 for
Christmas. After buying Dana a huge engagement ring, Stephen urged her
to buy the best of everything for the ceremony. They planned a lavish
honeymoon in Paris—or rather, Stephen planned it and sprang the news on
Dana. She was a little distresse d by not having been consulted, but it was
hard to utter the slightest complaint in the face of Stephen’ s overwhelming
generosity.
The bubble didn’ t burst all at once. The first hint that something went
wrong came when Stephen gave Dana an exercise video for tightening the
muscles of her bottom—women were prone to softness there, he said, even
when they looked as sensational as Dana. A week later he nonchalantly
asked if she had ever considere d having a little corrective surgery. Despite
herself, Dana was shocked—she had no intention of letting Stephen make
her over. Stephen backed of f, but he was clearly displeased. W alking around
a corner in the office the next day, Dana overheard a receptionist remark,
“Looks like Cinderella is in for a little liposuction.” She acted as if she
hadn’ t heard it, but doubts had begun to creep in.
They had their first fight when Dana broke down and related the snide
remark to Stephen, who got furious and threatened to fire the receptionist
on the spot. “I don’t think that’s the point,” Dana said. “I’m afraid you don’t
want me unless you get to turn me into someone I’m not.” She knew all too
well where her face and figure fell short of ideal, but how important was
that to him? Stephen evaded the question and treated her coldly  for the rest
of the day. When Friday came, the night they usually spent together, he said
he was too busy, but Dana got the distinct impression he was withholding
sex to punish her.
The comparison to Cinderella was an apt one, but there was to be no
fairy-tale ending. A week before they were to be married, Dana accidentally
pressed the wrong phone button at the office, only to overhear Stephen
talking to another woman. The tone of his voice and the subject of the
conversation left no doubt that they were on intimate terms. Terribly hurt,
Dana walked out of the office and never came back. She refused to takeStephen’ s calls, which quickly stopped. He protested that he still loved her,
but Dana thought it sounded like an act to preserve his self-image. When he
lamented how much money would be lost if they didn’ t go throu gh with the
ceremony, she burst into tears and hung up. Stephen never called again.
On the surface it would be difficult to imagine a courtship that came
closer to the romantic ideal. Far more than most men, Stephen had the
means and the desire to sweep a woman off her feet. He made Dana feel
special and important, lavishing  all his attention on her. But lovely as it
seemed, this courtship had little to do with love and almost nothing to do
with trust. What was really happening?
The key word here is image.  Stephen was mainly interested in enhancing
his self-image as a magician who could turn ordinary women into
goddesses. Not only did he do this professionally but in personal
relationships he had to be the star—he would probably have tried to
“correct” the looks of the most beautiful woman on earth given the chance.
His paying court, from the gifts to the sex, was a performance; Dana was
quite right not to utter the slightest criticism of his sexual abiliti es, since he
would have reacted badly. If they had gotten married, he would have lost
interest in her and gone on to have affairs. One has only to note how
completely he had excluded his first wife from his life to realize how much
he needed new conquests to support his inflated self-image.
The only way Dana could have succeeded with Stephen would have been
to allow  herself to be bought; fortunately, her sense of self was based not on
image but on her feelings. Bein g swept off her feet never felt quite real.
Young as she was, she could tell that Stephen wasn’ t interested in
connecting with her inner self and that he was even less interested in
sharing his own.
In a way this story describes almost the perfect courtship—all we have to
do is reverse everything that happened in it. A perfect courtship unfolds like
a flower, as each partner becom es more comfortable exposing their inner
world. It is a shared experie nce, with decisions made mutually and
boundaries respe cted. One partner doesn’ t try to push the other beyond their
boundaries, knowing that stretching a boundary is a gradual, delicate matter.
The essence of courtship is communion, which this one totally lacked.
As hurt as she was, Dana was also secretly relieved that the wedding to
Stephen didn’ t come off. Being turned into Cinderella had not fulfilledinner needs that I would call spiritual. Spiritually we all need things such as
forgiveness, love, and compassion, but before any of these can be realized,
we need  to satisfy the most basic spiritual need: support on our path. You
cannot expect another person to immediately understand your experiences
as you enter into new and often confusing stages of spirituality, but if
sharing is to take place, you must build a basis for satsang. This basis must
include equality, sensitivity, and communication.
Equality.
Being seen as equally important to your partner is a right many people
cannot assert. Because we are all unequal in terms of intellige nce, status,
money, skills, and talents, these factors can become dominant in a
relationship. A woman may feel, as Dana did, that the man who courts her
has earned so many of life’s advantages that she should be grateful for his
success. The happiness she could expect in such a marriage, however,
would have little spiritual validity.
In spirit everyone is equal. This isn’t just an abstract concept; it is the one
perception that can overcome ego. If I feel superior to you, my superiority
is roote d in self-image. A self-image based upon money, for example,
would make me think that I should be appreciated for all I have  given you,
which puts you at a disadvantage, since your own right to be appreciated
doesn’ t have a comparable basis. When Stephen took Dana to an expensive
restaurant, he put himself on a superior footing in his eyes.  Thus he was
protected from any criticism she might make, giving himself the right to
say, “Look at what I’m providing. How can you be unhappy with me?”
Equality isn’t based upon external factors or images. We all have an
equal right to be appreciated, respected, and understood. Some  men find it
hard to extend this concept to a woman’ s emotions. They were not taught to
value their own feelings, which get expressed only as a last resort. But to
accept another person means accepting her emotions—there is nothing
more basic or intrinsic. If this equality doesn’ t exist, how can spirit really
grow? Spirit isn’ t an emotion, but it provides an opening to our inner selves.
You have to feel that your partner wants to understand you and your
feelings before you can share experiences you barely understand yourself.
Sensitivity.Being able to sense what is going on inside another person is a skill that
has to be developed like any other. It isn’t an easy one to acquir e; you have
to feel secure on the level of intuition, and you need to be able to accept
complexity and conflicting emotions. The question “What are you feeling
right now?” always has the answer “More than one thing.” Sensitivity
requires setting aside your notions of what the other person is feeling, what
you think she should feel, and what you hope she isn’t feeling. Whenever
the ego intrudes, sensitivity cannot be present.
Sensitivity is easily crushed, but there is also social prejudi ce which
holds that women are too sensitiv e (as men see it), and that sensitivity in a
man makes him less masculine. Men therefore can find a ready excuse for
shutting out others by claiming, “I don’t understand why you feel this way”
or “I don’t have the slightest idea what’ s going on with you.” If your
mission in life is to protect your self-image, then opening up to another
person’ s feelings runs contrary to your mission. To be sensiti ve you will
have to abandon  being right all the time, being in control, havin g needs that
must dominate over the needs of others, and so forth.
In terms of Dana and Stephen, it was vital for Stephen not to be sensitive
to any sign of discomfort from the woman he was wooing. He knew only
one mode of courtship—Prince Charming sweeping Cinderella  off her feet
—and princes don’t have flaws. If he sensed that Dana wasn’ t satisfied with
his lavis h generosity, he would have had to face the fact that everything he
was doing was a performan ce. Most of us are made  extremely
uncomfortable by extreme generosity; it has a suffocating effect and makes
the receiver feel inadequate compared with the giver. Dana felt all these
things, but Stephen couldn’ t afford to be sensitive to them; he had no other
way to “love” her, and to have allowed her to say how she wanted to be
loved would have taken power out of his hands, which would have been
intolerable.
Communication.
Communion


