 it is not the
purpose of this book to cover them all. Those who are interested can consult
my other book,
Power Botanicals and Formulas
 (available from God’s
Herbs,
www.godherbs.com
), which is a more comprehensive guide to the
chemistry and use of botanicals. There are also a multitude of books on the
market that are excellent to further your information on herbs and their uses.
Some of these are referenced for you in the Bibliography.
Unfortunately, there are also many books on herbs that are not worth the
paper they’re printed on. These books are written by so-called herbalists or
individuals who know little about the true use of each of these herbs. They
merely contain information that is referenced from other sources. Some of
them copy what the FDA says about herbs, along with the misleading
information being fed to the public from pharmaceutical companies to instill
fear in people about the use of God’s natural foods and medicines. Never fear
nature or its products. Simply learn what others have been using and doing
for hundreds of thousands of years.
Always fight to keep your right to eat and use God’s foods. Estimates are
that over 2 million deaths (some estimates as high as 5 million) occur each
year needlessly as a result of procedures and products supported by the
allopathic medical and pharmaceutical industries. Rarely do we hear of a
death from the use of herbs. When one occurs, it’s almost always from
misuse. Read … Study … Experiment … Lose the fear … Become alive
again.
MODULE 8.2Power Herbs: A Reference Guide

The following herbs are some of the best herbs you can find in the Northern
Hemisphere. As you study this section be sure to check the Glossary for
definitions of unfamiliar terms.
Alfalfa
A great alkalizer of the body.
High in chlorophyll and nutrition.
High in minerals and trace minerals.
A body cleanser.
Enhances the endocrine glandular system, especially the adrenal and
pituitary glands.
Helps eliminate retained water and carbon dioxide.
Helps with alcohol, smoking, and narcotic addiction.
Helps eliminate toxic chemicals and heavy metals (lead, aluminum,
mercury, etc.) from the body.
Bonds (chelation) to inorganic minerals for elimination.
Infection fighter and acts as a natural deodorizer.
Strengthens the body.
High in chlorophyll, helps rejuvenate the blood.
Pulls mucus (catarrh) out of the tissues.
Scientific name
:
Medicago sativ
Parts used
: Whole plant, (leaves, seeds, and flowers).
Actions
: Astringent, diuretic, nutritive.
Aloe Vera
Internally, aloe heals ulcerations and inflammation of the GI tract.
Aloe and Burdock are the “burn botanicals.” First, second, third and
fourth degree burns
all respond to aloe’s tissue-healing and rebuilding
properties.
Used as a bowel mover in heavy constipation cases. (Avoid prolonged
usage for this.)
Aloe Vera is known as the First Aid Plant. It is great for cuts, wounds,
and the like.Scientific name
:
Aloe vera linn
Parts used
: Pulp (gel) from inside leaves and powder of the leaf.
Actions
: Abortifacient (when used in high doses), alterative,
anthelmintic, anti-arthritic, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-
inflammatory antiseptic, astringent, bitter tonic, bitter, cathartic, cell
proliferant, cholagogue, decoagulant, demulcent, depurative,
emmenagogue, emollient, insecticide, laxative, nutritive, purgative,
resin stimulant, stomachic, tonic, vermifuge, vulnerary.
Astragalus
Astragalus is a tremendous cellular proliferator (strengthens cells).
I especially like this herb for its effect upon the adrenal tissues.
Astragalus is a superb immune builder, strengthening the bone marrow,
the endocrine glandular system (thymus, etc.), and the spleen.
Aids in shortness of breath.
Strengthens the nervous system.
Increases energy to cells, especially in the spleen and GI tract (stomach,
in particular).
Strengthens prolapsed conditions, e.g., uterus, stomach, intestines and
bladder.
Has mild diuretic properties and helps tone the lungs.
Brings tone and balance to tissues.
Scientific name
:
Astragalus membranaceus
Parts used
: Roots
Actions
: Anhydrotic (stops sweating), cellular proliferator, diuretic.
Bilberry
Tremendous in strengthening the vascular system (arteries, capillaries,
and veins); great for varicose veins.
Helps reduce inflammation (flavonoids) in the vascular walls, hence
reduces arteriosclerosis (obstruction of the vascular walls with lipids).
Inhibits coagulation of platelets in the blood.
Helps with edema, aids in diarrhea.
Bilberry helps tone the skin.
Helps prevent cataracts and protects eye tissue from effects of diabetes.Used in formulas to help control blood sugar levels.
A great anti-inflammatory for all tissues.
Helps to control stress and anxiety.
A great aid in night blindness or any vision weakness.
Scientific name
:
Vaccinium myrtillus
Parts used
: Leaves and fruits
Actions
: Antidiabetic effect, antidiarrheal, astringent, anti-inflammatory.
Black Cohosh
This herb stimulates estrogen receptors and has estrogenic properties
itself.
Used in female conditions where vaginal dryness, lack of menstruation,
and infertility is present. Stimulates estrogen production.
Not suited for estrogen dominant females, where excessive bleeding and
cysts, fibroids, and fibrocystic conditions exist.
Said to help loosen and expel mucus from the lungs.
Contracts the uterus and increases menstrual flow.
Said to be a tonic for the central nervous system (CNS).
Scientific name
:
Cimicifuga racemosa
Parts used
: Rhizomes, fresh and dried root
Actions
: Alterative, antiseptic, antispasmodic, anti-venomous, arterial,
astringent, cardiac
stimulant, diaphoretic, diuretic, emmenagogue,
expectorant, sedative, stomachictonic.
Black Walnut Hull
Black Walnut Hull is one of my favorite herbs for many reasons.
It’s one of nature’s most powerful antiparasitics.
It will kill microorganisms (bacterium, fungi, yeasts, etc.) to larger
parasites including all worms and flukes.
It is a cellular proliferator (strengthens cells).
It increases the oxygenation of blood cells.
It is a detoxifier used to balance sugar levels and disperse fatty materials.
Black Walnut Hull is excellent for any condition and weakness of the
body.Promotes healing of all tissues and is said to help restore tooth enamel.
Strengthens and stimulates the immune system.
Promotes lymph movement and bowel peristalsis.
Strengthens the bones (high in calcium).
Scientific name
:
Juglans nigra
Parts used
: Inner hull (can use the bark)
Actions
: Alterative (leaves) bitter, Anthelmintic (vermifuge), astringent,
cholagogue, detergent, expectorant, hepatic, laxative, mild cathartic,
purgative, tonic (fruit).
Bugleweed
A specific for the thyroid gland, especially when enlarged or when a
goiter exists.
Said to be a detoxifier, and especially valuable at removing heavy metals.
Bugleweed is said to offer protection against radiation.
Beneficial in irregular heartbeat and palpitations.
Improves thyroid and adrenal function.
Restores tooth enamel.
Possibly enhances neurotransmitters.
Also said to resemble digitalis in its actions.
Has a strengthening effect upon tissue.
Scientific name
:
Copus virginicus
Parts used
: The aerial portions of the herb
Actions
: Antigonadotropic, anti-inflammatory anti-thyrotropic,
astringent, cardiac tonic, diuretic (mild), narcotic (mild), and
sedative.
Burdock
The leaves are considered by many to be one of the top “burn healers” of
all times. This includes first, second, third and fourth degree burns.
A strong blood and liver cleanser and tonic.
Reduces swelling in the body, especially around the joints.
A great aid in detoxification.
Burdock rids the body of toxins and mucus.
Promotes urine flow and perspiration.Number one in skin conditions of all types.
Promotes kidney function and helps remove acid build-up within the
body, especially sulfuric, phosphoric and uric acids.
Scientific name
:
Arctium lappa
Parts used
: Leaves, roots and seeds
Actions
: Alterative, anti-inflammatory, antiscorbutic, aperient, astringent
(mild to medium), demulcent, depurative, diaphoretic, lipotropic,
stomachic, tonic, sedative.
Butcher’s Broom
A great circulatory herb.
Has anti-inflammatory properties (flavonoids and tannins) which help
remove plaque in the vascular system. Used in cases of phlebitis.
Tones and strengthens the vascular walls (arteries, capillaries and veins),
thus used for varicose veins, hemorrhoids and post aneurysms


