 131, 133, 135, 137,
  139, 141350 INDex relaxation mini-sessions 197
 techniques 124, 145
palm-rocker 125, 131, 135, 140, 141, 318
palms, golf-ball technique 172-3, 176, 177
palsy see Bell’s palsy; cerebral palsy
pancreas reflex areas
 anxiety & depression 191, 219, 254
 babies 204, 206
 children 211, 215
 diabetes & hypoglycemia 251, 271
 digestive system 264
 endocrine system 268, 269, 270
 environmental sensitivity 256
 foot maps 26, 27, 264, 268, 338
 foot self-help sequences 112, 113, 120
 foot sequences 90, 91, 105
 golf-ball technique 171, 176, 256
 hand maps 30, 31, 264, 268, 338
 hand self-help sequences 148, 149, 159
 hand sequences 128, 129, 139
 high cholesterol 255
 pregnant women 241
paraffin baths 69, 233, 308, 326
parathyroid see thyroid/parathyroid glands
reflex areas
parent-child relationships 38, 40-1
Parkinson’s disease 279
pelvis base of pelvis lateral marker 22, 23, 24
 skeletal reflex areas 35
percussion foot problems 311, 312, 313
 foot rejuvenation 291, 293, 307
 foot relaxer workouts 296, 300
 hand rejuvenation 315, 321
 hand relaxer workout 317
 men’s foot flexibility 243
physical awareness 44-5
pinching webbing 227, 254, 262
pituitary gland reflex areas
 babies 203, 205, 207
 children 210, 214
 depression 219
 dizziness 255
 endocrine system 268, 269, 270
 fainting 191
 fever 207
 foot maps 26, 27, 268, 276, 333
 foot self-help sequences 108, 109, 120
 foot sequences 84, 85, 102
 hand maps 30, 31, 268, 276, 333
 hand self-help sequences 146, 147, 159
 hand sequences 126, 127, 138
 heart attack 263
 nervous system 276
 pregnant women 241
 pressure receptors 19
 puberty 217
 revival reflex 10
plantar fascitis 311
PMS & menstrual problems 51, 55,


 only hold it for a
second o r two in the beginning,  lower one knee to the floor at a time. Then
repeat the exercise three to four times. Sun Salutations — Surya Namaskar :  As the name suggests, Sun
Salutations give  a salute to the sun. This classical series of t welve yoga
poses len gthens and strengthens every major muscle group in th e body. This
flow is done rep etitively to enhance flexibility, strength, and car diovascular
health. Y ou can find many variations of the Sun Salutations, and there is no
one correct way of doing them. Healing the Emotional and Energetic Body
Standing in personal power is more dif ficult for some than for others. Dif ficulties may stem from upbringing or personality. For example,
growing up with abusive, dysfunctional, or overly authoritarian parents may
have given you fears about standing in your personal power. Or maybe you
never le arned to  stand up for yourself and your beliefs. Or maybe you’re a
naturally shy person and you’ve never been good at asserting yourself. But
no matter the cause, you can get better at claiming your personal power. B OUNDARIESBoundary setting is an important part of manifesting your third chakra
ener gy. When you set respectful boundaries, you are saying t o others, “I
know who I am,  and I am proud. I feel confident, and I can resp ectfully say
no w hen it’ s ap propriate. ” People with poor boundaries or no boundaries
may com e of f as aggressive, angry, and critical because they aren’ t able to
ef fectively draw the line between what’ s theirs and what’ s not. As a result,
they ten d to take on other people’ s problems, issues, and resp onsibilities,
and then they blow up when they’ve had enough. Poor boundaries come from low self-esteem. Those who don’ t
ef fectively set boundaries are afraid of not being liked. Ma ny of their
actions don’ t come from a place of power but from a place of feeling
powerless. People pleasing is one manifestation of weak boundaries. It involves
hiding y our true wants, needs, and desires or suppressing them so that
others can get what they want and/or so that they like you. W hile it may
seem ki ndhearted, people pleasing is dishonest and even manipulative. If
you’re a people pleaser, you might wonder why people don’ t respect you. It’ s beca use everyone has needs, and others intuitively know this. People
who buy into your people pleasing are generally operating from their egos. They will get what they want from you when they want it, and they know it. But those people need bounda ries too. Boundaries show that you have
enough respect for yourself not to be a doormat. Second, people pleasing and poor boundary setting will never give you
your per sonal power. Giving in for the sake of being nice ca n leave you
with frustration and resentment. Y ou can learn to set boundaries by being
assertive in response to others’ requests rather than responding with
negativity. For example, if a good friend has asked you, yet again, to
borrow m oney t o pay for dinner and has never paid you back, you could set
a bo undary by saying, “I will do it this time. But I want to let yo u know that
this is the last time I lend you money. ” In this case, although it would be
easy for you to get angry at your friend or criticize her, by stating what you
are willing to d o or not willing to d o and sticking to it, you will feel
empowered without causing negative feelings. A SSER TIVENESSGrowing up with a domineering mother, I wasn’ t always assertive. My great
moments of embarrassment as a child came when she frequently returned
items at  stores when she had overspent. She would literally  badger the
salesperson with  every story in the book and even resort to tears to get her
way. When I would ask her why she behaved that way, because it was so
embarrassing to me, she responded that she was simply being assertive. I
thought, If th at’ s assertive, I will neve r be assertive in my life. After
growing up and eventually realizing that what she did wasn’ t assertiveness
but manipulation, I slowly learned how to not be a doormat. T o devel op and heal your sense of personal power, you can learn  how to
be assertive without being manipulative. One simple way to practice
assertiveness is by saying no. If someone asks you to do something that you
don’ t want to do, you can respond by saying no. Y ou don’ t even have to
qualify that no. Those of us who have poor boundaries have a tough time
saying th e word  no  as a complete sentence and without explanation. People
who are  strong in their personal power have no issues with sayin g no. Other
variations of no  mig ht include “I’m sorry, I can’ t,” “I’m busy that day,” or
“Not right now. ”
Successful boundary setters also stick to their decisions and refrain from
flip-flopping. If you say no but then allow the person in fron t of you to
persuade you to change your mind, you’re not sticking to your boundaries. Another frequent problem with  lack of assertiveness is denying your
needs. Have you ever had a friend ask you where you want to go eat or
what movie you want to see and you respond, “Whatever you want; it
doesn’ t matter to me”. There m ay indeed be times when you truly mean it. However, if you find yourself  always saying this, chances are you’re
denying your own needs, at le ast some of the time, to keep the peace. Practice assertiveness by having an opinion and sticking to your decisions. O WNING  Y OUR  S T OR Y
All o f us have a story about how we got to where we are today. If we feel,
in any way, tha t we’re victims of our story and not owners of it, we will
stay powerless. Personal victories and triumphs through adversity are
usually a source of inspiration for others. People who aren’ t living in theirpersonal power will use their st ories as ways to get others to fe el sorry for
them or pity them for their circu mstances. I once heard someone put it this
way: “Y our story did not happ en to you; your story happene d for  you. ”
When you are able to shift to t his perspective, the world will open up to
you. Y our sense of empowerment will heal many aspects of your life. At tw enty-eight years old, I was  diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I didn’ t
let this news or experience defi ne who I was or darken my vie w of life. I
used it to create my new life and open myself to the possibility of helping
others who are sick and suf ferin g. While I struggled for a long time through
my experience with cancer, I’m grateful for it because it made me the
person I am today. One of my favorite teachers, Dr. W ayne W. Dyer, used to say that life
gives us lessons, and we can ei ther get the lesson the first time, or we can
repeat it. Owning our story but not living by it helps us get through to the
lesson, learn from it, and move on. I’ve also  heard this lesson taug ht through the metaphor of a diamond. Diamonds are formed in the Earth’ s upper mantle, about one hundred miles
below the surface. Intense pres sure and high temperatures form diamonds
over tim e. They  rise to the earth’ s surface by an intense explosive volcanic
eruption that thrusts the diamon ds upward at anywhere between twenty and
thirty m iles per hour. Diamonds that remain below the surfa ce can’ t be
appreciated or adored. A diamond’ s journey isn’ t easy, yet it’ s one of the
most beautiful and rare gems on the planet. So it is for you. Y ou won’ t shine
as y our most br illiant self without some pressure and heat. Eve ry obstacle
you encounter — every bit of criticism, letdown, or pushback — is
designed to help you develop your sense of personal power. Healing your emotional self in t he third chakra is about appreciating all
your life’ s circumstances not as forces against you but as forces for you, to
propel you toward your highest self. Healing the Spiritual Body
Although the third chakra rests  in the physical plane, there is something
innately spiritua l about its ener gy. In the second chakra we harness the
power of creation, the creative force of the universe. T o mold  somethingnew out  of nothing is an incred ible and miraculous power to behold. Y et
creation for its own sake isn’ t all that fulfilling until it’ s prese nted to the