 to sleep. He would request his subconscious to
evolve stories for him while he slept. For example, if Ste venson’s
funds were at low ebb, his command to his subconscious would be
something like this: “Give me a good thrilling novel which wi ll be
marketable and profitable.” His subconscious responded
magnificently.
Stevenson says, “These little brownies [the intelligences and powers
of his subconscious] can tell me a story piece by piece, like a serial,
and keep me, its supposed creator, all the while in total ig norance of
where they aim.”
And he added: “That part of my work which is done when I am up
and about [while he is consciously aware and awake] is by no means
necessarily mine, since all goes to show that the brownies have a hand
in it even then.”
• Sleep in peace and wake in joy
 144  To those who suffer from insomnia, you will find the following
prayer very effective. Repeat it slowly, quietly, and loving ly prior to
sleep: “My toes are relaxed, my ankles are relaxed, my a bdominal
muscles are relaxed, my heart and lungs are relaxed, my hands  and
arms are relaxed, my neck is re-laxed, my brain is relaxed, my  face is
relaxed, my eyes are relaxed, my whole mind and body are relaxed. I
fully and freely forgive everyone, and I sincerely wish for them
harmony,  health, peace, and all the blessings of me. I am at peace; I
am poised, serene, and calm. I rest in security and in peace. A great
stillness steals over me, and a great calm quiets my whole be ing as I
realize the Divine Presence within me. I know that the re alization of
life and love heals me. I wrap myself in the mantle of love  and fall
asleep filled with good will for all. Throughout the night peace
remains with me, and in the morning I shall be filled with life  and
love. A circle of love is drawn around me. I will fear no evil, for Thou
art with me. I sleep in peace, I wake in joy, and in Him I live, move,
and have my being´
• Summary of your aids to the wonders of sleep
1. If you are worried that you will not wake up on time, sug-gest  to
your subconscious mind prior to sleep the exact time you wish to
arise, and it will awaken you. It needs no clock. Do the same thing
with all problems. There is nothing too hard for your subconscious.
2. Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It
controls all your vital functions. Forgive yourself and every-one  else
before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much more rapidly.
3. Guidance is given you while you are asleep, sometimes in a
dream. The healing currents are also released, and in the morning you
feel refreshed and rejuvenated.
4. When troubled by the vexations and strife of the day, still the
wheels of your mind and think about the wisdom and intelligence
lodged in your subconscious mind, which is ready to respond to you.
This will give you peace, strength, and confidence.
 145  5. Sleep is essential for peace of mind and health of body. La ck of
sleep can cause irritation, depression, and mental disorders. You need
eight hours’ sleep.
6. Medical research scholars point out that insomnia precedes
psychotic breakdowns.
7. You are spiritually recharged during sleep. Adequate sleep is
essential for joy and vitality in life.
8. Your tired brain craves sleep so hungrily that it will sacr i-fice
anything to get it. Many who have fallen asleep at the wheel of  an
automobile can testify to this.
9. Many sleep-deprived people have poor memories and lack pro per
coordination. They become befuddled, confused, and disorientated.
10. Sleep brings counsel. Prior to sleep, claim that the in finite
intelligence of your subconscious mind is guiding and di-recting  you.
Then, watch for the lead, which comes, perhaps on awakening.
11. Trust your subconscious completely. Know that its tendency is
always lifeward. Occasionally, your subconscious answers you i n a
very vivid dream and a vision in the night. You can be forewarned in a
dream in the same way as the author of this book was warned.
12. Your future is in your mind now, based on your habitual
thinking and beliefs. Claim infinite intelligence leads and guide s you
and that all good is yours, and your future will be wonderful. Beli eve
it and accept it. Expect the best, and invariably the best will come to
you.
13. If you are writing a novel, play, or book, or are working on an
invention, speak to your subconscious mind at night and claim boldly
that its wisdom, intelligence, and power are guiding, directing, a nd
revealing to you the ideal play, novel, book, or revealing the p erfect
solution whatever it may be. Wonders will happen as you pray thi s
way.

 146  14
Your Subconscious Mind and Marital
Problems
Ignorance of the functions and powers of the mind is the cause of al l
marital trouble. Each using the law of mind correctly can so lve
friction between husband and wife. By praying together they stay
together. The contemplation of divine ideals, the study of the  laws of
life, the mutual agreement on a common purpose and plan, and the
enjoyment of personal freedom bring about that harmonious marria ge,
that wedded bliss, that sense of oneness where the two become one.
The best time to prevent divorce is before marriage. It is  not wrong
to try to get out of a very bad situation. But, why get into the bad
situation in the first place? Would it not be better to give attention to
the real cause of marital problems, in other words, to reall y get at the
root of the matter involved?
As with all other problems of men and women, the prob-lems of
divorce, separation, annulment, and endless litigation are directly
traceable to lack of knowledge of the working and interrelations hip of
the conscious and subconscious mind.
• The meaning of marriage
Marriage to be real must first be on a spiritual basis. It must be of
the heart, and the heart is the chalice of love. Honesty, sincerit y,
kindness, and integrity are also forms of love. Each partner should be
perfectly honest and sincere with the other. It is not a true marriage
when a man marries a woman for her money, social position, or to lift
his ego, because this indicates a lack of sincerity, honesty, a nd true
love. Such a marriage is a farce, a sham, and a masquerade.
When a woman says, “I am tired working; I want to get marri ed
because I want security,” her premise is false. She is not  using the
laws of mind correctly. Her security depends upon her knowledg e of
 147  the interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind and its
application.
For example, a woman will never lack for wealth or health if she
applies the techniques outlined in the respective chapters o f this book.
Her wealth can come to her independent of her husband, father, or
anyone else. A woman is not dependent on her husband for health,
peace, joy, inspiration, guidance, love, wealth, security, happiness, or
anything in the world. Her security and peace of mind come fr om her
knowledge of the inner powers within her and from the constant use of
the laws of her own mind in a constructive fashion.
• How to attract the ideal husband
You are now acquainted with the way your subconscious mind
works. You know that whatever you impress upon it will be
experienced in your world. Begin now to impress your sub-conscious
mind with the qualities and characteristics you desire in a man.
The following is an excellent technique: Sit down at night in your
armchair, close your eyes, let go, relax the body, become very quiet,
passive, and receptive. Talk to your subconscious mind and say t o it,
“I am now attracting a man into my ex-perience who is honest,
sincere, loyal, faithful, peaceful, happy, and prosperous. These
qualities, which I admire, are sinking down into my subconscious
mind now. As I dwell upon these characteristics, they become  a part
of me and are embodied subconsciously.
“I know there is an irresistible law of attraction and that I attract to
me a man according to my subconscious belief. I at-tract that  which I
feel to be true in my subconscious mind.
“I know I can contribute to his peace and happiness. He loves m y
ideals, and I love his ideals. He does not want to make me ove r;
neither do I want to make him over. There is mutual love, freedom,
and respect.”
Practice this process of impregnating your subconscious mind.
Then, you will have the joy of attracting to you a man possessing  the
 148  qualities and characteristics you mentally dwelt upon. Your
sub


. We talk about sch ool lunches; we talk about hospital snacks that are available while you’re trying to get well. We find that
so many of the sweetening materials in drinks today rob the body of the vital health producing elements that are stored in th e
bowel.

CARE FOR THE MUCOUS LINING
The bowel wall has a mucous lining, and this mucous lining throws off toxic material, acids and catarrh. In order to get rid of the
catarrh, the mucous lining has to come off along with it. In most cases, it does not. We find that the mucous lining is not moving
out the accumulations as it should, and in fact, it clings to the bowel wall itself. We find that we have to take care of tha t mucous
lining. The bowel wall may also have an inherent weakness. When I say that I’ve never found a patient  who didn’t have an
inherent weakness in the bowel itself, I’m not saying that the whole bowel has an inherent weakness, but only sections of it.  This
shows up as slow and underactive functional ability. If we have food that does not go through our system as fast as it should, we
find that it will go still slower and be even more underactive in moving through an inherently weak section of the bowel.

CHEMICAL STRUCTUREA healthy bowel contains sodium, potassium and magnesium for proper functioning. These thr ee
chemical elements are lacking in our civilized foods more than anything else. Sodium is a chemical element that neutralizes

acids and it is found in the lymphatic system. It is required in tissue that is pliable, active and movable; i.e., joints, li gaments and
tendons. Potassium is the great alkalizer in the body and found more in the muscle structure than anywhere else. Potassium is
found in our bitter vegetables, which so few people ever eat anymore. Sodium and potassium are found more in salad vegeta bles
than anywhere else. Salads have been left out more and more in our food intake in recent years and the soft foods taken in th eir
place have increased. Could this occurrence be partially responsible for much of our diverticular and bowel problems today?

We find that magnesium is the relaxer in the bowel; it is also the element most necessary to have good bowel movements. Milk of
Magnesia, which is probably one of the most prominent of all drugs being used today, is a good peristaltic stimulator; howeve r, we
are using a drug that only gives symptomatic relief. I do not believe that the magnesium used in its drug form is particularl y
favorable to remaking and rebuilding the bowel structure. It is the magnesium in our foods that can do the greatest amount of good.
Magnesium is found a good deal in salad vegetables. It is found heaviest and most abundantly in yellow corn. Cornmeal is one of
the foods that has been milled and refined so much that it no longer has the roughage from the kernel that makes it one  of the great
laxatives and one of the great bowel toners we can take into the body. In spite of this shortcoming, I believe that everyone should
have yellow cornmeal cereal at least two mornings every week.

As we work with eliminating the encrusted mucou s lining, we must also consider nourishing the new cells below it. We use
flaxseed and psyllium seed as a lubricant and bulk. These seeds, along with sunflower seeds and other seed oils, contain vita min F,
which is used to rebuild the mucous lining, especi ally in the bowel. Thus, we are getting triple benefit from these substances.

MENTAL ATTITUDE
There is a mental side to physical health. The mind can cause tension. We know that it can cause contraction in the bowel wal l. We
might say that colitis begins in the head. Inflammation of the bowel can be caused by nerves and stress. Many people have much
better bowel movements when free of emotional pains and aches and when free from money worries. Good companionship,
relaxation and music can be conducive to go od bowel movements. What I’m pointing out is simply that the bowel has to be taken
care of through the wholistic healing art, rather than by some drug, adjustment, reflex therapy treatment or even by taking c are of
the diet. Each of these will bring some i mprovement, but we must realize that the bowel will not function right until we know how
to live properly. There is a way of right living, and it isn’t just food or diet. We find that it is important to get along w ith people,
because the problem isn’t alwa ys what is wrong with you; it may be who is wrong with you. I do not wish to give the impression
that I have become one -sided in my emphasis upon the importance of a healthy, clean intestinal tract, but evidence has been
coming to me for a long time which indicates that people do not realize that constipation is at the root of most of our diseases
today. I feel that people are not regarding poor health as seriously as they should. They place their health problems seconda ry to all
their other problems - financial, domestic, real and invented - while the health of an individual or a nation should at all times have
first place on the list of duties and responsibilities. Without health there is little that one can truly enjoy. The road to health is the
one that begins with an understanding and commitment to cleanse and detoxify the body, to restore balance, peace and harmony.
We must be willing to rise above selfish habits, realizing that the path of cleansing has implications for the intellect, emo tions and
spirit. We need to accept our personal responsibility on this path.