  of Our  Power  of Divine  Love  means
in your  world!  While  the Messenger  is repeating  My Words 166 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
to you,  I stand  here  connecting  Myself  with  your  Heart,
every  one of you.  Will  you notice  I do not ask your  permis-
sion.  Then  I am enabled  to render  you  a Service  which  the
outer  could  not possibly  comprehend  at the moment;  but
THAT,  which  I do for you will continue  forever;  until  you,
thru your  own  Call  to the Presence,  set yourselves  Free.
Dear  Ones,  please  use the Terminology  which  We have
given  you.  The  Words,  "I AM,"  as written  in English  today,
have  come  down  from  the Beginning  of mankind's  appear-
ance  upon  the Earth.  In the Royal  Teton—on  your  map,
known  as the Grand  Teton,  there  are the Records  of these
civilizations—every  one  which  has ever  been  on Earth.  In
every  language  which  was  used  during  those  many  civiliza-
tions—the  Words,  "I AM"  as written  in English  today  are
there;  showing  Those  Two  Words  are the Power  of God.
Mankind  needs  to learn  to use Those  Words,  as We do.
In any  crisis,  if the Individual  did not think  of anything
else just for the moment,  and  would  say:  "I AM,"  "I AM,"
"I AM,"  It would  release  the Powers  of the Presence  into
action!  Ofttimes  it would  perform  a so-called  Miracle  for
him or her, then  and there!  That  is the Power  of those  Two
Words;  and  there  are no two  words  in the vocabulary  of
human  experience,  which  release  the Power  Those  Two
Words  do. The  Words,  "God,"  "Divine  Mind,"  "Divinity"
and all other  Terminology  used  to express  the Godhead,  do
not contain  the Power  the Words  "I AM"  do. That  is the
Reason  why  Beloved  Saint  Germain  has brought  This  Use
of the "I AM"  forth  to mankind  at this time.  It is the Power DISCOURSE  VIII  167
which  sets the people  Free!  Why?  Because  It is their  own
Life!
Your  "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  your  Individualized  Pres-
ence  of God  which  beats  your  Heart,  is your  Life;  and  your
Life contains  everything  which  is for your  Perfection.  Be-
loved  Ones,  in That  Stream  of Light  and  Energy  from  your
Presence,  is everything  required  for the Perfection  of you
and your  world  and  It is without  limit!  Only  as you have
felt limitation  from  the appearance  world,  have  you limited
yourselves!  It is not the Presence  who  has limited  you.  To-
day, you  are in a position  in This  Understanding  of your
Presence,  to set yourselves  Free  in a comparatively  short
time.
We have  gone  thru  the  experiences  of mankind.  My
Experience  of course  was  a long  time  ago.  Beloved  Saint
Germain  and  Those  who  have  more  recently  made  the
Ascension—for  instance  the Children,  Bob,  Rex,  Nada  and
Pearl,  have  been  able  to set themselves  Free!
The Beloved  Master,  Jesus,  left the Example  to mankind,
but who  believed  It? Who  was  willing  to try to fulfill  It?
Yet, He said:  "All  These  Things  I have  done,  ye shall  do"!
Beloved  Ones,  why  is Saint  Germain  the One  today,  Who
was chosen  by the Great  Cosmic  Light,  to bring  forth  This
Activity ? Because  the Seventh  Ray,  under  which  He is act-
ing, compels  Him  to be the One  to bring  forth  the Freedom
of mankind!  America  being  the "Crystal  Cup"  which  is the
Freedom  of the Earth,  compels  America  to be the Focal
Point  of That  Freedom  for the World.  It is not a matter 168 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
of any one's  choice.  It is a Law,  a Great  Cosmic  Law,  which
has made  Saint  Germain  the Active,  Individual  for Our
Freedom.  It is the Cosmic  Law  which  has made  America,
the "Cup"  to release  the Light  of the future!
Think  of it, in India,  where  so Great  a Light  has been
among  a few;  yet the great  mass  of people  in India,  are
bound  far worse  than  you are. Why ? Because  the teaching
which  has come  forth  in the past,  has taught  the people  of
India  meditation;  in which  hundreds  and  thousands  of
them  sit down  in a posture;  and  release  themselves  from
the body  and  go out into  Samadhi.  They  do go into  That
Exquisite  Realm  or Octave  of Light;  but  what  good  is it
doing?
The need,  today,  is to bring  Our  Perfection  dowrn  into
the human  octave—where  mankind  has  created  the dis-
cord;  and  to produce  Perfection  here!  Unless  mankind  un-
derstands  the "I AM  Presence,"  there  is no hope  of ever
bringing  That  Perfection  in Its Fulness  into  the physical
octave,  where  It is required  to set mankind  Free.
It is why,  today,  there  is no Knowledge  in the whole
world,  which  can do for mankind  what  the Understanding
of this  "Mighty  I AM  Presence"  can do for you!  I say to
you as the Messengers  have  said  time,  and  time  again:
"Whether  you ever  heard  of the Messengers  again  or not;  if
you will  give  your  attention  to your  own  God  Presence,
the 'Mighty  I AM,'  and  harmoniously  abide  within  It; by
the very  Power  of your  attention  to It, you  would  not need
anyone  in the world  to tell you  the Power  of Life;  or how DISCOURSE  VIII  169
to bring  your  own  God  Presence  forth  into  action!  It is the
ONLY  WAY  mankind  is to be Free  in this World"!
Today,  the Greatness,  the Power,  with  which  you  can
set yourself  Free  in This  Acknowledgment,  is unparalleled
in the history  of the Earth;  and  I say this,  as One  who
knows;  One  who  has followed  civilization  after  civilization
thru centuries  without  number!
Beloved  people,  I plead  with  you,  do not accept  for one
single  moment  more,  there  is such  a thing  as death  in this
Universe.  There  never  was  and never  will  be! What  seems
to be so, is but the change  of form.  When  the body  is cast
aside,  the Energy  which  comes  thru  the top of your  head
and anchors  within  your  Heart,  simply  disconnects  and
withdraws  into  the Higher  Mental  Body  of the Individual,
who  is reasonably  constructive.  Between  your  human  form
and your  God-Self,  your  "Mighty  I AM,"  is your  Higher
Mental  Body—a  Form  just as Tangible  in Its Own  Octave,
as your  flesh  body  is here.  It is your  Discriminating  Selective
Intelligence  which  acts  with  the Power  of the Presence!  It
knows  the Perfection  which  the Presence  is, and knows  the
im


. ” From that day, Jack has continued to live
The Bragg H ealthy Lifestyle and inspires millions to health and fitness.
See Web: www.jacklalanne.comJesus, His Disciples and All History’s
Great Spiritual Teachers Fasted
When the great city of Alexandria, Egypt was the
educational center of the world, people had to fast for
40 days before they could enter and study with the
master of that time. Jesus fasted for 40 days, and his
disciples also took long fasts. All of history’s great
spiritual teachers have had great confidence in the powerof fasting – not only to improve the physical body, but
to promote a keener spiritual understanding of the divine
power that is above us and within us. Your mental powerincreases! Prove it to yourself. See how much sharper
and more alert your mind becomes after a fast. Notice
how quickly you acquire facts... how much more yourmind absorbs and remembers what you read.29
By relieving the body of the work of digesting foods, fasting allows the system to
rid itself of toxins while facilitating hea ling.  Fasting regula rly gives your organs
a rest and helps reverse ageing process for a longer and healthier life.
“Bragg Books were my conversion to the healthy way.”
– James F. Balch, M.D., Prescription for Nutritional HealingChapter 3
The Enemy Within Our Bodies
Victor Hugo eloquently called the poison in our body
“the serpent which is in man.” While this remark is poetic,it contains even more truth than poetry. I have come to
regard autointoxication (self-poisoning) as the worst
enemy in the fight for Agelessness and Longevity. It ismind-poisoning as well as body-poisoning because, even
after the energy of the body is regained, one has a lingering
sense of the futility of all endeavors. Some are inclined tosay, “The best of life is behind me. What lies before is
brief and burdensome. So many of my friends and
relations have gone.” Others say, “My turn’s coming. I’vegot a date with the undertaker and it’s not so far off.”
These depressing thoughts can generate sad moods
and are detrimental to Agelessness and Longevity!Remember, you can make the second half of life the best.
Autointoxication itself is your health’s greatest
enemy. It’s so common and yet so rarely recognized.Those morbid moods – the worry, tensions, stresses,
frustrations, nervousness and needless anxiety – are
foreign to a healthy state. You should always beoptimistic, happy, carefree, self-confident and at peace.
Why is it that sometimes when fortune smiles her
brightest, you remain unhappy, mirthless, depressed, andungrateful? Then again when things look their bleakest,
you are amazed at your buoyancy. The purity or impurity
of your bloodstream might explain that!
I love life and want to live
120 years and more, in
prime physical condition! Each day of life is a beautiful,
priceless miracle! I want to keep it, value it, treasure itand enjoy every waking hour! I also want this for you.30
The nervous system falters and suffers when we don’t take care of our body.
Develop healthy self-esteem to generate positive lifestyle habits that
will promote more serenity, peace and love in your life. – Patricia BraggRid Yourself of Depression
The worst aspect of autointoxication is that it has
been building up for years. It takes water fasting, whole
natural foods and living a healthy lifestyle to defeat it.
When these poisons are surging through your body, youoften are pessimistic with depressed feelings. The
mockery of life comes home to you. You begin to wonder,
“Is it all worthwhile?” Then one morning you awakento find your cheery self again. Though a bit shaken up,
you have hopefully beaten off the foe. Newspapers,
magazines, TV and radio all sell products that makepromises to relieve you of that “half alive” feeling. Which
one do you take? There are no shortcuts to feeling your
best physically and mentally and looking your best.
You are punished by your bad habits of living!
You are greatly rewarded by your good habits of living!
Ageless Mother Nature will not let you get away with
abusing your body. You must pay a high price every timeyou insult your body with dead and devitalized foods.Of course, you could take drugs to deaden or stimulate
your body, but you are living in a fool’s paradise if you
think you can eat any old thing and then swallow somekind of magic pill and get away with it. You pay a dear
price every time you make a garbage can of your
stomach! Your heart and arteries suffer. Your spells ofautointoxication (self-poisoning) are shortening your
life. Each attack leaves its mark and, for this reason, it’s
something to dread. Please don’t poison your bloodstream.Learn to defend and protect yourself against all possible
autointoxication by living The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle.
Once a week make it a habit to take a complete water
fast, lasting from
24 to 36 hours. On the days you do
eat, consume only natural, organic and unpoisoned
foods. Let your mind rule your body. Flesh is dumb! Youcan feed your stomach anything. Now you are going to
use common sense and eat with new health intelligence.31
When it comes to health, nine men in ten are suicides. –  Ben FranklinUnhealthy Lifestyle & Overeating are Killers
Keep this firmly in mind: autointoxication is the
greatest enemy of vibrant health. It’s the root cause of
all major physical troubles, because illness starts in a
poisoned bloodstream. It’s the basis of most troubleswhich affect the heart, arteries, liver, kidneys and joints.
When your bloodstream, your river of life, becomes poisoned,
this has more to do with premature ageing than all othercauses combined. Keeping your blood pure, clean and
healthy is half the battle! The other killer is overloading
your stomach and digestive system, giving it a new jobbefore it has finished digesting the previous meal.
You have been taught to eat at regular times, even if
not hungry. Many, when it’s mealtime, stuff themselvesautomatically. This is wrong and scientifically outdated,
for overstuffing your body is very unhealthy!
Patricia and I took a cruise around South America
visiting
12 countries. The over-stuffed passengers started
with an early wake-up breakfast in their staterooms. Then
an hour or so later they ate in the dining room a formalbreakfast of bacon, ham, eggs, rolls, toast, jam, friedpotatoes and gallons of coffee, followed by snacks on
deck at mid-morning. Then a big buffet lunch at noon,
afternoon tea with gooey pastries at
4 pm, a big supper
at 7 pm and another big buffet at 11 pm. Sadly we buried
5 people at sea in a few short weeks! All died by
autointoxications! This kind of overeating encouragesfermentation, putrefaction, illness and death!
Life is a Slow Suicide For Many
From the cradle many begin damaging their health
while lightheartedly trimming off the years quickly atthe beginning of existence, unknowingly chopping them
off in bigger chunks at the end. Blissfully unconscious,
they burn their candles at both ends and sometimes evenin the middle! Many people suffer in poor health not
realizing that their unhealthy lifestyle habits are the
main cause of their sickness.32
Man’s days shall be 120 years. – Genesis 6:3
May nature’s force be with you! – George W. Lucas, Jr., Star WarsWhy Not Enjoy Life to 120 Years?
There is little doubt that any person born with a
sound constitution, according to health research and
Genesis 6:3, can reach the 120 year mark! Why not? There
are no diseases of old age. Now, follow me: if startingfrom childhood, you eat healthily, plus fast one day a
week and several times a year for periods of from
7 to 10
days – then how is it possible to get a fatal disease?
Children today are being fed wrong! Many mothers
don’t nurse their babies. Some lack the internal health
and vitality to produce the greatest food for their young- mothers’ milk. Their babies are bottle-fed and are given
processed baby food out of jars, all loaded with refined
white flours, sugar and dangerously full of deadly salt.The abuse of the physical machine of the modern child
is started at birth! Under these tragic circumstances,
sooner or later premature breakdown is inevitable.
If you seek enlightenment on the subject of health,
look at people around you. Every day, there are
25 million
Americans critically ill in thousands of hospitals fromcoast to coast. The 300,000 doctors are kept franticallybusy trying to patch up the desperately sick people in
our country! Over 150,000 dentists can’t do even
10%
of the dental work Americans need! A void toxic silver
mercury fillings, all fluoride water, toothpastes, gels, etc.
(see page 152). Read Bragg book Water – The Shocking Truth.
I find most children’s mouths are filled with decay
and cavities before they are 17. We are a desperately sick,
ill nation! We are brainwashed to believe we are a healthy
vital country.


