 hold the breath outside. Per
form jalandhara bandha and contract the abdominal
muscles, pulling them upward. This is the final pose and
should be held as long as is comfortable. Slowly release the
stomach muscles and then jalandhara bandha, and inhale.
When the breathing has returned to normal, the process may
be repeated.
Duration: For as long as the breath can be retained without
strain. Repeat ten times.
Concentration: On the manipura chakra.
Time: Practice after asana and pranayama, but before
meditation; ideally, in conjunction with the mudras and
pranayama.
Precautions: Practice this bandha only when the stomach
and intestines are empty. Release the chin lock before inhala
tion.
Limitations: Persons suffering from heart problems, peptic
or duodenal ulcers, and pregnant women should not practice
this asana.
Preparation, Alternative: Agnisara kriya (see Chap. IV) may
be practiced as a preparatory technique or as an alternative.
Benefits: The diaphragm is pulled up into the thoracic cavi
ty and the abdominal organs are drawn toward the spine.
This bandha therefore benefits all abdominal ailments,
providing relief from constipation, indigestion, worms, and
diabetes. The "digestive fire" of the manipura chakra is
stimulated, improving the function of the abdominal organs.
The liver, pancreas, kidneys, and spleen are all massaged,
enhancing their functioning, and regular practice of the ban
dha can eliminate associated diseases. The adrenal glands
are normalized, so that a lethargic person gains vitality and
an anxious or overwrought person is calmed. The sym
pathetic nerves of the solar plexus are stimulated and the ab-94
dominal organs they control, are stimulated.
As mentioned above, the manipura chakra, located in the
region of the navel is stimulated. As the manipura is the
center of prana in the body, the distribution and flow of
prana throughout the body - especially prana which rises
through the sushumna nadi - is improved.
Now that we have discussed the three basic bandhas, let us
turn our attention to our next topic, the mudras. IV
The Mudras and the
Awakening of the
Chakras
Now that we have discussed the three basic bandhas, let us
turn our attention to the mudras. Not merely physical
postures, these are practices which generate a strong
psychic effect upon the inner being of the student,
facilitating spiritual advancement. Their specific aims are to
aid in the awakening of kundalini, to bring about the
awareness and control of prana in the astral dimension, and
to generate siddhis (paranormal abilities). When these goals
have been attained, the student is able to transmit prana at
will through the subtle chakras and nadis to cure a diseased
area of his own or another's body. This type of paranormal
ability inevitably appears when a degree of advancement has
been attained.
In its broadest sense, the term "mudra" encompasses all
methods for awakening the chakras, including pratyahara
(sense withdrawal). Of course, in addition to their spiritual
benefits, the mudras effectively promote physical health. It is
important that they be studied under the guidance of an ex
perienced teacher. Here we shall briefly describe some of the
basic mudras.
95 96
(1) Jnana and Chin Mudras
Sit in a meditation asana and bend the index finger of each
hand so that the tip touches the inside of the root of the
thumb. Keeping the other three fingers of each hand straight,
place the hands on the knees with the palms turned down and
the three unbent fingers and thumb of each hand point
ing at the floor in front of the feet.
This is jnana mudra.
Chin mudra is performed in the same way as jnana mudra
except that the palms of both hands face upward.
Duration: Either of these mudras may be performed in any
of the meditation poses for the duration of that pose.
Benefits: Jnana and chin mudras are simple but important
psycho-neural finger locks which complete the meditational
asanas such as padmasana and siddhasana and make them
more powerful.
My long experience of yoga and acupuncture theory sug
gests this explanation: Prana or ki energy absorbed through
the manipura chakra reaches and sustains the lungs, and
then flows along both lung meridians to the thumbs. Some of
this prana is emitted from the sei ("well") point of the lung
meridian at the tip of the thumb. When the index finger and
thumb are touching in jnana and chin mudras, the energy
that would otherwise be discharged is transferred to the 97
large intestine meridian that begins at the tip of the index
finger. As the body's vital energy is conserved by these
mudras, the student can meditate for long periods.
In the traditional Indian explanation, symbolic signifi
cance is attributed to each of the fingers. The little finger
represents tamas (inertia, lethargy); the ring finger
represents rajas (activity, action, passion); the middle finger,
sattva (purity, wisdom, peace).*
The index finger represents the jivatma (the individual soul in
each person) and the thumb signifies the paramatma (the all-
pervading Supreme Consciousness). The position of the index
finger and the thumb symbolizes the ultimate goal of yoga - the
union of the individual soul and the Supreme Consciousness.
(2) Shambhavi mudra (Eyebrow-center gazing)
Sit in a meditation asana with the spine erect and the
hands on the knees in chin or jnana mudra. Gaze forward at
a fixed point and then upward as high as possible, without
moving the head. Then focus the eyes at a point directly be
tween the eyebrows and concentrate on that point. Let the
thought process cease and meditate on the self (Atman) or
the Supreme Consciousness (Paramatma).
* According to yogo theory, in its unmanifest state prakriti (the primordial
energy of the universe, the most basic substance} is composed of three
gunas, or qualities, which are: tamas, rajas, and sattva. When observed by
purusha [Pure Spirit], these gunas begin to act, influencing and combining
with each other, so as to create the material aspect of the universe. 98
Duration: As long as possible. At first, for a few minutes;
but with practice, the time can be slowly extended.
Benefits: This is one of the most highly regarded practices
in yoga. One who is proficient in the technique of shambhavi
mudra can transcend the mind, the intellect, and the ego,
entering the psychic and spiritual realms of consciousness.
It is a powerful technique for awakening the ajna chakra, the
seat of union between the lower and higher consciousness.
This mudra brings calmness of mind and removes tension
and anger. It also strengthens the eye muscles.
(3) Akashi mudra (Consciousness of inner space)
Sit in a meditation pose and fold the tongue back against
the palate, as in khechari mudra (See Chapter IV p. 101). Prac
tice ujjayi pranayama and shambhavi mudra. With the head
tilted backward somewhat, but not to the fullest extent,
breathe slowly and deeply. At first, ujjayi pranayama in this
position may irritate the throat, but with practice it will
become more comfortable.
Duration: Maintain the final position for as long as possi
ble. If it is difficult for more than a short time, stop practic
ing ujjayi pranayama, khechari mudra, and shambhavi
mudra; rest for a short time, then repeat. 99
Concentration: On the ajna chakra.
Precautions: As with all mudras, it must be learned
gradually under expert guidance.
Benefits: When this mudra is perfected, the student goes into
a kind of trance. This is not a trance in the Western sense
but in the yogic sense, one in which the student achieves a
state of heightened consciousness. Calmness and tranquility
of mind result, and the benefits of ujjayi pranayama, sham-
bhavi mudra, and khechari mudra are duplicated.
(4) Bhujangani mudra (Snake breathing)
Sit in a meditation pose, relaxing the whole body. In this
mudra, the student must try to 'drink' air through the mouth
into the stomach (not the lungs), as if he were gulping water.
Expand the stomach as much as possible, hold the air inside
for a short period of time, then expel the air by belching.
Repeat the process.
Duration: Do as many times as desired, though three to five
times is usually


 will receive little beneﬁt from any therapy. I am convinced that this is the main reason why one patient is cured by
cancer surgery and another with the same condition dies afterwards.
Perhaps the main question for a cancer patient should not be which therapy to use, but rather how to become a true believer. This
means it is less important to ﬁnd an objectively effective therapy but rather the therapy in which you have absolute faith that it will
lead to a cure.
However, before you decide to belie ve in eating a piece of cake every Sunday as your preferred cancer cure, there are a few other
observations to take into account. For starters, whatever you do must be totally convincing to your subconscious mind. Just believing
something on the conscious mental level is by far not enough. If your subconscious mind is not convinced that something will cure
you, then it will not work.
The subconscious mind is most easily impressed by something that inspires awe, by authority, by ritual, the unusual and especially
by enthusiasm - whatever impresses you as a potential cure, embrace it enthusiastically. Anything that you may just try to see if it
works is not likely to work.10/30/24, 4:53 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Introduction - Overcoming Cancer
https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Cancer/Introduction-Overcoming-Cancer.html 2/3Enthusiasm is the necessary emotional bridge between the subconscious mind and our etheric blueprint. Therefore, the full chain of
command to heal your body starts with a decision of the conscious mind that passes the message on to the subconscious mind. If the
subconscious mind accepts it and the conviction is strong enough, then it will generate enthusiasm in the emotional body. This, in
turn, frees and directs the energies  at the life-force level that directly inﬂuences the cellular level. If one link in this chain from
conscious mind to cellular level is missing, then it cannot work.
Another observation is that a faith cure will only last if the originating causes have been removed. If your body is still polluted with
toxins, the cancer microbe continues to defeat the immune system and you have not addressed the emotional issues that are part of
your ‘cancer personality’  then there is a good chance that the diseas e will eventually return. Most important in this regard is to
discover and heal the emotional shock that triggered the cancer in the ﬁrst place. By doing this, Dr Hamer claims a 95% cure rate
with all cancers.
For most cancer patients it will be very difﬁcult to ﬁnd a simple therapy in which they can sufﬁciently believe to produce a miracle cure
or spontaneous remission. Adopting  a holistic approach to overcome your cancer, on the other hand, will allow you to increase the
strength of your faith in many small steps as you rebuild your health and gradually remove the original causes of your condition. This
road is available to everyone and leads to a lasting victory over cancer.
To show how simple natural method s can be very effective in overcoming advanced cancer, I like to mention an example from the
book The Food and Health of Western Man by Dr J. L. Mount. In ﬁve reported cases of bowel cancer, surgery revealed that
metastases had already spread all over the body. Therefore, these patients were just closed up again and sent home to die. But
instead of doing that, independently of each other, these ﬁve changed their diets and from then on ate only homegrown organically
raised food.
When they ﬁnally did die 21 to 30 years later, no traces of cancer could be found in post-mortem examinations. Such cures without
medical intervention are regarded as'spontaneous remissions'. It should be comforting to know for those with advanced cancer that
spontaneous remissions can be induced with such simple natural methods. However, while not mentioned in this book, I suspect that
there was another important factor at work: these ﬁve had made peace with themselves and the world.
The emotional and spiritual dimension
Medical treatment focuses solely on the tumor. However, I believe that for any lasting cancer cure the emotional level needs to be
cured as well, and in very advanced conditions the spiritual dimension may well be the deciding factor. Cancer sufferers have used a
wide variety of different methods to cure themselves from all kinds and stages of cancer. My understanding is that regardless of the
method used, only those were succe ssful who totally believed in what they were doing and, for lasting results, also had removed the
biological and emotional factors that triggered the disease in the ﬁrst place. In addition, many patients recovering from advanced
conditions experienced a "spiritual opening" or the start of a spiritual journey.
Ultimately it may not really matter when or from what we die. Rather, it is important that we have lived our life to the fullest, and
fulﬁlled the purpose for which we came into this world. If we live with this perspective, then cancer does not really matter any more.
Many former cancer sufferers later said that cancer was the best thing that ever happed to them because it helped them to ﬁnd a new
and more fulﬁlling spiritual life.
Caution:  The information in this program has been provided in good faith according to my experience and understanding. I am not
aware of any harmful effects with the described methods if used sensibly. However, I cannot guarantee results or accept
responsibility for any side ef fects.
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Cover
About	the	Book
About	the	Author
Also	by	Deepak	Chopra
Praise	for	‘Life	After	Death’
Title	Page
Dedication
Memoir:	The	Life	Beyond
PART	ONE:

