raut, raw carrots, marinated beets in 3:1:1
proportion, you can season it with lemon
juice).

9.7. Dietary recommendations to follow after
cleansing procedures
• During the first 2 days: tea with rusks, gruel
cooked in water (buckwheat, oatmeal), veg-
etable soup cooked in water, stewed vegeta-
bles with oil, salads, juice, fruit, weakish tea.
During the first week, exclude milk and
dairy (fermented dairy products are OK).
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spicy food, alcohol, canned food, smoked
food.
• After intestinal and liver cleansing, you
need to conduct a soft buckwheat porridge
fast. Although these fasts don’t solve serious
problems, they have a very good cleansing
and weight loss effect.

    9.8. Buckwheat porridge fast
One of the soft body cleansing methods is a
buckwheat porridge fast. I learnt about it in a
place on Lake Baikal (a Tibetan cleansing
method). The gist of this method: for 7 days eat
only buckwheat porridge, cooked in water, wi th-
out any butter and with a minimal amount of
salt. Drink only pure water, preferably
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cholagogic teas (hill -growing saltwort, briar, elf-
dock, perforate St John's wort, corn silk, knot-
grass root), you can add some honey to the tea,
and some bran to the porridge (for effective in-
testinal cleansing). It’s also necessary to take
LINEX. After 7 days, it’s advisable to switch to a
dairy- plant diet and you can begin water  fasting.

NOTE :! Never conduct dry fasting without
trying water  fasting first!

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Every person who fasts does it differently. Even
fasts of the same length proceed differently for
the same person. This fact is related both to our
individual characteristics and to the thorough-
ness of the preparation for fasting – conducting
preliminary c leansing procedures, the general
condition at the outset of fasting, time of the
year, the diet prior to fasting, the psychological
state, and many other factors. Remember that
the better you prepare for fasting, the better your
attitude is, the easier will the process go and the
fewer different complications are bound to oc-
cur. However, you will not be able to entirely
avoid unpleasant sensations. Most often they are
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do in each case.
The first issue is fear. T his isn't a joke. No one
should start a long fast without sufficient
knowledge about it, and unaware of how fasting
should be conducted. If possible, it's best to have
a person who had already fasted. There shouldn't
be anyone anxious around you – aunties,  cous-
ins, and others saying that you're pale as death,
that your pulse is under 40, that your heart may
stop tonight….
On the third day of fasting, after coming back
from a walk, despite the fact that I haven't rested
once, I felt well and recalled a case  described in a
newspaper, which portrayed the enraged survi-
vors of an earthquake tearing at each other with
hunger like wild animals. These people have
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hours without food or drink. The difference was
in the fact that they were dying from hunger,
while I consciously abstained from food and
drink for the sake of health.
There's more. If a similar crisis occurs during
conscious abstinence, if you feel nervous ten-
sion, weakness and doubts, just remember that
there are people around you who are stronger
than you in spirit, and who are capable of uplift-
ing your mood and dispelling your doubts.

10.1. Hunger sensations
This is what people are usually most afraid of.
In fact, there is nothing pleasant about overeat-
ing on the last few days prior to fasting, and then
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ror. However, when a person is calm about it,
does not overeat and cleanses the intestinal tract
properly, there is barely any hunger present.
On day 4 or 5, the food reflex fades out entirely,
the sight and smell of food no longer even cause
salivation. It does, however, happen, that the
person fasting constantly thinks about food and
anticipates the pleasure of treating themselves
after breaking the fast, arousing  the food center
with these thoughts (and even more with the im-
ages). The appetite may be partially preserved,
particularly with a contaminated intestinal tract.
Fighting the feeling of hunger is not difficult.
First of all, one has to attempt to avoid thinking
about food. It’s best done through distracting
oneself and engaging in various activities.
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firmly to yours elf, “I won’t eat today,” and the
body will know that it’s not deception, then hun-
ger won’t cause too much trouble.
There may be hunger spasms in the first days,
which may be relieved by two or three sips of wa-
ter or by ignoring these sensations. If they get too
intense, you should drink 1 -2 liters of water and
induce vomiting.
In fact, those who fast usually carry a bottle of
water with them and sip a little whenever
needed.
However, it's necessary to keep in mind that the
feeding center in the brain is reflexively excited
at any contact with food in those who are new to
fasting, even if a person wants to be indifferent
to it. This interferes strongly with the proper
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Those fasting should best abstain from prepa r-
ing food and avoid being present at meals. Non -
compliance with this rule often leads to sleep
disturbances, headaches, heartburn and irrita-
tion.
Here is a good exercise to deal with the sensa-
tion of hunger. This exercise is performed on an
empty stomach.  Whenever a hunger sensation is
felt, should relax the stomach, place the palms
below the navel level, one over the other. Inhale,
pull in the stomach, helping yourself with your
hands. At the height of breathing in, hold your
breath for 3 -4 seconds, Relax  and breathe out.
Repeat the exercise 10 times. The entire proce-
dure should take 1 minute. This exercise is effi-
cient for slightly overweight persons. Over the
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tient whose hunger sensation or 'gastronomic
fantasies' were impossible to eliminate.

10.2. Weakness
Weakness, sleepiness, lack of desire to move
during fasting attest to the lack of energy. Its re-
sources can and should be replenished. There
are numerous methods, which include the al-
ready mentioned water treatments, massage,
walks.  Bathing and sunbathing are very benefi-
cial in the summers. A rather powerful method
is walking barefoot on the ground, preferably
with a minimum of clothing on.
The effect of any method is multiplied mani-
fold if a person feel s a connection with nature.
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yourself, walk barefoot, or you may mentally
greet the Earth and the Sun, the Air and the Wa-
ter, feel the intrinsic link with them


 as well as repair from injury a nd replacement of worn-out cells.

Official Guidelines Recommend 10% Protein
Sometimes I wonder whether the official nutritional guidelines for  caloronutrient consumption are intentionally vague and
confusing in order to better serve influential market forces. I mean, a fter 100 + years of testing we have a fairly good idea of which
foods are most nutritious for us. Still, the U.S. government officially re commends that our protein intake should be somewhere
between 10 and 35% of total calories consumed. It is extremely difficult to con sume more than a quarter of your calories from
protein, however, unless you are following a strict regimen of refined pr otein powder and egg whites. Currently fewer than 5% of
Americans eat more than 21% of their calories from protein, with the bell  curve ranging from 11 to 21%. 36
Despite the advertising hype of the meat and dairy industries, humans require an extraordinarily low amount of protein in
their diets.  Many official groups, including the World Health Organization, 37  the U.S. National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, 38
and the National Research Council 39  suggest that eating a mere 10% of our total calories as protein is suffi cient.
Mother’s milk provides on average approximately 6% of calories from pr otein for growing infants. 40  This should be ample
proof that adults do not need more protein per calorie than this, as infants, wi th their extremely rapid rate of growth, have the highest
need for protein per calorie of all humans.
Proteins (or more accurately, amino acids) are the building blocks of livi ng cells. Once we have done our growing, we have
very little requirement for the raw materials of which we are made. Think of the analogy of building a brick house: you need
truckloads of bricks during the construction stage. Once the house is buil t, however, if trucks continue to deliver bricks, you have a
problem on your hands. The same is true of protein in the human diet: too much c reates emergency conditions and keeps the body in
a constant state of toxicity.
For those accustomed to seeing your protein recommendation in terms of gra ms or calories per unit of body weight, the 2003
U.S. RDA for protein is 0.36 grams per pound of body weight, or 0.8 grams per kilogram (1 kilogra m = 2.2 lbs). The RDA
calculates these numbers for a “typical” (sedentary) female a nd male who eat 1,600 and 2,200 calories per day, respectively,
arriving at a suggested 44 grams of protein for a female and 55 grams for a  male. See the sidebar entitled “Calculating Y our Protein
Intake” later in this chapter for sample calculations.

10% Protein Includes a Wide Safety Margin
The national and international organizations that set nutrient g uidelines build into their numbers a margin of safety that increase s
the recommendations substantially, often near double. The 1989 U.S. RDA for prote in of 0.8 g/kg/day, for example, was designed
to meet the needs of 97.5% of a normally distributed population. It was calculate d as follows: 41

Conduct nitrogen balance studies to determine the mean amount of pr otein required to replace daily “obligatory losses”
through sweat, urine, feces, and sloughed skin, hair, and nails.
Add two standard deviations (25%) to this mean value.
Add margins for digestibility and protein quality.
In his book The China Study, renowned Cornell University professor emeritus of nutritional bioche mistry T. Colin Campbell
states that we require only 5–6% of our total calories to come from protei n in order to replace the protein we routinely lose, and that
“About 9–10% protein has been recommended for the past fifty years  to be assured that most people at least get their 5–6%
‘requirement.’” 42
In addition to the safety margin, this recommendation assumes that peopl e eat their protein cooked. Given that cooking
substantially deranges protein and other nutrients, we can safely c onsume far less raw plant protein and still be assured of sufficient
nourishment. Thus, you can see that 10% protein (maximum) is both suffic ient and reasonable.
The additional protein afforded by the built-in safety factor is not a problem, per se, except that overconsumption of protein
can lead to health problems, which will be discussed later in this chapte r. The more important concern is relative overconsumption
of protein. In other words, if we overconsume one of the three caloronutrient s, we are likely to underconsume one or both of the
others.
The fact that our protein needs actually run in the single digits (u nder 10%) often surprises people. Most all of us have
unwittingly fallen prey to meat-industry propaganda that would lead us  to believe otherwise. Truly, advertising has influenced our
perception of reality so widely that the concept of “getting enough protein” is embedded in the culture.