 in
love on any given day, lovers have not taken extraordinary journeys, not
compared with those mystical travelers often called ecstatics. The intense
joy of romance  is a reachable experience, a step on the same path that
mystics travel much farther along. Now it is time for us to see what the final
destination actually is.
VARIETIES OF  ECSTASY
Rather than use a vague term like mystical, we will explore the different
experiences that have been labeled ecstatic throughout history. Ecstasy can
first be consider ed as a physical  experience. This is the level our culture has
fixated upon, to the extent that a drug has been given the name Ecstasy with
the promise, presumably, that it will deliver the experience. In the very
crudest sense pushing sensual pleasure to its limits is supposed to bring one
to the point of ecstasy. Books on erotic technique pass themselves off as
handbooks to the ecstatic.
But in all these cases the real nature of ecstasy has been missed, because
no lasting transformation has taken place. A drug may alter the brain’ s
biochemical status, mimicking the spontaneous sensations that appear inecstatic states, but the experience is devoid of meaning. Altered brain waves
do not equate with the poetic insight of this exalted passage from the Song
of Solomon:
My heart was split, and a flower
appeared; and grace sprang up;
and it bore fruit for my God.
These lines are supremely sensual, the images are undeniably sexual. Yet
the poet is not mistaking his ecstasy for mere pleasure, however deep and
intoxicating that may be. He declares,
And my drunkenness was insight,
intimacy with your spirit.
Without this insight ecstasy might justifiably be equated with sensory
intensity such as drugs can deliv er. Here my intent certainly isn’t to strip the
pleasure away. Lovers who can freely surrender in sexual intim acy are able
to go far beyond the experience of partners who feel inhibited with each
other. Pleasure is by no means a given in a society that has not yet really
confronted the guilt and shame that cloud sexual desire. Yet the boundaries
that melt in the experience of ecstasy are of a different kind. As the most
famous lines from the Song of Solomon declare,
And you have made all things new;
you have showed me all things shining.
You have granted me perfect ease;
I have become like Paradise.
For all things to become new and shining requires much more than
sensuality. If anything, intense sexual contact leads to release and
exhaustion; the “little death” of orgasm is a form of oblivion, not a raising
of consciousness. We can’t afford to be absolute here. Sexual energy is
neutral; we mold it according to our own intentions. For some lovers it is
possible to use orgasm as a means to reach elevated states of consciousness,
yet even in these cases the visions, sensations, and emotions being evoked
are not necessarily ecstasy. They are whatever the lovers have made them
into.To make things shining and new has everything to do with perception.
This brings us to the second broad definition of ecstasy, which is mythic  or
archetypal. In ordinary perception we see ourselves in unmythic terms,
overshadowed as we are by so much mundane activity. Ulysses didn’ t have
to commute through tangled traffic every morning; Athena’ s mind wasn’ t
filled with worri es over meeting the mortgage this month. But as Carl Jung
long ago pointed out, beneath the turmoil of daily activity our unconscious
motivations dwell in the mythic world.
Inside each of us are primal gods and goddesses. We know this without
knowing it, insofar as we obey  our mythic drives without bringing them
into conscious awareness. Striving to succeed in a corporate takeover bid
partakes of the heroic quest as much as the Argonauts seeking the Golden
Fleece; climbing Everest is driven by the same ambition to reach the abode
of the gods as Icarus flying toward the sun. In mythic terms ecstasy is a
sacred journey into the unconscious as underworld, heroically portrayed in
countless ways, from Persephone’ s abduction by Pluto to Orph eus seeking
his bride among the shades of Hades.
If the physical definition of ecstasy falls short because it lacks meaning,
the mythic definition flirts with being too intellectual. Through the arduous
process of bringing the unconsc iousness to light, a person may be able to
reach his mythic roots, but whether this will bring ecstasy is questionable.
In the language of archetypes ecstasy has been traced back to the Greek god
Dionysus, whose devotees engaged in ritual orgies, using wine and
sexuality to attain altered states.  At the sacred site of Delphi, a secret cult of
women called maenads (deriv ed from the Greek word for “madness”)
worked themselves into ecstatic frenzies in their rites, which included
skinning animals alive with their bare hands and devouring them.
We still look askance at Dionysiac revels, supposing that their
participants reached wild excesses of drunkenness and promiscuity. To
mythic thinkers, though, nothing could be further from the truth. The
worship of Dionysus, they tell us, was not about excess and violence but
about the attainment of divine ecstasy. The darkness of this journey is what
made the frenzi es necessary; they were not an end in themselves. In any
event, orgies are now really grand metaphors for smashing the shell of
waking consciousness to arouse the sleeping divinity within.Perhaps this is true. Many ancient traditions use extreme states to push
through to sacred visions. Native shamans who pierce their bodies or
seclude themselves in the harsh wilderness are attempting to contact primal
forces within. Their rites and the orgies of Dionysus are not that far
removed from lovemaking by lovers who hope to push sex into the intensity
of ecstas y. The transports of priests and devotees through devotional rituals
can be very meaningful to them. The unconscious is a rich landscape;
archetypes tell us much about our primal selves. Yet the messages of myth
often seem prefabricated, I think, lacking the immediacy of true ecstasy. It
is rare to meet a mythic thinker who has recaptured the divine states of the
ancïent ones he or she has thought about.
TRUE ECSTASY
This brings us to the third definition of ecstasy, as a spiritual  release.
Spiritual ecstasy is not a feeling or an idea but a shift of perception in which
direct contact with spirit is made. Being in ecstasy does not have to express
itself through intensity of any kind. The biblical injuncion “Be still and
know that I am God” is an invitation to ecstasy.
I prefer the spiritual definition because it is inclusive of the physical and
the mythical. The most famous example of spiritual ecstasy is probably that
of Saint Teresa, who dreamed that an angel came and pierced her heart with
a golden  arrow. She describes this experience in intensely physic al terms, as
a burnin g pain that was almost unendurable until it wondrously transformed
itself into equally intense pleasu re. The mythic ingredients of the angel and
the arrow are unmistakable once we think back to the god Eros with his
quiver and bow. In her ecstasy  Teresa felt nothing less than the intimate
embrace of God, and the erotic and mythic overtones of her experience
make it no less divine. Being supremely spiritual, her ecstas y is able to
include every level of interpretation.
What usually makes ecstasy so intense and extreme is not the experience
itself but getting to it. The common images of God or an angel coming
down from heav en to pierce, shatter, and penetrate the ecstatic one do not
have to be taken  literally; they serve to remind us that many layers shield us
from contact with spirit. To receive the gift of ecstasy is an exquisiteexperience, as told in a rema rkable passage from a Greek Orthodox
manuscript written a thousand years ago:
For if we genuinely love Him,
we wake up inside Christ’ s body
where all our body, all over,
every most hidden part of it,
is realized in joy as Him,
and He makes us, utterly, real.
These sensual lines, which aroused shock and controversy at the time,
were written by an obscure monk known to us as Symeon the New
Theologian. His description of spirit as a penetrating, transforming love that
turns our very cells to divine essence still may sound too intimate for
comfort:
We awaken in Christ’ s body
as Christ awakens our bodies....
I move my hand, and wonderfully
my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him....
I move my foot, and at once
He appears like a flash of lightning.
Symeon was well aware that his loving intimacy with Godhood would be
considered blasp hemous—he spent his last years exiled in a remote Turkish
village, condemned by church authorities—but now we can recognize in his
writing the complete sincerity of a true lover. For Symeon “everything that
seemed to us dark, harsh, shame ful, maimed, ugly, irreparably damaged, is
in Him transformed and recogn ized as whole, as lovely, and radiant in His
light.”
This of course sounds like the voice of a saint, and a very ecstatic one.
But I believe the same vision is open


 of
health we learn: Just as body movement before partaking
of food is always good, so afte r partaking of food it is
always bad.

BUT NOT AFTER MEALS
And know that movement after partaking of food is
very injurious, whether shaking, or sex, or a bath, because
they are very damaging; especi ally great is the harm to
those whose blood vessels are narrow and thin by nature.
Yet it is desirable that one should exercise a little the
length of his house, so that his food may descend to the
lower part of the stomach and get warm in order that it
should be boiled. And sleep will help the boiling and
especially for one who has the habit of sleeping during
the day. The care of health requ ires that one kind of food
should not be brought in [the  body] over a previous food.
And one should eat only when  justified by a feeling of hunger, when the stomach is clear and the mouth
possesses sufficient saliva. Th en one is really hungry. A
man must not drink water unles s he is truly justified by
thirst. This means that if one feels hungry or thirsty he
should wait a little, as occasiona lly one is led to feel so by
a deceptive hunger and deceptive thirst. And the cause is
a bad moisture that irritates the mouth or the stomach and
when the irritation passes one should not partake of
anything, unless the hunge r or thirst be st rong; then he is
allowed to eat or drink. Drinki ng of water after a meal is
bad, as it interferes with di gestion, unless one is used to
it.

