, harmony
and mutual understanding, and the elements
will respond to the greeting — all you have to do
is feel it.
However, generally, a certain weakness is nor-
mal, and one simply needs to be prepared for it.
Usually, a person begins to get tired on the sec-
ond day, and there may be subsequent periods of
time w hen one may have a difficult time even
getting up. But none of that is a reason to worry.
At any time when strong fatigue is felt, it's best
to sit or lie down, and rest. It's not, however,
good to lie around for too long, it's best to take a
walk in the f resh air after resting, and you will
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lief, when a person no longer wants to stay in one
place, he feels like walking and communicating.
Many remain in excellent spirits up until the
completion of fasting.

10.3. Chilliness or fever (more typical of dry
fasting)
During the cold season, many fasters feel very
chilly. This is not a reason to worry either, you
should simply dress warmer. It's typical of many
to put on 2 -3 pairs of warm undergarments, sev-
eral swea ters, etc.
However, not everyone feels chilly. There are
people who merely suffer from the cold. They
endure hunger easily well both in the summer
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chilly. They should take more walks, take hot
baths (pine baths are best) and … pour cold wa-
ter over themselves. Short dowsing is recom-
mended, just for the impact on the thermorecep-
tors.
If, despite all the efforts, a person is still chilly,
he or she should try to decrease the water intake
volume or drink hot water. Figuratively speak-
ing, water extinguishes the fire element, while
without water, the fire flares up full-force.
Very often the chilliness spontaneously trans-
forms into fever. If the flushes get strong, one
can undress and drink water. In fact, chillin ess
and fever are very typical during fasting. But
while fever is not dangerous, chilliness is actually
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warm up in one way or another.

10.4. Bad breath
On the second or third day, the breath acquires
a foul smell  (if the body is not sufficiently
cleansed). This is the smell of the insufficiently
oxidized compounds being released. Usually the
acetone smell prevails. However, putrid, malo-
dorous, and other similarly 'pleasant' smells are
sometimes mixed in. In those who fast up to a
crisis for the first time, the breath may become
so foul that it may be difficult to remain in the
same room with the person. Imagine how many
toxins he or she may have carried in their body!
In the course of the body cleansing, the smell
grows weaker and after day 12 -18 it becomes
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release as many toxins as possible. The methods
are those already familiar to us — walks, physical
activity, water and other procedures that stimu-
late metabolis m.

10.5. Dimmed vision, vertigo
Often happens after a quick rise from a sitting
or a supine position (the so -called gravitational
or orthostatic collapse). A few seconds later, the
dimmed vision sensation usually passes, but the
person may fall during thi s time, while con-
sciousness is not typically entirely lost.
This state is caused by a sharp re -distribution
of blood, the volume of which decreases during
fasting. There is no danger in this, yet getting up
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chair or a wall (particularly in the bathroom af-
ter a warm bath.
Dimmed vision is most often encountered and
most clearly pronounced in tall thin people.
Those who spend a lot of time outdoors, don't
stay in bed for excessive periods of time, and are
engag ed in interesting activities are far less
prone to these unpleasant symptoms.

10.6. Headache
A headache is a sign of severely contaminated
blood. Most often headaches are present prior to
the crisis. After the crisis, headaches occur when
a person spends a lot of time in stuffy spaces or
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through brea thing.
Headaches pass if we assist oxygen in burning,
and waste removal systems in removing waste.
Thus, it's best to take more walks, perform ene-
mas and water treatments, resorting to sorbents
is also possible. Dissolve 3 tablespoons of
sorbent in 1 glass  of water and drink the solu-
tion. Place the sorbent in your mouth, like pills,
and wash down with boiled water.
Of course, this method does not have a deep
and persistent detoxifying effect on the body,
since no meaningful reconstruction takes place
in such a short time in the work of the gastroin-
testinal tract and detoxification systems. The
main goal of single -time sorbent intake is the
resolution of relatively simple daily tasks. Thus,
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substances. Depending on whether the desired
result has been achieved, the intake may be re-
peated 2 -3 times.
In the presence of strong pain, an additional
enema may be done. No medicine should be
taken when fasting.

10.7. Sleep disturbances
Overpowering sleepiness often comes over
people during fasting. There's no reason to com-
bat it, it's best to sleep as much as you want. Just
don't forget about cleansing and walks.
Sometimes, on the contrary, the desire to sleep
disappears when fasting. If it does not impose se-
rious discomforts, you can stay awake for as long
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of ability to sleep, then, after 3 -4 days of insom-
nia, after depleting the regular range of methods
(4 to 5 -hour daily walks, baths, shower), the fast
should be broken, and should be repeated in 2 or
3 months. In serious cases, a specialist's consul-
tation is necessary.

10.8. Pain in various parts of the body
Pain during a fast may often be frightening. It's
high time to remember the law of introducing
order, namely, the fact that when new order is
introduced, it always begins with a temporary
disorder. If you start to combat it, the new order
will not be introduced. All the symptoms during
fasting are usually short -lived and pass quickly.
The symptom demonstrates that the  body has
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tissues. This is the only meaning of the symp-
tom, and there is no point in searching for other
explanations. If something begins to hurt during
fasting, it means that the body is grasping onto it
and the restoration has begun. If you've fasted up
to a problem rooted your early childhood, the
cleansing is close to completion. During fasting
all the diseases emerge for a short time in reverse
temporal order. It is extremely rare for the pain
to persist f or a long time. Of course, that's fright-
ening, yet one simply has to live through it.  I
don't know of any cases of someone suffering
from ignoring the 'hunger symptoms.' There are
more afflictions from breaking fast before time.
The pain usually subsides without a trace several
days later, but sometimes returns. It depends on
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 and a few contain more. Surprisingly, the  vegetables we commonly eat raw range from about 10
to 30% protein. (V egetables are so low in calories, however, that even hu ge quantities add very little overall to one’s daily protein
percentage.) Nonetheless, when we calculate the caloronutrien t ratio of a week’s worth of food consisting strictly of a variety of raw
fruits and vegetables, it generally weighs in just shy of 5% of calori es as top-quality protein. A few ounces of nuts or seeds puts us at
around 8% protein, well into the adequate and healthful range.
Mainstream nutritional science defines protein quality in terms  of how efficiently the protein promotes body growth, rather than
whether it produces health. Thus, milk and egg protein are considered the h ighest quality. However, in the words of T. Colin
Campbell, “There is a mountain of compelling research showing that  ‘low-quality’ plant protein … is the healthiest type of
protein.” 44
Although many people are surprised to hear it, they understand the logic of  this line of thought when they stop to consider
what anthropoid primates in the wild eat: a diet that is made up primarily  of fruits and vegetables. We have never heard that
chimpanzees or orangutans—which are typically five times str onger than humans, pound for pound—need more protein than the
amount they get from their plant-based diet.
 Americans Eat 16% Protein
As a percentage of calories consumed, the standard American diet, reple te with meat, dairy, and eggs, runs in the teens. As
stated above, the bell curve that describes protein consumption for the vast  majority of the population ranges from 11 to 21% of
calories from protein. Outliers on the low end include the small population  of people who eat low-fat vegan fare, who can easily and
healthfully reduce that number to single digits. At the high end, peopl e who intentionally consume high-protein diets can approach
30%, but only bodybuilders and athletes who eat massive quantities of egg whi tes and isolated protein powders are likely to reach
40 or 50 + percent protein.
People are generally doubtful that protein could comprise such a small per centage of their diets, but I am not making these
numbers up. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average U.S. protein consumption was 15.5% for men
and 15.1% for women in 2000. These numbers have been consistent for decades; in 1970 the y were 16.5% and 16.9%. 45
The U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowances, 10th Edition (1989) says, “Food consump tion data from the U.S. USDA ’s
1977–1978 and 1985 surveys indicate that 14 to 18% of the total food energy intake is derive d from protein. Despite wide
variations in food energy intake, this proportion remains similar for both s exes and all age groups except infants. There is also little
change as a function of household income, urbanization, or race. Food items li kely to be underreported in surveys (e.g., alcoholic
beverages, confections) would provide energy but little protein; hence, t he percentage of energy from protein may be
overestimated. 46
How can it be that as a nation we gorge on “high-protein” foods, yet we en d up with less than 20% of our calories from
protein? The answer is that the vast majority of our commonly consume d “protein” foods—meat, egg, and dairy products, as well as
all nuts and seeds, contain such an overwhelming amount of fat that th e protein numbers go way down as a percentage of total
calories consumed. For example:

Eggs contain more than 60% fat.
“70% lean” ground beef also weighs in at 60% fat.
Cheddar cheese contains 72% fat; cream cheese 88%.
Almonds and sunflower seeds each contain 73% fat.