Athletes and Bodybuilders: 10% Still Plenty
Bodybuilders have long consumed extra protein and lowered carbohydrate inta ke in the mistaken belief that dietary protein
builds muscle. In reality, only weight-bearing exercise builds musc le. When insufficient carbohydrates are supplied, it is true that
protein requirements go up, as the body transforms the protein into carbohydra te (an energy-expensive process) and utilizes it for
fuel. This does not, however, bring about the result they desire.

No Extra Protein Required for Physical Activity
Bodybuilders may be interested to note that in its extensive study of prote in requirements, the Institute of Medicine/Food and
Nutrition Board determined that no additional protein needed to be added to the RDA  to account for physical activity:
“There is little evidence that muscular activity increases t he need for protein, except for the small amount required for the
development of muscles during physical conditioning  (Torun Et al., 1977). Vigorous activity that leads to profuse sweating, such
as in heavy work and sports, and exposure to heat increases nitrogen loss fr om the skin, but with acclimatization to a warm
environment, the excessive skin loss [loss by perspiration throu gh the skin—DG] is reduced and may be partially compensated by
decreased renal excretion (WHO, 1985). In view of the margin of safety in the RDA, no increment is added for work or
training. ”43

Bodybuilders following the 80/10/10  program have found that if they supply sufficient calories from carbohy drate, their protein
needs go down dramatically, and their energy to train and their muscula r growth both increase.
Lisa Oborne, a professional bodybuilder in Canada for many years, says that s he got the best results of her career when
switching to the 80/10/10  diet, gleaning a growth spurt the likes of which none of her trainers ha d ever seen.

All Plant Foods Contain Protein
Consuming approximately 5% of calories from protein is difficult to avoid if  you are eating enough food to meet your daily
calorie needs. All plant foods contain protein, and even if you ate a diet of onl y white rice, (not recommended) you would still end
up with 8% protein for the day! But would it be the “right kind” of prote in?
Proteins are complicated molecules made by assembling simple b uilding blocks (amino acids) together in a “polypeptide”
chain. Some 20 different amino acids are used to synthesize proteins, eigh t or nine of which are designated essential (depending
upon whose information you read). The term “essential” in nutrition m eans that the nutrient in question must be eaten or otherwise
consumed, as the body cannot synthesize it.

The Complete Protein Myth
In the 1970s, people often concerned themselves with combining proteins so tha t all of the essential amino acids were available at
each meal. Later research has determined that this is not necessa ry, and in fact the author of the “incomplete protein theory,”
Frances Moore Lappe, recanted 20 years later, saying that she was utter ly mistaken. We do  need all of the essential amino acids,
but we do not have to eat them together, or even each day.

Sources of Protein
Dietary protein is not the only source for building the proteins we need. In stead, our bodies efficiently recycle between 100 and 300 grams of our own protein every day. We have an amino acid pool from which to build n ew proteins. We add amino acids to the
pool by breaking down the proteins we eat and the proteins in our bodies.
We can easily meet our protein requirements on a vegan diet, with no part icular attention focused on combining proteins or
selecting certain foods for each meal.
The table below shows the percentage of calories from protein in twenty- one common fruits and vegetables and in five animal
foods, for comparison.

Another chart more specific to the 80/10/10  diet can be found in the back of this book. This chart shows values not only for
protein but also for calories, carbohydrates, fat, water, and fiber for select ed whole plant foods. In them, you will see that fruits
generally contain 4 to 8% protein,


they have been following a typical American diet.
If the chronically ill had been following a vegetarian diet, perhaps a diet
including with eggs and dairy, if they had been using no addicting substances, thenone month on raw foods is sufficient preparation for fasting. If the person hadwater or juice fasted for at least a week or two within the last two years, and
followed a healthy diet since that time, one or two weeks on raw foods should be
a sufficient runway.
During preparation for a fast, I never recommend that a chronically ill person
quit taking prescription medicines because doing so can seriously disrupt theirhomeostasis. However, if their symptoms lessen or vanish during the pre-fastingclean up, the person might try tapering off medications.
The length and type of fast chosen to resolve a chronic illness depends largely
on available time, finances, availability of support people, work responsibilities,and mental toughness. If you are one of those fortunate people rich enough to givetheir health first priority, long water fasting is ideal. If on the other hand you can’tafford to stop working, have no one to take care of you and assist with somehousehold chores, and/or you are not mentally tough enough to deal with self-denial, compromise is necessary.
Ideally the chronically ill person would fast for an extended period under
supervision until their symptoms were gone or greatly improved, with a fall-backplan to repeat the whole process again in three to six months if necessary. If youare not able to do that, the next best program is to fast for a short period, like oneor two weeks, with a plan to repeat the process as often as possible until you arehealed.
I have had clients with potentially life-threatening conditions such as obesity
with incipient heart failure, or who came to me with cancer, that were unable tostop work for financial reasons, or who could not afford a residential fastingprogram, or who felt confident in their own ability to deal with detoxification intheir own home. These people have fasted successfully at home, coming to seeme once a week. Almost inevitably, successful at-home fasters had already donea lot of research on self healing, believed in it, and had the personal discipline tocarry it out properly, including breaking the fast properly without overeating.
Foods To Heal Chronic Illness
Sprouts Baby Greens Salad Juices Fruit
alfalfa sunflower lettuce beet grapefruit
radish buckwheat celery celery lemon
bean zucchini zucchini lime lime
clover kale kale orange orange
fenugreek endive radish parsley apple
wheat tomato tomato raspberries
cabbage cabbage cabbage blueberries
carrot carrot grapes
spinach apple peaches
parsley grapefruit apricots
sweet pepper lemon strawberry
Fruits should be watery and lower in sugar. Some examples of poor fruit
choices would be pineapple, ripe mango, bananas, dates, raisins, figs. Fruitsshould not be combined with vegetables.
Vegetables should not be starchy, packed-full of energy. Poor vegetable
choices would be potato, parsnip, turnip, corn, sweet potato, yam, beet, wintersquash. Sprouts and baby greens are vegetables and may be included in salads.
Juices should not be extremely sweet. Apple, orange, beet and carrot juice
should be diluted with 50% water. Fruit juices should not be mixed with vegetablejuices or with vegetables at the same meal.
Salads should include no fruit. Salad dressings should be lemon or lime juice,
very small quantities of olive oil, and herbs. No salt, soy sauce nor black pepper.Cayenne can be okay for some.
I have also helped chronically ill people that were not mentally prepared to
water fast, but were able to face the long-term self-control and deprivation of araw food cleansing diet that included careful food combining. These people alsoregained their health, but it took them a year at minimum, and once well they hadto remain on a diet tailor-made to their digestive capacity for the rest of their life,usually along with food supplements.
Jim was such a case. He was 55 years old, very obese, had dangerously high
blood pressure poorly controlled with medication, and was going into congestiveheart failure. He was on digitalis and several other heart medications plusdiuretics, but in no way was his condition under control. He had severe edema inthe feet and legs with pitting, and fluid retention in the abdominal region caused ahuge paunch that was solid to the touch not soft and squishy like fatty tissue.
Jim had long dreamed of having his own homestead with an Organic garden
and now he had these things but was too sick to enjoy them or work in his gardenwithout severe heart pain and shortness of breath. Jim had retired early in order toenjoy many years without the stresses of work, and he was alarmed to realize thathe was unlikely to survive a year.
The day Jim came to see me the first time I would have classified his condition
as critically ill because his life was in immediate danger; but he responded soquickly to his detox program that he was very soon out of danger and would bemore accurately described as a chronically ill person. Jim was not prepared towater fast. He was attached to having his food and he was aware that at hisextreme weight he was going to have stay on a dietary program for a long, longtime. He also wanted to choose a gradient that he could manage by himself athome with little assistance from his wife. He had been on a typical American dietwith meat, coffee, etc., so that in spite of his dangerous condition it did not seemwise to me to add the heavy eliminatory burden of a water fast to a body that wasalready overwhelmed with fluids and waste products.
Jim immediately went on a raw food cleansing diet, with no concentrated
foods like nuts, seeds, or avocados, and with one day each week fasting onvegetable juice and broth. He did enemas daily even though it wasn’t his favoritething. In one month he had lost 30 pounds, his eyes had started to sparkle, andhis complexion was rosy. The swelling had disappeared from his feet and legs,and he had to buy new pants.
Starting the second month he gradually withdrew from prescription
medications. From the beginning I had put Jim on a program of nutritionalsupplements including protomorphogens (see chapter on vitamins and foodsupplements) to help the body repair it’s heart and the kidneys. In only fourmonths he had returned his body to glowing health, and looked great for his age,though he was still overweight. At the end of one year he had returned to anormal weight for his height, and only cheated on the diet a couple of times whenattending a social event, and then it was only a baked potato with no dressing.
He was probably going to have many qualitative years working his garden and
living out his dreams. The local intensive care ward lost a lot of money when theyfailed to get Jim.
Diet For The Acutely Ill
The acutely ill person experiences occasional attacks of distressing symptoms,
usually after indiscretions in living or emotional upsets. They have a cold, or a flu,or sinusitis, or a first bout of pneumonia, or a spring allergy attack. The intensesymptoms knock them flat and force them to bed for a few days or a week. Ifthey are sick more often than that, they are moving toward the chronically illcategory.
People who are acutely ill should stop eating to whatever extent that they are
able until the symptoms are gone. During an acute illness, the appetites isprobably pretty dull anyway, so why not give a brief fast on water or fruit juice atry.
Most acute conditions are short in duration, usually not lasting more than a
week. Allergy attacks, some types of flu, and a first bout of pneumonia may welllast for three weeks or a month. The general rule is to eat as little as possible untilthe symptoms have passed, self-administer colon cleansing, even if you have ahorror of such things, and take vitamin supplements, including megadoses ofVitamin C, bioflavinoids, and zinc. (See the chapter on vitamins.) Those having alittle experience with natural medicine make teas of echinacea, fenugreek seedsand red clover and quit eating. Eating as little as possible can mean only waterand herb teas, only vegetable broth, only vegetable juice or non-sweet fruit juice,even only cleansing raw foods. If you eat more than this you have not relievedyour system of enough digestive effort.
After your symptoms are gone it is very important to change your life-style and
improve your diet so that you aren’t so toxic and don’t have to experience anacute illness several times a year when your body is forced to try an energeticdetox.
Diet For A Healthy Person
I doubt that it is possible to be totally healthy in the twentieth century. Doctors
Alsleben and Shute in their book How to Survive the New Health
Catastrophes  state that in-depth laboratory testing of the population at large
demonstrated four universally present pathological conditions: heavy metalpoisoning, arteriosclerosis, sub-clinical infections, and vitamin/mineral deficiencies.Those of us who consider ourselves healthy, including young people, are not reallyhealthy, and at the very least would benefit from nutritional supplementation. Infact the odds against most people receiving adequate vitamin and mineral nutritionwithout supplements are very poor as demonstrated by the following chart.
Problem Nutrients in America
Nutrient Per cent Receiving Less than the RDA
B6 80%
Magnesium 75Calcium 68Iron 57Vitamin A 50B
1 45
C4 1B
2 36
B12