L
IFE
	A
FTER
	D
EATH
1.	Death	at	the	Door
2.	The	Cure	for	Dying
3.	Death	Grants	Three	Wishes
4.	Escaping	the	Noose
5.	The	Path	to	Hell
6.	Ghosts
7.	The	Invisible	Thread
8.	Seeing	the	Soul
9.	Two	Magical	Words
10.	Surviving	the	Storm
11.	Guides	and	Messengers
12.	The	Dream	Continues
PART	TWO:

T
HE
	B
URDEN	OF
	P
ROOF
13.	Is	Akasha	Real?
14.	Thinking	Outside	the	Brain
15.	The	Mechanics	of	Creation
Epilogue:	Maha	Samadhi
Reading	Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
CopyrightAbout	the	Book
What	happens	when	we	die?
In
Life	After	Death
,	Dr	Deepak	Chopra,	the	world-famous	pioneer	in	the	field
of	mind-body	medicine,	addresses	one	of	the	fundamental	questions	of
existence.	Drawing	upon	personal	experience,	the	wisdom	of	ancient	Vedic
philosophy	and	state-of-the-art	particle	physics,	Chopra	helps	us	overcome
our	fears	about	dying	and	to	consider	the	fantastic	possibilities	that	may	await
us	in	the	afterlife.
This	is	the	book	that	Dr	Chopra	has	been	preparing	to	write	his	entire	life.	In
it,	he	considers	the	theory	that	death	is	an	illusion	of	the	senses	and	that	the
soul	survives	in	an	ongoing	spiral	of	refinement,	ending	in	enlightenment.
Thought-provoking	exercises	offer	a	first-hand	experience	of	these	and	other
ideas,	helping	you	to	make	sense	of	your	own	spirituality	whatever	path	you
choose	to	follow,	and	offering	you	your	very	own	map	of	eternity.About	the	Author
D
EEPAK
	C
HOPRA’S
	many	books	have	become	classic	texts	of	health	and
spirituality	as	well	as	national	bestsellers.	He	is	the	founder	of	the	Chopra
Center	for	Well	Being	(
www.chopra.com
)	and	the	president	of	the	Alliance
for	a	New	Humanity	(
www.anhglobal.org
).Also	by	Deepak	Chopra
Creating	Health
Return	of	the	Rishi
Quantum	Healing
Perfect	Health
Unconditional	Life
Ageless	Body,	Timeless	Mind
Journey	into	Healing
Creating	Affluence
Perfect	Weight
Restful	Sleep
The	Seven	Spiritual	Laws	of	Success
The	Return	of	Merlin
Boundless	Energy
Perfect	Digestion
The	Way	of	the	Wizard
Over


 can develop into dangerous tumors. Cancer appears when the immune
system becomes suppressed and can no longer deal with this routine threat.
It follows that whatever upsets the brain’ s control of the immune system
will foster malignancy.
This disruption occurs primarily by means of the chronic stress
syndrome first described by Hans Selye in 1936. The mixture of hormones
released by the adrenal glands as part of the fight-or -flight responsesuppresses the immune system. This was all right in dealing with the
occasional threats our ancestors faced from wild beasts. However, when the
tension and anxiety of modern life keep the stress response “on”
continually, the hormones lower our resistance to disease, even withering
away the lymph nodes. Moreover, there is now experimental evidence that
“passive emotions,” such as grief, feelings of failure, and suppression of
anger, produce over -secretion of these same hormones, which suppress the
immune system.
We don’ t yet understand all the ways in which brain chemicals are
related to emotions and thoughts, but the salient point is that our state of
mind has an immediate and direct ef fect on our state of body. We can
change the body by dealing with how we feel. If we ignore our despair, the
body receives a “die” message. If we deal with our pain and seek help, then
the message is “Living is dif ficult but desirable,” and the immune system
works to keep us alive.
I therefore use two major tools to change the body—emotions and
imagery. These are the two ways we can get our minds and bodies to
communicate with each other. Our emotions and words let the body know
what we expect of it, and by visualizing certain changes we can help the
body bring them about. Both emotions and imagery are obviously
transmitted through the central nervous system and may relate to work that
Robert Becker, an orthopedic sur geon and researcher, has done.
Becker has studied the body’ s electrical systems. His work led directly
to the use of electricity to heal broken bones that have failed to knit. Becker
found that hypnotized patients can produce voltage changes in specific
areas of the body on command. If these voltages control the chemical and
cellular processes of healing, as Becker believes, then we soon may have a
scientific explanation for hypnosis cures and the placebo ef fect. It is well
known, for example, that hypnotized patients can cure their own warts. As
Lewis Thomas wrote in The Medusa and the Snail:

You can’ t sit there under hypnosis, taking suggestions in and having
them acted on with such accuracy and precision, without assuming the
existence of something very like a controller. It wouldn’ t do to fob of f the
whole intricate business on lower centers without sending along a quite
detailed set of specifications, way over my head.Some intelligence or other knows how to get rid of warts, and this is a
disquieting thought.
It is also a wonderful problem, in need of solving. Just think what we
would know, if we had anything like a clear understanding of what goes on
when a wart is hypnotized away. …we would be finding out about a kind of
superintelligence that exists in each of us, infinitely smarter and possessed
of technical know-how far beyond our present understanding. It would be
worth a War on Warts, a Conquest of Warts, a National Institute of Warts
and all.

Bioelectricity may someday enable us to reach this “controller” directly,
to understand exactly how and why tumors sometimes regress when
patients are convinced that an unorthodox treatment—hypnosis, diet,
prayer, meditation—is going to work. As Becker once wrote to me, “The
placebo ef fect is not only real but of great importance, and your methods
may be far more ef fective than you think they are.”
Whether or not we can ever control all healing with electrical stimuli,
exceptional patients—that is, potentially all patients—need not wait
helplessly for artificial aids. They can learn to heal themselves and stay
well. If I can teach you how to feel good about your life, love yourself and
others, and achieve peace of mind, the necessary changes can occur. My
loving and hugging may look silly on the ward, but they’re scientific. The
problem is that we don’ t yet know the psychological techniques necessary
to turn on the healing process quickly and ef ficiently in everyone. So many
of the changes happen at an unconscious level that they are hard to measure
clinically without careful psychological testing. One day I hope we can
prescribe something like “one hug every three hours” instead of a drug or
electrical impulse, but for the moment we must return to our consideration
of the mind’ s potential for harm, as a prelude to finding its antidote.
COPING WITH STRESS
It’s often said that stress is one of the most destructive elements in
people’ s daily lives, but that’ s only a half truth. The way we react to stress
appears to be more important than the stress itself. This was borne out in the
experience of Hans Selye, the scientist who developed the entire concept of
stress and its ef fects on the body.At age sixty-five, Selye developed reticulum cell sarcoma, a type of
cancer whose cure rate is extremely low. This is perhaps the ultimate stress,
but in an interview Selye discussed how he reacted to it in an exceptional
way:

“I was sure I was going to die, so I said to myself, ‘All right now, this is
about the very worst thing that could happen to you, but there are two ways
you can handle this; either you can go around feeling like a miserable
candidate on death row and whimper away a year, or else you can try to
squeeze as much from life now as you can.’  I chose the latter because I’m a
fighter, and cancer provided me with the biggest fight of my life. I took it as
a natural experiment that pushed me to the ultimate test whether I was right
or wrong. Then a strange thing happened. A year went by, then two, then
three, and look what happened. It turned out that I was that fortunate
exception….”
“Afterward I made a particular ef fort to cut down my stress level. I have
to be very careful what I say here because I am a scientist, and no statistics
now exist to say whether stress is related to cancer. Apart from the genetic
and environmental causes of cancer, I can only say that the relationship
between stress and cancer is rather complicated. In just the same way that
electricity can both cause and prevent heat, depending on how things are
balanced, stress can both initiate and prevent illness.”
[The interviewer asked,] “Some people have described cancer as a
disease that is somewhat like the body’ s way of rejecting itself. Now to
carry that premise one step further, could it be that when people drastically
reject their basic needs they are possibly more apt to develop cancer? In
other words, if a person rejects his own needs, can his body rebel and reject
itself?”
[Selye said,] “I don’ t say yes and I don’ t say no. I’m a scientist, not a
philosopher. All I can say as a scientist is that the great majority of physical
illnesses have in part some psychosomatic origin.”