In truth, there really is no such thing as a “high-protein” diet—a t least not one in which protein comprises the majority of a
person’s calories. Typical quantities of high-protein “superfoods”  increase protein consumption as a percentage of daily calories
very little. For example, 10 grams of spirulina provides about 7 grams of  protein, which might increase one’s protein percentage
from 16 to 17.2%. In other words, without serious powdered protein supplementation, most pe ople would find it extremely difficult
to consume even a third of their total calories from protein on a sustaine d basis.
This is good news, indeed, for even the 10% of calories from protein that I recomm end is in truth the maximum that can
reasonably be considered healthful, in my opinion.

The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein
To listen to the proponents of the meat industry, one would think we are in imm inent danger of disease and death if we fail to
eat meat three times a day. The truth is that eating meat this ofte n causes the very conditions we’re taught to fear. This is a surpris e
to most people, who have been taught, incorrectly, that they need large amou nts of protein to be healthy. Actually, the reverse is
true: Most people suffer from an overdose of protein each day, and this account s for a great deal of our ill health.
Too much protein in our diets is associated with all manner of health impa irments, including such symptoms as constipation and
other digestive disorders that often lead to toxemia (toxic blood and tissues ) and, eventually, cancer. Autoimmune dysfunction,
arthritis, and all other autoimmune conditions, premature aging, impai red liver function, kidney failure, osteoporosis, and many other
degenerative and pathogenic conditions result from eating more protein  than we need.
In general, protein-based foods are highly acid forming in the human body (e ven the high-protein plants, such as legumes).
This is because their predominant minerals are the acidic min erals—chlorine, phosphorus, and sulfur. To maintain homeostasis, the
body must counterbalance the acidity caused by excess protein consumption. Unfortunately, it does so in part by taking a precious
alkaline mineral—calcium—from our bloodstream. The body replaces  calcium into the bloodstream, where calcium levels must
remain relatively constant, by removing it from our bones and teeth, set ting the stage for osteoporosis and tooth decay.
It is no coincidence that fruits and vegetables contain just the rig ht amounts of protein to build and maintain the human body.
Nor is it a coincidence that the minerals they supply are predominantl y the alkaline ones: calcium, sodium, magnesium, and
potassium.

Calculating Your Protein Intake The following examples show how a to calculate protein intake and how to conv ert gram measurements to percentage of
calories. Calculations are based on the U.S. RDA of 0.36 grams of protein per pound of body  weight (the upper  limit of protein
intake on the 80/10/10  diet).
My guidelines vary from these slightly, as I make my recommendations  as a percentage of total calories consumed rather than
by body weight. I believe this system works far better, because it allows for  individual differences in fuel use, which can vary by a
factor of ten  for extremely sedentary people and extremely active people of the same w eight.

125-Pound Woman: 45g
0.36 grams of protein  125 pounds = 45 grams of protein per day.
45 grams of protein contain approx. 180 calories (45  4 = 180).
If this woman is sedentary and eats about 1,800 calories per day, this amount of pr otein would come to 10% of her total
calories for the day.
If this woman is more active and eats perhaps 2,300 calories per day, 180 calories of  protein would amount to 8%.

175-Pound Man: 63g
0.36 grams of protein  175 pounds = 63 grams of protein per day.
63 grams of protein contain approx. 252 calories (63  4 = 252).
If this man is sedentary and eats about 2,400 calories per day, this amount of prot ein would be just over 10% of his calories
for the day.
If this man is more active and eats 3,000 calories per day, 252 calories of protein w ould amount to 8%.

In light of the near-double safety factor of the U.S. RDA, I have no concern s when I see my clients consuming even less protein
relative to their size. In my experience, about 5% of calories from protein, especially when it is high quality and unadulterated by
heat, is adequate and healthful.
That last statement, “5% of calories is adequate and healthful,” is not  a radical concept, not by a long shot. If you have any
question whatsoever that this level of protein intake is healthy, or if  you want indisputable evidence of the toxicity of higher protein
consumption, I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of T. Colin Campbe ll’s outstanding book, The China Study. 47  I cannot
recommend it highly enough.
A consummate nutritional scientist, Dr. Campbell was


 that millions of people wouldwant to become addicted to them. Because I make such a point of getting in my
workout every day, my husband has accused me of being an endorphin junkie,
and he is right! I admit it, I’m really hooked on the feeling of well being Iconsistently get from any sustained exercise. I defend my addiction staunchlybecause it is the healthiest addiction I know of.
I have also been accused of carrying exercise to extremes, and I admit to that
also. For a few years I trained for Ironman triathlons. I now think doing ironmandistances is immoderate and except for a few remarkable individuals with “iron”constitutions, training that hard can only lead to a form of exhaustion that is nothealth promoting. I have become much more sensible in my “old” age, and inrecent years have limited my participation to the Olympic distance triathlons. Iwas on the Canadian team at the World Championship in 1992, and intend to doit again in 1995. I do not find the Olympic distance exhausting, in fact I think it isgreat fun and truly exhilarating. I get to see all these wonderful age groupcompetitors from all over the world who look and feel fantastic. It does my soulgood to see a group of people aging so gracefully, not buying into the popularnotion that old age is inevitably disabling, depressing, and ugly. Sport brings adegree of balance to my life after spending so much time in the presence of thesick. I plan to maintain my athletic activities into old age, barring accident or otherunforeseen obstacles to fitness.
To maintain basic fitness it does not matter so much what form of exercise is
chosen, as long as it is not damaging to the skeletal system or connective tissues.Many people are unable to run due to foot, knee, hip, or back problems, butalmost everyone can walk. Walking outside is better than inside on a treadmill,and walking hills is better than walking on flat ground. Exercise machines such asstationary bikes, cross country ski machines, and stair steppers work well for alot of people who live in the city, especially in the winter, or for those who hateexercise. Whatever you choose to do, it is important to at least double the restingpulse for 30 minutes no less than four days a week. This is the absolute minimumrequired to maintain the health and function of the cardiovascular-pulmonary
system. If your resting pulse is 70, you must walk, jog, ski, bike, swim or what
have you, fast enough to keep the pulse at 140 beats per minute for at least 30minutes.
I have a strong preference to exercising outside in isolated places where there
is only me and the forest, or only me and the river. Running along logging roads inthe hilly back country, or swimming in the green unpolluted water of a forest riveris a spiritual experience for me. It is a time to meditate, to commune with nature,and to clear my mind and create new solutions. The repetitive action of running orwalking or swimming, along with the regular deep breathing in clean air, with nodistractions except what nature provides is truly health promoting. Sharing theseactivities with friends or family can also be great fun and some of the best in socialinteractions. It is one of my favorite ways of visiting with people. I don’t expectother people to be as enthusiastic about exercise as I am, but I do hope thateveryone will make an effort to be minimally fit as an ongoing part of their healthprogram into old age.
Diet For A Long, Long Life
Some people not only want to be healthy, but they want to live in good health
long past the normal life span projected by statistical tables for Homo Sapiens.
Dr. Roy Walford, a well-respected medical research gerontologist who has beenactively studying longevity for many years, is one of those. He has scientificallydemonstrated with accepted studies that a qualitative life span up to at least 115years of age is reasonably attainable by the average person if they start workingon it no later than about 50 years of age, though earlier is much better.
Walford’s principles of extending life are very simple. All you have to do is
restrict your caloric intake to about 1,500 per day, and water fast two days aweek. Or alternatively, reduce your caloric intake to 1,200 per day and fast onlyone day a week on water. And make sure that every single bit of food you do eatis packed with nutrition, every single calorie, without exception. You continue this
program for the rest of your life along with moderate daily exercise and high but
reasonable dosages of vitamins, minerals, and also take a few exotic foodsupplements. The supplement program is not particularly expensive nor extreme,Walford’s supplement program is more moderate than the life extension program Irecommend for all middle-aged and older people. The best foods for this type ofprogram is a largely raw food diet (80%) with a predominance of sprouts andbaby greens, some cooked vegetables, and raw nuts and seeds. And make sureyou get 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise every other day.
While Dr. Walford’s focus is on caloric reduction while maintaining sufficient
nutrition, most other life extensionists focus on increasing the nutrition side of theequation for health without bothering to reduce caloric intake. This approach ismuch easier because essentially, it involves gobbling nutritional supplements by thehandfuls without requiring self-discipline, though it can get quite expensive. I’llhave more to say about this approach in the next chapter, which is about vitamins.
In this book I can’t explain all the aspects of prolongation of life through
conscious life-style choice. Those who are interested are referred to theBibliography.
Chapter Six
Vitamins and
Other Food Supplements
From The Hygienic Dictionary
Vitamins. [1] The staple foods may not contain the same nutritive substances as in former times....
Chemical fertilizers, by increasing the abundance of the crops without replacing all the exhaustedelements of the soil, may have indirectly contributed to change the nutritive value of cereal grains andof vegetables.... Hygienists have not paid sufficient attention to the genesis of diseases. Theirstudies of conditions of life and diet, and of their effects on the physiological and mental state ofmodern man are superficial, incomplete, and of too short duration. They have, thus, contributed to theweakening of our body and our soul. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown.
I have already explained the hygienist’s view of why people get sick. The
sequence of causation goes: enervation, toxemia, alternative elimination, disease.However, there is one more link in this chain, a precursor to enervation that, forgood and understandable reasons, seemed unknown to the earlier hygienists. Thatprecursor is long term subclinical malnutrition. Lack of nutrition effects virtuallyeverybody today. Almost all of us are overfed but undernourished.
I have already explained that one particular head of broccoli does not
necessarily equal another head of broccoli; the nutritional composition ofapparently identical foods can be highly variable. Not only do different samples ofthe same type of food differ wildly in protein content, amino acid ratios andmineral content, their vitamin and vitamin-like substances also vary according tosoil fertility and the variety grown.
These days, food crop varieties are bred for yield and other commercial
considerations, such as shipability, storage life, and ease of processing. In pre-industrial times when each family propagated its own unique open-pollinatedvarieties, a natural selection process for healthy outcomes prevailed. If the family’sparticular, unique varieties carried genes for high nutrition levels, and if the family’sland was fertile enough to allow those genes to manifest, and if the family kept upits land’s fertility by wise management, their children tended to survive the gauntletof childhood illness and lived to propagate the family’s varieties and continue thefamily name. Thus, over time, human food cultivars were selected for theirnutritional content.
But not any longer! These days, farming technology with its focus on bulk yield
and profit, degrades the nutritional content of our entire food supply. Evencommercial organically grown food is no better in this respect.
Subclinical, life-long, vitamin and mineral deficiencies contribute to the onset of
disease; the malnourished body becomes increasingly enervated, beginning theprocess of disease. Vitamin supplements can increase the body’s vital force,reversing to a degree the natural tendency towards degeneration. In fact, somemedical gerontologists theorize that by using vitamins it might be possible torestore human life span to its genetically programmed 115 years without doinganything else about increasing nutrition from our degraded foods or paying muchattention to dietary indiscretions. Knowing what I do about toxemia’s effects Idoubt vitamins can allow us to totally ignore what we eat, though supplements cancertainly help.
More than degraded nutritional content of food prompts a thinking person to
use food supplements. Our bodies and spirits are constantly assaulted andinsulted by modern life in ways our genetics never intended us to deal with. Todaythe entire environment is mildly toxic. Air is polluted; water is polluted; our foodsupply contains traces of highly poisonous artificial molecules that our bodies haveno natural ability to process and eliminate. Our cities and work places are full of
loud, shocking noises that trigger frequent adrenaline rushes and other stress
adaptations. Our work places are full of psychological stresses that humans neverhad to deal with before.
Historically, humans who were not enslaved have been in control of
determining their own hour to hour, day to day activities, living on their ownlargely self-sufficient farms