CHAPTER 6
INTESTINAL FLORA AND BOWEL GARDENING
Too few people in or culture experience the benefits of proper bowel function. Too few people live in a manner that enables t hem
to maintain the  natural balance of the body. Therefore, if we are going to live unnaturally, it would be wise to learn what is
necessary to counteract some of the maladies that we create in our personal environment. Sometimes I wonder if a person can e ver
be truly happy or healthy while living in a city where natural processes are so disturbed, and often absent altogether. Are we trying
to keep people well against all odds? The medical arts today spend much time and money patching up the effects of an
environment that is actually toxic and hazardous to health. Most of today’s doctors are treating people for ailments that are direct
results of “civilized” living. These “environmental ailments” are ‘ reaching epidemic proportions, and rather than eliminate the
cause of the d isturbance, it is a case of keeping people going while they continue to addictively tear themselves down. True, lasting
and abiding health is the result of conscious discipline in cleanliness of body, mind and spirit. All else is a compromise.

When the bo dy becomes polluted with toxic substances, those forces that maintain health and vitality diminish in proportion to the
extent of the invasion. As they diminish, the morbid (disease producing) substances flourish. Such is the case with intestina l flora.
Intestinal flora are those micro organisms which live in the bowels of man. There is a great variety of these microscopic life forms
and they play a very important role in health and disease. Where health and vitality are found, we invariably find the friend ly and
beneficial microbes. Where there is decay and disease we find the organisms that perform this function. There is no aspect of
earthly life in which these life forms do not have an important role to play. They are everywhere; we literally live in an ocean of
them. They work unceasingly to bring about the transformations that they are designed to produce. To a large extent the flora  in
the bowel determines the state of health in an individual. The large bowel is in fact a mobile compost heap, constantl y giving up
finished compost and taking on new materials for treatment. As everyone knows, a compost heap is a very special thing. Here i s
where the waste products of living things, both animal and vegetable, | are collected for the purpose of promoting a process of
decay and breakdown. When the process is completed, we have the finest beginnings for new life to get started. Out of the old  and
dead, comes the new and alive.
What is at the interface of this paradoxical phenomenon? Bacterial and micro life fo rms. They are the recyclers, the transformers.
They are nature’s labor force, accomplishing some of the most complex chemical reactions known to man. We are constantly
trying to copy or somehow utilize the processes they are capable of producing. Some of t he deadliest substances in existence are
produced as metabolites of these bacteria. All life upon the planet is affected by their presence. It has been determined tha t the
colon contains not only 400 to 500 varieties of bacteria, fungi, yeast and virus, bu t that the populations vary from the center of the
colon to those living in the mucous lining; from those inhabiting the right side to those that inhabit the left side of the b owel.

Research has found evidence which indicates that the mucus secreted by th e intestine very much determines the kind of bacteria
that will grow there. In addition, it has been found that it takes more than a year on the average for a new diet to produce any
noticeable change in the flora. Of those things that greatly alter the ba cterial life


102 degrees F., but all other findings were negative. In a couple of days they informed me her temperature was normal and she was feeling all right, but she was passing a large (sticky) amount of urine frequently.  Having tried all methods of treatment on several other patients whom I have had within the past few months suffering with glycosuria (sugar in the urine), I decided to try Autotherapy, for I had known cases of icterus (jaundice) which had failed to respond to any medical treatment, but cleared up in a very short time when they were given their own urine to drink.  I gave this little girl three ounces of her own urine three times daily and then examined for the sugar percentage and found that when she was taking the urine, the percentage of sugar dropped, and that when it was withdrawn, the percentage increased. I could also see some improvement in her general condition. She did not urinate so often or so much; did not drink so much water; her skin was more moist, she was not so nervous…”  New Albany Medical Herald by Dr. C.G. Moore  DIABETES  Jaime E. Castañeda: "I thank God I was cured with urine that God gave me. I suffered from diabetes, hypertension, poor circulation from six months to date. I did three fasts and feel like  another person and I changed in character. During the fasts I felt a lot of energy. I had aches all over the body and skin rashes. I got diarrhea and fever. I kept going. The fungi in the feet also disappeared. "  Testimonials of Patients Cured by Urine Therapy http://paraisodelasalud.org/testimonios.htm  DIABETES  Ora. Margarita G. of Guzman { Mexico } "I am 35 years of age. I was diabetic for 11 years with insulin and 3 years with homeopathic medicine. At the moment, I am on no drugs, only the fasting dose of Urine. I am cured totally."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward 70  DIABETES  Araceli Ramos C. { Mexico } "Blessed it is God, I have cured myself of diabetes, fungi in the feet and sinusitis by means of Urine therapy. God blesses them follow ahead, thanks."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  DIABETES  Maria of the R. Rivera { Mexico } "I was cured of diabetes taking 3 months my Urine with only 1 fast of three days. I am also cured of the nerves. This I did by means a person whom recommended to me that I drink my Urine and thanks to God already l am cured."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  DIABETES  Irene Alvarez. { Mexico } "I am cured of diabetes taking Urine once in the mornings for one month. After doing a study of my glucose, I find it had lowered. I also felt better in my heart and this was confirmed by the doctor after doing an electrocardiogram."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  DIABETES  Hortensia To Rodriguez {Mexico} "In January 1996 they detected me having diabetes and tested me three times. I started with the Urine-therapy in March. After 15 days I went to do an analysis and I realize that I lowered to 145. Later I stopped the urine therapy and I again initiated it one week ago, because I had a relapse. Now I feel very well."  World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  DIARRHEA   Mr. V.M., Germany 71 "I'll say it straight off: I do not have any great, miraculous recovery to report. When I was a child, I tasted my urine out of curiosity. It tasted sharp and burned a bit, and I could not imagine that I would ever drink it again. Nevertheless, I heard from a good friend about the positive effects of urine, and after a long period of doubt, I tried it anyway. I woke up one day and knew right away that today would be the day. So I urinated into a glass, smelled it and emptied the glass in one draught. I was amazed. It tasted and smelled neutral. The only thing I found to be unpleasant was the temperature. The following morning, I decided to drink another glass of urine; however, the smell made me dump the urine immediately in the toilet. Only some time later did I consider drinking urine once again --- I had diarrhea, my partner had left me and I felt generally weak. The situation could not get much worse, and so I drank my own fresh urine the whole day. After only two or three glasses, I felt less exhausted and from that moment on, things started improving. Whenever I had trouble drinking urine because of the taste, I held my nose, drank the urine and rinsed with water. Since then, I drink my urine every day and massage my whole body with it. My dry skin is not flaky any more, and I do not have to go through life with skin cream, which was impossible before I started using urine. Furthermore, urine leaves skin with a pleasant, slightly sweet, warm scent. It is interesting to perform a ·urine-test' every morning regarding the colour, smell, taste and substance. In this way, you can learn more about your body, feelings, food, etc. It is also exciting to hear new stories about this 'unusual liquid' and to try out new recipes. For example, when I heard that, long before Christ, people used urine to do the laundry and keep the house clean, I tried an experiment myself. I mixed fresh urine with urine that was approximately 1/22 year old (it smelled like pure ammonia) and used this mixture to wash the windows. It not only dissolved the dirt on the windows, but also the paint spots and a number of other spots which I had not been able to clean with any other cleanser. The same thing happened when I cleaned a mirror with old urine. Moreover, it did not smell dirty, my hands were smooth, I could water the plants with the cleaning water without a guilty conscience, and my windows were perfectly clean! Because I have never been seriously ill, I unfortunately do not have any spectacular recoveries to report, at least not from myself. Even so, I strongly believe that urine therapy is good. This is why I continue to use urine."  The Golden Fountain by Coen van der Kroon  DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS  “He was sick when he was 60. His digestive system and circulatory system had almost gone out-of-order: For about two years be tried allopathy, homoeopathy and Ayurveda without any benefit. So he turned to drinking auto-urine and massage with 7 days old 72 urine. Within two weeks he was considerably cured and in a month’s time he was entirely free of illness.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel   DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS  “'The lady slipped and fell down. She got some inner injury resulting in disturbance of menstruation. Her system of digestion was also affected and the bowels did not work properly. She developed constipation too. First of all she had allopathic treatment and when it proved useless, Ayurvedic treatment was tried. The troubles could not be cured. Even chromopathy was tried. But due to the absence of diet control and irregular life, the condition of the woman became worse day by day and she was so emaciated that her life was in danger. Some of her relatives advised her to see me. When I observed her for the first time, her condition put me in doubt about the cure and I refused to treat her. But at persistent request, I admitted her to my hospital.  The condition of the patient was then serious. Monthly course had stopped, motions were almost absent and she passed hardly about 6 oz. of urine in 24 hours. It was of deep chocolate colour like that of a hours and was extremely ill-smelling. Inflammation was on her hands, feet, breast and eye-lids. The treatment was commenced on the basis of Armstrong's book but with a slight difference. She was made to drink as much of auto-urine as was possible for her. Warm water was also given. She was daily rubbed with urine and was given a sunbath. After sometime she was given coconut water in place of plain water. With such a treatment, the quantity of urine gradually increased to 70 to 80 oz. The inflammation was gradually reduced and other complaints were also eliminated. Leeches had applied to extract her foul blood. With such a treatment the woman was cured and led a normal life.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS  “Lance-Corporal L. — 28 years of age.   Joined New Zealand forces 1942. Contracted infective hepatitis in Africa. After hospital treatment the icterus (jaundice) disappeared, a feeling of weakness, intestinal troubles and depression remained. In the following years repeated hospital treatment. Has been X-rayed several times for duodenal ulcer and gallstones. Since then he dragged himself about complaining of loss of appetite, tiredness and indifference, pains in the abdomen 73 after food, constipation, distension and abdominal discomfort with flatulence. 14/3/45, Injection with 1/2 cc. fresh urine.  The patient's report is as follows — felt better after injection.  15/3, felt normal, bowels regular.  16/3, Feeling quite normal except for tenderness in stomach.  17/3, No change.