The evidence gathered since Dr. Selye wrote these words suggests he
was overly cautious. In particular, the onset and course of disease are
strongly linked to a person’ s ability and willingness to cope with stress.
Stresses that we choose  evoke a response totally dif ferent from those we’dlike to avoid but cannot. Helplessness is worse than the stress itself. This is
probably why the rate of cancer is higher for blacks in America than for
whites, and why cancer is associated with grief and depression. Those most
likely to die of heart attacks are not the hard-driving Type A executives but
rather those who are driven, the underlings and factory workers who have
no autonomy and whose shortened lives give new meaning to the phrase
“deadly boredom.”
The interpretation of stress is always tricky for an outsider, for the same
circumstances can be detrimental to one and neutral or even beneficial to
another. Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist Jerome Frank, citing a 1961
study by L. E. Hinkle, notes that “stress comes mainly from the patient’ s
interpretation of events.” In Hinkle’ s long-term study of the subject, life
experiences that seemed benign to an objective observer were often felt as
stressful by the patients and associated with illness. Conversely, stresses
that appeared horrendous to the observer—such as poverty, bereavement,
alcoholism in the family—usually were not associated with illnesses if the
patients did not report them as stressful.
This is especially true in the case of children. Adults often assume that
children are happy when they are actually being traumatized by events,
even though they often don’ t show it. Children have been known to commit
suicide over receiving a B instead of an A on a report card, because they
internalized their parents’  expectations, or reacted to a comment that made
them feel unloved.
But the scientific mind is seldom convinced by psychological studies on
humans. There are just too many variables for a researcher to control them
all. Tests on animals have yielded conclusive evidence, however. In the
mid-


 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 strength and immunity of the body. e
medicine also allows the recovery of gastric mucosa and musculature in quick
time.
Side Eﬀects
People with high blood pressure should seek medical advice before taking it.
It is best to avoid this during pregnancy.159. Trikatu, Rock Salt
Home Remedy for Sinusitis,
Laziness and High Kapha
Y
Kapha Dosha increase causes sinusitis, laziness, heaviness of head, anorexia etc.
Spices are commonly used to treat these conditions. But because many people
cannot tolerate spices due to sensitive stomach, here is a simple gargling home
remedy for the said conditions.
What you need?
A piece of fresh ginger – suﬃcient to extract 5 ml of juice
Trikatu powder – 1 pinch (half to one gram)
Rock Salt (Saindhava Lavana) – 1 pinch (half to one gram)
How to make?
Take fresh ginger, peel oﬀ the skin and crush it to extract 5 ml of juice.
Add a pinch of each of Trikatu (mixture of ne powder of pepper, long pepper
and ginger) and rock salt to it.
Mix it w ell.
How to use?
In the morning, soon after getting up and brushing teeth etc. Take 5 ml of this
liquid mix into mouth and rinse well for half to one minute and spit it out.•
•
•
•
•
•
•After you spit it out, if the need be, you can repeat it for 2–3 t imes.
What are its benets?
It helps to expel out sputum collection from sinuses, hence very useful
in sinusitis.
It helps to relieve tongue coating and anorexia. It improves taste.
It is useful in fever, associated with anorexia.
It helps to balance Kapha Dosha in head region.
It helps to relieve headache and heaviness of head associated with
cough, cold and sinusitis.
It also relieves vomiting sensation.
is remedy can be followed during season changes leading to onset of
a cold season. Such as, during onset of rainy season or during onset of
winter.
How does it work?
As per Ayurveda, all the above symptoms/diseases are due to Kapha origin.
Rock salt helps to liquify Kapha Dosha. Trikatu is very good anti
inammatory spice mix. It helps to relieve Kapha Dosha.
How long to take?
It can be continued for one to two weeks.
Safe for kids?
It is safe for kids above 7 years of age. e dose for mouth rinsing can be just 5
1–2 ml.
During pregnancy and lactation?If a pregnant mother can tolerate it, on trial, it can be used for a short period
of 2–3 days time.
I do not recommend it to use for a longer period of time during pregnancy.
It is quite safe to use during lactation period.
Side Eﬀects
It may not be tolerated by people with oral ulcers and by people with Pitta
increase/Pitta body type.
What happens if the liquid is swallowed?
No big deal. But better to avoid swallowing if you cannot tolerate spices or if
you have gastritis or hypertension.160. Triphala Guggulu
Benets, Dose, Ingredients,
Side Effects
Y
Triphala guggulu is one of the best herbal remedy – haemorrhoids and
anorectal stula.
It is one of the ancient of Ayurvedic formulation.
Reference: Sharangdhara Samhita Madhyama Khanda 7/52–53
Uses of Triphala Gulgulu
It is used for the treatment of piles and stula.
It helps to ease bowel movements, acts as a mild laxative.
It helps to heal the wound faster.
Ingredients of Triphala Guggul Tablets
Emblica oﬃcinalis – Amla – 1 part
Terminalia chebula – Hareetaki – 1 p art
Terminalia bellerica – Vibheetaki – 1 p art
ese three together are called as Triphala. ey are very well known for
quick wound healing, healing of sinuses and stula. ey also provide mild
laxative eﬀect. is helps to avoid friction of stool mass on the pile mass or
ssures. us, it helps to heal the ssures fast.Piper longum – Long pepper – 1 part – Stimulates liver and aides in healing
Commiphora mukul – Guggulu – 5 parts – One of the best anti
inammatory herbs, useful to reduce swelling, heal stula track and to reduce
pain and swelling.
Method of Manufacturing
e method of preparation of this medicine is an example of Anagni Siddha
Guggulu. i.e. Preparation without usage of re.
e said amounts of ingredients are taken together along with guggulu,
pounded well and pills are rolled.
How Triphala gugglu is benecial in piles and stula?
Triphala is well-known for its quality. It soothes the inamed mucous layer and
helps in checking the further infection.
Guggulu is one of the best known herbal anti inammatory herbs of
Ayurveda. It also helps in healing the inammation of stula and
haemorrhoids.
Triphala helps in easy bowel movements, a problem, often troubling the
people with haemorrhoids.
Long pepper helps digestion and assimilation of food nutrients. It is also
supports liver.
Dosage of Triphala Guggulu –
1–2 tablets two to three times a day after food or as directed by your Ayurvedic
specialist.
Side Eﬀects
Better to avoid this medicine for very long term use, for more than 3–4
months time.Safe for kids?
Yes. It can be used in children above ve years of age.
Pregnancy and lactation?
It is best to avoid this during pregnancy and lactation.
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•161. 10 Effective Ayurvedic
Home Remedies for Acidity
and Gastritis
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Ayurveda has given many home remedies for acidity and gastritis. Which are
very simple, very easy to prepare and yet eﬀective. Here are a few Ayurvedic
home remedies.
Introduction
e term “acidity” is commonly used by layman to suggest the gastritis
condition. Acidity implies hyper acidity, meaning increased hydrochloric acid
secretion in the stomach leading to irritation of stomach inner lining. (mucosal
lining).
Ayurvedic Home Remedies for Gastritis
You may not try all of these, you can follow a few.
Long pepper powder – half a gram with one spoon of honey – two
times a day is one of the eﬀective home remedies for gastritis.
Lemon juice helps to relieve vomiting sensation and bloating.
Boiled Ash gourd with jaggery relieves bloating and burning sensation
in stomach associated with acidity and gastritis.
One table-spoon of Triphala powder added with one glass of water,
boiled and reduced to half a glass, ltered. is water decoction in hot•
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•condition, along with one table-spoon of honey or ghee relieves
gastritis.
Regular chewing of half a teaspoon of fennel seeds after food is good