. Everyone would be a drug addict. All ad-mit that we cannot live without foods, but we can live without drugs.
There is a time for food. There is a time for drugs. There is never a time when the abuse of either is excusable. God will not hold him guiltless who abuses the privileges, or con-
sents to be abused by the intemperance of the use of foods or drugs.
No one is down on the use of foods. No one is down on the intelligent use of drugs.  CONCLUSION: Most people are down on that which they are not
up on. Jesus, the Messiah, and the Apostle Paul said these words: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge,
ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be meas-ured to you again" (Matt. 7: 1-2; Romans 2).
The medical doctors who call others in the healing arts, or those
teaching the RBTI health message, "quacks" should look at their face in a mirror to see if they look like a duck. One thing is sure, if the Bi-ble is true, those who judge others are either a hypocrite or a quacker. 56 Remember, there is no such thing as a seriously dead hypocrite. The
dead cannot judge, neither can a dead duck "quack."
I have been practicing health and teaching the health message as it
is written in the Bible. This health message begins in the first chapter
of Genesis: "I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tr ee, in which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed to you it shall be for meat" (l :29). "I will even set my
face against the soul that eateth blood... For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Lev. 17:10-11). In other words, we should take the blood out of the meat. God gave man the right to eat any animal immediately after the flood, but in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus God gave Mo-ses the instruction concerning the clean and the unclean animals.
In Leviticus 17 we are given rules for the sanitation of the clean
and unclean meats.
The unclean meats will not necessarily keep you out of heaven,
but you will probably die and get where you are going to spend eterni-ty a lot quicker.
When I was a young physicist I wondered why God said that a
hog was unclean. I reasoned that in that day when Moses wrote that the hog was a scavenger and was around leper colonies, and things of that nature, so was unclean. Today we take a vegetarian and keep him on floor 10 in hospitals, yet we keep the unclean animal and feed him on grain; we wash the fins and he is a "clean" animal. But God says he is unclean. I spent seven years trying to prove that the hog was clean. Do you know what I learned? Absolutely nothing.
I found that the meat of a hog was the lowest of all the meats, not
enough to make any such a drastic conclusion, but it is unclean. Noth-ing could I find that I could say he was very unclean as far as chemis-try was concerned. But one day a man about my age (back in the '30's), came into the laboratory and said he had been to the doctor that day and was told that he had cancer and had less than a year to live, and that the cancer was inoperable. He said, "Mr. Reams, medicine has failed and you just have to help me."
This was after I had discovered frequency and had been given the
perfect equation. What I did to this man in order to prove both of the 57 discoveries was to give him a gram scale to weigh his foods and told
him to take it home and weigh the food in the gram weight. "Eat all
you want, whatever you want. Write it down and come to see me eve-ry day at 2 p.m. And I mean exactly 2 p.m."
I kept this up for three months, and the man was getting worse.
Then I took the three-month data that I had collected and noticed that every day that he had eaten ham, bacon, sausage, pork chops, spare ribs, shrimp, lobster, tuna, mackerel, oysters, or foods of this nature, that the energy rating decreased faster than it did the other days. I took him off all these unclean foods, plus iced tea and chocolate, and put him on a diet. He immediately began to recover. He is still living. I talked to him in July, 1977.
From this I learned, after studying another two or three years, that
the unclean meats digest on an average in about three hours, which re-leases too much heat energy in the body and causes one to grow old too fast. Then I began to advocate that one not eat the unclean foods whatsoever.
I have seen while doing work for medical doctors in hospitals, pa-
tients who looked 70 and 80 years old and were in their late thirties or early forties. We would take them off of pork and unclean meats, and they would get well in a hurry. Also, in six months they looked even
younger than their years. It was amazing just to see that God knew what He was talking about 4,000 years age when He made these rules.
After my own children were born I began testing them. Not that I
wanted to harm them or try things on them, but to know how to make it better for them to really keep them healthy. I wasn't experimenting with them with anything that could endanger them. It was strictly with
foods and minerals. When I discovered the energy level of babies, I did so with my own children.
I also discovered that babies' gastric juices are so diluted, so weak
they cannot digest the foods that adults eat. By mathematical calcula-tions I worked out the foods that a baby could digest from the very earliest time that it could take f ood until its gastric juices became
strong enough to digest the foods of an adult. Consequently, my chil-dren did not get any nut, or nut meats, or nut butters (coconut being 58 the exception) until they were eight years old. (Or, unless the nuts are
steamed soft in a pressure cooker, or boiled until soft. If more parents
would do this they would have healthier children.)
I also discovered children could not digest meats until they were
12 years old, therefore ours didn't get any meat until they were that age. We raised six children with no cavities in their teeth, and no days missed from school because of illnesses.
Many times people visiting our home would say: "How can you
eat meat before your children without giving it to them?"
The children never questioned it because they were told that meat
was for big people and vegetables and fruits, soya meats and soya products were for children. The children would have the soya turkey, soya chicken, linketts-all made from soybean. They had the Numeat and the Nutmeat from many soya products to get their proper balance in diet. Nearly every morning was a fruit breakfast, except once or twice a week they had an egg for breakfast, either with millet cooked soft, or grits that was cooked soft, or oatmeal. Every morning of the week they had a different breakfast. Even in a month they had a dif-ferent breakfast every day. They had a great, great variety of foods. They were happy children. They were never fussy. When they became a little cross I would run a test on them and find out why-if it was due to a mineral or vitamin deficiency. We would correct that before we punished a child-which was seldom. It was very rare that our children became cross, or hard to live with.
Besides meats and nuts the children should not eat shell fish, oys-
ters, clams, lobster, or any soups with meat or meat broth in them. Children cannot digest chocolate, iced tea or coffee. Our children nev-er tasted coke, or carbonated drinks. We always had fresh fruit drink. There is a time and a place under me dical dietary conditions that there
would be a place for carbonated drinks, but it would be very, very ra-re.
When we visited homes where th ey had meat on the table our
children would just say, "No, thank you. I don't care for any meat." They just ate the vegetables. 59 When children came to our home we had a table for the children
and a table for the adults. On the children's table they might have a
soybean roast, soybean burgers, or steakettes-all made from soybeans. Our children did not know that they were not eating meats. They were not so concerned with what they ate, it was whether it tasted good or not.
We taught our children very early in life, by the time they could
chew anything, to eat leafy salads. We also made green drink with a
juicer. We ground our own grains and wheat and made two loaves of fresh bread each week. That is all the bread we had for a family of eight. We used perhaps six pounds of potatoes a year, because pota-
toes are one of the poorest of all foods, lowest in mineral, lowest in everything. If it were not for the gravy, or the butter, or sour cream,