world. When we shift from the second to the third chakra, we reveal our
creation. Our creativity manifests in physical form, and we bring it to light. For example, the conception and nine-month growth of a baby isn’ t
fulfilling to the parents in itself; only when the baby breaks


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about the attainment of divine ecstasy. The darkness of this journey is what
made the frenzi es necessary; they were not an end in themselves. In any
event, orgies are now really grand metaphors for smashing the shell of
waking consciousness to arouse the sleeping divinity within.Perhaps this is true. Many ancient traditions use extreme states to push
through to sacred visions. Native shamans who pierce their bodies or
seclude themselves in the harsh wilderness are attempting to contact primal
forces within. Their rites and the orgies of Dionysus are not that far
removed from lovemaking by lovers who hope to push sex into the intensity
of ecstas y. The transports of priests and devotees through devotional rituals
can be very meaningful to them. The unconscious is a rich landscape;
archetypes tell us much about our primal selves. Yet the messages of myth
often seem prefabricated, I think, lacking the immediacy of true ecstasy. It
is rare to meet a mythic thinker who has recaptured the divine states of the
ancïent ones he or she has thought about. TRUE ECSTASY
This brings us to the third definition of ecstasy, as a spiritual  release. Spiritual ecstasy is not a feeling or an idea but a shift of perception in which
direct contact with spirit is made. Being in ecstasy does not have to express
itself through intensity of any kind. The biblical injuncion “Be still and
know that I am God” is an invitation to ecstasy. I prefer the spiritual definition because it is inclusive of the physical and
the mythical. The most famous example of spiritual ecstasy is probably that
of Saint Teresa, who dreamed that an angel came and pierced her heart with
a golden  arrow. She describes this experience in intensely physic al terms, as
a burnin g pain that was almost unendurable until it wondrously transformed
itself into equally intense pleasu re. The mythic ingredients of the angel and
the arrow are unmistakable once we think back to the god Eros with his
quiver and bow. In her ecstasy  Teresa felt nothing less than the intimate
embrace of God, and the erotic and mythic overtones of her experience
make it no less divine. Being supremely spiritual, her ecstas y is able to
include every level of interpretation. What usually makes ecstasy so intense and extreme is not the experience
itself but getting to it. The common images of God or an angel coming
down from heav en to pierce, shatter, and penetrate the ecstatic one do not
have to be taken  literally; they serve to remind us that many layers shield us
from contact with spirit. To receive the gift of ecstasy is an exquisiteexperience, as told in a rema rkable passage from a Greek Orthodox
manuscript written a thousand years ago:
For if we genuinely love Him,
we wake up inside Christ’ s body
where all our body, all over,
every most hidden part of it,
is realized in joy as Him,
and He makes us, utterly, real. These sensual lines, which aroused shock and controversy at the time,
were written by an obscure monk known to us as Symeon the New
Theologian. His description of spirit as a penetrating, transforming love that
turns our very cells to divine essence still may sound too intimate for
comfort:
We awaken in Christ’ s body
as Christ awakens our bodies.... I move my hand, and wonderfully
my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him.... I move my foot, and at once
He appears like a flash of lightning. Symeon was well aware that his loving intimacy with Godhood would be
considered blasp hemous—he spent his last years exiled in a remote Turkish
village, condemned by church authorities—but now we can recognize in his
writing the complete sincerity of a true lover. For Symeon “everything that
seemed to us dark, harsh, shame ful, maimed, ugly, irreparably damaged, is
in Him transformed and recogn ized as whole, as lovely, and radiant in His
light.”
This of course sounds like the voice of a saint, and a very ecstatic one. But I believe the same vision is open to us all—we are all lovers trying to
reach perfection. We do this, as Symeon teaches, when “we awaken as the
Beloved in every last part of our body.” In Symeon’ s time these words
violated the dogmatic belief that the body was wicked and corrupt. In our
age the opposit e prejudice applies: a lover is someone whose appeal isbasically physic al, sexual. In both cases the fusion of spirit and body has
been missed. Yet at moments the piercing joy of love does appear, despite dogma. The
touch of your beloved or simply the sight of her can seem  suddenly
amazing, appea ring like lightning, just as Symeon says. But the same
feeling can penetrate the heart from nowhere, because love is inherent in
life itself. Emily  Dickinson, whose lovers were all in her imagination, is to
me a true lover nonetheless. She writes:
Not “Revelation”—tis—that waits
But our unfurnished eyes—
This is a message of compressed wisdom, which says that we are waiting
not on the day of redemption but on our own perception. The exquisitene ss of true ecstas y cannot dawn unless we can contain it;
our minds are so absorbed in relentless activity that quietness rarely lasts
more than an instant. The body by its nature is also active and restless. Since activity and stillness are opposites, the body generally registers some
degree of agitation or even discomfort as it moves into alignment with
spirit. The reputation that ecstasy has for being physically intense
contributes to the frenzy and mutilation that devotees have resorted to in
order to duplicate the opening to ecstasy—they are mistaking the symptom
for the cause. The divine has nothing to do with pain. Because it stands outside—
ekstasis —the envelope of time and space, spirit cannot be sensuous. Our
five senses cannot take us to where ecstasy dwells. But as true ecstasy
begins to manifest, our senses definitely react. The reaction is entirely
individual and unpredictable, since one person’ s intense erotic opening is
another ’s frightening collapse of defenses. What feels like the expansion of
the soul into infinite space to me may seem like a terrifying fall into the
void to you. When we say that ecstasy is like the drop melting back into the ocean, it
must be made clear that we are the drop and the ocean at the same time, just
on dif ferent levels. Ecstasy is the r elease of individuality back into wholeness. Whatever brings you closer to
wholeness brings you closer to ecstasy.Here I think we’ve reached the secret of ecstasy. Most of us do not see
ourselves as supreme sexual technicians, nor can we relate easily to the
extraordinary mysticism of a saint. Ecstasy will never be ordinar y, yet it can
be brought within our reach once we realize its real nature. Although often
experienced in the most extrem e situations, ecstasy is a quality  of spirit as
natural as any other. We do not have to sojourn into the darkness of the
mythic past to retrieve it. The patient work of inner growth is all we need. To promote stillness inwardly is to promote ecstasy. The inner being
doesn’ t have to be tricked or manipulated to achieve this stillness. Our
minds are like runners that only have to slow down in order to walk, then
slow down from a walk to standing still. This process of shifting from
activity to stillness is a simple yet very deep description of meditation. We
could modify the biblical injunction to “Be still and know ecstasy.” There is
no single road to this quietness of meditation, yet to be genuine any
meditation must take the mind beyond its superficial nature, which is
restless and chaotic, to its deeper nature as the peace that passes all
understanding. REACHING  ECSTASY
The emer gence  into stillness can take place under any conceivable
circumstance. Arjuna achieved his moksha on a raging battlefield after the
bloody onslaught of family against family. Medieval saints found theirs in
complete retreat  from the world. At this very moment someone is finding it
in a bustling city or staring out to sea. The release is never incidental or
accidental. Tastes of ecstasy come and go, yet attaining compl ete stillness
of the mind means walking the spiritual path to its concl usion, with
discipline and faith. Expansion of consciousness is the r oad to ecstasy. Expansion of consciousness is a broad term that covers almost everything
I have discussed up to now, for the path to love is all about such expansion. Love pulls you out of ego boundaries, and when you are dedicat ed to acting
from love, you are able to live in spirit. Many of the most important themes
have already been covered:Seeing your beloved as a mirror of your higher Self. Surrendering to love as a guiding force. Letting go of attachment to the false self and its needs. Devoting every day to achieving true union and healing the wounds of separation. Countless people live with their beloved without following any of these
principles; their love doesn’ t provide a strong enough basis to escape their
old conditioning. Until they discover the spiritual path, few are able to heed
the voice of spirit, which speaks intuitively. If only you perceived it, you
are al


 in nostalgia. The Chinese poet Wu-Men counsels:
Ten thousand owers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
A cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter—
If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life. If the balance between heart  and mind is disturbed, especially if
the subtle feeling level has been destroyed, there begins a process
we call rationalization. Why am I not happy at this very moment? “I’m too busy now. I’ll be happy when I’m successful.”