 you are seeing, and nothing in particular. See All Of It. Smell All Of It. Feel All Of It. If this begins to overwhelm you, refocus
on a Part Of It, so that you do not lose your psychic balance.
“With enough pra ctice, you will soon be able to walk into any space or place and begin to
experience All Of It at some level. You will realize then that you have been literally walking
home. You have heightened your Awareness. You have raised your consciousness. You have
expanded your ability to be Present, fully, in the moment.
“Now, do this with your eyes closed and while you are sitting down, and you have Silent
Meditation. Boom. It is as simple as that.”
With that my master teacher smiled at me. “Then try this with sex,” she said. “Once you
experience sex in this way, you will never want to experience it any other way again. You
will realize that, all your life, you have been ignoring what is really going on.”
And she laughed.
Next I will tell you about Stopping Meditat ion. For now, just walk well. I never thought it
was polite to say this, but it is! I am going to tell you now to
Take a walk
And only when you’re ready, continue at...
STOPPING MEDITATION
There are many ways to meditate, and it was a wonderful discovery when I learned this.
One of the most powerful forms of meditation for me is what I have called Stopping
Meditation. The reason this is so powerful for me is that it can be done anywhere, and it
takes very little time. Therefore, it is perfect for  busy people “on the go.”
Stopping Meditation means just that. It means we stop whatever we are doing for just a
moment and pay attention to something about it. We dissect it in that moment and then
look closely at one of its individual pieces.
This is a little bit different from Walking Meditation in that it does not take a half hour or
more, as Walking Meditation can take. In Walking Meditation we deliberately take a walk
for the deliberate purpose of deliberately focusing on a deliberate exper ience. In Stopping
Meditation we do not use nearly as much time, but we can accomplish the same thing:
focus.
Stopping Meditation can be used in the midst of a very busy day. Combined  with Sitting
Meditation and Walking Meditation it can create a powerful Trio of Tools that can
dramatically alter your reality and raise your consciousness within a very short period of
time. Yet even if used as the only form of meditation, it can be transformative.
Here is how Stopping Meditation works: decide that six times today (and every day) you
will stop whatever you are doing for ten seconds and look closely and intently at one of its
component pieces.
Let’s say you are washing the dishes. Stop what you are doing for ten seconds —just stop
in the middle of it —and peer de eply inside one aspect of what you are doing. Look,
perhaps, at the water. See it splashing on the dishes. See if you can count the drops of water on the dish in your hand. Just count the water drops. I know it is an impossible task, but
undertake to do it  anyway, just for ten seconds.
Consider the wonder of the water. Look deeply into it. Peer inside. Go inside, in your
consciousness. See what you experience there, see what you find. Just stop for a tiny
moment and appreciate that moment in a singular way.
Okay, now the ten seconds are up. Now pull yourself out of that highly focused reality
and back into the larger space of your experience. Don’t get “lost” in it. Blink your eyes
rapidly, or snap your finger, and literally snap out of it. Then, notice what  you experienced
for that brief moment.
Now go on with what you were doing. Yet don’t be surprised if it takes on a whole new
quality.
What you have done is truly appreciate something. To “appreciate” something is to make
it larger, to increase it —as prope rty, for instance, appreciates in value. When you use
Stopping Meditation, you increase the value of your life. And of life itself. It has been my
experience that this inevitably returns me to a place of peace.
In order to remind yourself to do this six ti mes a day you may wish to have a little timer
with you, or set your watch to beep. Later, as you get used to doing this, your stopping will
come automatically to you. You will do this without having to be reminded.
Walking down the street, you will simply stop for a moment and select a portion of what
you are seeing and see it again, in a deeper way. You will know what you already know
about that, but you will know it in a deeper way. This is called “knowing again,” or re -
cognizing. The purpose of all of yo ur life is simply this: to know again, to recognize, what is
true, and Who You Really Are.
There are a thousand ways to do this. Maybe you catch a reflection of yourself in a store
window. Maybe you see a bus going by. Perhaps you spy a dog on the street, or a pebble at
your feet. It does not matter what you focus on for those ten seconds. Just stop for a tiny
moment and appreciate that moment in a singular way.
Experience this while making love. Stop what you are doing for ten seconds, separate the
moment into its component parts, select one part of the moment and peer deeply into it.
Maybe it is the look in your beloved’s eyes. Maybe it is a sensation you are feeling —or
creating. Just stop for a tiny moment and appreciate that moment in a singular way.
I have regular times when I do this, and making love is one of them. Standing in the
shower is another. Eating food is another. Pick up a pea from the plate, or a kernel of corn.
Consider it. Appreciate it. Taste it utterly and completely. Your meal times wil l never be the
same. Your showers will never be the same. Your lovemaking will never be the same. You
will never be the same.
This is Stopping Meditation. It takes one minute a day. Sixty seconds, in six individual
ten-second installments. Six moments with in which you may produce The Holy Experience.
Today, stop what you are doing. Just stop. Look deeply into the moment. If nothing else,
just close your eyes and focus on the sound of your own breath. Experience the pure energy
of life moving into and throug h your body. Just for that moment, listen to yourself breathe.
Watch yourself take deeper breaths. Just listening to yourself makes you want to go deeper
into the experience —and so you begin to breathe more deeply. It is a wonderful thing, an extraordinary  thing. Just stopping  makes you go deeper. Deeper into your experience,
deeper into the mind of God.
Now here is a meditation program that I have recommended to many people: (1)
Walking Meditation in the morning; (2) Stopping Meditation during the day, six  times; (3)
Sitting Meditation at night.
The purpose of all of these meditations is to create focus. It is about focusing your
attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Focusing
on Now pulls you out of yesterday and out of tomorrow. You do not exist in those illusions.
Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now.
Peace is found in such awareness. As is love. For peace and love are one and the same,
and you become one and the same when you enter into The Ho ly Experience.
Practice Stopping Meditation right now. It’s simple, and it takes ten seconds. Right now,
just...
Stop
And, after ten seconds, continue at...
WHO ARE YOU?
I had another wonderful teacher who showed me the Who Meditation. It goes like t his.
Whenever you are experiencing an emotion that you don’t want to experience, just say,
“Who?”
That’s right. Just say to yourself, “Who?” Ask yourself, “Who is this here right now? Who
is this that is having this experience?”
If you are alone, you can even turn this into a little chant. It can be very powerful. Just
take a deep breath and, on the exhale, softly but powerfully chant: “Whooooooooo?” Extend
the vowel sound until you are out of breath. Then inhale and do it again. Do it three times.
You  will have slowed your vibration, and the invisible part of you will have a chance to
“show up.”
If you are not alone, but with another, or in some public place, you can do this little chant
inside your head. Or you can just ask yourself the question I sug gested above...
“Who is this that is having this experience?”
You can, of course, identify with any one of the number of “yous” that populate your
inner world. There is the Little You and the Big You, the Injured You and the Healed You,
the Scared You a nd the Brave You, the Powerless You and the Powerful You, the Worried
You and the Confident You. But what I am hoping will happen, now