 (John 8:32). Also, it says, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2: 15).
Today many of the doctors are not permitted by laws made by the
drug establishment to do what they know to do to help a person, and therefore, a patient suffers much longer because of these laws of tyr-anny.
I have been told many times by doctors: "I have to do certain things although I knew it to be wrong. Everything I do is censored." "Unless I sell a certain amount of drugs each month I will not be
permitted to use the hospitals."
"Unless I send so many patients of mine to the hospital I will be
restricted from using the hospital at all."
Whenever there are rules, laws, regulations and union laws that
put such restrictions on a medical doctor then we have come to the place that we are paying doctors to keep us sick rather than to get us well.
I have been falsely accused of practicing medicine. 51 Comparison of RBTI With the Practice of Medicine There is no
logical way to reason, in any shape, form, or fashion, that the Reams
Biological Theory of Ionization is the practice of medicine or one of the healing arts. It deals only with food and diet. Everyone is on a diet of some kind even of his own choosing.
The practice of medicine deals with drugs and surgery. Many doctors discredit the idea that food has anything to do with
illness. The last I knew, only two of the medical colleges in the United States offer instruction on diet, and these two colleges only give two college hours about diet.
There are no common grounds for comparison between the Reams
Biological Theory of Ionization and the practice of medicine, because of the following:
 1. The Reams Biological Theory of Ionization is the practice of
health through diet.
The practice o[ medicine is the practice of illness through drugs
and surgery.
 2. The RBTI deals with the mathematics and chemistry of a gain
or loss of ENERGY, which is determined by accurate laboratory anal-ysis on urine and saliva.
The practice o[medicine deals with diagnosis, which according to
Black's LEGAL DICTIONARY, is a GUESS limited by experience.
The guessing is predicated on symptoms.
 3. The RBTI deals with CAUSE and EFFECT due to a mineral de-
ficiency.
The practice o[ medicine deals with symptoms and their cure with
drugs, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and cobalt.
 4. The RBTI deals with a specific diet for only one individual and
the foods that will bring about an increase of RESERVE ENERGY. This is a natural way to keep anyone's body in the best of health. 52 The practice of medicine gives no consideration to an increase or
decrease in anyone's physical energies, and medical doctors are not
trained in any medical college to measure or evaluate energy on a daily or hourly basis.
 5. The RBTI never deals with drugs ; however, when anyone is ill
they should be entitled to the FREEDOM OF CHOICE to choose the RBTI program, or any one or all of the HEALING ARTS to aid them in regaining their health.
The practice of medicine through the drug establishment seeks to
force everyone, even against their will, to use only drugs for their health problems.
 6. The RBTI deals with cleansing the temple by drinking clean,
cool, pure distilled water, according to or in ratio to weight.
The drinking of water has more to do with recovery than the
drugs.
The practice of medicine does not put any emphasis, or seldom
mentions drinking water, pure or impure, unless the patient is ill enough to be in the hospital and then they sometimes measure the in-take of water and the output of urine. While the patient is in the hospi-tal some doctors insist that the patient drink a prescribed amount of water daily.
 7. The RBTI deals with the whole man, the whole woman, the
whole boy or girl; such as a tailor-made diet, distilled water, fresh air and supervised exercise according to the reserve energy rating. All this is done on an individual ba sis predetermined by the body chemis-
try.
The practice of medicine deals with diet and exercise for masses
of people as though all were exactly alike. Consequently their failures are much greater than they should be because they reject the new as unorthodox.
 53 8. The RBTI maintains that all maladies begin with the organs
governed by the vagus nervous system. The cause of the malfunction-
ing of the vital organs is that there is not enough mineral in the diet to replace the worn-out cells, causing a malfunctioning or decrease in the production of enzymes to supply other organs with the necessary total daily nutrient to maintain maximum amount of reserve energy.
Those who practice medicine most  of the time have no explanation
as to the cause of disease.
 9. The RBTI maintains that bacterias and fungus are not the cause
of disease, however, they will move in when free room and board is furnished. They do aggravate the condition and cause fevers because the body is so deficient in mineral th at it (the body) cannot resist their
attacks. The RBTI maintains that dis eases always strike in the weakest
area. The RBTI does advocate the use of vaccines only as a means of last resort.
The practice of medicine blames bacteria and fungus for the cause
of disease. The doctor uses vaccines and antibodies to counteract dis-ease instead of replacing the mineral so nature can restore health naturally. Vaccine may kill the undesirable fungus and bacteria but it does not replace the mineral deficiency, and it also kills the friendly bacteria which protects our bodies from future attack.
 10. The RBTI deals with health and happiness and a long, useful
life, all well-planned and guided by the RBTI analysis.
The practice of medicine in most cases deals with suffering, ago-
ny, drugs. surgery and a premature death.
 11. The RBTI is the adherence to Biblical laws for perfect health. The practice of medicine deals with drugs and surgery.  12. The RBTI gives God the glory for the restoration of health. Many trained in the use of drugs give man the glory for healing.  54 Again this should be evidence that nie RBTI isn't one of the heal-
ing arts because no one can live without food. I personally believe that
the Medical Practice Acts is unconstitutional because they are the only statutes on the law books without definition. They do not distinguish between food (diet) and drugs. They do not distinguish between the practice of medicine and the practice of health. They are so broad and vague as to what is the practice of medicine they interfere with one's civil rights in the following ways:
A. The right to exercise the health  message as given in the Bible,
and the freedom of worship as one sees fit.
B. The right to use scientific discoveries which are patented or
copyrighted.
C. The right to make a contract with two or more parties without
harassment.
D. The freedom of speech. Therefore, the Medical Practice Acts, as now written, should be
abolished. The power to license is the power to destroy. A profession-al license is also unconstitutional because it interferes with the right to work and earn a living. I recommend a registration of qualifications which would entitle anyone to follow the profession of his choice, and the enforcement thereof would be between the employer and employ-ee without the State becoming a scap egoat for a union, church, organ-
ization, corporation, etc., etc., which is very costly to the taxpayer.
To locate and zero in on the loss of energy and its causes does not
denote the need of a drug. It does denote there is a need of new parts which may be replaced with foods containing those minerals. There-
fore the RBTI could not possibly be classified intelligently as the practice of medicine. Since most medical doctors are not trained in human dietary problems as a means of maintaining the maximum amount of reserve energy there could be no intellectual conflict. Greed for money in that they want to st op it would be the only excuse for
anyone to try to classify RBTI with the practice of medicine.
Every intelligent medical doctor admits that drugs do not cure or
heal any disease. What then does heal?
The answer is the Great Physician, or the Messiah. 55 How does He do it?
FIRST : by a miracle. Instantaneous h ealing. He made the laws of
health and He can change them anytime He wills for His glory.
SECOND : by obeying the health laws that He has made for our
edification. If we do our part the Messiah will do His part, and we shall be made healthy again.
The RBTI is not done by any witchcraft, sorcery, divine revela-
tion, or satanic powers, mind reading, psychic intelligence, or extra sensory perception.
The RBTI test is an accurate means of expressing every degree of
biological life in mathematical terms. It is available to those who de-sire to learn the true science of perfect health through diet.
No one in his right mind would cl assify diet as a drug. Even chil-
dren know that food is not medicine. If food is medicine and medicine
is a drug then there is no such thing as food. Foods would be only a colloquial name for drugs