DRINKING OF WATER WITH YOUR MEAL
And it is not fit to drink, w ith your meal or after it
when it is still in the st omach, anything besides cold
water with no admixture. One of the good health habits is
not to retain superfluitie s under any condition and to
evacuate them in time of need. One should not partake of
food and then enter a bath or  engage in sexual activities
or go to sleep or do exerci ses unless he has examined
himself previously and tried to eliminate the superfluities.
And also after engaging in th ese five activities he should
examine himself well. It is part of the care of health to investigate the quality
of food and this is very useful. One must know the nature
of all foods of every kin d. And the physicians have
already written many detaile d books about it, and they
were justified in doing so b ecause it is very necessary.
We will therefore state helpful rules in the spirit of this
chapter and according to the many foods that are accepted
by us. The good foods that are to be prepared by those
who want good health are: wheat bread well prepared, the
meat of a goat and a one-year lamb, the meat of a chicken
and pheasant and pigeons and turtle doves, and the yolk
of a chicken's egg.

WHEAT IS GOOD FOR BREAD
And by bread well prepared I mean that it should be
made of wheat that is fully ripened, after its superfluous
moistures become dry and it is not old enough to begin
deterioration. The bread must  not be made of refined
flour, but after it is sifted  in the sieve its sourness-
producing parts should be made visible and enough salt
added to make it suitable. The bread should be made of
rough grain unchafed and unpolished and its leavened
part should become visible.  Its dough should be plentiful
while it is being kneaded in order to be baked in the oven. This is the improved bread of the physicians. And this is
the best of food.

BUT FOR NOTHING ELSE
And it is important that you should know that
everything prepared from wheat aside from this bread is
by all means not a proper food. But the following dishes
prepared from it are especially bad: unleavened bread,
boiled dough, such as noodles, macaroni, dumplings and
fried dough balls, fried pancakes covered with honey, and
bread soaked in olive oil or in  other oils. All these are bad
foods for every man. White bread or bread made of
refined flour and boiled wheat are not good foods either.
Only a stomach with great power to digest them can
derive much nourishment and good from them.
The types of meat which we  mentioned above are not
all of one nature and are not  of equally good quality. But
the best of quadruped meat is that of sheep in pasture one
year old and castrated steer of  average fatness. The best
part of their meat is in th e anterior of their bodies and
what is connected to bone. FAT MEAT IS BAD
Everything that is within the abdomen is bad and the
fat parts are all bad; they sa tiate but they are hard to
digest as they diminish th e appetite and produce white
moisture. And the heads of cattle have more superfluities
than the other organs, and the extremities of animals, i.e.,
their legs, lack superfluities  and their nourishment is not
bad. And the sheep is full of s uperfluities; there is nothing
good in it. But a suckling kid is good food and easily
digestible. The meat of fowl is  in general lighter than the
meat of cattle and is digested more rapidly. And the best
of the fowl meat are those we mentioned.
Milk, immediately after it is milked, is a good food,
provided it does not become sour in the stomach. It does
not absorb fumes and does not develop flatulence in the
lower abdomen. And it should be  taken with a little honey
and a grain of salt, as Galen suggested, in order that it
should not congeal in the st omach. And the best of the
milks and the most rarefied is the milk of a goat or a cow.
This offers good nourishment.
 AVOID MILK PRODUCTS
And any dairy product or additi ons to milk are bad; for
example, when it is curdled or boiled or when it has
something boiled in it, it is very bad. All types of cheese
are very bad and heavy, but cheese one day old, which is
white and sweet and not fat, is good. So states Galen who
recommends it as good to eat. But everything resembling
it is not good, especially old cheese with a lot of fat.
Butter, raw or boiled, is not at all bad as human food.
Honey is good nourishment for the old and bad for the
young and especially for those whose temper is warm,
because it turns rapidly into red bile.
And fish are mostly bad nourishment, particularly for
those who are phlegmatic and for the old, and especially
large-bodied fish and the salt ed kind. Those that come out
of polluted waters and the very fat are very bad and
increase the fluids. But small fish whose flesh is white,
hard and tasty and which come either from the sea or
from large bodies of fresh water, such as the salmon, is
not a bad food, but one should eat very little of it.
 WINE IS NUTRITIOUS
It is well known among physicians that the best of the
nourishing foods is one that the Moslem religion forbids,
i.e., wine. It contains much  good and light nourishment. It
is rapidly digested and helps to  digest other foods. It also
removes the superfluities from the pores of the flesh and
excretes urine and perspira tion. It has other virtues
besides these and is very usef ul, as the physicians tell us.
But this concerns something that we are not allowed to
make [from the relig ious viewpoint], which makes talking
of it superfluous and unnecessa ry, and therefore we will
not mention the various kinds and how they could be used
in the upkeep of health.

CHOICE OF VEGETABLES
But the vegetables that are bad for all men are garlic,
onions, cress, horse-radish, cabbage, and mad-apples. All
of these are poor food for one  who wants to be in good
health, but cucumbers and green melons are not so bad.
As to the yellow melon, if one  will eat it early in the day,
when the stomach is empty and without a bad fluid, and
the person is the possessor of a disposition that is not bad,
it will be well digested, cool  off the body a little, increase the output of urine, purify the [blood] vessels and provide
some nourishment that is not bad. We mention it, because
it is extensively eaten by many people.
Fresh fruits that grow on trees are bad nourishment for
men in general. Some of them are worse than others.
Among those that are bad ar e carob, nespole and sorb
apple, and some are less ba d and almost good, like figs
and grapes.

GALEN ACCEPTS FIGS AND GRAPES —
Galen said that figs and grap es are the princes of fruits
and are less injurious. But the blood that is formed from
those fruits is not good


 symptom to be noticed
is pain. On examination, we find a catarrhal condition of
the stomach; and this catarrhal condition is not a disease —
it is a symptom. Catarrhal in flammation continues, with the
thickening of the mucous membrane, which finally ends in
ulceration. Ulceration is not the disease; it is only a
continuation of the inflammatory symptom. If the ulcer is
removed, it does not remove the disease; it only remov es a
symptom. These symptoms continue until there is a
thickening and induration of the pyloris, which is called
cancer. And yet we have not discovered anything but
symptoms from beginning to end.

   By removing the cancer, the question of what the disea se
is has not been answered. Cancer being the end -symptom,
it cannot be the cause of the first symptom.

   Any other so -called disease can be worked out in the
same way. Pain and catarrh are the first symptoms, as a
rule, that call a physician’s or a pat ient’s attention to
anything being wrong; and pain and catarrh are not the
disease. When the cause of the pain is found, it too will be
found a symptom and not a disease. And this will be true to
the end.     It is no wonder that diagnosticians become perp lexed in
their search after disease, because they have confounded
symptoms and disease. The fact of the matter is, it is
impossible to put the finger on any ending of a chain of
symptoms and say: “This is the disease.” In the beginning
of this analysis we showed that headache, or pain in the
head, is not a disease; and when we had finished we found
that hemorrhage or apoplexy is not a disease —it is only a
continuation of the primary symptoms.

   “Disease is made manifest to us only by symptoms which
it produces.” This statement tacitly infers that there are
diseases and symptoms, and that through symptoms we
may find disease. When we undertake to trace symptoms to
disease, we are in the dilemma of a mountain -climber who
on reaching the top of one mountain,  finds other peaks, and
higher ones, farther on and on.

   That Mackenzie had been baffled in his search for fixed
disease is indicated in the following, which I quote from
the reports mentioned before:

   Many diseases are considered to be of a
dangero us nature, and many attempts are made to
combat the danger, with, however, no perception of
its nature. This is particularly the case with epidemic diseases, such as measles, influenza,
scarlet fever, and diphtheria. As a consequence,
proposals have at dif ferent times been put forward
to treat individuals who suffer these diseases upon
some general plan, without consideration of the
peculiarities of the individual case —and thus we
get that rule -of-thumb treatment which is shown in
the indiscriminate use of a serum or vaccine.

   During influenza epidemics there is always a cry
for a universal method of treatment, and attempts
are made to meet this cry in the shape of so -called
specifics and vaccines.

   When a great authority declares that dangerous disea ses
are combated without any perception of their nature —and
that, too, in spite of the germ theory —it should be obvious
to thinking minds that the germ theory has been weighed
and found wanting. Yet, when something must be done,
and nothing better has been  discovery, “serums and
vaccines may be used indiscriminately.”

   That the “rule of thumb” is the rule governing all thinking
concerning symptoms, diseases, their cause and treatment,
is so obvious that anyone possessing a reasoning mind, not
camouflage d by scientific buncombe, should read as he
runs.
    Medicine rests on a sound scientific foundation.
Anatomy, physiology, biology, chemistry, and all collateral
sciences that have a bearing on the science of man, are
advanced to great perfection. But th e so-called sciences of
symptomatology, disease, diagnosis, etiology, and the
treatment of disease go back to superstition for their
foundation. We see the incongruity of jumbling real science
with delusion and superstition. Disease is believed to be an
entity; and this idea is necessarily followed by another as
absurd —namely, cure. Around these two old assumptions
has grown an infinite literature that confounds its builders.

TRUTH AS FAMOUS MEN SEE IT

   When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the  more of it he has, the
greater will be his confusion. — (Herbert Spencer.)

   Confusion worse confounded is the only explanation that
can be given of the theory and practice of medicine. Of
course, it is hoary with age, and is one of the learned
professi ons. With much just pride can the rank and file
point to its aristocracy —its long list of famous dead as well
as living physicians? What has made most of them famous?
The same that has made others famous in and out of the
professions —namely, personal worth  and education. Franklin was not a doctor; yet he was as great as any
doctor, and could use his gray matter in advising the sick as
well as those not sick. He appeared to have a sense -
perception for truth; and I would say that his discrimination
is the lea ding, if not the distinguishing, trait that has
divided, and always will divide, the really great from the
mediocre majority. They are the leaven that leaveneth the
whole herd of humanity —the quality of character that
could not be found in all Sodom and Go morrah.

   There was another discriminating mind in the eighteenth
century —another Benjamin, who also was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence —Benjamin Rush, a
physician, a luminary that brought distinction to medical
science. He was larger than h is profession. He left seeds of
thought which, if acted upon by the profession, would have
organized medical thought and prevented the present -day
confusion. He left on record such golden nuggets as:

   Much mischief has been done by the nosological
arran gement of diseases.... Disease is as much a
unit as fever.... Its different seats and degrees
should no more be multiplied into different
diseases than the numerous and different effects of
heat and light upon our globe should be multiplied
into a pl urality of suns.