“Today’s not a good day; I’ll be happy tomorrow.”
“I can’t be happy with you, you’re not up to my standards.”
“Others need me so much that I have to be responsible.”
“Life is less risky if you are good and measure up to the
norm.”
“I’ll be happy when I get what I want.”In each phrase  one hears the victory of the head over the heart. Being happy is no longer immediate; it has become a distant or near
prospect, an idea rather than a feeling. In meditation the yogi tries
to clear a path for feeling, removing “unnecessary things ” from his
mind so that he can actua lly experience the bedrock of inner
satisfaction that all the ancient scriptures declare to be our
birthright. Whenever a person succeeds in joining head and heart,
that is Yoga. The reward of this union is immense: every moment
will become the best in the person’s life. A yogi balance s the qualities of intellect and feeling, but I often
think of him as a protester on behalf of the heart. Surrounded by
people (even in India) who pursue achievement without gaining
fulllment, he chooses fulllment rst. He will not let the mind rob
him of the subtle feelings of joy that come as freely as leaves blown
by the wind and are as easily swept away. The Mystery of Elaine
I sat on the edge of the emergency stretcher looking down at
Elaine in baement. It was midnight, and we had just had her
rushed from our clinic to the hospital with uncontrollable vomiting
and severe abdominal bleed ing. The crisis had erupted with little
warning. When Elaine became my patient two weeks earlier, her complaint
had been menorrhagia, or excessive menstrual bleeding. This
condition, which caused acute pain during her periods and lasted
for as long as fteen days a month, had persisted for more than a
decade. There was also a secondary complaint, which, combined
with the rst, made her mysterious in my eyes. Althoug h she had
never given birth, Elaine spontaneously secreted milk from her
breasts, a condition called galactorrhea. Medically speaking, these two symptoms are contradic tions of
each other. A particular pituitary hormone, prolactin, could have
caused her milk secretions, but another major eect of prolactin is
to stop the period. To compound matters, Elaine’s tests failed to
reveal any abnormalities in her hormone levels. I had beenpondering various explanations for her condition when she suddenly
suered this midnight attack. The young Indian doctor who was on call at our clinic that night
had sounded panicky when he phoned me, reporting that Elaine had
vomited twenty times in less than three hours. He notice d a droop
in her left eyelid and a slight facial tic, which made him fear some
kind of brain incident. He guessed that a tiny tumor, probably in the
pituitary, was beginning to hemorrhage, and he therefore had had
no choice but to get her into an ambulance as fast as possible. Now Elaine was no longer in pain and lay on the stretcher
sedated. Her symptoms had receded as unexpectedly as they had
begun, and a CAT scan, much to my relief, disclosed no sign of a
brain tumor. Incredibly, her entire sheaf of test results still indicated
that she was perfectly healthy. Nothing made any sense. As Elaine slept, I looked down at her worn, drawn face. It
occurred to me that this was the most relaxed I had ever seen her. In
her rst oce visit she had presented herself as a secure, successful
businesswoman. She owned her own public relations rm, with
twenty employees under her (they were all men, she took pains to
inform me). Whatever lay beneath this condent persona, I wasn’t
going to nd it that night. I scheduled an oce appointm ent on her
chart and in the meantime called her family doctor in Houston to
see if he could clue me in. He was not encouraging. “Elaine?” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with her, not that I
have ever been able to nd. She has had about sixty of these attacks
in the past ten years”—Elaine had neglected to tell me that when
she came up to Boston—“and I recently told her that there was
nothing more I could do.”
I asked him for his best guess at an accurate diagnosis. “Hysteria,”
he shot back. “No doubt in my mind. You’ll never be able to shake
her of this thing, but good luck trying.” With obvious satisfaction he
abruptly ended the conversation. The next morning I asked Elaine about the previous attacks. Looking embarrassed, she admitted that these had occurred o and
on for fteen years, dating from when she rst got married. Did she
have a happy marriage? She turned red and looked away. “I wasraised a strict Catholic, and I feel I have a duty to remain in this
marriage. Happy? My husband treats me very well, and I respect
him as a good man.” It turned out that because of a preexisting
organic condition, her husband had never been able to have
intimate relations with her. She described their current relationship
as caring and close but platonic. “Do you know what your doctor in Houston thinks is wrong with
you?” I asked. She answered angrily, “He thinks I’m hysterical, of course. I’m
sure he told you that.”
“Do you know  what is mean t by the term hysteria?” I asked. She
admitted that she had only a vague idea. “I’m not a psychiatrist,” I
said, “but in layman’s terms, an hysteric is someone who is the
victim of self-deception. He presents all the signs of a physical
illness and is completely convinced by them, yet no one else can
nd a ‘real’ cause for his symptoms. On the other hand,  deceiving
yourself can also be considered a real cause in its own way.”
Whereas the word “hysteric” had deeply oended her, I noticed
that Elaine looked interested in the line of explanation we were now
pursuing. “People nd numerous reasons for deceiving themselves,”
I continued. “You’ve already mentioned that your marriage lacks
certain types of normal fulllment, such as having sexual relations
with your husband and becoming a mother. Your doctor has
concluded that your symptoms are basically born out of frustration. I don’t know how frankly you can talk to your husband, but I’m sure
you’ve made all these connections on your own already.”
She said nothing, which I took to be assent. She was extremely
startled, howe ver, by my next words. “You’re not an hysteric,
Elaine. I think there’s a aw in your doctor’s reasoning. The fact is
that you are quite conscious of what is missing in your life, which is
not true of a deeply deceived  person. I would feel more comfortable
if we dropped the psycholog ical jargon and looked at your problem
much more directly.”
“What do you mean?” she asked nervously. “Let’s start with a very basic thing,” I replied. “How do you feel at
this moment?”“Right now?”
“Yes. What word would describe Elaine right now?”
“Empty,” she said without hesitation. “But I have lived with that
for a long, long time.”
“Why?” I asked. She looked at me hard. “Do you think I have a choice? That’s just
the way I feel.”
“Does feeling that way make you happy?” I asked. “You may not believe this,” she said, “but I think I’m basically as
happy as the next person.”
“Really?” I asked. “You just said you feel empty much of the time. A lot of people  feel that way, or are afraid that they feel that way,
but a lot of people don’t.”