—
for a while. Then you crucify them.
You have crucified (in one way or another)
all of My teachers, not just One. And you
did so not because they were holier than
thou, but because you made them out to
be. My teachers have all come with the same
message. Not “I am holier than thou,” but
“You are as holy as am I.”
This is the message you have not been
able to hear; this is the tru th you have not
been able to accept. And that is why you
can never truly, purely, fall in love with
another. You have never truly, purely fallen
in love with your Self.
And so I tell you this: be now and forever
centered upon your Self. Look to see what
you are being, doing, and having in any
given moment, not what’s going on with
another.
It is not in the action of another, but in your
re-action, that your salvation will be  found.
I know better, but somehow this makes it
sound as though we should not mind what others  do to us in relationships. They can
do anything, and so long as we hold our
equilibrium, keep  our Self centered, and all
that good stuff, nothing can touch us. But
others do touch us. Their  actions do
sometimes hurt us. It is when the hurt
comes into relationships that I don’t know
what to do. It’s all very well to say “stand
aside from it; cause it to mean nothing,” but
that’s  easier said than done. I do get hurt
by the words and actions of others in
relationships.
The day will come wh en you will not. That
will be the day on which you realize —and
actualize —the true meaning of
relationships; the true reason for them.
It is because you have forgotten this that
you react the way you do. But that is  alright.
That is part of the growth proce ss. It is part of evolution. It is Soul Work you  are up to
in relationship, yet that is a grand
understanding, a grand remembering.  Until
you remember this —and remember then
also how to use relationship as a tool  in the
creation of Self —you must work at th e level
at which you are. The level of
understanding, the level of willingness, the
level of remembrance.
And so there are things you can do when
you react with pain and hurt to what
another is being, saying, or doing. The first
is to admit honestly to you rself and to
another exactly how you are feeling. This
many of you are afraid to do, because you
think it will make you “look bad.”
Somewhere, deep inside of you, you
realize that it  probably is ridiculous for you
to “feel that way.” It probably is small o f you. You are  “bigger than that.” But you can’t
help it. You still feel that way.
There is only one thing you can do. You
must honor your feeling. For honoring your
feelings means honoring your Self. And
you must love your neighbor as you love
yourself. H ow can you ever expect to
understand and honor the feelings of
another  if you cannot honor the feelings
within your Self?
The first question in any interactive process
with another is: now Who Am I, and  Who
Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?
Often y ou do not remember Who You Are,
and do not know Who You Want to Be  until
you try out a few ways of being. That is why
honoring your truest feelings is so
important.  If your first feeling is a negative feeling,
simply having the feeling is frequently all
that is needed to step away from it. It is
when you have the anger, have the upset,
have  the disgust, have the rage, own the
feeling of wanting to “hurt back,” that you
can disown these first feelings as “not Who
You Want to Be.”
The Master is one who has li ved through
enough such experiences to know in
advance what her final choices are. She
does not need to “try out” anything. She’s
worn these clothes before and knows they
do not fit; they are not “her.” And since a
Master’s life is devoted to the constant
realization of Self as one knows oneself to
be, such ill -fitting feelings would never be
entertained.  That is why Masters are imperturbable in
the face of what others might call calamity.
A Master blesses calamity, for the Master
knows that from the seeds of disaster  (and
all experience) comes the growth of Self.
And the Master’s second life purpose  is
always growth. For once one has fully Self
realized, there is nothing left to do  except
be more of that.
It is at this stage that one moves from soul
work to God work, for this is what I am up
to!
I will assume for the purposes of this
discussion that you are still up to soul work.
You are still seeking to realize (make “real”)
Who You Truly Are. Life (I) will give you
bountiful opportunities to create that
(remember, life is not a process of
discovery,  life is a process of creation).  You can create Who You Are over and over
again. Indeed, you do —every day. As
things now stand, you do not always come
up with the same answer, however.  Given
an identical o uter experience, on day one
you may choose to be patient,  loving, and
kind in relationship to it. On day two you
may choose to be angry, ugly,  and sad.
The Master is one who always comes up
with the same answer —and that answer is
always the highest choice.
In this the Master is imminently predictable.
Conversely, the student is completely
unpredictable. One can tell how one is
doing on the road to mastery by simply
noticing how predictably one makes the
highest choice in responding or reacting to
any situat ion. Of course, this throws open the question,
what choice is highest?
That is a question around which have
revolved the philosophies and theologies of
man since the beginning of time. If the
question truly engages you, you are
already  on your way to maste ry. For it is still
true that most people continue to be
engaged  by another question altogether.
Not, what is the highest choice, but what is
the most  profitable? Or how can I lose the
least?
When life is lived from a standpoint of
damage control or optimu m advantage, the
true benefit of life is forfeited. The
opportunity is lost. The chance is missed.
For a  life lived thusly is a life lived from
fear—and that life speaks a lie about you.  For you are not fear, you are love. Love that
needs no protection, lo ve that cannot  be
lost. Yet you will never know this in your
experience if you continually answer the
second question and not the first. For only
a person who thinks there is something to
gain or to lose asks the second question.
And only a person who sees  life in a
different way; who sees Self as a higher
being; who understands that winning or
losing is not the test, but only loving or
failing to love —only that person asks the
first.
He who asks the second question says, “I
am my body.” She who asks the fi rst says,
“I am my soul.”
Yea, let all those who have ears to hear,
listen. For I tell you this: at the critical  juncture in all human relationships, there is
only one question:
What would love do now?
No other question is relevant, no other
question is me aningful, no other question
has any importance to your soul.
Now we come upon a very delicate point of
interpretation, for this principle of love -
sponsored action has been widely
misunderstood —and it is this
misunderstanding  which has led to the
resentment s and angers of life —which, in
turn, have caused so  many to stray from
the path.
For centuries you have been taught that
love-sponsored action arises out of the
choice to be, do, and have whatever
produces the highest good for another.  Yet I tell you this:  the highest choice is that
which produces the highest good for you.
As with all profound spiritual truth, this
statement opens itself to immediate
misinterpretation. The mystery clears a bit
the moment one decides what is the
highest “good” one could do for oneself.
And when the absolute highest choice is
made, the mystery dissolves, the circle
completes itself, and the highest good for
you becomes the highest good for another.
It may take lifetimes to understand this —
and even more lifetimes to implement —for
this truth revolves around an even greater
one: What you do for your Self, you do for
another. What you do for another, you do
for the Self.
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 case was pursued because DMSO could be considered the Laetrile (an anti-
cancer drug) of the eighties.
DMSO is a drug that hundreds of thousands of people are using, and for which
there is a great public pressure to make legal nationally. There is also tremendous
congressional pressure to approve DMSO for general use. But the bureaucratic
record thus far is enormously distressing. There is a failure on the part of the FDA
to properly handle DMSO. The agency has undergone internal conflict as a result,
and the Inspector General is investigating that situation. DMSO has had inefficient
and ineffective overall review. Problems that have been discovered were not
expeditiously corrected, and it took the FDA an overly long time to make those
discoveries. Perhaps the FDA has perpetuated the greatest failure of all those
committed, because it is supposed to be the regulator beyond reproach guiding the
others to do what is good and true.
The result is, as Senator Kennedy points out, that a travesty has been made on
the drug regulatory process and serious questions have arisen in the minds of
thousands of physicians and possibly millions of potential patients who need and
want to use DMSO. It may alleviate their suffering from a variety of ailments, but
the drug is being denied to them because of uncertainty as to its safety and
efficacy. The FDA itself has been a blot on the drug regulatory record.
Senator Kennedy assured the public that this entire matter of allegedmisreporting, misstatements, and alterations of data was going to be evaluated for
criminal content by the United States Department of Justice. And it has been.
Overall, charges have not been brought or they’ve been dropped without definitive
conclusions.
Doctors and patients continue to use DMSO in spite of the cloud concerning
its safety. In over fifteen years of use, I have not heard of one patient complaining
of vision problems, and some of these patients have been using DMSO regularly
for ten, twelve, and even fifteen years without complaint. Even if nuclear sclerosis,
or progressive myopia, does occur in some people, it is hardly of clinical
significance in that patients are unaware of changes and do not complain of visual
impairment. All of the studies done up to now show that lens changes seen in
experimental animals are reversible simply by discontinuing the medication.
A study by Dr. Jack de la Torre, reported in the
Journal of Toxicology
and
Environmental Health
 7:49–57, 1981, states: “Daily funduscopic examination
during the testing period failed to reveal any abnormalities in any of the monkeys
tested.... a double-blind slit lamp examination of the lens was performed the day
before saline or DMSO administration and then again 10 and 120 days after saline
or DMSO. No changes in refraction or translucency of the lens and no other
abnormalities were noted in any animal before, during, or eighteen weeks after any
drug administration.”
There is no therapeutically effective agent on the market that does not have the
potential of causing some untoward side effect. Although penicillin,
phenylbutazone, clofibrate, and even aspirin can cause death in some patients, no
one has suggested that these drugs be taken away from the people. “Adverse eye
findings” have been reported with
all
 of the arthritis drugs such as Anaprox,
Naprosyn, and Motrin (as per their package inserts). Yet, no one has suggested
that these minimally effective agents (about the same as aspirin) be taken off the
market because of these adverse eye findings.
Even if the Scherbel findings are verified, DMSO will still be one of the safest
and most important agents when it’s made available. If a person is dying from a
stroke or severe burn, it is unlikely that he or his loved ones will worry about
clinically insignificant lens changes.
Because of the question of eye changes, and in spite of many studies showing
that eye pathology does not occur, most physicians recommend, but do not insist
on, a slit-lamp eye examination every six months for patients using DMSO on a
continual basis.
I can only hope that this scientific and bureaucratic bungling doesn’t setDMSO therapeutics back another twenty years. It seems that the American people
are entitled to a better performance from everyone involved—the FDA, the
medical researchers, and the private business sector. In the interest of the patients
who are suffering and are full of anguish, we must have a quick, accurate, and
definitive approval of DMSO for general medical use, as it is, indeed, the new
healing power.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS CONFIRMING DMSO’S VALUE
FOR SCLERODERMA
In 1986, the German journal
Dermatologische Monatsschrift
 published a scientific
article that verified the value of dimethyl sulfoxide in the treatment of
scleroderma. The solvent was combined with dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, and
administered as a local treatment that worked well.
3
In 1983, the Dimexide brand of DMSO was applied to Russian patients for
counteracting their scleroderma. Good therapeutic results were reported as
circumscribed drug therapy.
4
Again in 1983, skin manifestations in the form of scleroderma were improved
by the patients receiving DMSO. The solvent is known to exert a palliative,
therapeutic effect on healing of cutaneous ulcers (ulcers on the skin) in systemic
sclerosis (scleroderma). In this study, which was described to the New York
Academy of Sciences, the therapeutic response was variable and, therefore, the
concentration of DMSO, as well as frequency and duration of treatments, were
individualized to obtain maximum healing effect with a minimum of adverse
reactions. There was no evidence of ocular (eye) toxicity or other serious toxicity
manifestations in this group of patients. They had been treated with topical DMSO
for one year or longer. Delayed improvement was observed in the untreated
extremity in the majority of patients studied. In no instance did improvement in the
untreated extremities exceed improvement in the other, treated limb. It is believed
by the investigators that this resulted from a systemic, carryover effect of DMSO
rather than spontaneous improvement in the disease course. “DMSO is a
worthwhile, supplemental, therapeutic agent providing the limitations of therapy
are understood,” said the investigator, Dr. A.L. Scherbel.
5
A prospective, randomized, double-blind trial was carried out in 1985 that
compared topical therapy with 0.85 percent normal saline (salt solution as a
placebo), 2 percent DMSO, and 70 percent DMSO for treatment of digital ulcersin 84 patients with systemic sclerosis. There were no statistically significant
differences among the three treatment groups in the improvement in the total
number of open ulcers, total surface area of open ulcers, average surface area per
open ulcer, number of infected ulcers, number of inflamed ulcers, or patient pain
assessment. While some patients improved during the study, improvement could
not be attributed to a specific treatment. Over one-quarter of the patients treated
with 70 percent DMSO were withdrawn from the study because of their
undergoing significant skin toxicity.
6
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS CONFIRMING DMSO’S VALUE
FOR INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
Interstitial cystitis is not an infectious disease, but it shows clinical manifestations
of bladder inflammation and irritation. The condition
may be related to the
collagen diseases, may be an autoimmune disease or an allergic manifestation, or
be secondary to an infectious agent not identified. At any rate, it’s apparent that
medical science does not know its cause and thus has no viable treatment for
interstitial cystitis except the administration of dimethyl sulfoxide.
Histologically, the bladder wall in interstitial cystitis shows a unifocal or
multifocal—single-site or multi-site—inflammatory infiltration with ulceration of
the bladder’s mucosa (lining). Scarring develops, which ultimately results in
contraction of the smooth muscle, diminished urinary capacity, and symptoms of
frequent, painful urination and hematuria (blood in the urine). Typically, middle-
aged women are affected.
To evaluate the effectiveness of dimethyl sulfoxide in the treatment of patients
with biopsies suggestive of interstitial cystitis, thirty-three patients underwent a
controlled crossover trial in 1988. The results were reported in the
Journal of
Urology.
 Patients were allocated randomly to receive 50 percent DMSO or salt
solution (saline) as placebo. The medication was administered intravesically every
two weeks for two sessions of four treatments each. Response was assessed
urodynamically (by checking urine) and symptomatically (by observing
symptoms). Thirty women and three men having an average age of 48 years and an
average duration of symptoms of 5.5 years were entered into the study. No
significant side effects to DMSO were noticed by the investigators. When
assessed subjectively by the patients, 53 percent of them felt markedly improved
compared to 18 percent on the placebo who felt improved. Of the dimethylsulfoxide group, 93 percent had objective improvement versus 35 percent of the
placebo group. Thus, DMSO proved to be superior to placebo