   The whole materia medica is infected with the
baneful consequences of the nomenclature of
disease; for every article in it is pointed only
against their names.... By the rejection of the
artificial arrangement of diseases, a revol ution
must follow in medicine.... The road to
knowledge in medicine by this means will likewise
be shortened; so that a young man will be able to
qualify himself to practice physic at a much less
expense of time and labor than formerly, as a child
would  learn to read and write by the help of the
Roman alphabet, instead of Chinese characters.

   Science has much to deplore from the
multiplication of diseases. It is as repugnant to
truth in medicine as polytheism is to truth in
religion. The physician wh o considers every
different affection of the different parts of the
same system as distinct diseases, when they arise
from one cause, resembles the Indian or African
savage who considers water, dew, ice, frost, and
snow as distinct essences; while the phys ician who
considers the morbid affections of every past of the
body, however divers)fied they may be in their
form or degrees, as derived from one cause,
resembles the philosopher who considers dew, ice,
frost, and snow as different modifications of water,
and as derived simply from the absence of heat.
    Humanity has likewise much to deplore from this
paganism in medicine. The sword will probably be
sheathed forever, as an instrument of death, before
physicians will cease to add to the mortality of
mank ind by prescribing for the names of diseases.

   There is but one remote cause of disease....
These remarks are of extensive application, and, if
duly attended to, would deliver us from a mass of
error which has been accumulating for ages in
medicine ; I mean the nomenclature of diseases from
their remote causes. It is the most offensive and
injurious part of the rubbish of our science.

   The physician who can cure one disease by a
knowledge of its principles may by the same means
cure all the disea ses of the human body; for their
causes are the same.

   There is the same difference between the
knowledge of a physician who prescribes for
diseases as limited by genera and species, and of
one who prescribes under the direction of just
principles, tha t there is between the knowledge we
obtain of the nature and extent of the sky, by
viewing a few feet of it from the bottom of a well


will benefit by this nectar.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  STOMACH HYPERACIDITY  “I had been suffering from acidity for two years. Whatever I consumed was thrown out. Not a drop of water would remain inside. The head ached 24 hours; body felt as if it was on fire. I could pass very little urine. There was considerable discharge of leucorrhoea and I became very weak. Doctors and Vaidyas proved unsuccessful. At last my 176 grandfather sent me in 1972 to Shri Bhojraj Sancheti to stay in his centre and undergo auto-urine therapy.  He put me on a four days’ fast. I began vomiting on the second day, thus ejecting all the settled phlegm and bile. On the fourth day the vomiting stopped. On the fifth day, I broke my fast with the juice of mosambi. Gradually I resumed normal food. during all this time auto-urine drink and massage were going on. Within three weeks I was my own normal self. Now I feel myself completely free from illness. I wish everyone should avail of this invaluable remedy.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  STOMACH HYPERACIDITY  “I am 42. I have been tilling land from my 15th year of age. due to overwork or operating the tractor in the hot sun gave me the ailment of acidity. I had to go twice or thrice for defecation as my digestion was impaired. I gave up allopathic medicine and began urine treatment on June 6, 1977. chillies and sugar were given up. Increased the intake of milk and reduced that of other food. I could not take massage regularly. Yet I gained 60% relief. Though I reduced my weight by two or three kilos I have retained my physical fitness. The inflammation of the oesophagus gullet was reduced by 80%. Now I have to go only twice to the w.c. in the morning. I hope to regain my full health and relief from this complaint within two or four months.”  from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  STOMACH HYPERACIDITY  “I used to suffer from severe pain in my stomach and tremors in my hands. A friend advised me to try Urine Therapy. I decided to rub my palms with my urine. With rubbing for three days, the tremors stopped. This encouraged me to continue the treatment persistently, I suffered from serious hyperacidity and had ulcers in my stomach. I had taken medicines for 20 years but there was no relief. I began gargling with urine and rubbed it on the entire body. Within a week, I gathered enough strength and decided to drink it. I used to drink a glassful of urine during the whole day in three or four installments.   Within a week I had such relief as cannot be expressed in words. I continued drinking it for a month and am now free from hyperacidity. The ulcers in the stomach have been healed and now I have a good appetite, and though I am 67, I have strength enough to do my usual work. All this due to Urine Therapy." 177  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn  STOMACH PAIN  “"For the last 10 years, I have been suffering from the pain in the stomach, and it continued to be more and more severe. Everything I ate was evacuated through loose motions. It appeared as if I was suffering from dysentery. My weight was reduced from 176 lb. to 126 lb. Daily I had to spend a rupee for medicines in order to sustain life. Thus I was extremely disgusted with life. Meantime a relative of mine gave me your book Manav Mutra. I went through it carefully and began the treatment from 1-5-60. For one month I did the rubbing and also kept two days fast on urine only. The result was the most satisfactory. Ten months have passed since then. My weight has increased to 170 lb. No medicine was taken thereafter. Now I take 40 ounces of urine every day in three doses and feel quite fit. If there is any trouble, it is instantaneously controlled with a day’s fast on urine.  It has resulted in financial savings also. I was in the habit of smoking and chewing betels which I have given up. It has saved me nearly Rs. 250/- a year. In addition, Rs. 400/- were also saved which were otherwise spent on medicine. The time spent on doctor•s visits has also been saved.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  STOMACH TROUBLE  “Shri Triloknathsinh from Bombay writes that he got rid of his stomach trouble, old cough  & cold by regular treatment of urine therapy.”  Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel  STUFFY NOSE  “The benefits of breast milk are unlimited I'm currently breastfeeding my 11 month old and he loves it I would never give him formula..when he gets a stuffy nose I put it up his nose,when he has gunky eyes I put it in them its amazing,we have not had to visit the so called docs once yet and hope to not ever..his immune system is benefiting so much.”  Letter to Andrew Norton Webber   178 SUN ALLERGY   Mr. L.C., Germany "I was regularly suffering from sun allergy. Since I heard about urine therapy, I just rub my urine on the affected skin parts and usually the allergy rapidly disappears and the skin stops itching."   The Golden Fountain by Coen van der Kroon  SURVIVAL  “During the nine-day war in Jordan, the Red Crescent, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross, advised people against drinking polluted water by radio broadcasts, saying, ‘Your children are expiring of thirst, we cannot help you except by telling you that you may be able to save their lives by letting them drink their own urine.’ ”  Drink Your Own Water by Tony Scazzero  SURVIVAL  “...two men were forced to spend 13 days on a life raft after their fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico.  The article said the two men ‘drank their own urine to stay alive.’ ”  The Outdoorsman’s Emergency Manual by Anthony J Acerrano  SURVIVAL  "A male cook was pulled out of the rubble of the Hyatt Hotel early Monday morning, 14 days after a powerful earthquake devastated the northern Philippines, officials said. Dry, with only minor bruises on his body, he told reporters he survived by drinking his own urine."  Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, July 30, 1990, World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward  SURVIVAL  “Luisa Mallorca and Arnel Calabia survived 11 days after being buried by the same disaster. (Hyatt Hotel earthquake)  179 All three survived in part by drinking their own urine.”  Caribarena Antigua, January 27, 2010    SURVIVAL   When Ferdinand Magellan's fleet of five set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, the manifest gave each ship "50 casks of water, fresh and pure." It wasn't enough. Of course his crew knew they would have to locate water along the way. Unfortunately, finding themselves in uncharted waters and out of water 18 months into the voyage, they became desperate. With no hope of a fresh water source, they took what was the only recourse. They drank their own urine. Wrote one crewman, "It was surprisingly not unsavory, having no worse a taste than a flagon most foul with rancid port, as many I have tasted before." And after all, it did save their lives.   --- From Heartland Healing Center, http://www.heartlandhealing.com/pages/archive/urine_therapy/  SURVIVAL  "In Egypt, rescue workers found a 37-year-old man alive in earthquake rubble. He survived almost 82 hours by drinking his own urine. His wife, daughter and mother would not and they died."   ---Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News, October 16, 1992, from World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward    SURVIVAL  "Four Sri Lankan commandos who drifted in a boat more than 1,000 miles to Thailand after they had been ambushed and given up for dead were given a rapturous welcome when they returned home. 'They managed to survive on the boat by catching turtles and drinking urine,'a military officer said.  Reuter Report, August 14, 1990, World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward   SYPHILIS 180  “One Hariji Shri Raja Arjan aged 35 had syphilis and he was fully cured by urine therapy.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  SYPHILIS  “Shri Chhaganlal (Mangrol) informs that a farmer aged 30 had syphilis. He was completely cured by urine treatment.”  Manav Mootra by R.M. Patel  SYPHILIS  “R. Chaudbari, age 60, had syphilis, and there was pus formation and burning sensation on the spot. He suffered from this disease for two years. He began Urine Therapy by drinking it three times daily and putting urine-soaked pads on the spot during the whole night. He cured himself in only three weeks and cured himself completely from the deadly disease.”  Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'


 felt a whole crew of pixies and brownies with picks and shovels at work in the joint doing major repair
work. This activity was not entirely comfortable, but I knew it was constructive work, not destructive, so I joined the work crew
with my mind"s eye and helped the work along.
    It seemed my visualizations actually did help. Ever since, I"ve had the fasters I supervised use creative imagery or write
affirmations to help their bodies heal. There are lots of books on this subject. I"v e found that the techniques work far better on a
faster than when a person is eating normally.
    After breaking the fast it took me six weeks to regain enough strength that I could run my usual distance in my regular time;  it
took me six months to regai n my full 135 pound weight because I was very careful to break the fast slowly and correctly. Coming
off water with two weeks on dilute carrot juice I then added small portions of raw food such as apples, raw vegetables, sprou ts,
vegetable juices, and fina lly in the fourth week after I began drinking dilute carrot juice, I added seven daily well -chewed almonds
to my rebuilding diet. Much later I increased to 14 almonds, but that was the maximum amount of such highly concentrated fare
my body wanted digest a t one time for over one year. I found I got a lot more miles to the gallon out of the food that I did eat, and
did not crave recreational foods. Overall I was very pleased with my educational fast, it had taught me a great deal.
    If I had undertaken suc h a lengthy fast at a time when I was actually ill, and therefore had felt forced into it, my experience
could have been different. A positive mental attitude is an essential part of the healing process so fasting should not be un dertaken
in a negative, pr otesting mental state. The mind is so powerful that fear or the resistance fear generates can override the healing
capacity of the body. For that reason I always recommend that people who consider themselves to be healthy, who have no serio us
complaints, b ut who are interested in water fasting, should limit themselves to ten consecutive days or so, certainly never more
than 14. Few healthy people, even those with a deep interest in the process, can find enough personal motivation to overcome the
extreme bor edom of water fasting for longer than that. Healthy people usually begin protesting severely after about two weeks. If
there is any one vital rule of fasting, one never should fast over strong, personal protest. Anytime you"re fasting and you r eally
desire  to quit, you probably should. Unless, of course, you are critically ill. Then you may have no choice –its fast or die.