 you and the other are one.  And this is because...
There is naught but You.
All the Ma sters who have walked your
planet have taught this. (“Verily, verily, I say
unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my brethren,  ye
have done it unto Me.”) Yet this has
remained for most people merely a grand
esoteric truth, wi th little practical
application. In fact, it is the most practically
applicable “esoteric” truth of all time.
It is important in relationships to remember
this truth, for without it relationships will  be
very difficult.
Let’s go back to the practical appli cations
of this wisdom and step away from the
purely spiritual, esoteric aspect of it for
now. So often, under the old understandings,
people —well-meaning and well -
intentioned  and many very religious —did
what they thought would be best for the
other person  in their relationships. Sadly,
all this produced in many cases (in most
cases) was  continued abuse by the other.
Continued mistreatment. Continued
dysfunction in the  relationship.
Ultimately, the person trying to “do what is
right” by the other —to be quic k to forgive,
to show compassion, to continually look
past certain problems and behaviors —
becomes resentful, angry, and mistrusting,
even of God. For how can a just God
demand such unending suffering,
joylessness, and sacrifice, even in the
name of  love?  The answer is, God does not. God asks
only that you include yourself among those
you love.
God goes further. God suggests —
recommends —that you put yourself first.
I do this knowing full well that some of you
will call this blasphemy, and therefore not
My wor d, and that others of you will do what
might be even worse: accept it as My  word
and misinterpret or distort it to suit your own
purposes; to justify unGodly acts.
I tell you this —putting yourself first in the
highest sense never leads to an ungodly
act.
If, therefore, you have caught yourself in an
unGodly act as a result of doing what is
best for you, the confusion is not in having put yourself first, but rather in
misunderstanding what is best for you.
Of course, determining what is best for you
will req uire you to also determine what it  is
you are trying to do. This is an important
step that many people ignore. What are
you “up to”? What is your purpose in life?
Without answers to these questions, the
matter of what is “best” in any given
circumstances w ill remain a mystery.
As a practical matter —again leaving
esoterics aside —if you look to what is best
for you in these situations where you are
being abused, at the very least what you
will do is stop the abuse. And that will be
good for both you and your abuser. For
even  an abuser is abused when his abuse
is allowed to continue.  This is not healing to the abuser but
damaging. For if the abuser finds that his
abuse is acceptable, what has he learned?
Yet if the abuser finds that his abuse will  be
accepted n o more, what has he been
allowed to discover?
Therefore, treating others with love does
not necessarily mean allowing others to do
as they wish.
Parents learn this early with children.
Adults are not so quick to learn it with other
adults, nor nation with nation.
Yet despots cannot be allowed to flourish
but must be stopped in their despotism.
Love of Self, and love of the despot,
demands it. This is the answer to your
question, “If love is all there is, how can
man ever justify war?”  Sometimes man must go to war to make
the grandest statement about who man
truly is: he who abhors war.
There are times when you may have to give
up Who You Are in order to be Who  You
Are.
There are Masters who have taught: you
cannot have it all until you are willing to  give
it all up.
Thus, in order to “have” yourself as a man
of peace, you may have to give up the  idea
of yourself as a man who never goes to
war. History has called upon men for  such
decisions.
The same is true in the most individual and
the most personal relationships. Life  may
more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an  aspect of
Who You Are Not.
This is not so difficult to understand if you
have lived a few years, though for the
idealistically young it may seem the
ultimate cont radiction. In more mature
retrospection it seems more divine
dichotomy.
This does not mean in human relationships
that if you are being hurt, you have to  “hurt
back.” (Nor does it mean so in relationships
between nations.) It simply means  that to
allow another to continually inflict damage
may not be the most loving thing to  do—for
your Self or the other.
This should put to rest some pacifist
theories that highest love requires no
forceful  response to what you consider evil.  The discussion here tur ns esoteric once
more, because no serious exploration of
this statement can ignore the word “evil,”
and the value judgments it invites. In truth,
there is nothing evil, only objective
phenomena and experience. Yet your very
purpose in life requires you to select from
the growing collection of endless
phenomena a scattered few which you call
evil—for unless you do, you cannot call
yourself, nor anything else, good —and
thus cannot know, or create, your Self.
By that which you call evil do you define
yourself —and by that which you call good.
The biggest evil would therefore be to
declare nothing evil at all.
You exist in this life in the world of the
relative, where one thing can exist only  insofar as it relates to another. This is at
one and the same time both  the function
and the purpose of relationship: to provide
a field of experience within which you find
yourself, define yourself, and —if you
choose —constantly recreate Who You  Are.
Choosing to be God -like does not mean
you choose to be a martyr. And it cert ainly
does not mean you choose to be a victim.
On your way to mastery —when all
possibility of hurt, damage, and loss is
eliminated —it would be well to recognize
hurt, damage, and loss as part of your
experience,  and decide Who You Are in
relationship to it.
Yes, the things that others think, say, or do
will sometimes hurt you —until they do  not
anymore. What will get you from here to there most quickly is total honesty —being
willing to assert, acknowledge, and declare
exactly how you feel about a thing.  Say
your truth —kindly, but fully and completely.
Live your truth, gently, but totally  and
consistently. Change your truth easily and
quickly when your experience brings  you
new clarity.
No one in right mind, least of all God, would
tell you, when you are hurt in a relationship,
to “stand aside from it, cause it to mean
nothing.” If you are now  hurting, it is too late
to cause it to mean nothing. Your task now
is to decide what it  does mean —and to
demonstrate that. For in so doing, you
choose and become  Who You Seek to Be.
So I don’t have to be the long -suffering wife
or the belittled husband or the victim of my  relationships in order to render them holy,
or to make me pleasing in the eyes of God?
Good grief, of course not.
And I don’t have to put up with attacks on
my dignity, assaults on my pride, damage
to my  psyche, and wounds to my heart in
order to say that I “gave it my best” in a
relationship; “did  my duty” or “met my
obligation” in the eyes of God and man?
Not for one minute.
Then, pray God, tell m e—what promises
should I make in relationship; what
agreements  must I keep? What obligations
do relationships carry? What guidelines
should I seek?
The answer is the answer you cannot
hear—for it leaves you without guidelines
and renders null and void ever y agreement in the moment you make it. The answer is:
you have no obligation. Neither in
relationship, nor in all of life.
No obligation?
No obligation. Nor any restriction or
limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor
are you bound by any circumstances or
situations, nor constrained by any code or
law. Nor are you punishable for any
offense, nor capable of any —for there is no
such  thing as being “offensive” in the eyes
of God.
I’ve heard this before —