When you receive whoever comes into the space of No w as a noble guest, when
you allow each person to be as they are, they begin  to change.

***

To know another human being in their essence, you d on’t really need to know
anything about them–their past, their history, thei r story. We confuse knowing
about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual.  Knowing about and knowing
are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the
formless. One operates through thought, the other t hrough stillness.

Knowing about is helpful for practical purposes. On  that level, we cannot do
without it. When it is the predominant modality in relationships, however, it
becomes very limiting, even destructive. Thoughts a nd concepts create an artificial
barrier, a separation between human beings. Your in teractions are then not rooted
in Being, but become mind-based. Without the concep tual barriers, love is naturally
present in all human interactions.

***

Most human interactions are confined to the exchang e of words–the realm of
thought. It is essential to bring some stillness, p articularly into your close
relationships.

No relationship can thrive without the sense of spa ciousness that comes with
stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or
sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable w ith being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be r eceptive to the stillness that is
already there, but is usually obscured by mental no ise.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and
can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain
anything.

***

True listening is another way of bringing stillness  into the relationship. When you
truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness  arises and becomes an essential
part of the relationship. But true listening is a r are skill. Usually, the greater part of
a person’s attention is taken up by their thinking.  At best, they may be evaluating
your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or t hey may not be listening at all,
lost in their own thoughts.

True listening goes far beyond auditory perception.  It is the arising of alert
attention, a space of presence in which the words a re being received. The words
now become secondary. They may be meaningful or the y may not make sense. Far
more important than what you are listening to is th e act of listening itself, the space
of conscious presence that arises as you listen. Th at space is a unifying field of
awareness in which you meet the other person withou t the separative barriers
created by conceptual thinking. And now the other p erson is no longer “other.” In
that space, you are joined together as one awarenes s, one consciousness.