illing drugs that can be extremely damaging to these
organs. Such drugs include aspirin, phenacetin and acetominophen. People often
don't experience any symptoms from loss of kidney function until 90% of the
function is gone, and then the damage is irreversible.
The kidneys should be flushed each day with liberal quantities of fluid, either RO
filtered water, distilled water or fresh fruit and vegetable juices (preferably organic).
Parsley tea is excellent for strengthening the kidneys. Those with kidney problems
should avoid ordinary commercial teas and coffee as a beverage. Herbal teas are
acceptable.
For those who tend to retain fluid, watermelon is an excellent diuretic. If the melon
is organically grown, the rind should be juiced and sipped first thing in the morning
and then the red fleshy part of the fruit may be eaten. Two mornings a week, one may
take the juice of a whole lemon in warm RO filtered water or distilled water as a
diuretic (citrus should not be used more than 2 days a week, as it tends to upset the
calcium-phosphorus metabolism if used more frequently). Shavegrass or horsetail tea
is a good diuretic and also good for the skin and hair. An excellent diuretic salad may
be made by combining cabbage and onions — finely sliced — with crushed raw
garlic, parsley, and herbs like sage, cumin, and juniper berries, if available. Cover this
mixture with very hot RO filtered water or distilled water and place a lid over it for 10
minutes. Drain the mixture (the liquid is good to save for soup bases, grains, etc.) and
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squeeze a lemon over it. It can be eaten as is or refrigerated first. It can also be mixed
with other salads.
In extreme fluid retention, one's physician may prescribe a diuretic drug, which is
permissible, and the doctor w ill normally increase the intake of potassium to
compensate for its loss due to the drug.
In kidney disease the protein intake should be limited and extra vitamins and
minerals taken.
Cleansing The Lungs
Life is dependent upon the adequate exchanges of gases in the lungs. The most
significant are the removal of carbonic acid and the flow of oxygen into the blood.
The lungs give off many other gaseous wastes. Sometimes before, but more frequently
after the start of Metabolic Medicine's Cancer Cure Program the patient or those close
to him or her may notice a foul odor on the breath. No amount of toothpaste or
mouthwash will remove it for long, since it comes from the bloodstream. One can be
assured, however, that this is only a phase and that the poisons are leaving the body.
If there is excessive accumulation of mucus in the nostrils and/or bronchial system,
this inhibits the detoxification functions of the lungs. Mucus-forming food should be
avoided if mucus is a problem. These are principally dairy products, with the
exception of butter and cream, and baked flour products. Anti-mucus foods such as
raw onions and garlic, cayenne pepper, freshly ground black pepper, fresh ginger,
and horseradish should be eaten liberally.
Cleansing The Skin
Most people overlook the skin as an organ of detoxification. But it is sometimes
called "the third kidney," since many of its functions in fluid and electrolyte balance
are similar to those of the kidneys. When great amounts of poisons flood the body, all
systems are overloaded and this function of the skin is sorely needed. As the skin is
utilized, all sorts of eruptions, odors, colors, and blemishes may appear. These
conditions will disappear as the body becomes purified.
One can quickly assess the relative efficiency of elimination through the skin by
looking at his iris (the colored portion of the eye). The skin is represented by the
outermost part of the iris. If it is very dark and dense, the condition is called a "scurf
rim" in iridology, and it means that the skin is relatively blocked as an organ of
elimination. To open it up, skin brushing before a shower and vigorous use of a
loofah sponge in the shower are recommended. A good quality vegetable-bristle, skin
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brush should be purchased from the health food store or pharmacy. One should
brush up the front of the body and down the back, over all exposed skin surfaces,
until a warm glow is felt. Then one should take a warm shower and rub briskly with a
loofah sponge (available in most health food stores) to remove the layers of dead skin
loosened by the brushing. (We have found it best to take a hot shower each morning.)
Castile or other pure soap should be used — but in a minimal amount, since heavy
soaping w ill wash all the valuable skin oils off and can cause the skin to overproduce
oil in order to compensate. The hair should be shampooed frequently with a non
chemical soap or shampoo, which can be found in health food stores.
At the end of the shower, one should turn the water to cool, then to warm. As one
becomes accustomed to the temperature change, he or she may go from hot to cold
and back several times. This exercises the tiny muscles in the skin, which control
dilation and contraction of the pores. As they become stronger, they can respond
better to the physiological demands of the body.
After the shower, one can sit in a tub of water with a cup of apple cider vinegar
added, to restore and strengthen the acid mantle of the skin. Afterward, the body
should be dried and rubbed briskly with a towel until a warm glow is felt.
Epsom salt baths may also be used to help draw toxins out of the skin. These baths
are especially beneficial if one is going through a "healing crisis" and is especially
toxic and feeling bad. Such a bath works best after the skin brushing and use of a
loofah sponge. A tub is filled with warm to hot water and 4 or more cups of Epsom
salt are dissolved in it. This bath is quite relaxing and good for tense, sore muscles,
and may be taken as often as needed.
Every fourth night the cancer patient should be rubbed from head to toe with a
mixture of olive oil and castor oil in equal parts. Then a hot soaking bath should be
taken for 15 minutes to allow the oil to penetrate. This is followed by going to bed
under heavy covers for about one hour to sweat the poisons out. Then a cleansing
shower is taken. This may be discontinued after three months.
Irrigating the Nostrils
Salt-water irrigation of the nostrils is very helpful with nasal mucus and sinus
congestion alike. If one cannot breathe through the nose, he or she is bypassing a
crucial filtering mechanism which warms and humidifies the air, and which removes
large amounts of smoke and dust before this air reaches the back of one's throat.
Mouth breathing places incalculable stress on the lungs, nearly equivalent to that of
cigarette smoking if one lives in urban pollution.
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To irrigate the nostrils, dissolve 1  teaspoon of sea salt in 16 ounces of warm water
in a bowl of appropriate size. While bending forward, block one nostril and place the
other below the water surface in the bowl. The water should be gently pulled up the
nostril until one can taste the salty mixture trickling to the back of the throat; then it
should be blown out. This should be repeated with the other nostril and alternated
several times.
Breathing Exercises
Breathing exercises should follow the cleansing of the nostrils. If done on a regular
basis, these yield tremendous benefits. They increase the body's supply of oxygen
(which is the basic currency for repair and for burning up toxins), step up the removal
of waste products and stagnant air from portions of the lungs otherwise unused, and
exercise the diaphragm — which serves as a pump for the flow of oxygen and nerve
energy.
Deep breathing yields a multitude of benefits through maximum use of lung
capacity.
Rapid breathing is an energizing exercise, which promotes flow of energy into the
lungs and digestive organs. It should be done before meals, after being in a stuffy
room, or whenever a lift is needed.
Alternate-nostril breathing has a calming effect on the nervous system. It can be
used effectively to overcome anxiety states and insomnia, and sometimes to relieve
headaches.
Breath is the external manifestation of our life force. It is our very life. We can live for
a while without food or drink, but not without breath.
Exercising
In almost every case of cancer, particularly those cases of long standing, the protein
from the muscles has been used to maintain life. In other words protein metabolism
has been so poor that the body had to take protein from the muscles and, to a very
great degree, the muscles have been consumed.
After the cancer is destroyed, the muscles begin to rebuild. This takes
approximately three years. If the muscles are exercised strenuously during this time a
hernia may develop. For this reason we have found it best to replace strenuous
exercise with a brisk walk at least once a day for three years following therapy.
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Diagram  Of Digestive  System
Esophagus
Food is carried down I he