Common Fasting Complaints And Discomforts
    The most frequently heard complaints of fasters are headaches, dry, cracked lips, dizziness, blurred vision with black spots that
float, skin rashes, and weakness in the first few days plus what they think is intense hunger. The dizziness and weakness are really
real, and are due to increased levels of toxins circulating in the blood and from unavoidably low blood sugar which is a natu ral
consequence of the cessation of eating. The blood sugar does reestablish a new equilibrium in the second and third w eek of the fast
and then, the dizziness may cease, but still, it is important to expect dizziness at the beginning.
    It always takes more time for the blood to reach the head on a fast because everything has slowed down, including the rate of  the
heart  beat, so blood pressure probably has dropped as well. If you stand up very quickly you may faint. I repetitively instruct all  of
my clients to stand up very slowly, moving from a lying to a sitting position, pausing there for ten or twenty seconds, and t hen
rising slowly from a sitting to a standing position. They are told that at the first sign of dizziness they must immediately put their
head between their knees so that the head is lower than the heart, or squat/sit down on the floor, I once had a faster  who forgot to
obey my frequent warnings. About two weeks into a long fast, she got up rapidly from the toilet and felt dizzy. The obvious t hing
to do was to sit back down on the toilet or lie down on the bath rug on the floor, but no, she decided that bec ause she was dizzy she
should rush back to her bed in the adjoining room. She made it as far as the bathroom door and fainted, out cold, putting a d eep
grove into the drywall with her pretty nose on the way down. We then had to make an unscheduled visit to  a nose specialist, who
calmly put a tape -wrapped spoon inside her bent -over nose and pried it back to dead center. This was not much fun for either of us;
it is well worthwhile preventing such complications.
    Other common complaints during the fast inc lude coldness, due to low blood sugar as well as a consequence of weight loss and
slowed circulation due to lessened physical activity. People also dislike inactivity which seems excruciatingly boring, and s ome
are upset by weight loss itself. Coldness is best handled with lots of clothes, bedding, hot water bottles or hot pads, and warm
baths. Great Oaks School of Health was in Oregon, where the endlessly rainy winters are chilly and the concrete building neve r
seemed to get really warm. I used to dream of  moving my fasters to a tropical climate where I could also get the best, ripest fruits
to wean them back on to food.
    If the fast goes on for more than a week or ten days, many people complain of back discomfort, usually caused by over -worked
kidneys.  This passes. Hot baths or hot water bottles provide some relief. Drinking more fluids may also help a bit. Nausea is fairly
common too, due to toxic discharges from the gall bladder. Drinking lots of water or herbal tea dilutes toxic bile in the sto mach
and makes it more tolerable.
    Very few fasters sleep well and for some reason they expect to, certainly fasters hope to, because they think that if they sl eep all
night they will better survive one more deadly dull day in a state of relative unconscious ness. They find out much to their
displeasure that very little sleep is required on a fast because the body is at rest already. Many fasters sleep only two to four hours
but doze frequently and require a great deal of rest. Being mentally prepared for this  change of habit is the best handling.
Generalized low -grade aches and pains in the area of the diseased organs or body parts are common and can often be alleviated
with hot water bottles, warm but not hot bath water and massage. If this type of discomfort  exists, it usually lessens with each
passing day until it disappears altogether.
    Many fasters complain that their vision is blurred, and that they are unable to concentrate. These are really major
inconveniences because then fasters can"t read or eve n pay close attention to video -taped movies, and if they can"t divert
themselves some fasters think they will go stir crazy. They are so addicted to a hectic schedule of doingness, and/or being
entertained that they just can"t stand just being with themsel ves, forced to confront and deal with the sensations of their own body,
forced to face their own thoughts, to confront their own emotions, many of which are negative. People who are fasting release  a lot
of mental/emotional garbage at the same time as they  let go of old physical garbage. Usually the psychological stuff contributed
greatly to their illness and just like the physical garbage and degenerated organs, it all needs to be processed.
    One of the most distressing experiences that happen occasion ally is hair loss. Deprived of adequate nutrition, the follicles can
not keep growing hair, and the existing hair dies. However, the follicles themselves do not die and once the fast has ended a nd
sufficient nutrition is forthcoming, hair will regrow as we ll or better than before.
    There are also complaints that occur after the fast has been broken. Post -fast cravings, even after only two weeks of deprivation,
are to be expected. These may take the form of desires for sweet, sour, salt, or a specific fo od dreamed of while fasting, like
chocolate fudge sundays or just plain toast. Food cravings must be controlled at all costs because if acted upon, each indulg ence
chips away the health gains of the previous weeks. A single indulgence can be remedied by a day of restricting the diet to juice or
raw food. After the repair, the person feels as good as they did when the fast ended. Repeated indulgences will require anoth er
extended bout of fasting to repair. It is far better to learn self -control.

The Healing  Crisis And Retracing
    Certain unpleasant somatics that occur while fasting (or while on a healing diet) may not be dangerous or "bad." Two types, t he
healing crisis, and retracing, are almost inevitable. A well -educated faster should welcome these disc omforts when they happen.
The healing crisis (but not retracing) also occurs on a healing diet.
    The healing crisis can seem a big surprise to a faster who has been progressing wonderfully. Suddenly


that I  am" — to bless this publication and send it forth to those who have the wisdom
and need to use it.
True Early Signs of Cancer:
The true early signs of cancer are the signs of inadequate protein metabolism. They
are:
• Gas on the stomach or bowel
•Sudden weakness of the eyes
•Tired feeling most of the time
•Muscle weakness and cramps — first in the back, then in the chest
• Extreme mental depression
•Sudden change in hair texture or color
• Development of various hernias (only in slow-growing tumors)
•Confusion — difficulty in making even simple decisions
I  had cancer for more than three years before the true nature of the problem ever
dawned on me. At the height of the cancer, I  supposedly had about two months to
live. If I  had not discovered God's Laws concerning cancer and applied them very
diligently, I  would not be here to share this information.
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With few exceptions, by the time one discovers he has cancer he has had it for a
very long time. This was my situation. Now that I  really know all the true early signs
of cancer, I  also know that I  was being warned many months before my case became
clinical.
From time to time, I  would notice belching just a little gas, but I  didn't give it much
thought — just supposed I  had eaten a little too much. Eventually, I  began to pass gas
from the bowel, a little at first and finally so much that it was embarrassing to me and
also my family.
My First Warning
My hobby was antique automobiles. On one trip the family made to Colorado in our
1923 Cadillac, I  noticed that at dusk I  found it difficult to read the road signs. I  had to
be right up to them before they became legible. I  still didn't have the good sense even
to suspect I  had cancer, and didn't give the matter much more thought until two
months later when I  was showing some slides to the Antique Automobile Club. I
couldn't seem to get the pictures in focus. I  thought I  had damaged my camera, but
the club members said the pictures were very clear and that I'd better have my eyes
checked. Finally, I  gave in and made an appointment with the ophthalmologist for an
eye examination. To my horror, he prescribed trifocals. My protests were for naught,
and I  could see my pictures and road signs much better.
My Second Warning
Things went on about the same for several months, until I  began to notice that if I  sat
in one position for more than twenty minutes I  would have muscle aches, particularly
in the back. My physician finally gave me a muscle relaxant, after I'd visited him
several times with the same complaint. I  was still too naive to suspect cancer. The
medication didn't help much, and in another month or so I  began to have pains in my
chest. This of course upset me considerably, and I  rushed to the physician once more.
Over the next few months, several electrocardiograms were made and nothing out of
the ordinary showed, it couldn't, because the pain was from the chest muscles — a
frequent sign of cancer — but as usual, I  was oblivious to the true early warning
signs.
My Third Warning Went Unheeded
A long, long horrible period of mental depression followed — another true warning
sign that cancer was rearing its ugly head. I  went to the physician again and
practically begged for help, asking for an antidepressant drug or anything that would
help alleviate this chronic, severe depression. By this time, he was fed up with me
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and my complaints and he sat me down and carefully explained that there was
nothing wrong with me. My heart was better than his, and it was high time that I  stop
worrying about it; after all, it was only in my mind!
As cancer progresses, it gives off a toxin that makes one extremely depressed, and
there is a feeling of impending death a good part of the time. Gradually, during the
entire three years of early cancer growth in my body, I  became weaker and weaker.
By this time, I  knew something very tragic was taking place, but I  didn't know what,
and still didn't have any suspicion that it might be cancer.
My job, the work I  loved so very much, became distasteful. I  wanted to give it up and
start a new profession — anything to attempt regaining an interest in life. After all the
many years of college training for a job I  loved to do, I  was seriously contemplating
junking it all. After eight years of clinical practice and research, I  found myself ready
to throw in the towel. It was a terrible feeling to be so sick and not be able to
understand why or put a name on it. My thinking became fuzzy, unclear and
irrational.
A Fourth Warning — and still not an inkling in my mind what the culprit might be!
During these many months of severe depression, my hair began showing signs of
lifelessness, becoming brittle and coarse. I  was losing some, and what was left was
fast becoming gray.
Warning Five also escaped my attention!
Also, at this time, I  developed a hernia. This is typical of a person with malignancy,
since the malignancy is accompanied by muscle deterioration. Warning Five also
escaped my attention!
My Sixth Warning:
By this time I  was feeling so bad that I  reluctantly returned to my physician. He finally
admitted that there might be something wrong and sent me off to an internist. After
the passing of three month's time, during which the Beard Anthrone Cancer test had
proved extremely positive and I  had undergone many other tests and diagnostic
procedures including X-rays, the internist finally suggested biopsies of my pancreas,
liver, and intestines. He suspected that these operations would reveal cancer.
Although the biopsies were not performed, the physician's suspicions were correct.
My wife was privately told not only that I  had tumors in all three organs, but also
that in the doctor's opinion I  had no more than 18 months to live. And though I  had
begun to suspect the worst, another month passed before I  myself learned of all the
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facts. Meanwhile, the chief surgeon in our locale had ruled out full-scale surgery
because he thought I  was in such bad shape that I  wouldn't make it off the operating
table alive. My wife had been told to take me home and get our affairs in order as
promptly as possible, for it wouldn't be long before I'd pass away.
Ironically, though I  had been doing cancer research for several years, it had never
occurred to me that I  could have it myself. I  guess I  was just like thousands of people
who think it can happen to someone else — but not to them. Only the cancer victim
can understand the fear and despair that finally overwhelmed me. This hit me harder,
probably, than it would have the average person, because I  had been studying and
researching the details of cancer and had a firsthand insight into that horror of
horrors.
Since early childhood, I  experienced a deep and abiding interest in all facets of
medicine and I  had spent much of my life studying anything and everything I  could
find in the field. I  had spent two and one-half-years with the military medics and
fourteen years working my way through college in hospitals doing everything from
running electrocardiograms to assisting in surgery — viewing firsthand the complete
gamut of medical practices and witnessing the tragic decline and ultimate death of
hundreds of hopeless cancer victims.
With this great deal of knowledge about the medical community's various
approaches to cancer, I  knew that in spite of all the propaganda fed to the general
public about success rates with certain treatments, there were actually very few
people who survived the medical establishment's chemicals, surgical procedures, and
radiation treatments. I  didn't want to be another one of its statistics.
As soon as I  realized my true situation, I  decided not to take any new patients and
prayed that I  would be granted time to complete the work with the patients already
under my care. It took me about two weeks to overcome the terrific shock and to
wrestle with my fate.
After days of intensive thought and prayer, I  decided not to accept the fate of an
early death. Instead, I  accepted life and my duty to seek out God's Laws concerning
cancer and, if possible, apply them to myself and teach them to others.
My doctors had considered performing surgery on me, but they didn't think I  would
make it through the operation. I  was so near death. God, in his infinite wisdom, had
another path for me. Not being able to have surgery turned out to be a great blessing,
but of course I  didn't see it that way at the time. The only thing I  could do then was
regulate my diet. My life hung in such a delicate balance (another blessing), that I
could feel very clearly the effect of each food I  ingested. If I  ate wrong foods, I  could
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very easily tell it by the way I  felt.
As time