***

Do you experience frequent and repetitive drama in your close relationships. Do
relatively insignificant disagreements often trigge r violent arguments and
emotional pain. At the root of it lie the basic ego ic patterns: the need to be right,
and, of course, for someone else to be wrong, that is to say identification with
mental positions. There is also the ego's need to b e periodically in conflict with
something or someone in order to strengthen its sen se of separation between me
and the other, without which it cannot survive. In addition, there is the accumulated
emotional pain from the past that you and each huma n being carries within, both
from your personal past as well as the collective p ain of humanity that goes back a
long, long time. This pain body is an energy field within you that sporadically takes
you over because it needs to experience more emotio nal pain for itself to feed on
and replenish itself. It will try to control your t hinking and make it deeply negative.
It loves your negative thoughts since it resonates with every frequency and so can
feed on them. It will also provoke negative emotion al reactions in people close to you, especially your partner, in order to feed on t he ensuing drama and emotional
pain. How can you free yourself from this unconscio us identification with pain that
creates so much misery in life. Become aware of it.  Realize that it is not who you
are and recognize it for what it is, past pain.  Wi tness it as it happens in your
partner or in yourself. When your unconscious ident ification with it is broken,
when you are able to observe it in yourself, you don't feed it anymore and it will
gradually lose its energy charge.

***

Human interaction can be hell. Or it can be a great  spiritual practice.

***

When you look upon another human being and feel gre at love towards them, or
when you contemplate beauty in nature and something  within you responds deeply
to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the es sence of that love or that beauty
within you, inseparable from who you are, your true  nature. The outer form is a
temporary reflection of what you are within, in you r essence. That is why love and
beauty can never leave you, although all outer form s will.

***

What is your relationship with the world of objects, the countless things that
surround you, and that you handle everyday. The cha ir you sit on, the pen, the car,
the cup.  Are they to you merely a means to an end or do you occasionally
acknowledge their existence, their being, no matter  how briefly, by noticing them
and giving them your attention. When you get attach ed to objects, when you are
using them to enhance your worth in your own eyes a nd in the eyes of others,
concern about things can easily take over your whol e life.

When there is self-identification with things, you don't appreciate them for what
they are because you are looking for yourself in th em. When you appreciate an
object for what it is, when you acknowledge its bei ng without mental projection,
you cannot not feel grateful for its existence. You  may also sense that it is not
really inanimate, that it only appears so to the se nses.  Physicist will confirm that
on a molecular level, it is indeed, a pulsating ene rgy field. Through selfless
appreciation of the realm of things, the world arou nd you will begin to come alive
for you in ways you cannot comprehend with the mind.

***
Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do  you acknowledge their
being by giving them your full attention, or are yo u reducing them to a means to an
end, a mere function or role. What is the quality o f your relationship with the
cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer?

A moment of attention is enough. As you look at the m or listen to them, there is an
alert stillness. Perhaps only two or three seconds.   Perhaps longer. That is enough
for something more real to emerge than the roles we  usually play and identify with.

All roles are part of the conditioned consciousness  that is the human mind. That
which emerges through the act of attention is the u nconditioned–who you are in
your essence underneath your name and form. You are  no longer acting out a
script. You become real. When that dimension emerge s from within you, it also
draws it forth from within the other person.  Ultim ately, of course, there is no other
and you are always meeting yourself.

Chapter 9
Death and the Eternal

When you walk though a forest that has not been tam ed and interfered with by
man, you will see not only abundant life around you, but you will also encounter
fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves an d decomposing matter at every
step. Wherever you look, you will find death as wel l as life.

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover th at the decomposing tree trunk
and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life,  but are full of life themselves.
Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearrangi ng themselves. So death isn’t
to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphos is of life forms. What can
you learn from this?

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no oppo site. The opposite of death is
birth. Life is eternal.

***

Sages and poets throughout the ages have recognized  the dreamlike quality of
human existence–seemingly so solid and real and yet  so fleeting that it could dissolve at any moment.

At the hour of your death, the story of your life m ay, indeed, appear to you like a
dream that is coming to an end. Yet even in a dream  there must be an essence that
is real. There must be a consciousness in which the  dream happens; otherwise, it
would not be.

That consciousness–does the body create it or does consciousness create the dream
of body, the dream of somebody?

Why have most of those who went through a near-deat h experience lost their fear
of death? Reflect upon this.

***

Of course you know you are going to die, but that r emains a mere mental concept
until you meet death “in person” for the first time :


 ointment as a soothing remedy for hemorrhoids. The herb may also be used as a douche for treating excessive vaginal discharge. Avens reputedly has a mild quinine-type action in lowering fever.
Dried rootstock
Geranium maculatum (Geraniaceae)
Wild Geranium
Description Perennial growing to 2 ft (60 cm).
Has deeply cleft leaves, pink-purple flowers, and beak-shaped fruit.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to woodlands
of eastern and central North America, the root  is dug up in early spring, and the aerial parts are gathered in summer.Geum urbanum (Rosaceae)
Avens
Description Downy perennial growing to
60 cm (2 ft). Has wiry stems, compound leaves, small, yellow 5-petaled flowers, and fruit covered with hooks.Glechoma hederacea
syn. nepeta glechoma (Lamiaceae)
Ground Ivy,
Alehoof
Description Creeping perennial herb growing
to 15 cm (6 in). Has long rooting runners, notched
kidney-shaped leaves, and purple-blue flowers  in whorls.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to Europe and
western Asia, ground ivy is now naturalized in other temperate regions, including North America. It thrives on the outskirts of woods and alongside paths and hedges. It is gathered in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Ground ivy contains
sesquiterpenes, flavonoids, a volatile oil, a bitter principle (glechomine), caffeic acids, and tannins.
History & Folklore Known in parts of
England as “alehoof,” ground ivy was used to flavor and clarify ale, the traditional drink of  the Anglo-Saxons. In Medieval times, it was recommended for fever, and was a popular treatment for chronic coughs. The 16th-century herbalist John Gerard considered it a valuable remedy for tinnitus.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Ground ivy
is tonic, diuretic, and decongestant, and is used  to treat many problems involving the mucous
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membranes of the ear, nose, throat, and digestive
system. A well-tolerated herb, it can be given
to children to clear lingering congestion and to
treat chronic conditions such as “glue ear” and
sinusitis. Throat and chest problems, especially
those due to excess mucus, also benefit from this
remedy. Ground ivy is also a valuable treatment for
gastritis and acid indigestion. Further along the
gastrointestinal tract, its binding nature helps to
counter diarrhea and to dry up watery and mucoid
secretions. Ground ivy has been employed to
prevent scurvy and as a spring tonic, and is
considered beneficial in kidney disorders.History & Folklore A staple food in much of
Asia, soy has been used in China for at least 5,000
years. Soy was introduced in the United States in
1804 and has become a major crop in the South
and Midwest. It is now one of the world’s most
important food crops.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Although
soybeans and soy produce have little direct
medicinal value, they are highly important as foods,
providing unusually high levels of protein, lecithin,
and essential fatty acids. However, the beans may
have a protective role against cancer, notably
breast cancer. Their significant estrogenic activity
makes them a particularly good medicinal food for
women going through menopause, helping
to relieve symptoms such as hot flashes, and to
protect against osteoporosis. In Chinese medicine,
soybean sprouts (also highly nutritious) are
thought to help relieve “summer heat” and fever.
Research Soybean is a remarkable nutrient, rich
in protein, fats, and estrogenic substances, all of
which make it an excellent food. The isoflavones,
sterols, saponins, and fiber contribute to soy’s
protective activity against cancer, and countries such
as Japan are thought to have lower levels of cancer
because of the great quantity of soy produce eaten
there. The isoflavones, coumestrol, and sterols are
all phytoestrogens. These appear to inhibit estrogen
within the body when estrogen levels are too high
(for example, in menstrual disorders), and to
compensate when estrogen levels are low (such as
during menopause). Unrefined soybean oil
contains high levels of lecithin and polyunsaturated
essential fatty acids, which support healthy levels of
blood fat such as cholesterol.
Ground ivy is useful
for many disorders of
the digestive system. Marsh cudweed is commonly found in damp areas
in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Gossypium herbaceum (Malvaceae)
Cotton
Description Biennial or perennial growing to
about 8 ft (2.5 m). Has lobed leaves, large white
or pink flowers, and seed capsules surrounded by
fluffy white tufts.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to the
Americas, Africa, and Asia, cotton thrives in warm
temperate and tropical climates. It is widely
cultivated for its fiber. The root and seeds of the
plant are harvested in autumn.
Parts Used Root bark, seed oil.
Constituents Cotton root bark contains
gossypol (a sesquiterpene) and flavonoids. Cotton
seed contains a fixed oil, which is about 2% gossypol,
and flavonoids. Gossypol causes infertility in men.
History & Folklore In India and the Middle
East, cotton has been cultivated since the earliest
times for its fiber and medicinal properties. The
plant was particularly valued for its ability to induce
menstruation. Cotton seed oil’s contraceptive effect
in men was first discovered in China when men
became infertile after eating food cooked in the oil.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Cotton root
bark is rarely used medicinally today. It was once
employed as a substitute for ergot ( Claviceps
purpurea ), the widely used labor-inducing herb.
Cotton root bark is both milder-acting and safer
in effect, stimulating uterine contractions and
hastening a difficult labor. It also promotes
abortion or the onset of a period, and reduces
menstrual flow. Cotton root bark encourages
the blood to clot and the secretion of breastmilk.
Cotton seed oil is used to treat heavy menstrual
bleeding and endometriosis.Glycine max (Fabaceae)
Soy
Description Annual growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m).
Has leaves with 3 leaflets, white or purple flowers,
and pods with 2–4 beans.
Habitat & Cultivation Soy is native to south -
western Asia, and is cultivated in warm temperate
regions. The pods are gathered when ripe.
Parts Used Beans, sprouts.
Constituents Soy contains protein (about
30%), fixed oil (about 17%), including lecithin
(2% or more), linoleic acid, and alpha-linolenic acid,
isoflavones, coumestrol, sterols, saponins, vitamins,
and minerals. Coumestrol and the isoflavones
closely mimic estrogen within the body.Related Species A North American relative,
G. polycephalum, was used to treat respiratory and
intestinal congestion, and was applied as a poultice
for bruises. G. keriense, native to New Zealand, is
also considered a remedy for bruises.
Gnaphalium uliginosum
(Asteraceae)
Marsh Cudweed
Description Annual plant growing to 8 in
(20 cm). Has narrow silver-grey leaves and tiny
yellow flower heads.
Habitat & Cultivation Marsh cudweed is
native to Europe, the Caucasus, and western Asia,
and is naturalized in North America. It prefers damp
areas, and is gathered in summer when in flower.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Marsh cudweed contains a volatile
oil and tannins.
Medicinal Actions & Uses While little used
medicinally today, marsh cudweed has astringent,
antiseptic, and decongestant properties. In British
herbal medicine, it is occasionally taken for tonsillitis,
sore throat, and hoarseness, and for mucus in the
throat, nasal passages, and sinuses. Marsh cudweed
is used in Russia to reduce high blood pressure. It is
thought to be antidepressant and aphrodisiac.
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218
other medicinal plantsGrindelia camporum
Research Cotton seeds and seed oil cause
infertility in men, and have been tested as a male
contraceptive in China. However, in addition to lowering sperm count, cotton seed oil causes the degeneration of sperm-producing cells.
Related Species The American species
G. hirsutum was used extensively as a medicinal herb by the Maya and Aztecs, and was also cultivated for its fiber. Columbus carried samples of this species back to Europe from