, dulling and depressing the
individual.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS:
Degenerative state of the nervous system due to 61 40 59 2
starvation of nerve and cerebrospinal cells. This 1
disease is the most conclusive evidence of the
destructive effect of starches and grains used as food
for humans. No permanent improvement has ever
been achieved in my 50 years of observation, while
the patient was allowed to eat bread cereals and other
starchy foods. Many people however have been
helped slowly to recover, by omitting these, and
meat, from the diet, eating instead mostly raw fruits
and vegetables, drinking at least 3 quarts of fresh
RAW juices daily, and with frequent colonic
irrigations.The greatest danger in this disease comes
from neglecting to follow this program consistently,
and so develop secondary complications.
NEPHRITIS:
Inflammation of the kidneys usually resulting 30 61 40 29
from an excessive retention of acid. (Read chapter 59
107 on Proteins in the book, DIET & SALAD
SUGGESTIONS.)
NERVOUSNESS:
Irritability of certain nerve centers due to organic 61 37 30 40
alkaline deficiency. 15
NEURALGIA:
Intense pain in the region of a nerve which has 61 37 30 40
been improperly nourished.
NEURASTHENIA:
Functional depression of the nervous system due 61 37 2 30
to improper and insufficient organic nourishment 40 55
and materialized as a result of prolonged nervous
strain, worry, anxiety, or overwork.
NEURITIS:
The result usually of uric acid crystals pressing 23 30 61 40
against muscles and nerves, causing intense pain.
Eating meat is one of the primary causes of the
presence of such a condition. It generates such
excessive amounts of uric acid that the muscles
become saturated with it, when it eventually forms
into crystals.
OBESITY:
Excessive adipose tissue resulting from 61 1 30 15
incompatible combinations of foods and eating 34
excessive quantities of starches and sugars.
Sometimes due to a glandular disturbance. Study
the chapter on GLANDS. We have the following
interesting report from "Pavy on Food" about a Mr.
Banting: After one year of eliminating from his diet
all starchy and fatty foods, and all alcoholic
beverages including beer, Mr. Banting lost 40
pounds in weight and 12 inches from his midriff.
After 7 years he wrote: "I can conscientiously assert
that I never lived so well as I now do as a result of
following this new dietary plan, one I would have
formerly thought to be dangerous and an extravagant
trespass upon my health. I am considerably better,
both physically and mentally, and pleased to believe
that I hold the reins of health and comfort in my
own hands."
108 ORCHITIS:
Inflammation ofTestes, due to excessive retention 30 61 40 29
of morbid matter in the system, and sometimes to 37 59
abuse.
OSTEOMYELITIS:
The breaking down of the structure of the bone, I 61 48 30
usually accompanied by oozing of pus. The bone, 43
like every other part of the body, requires live,
organic nourishment. Without it the cells starve, the
waste matter accumulates, and the structure
crumbles.
OXIDATION (Low):
Lack of oxygen assimilation due to insufficient 61 30 37 46
organic iron in the system. 55
PARALYSIS:
Loss of power to control or coordinate the 61 40 30 6
voluntary and involuntary muscles, due to starvation
of the nerve centers.
PARALYSIS (Infantile): See INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Inability of the body to replenish and regenerate
the spinal fluid due to improper metabolism, an
excess of devitalized starches and sugars and a great
deficiency in organic elements in the diet.
PARESIS:
Functional inability of the cerebral nerves to 61 2 40 30
coordinate, due to lack of proper organic 647
nourishment.
PERITONITIS:
Inflammation of the lining of the abdominal 61 30 40 15
cavity.
PHLEBITIS:
Inflammation of veins due to the presence of 61 2 30
excessive quantities of starch, calcium and morbidity
in the system.
PILES: (See Hemorrhoids.)
PLEURISY:
Inflammation of the pleura due to the improper 30 61 40
elimination of morbid matter from the body, usually
accompanied with fever and pains when breathing.
109 PNEUMONIA:
Inflammation of the lung tissues due to the 61 30 11 41
presence of abnormal quantities of mucus and other
morbid matter in the system, as a result of drinking
milk and the excessive use of concentrated starches
and sugars.
POLIO: See INFANTILE PARALYSIS
PREGNANCY:
Without exception, the most important period in 1 30 61 2
the life of the unborn child. Uncontrolled habits, 48 32 53
smoking, drinking alcoholic and "soft drink"
beverages as well as cow's milk (particularly when
pasteurized), and eating excessive quantities of
concentrated starch, grain, and sugar foods on the
part of the pregnant woman, all tend towards mineral
deficiency in the child. Raw vegetables and fruits,
which are live organic foods, supplemented with an
ample volume daily of fresh raw vegetable juices,
as the regular daily diet have resulted in bright,
healthy children as well as mothers.Try it! Read the
whole chapter on CARROT JUICE.
PROLAPSUS:
The falling of an organ from its normal position 61 2 30 40
due to loss of tone in the nerve and muscular system 15
as a result of improper diet.
PROSTATETROUBLE:
The result either of excesses, or of a lack of vital 23 30 61 1
live nourishment in the food for years past. ^
PSORIASIS:
A group or colony of germs feeding on morbid 61 30 15 I
matter and body waste in the system attempting to ^
leave the body by way of the skin, thus creating an
irritation.
PYELITIS:
Inflammation in the region of the pelvis or the ^ • ^
kidneys usually due to an excessive retention of uric ^ zo Jy
acid in the system.
PYORRHEA:
Inflammation of the gums and the loosening of
the teeth because of the presence of excessive waste 61 1 2 30
110 matter in the entire system, and the deficiency in
the diet of live organic food.
PYROSIS (Heart-burn):
Intense burning sensation, due to the presence 30 61 29 40
of excessive uric acid or other morbid matter, 59
resulting from the fermentation and putrefaction of
improper combinations of food.
QUINSY:
Inflammation of the throat due to the presence 61 30 2 I
of excessive body and food waste in the system.
When an abscess forms, it is the localizing of waste
matter in the region of the tonsils (See TONSILS).
RACHITIS (Rickets):
Deficiency of organic calcium and other elements 61 1 48 37
resulting in deformity, softness, or flexibility of the 6 30 46
bone.
RENAL CALCULUS (Kidney Stones):
Inorganic matter, principally the calcium in 23 30 61 40
concentrated starches, forming concretions in the 29 28 59
kidneys. (in glass of
hot water)
RHEUMATISM:
Meat and meat products of any kind, cannot be 23 30 61
digested without an excessive accumulation of uric
acid in the system. (Read the chapter on Carrot, Beet
and Cucumber Juice). Retained in the body, this uric
acid is absorbed into the muscles and sooner or later
crystallizes. These sharp uric acid crystals are the
cause of the pain in Rheumatism. (Read chapter on
Protein in DIET & SALAD Book.)
RHINITIS:
Inflammation of the nasal membrane principally 61 30 40 11
due to the presence of excessive quantities of mucus
in the sinus cavities.
SCARLET FEVER:
The rebellion of the body against the 30 61
accumulation of food waste and body waste in the 68 47 66
system as a result of eating too much cooked and
not enough raw food and juices.
Ill SCIATICA:
Inflammation of the Sciatic nerve or surrounding 30 61 40 28
muscle, usually due to


 for BSE tests/
continue to make millions (ultimately at a cost to the consumer). The belief that an
infectious particle, or more precisely a prion (proteinaceous infectious protein)
makes cattle sick is still firmly anchored in the public conscience. And yet, since the
beginning of the 1990s, data has been diligently collected and published-but despite
all efforts, there is still no real proof of the hypothesis that a deformed protein
(prion) has infectious properties and is capable of causing brain-sof tening
(spongif orm encephal opathy) : BSE in cattle, and the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (vCJD) in humans.
. The atomic structure of these allegedly infectious prion proteins isn't even
known. 8 "BSE is termed an epidemic, but this is wrong- just as the presumption that
BSE is contagious is also wrong," writes Anton Mayr, Chair of Microbiology and
Epidemio logy at the University of Munich. "And even BSE's transmissibility to
humans, neither with classical Creutzf eldt-Jakob disease (CJD for short) nor the
new current form, new variant CJD or nvCJD, has not been proven."9
"Depending on the spirit of the times and which authorities are in power, one
dogma or another dominates the scientific scene, often with an exclusivity that does
not admit any other possibilities and hinders new ideas," writes Roland Scholz,
162 BSE: The Epidemic That Never Was
Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular Biology in Munich, and a critic of the
dominant BSE theory. "And in the BSE drama, this dogma is infection."10 Here,
Nobel Prizes can play a controlling and unhealth y role. On the one hand, these
awards usually follows the spirit of the times, i.e. along conventional lines of thought.
On the other, they can cement paradigms.
Into the 1960s, scientists were of the opinion that encephalopathy in sheep
(known as Scrapie, because the animals constantly scratch themselves) only occurred
endemi cally, that is, only within certain flocks. In which case, up to 30% of a herd
can be afflicted. Scrapie [sheep disease] is said to be a genetic disease that can be
eliminated by establishing adequate breeding protocols, according to research done
by Herbert Parry in 1962.11
But after the awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1976 to the previously mentioned
researcher Carleton Gajdusek (see Chapter 2), Scrapie, like all spongif orm
encephalopathies (softening of the brain), was redefined as an infectious disease. It
was reclassified after Gajdusek's 1970s research on dementia observed in the
population of Papua New Guinea; he declared this spongelike brain disease
(spongif orm encephalopathy; BSE is also classified as one) to be a viral disease
transmitted through food.
The sneaky virus culprit, however, could not be found. Nonetheless, microbe
obsessed research continued to hold tight to its pathogen theory. Virus hunters were
desperate to impose the contagion theory onto dementia as well.
The work of Stanley Prusiner served as a basis for this theory. In 1982,
he succeeded in identifying plaques (accumulat ions) in the brain, which are
characteristic of a brain suffering from neural damage-and which are said to be the
cause. In these plaques, certain proteins called prions are found, which primarily
build up on neurons, in an abnormally altered structure (the P-pleated sheet
structur e). Whereas, the normal (healthy native) prion protein shows predomi nantly
spiral-shaped a-helix structures and hardly any "abnormal" p-pleated sheet
structures.
The specula tive plaque development model implies, then, that prion proteins
with an abnormally altered P-pleated sheet structure are the source of plaque
formation. The idea is that, as particles foreign to the body, they succeed in getting
into the host. Upon arrival, they impose their deformed P-pleated sheet structure
upon the normal protein with its a-helix form. And this P-structure makes it easier
for prion proteins to clump together, so plaques accumulate on the neurons and jam
neural receptors. These plaques can then only be degraded with difficulty. This
process gradually leads to a build-up of "molecular waste" in the brain, causing the
death of increasing numbers of neurons. The holes that develop through this, as
well as the deposits between cells (vacuol es), give the brain the spongelik e
163 Chapter 5
appearance so typical of the disease (the term "spongiform encephalopath y" comes
from the Latin spongia = sponge).
In 1987, Prusiner succumbed to temptation and brought his till then largely
ignored prions into the epidemic game, something that brought him an enormous
degree of recognition. Ten years later, in 1997, he was even "ennobled" with the
Nobel Prize, as the Deutsche Artzteblatt wrote.12 With this, the infection topic had
been cement ed. The "Prusiner prion" was declared to be the trigger for spongif orm
brain diseases, and was said to be more dangerous than all previous infectious
agents (see diagram 8).
So dangerous that it is allegedly impossible to deactivate it by the usual means
(heat, radiation, chemical substanc es). For with the prion, a protein was branded as
infectious evil-doer for the first time; it is said to be especially dangerous because
the immune system can't fight it off, since it occurs naturally in the body and is not
a foreign substance. Note that, according to this theory, plaque formation is initiated
by abnormally structured prion proteins from a �oreign organism; these then clump
together with healthy prion proteins in the new organism to form plaques; these
plaques and the prions found in them are composed of proteins occurring naturally
in the body.
Activism Feigne d for Safety
In 1986, as the BSE epidemic hysteria began in Great Britain, health authorities ·
believed in an infection involving a pathogen transmitted through feed. Without
having any detailed evidence at hand they speculated that prions were present in
the sheep suffering from brain-softening (Scrapie). These prions were said to have
subsequently managed to reach cattle by way of the meat and bone meal (which
contained waste from slaughtered sheep) used as cattle feed. Through this, it was
said, the cattle became sick.13 And so a mere conjecture quickly became a hypothesis
that was blown up into a threatening scenario in the interplay between the media
and certain scientif ic circles.
"The media plays a fatal role, because, in its tendency to come to short-term
sensationalistic clear statements, it often feigns a clarity-or a threat, that really is
not supported by scientific findings," says Jiirgen Kronig, England correspondent for
German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, in criticism of his own profession.14 The media
had decisively contributed to hysterical public reactions, which in tum brought the
political and scientific establishment to hasty action. Pictures of stumbling cattle
and of cow carcasses being shoved into incinerators further fueled the flames of
hysteria. Prions became the "horsemen of the apocalypse" that threaten humanit y.
164 BSE: The Epidemic That Never Was
Diagram 8 Prusiner's specul ative and unproven plaque-f ormation model
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The illustration describes the model of the alleged infectiousness of the prion protein. If the
protein aggregates that have developed in a spong iform-altered brain are injected directly into
a healthy brain, they trigger an accelerated aggregation process in similar proteins in this brain.
Through protein-protein interaction, the aggregate causes membrane protein molecules to be
rearranged from the "healthy'' or "normal" helical into the �-pleated sheet form, and allows
them to accumulate on the aggregate, which gradually grows to the size of a plaque. Prusiner
first called this "amplification," but not long later he (falsely) renamed it "infection," because it
sounded dangerous.
The scientific community just parrots his theory without analyzing how the "infection" arises,
or whether a simple immune reaction agains.t fore ign proteins might not possibly have left its
histological traces (as researcher Alan Ebringer claims, this phenomenon has been known as EAE
for decades). Apart from that, the aggregate shown in this diag ram, which is said to have entered
the brain as an infectious agent, did not enter the body orally (not through food), but rather
through an intracerebral injection (directly into the brain). And this is of course not the way that
animals in the wild or humans become infected.
Incide ntally, in the dim and distant past, Prusiner introduced "c" and "Sc" before he clouded up
terminology with his prion or prion protein. "c" stands