“How do you feel?” she asked. “Can’t you tell?”
“Well, no. How could I?”
“I’m giving it o.”
“You are?”
“Sure,” I said. “In my tone of voice, the look in my eyes, and in
many other subtle ways, I give o feelings, just as you and all other
people do. We are having a conversation in feelings, though it may
be taking place below the verbal level. Right now I feel interested in
you. I am worried about why we can’t explain what is happening to
you, and at the same time I must admit that I am excited by
exploring your emotions. It’s an intimate moment.”
Elaine didn’t comment. “Can’t you sense those feelings?” I urged. “Don’t you have much the same ones?” She nodded


 your own, and be as healthy as the ancients? Sorry, the answer is almost certainly no. There ar e
pitfalls, many of them, waiti ng for the unwary. White flour has one other advantage over whole wheat flour. It not only remains free of insect infestation, it doesn't become  stale
(meaning rancid). In the wheat germ (where the embryo resides) there is considerable oil, containing amon g other things, about the
best natural source of vitamin E. This oil is highly unsaturated and once the seed is ground the oil goes rancid in a matter of days. Whole wheat flour kept on the unrefrigerated shelf of the store is almost certainly rancid. A lo t of its other vitamin content has
been oxidized too. If the wheat flour had flowed directly from the grinder into an airtight sack and from there directly to t he
freezer, if it had been flash frozen and kept extremely cold, it might have a storage life of  some months. Of course that was not the
case. Maybe you're lucky and your health food store is one of the very few that has its own small -scale flour mill and grinds daily. Probably not. How about your baker's whole wheat bread? Where does the baker get flour? From the wholesaler's or distributor's warehouse! In
fifty pound kraftpaper sacks! How much time had elapsed from milling to wholesaler to baker to baking? The answer has to be i n
the order of magnitude of weeks. And it might be months. Was the flou r stored frozen? Or airtight? Of course not. If you want bread made from freshly ground flour you are almost certainly have to grind and bake it yourself. Is it worth the
trouble? You bet. Once you've tasted real bread you'll instantly see by comparison wh at stale, rancid whole wheat flour tastes like. Freshly ground flour makes bread that can be the staff of life and can enormously upgrade your health –if the wheat you use is any
good. But before we talk about wheat quality, a more few words of warning. If you think wheat goes rancid rapidly, rye is even worse. Rye flour goes bad so fast that when you buy it in the store it usually is the rye equivalent of white wheat flour. The germ has been
removed. The bag may not say so. But it probably has. If you are g oing to make rye breads, even more reason to grind your own. Corn meal from the grocery store has usually been degerminated too. If it hasn't been, the oil in the seed's germ has probabl y gone
rancid. Grinding flour at home is easy these days. There is an  abundance of at -home milling products and no shortage of hype about them. You'll find staunch advocates of stone mills. These produce the finest -textured flour, but are costly. The sales pitch is that stones
grind at low temperature and do not damage the oils (remember the development of rancidity is a function of temperature) or the
vitamins, which are also destroyed at high temperature. This assertion is half true. If you are going to store your flour it is far better
to grind it cool. However, if you ar e, as we do, going to immediately bake your flour, what difference does it make if it gets a little
warm before baking. That only accelerates the action of the yeast. On the negative side, stone mills grind slowly and are very fussy about which grains the y will grind. If the cereal is a bit moist or if
the seed being ground is a little bit oily, the mill becomes instantly blocked. Steel burr mills grind fast and coarsely and are inexpensive. Coarse flour makes heavy bread. The metal grinding faces tend t o
wear out and have to be replaced occasionally –if they can be replaced. Breads on the heavy side are still delicious; for many years
I made bread with an inexpensive steel burr mill attachment that came with my juicer. Some steel burr mills will also grin d oily seed like sesame and sunflower. However, oily seeds can be ground far more easily half -
a-cup at a time in a little inexpensive electric spice/coffee mill, the sort with a single fast -spinning propeller. I currently think the best compromise are hamm ermills. The grain dribbles into a chamber full of fast -spinning teeth that literally
pound the grain into powder. Since air flows through with the grain the flour is not heated very much. This type of mill is s mall,
very fast, intermediate in price betwee n steel mills and stone mill, lasts a long time, but when grinding, sounds like a Boeing 747
about to take off. It is essential to wear hearing protectors when using it. Awareness of bread quality is growing. One excellent new U.S. business, called Great H arvest Bakery is a fast -growing national
franchise chain. They bake and sell only whole grain breads; all their wheat flour is freshly ground daily on the premises in  the
back. Unfortunately, as of the writing of this book, they do not grind their rye flou r but bring it in sacks. I can't recommend their
rye breads. The founder of Great Harvest is a knowledgeable buyer who fully understands my next topic, which is that wheat is  not
wheat. There are great differences between hard bread wheats; being organica lly grown is no cure -all for making good or nutritious bread. Great Harvest understands this and uses top quality grain that is also Organic. When I first stated making my own bread from my own at -home -ground flour I was puzzled by variations in the dough. Sometimes the bread rose well and was spongy after baking like I wanted it to be. Sometimes it kneaded stickily and ended up flat
and crumbly like a cake. Since I had done everything the same way except that I may have bought my wheat berries from differ ent
health food stores, I began to investigate the subject of wheat quality. The element in the cereal that forms the rubbery sponge in risen bread so it doesn't crumble and rises high without collapsin g, is
gluten. The word glue derives from gluten. The g luten content of various wheats varies. Bread bakers use "hard wheat" because of
its high gluten content. Gluten is a protein and gluten comprises most of the protein in bread wheat; the protein content and  the
gluten content are almost identical. Try thi s. Ask your health food store buyer or owner what the protein content is of the hard red wheat seeds they're selling. You'll
almost certainly get a puzzled look and your answer will almost certainly be, "We have Organic and conventional." Demand that
the store buyer ask this question of their distributor/wholesaler and then report back to you. If the distributor deigns to answer, the
answer will be the same –I sell Organic or conventional hard red wheat. Period. When I got these non -answers I looked further and
discovered that hard bread wheats run from about 12 percent protein to about 19 percent and this difference has everything to  do
with the soil fertility (and to an extent the amount of rainfall during the season), and almost nothing to do with Organic or
conventional. This difference also has everything to do with how your dough behaves and how your bread comes out. And how well your bread
nourishes you. Thirteen percent wheat will not make a decent loaf - fourteen percent is generally considered #2 qu ality and
comprises the bulk of cheap bread grain. When you hear in the financial news that a bushel of wheat is selling for a certain price,
they mean #2. Bakers compete for higher protein lots and pay far higher prices for more protein. We prefer our br ead about 25% rye, but rye contains no gluten at all. Mix any rye flour into fourteen percent wheat flour and the
dough becomes very heavy, won't rise, and after baking, crumbles. So I kept looking for better grain and finally discovered a
knowledgeable la dy that sold flour mills and who also was a serious baker herself. She had located a source of quality wheat with
an assayed protein content and sold it by the 50 pound sack. When I asked her if her wheat was Organic she said it was either
sixteen or seven teen percent protein depending on whether you wanted hard red spring wheat or hard white spring wheat. Organic
or conventional? I persisted. No, she said. High protein! So, I said to myself, since protein content is a function of soil fertility and since my body needs protein, I figured I am better off
eating the best quality wheat, pesticide/herbicide residues (if there are any) be damned. Think about it! The difference betw een
seventeen percent and fourteen percent protein is about 25 percent. That perce ntage difference is the key threshold of nutritional
deficiency that makes teeth fall out. We can't afford to accept 25% degradations in our nutritional quality in something that  we eat
every day and that forms the very basis of our dietary. Please unders tand here that I am not saying that high protein wheats can't be grown organically. They certainly can. The founder of
Great Harvest Bakery performs a valuable service locating and securing high -protein lots of organically grown wheats for his
outlets. But  often as not Organic products are no more nourishing than those grown with chemicals. Until the buyers at Organic
whole food wholesalers get better educated about grain, obtaining one's personal milling stock from them will be a dicey
proposition. S


 rest there is to fail to understand the cause of peptic ulcer. It is said that something happens to the internal chemistry of the body to cause the gastric juice to