ates the victory.
There have been so many kinds of treatment for arthritis that it would be needless to try to
enumerate all of them. It can only be said that none of them have proved satisfactory. Spas, springs,
water cures, mud, salt, soap baths, sulphur baths, hot baths, electro-therapy, packs, drugs,
nostrums, and serums have all had their day and have been found wanting. Some of them have
afforded temporary relief in many instances; none has been more than a palliative.
To get well and remain well of rheumatism, lumbago, muscular rheumatism, inflammatory
rheumatism, gout, arthritis, no matter what form it may assume, the sufferer must discontinue all
enervating habits and learn his limitations and respect them. Every normal habit indulged to satiety
and every abnormal habit produces disease. Here is the origin of every so-called disease. The end
is chronic disease and premature death.
Until we learn to recognize the fact that symptoms are the result of toxic saturation and learn the
source of the intoxication, we are left with nothing we can do for the sick except provide a brief
and questionable palliation. The man who can offer his patient nothing more than an
anodyne
 or a
sedative
 can do much harm but he can do no good.
To be truly effective the care of the arthritic case should be directed at the removal of the cause
of the disease. To give drugs, whether aspirin, cortisone or other of the drugs now in use for
arthritis, which are intended to do nothing more than provide the patient with brief periods of
relief from pain, is to remove no cause. Although most of these drugs are given to “relieve” the
pain, it is asserted that cortisone temporarily relieves some of the other symptoms, but it does not
go beyond palliation, while it does build a more difficult condition to remedy.
The body has remarkable recuperative powers and it often succeeds in restoring health in spite
of the remedies. It can do a much better and more speedy job if the remedies and the causes that
have built the disease are removed. The body must be given an opportunity to eliminate its toxic
accumulation by means of a fast and then an opportunity to alter its blood chemistry by means of a
more or less radical change in the plan of eating. This done, the results will be surprising.
We do not restore normal nutrition by removing the effects of impaired nutrition. The proposal
to cut into the arthritic joints and scrape away the deposits of lime is but a proposal to try another
means of spectacular palliation. Even if it could be successfully done, it would be but a short time
95until more deposits would take the place of those scraped away. The cutting and the scraping
would have to be done all over again.
Nothing can more certainly or more rapidly alter the state of the nutrition of the body than a fast.
No other means at our disposal brings about a more rapid change in the chemistry of the body,
especially of its fluids and secretions. Fasting relieves the pains of arthritis, for example, more
effectively than drugs and does it without risk or harm.
The duration of the fast in arthritis will have to depend on individual circumstances and should
never be undertaken except under the personal supervision of one who is thoroughly familiar with
the techniques of fasting.
It is customary to advise the arthritic to exercise the affected joints to prevent these from
becoming fixed. It is asserted that this stays the development of ankylosis or bony union. However
much truth there may be in this claim, the forced activity tends to aggravate the inflammation and
intensify the pain. I find it better to let the affected joint rest until fasting has enabled the body to
remove the deposits and infiltrations from the joint and to clear up the inflammation. In this way
the stiff joint spontaneously limbers up and may be used without pain.
The vast majority of patients with arthritis whom I have been called upon to care for have been
in advanced stages of chronic disease. They have all had months to years of the usual forms of
treatment, including the removal of several “foci of infection,” and they have still suffered. Indeed,
their history shows that they have grown progressively worse under such forms of treatment. They
have been in pain. They were deformed.
They were more or less helpless. Why? I repeat: the
primary cause of their suffering had been neglected.
Recovery from chronic arthritis is a slow evolution out of a state of ill health and into a state of
biochemical dependability. It involves many factors—age, weight, extent of the disease, its
duration, degrees of joint destruction, the amount of ankylosis, previous habits of living and eating,
the amount of nerve energy in reserve, the character of complications that exist (such as heart
disease), the occupation, disposition and environment of the patient. All of these factors determine
the extent of recovery possible and the rapidity with which recovery can take place.
Chief among the requirements of recovery is a willingness and determination to carry out all
instructions. Those who cheat and who balk at restrictions and rules are less likely to achieve the
return of good health. An absolute minimum of sugar and starches should be included in the diet.
Self-control, self-denial, many restrictions, a dogged determination to get well, even if the
restrictions are sometimes irksome and the progress discouraging, help in recovery.
9623
Peptic Ulcer
When, on July 28, 1939, William J. Mayo, M.D., the last of the two brothers who established the
famous Mayo clinic, died, the press carried the story that he died of a sub-acute perforating ulcer,
an abdominal ailment he had specialized in treating. Said one dispatch: “Stricken shortly after he
returned from a winter vacation in the southwest, Dr. Will underwent a stomach operation at the
clinic last April and never fully recovered.”
It was but a few years after Dr. Mayo’s death when it was announced from this same clinic that
operation for ulcer is not good treatment. While operations are still being performed for ulcers,
they are not performed so frequently as formerly.
It is no unusual thing for a specialist to die of the disease in which he specializes. That they
“take their own medicine” attests to their sincerity; that they cannot protect themselves reveals that
the knowledge they possess is not dependable. A man may be a leading surgeon and not know the
cause of the peptic ulcer, and endurated (hardened) pylorus, the fibroid tumor, the gallstone or
kidney stone that he cuts out. This is a very unsatisfactory situation; without a knowledge of cause,
the specialists is working in the dark.
The symptoms of “diseases of the stomach" are many—and often not nearly so clear-cut as the
layman may imagine.
It is true there are a few more or less “fixed symptoms” of stomach ulcer—pain, tenderness at
the pit of the stomach, vomiting and hemorrhage, but these may also be symptoms of cancer or they
may be present in less serious diseases of the stomach. For these reasons diagnosis of ulcer from
the symptoms alone is very difficult. X-ray and fluoroscopic examinations are made to confirm the
examiner's suspicions, but it is only in exceptionally pronounced cases that this means can prove
anything conclusively.
The fact is that the X-ray often indicates ulcer where no ulcer exists and often fails to reveal an
ulcer where one does.
Falsely called an “executive's disease,” peptic ulcer is said to kill 11,000 persons a year in this
country, through hemorrhage and complications. Thirteen million Americans are said to have
peptic ulcer. It may be open to serious doubt that there are that many executives in the nation.
Abuses in eating, drinking, smoking, sex, the emotions, and in other facets of living are the most
likely causes. Tilden says that “the sexually enervated are slow to reproduce tissue. Ulcers refuse
to heal; infections slowly, but surely, take place; chronic diseases are uncontrollable.” In the
sexually abused there is laid the groundwork for the evolution of many diseases.
The prevailing concept is that peptic ulcer, that is, ulcer of the lower end of the esophagus, the
stomach and of the upper end of the duodenum, is due to the action of the gastric juice (the
hydrochloric acid and pepsin) of the stomach digesting and corroding the walls of these parts of
the digestive tube. As the food is carried below the duodenum, bile and other juices render the
content alkaline, so that there is no action of the pepsin and hydrochloric acid, hence no peptic
ulcers below the duodenum.
This concept is far from being as certain as some believe. The membrane of the stomach is
chemically non-corrosive. For untold ages the lining of these organs has been in contact with the
digestive juices and this juice has been digesting the toughest protein foods that man has eaten and,
97normally, throughout all this time, the gastric juice has not digested the delicate lining of the
stomach, esophagus and duodenum.
To say that suddenly the acid and pepsin of the stomach digests and corrodes the lining of these
organs and let the matter 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