 discipline. Taking the safe
job where you know you’ll be successful instead of entering a new
race and taking a chance on failing.
• Avoiding anyone whom you label deviant, including “fags,”
“commies,” “weirdos,” “spics,” “niggers,” “wops,” “wasps,” “hip-
pies,” “kikes,” “gooks,” and any derogatory tags that serve as pro-
tection from fear of the unfamiliar. Rather than trying to learn about
these people, you label them with a slanderous epithet and talk
about them rather than to them.130 / Your Erroneous Zones• Staying with the same job even though you dislike it, not because
you have to, but out of apprehension about entering that vast un-
known of new work.
• Staying in a marriage that obviously is not working, out of a
fear of the unknown, single life. You can’t remember what it’s like
not to be married, so you don’t know what you’d be getting yourself
into. Better to stay with the unpleasant familiar than to wander off
into new potentially lonely territory.
• Taking vacations in the same place, at the same hotel, during
the same season each year. In this case you know what to expect,
and you don’t have to risk new places which might—or might
not—provide pleasant experiences.
• Using performance rather than enjoyment as a criteria for
everything that you do. That is, doing only those things you do well
and avoiding those where you might fail or perform poorly.
• Measuring things in monetary terms. If it costs more, it is worth
more, and therefore an indication of your personal success. The
known is measured in dollar signs, while the unknown cannot be
financially assessed.
• Striving for the important title, the fancy automobiles, the right
labels on your clothes and other status symbols, even though you
may not even like the possessions and the life-style that they repres-
ent.
• An inability to alter a plan when an interesting alternative arises.
If you stray from the map in your head you’ll lose your way and
your place in life.
• Being preoccupied with time, and allowing clocks to run your
life. Living by a schedule which keeps you from trying new and
unknown quantities of life. Always wearing a watch (even to bed)
and being controlled by it. Sleeping, eating and making love by the
clock, regardless of hunger, exhaustion, or desire.
• Dismissing certain kinds of activities which you’ve never tried.
These may include such “weird” things as meditation, yoga, astro-
logy, backgammon, bocci, Mah-jongg, isometrics, or anything that
you don’t know about.EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN  / 131• Viewing sex without imagination. Always doing the same thing
in the same position. Never trying something new and exotic, be-
cause it is different and therefore might be unacceptable.
• Hiding behind the same clique of friends and never branching
out with different people who represent new and unknown worlds.
Having regular meetings with the same crowd, and staying with
the crowd for a lifetime.
• At a party which you attend with your spouse or date, staying
with that person for the entire evening not because you want to but
because you are safe.
• Hanging back because of a fear of what might happen if you
ventured into a conversation with strange people on strange topics.
Thinking to yourself that they must be smarter, more talented, more
skillful, or more glib, and using this as a reason to avoid a new ex-
perience.
• Condemning yourself if you don’t succeed in all your endeavors.
These are only a few examples of unhealthy behavior engendered
by fear of the unknown. You can probably make your own list. But
instead of making lists, why not begin to challenge why you want
to live each day the same as the one before, with no possibilities for
growth.
The Psychological Support System for Retaining These Behaviors
Here are some common payoffs that keep you from roaming
around in that delicious unknown.
• By staying the same you never have to think on your feet. If you
have a good plan, you simply consult your script, rather than your
wits.
• Staving off the unknown has its own built-in reward system.
The fear of the obscure is strong, and as long as you stay132 / Your Erroneous Zoneswith the familiar, you are keeping that fear at bay, regardless of how
costly it is to you in growth and fulfillment. It’s safer to avoid un-
charted areas. Think of Columbus. Everyone warned him he would
fall over the edge. It is easier to be one of the many treading familiar
ground rather than an explorer risking everything. The unknown
is a challenge and challenges can be threats.
• You can say that you are postponing your gratification, which
you’ve heard labeled “mature-behavior,” and thus stay with the fa-
miliar and justify it with such a stance. Thus it is “mature” and
“adult” to put it off, but really it is out of panic and misgiving that
you stay as you are, and avoid unknown parts.
• You can feel important by having done it right. You’ve been a
good boy/girl. As long as you see it in failure/success terms, you
can equate your self-worth with your good performance and feel
good. But the right thing in this sense is only someone else’s editorial
opinion.
Some Strategies for Coming to Grips with the Mysterious and the
Unknown
• Make selective efforts to try new things even if you are tempted
to stay with the familiar. For example, at a restaurant order a new
dish. Why? Because it would be different and you might enjoy it.
• Invite a collection of people to your home who represent widely
divergent points of view. Go with the unknown rather than your
typical clique of acquaintances wherein you can predict everything
that will take place.
• Give up having to have a reason for everything you do. When
someone asks you why, remember that you don’t have to come up
with a reasonable answer that will satisfy them. You can do what
you decide just because you want to.
• Begin to take some risks that will get you out of your rou-EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN  / 133tine. Perhaps an unplanned vacation with no reservations or maps,
where you just trust yourself to handle whatever might come along.
Interview for a new job, or talk with someone that you’ve been
avoiding because you were afraid of not knowing what might hap-
pen. Take a new route to work, or have dinner at midnight. Why?
Just because it’s different and you want to do it.
• Entertain yourself with a fantasy in which you allow yourself
to have anything you want. No holds barred. You have all of the
money to do anything you want for a two-week period. You’ll find
that almost all of your mental meanderings are indeed attainable
for you, that you don’t want the moon or the unreachable, but simply
things that you can achieve if you eliminate the fear of the unknown
and go after them.
• Take a risk that might involve some personal upheaval, but
which would be intensely rewarding to you. For several years a
colleague of mine had told his students and clients about the need
for trying the unknown in their lives. But in many ways his advice
was hypocritical since he stayed with the same university, consulting
work and comfortable life-style. He had stated that anyone could
handle new and different situations, but he continued to stay with
the familiar. In 1974 he decided to live in Europe for six months be-
cause it was something he had always wanted to do. He taught two
courses for an overseas graduate program in educational psychology
and learned firsthand (experientially rather than verbally) that he
could handle the doubtful. After three weeks in Germany, because
of his inner security, he had as many opportunities to conduct
workshops, work with clients and give lectures as he had had in
New York where he was comfortable with the familiar surroundings.
Even in a remote village in Turkey, where he lived for two months,
he was busier than he had been in New York. At last, out of experi-
ence, he knew that he could go anywhere, at anytime, and be effect-
ive, not because of the external circumstances, but because he could
handle the unknown, exactly as he handled the known, with his
own inner strength and skills.134 / Your Erroneous Zones• Whenever you find yourself avoiding the unknown, ask yourself,
“What’s the worst thing that could happen to me?” You’ll probably
see that the fears of the unknown are out of proportion to the reality
of the consequences.
• Try to do something silly like going barefoot in the park, or
skinny-dipping. Try out some of the things that you’ve always
avoided because you “Mustn’t ever do such things.” Open your own
personal horizons to new experiences that you’ve previously avoided
because they were silly or inane.
• Remind yourself that the fear of failure is very often the fear of
someone else’s disapproval or ridicule. If you let them have their
own opinions, which have nothing to do with you, you can begin
to evaluate your behavior in your own, rather than their terms. You’ll
come to see your abilities not as better or worse, but as simply dif-
ferent from others.
• Make an attempt to do some things that you’ve always avoided,
with the sentence


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Sl.mJiarly anger_ too produces the same effect. Dry, cold an.d heav/
diet cause'\ ~xcess of gas, similarly sorrow and anxiety, etc, are
also_ r~sponslble for it. Sweets increase phlegm similarly inertia,
~tupldlty and let~argy ~av~ also the same effect. In short, prevention
mculdes everythmg-dady life, mental attitude, seasonal life, diet and
c~nduct. They must be taken into account while considering a
d1sease. ·
, O~ly _righ~ condu~t can eliminate disorders. It is well said _
~edlcatlon IS u~n~cessary if right conduct is adopted', because
disease can be ellmmated if life is controlled and regulated.
. Urine treatment is useful in the diseases of bile as well as
d1sorders of cough and gas. In· case of disease arising from bile the
treatr_"ent of blood as well as of bile should be adopted. for,this
~axat~ve~ and fasts along ":'it~ elimination of sour and stringent food
In diet IS ~ecessary. ·If this IS neglected during the treatment urine
therapy will prov~ ineffective. It is needless to say that' urine
treatment along w1th fast, fruit Eliet or milk diet is a sure remedy in I
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ail troubles cre.ated by impure blood and bile.
Ayu(veda mentions 20 diseases caused by phlegm. The troubles
like drowsiness, excess of sleep, lethargy, wateriness of mouth,
desire ·for hot· food-stuffs, er.'"'e!'s of urine, dullness, absence of
hunger are the effects of phlegm. In these disorders urine treatment is
very advisable. In them repeated vomiting and fast and a fatless diet
excluding milk, ghee, cheese, oil and sweets are useful.
According to Ayurveda a number of diseases are caused by the
trouble of the gas. The gas or the Prana has been called •fuel for the ·
machinery of the body' and it sustains the body. In the medical
terminology it is equivalent to nervous system and nerve-force. Any
, kind of gas-disorders results in diseases of the sense organs. Gas
trouble is dominant even in the diseases of bile and phlegm.
Needless to say that urine treatment is useful in all these troubles.'·
Gas is caused by sleeping in day-time, strenuous physical labour,
sex-indulgence, waking in the night, worry, mourning, neglecting
natore's call, eating sour things, loss of appetite and injury to the
tender parts of the body. Dry, cold and insufficient food also cause
gas trouble.
Urine treatment is extremely useful in troubles due to phlegm.
Permanent.cold, chronic asthma, heart-trouble, loss of appetite and
indigestion can be effectively treated by urine if it is accompanied
with fasting, vomiting and dry food. Once should not be scared of
fasting. The organism can very well withstand fast as long as
foreign matters are present in the body. The foreign matter is
completely eliminated when heaviness in the body, loss of appetite,
indigestion, congestion of urine and stools are removed and the
patient develops good appetite' for food. At this stage light diet can
taken. This is why treatment prescribes fast.
Naturopathy is generally regareded as. a foreign system of
healing. Its techniques are also more of'less similar to urine therapy.
Naturopathy has beEm w€11 adovocated in Ayurveda. also. It is
unfortunate that we do not understand the simple principles of 192 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
Ayurveda. There was a time when fasting cure was commonly
practised in India as a natural way of healing. But fasting did not
mena only abstaining from food. Charak says-
11The fasting cure includes four kinds of purification, (vomiting,
purgation, douche and elimination of impure blood), control of
excessive thirst, airbath, sunbath, treatment by digestion-stimulants,
fast (abstention from food) and physical exercise." (Charak Sutra
Ch. 22. Verse 18) ·
A second meaning of 1Langhan1, -the Sanskirt synonym of fast,
is, any metho::l by which lightness is acquired by the body. But
nowadays, as said earlier 1Langhan1 is taken for fast only. If fast is
necessary for a patient, the physician should look into his vitality.
Fasting should not b~ prolonged for such a long period as it may
sack 1thc life substance1 itself. Care should also be taken to preserve
the strenght ofthe patient because it gives the power of resistance.
Fasting can serve no real purpose ifth2 strength of the patient fails.
A disease is like a red signal to a moving train. In is nature1s
warning for rest. The patient should therefore suspend all activties
of visiting, sefvice, study, etc. and take rest in bed with a peaceful
mind to relax the bodily organs.
Orange juice is generally prescribed these days during any
illness. But sweet juice should be avoided in the diseases due to
phlegm as it is cough-producing. It is contra-indicated in cases of
asthma, cold, catarrh and ir.diges~ion. Moreover the poor cannot
easily affo~~· fur.h costly fruits. In the Indian system of medicine, in
the place of orange juice, lentil soup and vegetable soup containing
garlic, ginger, black pepper, Dhania, Gira, etc. is prescribed.
Ginger, garlick and black pepper are extremely useful for patients
suffering from phlegm.
Bitter juices are advisable for patients suffering from excess of
bile. S11ch ::. patient should take vegetables like Methi, karela, milk
and sweet fruits. ~weet, bitter and pungent juices are beneficial.
Diet should be light and in moderate quantity so that it may be THE BEST MEANS TO PHYSICAL HEALTH : 193
easily digested. Tea and coffee should be avoided during treatment.
It is good to take a boiled extract of Tulsi, Phudina, green tea,
pepperi-mu/ and black pepper.
CHAPTER VI
THE BEST l\1_EANS TO PHYSICAL HEALTH
By Dr. Maganlal 0. Sa/aria
When Rudra cut off Daksha1s head,.the Ashvinikumaras rejoined
it at the request of the gods. Shankar also joined the head of his son
which he had cut himself. Such examples are plenty in Ayurveda
and mythology. It indicates that both gods and demons possessed
the knowledge of Ayurveda. There was a competition between them
and each party tried to excel the opponent in the developm~nt of ·
Ayurveda. They were in search of a method whereby every d1sease
could be cured with the minimum of medicine. The sag~ Atrey in
Charak Samhita has specified the uses of urine and herbs for curing
diseases.On the other hand Lord Shiva and his· foliowers have
prescribed iron, poisons, pearls, jewels, ruby etc. in their system of
treatment. At the end, they have proved that mercury alan can cure
all diseases.
In Europe they have done a good number of experiments and
researches in order to reduce the number of medicines. First of all.
Dr. Hanemann created the system of homoeopathy. He showed to
the world, that the medicines prescribed by allopathy and taken in
large doses has the opposite effect than when taken in very small
quantity (in high potency) as prescribed in homoeopathy. For
example op1u-m is useful for stopping motions but the same taken
according to the system of homoeopathy removes constip~ti_on. Later
on his disciple Suschler confined himself to twelve med1cmes only
fer· treating all diseases. In America Dr. Burgess invented
Epsompathy and successfully cured many types of maladies by 194 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
epsom salt. Out of this salt, he made seven preparations which are
applicable to-all types of diseases. In 1921, when lwas a student in
National Medical ~allege (Bombay), I knew a famous Vaidya
treating· all the diseases with only three medicines. While sitting' in
his clinic, he u~d to keep only three bottles on his table labelled
as Vataghna (cure for bile trouble) Pittaghan (cure for bile. trouble)
and. Kaphaghna (cure for phlegm.) He·used to feel patient's pulse
and prescrible a mixture of the three in due proportion for internal'
and external use. I tried my best to know the' secret of the above
three medicines but he did not disclose it till the end. This mentality.
of the