for her infant’s every need. She feels that she can appreciate her
children and vice versa all the more if she is fulfilling herself and
contributing to her family, her community and her culture on an
equal footing with the men in this world.
In this sort of family there is no subtle manipulation via guilt or
threats to keep the children dependent and responsible to the parents.
As the children mature, the parents don’t want their kids to visit
them out of obligation. Besides, the parents are too busy being effect-
ive in their own way to be sitting around waiting for children and
grandchildren to show up and give them a reason for living. Parents
like these don’t believe that they should spare their own children
all of the hardships that they suffered because they recognize that
the very act of working at a hardship is what gave them their own
self-confidence and self-194 / Your Erroneous Zonesesteem. They wouldn’t want to rob their children of such precious
experiences.
These parents perceive the desire of their children to struggle for
themselves, with the assistance but not overbearance of a caring
parent, as healthy and not to be denied. Hesse’s Demian talks about
the variety of paths to independence.
Sooner or later each of us must take the step that separates him
from his father, from his mentors; each of us must have some
cruelly lonely experience…I myself had not parted from my
parents and their world, the “luminous” world in a violent
struggle, but had gradually and almost imperceptibly become
estranged. I was sad that it had to be this way, and it made for
many unpleasant hours*
You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get
a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your
parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your chil-
dren, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and
turmoil for all concerned.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher summed it up perfectly in Her Son’s Wife:
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make
leaning unnecessary.
So be it. You can make nest-leaving a natural event, or one which
is loaded with trauma and which will haunt the child and the rela-
tionship forever. But you were also a child at one time, and if you
learned the psychological dependency routine well, then perhaps
when you married you substituted one dependent relationship for
another.
*Hermann Hesse, Demian  (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 104.DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 195Psychological Dependence and Marriage Crisis
You may have resolved your dependency on your parents, and
perhaps your relationship with your own children is under control
as well. Perhaps you recognize your children’s need for independ-
ence and are encouraging it. But you may still have a dependency
problem in your life. If you’re one of those people who left one de-
pendent relationship with your parents and entered into another
when you married, then you have an erroneous zone that needs
work.
Louis Anspacher wrote about marriage in America—
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which
the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the
obligation reciprocal.
There they are, the two ugly words, dependence and obligation,
which account for the state of marriage and rate of divorce in our
country. The simple fact is that most folks just don’t like marriage,
and while they may endure it, or get out of it, the psychological
casualties persist.
A relationship based on love, as was said earlier, is one in which
each partner allows the other to be what he chooses, with no expect-
ations and no demands. It is a simple association of two people who
love each other so much that each would never expect the other to
be something that he wouldn’t choose for himself. It is a union based
on independence, rather than dependence. But this sort of relation-
ship is so rare in our culture that it is almost mythological. Imagine
a union with the one you love, in which each of you can be whatever
you desire. Now consider the reality of most relationships. How
does that grisly dependency sneak in and muck up the works?196 / Your Erroneous ZonesA Typical Marriage
The thread that winds through most marriages is one of dominance
and submission. While the roles may shift regularly, different for
various marital situations, the thread is nevertheless present. One
partner dominates the other as a condition of the alliance. A case
history of a typical marriage and its psychological crisis points goes
something like that of our fictional couple below.
At the time of marriage, the husband is twenty-three and his wife
is twenty. He has slightly more education, and has secured the
money-earning prestige position, while the woman works as a sec-
retary, clerk, or perhaps in a profession dominated by women such
as teacher or nurse. The woman’s job is a filler, until she can become
a mother. After four years of marriage, there are two or three chil-
dren, and the woman is serving as a wife and mother in the home.
Her role is that of taking care of the house, her children and her
husband. From a job standpoint, her position is that of a domestic,
and psychologically she is in a submissive position. The man’s work
is given more significance, largely because he brings in money to
support the family. His successes become his wife’s successes, and
his social contacts become their friends. He is given more status in
the home, and the woman’s role is often one of making his life as
comfortable as she can. The woman spends the greater part of her
day interacting with children or she talks with neighborhood women
who are in the same psychological snare. When her husband has a
crisis on the job, it becomes her crisis, and generally speaking, any
objective observer would see that there is a dominant and a sub-
missive member in this arrangement. The woman has accepted and
perhaps sought out this kind of relationship, because it is all she has
ever known. Her marriage is modeled on that of her parents and
others she saw as she grew up. And more often than not, her depend-
ence on her husband merely replaced her dependence on her parents.
The man similarly soughtDECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE  / 197out a woman who was soft spoken, gentle, and who would reinforce
the fact that he was the breadwinner and headwinner in all interac-
tions. Thus, both people got what they were looking for, and what
they had seen all of their own lives in terms of how a marriage oper-
ates.
After several years of marriage, perhaps four to seven years, a
crisis begins to erupt. The submissive partner begins to feel trapped,
unimportant and dissatisfied because she is not making a significant
contribution. The man encourages his wife to be more her own
person, to be more assertive, and to take charge of her life and stop
feeling sorry for herself. These are the first messages that conflict
with what he wanted when he got married. “If you want to work,
why don’t you look for a job?” or “Go back to school.” He encourages
her to seek new outlets, to stop being so namby-pamby. In short, to
be something different than what he married, which was submissive
and domestic. The woman, until now, has always felt that any un-
happiness in her husband was her fault. “Where did I go wrong?”
If he’s unhappy or frustrated, she feels that she has been inadequate,
or that she must not be as attractive as she used to be. The submissive
partner resorts to her own subservient mind-set, and assesses all
male problems as being lodged in her own self.
At this time in the marriage the man is very much occupied with
job promotions, social contacts and professional striving. He is on
his way up, and a sniveling wife is something he cannot tolerate.
Because of his many opportunities to deal with a great number of
different people (something denied to his submissive partner) he is
changing. He has become even more self-assertive, demanding and
intolerant of weaknesses in others, including his family, Thus, his
admonitions to “get yourself together” to his submissive wife. This
is also a time when the husband may look for sexual outlets outside
the marriage. He has many opportunities and he seeks the compan-
ionship of more exciting women. Sometimes the submissive partner
begins some experimentation of her own. She may take on a volun-
teer job,198 / Your Erroneous Zonesenroll in school, seek therapy, have an affair of her own, most  of
which is enthusiastically supported by the husband.
Perhaps the submissive partner will begin to gain new insights
into her behavior. She sees her subservience as something that she
has chosen all her life, not just in her marriage. Her approval-seeking
behavior has now been challenged, and she begins to put herself on
the road to greater self-responsibility by eliminating all dependency
in her world, including that of her parents, her husband, her friends,
and even her children. She begins to gain self-confidence. She may
take on a job, and begin to make new friends. She begins to stand
up to her dominant husband, and stops taking all of the abuse that
has been her lot since the marriage began. She demands equality,
no longer satisfied to wait any longer for