 food, while it is in the region wheretaste is developed, is not a Fletcherite.
Any one who succumbs to greed of " getting
the worth of his money," because he has paid forfood, or can get food free of cost, or takes it onthe insistence of Aggressive Hospitality, or tokill time, or for any purpose other than for thesatisfaction of a real appetite, is not aFletcherite.FLETCHERISM  AND LONGEVITY.
Returning to positive definition of a
Fletcherite : it is a good safe betting propositionthat all persons who have passed the seventyyear-mark in the life race are Fletcherites inthe fundamental requirement of healthy eating.If they reach beyond the eighty year-mark it iscertain that they have been fairly decent eatersfor many years, even if they abused themselvesearlier in life. For example : vide the
autobiography of Luigi Cornaro,* which wasconcluded only when he was nearly onehundred years old. Vide also, occasional
newspaper statements attributed tocentenarians or near centenarians who claim tohave been Fletcherites before Fletcher wasborn. Some of them have had the " constitution "necessary to attain the respectable longevityand have used tobacco and alcohol at the sametime, but there is no evidence that eithertobacco or alcohol lengthened their lives. In thesame category of questionably-profitableindulgences may be put any of the stimulants or
* London: Ewart, Seymour & Co., Ltd., 12, Burleigh. Street,
Strand, W.C. Price 1s.narcotics which do not actually nourish the
body.
W. E. GLADSTONE —FLETCHERITE.
The Epicureans, who were true to the
principles of Epicurus, were Fletcherites, beforethe name of Fletcher had evolved from theoccupation of arrow making and archery. Mr.Gladstone was a philosophical Fletcheritebefore Fletcher discovered that he had a mouththat was worth while studying and using, butthe name did not get into the dictionaries asdescribing his most statesman-like inspiration.
A Fletcherite does not confine his
Fletcherizing to food. He is encouraged, by thebeneficial results of careful eating, to try thesame method of co-operating with Opportunityon anything that has good and bad possibilitiesin it.
FLETCHERIZING  LIQUIDS.
For example: careful tasting of food reveals
felicities of taste which lead to seeking similarrewards wherever taste is to be found. Takeliquids: The only liquid that does not invite
Fletcherizing with some deliberation, but seemseager to get into the blood to quench thirst isWater. If it is not pure water, soft, cool as iffrom a spring, and delicious in its purity, it hasan inclination to stop a little in the mouth andgive taste a chance to investigate or to getsomething worth while out of it. Do not thinkthat inanimate things have no sense ofpropriety!
Everything natural is as full of propriety as
an " egg is full of meat." Nature is Propriety!
Mineral waters, lemonade, beer, wine, and
even milk have delicate senses of propriety.They do not rush to be sucked up for the mererelief of thirst, like pure water, but they linger abit in the domain of taste and inferentially say :" I am tasty ; don't you want to taste me : WhenI am swallowed my gustatory charm is dead andgone forever ; please let me leave my taste withyou, good Mr. Taste."
Do not think this is a fanciful personification
of the liquids which have taste. Don't take myword for it. I am only telling you what Taste hastold me, and also told me to tell it to you. Thenext time you are thirsty and have a chance to
get good pure water, note if it doesn't rush toswallow itself in about one-ounce swallows untilthe thirst is satisfied. If it is too cold it will wantto wait a minute to get to the temperature of thebody in the hot room of the mouth, beforerushing in to chill the stomach, and if it is toowarm it will not give the full satisfaction thatspring-cool water gives, showing that Taste hasa wider usefulness than mere glorifying of sapidsubstances. Or : is it Feeling that assists Tastein expressing approval or disapproval of liquidas well as solid nutriment?
GETTING  THE BEST OUT OF EVERYTHING..
From Fletcherizing things which pass
through the laboratory of the mouth, it is mostnatural to call on Mother Nature in her statelypropriety to assist in getting the best and mostout of everything from a kernel of corn to theWorld at Large.
In the personal equipment, muscular exer-
cise, mental discipline, and habits of effective-
ness come in at once for analysis and separation.Outside the personality, companionship is of
most vital concern, and the wonder will be howsoon the Natural Appetite for profitablecompanionship will choose some dogs inpreference to some human beings, for thequalities of sympathy, approval and faithfulnessthat every social being craves.
Of course, there are some companionable
combinations among men that are moresatisfactory and profitable than any dumbanimal can possibly supply, but it is for thepurpose of finding such combinations that theFletcherizing of friends is useful. There is muchgood in every one, as there is in everything thatNature offers as nourishment for the body, buteverything has its Appropriate place and time,its harmonious supplements and compliments,and this is true regarding companionships." What is one man's food, is another man'spoison," is a truism applicable alike tocompanionship and friendship. It is equally trueregarding honesty and dishonesty; truth anddeceit.THE STUDY  OF MOTHER  NATURE.
The foregoing constitutes a pretty stiff
proposition for the measurement of idealFletcherism, but when you come to considerthat the aim is nothing less than getting asclose to Mother Nature as possible and listeningto her orders relative to good team-workbetween us, the contract does not seem soimpossible. It was close study of Mother Natureand her laws of gravity and resistance that ledLillienthal, the German, to try to glide on the"wings of the wind" with imitations of the wingsof birds, and it was following Chanute's leadthat led the Wright Brothers to develop theflying-machine. It was because of tutelage inthe honest school of Mother Nature that theWright Brothers prefaced their first account oftheir " invention " by giving the French aviatorcredit for the initial suggestion.
In similar manner, it was the close, objective
study of the psychology of digestion under thehonest direction of Mother Nature in asomewhat drastic form that led Pawlow, theRussian physiologist, to preface his account ofhis great achievement by calling up the memoryof the French physiologist Blondlot, and telling
that he had described the true process ofdigestion from logical deduction fifty yearsbefore.
In like manner, Professor Cannon, of
Harvard University Medical School, insistedthat dear Dr. Bowditch, his preceptor inPhysiology, had laid out for him the line ofX-ray studies of the " Mechanism of Digestion,"which has given him distinguished researchfame. Getting close to Mother Nature opens upinfinite possibilities of enlightenment, andamong them cultivation of the honesty andunselfishness which she herself typifies.CHAPTER XI
ALL DECENT EATERS ARE FLETCHERITES
Dietetic Righteousness—The Disgrace of Sickness—The Optimism of
the Fletcherite.
IN order that there shall be no
misunderstanding let us agree upon thedictionary definition of " Decent." It is " Havingpropriety of conduct."
Let us also take the dictionary definition of
Fletcherite, as an agreed meaning. It is: " Onewho practises Fletcherism."
Fletcherism, in turn, is defined as " A method
of thorough mastication recommended byHorace Fletcher."
No self-respecting person wishes to be
indecent about anything, and especially aboutthings that are sacred.
I use the term " Indecent " because it has an
ugly look and sound. It is more than thoughtlessor careless. It is positively indecent and nothingless. So is ugly and irreverential eating moreculpable than mere heedlessness when we cometo consider what it means in the way ofconsequences. It spells Indecency from the
beginning to the end of the process involved inthe act.
You may have a very poor opinion of the
namesake in the case, but you must be glad thathe discovered for himself that decent eatingmeans recuperation of health if it has beenshaken : preservation of health if it is afortunate possession : and epicurean enjoymentthat cannot be realized in full without it.
I repeat that the term Fletcherite is not a
personal monopoly but a popular and dictionarycreation. I am selfish enough to be glad thatGladstone escaped the distinction of having hisgreat name used as a designation of decenteating.
DIETETIC  RIGHTEOUSNESS.
When I was called upon to deliver an address
before the New York Academy of Medicine on" Possibilities of Recuperation after Fifty," Iused a phrase of my own coining, " DieteticRighteousness," and was later called to accountfor having been irreverent in using sacredterms in connection with food and eating. " ByGeorge! " I replied, in righteous indignation,
" Is there anything more sacred than servingfaithfully at the altar of our Holy Efficiency