ed and drained
2–4 tablespoons lemon juice, to taste
zest of one lemon
1 tablespoon parsley flakes
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 tablespoon dried dill
¼ teaspoon black pepper
2 cloves garlic, or to taste
1 tablespoon mustard
Mix the ingredients together in a blender and serve.
Broiled Potato Puffs
Who knew something so easy could be so tasty?
Serves 2 to 410 small (2-to-3-inch) red potatoes, sliced in half or in thirds
1¼ cup vegetable broth
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon lemon pepper
Preheat oven to broil. Put the sliced potatoes in a bowl and sprinkle with
broth, rosemary, and lemon pepper. Place the potatoes side-by-side on a
sprayed baking sheet and set in the oven about 8 inches below the broiler
for 15 minutes. Keep peeking to make sure they aren’ t burning. The
potatoes will puf f up and the tops will brown. It is not necessary to flip
them over. They are good plain or with hummus, ketchup, or salsa.
Kale with Maple Syrup and Balsamic Vinegar
This is a simple, plant-strong addition to any meal.
Serves 2 to 4
1 bunch kale, stripped and coarsely cut (about 4–6 cups)
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon (or less) maple syrup
Bring a few inches of water to a boil in a frying pan or a big pot. Add the
kale and cover. Cook for 3 minutes or until tender, to taste. Drain the kale in
a colander, then put it in a serving bowl. Add the balsamic vinegar and
maple syrup and stir, and get ready for a nutritious green treat!
Potato/V egetable Salad
The E2 healthy version of a potato salad.
Serves 8
8–9 medium potatoes, cubed
1 red pepper, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
4–6 stalks celery, chopped (about 2 cups)
1 cucumber (peeling optional), chopped
1 box cherry or grape tomatoes, halved, or 1 tomato, chopped
4 green onions, chopped
1 avocado, cut in thin strips½ cup parsley, chopped
6–8 tablespoons no-oil, no-tahini hummus
4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 squeezed lemon (about 2 tablespoons lemon juice) plus zest
Handful of arugula or spinach
Bring 3 or 4 inches of water to a boil in a sauce pan. Add the potatoes
(be sure water just covers them), lower the heat, cover, and cook until
tender, about 5–7 minutes. Drain well and place in a lar ge bowl.
Add the peppers, celery, cucumber, tomatoes, green onions, avocado,
and parsley to the potatoes, and mix. In a small bowl, mix hummus,
balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, and lemon zest, and add to bowl. Mix well.
Taste, and add more lemon or balsamic vinegar if necessary.
Serve in a lar ge bowl, on a bed of arugula or spinach.
Rip’s Tip: Leftover potato salad is great stuf fed inside pita bread with
lettuce or spinach, and tomato slices.
Sweet Potato Red Lentil Soup with Gr eens
This soup is creamy and smooth and D–lish!
Serves 8 to 10
2 large onions, chopped
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons fresh ginger, chopped
8 cups low sodium vegetable broth
2 large sweet potatoes, cubed (about 4 cups), not necessary to peel
1 1/3 cup red lentils
1 bunch kale, collard greens, Swiss chard, or spinach, (spine removed on
kale and collard greens), cut into bite-size pieces (6 cups). Optional: Chop
kale and collard spines into tiny pieces and cook in the soup.
2 teaspoons lemon juice
½ teaspoon pepper
Stir-fry the onions in a lar ge soup pot over medium heat until soft. Add
water or broth as necessary to avoid burning. Stir cumin and ginger in and
continue stir -frying until well mixed. Add the broth, sweet potatoes, and
lentils to the onions.Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down and simmer uncovered for 30
minutes, until sweet potatoes are soft and lentils are tender.
Use an immersion blender directly in the pot or blend the soup in batches
in a food processor until creamy. Steam or lightly boil kale or collard greens
until soft. Drain and add to the soup. (They will stay very green this way.)
You can also add kale or collards directly to the soup, but it will take at least
10 minutes to cook. (If using spinach or Swiss chard add it directly to the
pot just before lemon and pepper. Both melt quickly.)
Add lemon juice and pepper, and eat it up!
Jane’ s Nori Rolls
My sister Jane ef fortlessly makes nori rolls. Part of the fun is making them
with a lar ge group of family and friends.
Makes 4 r olls, which serves 2 to 4
2 cups cooked short-grain brown rice
2–4 tablespoons brown rice vinegar, to taste
1 box nori
1 red pepper, cut in thin strips lengthwise
2 green onions, cut in strips lengthwise
1 avocado, sliced in thin strips
½ small cucumber, seeded, peeled, and cut in thin strips
1 mango, peeled and cut in strips
4 large kale leaves, lightly steamed and drained, or fresh uncooked spinach
Pickled ginger
Wasabi powder
Low-sodium tamari
Put the rice in a bowl and stir in the brown rice vinegar. Place one sheet
of nori shiny-side-down. (Don’ t worry: You can’ t always tell which side is
shiny.) Spread about ½ cup or less of rice on two-thirds of a flattened nori
sheet. Place the vegetables of your choice in the middle of the flattened rice.
(As tempting as it is to pile the vegetables high, remember you have to roll
it so the ingredients will stick together).
Spread kale over the vegetable pile or tuck spinach around it. With both
hands, start rolling from the end with the rice. Carefully cover the
vegetables with the nori and keep rolling. (The nori will hold togetherespecially well if the rice is still a little warm. If your nori doesn’ t stick at
all, try wetting it a little at the end.)
When the nori are all rolled, cut them with a sharp knife into 1-inch-
thick pieces. (They are better thin than thick.) You should be able to get 6-8
pieces per roll.
Put out little dishes of pickled ginger, wasabi powder thinned with water,
and low-sodium tamari. Eat the nori just as they are or dipped in one or all
of the little dishes.
Curried Vegetable Stir -Fry
This is a tasty, quick curry and it is easy to substitute any vegetables of
choice.
Serves 6
1 large onion, chopped
2 teaspoons curry powder
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 cups low-sodium vegetable broth or water
1 large sweet potato, unpeeled and diced
3–4 cups green cabbage, thinly sliced
1 (15-ounce) can chick peas, rinsed and drained
4 tablespoons raisins
1–2 tablespoons fresh ginger, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
½–1 cup cilantro, chopped
1–3 cups spinach
Stir-fry the onions, curry powder, and cayenne pepper in a lar ge
casserole dish for about 5–7 minutes, until the onion begins to brown. Add
vegetable broth or water as necessary. Add the sweet potato, cabbage,
chickpeas, raisins, ginger, and garlic and stir -fry for about 4 minutes more.
Add the rest of the broth, reduce heat to low, and cover and cook, stirring
occasionally, for 10 minutes or until vegetables are soft.
Add the cilantro and spinach and stir to allow spinach to “melt,” then
serve alone in bowls or over brown rice or whole wheat couscous.
Mushr oom and Lentil Oat LoafThis loaf is a far scream from the ones you’ll find in 99.9 percent of the
firehouses around the country.
Serves 8 to 10
1 ½ cups red lentils
2 ½ cups water
1 large onion, chopped
1 (8-ounce) package mushrooms, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
Vegetable broth or water, as needed
4 cups packed fresh spinach, chopped
1 (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon Mrs. Dash’ s Garlic Seasoning Blend
¼ teaspoon dried marjoram
½ cup or more cilantro or parsley, to taste
2 cups oatmeal
½ –1 cup barbecue sauce or ketchup
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a big sauce pan, bring the lentils to a boil
in 2½ cups of water. Turn the heat to low, cover, and simmer until tender
and most of the water is absorbed. This should take about 8 minutes.
Next, mash the lentils right in the pot with the back of a spoon or a
potato masher. Red lentils cook quickly and mash easily.
Stir-fry the onions in a nonstick frying pan or wok until they are limp.
Add mushrooms and