digest the stomach; it is believed, by some, that emotional stresses may be the cause of this
chemistry change. Once the
 membrane collapses, so the theory runs, the stomach juice certainly
acts on the tissues and extends the ulcer, often eating through the wall of the stomach or duodenum
(perforation) with fatal results. It is significant in this connection that this digestion that is assumed to be certain is an
exceedingly slow process, often requiring years for its climax. Yet this self-digestion does not occur in the healthy stomach, no matter how much acid may be
secreted. Hydrochloric acid is a normal secretion of the glands of the stomach, a necessity in the
digestion of protein foods. To believe that it is disease-building is not rational. An excess of acid
secretion due to some evanescent cause may give rise to discomfort and distress, but there will be
no digestion of the lining membrane of the stomach. There may be a flow of the contents of the
stomach back into the gullet, resulting in the symptom commonly called “heart burn,” but this will
not result in any damage to the membrane. Long-continued suffering with heart burn (most often seen in those who overeat on sugars and
syrups and those who wrongly combine their foods, and who drink liquids with meals) may result
in sufficient irritation of the lining of the esophagus and stomach to cause inflammation, but up to
this point, at least, there will be no digestion of the walls of the gullet and stomach. The acids of
decomposition, resulting from overeating and imprudent eating, are the acids that complicate
gastric and duodenal ulcer. Experimentally, fresh tissue from other parts of the body, when sutured to the gastric wall, is not
digested and this suggests that the walls of the digestive tube are not digested by the gastric juice. But I think that an even stronger reason to doubt the role of the digestive juice in producing peptic
ulcer is the fact that ulcers develop in many other part of the body—the nose, sinuses, mouth,
tongue, throat, colon, bladder, womb, cervix, vagina, gall bladder and upon the surface of the
body, as in varicose ulcer— without the digestive action of the gastric secretion. There is in ulcers, in each of these other locations, a preliminary and persistent inflammation
with hardening and a subsequent breakdown of tissue. The evaluation of ulcer of the esophagus,
stomach and duodenum out of chronic irritation and inflammation and hardening seems to be as
certain as its evolution out of these pre-ulcer states in other locations. The history of cases of gastric and duodenal ulcer reveals that very early in life, the patient had
developed gastro-intestinal irritation and inflammation. The mode of living and eating that resulted
in the irritation continued, added to, intensified, and the recurring discomforts were palliated with
drugs, until the patient passes through the already indicated stages of pathological evolution—
irritation, inflammation, a gradual thickening of the mucous and sub-mucous tissues (hardening),
and, then, ulceration. The increasing hardening chokes arterial circulation, cutting off oxygen and the food supply, so
that the tissues break down, giving rise to an open sore or ulcer. Cancer may be the final ending in this evolution. It is one of the endings of a chain of symptoms
starting with irritation, and passing through inflammation, thickening and swelling (hardening or
induration), ulceration (ulcer formation), and fungation (cancer). 98The same chain of causes and effects may precede both endings or cancer may evolve out of the
ulcer. It should be understood that both of these diseases—ulcer and cancer—represent end-points
in a process of pathological evolution that had simple beginnings and became more complex as it
developed. This is the reason why the search for a specific cause for cancer has been so
disappointing. All of the cancer-producing (carcinogenic) agents so far discovered are causative in only a
certain percentage of cases—in those in whom the ground has already been prepared for cancer
development. Ulcer, like cancer, is an ending in a chain of symptoms that begins far back of the evolution of
the ulcer itself. Repeated stomach crises (gastritis) end in ulcer. The ulcer develops after scores of
gastric crises that have occurred frequently in infancy, childhood, youth, and maturity. Ulcer is
classed as an organic disease, which means that abnormal changes have taken place in the structure
of the wall of the organ affected. Organic changes follow in the wake of vascular (artery and vein) degeneration and hardening. Indurations (hardenings) wait upon circulatory changes, particularly asphyxiation of the tissues. Ulceration may be said to be an active degeneration from cell apoplexy; cancer is passive
degeneration from cell asphyxiation. The beginning of both these forms of disease is irritation. All
chronic forms of inflammation begin as irritation and are followed by ulceration and, if the
location favors stasis (stoppage of the blood flow), induration and cancer will follow. The major links in this chain of pathological evolution are enervation, intoxication, irritation,
inflammation, induration, ulceration and fungation. That last is cancer. Should cancer be the only
unknown element in this pathological composite? Concomitant with the gastric ulcer is a chronic state of excessive acidity of the stomach, a
condition known as
gastric hyperacidity. The common belief is that the excess stomach acid is a
purely local condition. It is not recognized that this hyperacidity is symptomatic of the systemic condition of the
sufferer. This is the reason that treatment is only local; whereas, if it were recognized that the local
state is but a phase of a constitutional state, a more rational and more successful plan of care could
be instituted. If the gastric irritation and inflammation continue, and they will if toxemia is not eliminated and
its causes removed, the inflammation will extend to the gall duct and gall bladder and even into the
liver itself. Or it may extend up the pancreatic duct into the pancreas. As the patient’s mode of
living is not corrected and the systemic condition back of the irritation
and inflammation is
increased and intensified, the disease spreads from membrane to membrane and new diseases
develop. Feeding the ulcer patient is a difficult problem. Not only is there a greatly impaired ability to
digest food, but there is the irritation of the ulcerated surface that is occasioned by so many
different foods. What a life one leads when reduced to the necessity of conforming to the requirements of a
capricious stomach! In peptic ulcer, due to the secretion of too much acid, it is customary to feed
small, frequent meals of bland foods. These are intended to use up the acid and to reduce, as much
as possible, the mechanical irritation of the ulcer. But feeding the patient every three to four hours, sometimes oftener, and even at night, means
that the patient is continually overeating. The very feeding program causes the excess secretion to
be continued and helps to perpetuate the same condition it is intended to palliate. Using food as a
99palliative is certainly not a correct dietary procedure. There are many different diets that are prescribed for ulcer patients and there are various plans
of treatment. Each has its own advocates, but the results of each plan of care and feeding are far
from satisfactory, for the reason that they ignore cause. Milk diets, cream diets, sippy diets, bland
diets, frequent small meals, and similar feeding programs are all intended to palliate symptoms. These diets cause less immediate irritation of the ulcerated surface, but they remove no cause,
hence health is not restored. This is not a valid plan of feeding and it defeats its own purpose by
adding to the systematic impairment that is back to the ulcer. Drugs are also used to palliate symptoms—drugs to relieve pain, tranquilizers for depression,
drugs to “coat the stomach.” antacids to counteract the acidity. Other drugs employed in ulcer
cases are intended only to provide short periods of relief from symptoms. They remove no cause,
hence they restore no health. Even the latest method of freezing the glands of the stomach is but a
palliative measure. It makes a digestive cripple out of the patient, but removes none of the causes
of peptic ulcer. Operations for peptic ulcer continue to be performed. And they are still very unsatisfactory. The
wall of the stomach in gastric ulcer is pretty generally irritated and inflamed. In this broad field of
inflammation the ulcer develops at the most inflamed point. This means that the part in which the
greatest pathological change has occurred must ulcerate. Removing the ulcer does not remove the
field of inflammation. Another point of the inflamed surface breaks down and another ulcer results. This simply means that removal of an ulcer leaves the field open for the evolution of another
ulcer and recurrence is the rule. Recurrence is due to the fact that the cause of the ulcer is
untouched by the operation. Indeed, if the stomach is removed, and the cause untouched, trouble
will evolve elsewhere out of the same causes. Surgery does not and cannot restore
health. It is a
means of palliating symptoms and rarely anything more. Anemia is a frequent aftermath of removal


a), cancer, and stomach ulcers. ***
What you need to know about sour/tart cherry juice:
Tart cherries should not be confused with the sweet, black cherry variety. Sour cherries contain 4 times the amount of malic acid than found in
apples. Hence, you only need a fourth of the quantity, i.e. 8 oz. cherry juice
versus 32 oz. apple juice during each of the 6 days of the cleanse
preparation. Make certain to only buy sour cherry juice in glass bottles! Most health