 finally broke his fast on a little raw  beef. When
animals  are ill, they have the sense to fast until hunger reasserts itself.
During his fast I washed him all over with old, strong,  greasy urine, and
although he lost many of his old hairs during the process, he finished up
with a beautiful coat.
Although the following  experience  with poultry does not strictly come
under  the heading of urine‐therapy,  sine: hens  do not urinate and  no
urine was  used, t is instructive  none the less as showing what a fast will 104
 do even for birds. I had 60 hens  at the time (October,  1916) but not one
of them had laid an egg for weeks, although they  had been well  fed and
stimulated  with condiments.  As some of them were ill, many
"authorities"  had given me free or professional  advice. Finally, I decided
to put half  of them on a fast, with nothing but plain water. The result
was remarkable,  for on the fourth day I found several eggs.
Subsequently,  I fasted the  remaining  half, with the  same gratifying
result ‐eggs in plenty. The fast  in each case lasted  a week. I then
changed ‐what had been the previous  diet consisting  of "anything  and
everything"  to nothing but whole grain wheat ‐for which  the hens  had
to work in ashes for every morseland  raw  greens, which I gave them
twice  a day. This, plus the grass they could peck from my orchards  was
all they  got.  The result was an average of 250 eggs a week from 60 hens
for 18 weeks without  a break, and at the negligible  cost  of ⅓ d. per egg.
Treatment  of a foal's leg for laceration.  The foal in question  had tried  to
force her way through a thick thorn hedge  with disastrous  results. She
suffered  a large  slash  in the flesh of one of her back legs at the knee‐
joint, and the gash resembled  a great lip hanging down. I was  advised
to call in a vet. and  have it stitched up, but I declined, knowing that
such a measure  would only leave unsightly marks and much reduce  her
value. I therefore  bound up the wound with a soft clean woollen cloth,
(undyed) under  a piece  of tree‐ply flexible wood, ind filled up the space
between the flesh and  the wood with cow‐ dung, finally drawing the
poultice tight at the bot.om with broad  tape so as to keep the dung in
place and  let the foal  have her run.  Twice a day I called  the animal  so
that I might pour a pint  or more  of urine into the top of the poultice in
order to keep the properties  of the dung active. This process I kept up 105
 for a fortnight.  Then at length I undid the bandages ‐ and lo and behold!
the wound was perfectly  healed, and without  leaving a trace of a scar.
Truly there  are lessons  to be learnt from Nature. The first, second  and
third are‐work with Nature  and she will do the work!

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 CHAPTER  XVII.
THE RATIONALE  OF RUBBING  AND URINE PACKS

A correspondent  who asked  a number  of intelligent  questions  surprised
me on that account  by asking: "Is not the skin a one‐way organ?" And
yet what shred  of evidence or deduction  is there on which  to base such
an assumption?  Take the simplest analogy. If one covers with a
distended  handkerchief  the top of a cup containing  a little milk, and
then inverts the cup, the milk  will ooze out through  the handkerchief.
Conversely,  if one puts  a little milk  on the handkerchief  distended  over
the cup, the milk  will ooze through  into the cup, and the more  quickly if
one rubs  it through the material.  That the skin  is capable of absorbing
not only fluids but air has been known  for very many years. Why  are
cellular underclothes  advocated?  Because the skin requires to breathe.
Hence  the unwisdom  of clogging the pores with suppressive  unguents,
or of "wrapping  oneself up" in sheaths of warm underclothes,  as did the
Victorians.  Should the skin be prevented  from breathing  entirely the
victim  dies. The story  of the child which  was  painted completely  with
liquid gold in order to cut a figure in pageant is well  known‐the child
was dead in two hours. On the other  hand the rubbing with milk of
underweight  and ill‐thriving children was at one time a common
practice,  and often attended with good results. As we all know, friction
produces  heat, and  heat opens up the pores of the skin because they
likewise generate heat. That is why it is so important  what the
compresses  contain. Compresses  which  merely draw  out and  put
nothing back can prove  seriously strength‐ sapping;  a matter which  has 107
 been brought to my notice in many cases.  Thus the compress  par
excellence  is a urine compress,  and rubbing with urine is far superior to
any other  form of friction. For the lacer purpose old urine alone, or old
mixed with  fash, rind' warmed up (it must  n‐ver be boiled) is the most
efficacious.  The most  practical method is to store  up urine in bottles,