 Pour 95% grain alcohol (190 proof) to
this mark (for 50% grain alcohol or vodka make your mark one
fifth of the way up). Add water to the top. Keep shut. You may
add a chip of lemon peel for fragrance.
Use this for general sanitizing purposes: bathroom fixtures,
knobs, handles, canes, walkers, and for personal cleanliness (but
use chlorine  bleach  for the toilet bowl once a week). Always
clean up after a bowel  movement  with wet toilet paper. This is
not clean enough, though. Follow with a stronger damp paper
towel. This is still not clean enough; use a final damp paper
towel with skin sanitizer added. After washing hands, sanitize
them too, pouring a bit on one palm and put finger  tips of theRECIPES
531other hand in it, scratch to get under nails, repeat on other hand.
Rinse with water.
Do not use this recipe, nor keep any bottles of alcohol in the
house of a recovering alcoholic.
Deodorant
Your sweat  is odorless. It is the entrenched bacteria feeding
on it that make smells. You can never completely rid yourself of
these bacteria, although they may temporarily be gone after
zapping. The strategy is to control their numbers. Here are sev-
eral deodorants to try. Find one that works best for you:
Vitamin C  water.  Mix ¼ tsp. to a pint of water and dab it on.
Then dab on cornstarch.
Citric Acid water.  Mix ¼ tsp. to a pint of water and dab it
on. Then dab on cornstarch.
Only a few drops of these acids under each armpit  are nec-
essary. If these acids burn the skin, dilute them more. Never  ap-
ply anything to skin that has just been shaved!
Corn starch. Many people need only this. Dab it on.
Use only unpolluted  cornstarch  (see Sources ).
Baking soda has been deleted as a deodorant  because ben-
zene was found in some boxes.
Lemon juice.  This acid is not as strong, use what you need.
Pure alcohol  (never rubbing alcohol ). The food grade alco-
hols are grain alcohol and vodka. Dab a bit under each arm
and/or on your shirt or blouse, then dab on cornstarch. If the al-
cohol burns, dilute it with water. Be very careful not to leave theTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
532bottle where a child or alcoholic person could find it. Pour it into
a different bottle!
Pure zinc  oxide. You may ask your pharmacist to order this
for you. She or he may wish to make it up for you too, but do not
let them add anything  else to it. It should be about 1 part zinc
oxide powder to 3 parts water. It does not dissolve. Just shake it
up to use it. After you get it home, you can add corn starch  to it to
give it a creamy texture. Heat 3 tsp. cornstarch  in 1 cup of water,
to boiling, until dissolved and clear. Cool and add some to the
zinc oxide mixture (about equal parts). Store unused starch
mixture in the refrigerator. Only make up enough for a month.
Alcohol and zinc  oxide. This is the most powerful deodor-
ant. Apply alcohol first, then the zinc oxide, then dab on corn -
starch.
Remember that you need to sweat! Sweating excretes toxic
substances, especially from the upper body. Don't use deodorant
on weekends. Go to the sink and wipe clean the armpits  like our
grandparents did. Often, just plain cornstarch  is enough! These
homemade deodorants are not as powerful as the commercial
varieties–this is to your advantage.
Brushing Teeth
Buy a new toothbrush. Your old one is soaked with toxins
from your old toothpaste. Use only water or chemically pure
baking soda  if you have any metal fillings. Put a pinch in a glass,
add water to dissolve it. Use food-grade hydrogen perox ide (see
Sources ) if you have only plastic fillings. Dilute it from 35% to
17½% by adding water (equal parts). Store hydrogen peroxide
only in polyethylene  or the original plastic bottle. Use 4 or 5
drops on your toothbrush. It should fizz nicely as oxygen is
produced in your mouth. Your teeth will whiten noticeably in 6
months. Before brushing teeth, floss  with 4 or 2 pound mon-RECIPES
533ofilament fish line. Double it and twist for extra strength. Rinse
before use. Floss and brush only once a day. If this leaves you
uncomfortable, brush the extra times with plain water and a
second “water-only” toothbrush. Make sure that nothing solid,
like powder, is on your toothbrush; it will scour the enamel  and
give you sensitive teeth, especially as you get older and the
enamel softens. Salt is corrosive—don't use it for brushing metal
teeth. Plain water is just as good.
For Dentures
Use salt water. It kills all germs and is inexpensive. Salt
water plus grain alcohol or food-grade hydrogen peroxide  makes
a good denture -soak.
Mouthwash
A few drops of food grade hydrogen peroxide  added to a
little water in a glass should be enough to make your mouth foam
and cleanse. Don't use hydrogen peroxide, though, if you have
metal fillings, because they react. Don't use regular drug  store
variety hydrogen peroxide because it contains toxic addi tives.
Health food store varieties contain solvents from the bot tling
process. See Sources. Never purchase hydrogen peroxide in a
bottle with a metal cap.
For persons with metal tooth filling s, use chemically pure
baking soda  or just plain hot water. A healthy mouth has no odor!
You shouldn't need a mouthwash! If you have breath odor, search
for a hidden tooth infection or cavitation.
Contact Lens Solution
A scant cup of cold tap water brought to a boil in glass
saucepan. After adding ¼ tsp. aluminum  free salt and boilingTHE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
534again, pour into a sterile canning jar. Refrigerate. Freeze some of
it.
Lip Soother
For dry, burning  lips. Heat 1 level tsp. sodium  alginate  plus 1
cup water until dissolved. After cooling, pour it into a small
bottle to carry in your purse or pocket (refrigerate the remain-
der). Dab it on whenever needed. If the consistency isn't right for
you, add water or boil it down further. You can make a bet ter lip
soother  by adding some lysine  from a crushed tablet, vi tamin C
powder, and a vitamin E  capsule to the alginate mix. If you have
a persistent problem with chapped lips, try going off citrus juice.
Foot Powder
Use a mixture of cornstarch  and zinc  oxide  poured into a salt
shaker with a lid. Add long rice  grains to fight humidity. You
may also try arrow root or potato starch. If you don't have zinc
oxide use plain cornstarch.
Skin Healer Moisturizer Lotion
1 tsp. sodium  alginate
1 cup water
Make the base first by heating these together in a covered,
non-metal pan until completely dissolved. Use low heat–it will
take over an hour. Use a wooden spoon handle to stir. Set aside.
Then make the following mixture:
¼ tsp. Vitamin C  (ascorbic acid ) (You may crush tablets)
¼ tsp. lysine  (crush tablets)
2 tbs. pure vegetable glycerin
2 vitamin E capsules (400 units or more, each)
1 tsp. apricot kernel oil  (olive oil will do)RECIPES
5351 tbs. lemon juice from a lemon or ¼ tsp. citric acid  (this is optional)
1 cup water
Heat the water to steaming in a non-metal pan. Add vitamin C
and lysine  first and then everything else. Pour into a pint jar and
shake to mix. Then add the sodium  alginate  base to the de sired
thickness (about equal amounts) and shake. Pour some into a
small bottle to use as lip  soother. Pour some into a larger bottle
to dispense on skin. Store remainder in refrigerator. (See
Sources  for sodium alginate, vegetable glycerin  and apricot ker-
nel oil. Sodium alginate is also available in capsule form at some
health food stores.)
Other Skin Healers
Vitamin C  powder  (ascorbic acid, not the same as citric
acid). Put a large pinch into the palm of your hand. With your
other hand pick up a few drops of water from the faucet. Rub
hands together until all the powder is dissolved and dispensed. It
may sting briefly. Do this at bedtime, especially for cracked,
chapped hands. Include lips if they need it.
Vitamin E oil.  Vitamin E oil from Now Foods was not
polluted at the time of this writing, but for the future it would be
safer to rely on capsules. Snip open a capsule and rub into skin.
50% Glycerin