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4DMSO in Genetics
PROTECTION FROM IONIZING RADIATION
One of the most important biological properties of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is its
ability to protect cells from radiation damage.1 DMSO has been used in a number of
studies to repair radiation damage induced in a variety of mammalian models and in vitro  preparations.
2 Such radiation damage to mammalian cells generally involves
injury to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA molecules are double-stranded helices running in opposite directions to each other. In mammals, most of the DNA is stored inside the cell nucleus in a dense string-like fiber called chromatin.
DNA is composed of building blocks called nucleotides that consist of a deoxy -
ribose sugar bound on one side and a phosphate group bound to the other side of four nitrogenous bases. The bases are composed of adenine (A), thymine (T), gua -
nine (G), and cytosine (C) (Figure 4.1). Phosphates and sugars that are adjacent to these nucleotides link to form a long polymer and the double helix, a process called transcription.
The outside strands of DNA are made up of the sugar and phosphate portions
of the nucleotides, while the middle parts are made of the nitrogenous bases. The nitrogenous bases on the two strands of DNA pair up, purine with pyrimidine (A always with T, G always with C), and are held together by weak hydrogen bonds. As the keeper of genetic information in each living cell, the integrity and stability of DNA are essential to life.
In eukaryotic cells, when DNA is active, its code is copied to messenger RNA,
which then carries the DNA information to the ribosomal factories within the cell cytoplasm in order to manufacture proteins. The proteins thus formed in the ribo -
some are made up of amino acids that are linked together to extend the growing protein chain, a process called translation.
In humans, DNA strand breaks are a common daily occurrence arising at a
frequency of tens of thousands per cell per day from direct attack by intracellular metabolites and from spontaneous DNA decay.
3 Despite this daily assault on DNA,
strand breaks generally can be easily fixed by a collection of repair processes avail -
able to the cell. These lesions to the DNA structure are detected by damage sensors that initiate various response reactions.
4
These repair processes are vital to the integrity of its genome and to the  s urvival
of the organism. Strand breaks can also result from mechanical stress, ionizing radi -
ation, and chemical damage, for example, from reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Key experiments in the 1960s showed that the ratios of nitrogen bases A–T and
G–C are constant in all living things.82 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
Damage to DNA can create a loss of genetic instructions for producing new cells and
impair the well-functioning and development of every living organism. However, DNA
is not inert, and like any other biological molecule, it is continually the target of dam -
age from the environment, which, if not repaired, can result in metabolic dysfunction, mutation, and potentially cell death. For this reason, all cells contain a range of repair pathways that have evolved to optimize their survival following damage to their DNA.
One of these repair pathways that follow genomic DNA damage is the DNA
 damage response, which coordinates DNA repair, cell cycle arrest, and ultimately
cell death.5
This process is a complex signaling network involving cell cycle checkpoints
and DNA repair/damage control pathways that work to minimize changes in normal metabolic function.
The DNA damage response is affected by an assortment of cellular components and
processes, which include chromatin structure, DNA replication, cell growth, and cell cycle status. When the DNA damage response fails, genomic instability and several
human syndromes, particularly cancer, can appear. Paradoxically, DNA-damaging
agents are sometimes used in cancer therapy, and drugs targeting DNA damage response proteins, cell cycle, and cancer differentiation therapy are presently an excit -
ing field being explored as potential new anticancer agents.Adenine
/T_hymine
Single-strand break
Guanine
Double-strand brea ks
Cytosine
Sugar phospha te
backbone
FIGURE 4.1  (See color insert.) Ionizing radiation can create two types of breaks: (1) in
the sugar phosphate backbone or (2) in the base pairs of the DNA. These breaks can cause either  single (bolt) or double DNA strand breaks (bolts). Direct DNA damage occurs when  radiation particles physically break one or two strands of DNA. Indirect damage
occurs when radiation creates harmful free radicals to damage DNA, a target of repair for
DMSO. Single-strand DNA breaks are more prone to damage than double-strand DNA breaks
because more toxic agents target single-strand DNA regions than double strands. Ionizing
radiation of single-strand breaks are more easily repaired by the cell than cell repair of simi -
lar ionizing radiation of double-strand breaks, which can be lethal to the cell. Double-strand
DNA breaks are the cause of many diseases, including various types of cancer.83 DMSO in Genetics
As reviewed later, DMSO has been shown to protect cells from genotoxic
stress,  including free radical damage from excessive ROS and hydroxyl radical
formation. DMSO can additionally accelerate DNA strand break repair or prevent damage to DNA from ionizing radiation. However, it remains a challenge to point to one property under the DMSO umbrella of activities that might broadly explain the extraordinary biological actions of this simple polar molecule in providing protection to cells exposed to harmful stimuli.
DMSO PROTECTION OF SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-STRANDED
DNA BREAKS
There is growing evidence that deficiencies in DNA damage signaling and repair
pathways are fundamental to most, if not all, developing cancers in humans. The cell response to DNA damage is by activating the DNA damage response pathway, which involves cell cycle arrest and the transcriptional and posttranscriptional activation of a subset of genes associated with DNA repair. Transcriptional and posttranscrip -
tional activations involve the increased expression of a gene at the level of DNA–RNA (transcription) and at the level of RNA between transcription and translation (posttranscriptional). Cell cycle arrest occurs when DNA damage is inflicted and continues until the damage is repaired. If the damage cannot be repaired, the cell commits suicide by ordering apoptosis or programmed cell death. In a way, apopto -
sis is often a defense reaction that can keep other cells from dying.
If the affected cells are unable to respond or repair DNA damage, genetic insta -
bility can result, which will increase the risk of disease, especially cancer develop -
ment. The most dangerous type of DNA damage that can develop in mammalian cells occurs when DNA double-strand breaks are induced. DNA double-strand breaks are potentially lethal lesions that can be created by ionizing radiation from x-rays and gamma rays
6 (Figure 4.1). Besides ionizing radiation, DNA double-
strand breaks can result from the excessive formation within the cell of free radi -
cals, such as