food stores stock organic, preservative-free tart cherry juice. Studies suggest sour cherries may help reduce risk factors for type 2
diabetes, which makes tart cherry juice a good option for diabetics who
wish to do the liver flushes and cannot use apple juice because of its high
sugar content. The juice has also shown to help reduce inflammation of joints and inhibit
tumor growth, improve blood flow, lower blood pressure, and increase
heart and brain health. It can be used by those suffering from Candida problems. Dietary recommendations (for the first 5 days):
During the entire week of preparation and cleansing, avoid foods or
beverages that are ice-cold; they chill the liver and, thereby, reduce the
effectiveness of the cleanse. All foods or beverages should be warm or at
least room temperature. If you are used to eating only raw foods, you may
continue doing that. To help the liver prepare for the main part of the
cleanse, try to avoid foods from animal sources, including meat, fish,
poultry, eggs, dairy products (except butter), fried food items, and refined
sugar or foods that contain it. Otherwise, eat normal meals, but avoid
overeating. It is best to consume fresh salads, cooked vegetables, grains,
legumes, nuts, seeds, natural fats and oils, herbs, spices, and fruits during
the preparation time. Please note the important dietary instructions for Day
6 of the preparation phase below. The best times for cleansing:
The main and final part of the liver flush is best done over a weekend, or
when you are not under any pressure and have enough time to rest. Although the liver flush is effective at any time of the month, it should
preferably coincide with a day between full moon and new moon, or new
moon and full moon. If possible, avoid doing the actual flush on full moon
day when the body tends to hold on to extra fluids in the brain and tissues17.07.2017 The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Flush By Andreas Moritz
http://www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/Andreas-Moritz-Amazing-Liver-Flush.asp 4/17and is, therefore, more reluctant to release toxins 190. The days around
new moon are the most conducive for cleansing and healing. Please read this if you take any medication! While some people on prescription medication have done liver flushes
successfully, others have reported that they did not release any stones, or
felt very sick for a day or two. In 99 percent of all cases, pharmaceutical
medications are merely symptom-suppressive and non-cause-oriented, and
therefore, useless, unnecessary, and increasing harmful, especially if taken
long-term. For instance,
blood pressure medication is now known to cause congestive heart
failure, hypertension, and kidney disease;
arthritis medication damages the liver and kidneys and causes more pain
and more arthritis;
statins increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and liver damage;
anticancer drugs cause more cancers and spread them in the body, etc. (for more details, see Chapter 3)
There are numerous simple, proven, and completely natural methods of
restoring balance in the body that are far more effective and also void of
any harmful side effects. For instance, vitamin D alone, which the body produces in response to
regular sun exposure, can balance blood pressure, normalize blood sugar
and cholesterol, prevent and reverse cancer, stop infections such as
tuberculosis, heal skin diseases, and help with almost every other illness. In many cases, hypertension is just due to chronic dehydration and can be
corrected in a matter of days. This book contains plenty of information you
can use to make the necessary changes to your diet and lifestyle and
escape the vicious cycle of taking toxic drugs that only further the
occurrence of illness and debility and which, in turn, requires new drugs
that cause further symptoms of disease. If you have already become drug-dependent, I recommend you work under
the supervision of a naturopathic doctor to gradually wean yourself off the
medication while you also follow the guidelines for diet and lifestyle
outlined in this book, or in greater detail, in my book Timeless Secrets of
Health and Rejuvenation. While liver flushes help the body to detoxify and heal itself, medications
like antidepressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, or antibiotics do the exact
opposite. It is risky for the body to undergo two incompatible and opposing
processes at the same time. In fact, taking medication while doing a liver
flush, may alter its concentration in the blood to undesirable levels; hence,
the warning.17.07.2017 The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Flush By Andreas Moritz
http://www.curezone.org/cleanse/liver/Andreas-Moritz-Amazing-Liver-Flush.asp 5/17Once off pharmaceutical drugs, you can then safely do liver flushes. Cautionary note about cancer drugs
Those who have undergone chemotherapy and wish to do liver flushes
need to wait 6-8 months after the last round of treatment. Chemo drugs
produce an excessive amount of intrahepatic gallstones because of their
high toxicity, but it takes a while before all the chemical toxins are absorbed
by bile and formed into stones. Doing a liver flush too soon after receiving
these drugs would release much of the unbound poison into the intestinal
tract and literally burn holes through it. A Note on thyroid medication
Those who have had their thyroid removed (or have an underactive thyroid)
and are taking thyroid medication will need to continue taking the medicine
when doing the liver flushes. It is one of the few exceptions to the rule. I
have not seen any diminished effectiveness of the liver flush when taking
thyroid hormone. Food supplements
If you take natural food supplements, such as minerals and nonsynthetic
vitamins, you may continue taking them, but it is best to avoid taking any
supplements or medicines during the actual liver flush, unless they are
absolutely essential. Besides, they are wasted as they are flushed out with
the bile and Epsom salt. Age Considerations
Children as young as 9 or 10 years old can do liver flushes, but they should
only take half the amounts of cleanse ingredients (see separate
instructions below). I have also had people in their 90s who also had
excellent results with liver flushing. Cleanse your colon BEFORE and AFTER you do a liver flush
Having regular bowel movements is not necessarily an indication that your
bowel is unobstructed. Colon cleansing, done either a few days before or,
ideally, on Day 6 of preparation, helps to avoid or minimize any discomfort
or nausea that may arise during the actual liver flush. It prevents back-
washing of the oil mixture or waste products from the intestinal tract into
the stomach and it also assists the body in swiftly eliminating the released
gallstones. Most cases of nausea during liver flushes are due to not
properly cleansing the colon beforehand. Colonic irrigation (colon
hydrotherapy) is the most thorough method to prepare the colon for the
liver flush. Colema-board irrigation is an almost equally effective method,17.07.2017 The Amazing Liver And Gallbladder Flush By Andreas Moritz
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Clean in Chapter 5). This is what you need to do on Day 6 of the preparation:
Drink all the 32 oz. (1 liter) of apple juice or all the 8 oz. of sour cherry juice,
or any of the other chosen options, in the morning. You may start drinking
the juice soon after awakening. If you feel hungry in the morning, eat a light
breakfast, such as fruit or a hot cereal like oatmeal. Avoid regular sugar or
other sweeteners, spices, milk, butter, oils, yogurt, cheese, ham, eggs,
nuts, pastries, cold packaged cereals, and other processed foods. Freshly-
pressed fruit juices or vegetables juices are fine. For your lunch meal you
may eat plain cooked or steamed vegetables with rice (preferably white
basmati rice), buckwheat, quinoa or similar grains, and flavor it with a little
unrefined sea or rock salt. If you prefer to eat fruit or raw vegetables, that’s
fine, too. Please do not eat any protein foods, nuts, avocado, butter, or oil,
or you might feel ill during the actual flush. The main thing is to save as
much bile as possible for the liver flush, which is required to remove as
many stones as possible from the liver and gallbladder. Eating fat or
oilcontaining foods would use up that bile and render the liver flush
ineffective. Also, do not eat or drink anything except water after 1:30 p.m.,
otherwise you may have difficulty passing stones! Follow the exact
schedule below. Please do not attempt the liver cleanse until you have
carefully read


 which you can recover
easily is the bes t way to increase your body’ s natural antioxida nt defenses
and redu ce oxidative stress. However, if you are a weekend warrior who
does very little or no exercise during the week but engages in intense
training on the weekend, you may be doing more harm than good. More rigorous training regimens can also provide adequate protection
from oxidative stress, so long  as intensity and duration i s increased
gradually; a competitive athlete  preparing for an upcoming event will need
to a llow a suf fi cient period of time to condition his or her body against
oxidative stress. Studies show that well-trained athletes are perfectly able to
cope with the o xidative stress caused by intense training and competition
after the right kind of preparation—in fact, small amounts of oxidative
stress can even prove beneficia l for the body in strengthening  antioxidant
defenses. While breathing naturally increases during physical e xercise,
individuals with  a low BOL T score breathe more heavily th an normal,
creating an even greater quantit y of free radicals relative to their physical
work rat e. A higher BOL T score, on the other hand, corresponds to a lower
breathing volume, producing fewer free radicals and reducing the risk of