; this process
begins when you devote time and energy to self-love. Self-love grows when
you refuse to follow the impulse s of anger and fear, trust that the universe is
on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher Self
carry them out, believe that you are enough in and of yourself, heed the
tenderness and sweetness of your love for others, put your attention on
positive energies in every situation, honor your own needs without having
to seek outside approval, and cultivate the peace of inner silence.
When you put these things foremost in your relationships, you will help
your beloved toward self-love instead of expecting love to be constantly
directed at you. Most of us approach things exactly the wrong way around.
As though we were children we first want someone else to make us feel
secure by lavishing us with affection and approval. But you are the source
of love, which is full to overflo wing. When you have done your spiritual
work, you will fill in the black holes that keep you from that source. Letting
go, although frightening to the ego, is actually entering into the boundless
ocean of love.
I am reminded of Walt Whitman, who poured forth his exuberance in
rapturous embrace of everything  around him yet was equally the unattached
observer who rested at peace with the inner man:
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by far the lar gest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait...
I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time.
At some  point every love story reaches this all-embracing state of peace
within. There is no way to achieve real contentment, real fulfillment otherthan through the Self.
OceanofPDF.comIN OUR LIVES
Connor ’s Story
CONNOR, AN OLDER  former patient of mine, came to me recently expressing
deep distress over what had happened to Mary Patrick, his wife of thirty
years. Both immigrants from Ireland, where they had married late in life,
Connor and Mary Patrick were seventy but still good looking and vigorous.
After a long period of calm and happiness in their lives, their youngest son
contracted AIDS and died. The family was grief stricken, but the boy’s
mother healed her grief by reaching out to others. Mary Patrick became a
full-time advocate for AIDS victims. She worked politically on various
fronts but spent most of her time offering herself personally, driving AIDS
patients to the grocery store, visiting them in the hospital, clearing the way
for them to pay their enormous medical bills.
“Your wife soun ds like a saint, ” I told Connor, unembarrassed to use a
cliché because nothing less would fit. Connor had a defiant look in his eyes.
“You think so? Then why was she diagnosed last week with advanced lung
cancer?” he asked bitterly.
I was shocked and told him so, of fering to help in any way I could.
“Does your wife smoke?” I asked, expecting that she must, since lung
cancer among nonsmokers is extremely rare.
Connor shook his head. “She doesn’ t smoke or drink. She is the most
loving person I’ve ever met, and this has to happen.”
I was silent for a moment as various thoughts ran through my mind. The
woman in question is seventy, I told myself, an age not incon sistent with
cancer. The general medical finding is that tumors are presen t in almost
everyone in old age, even if a malignancy doesn’ t manifest in declared
symptoms or become the cause  of death. We have all become used to the
fact that diseases strike randomly from a statistical point of view, afflicting
the good and wicked alike. But we find it hard to accept this when diseasestrikes close to home. My reflections seemed like puny rationalizations in
the face of Conn or’s bitterness. We both knew what he was saying: you try
to be good and loving, and look what happens to you.
I asked what the prognosis was, and Connor shook his head. “No hope,”
he said. “It’ s spread everywhere.”
“How is your wife taking all this?” I asked.
Connor ’s expres sion became less defiant. “Much better than I am. She’s
still doing her volunteer work with the most incredible peace of mind, but
deep down I know that she’ s suffering.”
“Do you?” I thought. I could have simply agreed with him to show my
sympathy, but we had a candid relationship. We both sat for a while, not
speaking. It’ s very common in my experience that one person’ s tragedy isn’ t
necessarily another’s, and that if Mary Patrick was as loving as I knew her
to be, she may very well have found the inner peace to see beyond her
“dreaded” disease.
“Even saints die,” I said quietly, “and they don’t all pass away kneeling
in prayer.” I thought Connor would glare at me again or push this comment
away. He didn’ t, though. He paused, waiting to hear more.
“What I mean is that love isn’t defeated by death. Your wife has found
something that death cannot touch, with you and with your son, which
makes her situation very different from that of someone for whom the
prospect of death is terror and ultimate loss. What if death isn’t a loss?
Since you and I haven’ t experienced it, we project our own feelings onto it,
but there is another approach. You can fortify yourself with love, not as an
emotion but as your sense of identity.”
Life brings losses of every sort; death is only the most drastic and
unanswerable. At some level everyone knows that death is inevitable, but
rather than learning the nonatta chment brought by love, our response is to
cling—to each other, to things, to life itself. How can you cling to life when
it is constantly changing? Y ou might just as well try to cling to a river.
When a grieving husband says about the death of his wife, “It was like
losing part of myself,” the phen omenon is physical, even visceral. To the
ego the loss of a beloved feels like a survival threat, despite the obvious fact
that your body didn’ t perish. Another person was so closely identified with
you that you extended your identification beyond its boundaries in time and
space. Thus grief mimics love. In both instances two are felt as one.Connor reacted to his wife’ s crisis with anger, one of the first responses
of the ego to any loss. Anger says, “This isn’t fair; it’s an outrage.” The loss
seems totally unjust. If I had met him another time, Connor might have
reacted with denial instead. Denial says, “This can’t be happening.” In
denial loss is rejected and made unreal. Or Connor might have reacted with
fear, which lies deeper than ange r or denial. The voice of fear says, “I won’ t
survive.”
Although it was his wife who had contracted cancer, Connor could easily
have gone through all the now-familiar stages of dying. In the dying process
the final stages are acceptance and transcendence. Only when they have
been reached does a person stop futilely bar gaining with the inevitable.
Unlike the ego’s reactions, acceptance is a spiritual state. Acceptance
says, “This is reality, and I am at peace with it.” The dying describe this as a
beautiful stage, which often has no parallel in their lives. The way is opened
for relea sing all claims on this world and acquiring a higher vision, which is
the stage of transcendence. But the dying do not return to us, and therefore
we have to find acceptance on our own, before the crisis of death. That is
why so many spiritual traditions  speak of “dying every day” or “dying unto
death”—these are metaphors for nonattachment, the state Christ called
being in the world but not of it.
Connor and I didn’ t talk again for almost a year. When I saw him next his
wife had died. Despite an extensive course of radiation, Mary Patrick’ s
condition had deteriorated rapidly. Sometimes a person with lung cancer
can be very active up to her or his final days. Connor ’s wife had continued
to visit AIDS patients in the hospital until she was forced to admit herself.
She died peacefully with her family around her, having made her farewells
and requested that her last hours not be prolonged by life-support machines.
Outwardly Conn or seemed to have surmounted the immediate trauma of
his grief, but as he recounted these details his voice betrayed much of its
former bitterness. It hadn’ t gotten easier for him to discuss his wife’ s dying.
“Have you ever thought much about dying?” I asked.
“Never,” Conno r replied vehemently. “If I had it in my power, I’d refuse
to die. The best I can do is get incredibly angry whenever anybody else
dies.”
“You’d like to be immortal, in other words,” I said. Connor  nodded.
“What if it turns out,” I sugges ted, “that you ar e immortal? What if yourwife’ s death is trying to show you


mindlessness. The intellect must be restored to its proper place in
the total balance of awareness. Repeated experience of pure
awareness allows this healing to take place.
When all its aspects are in balance, human awareness nds itself
living both halves of life, the absolute state of the Self and the
relative state of the self. By remaining in contact with our core of
pure awarenes s, we can fully appreciate the beautiful and diverse
world “out there.” The mirror of nature will give us back the
reection of our own inner joy. The poet W. B. Yeats wrote, “We are
happy when for everything  inside us there is a corresponding
something outside us.” The word “correspondence” means a ow of
communication as well as a similarity between two things. When
awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside
world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of
thought.
The South African writer Laurens Van der Post recalled a day
when he went traveling among the natives in the bush country. He
came to their camp and found the men sitting around an old
tribesman whom Van der Post particularly liked. The old man was
sitting still with his eyes closed, deeply absorbed. When Van der
Post asked what he was doing, one of the onlookers said, “Ssh, he’s
doing something important. He’s making clouds.” The rishis say that
you and I were born to be cloud-makers, too. But until we regain
control of our inner nature, we will never solve the imbalances that
have been inicted on nature as a whole.
The Circular Trap
I nd it signi cant that so many people are currently involved in
the issue of addiction. To me, addictions stand for the deeper
conict between maintaining one’s old conditioning and breaking
free. The addic t’s “habit” is but an exaggerated version of all habits,
which cling to outworn realities rather than allowing new life to
ow in. The root causes of addiction are hotly debated, but one
aspect of the syndrome is that it brings pleasure to people whocannot nd it any other way. As Alice Miller observes, “People who
as children successfully repressed their intense feelings often try to
regain—at least for a short time—their lost intensity of experience
with the help of drugs and alcohol.”
I think it is obvious that many people have anesthetized a huge
portion of their feeling self. To show strong emotions is rarely
considered an acceptable form of behavior in our society, while
paramount importance is placed on self-control. As a result, many of
us may reach the point where we panic at the rst sign of emotion
starting to well up. Repeatin g the denial of emotion imposed upon
us in childhood, we now exert enormous pressure to deny ourselves.
Addiction “solves” this problem by permitting pleasure while at
the same time insuring that the pleasure is furtive and guilt ridden.
One of my patients, whose facade of correct deportment is
impeccable, for many years  led a secret life haunting the worst
heroin dens in Boston. “I played various characters when I went to
the shooting galleries in the ghetto,” he said.
“Sometimes I drove my BMW  and wore a three-piece suit; other
times I had on army fatigues or the rags a street person would wear.
I saw people die, begging for heroin to the very end. I was under
close surveilla nce by both the police and the pushers, neither of
whom could gure me out. I slept in abandoned houses with other
junkies and walked the streets with ten-year-old kids who had
orders to shoot on sight anyone who tried to rip o their stash of
crack.
“You won’t be able to really grasp what it means when I tell you
that I had a twenty-bag-a-day heroin habit,” he said with an
unfathomable look in his eyes. “The common junkie has a two- to
ve-bag habit,  maybe ten. When a person is hooked on that much,
his chances of recovery are less than one percent. I shot twenty bags
for over a year and survived.”
This man is very frank about the enjoyment that his addiction
brought him, at least at the outset. From the moment he rst
injected heroin, long-lost pleasure ooded him. Being able to play
various characters as he moved through the junkie’s shadow world
gave him a secondary source of forbidden pleasure. By having to bereal to no one, he could temporarily forget his massive self-doubt,
which told him that he might not be real to begin with.
Although lurid on the outside, his addiction was not essentially
dierent from that of the cautious alcoholic who sneaks a shot of
whiskey before brushing his teeth in the morning. Both are hooked
on the alluring combination of enjoyment and guilt. The essence of
any form of compulsive behavior is helpless repetition, which
pleasure alone would not be strong enough to incite. Alcoholics and
heroin addicts,  food bingers and compulsive thieves all return again
and again to the very behav ior that they would judge shameful in
another person.
Often it is pleasure itself that they nd shameful; therefore, they
have no alternative but to seek pleasures that have built-in
dissatisfaction. As one psychotherapist put it, “You can never get
enough of what you don’t want in the rst place.” Even the most
intense pleasur e is not addict ive as long as the person indulging in it
has a clear idea of what pleasure is. But a certain kind of personality
has no choice but to mix feeling bad with feeling good. A guilty
pang accompa nies the jolt delivered by the drug, and without the
guilt, the jolt would lose its allure.
Addicts are pitied and revile d in our culture, and society has not
decided whether they are to be considered sick, deviant, or both.
There is a deeper ambiguity as well. To contemplate the helpless
loss of self-con trol represented by fullblown addiction is horrible but
secretly tempti ng. Who would not have a ood of pleasur e coursing
through his body if he did not have to pay too high a price? This is
not sheer escapism on our parts. At the heart of addictio n, I would
propose, lies a deep nostalgia for pleasure that echoes a legitimate
need. Despite what our conditioning might tell us, to seek pleasure
is not bad. Everyone’s life is driven by the spur of desire. But hardly
anyone can enjoy deep satisfaction untainted by feelings of guilt,
selshness, or a vague premonition that “this is too good to last.”
If addicts are indeed playing out a fantasy we all share, then they
may be neither  sick nor deviant. I would like to apply the diagnosis
provided by the rishis and say that addiction is basically  the result
of a mistake. The addict is caught in a circular trap of his owndevising; he cannot get enough pleasure to nally abolish his guilt;
he cannot suer enough guilt to keep him from the next x. Rather,
the two impulses circle each other in an endless dance.
What we have here is another example of the mistaken intellect—
the circular trap depends upon the addict’s belief that his divided
awareness cannot heal itself. Yet the rishis maintain that awareness
is all-po werful, which means  that it should be able to heal anything,
including itself. Let us see if a solution to addiction might lie in this
direction.
Evelyn Silvers, a Los Angeles therapist who specializes in drug
addiction, has learned to create a remarkable phenomenon with her
patients that releases them from the bondage of their cravings.
Using the simplest sort of suggestion and guided thinking, she
induces her patients to manufacture “brain drugs” that appear to act
exactly like the heroin, alcohol, cocaine, or tranquilizers  that they
have been ruining their lives to buy or steal.
Earlier, in 1976, Silvers had focused on a dierent problem,
chronic pain. Widespread excitement had been generated by the
recent discovery of the body’s internal painkillers, or endorphins,
which were analyzed as being many times more powerful than
morphine and other opiates. Inspired by this breakthrough, Silvers
found that she could get long-term suerers of migraines, arthritis,
and lower-bac k pain to produce highly eective pain relief on
command.
This may seem like a simple application of the body’s painkillers,
which all of us call upon. But our use is not voluntary, and few if
any researchers in the eld claim to know how endorphins are
actually switched on. They are highly unpredictable chemicals.
Under certain circumstances, such as being wounded in battle or
being injured in a highway collision, the body may feel no pain for
hours, while at other times a minor headache or dental pain may be
impossible to suppress.
Faced with this baing unpredictability, Silvers devised a
disarmingly simple approach. She told her patients in an
authoritative voice that the brain’s inner pharmacy could  treat any
disorder. She would be giving them a simple technique for tapping“brain drugs” that would successfully