 in the objective and
subjective improvement of patients with interstitial cystitis.
7
REPORTS SHOWING DMSO’S VALUE FOR OTHER URINARY
SYSTEM PROBLEMS
Bladder diseases in general respond well to instillation of DMSO into the urinary
tract. For instance, as indicated in a 1985 published paper, complex irritative
bladder syndrome responded well to the solvent.
8
Intravesical instillation of DMSO was used in the treatment of patients with
intractable urinary frequency due to chronic prostatitis, chronic cystitis,
tuberculous contracted bladder, and interstitial cystitis. A 1985 report from Japan
indicated that before the application of dimethyl sulfoxide, all four patients were
examined carefully to rule
out cases of acute infectious diseases of the urinary
tract, active urinary tuberculosis, neurogenic bladder (nerve pain of the bladder),
and carcinoma in situ of the bladder (cancer within the bladder). Three of the four
patients achieved an excellent response both subjectively and objectively. In the
United States, intravesical instillation of DMSO had already been established as
the specific method in the treatment of interstitial cystitis and no side effects have
been reported so far. Therefore, the Japanese physicians used intravesical
instillation of DMSO with success and recommend its application for various
forms of intractable urinary frequency.
9
Urethral syndrome in women is an annoying condition that is not uncommon,
but a 1987 report from Poland indicates that it does respond well to DMSO
instillation. The chronic urination disorder is relieved by intravesical
administration of the solvent solution.
10
A case of bladder amyloidosis was treated successfully in February 1986,
report Japanese researchers, with DMSO bladder instillations. A diagnosis was
made by a biopsy of the bladder epithelium (cells lining the inside of the bladder).
Amyloid fibrils were confirmed in the biopsy specimen with polarization and
electron microscopy. The patient was treated with trans-urethral resection (a
surgery) plus DMSO. From these bladder instillations the residual lesion
disappeared within four months. DMSO bladder instillations were given twelve
times without side effects. Thus DMSO bladder instillation with surgical resection
is designated as an excellent therapy for bladder amyloidosis.
11Epilogue
“Pain is only four letters, but it means different things to different people,” said
Ray Peppi of Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Peppi suffers from excruciating pain
caused by undergoing three back operations for relieving spinal arthritis.
“You can’t understand great pain unless you have it—unless you can’t
remember a day in your life when you didn’t have it. It makes you want to jump
off a roof. It drives you crazy,” Peppi explained.
In desperation, because drugs prescribed by his doctors failed to alleviate his
pain, four years ago the man acquired DMSO from a nonmedical source. The
solvent is not authorized in Connecticut for use on back problems. State residents
whose pain is so severe that they are willing to try anything are using the crude
industrial grade. DMSO did what other remedies couldn’t, said Peppi. It got rid of
his pain.
The Public Health Committee of the General Assembly for the State of
Connecticut considered legislation that would legalize DMSO for use in
Connecticut but rejected it eventually. Texas has passed such legislation, as have
Florida, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
Because of political pressure exerted by interested state assembly members
and by members of the United States Congress, the Food and Drug Administration
has been prevented from simply ignoring the drug. FDA officials promised the
House Select Committee on Aging that they would take another look at it. Dr. J.
Richard Crout told committee members that clinical trials of DMSO, which have
been around for twenty years, and are still being carried out, haven’t been precise
enough to merit the drug’s general use.
Yet, when the medication proves, in fact, to be as effective and safe as the
evidence may show, the American people will certainly be
justified in wondering
why they have had to wait so many years to use it. Some FDA critics argue that if
the Salk vaccine or penicillin were developed today, it would take the same length
of time for them to become available to the people. How many would have died in
the interim? What numbers are suffering needlessly or dying now because DMSO
is unavailable on the legal, open market? This is another of those big questions
underlying the whole DMSO controversy.
Government bureaucracy is known for waste and inefficiency in almost all
areas of activity. In agriculture, housing, welfare, and other areas it has not solvedthe problems for which government programs were initially instituted. Often it has
compounded them. With DMSO the problem is even more serious. Pain, health,
life, and death are involved. To leave an inefficient and ineffective bureaucracy in
charge of approving a pain-relieving, life-sustaining drug like DMSO will cost the
victims of injury and illness far more than tax dollars.
I believe the medical consumer deserves to have the medicines he or she needs
as soon as they have proved to be safe and effective. I ask that the FDA fulfill its
mandate to protect Americans from foods and drugs that are unsafe and to
facilitate the speedy availability of new foods and drugs that are found to be both
safe and worthwhile. DMSO is one of these. DMSO is one of nature’s healers—
among the safest and most efficacious ever uncovered. We are entitled to it. We
must have it generally available.
The life and health of our people lie in the balance. The story I have told
highlights the obstacles DMSO has met in getting FDA approval. More than that, I
have shown that pain relief is available, pathology reversal is possible, and good
health restoration is probable if only DMSO is not denied to us. The crime of
denial is senseless. How do we get DMSO to all the people? If there is no medical
answer, there may be a political one.
With the former Reagan administration’s concern about the regulatory impact
on the return on research and development investments, ways were found to lessen
the FDA ban. The election of Ronald Reagan as our President meant significant
personnel changes for regulators, including the Food and Drug Administration’s
Bureau of Drugs. FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a political appointee during the
Carter administration, finally lost his post. Reagan’s advisors had searched for
highly qualified scientists who understood the problems with regulations. But they
wanted regulators who were people-conscious first, then regulation-conscious.
They didn’t find them. Neither did George
Bush. Instead, David Kessler, M.D.,
J.D., has turned out to be the most restrictive enforcer of Gestapo-like rules
coming out of the FDA. Kessler would remove every American’s ability to choose
what should be done for or to his or her body. The FDA, by expanding its mandate
and reinterpreting the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 for its own
purposes, is approaching dictatorial powers. I hope his successor will take
immediate and decisive steps to reverse this trend. I want my book to move the
regulatory process. DMSO, nature’s healer, is a new therapeutic treatment for the
people. They deserve to have access to it.APPENDIX I
The Mechanisms of Action of DMSO, Miscellaneous
Conditions That Respond Well to DMSO
Administration, and Arthritis Treatment Details for
Physicians
DMSO lessens platelet adhesiveness, platelet aggregation, and, thus, clot
formation. Because of its prostaglandin activity, DMSO is a potent vasodilator.
Prostaglandins—long chain hydrocarboxylic acids—are affected in a unique way
by dimethyl sulfoxide. The “good prostaglandin,” prostaglandin E, which is a
powerful vasodilator, is stimulated by DMSO. The “bad prostaglandins,”
prostaglandin E
2
 and prostaglandin F
2
 alpha, which are strong vasoconstrictors, are
depressed by DMSO. Prostaglandin E
2
 and prostaglandin F
2
 alpha not only cause
vasoconstriction but lysosomal destruction. Lysosomes are cellular “toilets” and
their destruction leads to release of the cytotoxic enzyme beta-glucoronidase. This
enzyme not only destroys its own cell, but surrounding cells as well, leading to
further beta-glucoronidase release, and further destruction.
Prostaglandin E
1
, like aspirin and indomethacin, stabilizes lysosomes and
probably blocks the release of vasoconstrictive prostaglandins from brain tissue
and platelets.
Because of the body’s “negative” or destructive responses to injury, including
toxic prostaglandin release, beta-glucoronidase destruction of cells, noradrenaline
stimulation, reduction of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, release of
calcium ions, and other actions,
DMSO may be the initial treatment of choice in
all acute destructive bodily processes.
 These would include any serious injury to
any body part or organ, septicemia, stroke, myocardial infarction, near drowning


 through a serious illness or an
accident that happens to you or someone close to yo u, or through the passing away
of a loved one, death enters your life as the aware ness of your own mortality.

Most people turn away from it in fear, but if you d o not flinch and face the fact that
your body is fleeting and could dissolve at any mom ent, there is some degree of
disidentification, however slight, from your own ph ysical and psychological form,
the “me.” When you see and accept the impermanent n ature of all life forms, a
strange sense of peace comes upon you.

Through facing death, your consciousness is freed t o some extent from
identification with form. This is why in some Buddh ist traditions, the monks
regularly visit the morgue to sit and meditate amon g the dead bodies.

There is still a widespread denial of death in West ern cultures. Even old people try
not to speak or think about it, and dead bodies are  hidden away. A culture that
denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superfi cial, concerned only with the
external form of things. When death is denied, life  loses its depth. The possibility
of knowing who we are beyond name and form, the dim ension of the transcendent,
disappears from our lives because death is the open ing into that dimension.

***

People tend to be uncomfortable with endings, becau se every ending is a little
death. That’s why in many languages, the word for “ good-bye” means “see you again.”

Whenever an experience comes to an end–a gathering of friends, a vacation, your
children leaving home–you die a little death. A “fo rm” that appeared in your
consciousness as that experience dissolves. Often t his leaves behind a feeling of
emptiness that most people try hard not to feel, no t to face.

If you can learn to accept and even welcome the end ings in your life, you may find
that the feeling of emptiness that initially felt u ncomfortable turns into a sense of
inner spaciousness that is deeply peaceful.

By learning to die daily in this way, you open your self to Life.

***

Most people feel that their identity, their sense o f self, is something incredibly
precious that they don’t want to lose. That is why they have such fear of death.

It seems unimaginable and frightening that “I” coul d cease to exist. But you
confuse that precious “I” with your name and form a nd a story associated with it.
That “I” is no more than a temporary formation in t he field of consciousness.

As long as that form identity is all you know, you are not aware that this
preciousness is your own essence, your innermost se nse of I Am, which is
consciousness itself. It is the eternal in you–and that’s the only thing you cannot
lose.

***

Whenever any kind of deep loss occurs in your life– such as loss of possessions,
your home, a close relationship; or loss of your re putation, job, or physical
abilities–something inside you dies. You feel dimin ished in your sense of who you
are. There may also be a certain disorientation. “W ithout this...who am I?”

When a form that you had unconsciously identified w ith as part of yourself leaves
you or dissolves, that can be extremely painful. It  leaves a hole, so to speak, in the
fabric of your existence.

When this happens, don’t deny or ignore the pain or  the sadness that you feel.
Accept that it is there. Beware of your mind’s tend ency to construct a story around
that loss in which you are assigned the role of vic tim. Fear, anger, resentment, or self-pity are the emotions that go with that role. Then become aware of what lies
behind those emotions as well as behind the mind-ma de story: that hole, that empty
space. Can you face and accept that strange sense o f emptiness? If you do, you may
find that it is no longer a fearful place. You may be surprised to find peace
emanating from it.

Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolv es, God, the formless and
unmanifested, shines through the opening left by th e dissolving form. That is why
the most sacred thing in life is death. That is why  the peace of God can come to you
through the contemplation and acceptance of death.

***

How short-lived every human experience is, how flee ting our lives. Is there
anything that is not subject to birth and death, an ything that is eternal?

Consider this: if there were only one color, let us  say blue, and the entire world and
everything in it were blue, then there would be no blue. There needs to be
something that is not blue so that blue can be reco gnized; otherwise, it would not
“stand out,” would not exist.

In the same way, does it not require something that  is not fleeting and impermanent
for the fleetingness of all things to be recognized? In other words: if everything,
including yourself, were impermanent, would you eve n know it? Does the fact that
you are aware of and can witness the short-lived na ture of all forms, including your
own, not mean that there is something in you that i s not subject to decay?

When you are twenty, you are aware of your body as strong and vigorous; sixty
years later, you are aware of your body as weakened  and old. Your thinking too
may have changed from when you were twenty, but the  awareness that knows that
your body is young or old or that your thinking has  changed has undergone no
change. That awareness is the eternal in you–consci ousness itself. It is the formless
One Life. Can you lose It? No, because you are It.

***

Some people become deeply peaceful and almost lumin ous just before they die, as
if something is shining through the dissolving form.