muscle damage, injury, fatigue, and premature aging—po ssibly even
extending the length of life. Br eath-holding techniques of fer a simple and
ef fective way to increase antio xidant protection in athletes who exercise
intensely and can easily be incorporated into regular training. Alan is an amateur cyclist in his early twenties living on the west coast
of Ir eland. V ery competitive by nature, Alan has won many races, often
beating riders more seasoned an d experienced than himself. He came to me
for h elp because he found that it sometimes took him a half hou r to recover
his brea thing af ter a race. T aki ng so long to catch his breath—even after
strenuous activity—was a clear indication that Alan was pushing his bodytoo hard during competition. A s I expected, his BOL T score measured 15
seconds, meani ng that his breathing volume was much lar ger than
necessary. The breathlessness he experienced after exercise showed that his
body was struggling to compen sate. I explained to Alan that although he
was clea rly fit and capable of w inning races, he was literally su bjecting his
body to abuse. At the time, he was suf fering from a dry coug h and head
cold as a result of his exercise, but if he continued in the same way, the
ef fects of overbreathing might not always be so mild. My adv ice to Alan was to adapt his cycling to the capabilities of his
body. First, he n eeded to increase his BOL T score to at least 35 seconds to
align his  breathi ng volume with his metabolic needs. I asked Alan to switch
to nasal breathin g during as mu ch of his training as possible, reverting to
mouth breathing only when absolutely necessary. Since the nose of fers a
smaller entry for breathing than  the mouth, nasal breathing se ts a limit to
the volu me of air taken into the lungs. Nasal breathing is a grea t barometer
for training intensity, and my objective was for Alan to match his exercise
to his capabiliti es by not pushi ng himself past the point whe re he could
maintain nasal breathing. This is a safe and easy-to-implement approach,
enabling a gradual but steady increase of BOL T score, which in turn allows
for a sensible increase in intensity and duration. One small land-based mammal has managed to confound the
overwhelming evidence to support the negative ef fects of oxidative stress. For the past few  decades, scientists have studied the naked mole rat—a
bald, blind creature that looks like a hot dog with teeth and lives for up to
twenty-eight years, almost eigh t times longer than any other rodent. The
naked mole rat lives in East Africa, where it is considered a pest by local
farmers as it burrows tunnels underneath fields and eats vegetable crops. The brea thing rate of the naked  mole rat is very low in compa rison to
other ro dents, an d it lives in crowded colonies where there is little oxygen
and high levels of carbon dio xide. As such, the naked mole rat is an
excellent embod iment of the “less is more” theory of breathing. This might
also explain how, despite living  with high oxidative stress from a young
age, the naked mole rat maintai ns good health and longevity, and in all the
years this rather ugly animal has been studied, it has never been known to
develop cancer. Even when scientists have injected the mole rat with
cancer -causing agents, the dise ase was resisted. Exactly why the nakedmole rat  is immune to cancer is  unknown, but some scientists are hopeful
that finding an answer may prov ide the key to unlocking a cure for humans. Living congruently with nature’ s system of checks and balances seems to be
the key to a long and healthy lif e. The naked mole rat does this remarkably
well, given that researchers have discovered that the negative af fects of high
oxidative stress may be of fset by high carbon dioxide levels. Maintaining Y our Fitness During Injury or Rest
The cost of an injury to an ath lete can be devastating. Not on ly does the
athlete have to endure the pain of the injury, but he or she also faces a drop
in m orale and the risk of decreased physical performance due to a lapse in
training. Although a few days’ r est from a regular exercise routine can lead
to improved performance, several studies have shown that a rest period of
around four weeks results in detraining ef fects on the body, including:
•  Increase in body weight
•  Increase in fat mass
•  Increase in waist circumference
•  Decrease of VO 2  peak
When you have worked so hard to increase VO 2  max and maintain your
fitness, the ef fects of detraining can be enormously disappointing,
especially when it becomes a recurrent event. For some, high-intensity
exercise may be the source of a repetitive cycle of injury and  detraining;
when th e body responds to in jury with inflammation, free radicals are
produced, which  may lead to further muscle damage. There is, however, a
way to prevent lapses in your regular routine, as well as maintaining fitness
if yo u suf fer an injury. The Oxygen Advantage program provides a solution
to both the risk o f injury and the  limits an existing injury may place on your
abilities. Practicing the Breathe Light to Breathe Right exercise along with
breath holds can help to increase VO 2  max and the oxygen-carryingcapacity of the b lood while reducing lactic acid and improving  blood flow. This optimal combination mean s that partial fitness can be maintained even
in the case of injury or extended periods of rest. A si gnificant bonus of the Oxygen Advantage program is that it can be
performed durin g rest or during  exercise, and does not require an athlete to
be injury -free. S ome of the ben efits of high-intensity exercise can even be
obtained by adding breath-hold exercises to a gentle walk. Improving the
way you  breathe during rest an d exercise will have positive repercussions
on y our general health as well as your athletic performance, r educing the
risk of injury and enabling you to perform beyond your previous limits.CHAPTER 11
I m p r o v e  O x y g e n a t i o n  o f  Y o u r  H e a r t
O n th e morning o f September 11, 2001, I received a phone call from my
wife, Sinead, telling me to switc h on the news. Listening to the accounts of
what had taken place in New Y ork City and at the Pentagon, I felt a chill go
right thr ough me. The tragedy felt even closer to home as Sinea d and I had
visited that wonderful city just three months prior. On that same day, another tragedy unfolded, although it did not receive
the s ame coverage as the terrorist attacks. In the United States a lone, 3,000
people lo st their lives to heart attack and stroke—two of the top three killers
in the United States. The same tragedy occurred on W ednesday, September
12, and again o n Thursday, September 13, repeating itself eac h and every
day ever since. And while the falling of the T win T owers will ju stifiably be
remembered forever, the victims of cardiovascular disease are only
remembered by  their nearest and dearest. W e cannot predict when a
catastrophic eve nt like 9/11 will  occur, but we can help ourselves to extend
and enri ch the time we have to l ive and enjoy the company of those around
us by taking care of our bodies and especially our hearts. Understanding a simple and scientifically proven way of keeping our
blood vessels healthy is invaluable to living life to the full. In this chapter,
we explore the role of the gas nitric oxide, along with techniques for
optimal breathing in order to maintain good cardiovascular health. In 1867  the Swedish chemist, inventor, and industrial


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Dairy Products
yogurt 36 whole milk 34 skim milk 32
The dietary management of hypoglycemia requires that not only refined but
also unrefined sugars and starches with a high glycemic index be removed fromthe diet. (The glycemic index measures the ease with which the starch isconverted into glucose in the body, and estimates the amount of insulin needed tobalance it out.) This means no sugar, no honey, no white flour, no whole grainssweetened with honey, no sweet fruits such as watermelons, bananas, raisins,dates or figs. Potatoes are too readily converted into sugar. Jerusalem artichokesare a good substitute. People with hypoglycemia can often control their symptoms with frequent
small meals containing vegetable protein every two hours. When a non-sweet fruitis eaten such as an apple, it should be eaten with some almonds or other nut orseed that slows the absorption of fruit sugar. Hypoglycemics can improve theircondition with vitamins and food supplements. See the next chapter. Allergies to foods and environmental irritants are frequently triggered by low
blood sugar. Mental conditions are also triggered by low blood sugar levels,frequently contributing to or causing a cycle of acting out behavior accompaniedby destruction of property and interpersonal violence, as well as psychosis andbouts of depression. It is not possible to easily deal with the resulting behaviorproblems unless the hypoglycemia is controlled. Unfortunately most institutionssuch as mental hospitals and jails serve large amounts of sugar and starch andusually caffeinated beverages, with a high availability of soda pop, candy, andcigarettes at concessions. If the diet were drastically improved, the drugs given tocontrol behavior in mental hospitals would be much more effective at a lowerdose, or unnecessary. The insulin-cycle overworked pancreas may eventually not be able to secrete
enough enzymes to allow for the efficient digestion of foods high in protein. Asstated earlier, poor protein digestion leads to a highly toxic condition fromputrefied protein in the intestines. This condition is alleviated by eliminating animalproteins from the diet and taking digestive aids such as pancreatin pills with mealsto assist in the digestion of vegetable proteins. Food Combining And “Healthfood Junkfood.”