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by W alter Last
Minimize chemicals, moulds and other food problems, your body will thank you for it.
Almost all our foods contain unbiol ogical chemicals to some degree. It starts with water-soluble fertilizers that are overused and
cause mineral imbalances and trace mineral deﬁciencies in our crop plants; it continues with the liberal use of weedicides, pesticides
and fumigants. Many of these leave  residues that we ingest. Growing our crops using the common water-soluble fertilizer causes a
similar disturbance to the plant meta bolism as a high-sugar diet does to a hypoglycemic metabolism. The cells are ﬂooded with some
nutrients, while others are lacking.
While there are now high amounts of unbiological chemicals in our food, essential nutrients are becoming rare. John D. Hamaker in
his The Survival of Civilization (Hamaker-W eaver) gives the following example of trace mineral deﬁciency induced by using fertilizers.
In 1948 the highest iron concentration in cabbage was found to be 94 ppm (parts per million) and the lowest value 20 ppm. By 1963
the published average value had dropped to 4 ppm. The story was similar for other vegetables. The general conclusion is that the
average trace mineral content of vegetables in 1963 was close to or even lower than the lowest concentrations in 1948.
The latest results show that they are much lower now. The food tables of the US Department of Agriculture for the year 2000 show,
for instance, that the vitamin C content of broccoli, cauliﬂower and spinach is only about half of what it used to be in 1963. Also
vitamins A, B1 and B2 declined sharply, calcium in corn decreased by 78%.
The content of trace minerals can vary in the same type of vegetable by more than one hundred times, depending on the quality of
the soil in which it is grown. The highest and lowest values for manganese in lettuce, for instance, were listed as 169 ppm and 1 ppm
respectively. The selenium content in wheat was found to vary from 0.6 mcg/100 g in parts of New Zealand to 130 mcg/100 g in parts
of Canada. The vitamin content can ﬂuctuate to a similar degree. The vitamin and trace mineral values listed in food tables are
therefore often completely meaningless, especially when the original values are decades old. The trace mineral content of our arable
land is by now extremely low and rapidly declining even further because of heavy cropping without replacing what has been taken
out.
Trace minerals in the soil originate  from disintegrating rocks. In order  to re-mineralize the soil, crushed rock would need to be
distributed over our cropping land. Then trace minerals do not leach out during heavy rainfalls and they can be dissolved with acids
released from plant roots and be absorbed. Furthermore, the improved conditions must be maintained by returning to the soil
whatever has been taken out, using composting and organic farming methods.
Heavy use of water-soluble fertilizers allows cropping in poor soils, so plants become deﬁcient and offer little resistance to disease
and insect attacks. This then justiﬁes  the liberal use of highly toxic agricultural chemicals, part of which remain in the plants and fruits
and are ingested by us. The most commonly af fected are commercially produced fruits.
Agricultural chemicals may accumul ate in the body, especially in fat tissue, and they may also damage the liver. Organo-phosphate
insecticides, for instance, may cause weakness, muscular trembling, cold sweats (an early sign of liver damage), irritability, tightness
of the chest (asthma), nausea and abdominal pain.
Organo-chlorine insecticides, which include DDT, lindane, 2.4-D and 2.4.5-T, are even more toxic. They affect mainly the nervous
system and can cause a wide variety of symptoms including convuls ions, numbness of extremities, uncontrollable excitement,
apprehensions, allergies and birth defects.
More recently pesticides and herbicides used on farms and in househol ds are increasingly linked to neurological diseases, such as
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Development of symptom s due to low-level chronic exposure is gradual. It has been
suggested by researchers that long-term exposure to sub-toxic levels of chemicals is much more likely to lead to neurological
disorders than to physically based diseases. In animal experiments chronic systemic pesticide exposure reproduces the features of
Parkinson's disease.
People who used pesticides in their homes were twice as likely to develop Parkinson's disease as people not exposed to pesticides.
Also a combination of dif ferent pesticides is more likely to cause greater toxicity problems than individual chemicals.
Paraquat, a common herbicide and maneb, a common fungicide did not affect mice that were exposed to either one of them.
However, when both chemicals were used together, dopamine neurons began to die at rather low exposure levels or at only a fraction
of what is normally being regarded as toxic. Ongoing exposure lead to progressive neurotoxicity. There are countless combinations of
low-level toxic residues in our food and water and no one knows what health ef fects they produce.
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epidemic and even children and juveniles develop these degenerative diseases. Cancer and especially breast cancer has been
strongly linked to pesticide accumulations in the body.
Some widely used fumigants may pose an additional hazard. Organic bromides, especially methyl-bromide, destroy the pantothenic
acid (an important B-vitamin) in fumigated grain and can cause seriou s deﬁciency disorders. Later on, the fumigant may not be
detectable in the grain, which is then regarded as completely safe. However, the germination power of such grains may be very poor,
which shows they have been damaged.
Our unsound farming, reﬁning, processing and cooking methods ensure that we receive only a fraction of the vitamins and trace
minerals that we would get from unprocessed raw food grown in good soils. However, these extremely low values are now regarded
as normal by health authorities because the classical symptoms of serious deﬁciencies are still absent in most people. No thought is
given to the long-term ef fects of multiple subclinical deﬁciencies.
Meat, poultry and eggs may contain residues of antibiotics, pesticides and synthetic hormones acting as growth promoters.
Hormones are supposed to be destr oyed during digestion and therefore are regarded as harmless. However, this may not be so with
synthetics or when the digestive system is weak. In addition, a surprisi ng number of nutrients can be absorbed through the mouth
tissue, including giant molecules such as vitamin B12; this may also include hormones. Secondary sex changes have been reported
due to the habitual consumption of hormone-treated chicken.
Besides liver degeneration and various forms of allergy and leukemia, chemical overload has also been linked to chronic fatigue
syndrome or ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and motor-neuron disease. Individuals with these diseases seem to have a liver that is
less able to detoxify unbiological chemicals.
Added Chemicals
An even greater health hazard is the multitude of chemicals directly added to food products. These include preservatives, colors,
ﬂavors, emulsiﬁers, stabilizers and so forth. Such chemicals need to be detoxiﬁed in the liver and contribute to liver damage. Many
chemicals are fat-soluble and are thus stored in our fat-tissue. During prolonged fasting or disease resulting in weight loss these may
be released into the bloodstream in excessive amounts and cause rather distressing symptoms.
Nitrates and nitrites are added to most processed meat products. They can damage the blood, the thyroid and the fetus, cause
severe vitamin-mineral deﬁciencies and may be transformed into cancer-causing nitrosamines in the intestines. Sulﬁtes (for example,
sulfur dioxide, metabisulﬁte) are widely used in processed foods, for instance in frozen foods, dried fruits and fruit juices, wine and
beer and restaurant foods. In susceptible individuals they may cause swellings of hands, feet and larynx, dermatitis, abdominal
distress and respiratory problems that will especially af fect asthmatics. Appropriately, also some asthma drugs contain sulﬁtes.
Another widespread health hazard is hydrogenated fats and oils containing unbiological trans-acids, and oils with added synthetic
anti-oxidants. Chemical antioxidants interfere with the oxidizing enzymes of our energy metabolism and make it even more inefﬁcient.
If traces of dishwashing detergent are inadvertently consumed, they can damage the intestinal walls.
In addition to any of the health problems described so far, food chemicals frequently cause allergies and trigger hyperactivity. This
applies especially to synthetic coloring. These are also