Sometimes it happens that very ill or old people be come almost transparent, so to
speak, in the last few weeks, months, or even years  of their lives. As they look at you, you may see a light shining through their eyes. There is no psychological
suffering left. They have surrendered and so the pe rson, the mind-made egoic
“me,” has already dissolved. They have “died before  they died” and found the deep
inner peace that is the realization of the deathles s within themselves.

***

To every accident and disaster there is a potential ly redemptive dimension that we
are usually unaware of.

The tremendous shock of totally unexpected, imminen t death can have the effect of
forcing your consciousness completely out of identi fication with form. In the last
few moments before physical death, and as you die, you then experience yourself
as consciousness free of form. Suddenly, there is n o more fear, just peace and a
knowing that “all is well” and that death is only a  form dissolving. Death is then
recognized as ultimately illusory–as illusory as th e form you had identified with as
yourself.

***

Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all  events as modern culture would
have you believe, but the most natural thing in the  world, inseparable from and just
as natural as its other polarity–birth. Remind your self of this when you sit with a
dying person.

It is a great privilege and a sacred act to be pres ent at a person’s death as a witness
and companion.

When you sit with a dying person, do not deny any a spect of that experience. Do
not deny what is happening and do not deny your fee lings. The recognition that
there is nothing you can do may make you feel helpl ess, sad, or angry. Accept what
you feel. Then go one step further: accept that the re is nothing you can do, and
accept it completely. You are not in control. Deepl y surrender to every aspect of
that experience, your feelings as well as any pain or discomfort the dying person
may be experiencing. Your surrendered state of cons ciousness and the stillness that
comes with it will greatly assist the dying person and ease their transition. If words
are called for, they will come out of the stillness  within you. But they will be
secondary.

With the stillness comes the benediction: peace.

Chapter 10
Suffering and the End of Suffering

The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists hav e always known it and
physicists now confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event, it only appears
to be. The more we judge and label it, the more we isolate it.

 The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through o ur thinking. Yet the totality of
life has brought this event about. It is part of th e web of interconnectedness that is
the cosmos. This means whatever is could not be oth erwise.

 In most cases, we cannot begin to understand what role a seemingly senseless
event may have within the totality of the cosmos bu t recognizing its inevitability
within the vastness of the whole can be the beginni ng of an inner acceptance of
what is and thus a real


 able to prevent or undo drunkenness. The
leaf was traditionally used in England to treat corns
and warts—it was soaked in vinegar and bound
on as a poultice, or placed inside a sock, overlying
the corn.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Ivy is chiefly
used for congestion of the ear, nose, and
throat, as well as for bronchitis. It acts as  an expectorant, stimulating the coughing up
and clearance of phlegm. It has a beneficial effect
on mucous membranes and is generally combined
with tonic herbs, especially thyme ( Thymus vulgaris,
p. 143). Ivy extracts are common ingredients in
cosmetic formulations for cellulite.
Caution Fresh leaves can irritate the skin.
Herniaria glabra
(Caryophyllaceae)
Rupturewort
Description Prostrate annual or perennial
with bright green oval leaves and clusters of
green flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Rupturewort is found
throughout Europe and western Asia. It thrives in
barren areas, in lime and sandy soils. It is gathered
when in flower.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Rupturewort contains coumarins
(including 3% herniarin and scopoletin), flavonoids,
phenolic acids, and saponins.
History & Folklore Rupturewort was first
documented in European herbals of the 16th
century. Its genus name, Herniaria, refers to its
reputed ability to heal hernias.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Rupturewort is
of value chiefly as a diuretic herb. The fresh plant
treats urinary problems such as cystitis, irritable
bladder, and kidney stones. It is also astringent, and
has been applied as a poultice to speed the healing
of ulcers. The whole plant appears to have an
antispasmodic effect on the bladder.
Ivy was thought, in the classical world, to undo drunkenness.Haronga madagascariensis
(Guttiferae)
Haronga
Description Small evergreen tree growing
to 26 ft (8 m). Has black-dotted leaves with
a dark green upper surface and red-brown
hairs underneath, and clusters of creamy-
white flowers.
Habitat & Cultivation Haronga is native
to Madagascar and East Africa, and grows in
tropical areas. The leaves and bark are collected
throughout the year.
Parts Used Leaves, bark.
Constituents Haronga bark contains phenolic
pigments, triterpenes, anthraquinones, and tannins.
The leaves contain phenolic pigments, the diterpene
hypericin, flavonoids, and tannins. Hypericin, which
is also found in St. John’s wort ( Hypericum
perforatum, p. 106), has antiviral properties.
History & Folklore Haronga resin has
traditionally been used in Africa to secure
arrowheads onto shafts.Hibiscus sabdariffa (Malvaceae)
Hibiscus,
Jamaica
Description Shrub growing to 61⁄2 ft (2 m)
in height.
Habitat & Cultivation Native to North
Africa and Southeast Asia, hibiscus grows in tropical
regions around the world. It is primarily cultivated
across Africa and in Thailand, China, and Mexico.
Parts Used Calyx (the outer base of the flower),
flowers, leaves.
Constituents The calyx and flowers contain
flavonoids, including anthocyanins.
History & Folklore “Hibiscus” means “plant
that is consecrated to the ibis,” a bird held sacred in
ancient Egypt.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Hibiscus makes
a refreshing, pleasant-tasting tea that is cooling
and mildly sedative, soothing hot and feverish
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other medicinal plantsHieracium pilosella
conditions. The calyces are gently tonic and will
ease colds, coughs, and chest problems. They also aid digestion and gently stimulate appetite. Both the calyces and flowers act to reduce cholesterol levels. All parts of hibiscus are demulcent, mildly soothing sore or inflamed mucous membranes within the digestive and respiratory tracts.
Research Various clinical studies have shown
that hibiscus helps to lower high blood pressure.
Hieracium pilosella syn. pilosella
officinarum (Asteraceae)
Mouse-ear
Hawkweed
Description Perennial herb growing to a height
of 8 in (20 cm) from a rosette of basal leaves. Stems
bear single bright yellow flower heads.
Habitat & Cultivation Mouse-ear hawkweed
is common throughout much of Europe and temperate regions of Asia and North America. Found growing in dry pastures and on sandy soil,  it is collected when in flower in summer.
Parts Used Aerial parts.
Constituents Mouse-ear hawkweed contains
a coumarin (umbelliferone), flavonoids, and caffeic acid. It is thought to be mildly antifungal.
History & Folklore In his Irish Herbal (1735),
K’Eogh summarizes mouse-ear hawkweed’s medicinal benefits: “good against the spitting of blood, all kinds of flow, coughs, ulcers of the lungs, mouth and eyes, and shingles.”
Medicinal Actions & Uses Mouse-ear
hawkweed relaxes the muscles of the bronchial tubes, stimulates the cough reflex, and reduces  the production of mucus. This combination of actions makes the herb effective in respiratory problems, including asthma and wheeziness, whooping cough, bronchitis, and other chronic  and congested coughs. The herb is used to  control heavy menstrual bleeding, and to ease  the coughing up of blood. It may be applied as  a poultice to heal wounds.Parts Used The peeled stem.
Constituents Hoodia contains a steroidal
glycoside, which is thought to act as an appetite suppressant.
History & Folklore The San people of the
Kalahari traditionally used this plant to suppress sensations of thirst and hunger, when on journeys through the desert. Such use was first recorded  in 1937.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Hoodia
provides a cautionary tale for herbal medicines  and supplements in the 21st century. There is  little evidence that taking it leads to weight loss other than the plant’s traditional use as an appetite suppressant, while its safety profile is unknown. Despite this, after media coverage by the BBC  in 2003, sales of hoodia supplements rocketed, with prices in the LA Times reaching $40 per  ounce (30 g) in 2006. At such a price, it is not  hard to see why hoodia’s survival in the wild is severely threatened. It would seem sensible to  opt instead for herbs that are endorsed for their  use for weight loss by scientific studies and  where there is no risk of the herb disappearing from the wild, such as Gymnema (Gymnema sylvestre, p. 218).
 QCautions Seek professional advice before
taking hoodia products, especially if taking prescribed blood-thinning medication for conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
Hordeum vulgare (Poaceae)
Barley
Description Annual grass growing to about
3 ft (1 m). Has an erect hollow stem, lance-
shaped leaves, and ears bearing twin rows
of seeds and long bristles.
Habitat & Cultivation Barley is
cultivated in temperate regions
worldwide. It is harvested when the
seeds are mature.
Parts Used Seeds.
Constituents Barley contains
polysaccharides, proteins,
sugars, fats, and vitamins B and
E. The young seedlings also
contain the amines tyramine
and gramine.Sea buckthorn is distinguished by its thorny stems
and narrow silvery leaves. The berries help improve  the body’s resistance to infection.
Parts Used Berries.
Constituents The fruit contains flavonoids,
flavones, carotenoids, vitamins A, C (present in
very high quantities), and E, and high levels of minerals including sulphur, selenium, zinc, and copper. The seeds contain appreciable levels of alpha-linolenic acid.
History & Folklore The sour-tasting berries
have traditionally been eaten with milk and cheese by Siberians and T artars, who also used them to make a pleasant-tasting jelly.
Medicinal Actions & Uses Sea buckthorn
berries are very high in vitamin C. They have principally been used to help improve resistance to infection. The berries are mildly astringent, and a decoction of them has been used as a wash to treat skin irritation and eruptions, and to promote healing.
Research Research into sea buckthorn fruit,
seed, and seed oil indicates that they have definite therapeutic value. The fruit especially supports heart and circulatory health and is useful in treating conditions such as capillary fragility, arteriosclerosis, and a weak heart. The seed oil nourishes the skin, promotes tissue healing, and will often prove useful in treating eczema.
Hoodia gordonii (Apocynaceae)
Hoodia
Description Unusual-looking succulent growing