This brings us to a topic I call healthfood junkfood. Many people improve their
diet, eliminating meat and chemicalized food in favor of whole grains andorganically grown foods, but they then proceed to make these otherwise goodfoods into virtual junkfood by preparing them incorrectly. In my travels, I’venoticed this same thing happens everywhere on Earth. What should be health-producing dietaries are ruined by frying, salting and sugaring. Healthfood junkfoods include organically grown potato chips deep fried in
cold pressed organic unsaturated canola oil (made rancid by frying) sprinkled withnatural sea salt; organically grown oat and nut granola roasted with cold-pressedunsaturated oil (made rancid by roasting) hideously sweetened with honey; carrotcake made with rancid whole wheat flour, cold pressed unsaturated oil (maderancid by baking), honey, and cream cheese (salted); whole wheat cookies (stale,rancid flour) sweetened with honey, made with vegetable oil baked at high heat(rancid); whole wheat pizza vegetarian style with lots of soy cheese; whole wheatpizza vegan style with lots of real raw milk cheese; organically grown corn chipsdeep fried in cold pressed vegetable oil with or without natural sea salt, yogurtsmade from powdered milk without an active culture of beneficial bacteria andcovered with highly sugared fruits, etc. These foods may well represent animprovement over the average American diet, but they still are not healthy foods,and should never be used in a diet for a sick person. Nor are they worthy of aperson attempting to maximize health. The problem with healthfood junkfoods is not their major ingredients, but how
they were combined and processed and adulterated. Remember, fats, animal orvegetable, subjected to high heat become indigestible and toxic and makeanything they’re cooked with indigestible; salt is a toxic drug; cheese, hard enoughto digest as it is, when raised to high temperatures as it is when making pizza,becomes virtually indigestible and cheese inevitably contains a lot of butterfatwhich, though saturated animal fat, when raised to high temperatures, stillbecomes slightly rancid. And all these foods represent indigestible combinations. My clients almost never believe me when I first explain the idea of food
combining. They think if it goes in one end, comes out the other, and they don’tfeel any unpleasant symptoms in between, then it was digested. But bad foodcombinations have a cumulative degenerative effect over a long period of time.When the symptoms arrive the victim never associates the food combination withthe symptom because it seems to them that they’ve always been eating the food. Mainstream nutritionists have brainwashed the public into thinking that we
should have a representative serving from each of the “four basic food groups” ateach and every meal, plus a beverage and a desert. Or, as my husband Steve isfond of quipping, a “balanced meal” has four colors on every plate: somethingred, something green, something white and something yellow. But the balancedmeal is a gastronomic catastrophe that can only be processed by the very youngwith high digestive vitality, the exceptionally vital of any age, people with cast ironstomachs which usually refers to their good heredity, and those who are veryphysically active. Few seem to realize that each type of food requires specific and different
digestive enzymes in the mouth, stomach, and intestine. Carbohydrates, fats,proteins—each requires differing acid or alkaline environments in order to bedigested. Proteins require an acid environment. Starch digestion requires analkaline environment. When foods in complex combinations are presented to thestomach all together, like a meal with meat, potatoes, gravy, vegetables, bread,butter, a glass of milk, plus a starchy sweet desert, followed by coffee or tea, thestomach, pancreas, liver and small intestine are overwhelmed, resulting in thefermentation of the sugars and starches, and the putrefaction of the proteins, andpoor digestion of the whole. It is little wonder that most people feel so tired aftera large meal and need several cups of strong coffee to be able to even get upfrom the table. They have just presented their digestive tract with an immenselydifficult and for some an impossible task. For the most efficient digestion, the body should be presented with one simple
food at a time, the one bowl concept, easily achieved by adherence to the oldsaying, “one food at a meal is the ideal.” An example of this approach would beeating fruits for breakfast, a plain cereal grain for lunch, and vegetables for supper.If you can’t eat quite that simply, then proper food combining rules should befollowed to minimize digestive difficulty, maximize the adsorption of nutrients fromyour food, and reduce or eliminate the formation of toxemia, and of course foulgas. In general, fruit should be eaten alone unless you happen to be hypoglycemic
or diabetic in which case fruit should be eaten with small quantities of a vegetableprotein such as nuts, or yogurt and/or cheese if able to digest dairy. Starchesshould be eaten with vegetables, which means that a well combined meal wouldinclude a grain such as rice, millet, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, corn, wheat,rye, oats, spelt, potatoes, or starchy winter squash combined with raw or cookedvegetables. Protein foods such as meat, eggs, beans, lentils, tofu, split peas,should be combined with vegetables, raw or cooked. But protein should never becombined with starches. The most popular North American snacks and mealsalways have a starch/protein combination, for example: meat and potatoes,hamburger in a bun, hot dog with bun, burrito with meat or cheese, meatsandwiches, etc. It is little wonder that intestinal gas is accepted as normal, andthat over time these hard to digest combinations eventually cause health problemsthat demand attention. Another sure fire way to ruin any food, including the very best available is to
eat in the presence of negative emotions generated by yourself or others.Negative emotions include fear, anger, frustration, envy, resentment, etc. Thedigestive tract is immediately responsive to stress and or negative thoughts. Itbecomes paralyzed in negative emotional states; any foods eaten are poorlydigested, causing toxemia. It is natural for a person who has lost a loved one or suffered a great loss of
any kind to lose their appetite for a period of time. This reaction is pro-survival,because while grieving, the body is griped by powerful negative emotions. Thereare people who, under stress or when experiencing a loss, eat ravenously in anattempt to comfort themselves. If this goes on for long the person can expect tocreate a serious illness of some kind. Individual sensitivity to this type of overeating is dependent upon genetics and
personality and who is generating the negative emotions. Self generated negativeemotions are very difficult to avoid. If you are unable to change your ownemotional tone or that of others around you, then it is important to eat very lightly,eat only easily digested foods such as raw fruits and vegetables, raw juices,steamed vegetables, and small servings of whole grains, nuts and seeds. Diets To Heal The Critically Ill
A critically ill person is someone who could expire at any moment; therapeutic
interventions are racing against death. Can the body repair itself enough beforesome essential function ceases altogether? If