uropath's point of view, I ascribed my
· ailment to improper food. As a votary of naturopathy I would nvt
accept treatment at the local Christian Medical College nor at the
American Hospital. But for examination. I was kept at the said
hospital, I took nature cure treatment and got myself cured. But due
to unsuitable food the. ailment arose again. Then in November 1972.
I took treatment of urine therapy and got cured in ten days. Today
also I follow urine treatment and keep myself fit. No doubt we
shou.ld take only simple and natural food. My diet consists of milk,
curds, boiled vegetables, dairy cream, fruit and green vegetables
(also raw). I avoid sugar but occasionally take jaggery and honey.
Now my age iis 67 years.
In 1973 I went to America. While returning in an aeroplane in
·July 1973, I suddenly developed acute pain in the stomach. I went to
the toilet and drank about 6 oz, of my urine. And within ten minutes
the pain disappear~. After 15 days I felt acurepainin the inner side
of my right foot. I thotJght I would not be able to walk freely for ·
. some days. I put urine-pack\On the same night and overnight I got
about 50 % benefit, so that I.could attend the courts. During second
night urine-packs cured my f6ot completely.
An agriculture officer of the Bihar Government was syffering from
nephrites. He was treated at the Billaur Mission Hospital twice but
could not be cured. At last the doctors there declared their failure. SOME VIEWS : 243
The Jisidih Nature Cure Ashram's. Dr. Pdddar also deci'ined to treat
as the case was deemed beyond even Nature Cure. Then ti;leofficer
stayed outside the Ashram in some house. At my suggest)Oil and
u,nder,my supervision hefollowed urine therapy and regained a·new
nre..
.'Bh.agat Karamchand is a private steno~typist of 62 years. His heaq
was fast becoming bald. On my advice h~ adopted wine therapy
and he regained all his earlier hirsute growth.
Shri Dharam ·.prakash, B. A., is a military.contractor of 55 years
age. WJth the urir.e treatment he remove.d his di,sease of the prostate
gland,within three weel<s.
.ShrJ Mahendr;:t Pal, B. Com., is a young man of 26 years, His father
is a rich factory owner. He was having serious. stomachache. He
stayed at Gorakhpur and Bareili Nature Cure Homes for several
mbnths but had no benefit. Then I made him undergo urine.
treatrhent for two months. Besides lrinking and massage, I made him ·
undertake fasts,_'/i'th urine also. Now he is completely cured and is
happy.
3. Shri ~aligtam Gosai's Experiences : Sh:rr Saligram, dosai, Jr.
Publicc..tion Officer,'F.C.L Ltd., Sindri Unit, Sindri (Dhaubad). He is
also a press correspondent. He has a keen interest in nat~re ~ure: He
was so much impresssed by his talk on urine therapy With b1s fnend
Shri Gupta whom he visited, that on return to: Sindri h~ too~ up the
practice. In his letter of 31-1.0-1973 to Shri Gupta he 'Y~ites i
"Last June 4 to 61 had some pain in my chest. On june.7 morning
1 took urine, and the pain vanished. Since thenwithout hesitation I
drink once or, several time. daily the invaluable drink; Shivambu
Water of life. My experiences in this field in brief are:
· 1. My complains of displaced rectal membranes has been cured
so %. Now they can contract L.:tJ to 50 % of their earlier capacity.
There seems no need for any major operation.
2. my piles subsided within a month. 244 : A.UTO-URINE THERAPY
3. I can work for 1 6 hours a day without fatigue.
4. Once at a 10 -day conference I used to rel'l'lain awake tilll-30
a.m. or even later and yet was well.
3. My paunch is decreasing and hipe are thil'lning and becoming
more flexible. For the last four and half months I have no trouble in
my stomach and my tummy is flat.
6. You say urine therapy creates rejuvenation. Yes. I find my grey
hair getting black. Only the tips are now looking. grey. 1 am 55 years
old.
7. By cleani!'lg teach with toothpowder and urine my loose teeth
h~ve become firm and there is no bleeding since then.
8. From Septiimber, I began washing my eyes with my urine. My
yesight has become keener and they do not tire now.
9. From 1st september I massage the whole body with one-week
-old urine. It is invigorating. Then after about two hours of gardening
I bathe. In the morning first I put fresh urine in the ears. Then I put
drops of a week-old strained urine in the eyes which cools the eyes.
10. When squatting or in long jpurney·my rectal portion used to
project outside. Now it comes out only when I am evacuating.
11. From Ahmedabad about ten people have demanded the
copies of the book on auto-urine and have started practising it. :
4. Shri Chandulal Dave's Experiences: Shri Chandulal Kashiram
Dave (25 Brahman Mitra Mandai Society, Ahmedabad-6) is a retired
head master taking k~en interest in spiritual matters and dietretics.
He is 84. For physicai\Mdmental health, he feels, proper food and
spiritual exercises are necessar~J His well-known book Sasti Poshak
Vanagio ("Cheap and wholeso~e recipes") has been printed for five
times. He is always active to incorporate in his life the practices of
yoga, nature cure and auto-urine therapy. Writing in Bhauf1liputar
·an 26-6-1975 he states: SOME VIEWS : 245
"For years I have noted that to stop bleeding from injury and to
heal the wound auto-urine is one of the most effective remedies and
immu.nizers. I have tried it when I was bitten by a pet dog of one of
my ;elatives and found that it stopped bleeding. To describe a most
uno!Jiigirig person we say in Indian languages, ''He wouldn't even
pass urine on an injured finger. This saying speaks volumes for the
knowledge gained from age-old exeprience.
Sev~raf years age. I had read in Ayurvedic books that human
urine is a medicine. One leader Shri Morarjibhai Desai has
benefited from this as he has been practising auto-urine therapy for
sever.al years. When I had occasion to see him some months before,
he confirmed the Ayurvedic description of urine. Taking impiration
from the great mah I have also started drinking urine early in the
morning. I experience as though some new energy is coursing
through my blood vessels I have now clear and ample motions. By
putting a few drops in both the nostrils my complaint of congestion
also has vanished."
5. Shri Morarji Desai's Experiences : Since the late shri
Raojibhai told me that Shri Morarjibhai Desai also practises
auto-urine therapy I was keen to know his views on this. About five
years age. I had met his with Shri paragjibhai Desai in Delhi. He had
theh told that with auto-urine his constipation has been cured and
auto-urine has proved for him to be elixir.
Even in his 80th year·he could trek the Siddhachal.
On October 2, 1977 while narrating his own observation on
auto-urine, he said that once he had been operated upon for
cataract. But the operation was not successful. B.ut he could remove
his eye-trouble by drinking auto-urine. He could cure himself of
·deafness also by drinking urine. Incidentally, he said auto-urine can
cure all diseases.
In his letter to Shri pannalal Jhaveri of 13-9-77 he writes that a
gentleman of Rajkot had under gone oper•tion for five times to
remove cancerous growth, but without any success. Doctors, had 246 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
given up all hope. But With auto-urine treatment he was· cdmpl~tely
ru~; ~.
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again
to show  how necessary  it is to live on a varied and well‐ balanced  diet. It
is significant  that until recently, the Medical Profession  ignored
Potassium  (potash) as a salt of any importance  to the human  body.  And
yet it has since been discovered  by exponents  of the Biochemic  System
that a deficiency  of one or other  forms of potash is a contribut,ng  cause
in most diseases ‐especially  in cancer and  growths. Nevertheless,  this
was already discovered  by Dr. Schuessler,  of Oldenburg,  Germany,  in
the latter  half  of last century. Yet it was only brought  into greater
prominence  in 1912 by Dr. Forbes‐Ross (already mentioned)  who had
probably never even heard  of Dr. Schuessler  or of his momentous  but
largely  ignored  discovery.  In his General Sketch of The Biochemic
System of Medicine  G. W. Carey, M.D., significantly  points out that a
lack of any of the inorganic  cell salts  will set up certain symptoms  which
are merely  Nature's method  of indicating  that one or more  of the vital
workers of the body are absent  and  must be supplied. "Each mineral
salt has a special  work to do. Each  has an affinity for certain organic
materials  used in building up the human frame. Thus, Kali mur (chloride
of potash) molecules  work with fibrin. If a deficiency  occurs in this salt,
a portion of the fibrin not having inorganic  salt to unite with becomes a
disturbing  element and  may  be thrown out of the  vital  circulation
through  the nasal passages or lungs... producing  conditions  called
catarrhs, colds, coughs, etc.”  101
 Here,  then, we have the biochemic  explanation  of colds a kindred
ailments such as leucorrhoea  (the whites) which  when the discharge  is
milky white,  indicates a deficiency  of chloride of potash in the female
organism.  (Carey.) I think I have now produced  sufficient  evidence  to
show  that the common  cold together with all catarrhal conditions,
whether acute or chronic, is primarily the result of wrong  feeding, on
which  I shall  enlarge  in a later  chapter.
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 CHAPTER  XVI,
URINE‐THERAPY  ON ANIMALS

When certain  people want  to disparage  a given treatment  they ascribe
its efficacy to Faith. For instance some opponents  of homoeopathy
have glibly dismissed  it as a "faith‐cure." Yet the homoeopath  has an
argument  to hand which  soon  squashes that assumption;  he contends
that homoeopathy  cures animals when in the nature of things they
cannot know  they  are being treated. Cures of hundreds  of animals  are
mentioned  in homoeopathic  literature.  One is of a cat which  had
paralysis  of its hind legs. After various treatments  had been tried, its
owner gave it mag.  phos in a colossally  high attenuation,  and  cured it
completely  in a very short  time.  The sceptic will say "coincidence."  To
which  one can only retort: "How  astonishing  is the credulity of the
sceptic!"  This allusion to homoeopathy  on animals  is so far relevant in that one
or two "credulous  sceptics" have even said that urine‐therapy must  be
a "faith‐cure." I can but smile and  employ the same argument  as have
the homoeopaths.  Let me substantiate  my argument  with a few facts.
It so happens that  my grandfather  was rather well  known in the sixties
and  seventies  of last century  for his way with  horses, dogs, etc.,  and  it
was from him I Iearned that urine and  even cow‐dung were his
favourite remedies  in successfully  treating the ailments and  injuries of
animals. He thought  nothing of fasting cows, horses and  dogs up to a
month on water and  cow's urine, to administer  which  he used a horn;
though when thirsty they  would drink  without  this adjunct. Having 103
 learnt much from my grandfather,  I treated animals  myself. It was often
a long and laborious  job, and  some adventures  I could quote are not
without  their humorous  side.  I remember  I once  fasted  a cow, which
had tetanus, for 120 days, during which  I rubbed it for eight hours  a day
with the urine (caught in buckets) of other  cows. To drink  I gave it its
own urine (at first it was thick, yellow and  concentrated  as mustard)
and  the urine of healthcows.  It also  drank plain cold water. My vaccine
patient lost all its hair, went to skin and  bone, but made a complete
recovery,  regaining  its natural  weight on grassfeeding  in about two
months.
I have also treated dogs by the urine‐therapy  fast. One method of
inducing a dog to drink urine (though  they  will often drink a bitch's
urine) is to fasten the animal  to a tree and  then syringe its head with a
fine spray of the vital fluid. I used my own newly passed  for the purpose.
As the urine drips  down over its face the dog will lap it up.
Case‐history. Airedale terrier " Rough. " Treated him for a swelling in his
abdomen  which  developed  after he had  been run  over by the back
wheel of a motorcar.  He fasted  19 days on my urine and  cold water
when desired, and