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


 are, but not so dirty; for I paid forbaths, washing, and in some instancesfurnished clothing. Besides supplying theseluxuries, I gave them occasionally a big silverdollar which they called a " cart wheel."
It was surprising to see these degenerates
freshen up jn appearance and lose theirblotchiness and greasiness of facial appearance.I knew how to talk to them to get theirconfidence, and they looked on me as justanother " freak" like themselves, but with somekind of a money " pull." There were fat and thinamong them, and it was a matter of surprise
that after a little some of the thin got stouter and
the fat fell off in weight at the same time. One of
them was a belligerent socialist and the authorof a well-known book which had quite a voguein the earlier history of present-day socialism.Up to the time I began my own experiment, I
had been a social drinker of alcohol in all formsto the full extent of "gentlemanly decency," withoccasional slips when near the outer edge thatmade me ashamed of myself after I got soberagain. I am now more ashamed than ever whenI am reminded of my early foolishness, but sincemy experiences are being turned to goodaccount I forgive myself. Not only were socialoccasions an excuse, but I often ordered thesocial occasions to serve as an excuse. I hadnever resorted to snake-bites to give legitimateexcuses, but I so crowded my resources in thisdirection that at one time I held the " record,"for the community in which I lived, for whatwas called " hollowness of legs and steadiness ofhead," and so much was this " strength ofcharacter " valued in that community inAmerica, that one was supposed to take pride inholding the record.
The result of my own pursuit of thorough
tasting of my food had been that my ownponderosity of front weight fell off, and at thesame time I had no desire for wine or beer. Itwas all a surprise to me, but it was not anamazing surprise until one day one of my tramp
guests came to me and said : " Boss, this eatin'game is great; think of me with a dollar in mypocket and not wantin' beer."
In a short time I forgot that I had ever liked
wine or beer. It never occurred to me to order itexcept for a guest, and then I took it with him,or, rather them, for there were usually severalor many at my eating parties, but in theFletcherian manner which is so eminentlyEpicurean that a few sips went as far as a half-bottle used to do. Here is an important point inprofitable economics that any one candemonstrate for himself at once and not rely onmy say-so, or that of any one else. Later on Iwill tell how to do it. The secret is worth itsweight in gold as an Epicurean prize as well asa money-saver. I have to tell, a little further on,of a very large experiment which came as asurprise also. It was in a section of country, andamong a class of people, where to escape fromthe toils of the drink demon is nothing short of amiracle.A REMARKABLE  MAN.
But before I relate this climaxic experience I
will once more refer to one of the mostremarkable men I have had the pleasure ofmeeting. His case covers more sides of healthyvariety than that of almost any one, but he haseven a better showing in some respects thanany. He is an M.D.; a Ph.D.; an Sc.D.; an A.M.;and a P.H.D. ; which last is the " stiffest exam."of them all. He is a champion athlete; the fatherof an all-round college champion; and asgraceful a gymnast as any one ever saw do the" Giant Swing " on the horizontal bar. He is alsoa grandfather and now past fifty.
This was his experience in 1902 or 1903, in
connection with my being called to New Havento submit to examination under the supervisionof Professor Chittenden. It is Dr. Anderson towhom I refer, and he permits my stating hisexperience as often as I like for the good it willdo. My expression of appreciation of hisacademic and athletic accomplishments is allmy own and not authorized.
When I was turned over to Dr. Anderson for
physical examination in the Yale gymnasium,my fitness was surprising to him as he has
stated in his reports. He was also ripe for thereasonableness of my revelations. He seemed tome to be in the " pink of condition " himself, andhe was so, as " pink " was judged at the time, fora man of his age.
Dr. Anderson tried more careful mastication
than usual, and paid more attention to thethorough enjoyment of his food with the samepleasant results that come to everybody whenmaking the trial, no matter how moderate andtemperate they have been before. It isequivalent to putting a little keener edge onappetite than usual. Children and even fineladies will perk up a little when they areconscious of being noticed, and the humansenses are human in more ways than one.
Dr. Anderson was pleased with the new
revelation as a pleasure promoter, but did notnotice that he was forgetting to take his dailyprescription of stimulant. He was a medicalman, past forty, beginning to slack up a little inhis elasticity and strength. He was reachingthat age when even the most temperate andcareful begin to be a little lenient withthemselves. His doctor friends were in the habit
of prescribing a little stimulant to counter-balance this expected decline in energy and hetook their advice. It was the medical fad of theperiod.
At first, Dr. Anderson ordered for himself one
small drink of good medicinal whisky a day, andthe effect was as expected. By and bye, however,a little more was needed, and this increasingdemand continued its insistence until threedrinks were no more efficacious than one hadbeen at first. When I was introduced to him hehad begun on his fourth drink daily, and yetburned it up in his exercise without feeling itmuch.
A couple of weeks after he began to check up
my tests by personal experience, which is theonly scientific way, he all at once remembered,one day, that he had forgotten to take hiswhisky, and yet he was fitter than usual. I hadnot mentioned my own experience in this regardto him, I believe, as when we were together hekept me busy with the exercises of the ‘Varsitycrew, and I had little chance to give himaccounts of my full experiences. Besides, it didnot occur to me that it would interest him who
seemed to be moderation and temperancepersonified. And so he was, according to thescientific estimate of the time, but Nature hasanother standard of temperance, and under herstrict guidance very little but good spring wateris needed or desired.
HOW TO ENJOY  WINE.
To illustrate this and also suggest a way of
letting Mother Nature prove that I representher correctly in this important matter, I willgive an account of an actual happening.
I was lecturing in Buffalo, New York, in
America, and was invited to address themembers of the sumptuous Buffalo Club. Idwelt especially on Fletcherizing as a means ofgetting the good and the best out of food anddrink, and yet for little cost, and at the close ofthe lecture a dozen or more of the audienceasked me to demonstrate my point as above. Iwas happy to do this, and called for a pint of thechoicest still wine, with cordial glasses. Therequest caused a smile among some of my hosts
who were proud of being " one bottle " consumers.When the wine came I poured out half a
cordial glass as the portion I selected for myselfand recommended the same prescription for theothers, as a " starter." Then I breathed andsipped my delicious grape-juice, as I hadlearned to do from the professional wine-tasterson the Rhine, in Germany, and in the Burgundyregion, in France. The others did the same, andseemed to get unusual satisfaction from boththe boquet and the taste.
What happens is this : You sense the wine by
means of the olfactories as you would breathe inthe odour of a delicately perfumed flower. Tasteis excited and becomes jealous of Smell. Yougive Taste a taste. Something more subtle thantaste ; a sort of aroma, so to speak, spreads overthe head. You feel the taste of the delicacy uparound the temples, and the sensation isdelightful in the extreme, fading slowly awaybut leaving a lovely memory impression.
Then you take another sip, and the sensation
is about the same, and so on for a sip or twomore, when the supremest delicacy of the wineceases to express itself. Two or three sips more,and the wine no longer tastes good. Carriedfurther, in this appetite-respecting manner,
there will be a desire to spit out the sips, andthere is no temptation to drink them.
Professional wine-tasters are supposed never
to drink wine. After tasting it they spit out the
remnant from which the taste has beenexhausted. Tea tasters and beer tasters andspecial food tasters do the same in order topreserve their keen taste discrimination. Thereis just as definite Swallowing Sense andExpectorating Sense as there is Taste Sense.There is just as strong Appetite Sense forproteid, when the