 can be guided within your
responsibilities in ways that unwind fear and control. If your beliefs are
strong, they need to be seen through and handed over completel y or else
they will still be there percolat ing in the back of your consciousness,
directing your thoughts and actions. And yes, devotion to God will
ultimately free you complete ly from worldly responsibili ties and
concerns. You want to live your life with such devotion that you actually
allow the concerns of this world  to fade away. As things flow, there will
be flexibility if you have trust, for example in your daily respon sibilities
and schedules. This is because  your perception has changed, and you
have opened to see things from the Holy Spirit’ s perspective, from deep
acceptance and peace. You begin to let everything be used for this goal,
for this experience of trust. Once this link with your inner teacher is made, your way is set. You
experience a clear pathway. In trust, you feel that the Holy Spirit goesbefore you, leading, guiding, and giving you everything to say and do,
every person you are to meet, and every place you are to move. You
experience your direction in life as if there is a very specific plan already
available and you don’ t have to figure it out. Y ou don’ t have to weigh the
pros and cons or try to anticipate the future, and there is no need to fear
it either. You move in the direction of dropping the need for personal
control because you’re going for an experience of letting the Holy Spirit
plan and organize all things for you, relieving you from the belief that
you must plan for yourself. You are relieved from this heavy burden of
control, planning, and management of your life. Every second that you
spend trusting will give you huge rewards: contentment and
peacefulness. Accepting every thing with the Holy Spirit in your mind allows
everything to be used for peace and healing. You will realize that you are
not able to judge which activitie s and relationships are most helpful for
your opening to the present. You no longer wish to play the game of pick
and choose. When you trust and accept that your whole life is being
given by the Holy Spirit, you enter into such receptivity and flow that
you see everything as perfect support, as given just for you!Chapter 8
Acceptance
When you trust with a willingness in your heart to be healed,  you are
open to accept anything that comes your way. But do you have to accept
everything as it is in this world? After all, this world was born, quite
literally, in the refusal to accept things as they are, the perfection of
Heaven. There seem to be so many problems. Humanity seems to
complain a lot. For example, it’s very common to complain about the
environment. It seems normal and reasonable to complain about loud
noises, pollution, hot or cold weather, or gray skies. Because of this, it’s
also considered valuable and important to be an activist, to take a stand
to save the environment and so forth. Apart from trying to change
everything and be an activist, is the only other option to just withdraw
and accept thing s as they are perceived, or is there a third option? Does
the Holy Spirit give us another way? The first time I was in Beijing, the person who was driving
apologized for the smog and the pollution. He said, “I am so sorry that
our skies are so grey,” and I said, “Oh, they are beautiful. I am loving
your grey skies.” When peopl e apologize for something, they wish
something could be better, while I join in acceptance with what is. I
joined with the grey skies. I enjoy grey skies actually, and when people
ask me about pollution, I join with pollution. In my mind, I join with
everything because it is all unified in my awareness. When you become
all-inclusive in your wanting God or wanting peace, you have an
experience that there is nothing outside, there is nothing else, and
therefore, there is nothing to judge. Pollution is entirely neutral. But when you take that concept and
judge it, for example stating, “Polluted is the opposite of clean,” then
you project that belief, and you find evidence for your judgment. You
must have judged something for any anger, irritation, and anno yance to
appear. Then you see evidence  of what you judged. It is simply bydeciding that you do not like something that it appears on your mental
screen. If your acceptan ce only centers around the positives of the world,
you’ll be happy  for a while, then the heartbreak will come in, and pain
will come back. You go back and forth between heartbreak and
happiness, and life is like an emotional yo-yo. But there is something
inside that knows we are entitled to more than that, that we are entitled
to a sense of consistency as a state of mind, peace of mind. If we live
from a state of Spirit-inspired acceptance, this will unify our perception
and stabilize our emotions. Conscious accep tance therefore  becomes our pathway. Conscious
acceptance is a practice that leads to joy as certain as refusal to accept
things as they are leads to pain and misery. In order to really understand
conscious acceptance, we must understand the problem of judgment. Judgment is the birth of all perception. We have judged against God
metaphysically in our belief in separation, and multiplicity and choices
in form were born. That is why perception is always selective, and we
seem to be able to accept what we want and reject what we do not want,
usually based on the pain-and-p leasure mechanism—on subjective and
personal “likes” and “dislikes.” But do we really know what we want? Can we recogni ze that in a state of believed separation, we don’t really
know what we want? The foundation of our thought system is made
from an original opposition against what is, and thus accepta nce and
awareness of That Which Is—God—has become an alien concept. Acceptance, in the true spiritual sense, is to go within and
relinquish projection and judgm ent by allowing external conditions to be
the way they are. They are not the real problem. In this state of
awareness, there is no point in complaining about pollution or bad
weather. Being in this state of trust and acceptance is not a passive
experience. It is very much a state of actively being present with what
life presents. By living your life from a state of Spirit-inspired
acceptance, you get deeper into your purpose. You realize that you will
only be content with a happiness that is everlasting. The feeling of acceptance is of a receptive mind, an open mind. It’s
a key characteristic for experiencing the miracle within. The miracle isbasically a shift of perception from the ego’s opposition to true life, to
perceive everything as given for your highest good. Merging with Everything Through Conscious
Acceptance
It’s wonderful when we realize that we can join in mind with anything in
this universe: a sight, a sound, a memory, an object. The practice is to
come back to the mind, to come to a deeper point of not knowin g how or
what to judge, to the place inside where we actually don’t know what is
good or bad. This takes you back to I-am-ness, which is prior to
judgment. In that acceptance is your strength. Your invulnerabi lity is in
that being-ness, in that I-am-ness. When we don’t know the way out of our judgment, the way to our
own healing is through conscious acceptance. Conscious accepta nce is to
step back, tune in, and let yours elf be guided. Not because it is good or
right, but because it is the only way that will work. You will ultimately
come to a resona nce with the inner guidance because that is what will set
you free. It will take you back to true freedom. It is an undeniable fact that everything works together for our good. For most of us, this is not how we experience our daily life because all
ego goals—goals that are related to form, appearances, outcomes, and
preferences—have nothing to do with truth or reality. We can’t perceive
what is in our own best interests while we go for goals and outcomes of
form generated in a world of opposites and conflicts. As ment ioned in chapter 1, A Course in Miracles states that “in no
situation that arises do you realize the outcome that would make you
happy.” In no situation. None! And here it is: There is never a specific
outcome that would make you consistently happy—ever—because there
is not one that exists. You are asked to be very sincere, to concede to this
crucial realization that your general goals aren’ t really in your best
interest. You are pursuing goals that are about survival, comfort, material
gain, interperso nal love, and situations, people, places, and events to
satisfy your expectations: “I will be happy when the world looks thisway, when my personal life looks this way.” You are simply putting your
own limitations on the Divine. God is so much bigger, vaster, richer,
freer, and happier than you can imagine, so wouldn’ t it be better to
accept all that He gives, which can always only be coming from divine
love?


 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 in the objective and
subjective improvement of patients with interstitial cystitis. 7
REPORTS SHOWING DMSO’S VALUE FOR OTHER URINARY
SYSTEM PROBLEMS
Bladder diseases in general respond well to instillation of DMSO into the urinary
tract. For instance, as indicated in a 1985 published paper, complex irritative
bladder syndrome responded well to the solvent. 8
Intravesical instillation of DMSO was used in the treatment of patients with
intractable urinary frequency due to chronic prostatitis, chronic cystitis,
tuberculous contracted bladder, and interstitial cystitis. A 1985 report from Japan
indicated that before the application of dimethyl sulfoxide, all four patients were
examined carefully to rule
out cases of acute infectious diseases of the urinary
tract, active urinary tuberculosis, neurogenic bladder (nerve pain of the bladder),
and carcinoma in situ of the bladder (cancer within the bladder). Three of the four
patients achieved an excellent response both subjectively and objectively. In the
United States, intravesical instillation of DMSO had already been established as
the specific method in the treatment of interstitial cystitis and no side effects have
been reported so far. Therefore, the Japanese physicians used intravesical
instillation of DMSO with success and recommend its application for various
forms of intractable urinary frequency. 9
Urethral syndrome in women is an annoying condition that is not uncommon,
but a 1987 report from Poland indicates that it does respond well to DMSO
instillation. The chronic urination disorder is relieved by intravesical
administration of the solvent solution. 10
A case of bladder amyloidosis was treated successfully in February 1986,
report Japanese researchers, with DMSO bladder instillations. A diagnosis was
made by a biopsy of the bladder epithelium (cells lining the inside of the bladder). Amyloid fibrils were confirmed in the biopsy specimen with polarization and
electron microscopy. The patient was treated with trans-urethral resection (a
surgery) plus DMSO. From these bladder instillations the residual lesion
disappeared within four months. DMSO bladder instillations were given twelve
times without side effects. Thus DMSO bladder instillation with surgical resection
is designated as an excellent therapy for bladder amyloidosis. 11Epilogue
“Pain is only four letters, but it means different things to different people,” said
Ray Peppi of Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Peppi suffers from excruciating pain
caused by undergoing three back operations for relieving spinal arthritis. “You can’t understand great pain unless you have it—unless you can’t
remember a day in your life when you didn’t have it. It makes you want to jump
off a roof. It drives you crazy,” Peppi explained. In desperation, because drugs prescribed by his doctors failed to alleviate his
pain, four years ago the man acquired DMSO from a nonmedical source. The
solvent is not authorized in Connecticut for use on back problems. State residents
whose pain is so severe that they are willing to try anything are using the crude
industrial grade. DMSO did what other remedies couldn’t, said Peppi. It got rid of
his pain. The Public Health Committee of the General Assembly for the State of
Connecticut considered legislation that would legalize DMSO for use in
Connecticut but rejected it eventually. Texas has passed such legislation, as have
Florida, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Because of political pressure exerted by interested state assembly members
and by members of the United States Congress, the Food and Drug Administration
has been prevented from simply ignoring the drug. FDA officials promised the
House Select Committee on Aging that they would take another look at it. Dr. J.
Richard Crout told committee members that clinical trials of DMSO, which have
been around for twenty years, and are still being carried out, haven’t been precise
enough to merit the drug’s general use. Yet, when the medication proves, in fact, to be as effective and safe as the
evidence may show, the American people will certainly be
justified in wondering
why they have had to wait so many years to use it. Some FDA critics argue that if
the Salk vaccine or penicillin were developed today, it would take the same length
of time for them to become available to the people. How many would have died in
the interim? What numbers are suffering needlessly or dying now because DMSO
is unavailable on the legal, open market? This is another of those big questions
underlying the whole DMSO controversy. Government bureaucracy is known for waste and inefficiency in almost all
areas of activity. In agriculture, housing, welfare, and other areas it has not solvedthe problems for which government programs were initially instituted. Often it has
compounded them. With DMSO the problem is even more serious. Pain, health,
life, and death are involved. To leave an inefficient and ineffective bureaucracy in
charge of approving a pain-relieving, life-sustaining drug like DMSO will cost the
victims of injury and illness far more than tax dollars. I believe the medical consumer deserves to have the medicines he or she needs
as soon as they have proved to be safe and effective. I ask that the FDA fulfill its
mandate to protect Americans from foods and drugs